The Reality Of Islam, From A Former Muslim
From TheMuslimIssue:
Here's the text from TheMuslimIssue (linked above):
Mona Walter is on a mission. Her mission is for more Muslims to know what is in the Koran. She says if more Muslims knew what was in the Koran, more would leave Islam.We don't fully agree. Muslims don't need to know the Koran. Their entire culture is built on it. By living in their cultural ideology they live by the Koran. If Muslim women had the freedom to chose their religion many may leave, but it's doubtful the men would follow so willingly.
Mona Walters says when Muslims read the Koran they become killing machines. Walters says that Muslims don't view al-Shahaab, Boko Haram, ISIS and other terror groups as extremist. Muslims view them as good Muslims.
This is wrong. Not all Muslims view jihadists as good Muslims -- as is written in the Quran -- but far too many Muslims do. And it doesn't take many at all to gun down unarmed concertgoers and people out with friends in restaurants.
However, in a bit of bright news, Kenyan Muslims shielded Kenyan Christians in a bus attack by al-Shabab jihadists.
Some thoughts from counter-jihadists. First, Bosch Fawstin's thinking, via Danusha Goska at FrontPage:
Fortunately for us, Islam hasn't been able to make every Muslim its slave, just as Nazism wasn't able to turn every German into a Nazi. So there is Islam and there are Muslims. Muslims who take Islam seriously are at war with us and Muslims who don't aren't. But that doesn't mean we should consider these reluctant Muslims allies against Jihad. I've been around Muslims my entire life and most of them truly don't care about Islam. The problem I have with many of these essentially non-Muslim Muslims, especially in the middle of this war being waged on us by their more consistent co-religionists, is that they give the enemy cover. They force us to play a game of Muslim Roulette since we can't tell which Muslim is going to blow himself up until he does. And their indifference about the evil being committed in the name of their religion is a big reason why their reputation is where it is. In the toilet.[Non-observant Muslims] lead some among us to conclude that they must be practicing a more enlightened form of Islam. They're not. They're "practicing" life in non-Muslim countries, where they are free to live as they choose. There is nothing in Islam that stays the hand of Muslims who want to kill non-Muslims. If an individual Muslim is personally peaceful, it's not because of Islam, it's because of his individual choice, which is why I often say that your average Muslim is morally superior to Mohammad, to their own religion. When you see well-assimilated Muslims in the West, you're not seeing Islam in action; you're seeing individuals living up to the old adage, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. They're essentially post-Islamic Muslims who have rejected Islamic values and have embraced Western ones.
Wafa Sultan:
"The whole world has to realize that we are not waging war against Muslims, but indeed against a very hateful and dangerous ideology! Unless we are able to distinguish between Islam and Muslims, this misinformation and accusations of stereotyping Muslims will never end! The cause of the calamity we're facing today is deeply rooted in Islamic teachings, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to open the Islamic texts and find the most horrible mass destruction weapons, as I consider it. The Western governments are morally obligated to pressure the Islamic governments to reform those teachings! However, I am extremely confused and shocked by the fact that the Obama administration is ignoring Islamic terrorism and insisting that Islam is a religion of peace, not to mention, that Saudi Arabia is one of our allies against Isis!"
The Western governments are morally obligated to pressure the Islamic governments to reform those teachings!
Oh, that's going to work out so well. The radicals are already agitating against those governments just because they're not a proper Islamic government.
Imagine what it will be like when they propose reforming the literal word of Allah. How, pray tell, does one do that and retain one's head?
There are three kinds of Muslims:
the apostate, who has considered the Koran and rejected its teachings
the non-observant, who has only considered the parts of the Koran he's comfortable with
and the jihadi, who has considered the Koran and embraced its teachings in total
The first will be put to the sword by the third, and the second will be made to choose their fate. Most will choose to not lose their head.
To put it in perspective, 1/3 of the population of the 13 British colonies that went on to form the USofA supported independence, about 1/3 supported the crown, and 1/3 wanted to be left alone. Do not doubt the power of a motivated minority that is of sufficient size.
I R A Darth Aggie at December 23, 2015 8:30 AM
They do need to know the Koran.
Muslim don't live the Koran. They live their past and present leadership's interpretation of the Koran.
In the early Middle Ages, the Catholic Church held that the only relationship that a person could have with God went through a priest because the person could not understand the Bible without a thorough course of study in it (sponsored, of course, by the Catholic Church). Since most Bibles were written in Latin and most people couldn't speak or read Latin, they couldn't understand the Bible that was available.
Martin Luther changed that. By publishing a Bible in the everyday language, he allowed people to read the word of God, those who were literate, or have it read to them.
By reading the Bible for themselves, people could then judge whether the village priest was accurately representing the word of God or was a raving lunatic.
Most Arabic Muslims can't do that since they're illiterate. They must take the word of influential imams and scholarly thinkers as to what Allah is directing them to do. This translates into long-standing hatreds that don't go away when, seven generations later, they learn to read for themselves.
In promoting education and philosophical discourse, the Catholic Church fostered the spirit that became the Protestant Reformation and, later, the Enlightenment - both of which were antagonistic toward the idea of an all-powerful Catholic Church.
The Islamic world has not promoted education or being informed outside of Islam. "The Arab world translates about 330 books annually, one fifth of the number that Greece translates. The cumulative total of books in the Arab world since the ninth century is about 100,000, almost the average that Spain translates in one year."
While that figure is meaningless for specifics - Literary Arabic, like Latin in the Medieval world, serves as a trading and international language. One is more likely to read a novel in one's own native language than in the language of the bazaar. The figure does, however, serve to illustrate that the intellectual current in the Arabic world is stagnating - as annual translations into Pashtun or Berber or Persian are also low.
65 million Arab adults are illiterate. That equates to 1/5 of the population of a region that comprises 22 countries.
That's not to say that Muslims don't read.
There's a difference between reading only books by authors from within your culture and reading outside authors (translations).
The Muslim world is insular and is not accepting of outside voices. That is wreaking havoc on the world today as Muslims try to function in a world that has left them behind.
Conan the Grammarian at December 23, 2015 9:50 AM
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