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2015-01-11 Europe

Pete Heck: The problem is within Islam itself

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Posted by Fred 2015-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

Churchill, Winston (1899). The River War Vol. II (1st ed.). London: Longmans, Green & Co. pgs 248-250.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-11 00:35|| 2015-01-11 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Besoeker---Read the book 25 years ago and was impressed by Churchill's concise and priescent look at Islam.

Like they say at The Gates of Vienna, "We are in a new phase of a very old war."

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-01-11 10:57|| 2015-01-11 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 I believe that the OIC's consensus position can reasonably be called the legitimate voice of Islam as a political player in the world.

I also believe that the current appalling and reprehensible political, cultural and economic circumstances of the OIC states can reasonably be attributed to Islam as a political platform.

The OIC has, for years, openly and publicly called for the imposition of Sharia restrictions on non-Muslims in the West.

Hypothetically, if the French government had arrested the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, prosecuted the for and convicted them of blasphemy, and if the French government had then executed them for their blasphemy the OIC would have applauded this move.
The death penalty for blasphemy is not unknown in Islamic states after all.

The Charlie Hebdo attackers just gave the OIC what the OIC had demanded. (Which is why I believe the presence of OIC member state reps at the Paris demonstration to be of exceptionally poor taste.)

A discussion of the Islamic religion's transcendental qualities wouldn't be fruitful in this context, but it must be obvious to a reasonable observer that nearly everything is dangerously wrong with Islam as a political force.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-01-11 11:47|| 2015-01-11 11:47|| Front Page Top

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