Calling it Radicalization, not Islamization: Ignorance or Political Correctness?

Islamic Terrorism, what is thy real name?

["Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal, mathematician, 1670]

Overwhelming ignorance of the West about the roots of Islamic terrorism, erroneously calling “radicalization”, instead of “Islamization”, due to Political Correctness (PC) is ruining the prospect of success of the war on terror. Political Correctness is, indeed, becoming deadly for the western world! PC is killing western civilization slowly but steadily.

During the Bush years, we heard “evil ideology”, “vicious ideology”, “militancy”, and, occasionally, we heard “Islamic terrorism”; although President Bush used to say due to his PC syndrome: “Islam is a great religion or Islam is peace!” Yet, Bush, at least, said “war on terror” or “war on evil ideology and Islamic militancy” on occasions.

But surprisingly, president Obama, in his incorrect, weak and apologetic notion of tackling deadly Islamic terrorism, has stopped uttering the word ‘terrorism’ to appease Muslim world. His administration started calling it “man-made disaster” and also briefly considered calling Islamic violence ‘terrorism’ an offense and insult to Islam or Muslims. Obama administration, thus, has clearly demonstrated marked weakness and appeasement to jihadi Islamic terrorists, which has also clearly emboldened those terrorists. Hence, we see the latest terrorist incident on Christmas Day has come on the heels of nearly a dozen terrorism probes and alleged plots uncovered in recent months. And, at least one of them, the Fort-hood jihad, has succeeded, causing havoc on Americans. Within the first year of Obama presidency, American mainland has become totally unsafe and vulnerable.

Soon after Fort Hood jihad massacre, the White House reluctantly started calling it militancy, extremism, or insurgency. Lately, White House started using a brand-new terminology for Islamic terrorism, namely “radicalism” or “radicalization”. Still, white house is reluctant to call it “Islamic terrorism” or “war on terror!” Instead, they call it radicalism or radicalization.

What is radicalism?

The question is what is “radicalism” or “radicalization”?

Radicalized by what?

Is it the new ideology or any new form of disease that infects these jihadi Muslims?

Or, is it any new religion?

Let us see what the actual definition of radicalism is. The dictionary meaning of the English word RADICAL is—going to the root or origin, or fundamentals of something like: political ideology, religious ideology, social rules, or economical rules etc.

In fact, the word ‘radical’ is an adjective, which is the modifiers or quantifiers of the nouns, frequently used in English language as comparative and superlative forms. Hence, the word radical is an adjective of something or some ideological system. The word “radical” by itself has no meaning except it is the adjective of something.

Now, the puzzling question is: Why then authorities in western countries largely continue calling the Islamic terrorist phenomenon as “radicalism” or “radicalization”? Should not they be honest and courageous enough to name the “exact ideology”, which radicalizes those individuals? What are they radicalized by? The fact is: All these young jihadi muslims are radicalized by Islamic ideology, or, to say correctly, they are radicalized by the pure or fundamental messages of Islam.

Another wrong and strange terminology the West frequently uses is “extremism”. What does extremism mean by itself? Extremism to what? Nothing?

The West must call it ‘Islamic extremism’ or ‘Religious extremism’, which is the correct way of saying it.

Acting alone or in a group!

It seems that western politicians and media are hell-bent on asking this ridiculous question: “Has he acted alone or in group?”

As if, acting alone is not a problem, or acting in a group is more dangerous! This is silly question at least for Islamic terrorism. Whether terrorists act alone or in a group of 5, 10, or 100, it matters little. Few in number is not important at all. Abdulmutallab of Nigeria alone has shaken the whole earth! Can’t we see that?

After every terror attack, authorities in western countries also scramble for searching a connection to specific terrorist groups or name of the country a terrorist belong to, which is also another unnecessary. Islamic jihadis can have 100s of different names or groups, but they all have the same objective: Destruction of the western civilization. These terrorists, are pure Quranic Muslims (i.e. radicalized by Islam), having strong connection to only one very strong and hateful ideology, namely ‘pure and original Islam’. They are radicalized by the same real and original 7^th-century version of puritanical Islam, that was practiced by the Prophet and his followers. It does not matter where they come from, or with which terror group, they are connected. They all are the fanatical followers of real Islam and radicalized by its hateful and violent ideology.

It is true that all Muslims are not terrorists but we must not forget that all terrorists are pure Muslims. One needs to be radicalized by pure Islam only in order to become a deadly terrorist. Fortunately, not all Muslims are radicalized! But many gullible Muslims are also sympathetic to radical Muslims. We must not forget that!

Deception and self-deception!

For long, Muslims in general, and Muslim leaders, Imams, Muslim organizations (like CAIR, ICNA, ISNA etc) in particular, are deceitfully fooling western governments by one constant and simple mantra, which is: Islam is peaceful religion, Islam never advocate terrorism to kill the innocents, or Islam never condone suicide bombings etc.

For long, these Muslim spokespersons are bluffing the west by parroting the same deceitful mantra again and again. But, all these Islamic hypocrites will never dare to challenge/face those jihadis, the so-called radicalized Muslims, and ask why they are doing it! Because, they know very well that radical jihadis are following true Islam, and these apologists are doing hypocrisy only to fool the westerners.

Would the so-called moderate Muslims bring a big street-demonstration chanting strong condemnations against those jihadis? Jihadis will come to behead them for blasphemy and talking against true Islam. I can bet a million dollars on this.

At the same time, western politicians and media are continuously calling it Islamic terrorism just “radicalization”, but would not mention to what, or by what, these young Muslims are radicalized! Therefore, they are clearly engaged in self-deception by their politically correctness. Because of sheer deception from Islamists, and self-deception of westerners, the actual culprit, i.e. to what these young Muslims (all over the world) are radicalized, remains hidden or unexposed. This hidden nameless culprit is none other than the ‘religion of Islam’ itself. These mindless terrorists like that Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, Umar farouk Abdulmutalab or all those al-Qaeda jihadi young Muslims all over the world are clearly radicalized by the teachings of nothing but real Islam. Radical Islam means “pure” or “original” Islam. Radical Islam is never a distorted or deviated Islam by any means.

Sources of Terrorists’ motivations and radicalization:

Islamic terrorists kill people by their Islamic fanatical motivations, which always come from the teachings of Islam (Holy Quran). Now, question is: Dose the Quran contain such verses, which can inspires/incites devout Muslims to kill people with impunity?

Answer is: There are plenty of such hate-inciting or -inspiring Quranic verses, which can turn any simple/innocent-minded, but devout, Muslims into a killing monster. In fact, Quran is replete with horrific violence-inciting dictums. The Holy Quran repeatedly promised terrestrial handsome rewards for those, who can kill kaffirs (opponents of Allah and His messenger, namely non-Muslims) and dreadful punishment of hellfire for those Muslims, who would refuse to kill kaffirs. The Quran also incite its followers to sacrifice their lives in order to kill kaffirs in exchange of much better and lucrative life hereafter. In this line, just one Quranic verse (9:111) is most attractive to those jihadis, egger to attain heavenly rearward, including 72 celestial virgins for ceaseless copulation:

Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Quran. [Quran: 9:111]

In addition, a strong support and explanation to the verse: 9:111 was given by Merciful Allah in following verses:

Quran-4:74: Let those fight in the cause of Allah Who sell the life of this world for the hereafter. To him who fighteth in the cause of Allah,- whether he is slain or gets victory (i.e. killed or be killed) - Soon shall We give him a reward of great (value).

Quran-4:95: Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons (sacrifice both life and wealth) than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward.

Quran-3:169: Think not of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord; (Here Allah is saying that those jihadi who dies [commit suicide] is not dead but he will be living with Allah).

Now, I do not believe that anybody would have the slightest doubt that the clear invitations (from Allah) to the ardent fanatical believers in above-mentioned verses can easily convince the blind pukka (pure) Muslims to become a suicidal time-bomb in order to kill infidels/kaffirs in the cause of Allah! The above verses (9:111; 3:169; 4:74; 4:95) clearly order Muslims "to kill and be killed"; that is, Allah is exhorting Muslims to sacrifice their lives (to commit suicide) in an effort to kill the infidels (enemy of Allah) in His cause (Allah's cause). This single verse (9:111) very precisely justifies suicide bombing, the most lethal, terrifying, inhuman and successful weapon the majority of Islamic terrorists are using today to kill Allah's enemies. In the verse, Allah clearly says: He (Allah) purchased life and property of believers in exchange of lustful and unimaginable lucrative heavenly pleasures for those who will die (commit suicide) for the cause (killing kaffirs) of Allah. . It is the perfect example (without any ambiguity) of suicidal method Allah has prescribed for devout Muslims. After this, devout Muslims need no more killing instructions, as a motivation, to kill kaffirs/infidels.

With good reasons, we can sum up that the Islamic God (Allah) is the most dangerous deity having unlimited vengeful, cruel, intolerant, intimidating and war-loving blood thirsty divine entity.

But this is not all! The Quran is loaded with numerous hateful and killing verses ordering its ardent followers to carry out endless killing of infidels/unbelievers until only Muslims remain to inhabit the earth, owned by Islamic Allah.

Making of Islamic jihadi terrorists!

Millions of young ardently devout muslims are continuously radicalized with Islamic teachings (cited above) by Muslim clerics (Imams) in mosques, Islamic schools, and other places throughout the whole world. They are radicalized by the pure and fundamental teachings of Quranic Islam. Actually, they are the real Muslims, Muslims by the book (i.e. Quran). The remaining billion of gullible Muslims, the so-called progressive moderate Muslims (living in the western comfort), are simply Muslims by virtue of their birth. They hardly read and understand anything of the Quran.

The Christmas Day terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is the testament of Islamic radicalization. This young man belonged to a very rich (Multimillionaire) family of Nigeria. Poverty did not touch him at all. But, Islamic teachings and devoutness of pure Islam touched him big-time at a young age (school life in England). He became a monster by his extra fervor in Islamic faith. No other force on earth could make him a monster like this: He tried to detonate a bomb onboard Northwest Airlines flight-523, carrying some totally innocent 290 people, over Detroit, USA.

What could be a better example of Islamic radicalization than this one? Radicalized Muslims have declared open war against the west! West must not forget this for a moment!

Calling spade a spade!

To say only the adjective (radicalized) without the noun (Islam) is incorrect way of talking about a terrorist’s mentality. Westerners should name the noun by which young Muslims are radicalized (to become deadly terrorists)! That noun is ‘Islam’, the name of an ideology and a religion, viciously hateful to non-Muslims.

Knowing the enemy is very crucial!

West is still struggling with the real identity or real face of their greatest enemy ever and erroneously or, to keep maintain Politically Correctness, they just can not name the enemy with clarity. They also perhaps can not understand seriousness of this deadly fanatical enemy! Whether the west cowardly call it a man-made disaster, or erroneously call it—militancy, evil ideology, vicious ideology, extremism, radicals, radicalization, etc, etc; however, it is more than sure that—this enemy is the pure Islamic jihad the historical imperialistic brain-child of Islam. Radical Islam is nothing but the real pure Islam, and radicalized young Muslims are the dedicated soldiers of Allah who are hell-bent to destroy the west in general and America in particular.

Proponents of American ‘political correctness’ do not know that, these Islamic jihadis are fighting from many fronts, in order to subdue American infidels to fulfill their holy wish of converting America into an Islamic nation, establish Islamic sharia (the draconian) law, and to hoist Islamic flag over the White House. I am afraid, super irresponsible political correctness may allow that to happen soon.

How can one cure a body by keeping the cancerous lesion inside the body? Nothing can change this precarious situation created by fanatical jihadi Muslims unless we realize the real problem (read Quran) and take care of it.

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References:

1. The Holy Qur'an, Translated by A. Yousuf Ali, Published by Amana Corporation, Brentwood, Maryland, 1983.

2. The Holy Qur’an, Translated by Dr. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali, Formerly Professor of Islamic Faith and Teachings, Islamic University, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah and Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Formerly Director, University Hospital, Islamic University, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah. “The Noble Qur'an" – Published and freely distributed by His Excellency King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz (Khademul Haramine Shareefine).

Foundations of Radical Tolerance and Cultural Inertia

As this difficult year comes to a close there is reason for positivity. There are now serving politicians in our country who are aware of Islam and the dangers that it poses to our freedoms and national survival; and there are now candidates running for national office who understand the challenges that we face from an ideology that is fundamentally opposed to ours.

We have been successful in raising awareness about political Islam its purposes and doctrine across the country and beyond. Even more important perhaps is the difficulty that we experience in discussing issues like this one.

We experience resistance to our discussions about Islamic doctrine and what it means for Americans and America because the United States and the West in general is in the midst of a crisis of meaning.

In addition to the horrors that we experienced on 9/11 and subsequently most recently at Fort Hood is the growing understanding across our society that we no longer have a shared concept of what it means to be American and what “America” itself means.

If there was no crisis of meaning in the United States there would be no controversy about the doctrine of Islam; there would be no confusion about what is the “true” Islam or what is the “false” Islam, the hijacked version of the … hijackers. If there were no crisis of meaning there would be unfettered and open discussion of Islamic doctrine, ideology, and history across the society.

The doctrine of Islam is clear about non-believers (Allah and Mohammed hate the unbeliever, the kafir), and it is clear about what the future of the world is supposed to be (the future is supposed to be entirely Islamic). The doctrine is clear about the House of War (dar al Harb), and the House of Islam (dar al Islam). The followers of Islam who kill non-believers and shout Islamic religious phrases as they kill give a clear message to all who care to listen to it. The followers of Islam involved overtly in jihad do not hide their purposes though they fool the multiculturalists and the ignorant with taqiyya about Islam as the “religion of peace”.

The doctrine of Islam is clear- it is the obligation of all followers of Islam to be involved in jihad, fighting in Allah’s cause. Allah’s Cause is the elimination of every religion or culture that is not Islamic, ruled under Allah’s law, “Sharia”.

The clarity of the message of the jihadists and the doctrine of Islam which explains why jihadists do what they do and commit the atrocities that they commit is difficult to defend, though it is defended nevertheless. It is defended and explained away by post-modernists and multiculturalists because if it is accepted as being what it is and if it is accepted that it is oppositional to American concepts of freedom and tolerance, then those who do not live a life of meaning have a foundational crisis of purpose and understanding; their deeply felt concepts of how the world functions will collapse.

The resistance to accept the reality of and then understand the truth of the doctrine of Islam is essentially a self-referential protective response on the part of a widely ignorant and post-modern culture deeply enamored with so-called post-historical ideas and Utopian concepts of radical tolerance.

Many in our culture believe that we in the United States are immune from historical forces; that we are safe in “fortress America” from all the horrors of the world that always happen “over there”. Even 9/11 could not shatter this Pollyanna silliness. The failure of 9/11 to awaken the mass of our people to the great threat of political Islam is a significant failure that cannot be defended, but it must be explained.

By way of explanation, Americans are a forward-looking people; we are tolerant, accepting and friendly. These are the foundations of our open society and why so many throughout our history have fled their own troubled homelands where the forces of history in all their ugliness wrecked their havoc. The place to evade the forces of history has always been the United States. This is why America has been the shining beacon of freedom and safety for generations.

What happens after a stunning and world shifting event like 9/11 occurs in the haven of openness and tolerance? What happens to the city on the hill—will the lights blink on and off then come back on bright as ever? Or will the lights shimmer and dim, because the people cannot accept the truth of this new world, which in fact is extraordinarily old (app 1400 years), into which they have been thrust?

The fundamental concepts of a stable and pleasant life for most are built upon the idea that everyone shares in the same desire for pleasantness and stability. Many in our country believe that a want of niceness on our part rather than simply our existence is the reason why so many across the world dislike the United States and our freedoms. This is a common idea across the land and a singular reason why discussing the doctrine of Islam and what it means is often met with rancor and fear. Many Americans do not want to know about the doctrine of Islam because it means that their concepts of stability and the nature of humanity are shattered.

The idea that an ideology can be so opposed to the existence of Americans as a group or nation is not unprecedented, we have been in civilizationalwar before. We fought WW2 because we saw the civilizations of Europe at risk of destruction and we knew that if they fell, the United States would be next and their essential concepts of freedom and the dignity of men were our own.

Since 1945 we as a society have forgotten that kindness and openness and a desire for mutual association is not enough to ensure peace and security here at home. There are forces at work that deny the right for others to live with their own beliefs and their own governments; this is called totalitarianism.

As this difficult year comes to a close we have much to be thankful for, but profound challenges remain. We are in an ideological war for which most are not prepared; in fact, many are unaware that such a conflict exists.

There is no denying the essential anti-freedom, intolerant political meaning and purpose of the doctrine of Islam, though it is denied anyway; this denial is the corner stone of our national suicide.

We are a forward-looking people; our grasp of history and of other cultures is neither extensive nor deep across the wider culture. Our current “culture war” has been described as a conflict between Republicans and Democrats; liberals and conservatives; capitalists and socialists but these are over-simplifications and miss the core point. The core of our current difficulties is a conflict over meaning and how to respond to challenges from those who do not share our concepts of meaning.

Throughout history societies have been required to defend themselves from threats both internal and external; this is why the Founders placed “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” in all civil and military oaths of office. We now must respond to a domestic and foreign threat that is ideologically driven.

Because we are in a crisis of meaning–as shown by our lack of societal awareness and acceptance of the threat even these few years since 9/11 and only weeks since Fort Hood (a smaller version of the same crime driven by the same forces that were behind 9/11)—we cannot respond effectively or at all.

In previous generations it was clearly understood by all what it meant to be an American, and what the concept of “America” was about. Rarely do the people have a shared understanding of these concepts now. What we see is a hodgepodge of competing ideas with the essential unifying concepts of “Americanism” forgotten or misunderstood.

The foundational concept of our country is built upon our Constitution which provides for just governance through representation and guaranteed freedoms for the people. The idea that a government is given its legitimacy from the people (rather than the government to the people) is unprecedented and merits appreciation, understanding, and defense.

Our culture is distracted and fragmented due to competing concepts of meaning. In the last 30 or 40 years we have seen the rise of an irrational and radical ultra-tolerance whereby any and all ideologies are accepted because they are different.

There is no value judgments placed upon these ideologies, even if they oppose our own because to do so would be to display intolerance; we are sacrificing our nation on the altar of a mistaken and ignorant misunderstanding of the functioning of humanity.

Radical tolerance upon which multiculturalism and post-modernism rest is the idea that there is no truth which can be known, that all “truths” are relative and a matter of opinion. This bizarre anti- self-legitimization is linked inextricably with the denial of history and the belief that we are somehow immune from the horrors of history’s cycles if we are but “nice” (tolerant) enough. The abandonment of immigration controls is evidence of this abandonment of essential truths; for how can we prevent the entry of someone to our country simply because there is a difference of opinion between them and the prevailing understanding of “good” in our culture let alone the laws of the land? Post-modernists would likely say that such controls would demonstrate a lack of “kindness” and “tolerance” on our part. This idea of radical baseless tolerance is one of the consequences of post-modernism.

The rejection of all previous concepts of truth and the rejection of the idea that truth itself can be known is what post-modernists are about. We see a total lack of moral and ethical foundation across the culture because the culture is widely accepting of post-modernism. For such anti-intellectuals there is no reason to limit immigration, no reason to condemn ideologies that are hate-based, intolerant and violent and opposed to our existence because we are no longer able to say with confidence that our “way” is good and worthy of defense and another ought to be opposed or condemned.

The mistake so rife among post-modernists is that the process of democracy, voting, polling, debate, etc. is mistaken for democracy itself. The post-modernist is the voter who voted for the NSDAP (Nazi party) in 1933 and said, “Look! Democracy at work!” This is a deep moral confusion because post-modernists are amoral.

Morality and ethics are built upon surety. Doubt in the ability to learn, to know, to judge—and, in fact that “judging” itself is immoral—is the essence of amorality.

As we doubt ourselves and pretend that we live in a world outside historical forces and embrace the ridiculous notion that, only with more and more tolerance and openness, those who wish to destroy us will be turned to friends completely forgets the lessons of history and of millennia of human and civilizational development. Post-modernists are ignorant Utopians whose ideas have no foundations in history but instead have a powerful and attractive message to a confused populace overwhelmed with data overload and their own growing doubts about meaning as essential and previously unassailable institutions across the culture are de-constructed.

It is not now known when the idea that certitude could be essentially wrong (or worse) gained favor in our culture. This happened most assuredly over only several generations; the Civil War generation through the aftermath of WW2 into the Cold War had no such confusions as to the value of their society or country. We have somehow lost the firm belief that the United States and our Constitution are exceptional and worthy of defense. This loss of purpose and identification must be accepted, challenged and overturned. We must soon return to the core concepts of what America is, and what it means to be American.

The post-modern message is attractive because it exists outside of the horrors of history which include world war and holocaust and the “evil that men do”. The essence of post-modernism is a radical totality of acceptance of differences and an abandonment of weighing differences to come to a conclusion as to relative values. For post-modernists relative value is Truth, because there is no essential truth anymore. Judgment is certitude in action and certitude means that one concept is better than another.

The abandonment of the legitimacy of making value judgments is foundational to post-modernist anti-thought – it is the basis of our ongoing inability to defend ourselves from aggresive antagonistic ideologies. If we identify an ideology as oppositional that is not considered “tolerant”, we cannot act for fear of appearing “intolerant”. Why does it matter at all if we appear “intolerant?” We are all adults, are we not?

This lunacy must end. The lunacy of radical tolerance prevents our self-defense; radical tolerance and post-modernism must be exposed for the absurd ridiculous Utopian fantasies that they are, and eliminated from our national discourse.

The believability of post-modernist thought itself is at stake when the doctrine of Islam is discussed and events such as Fort Hood and 9/11 are placed in an Islamic doctrinal context. The failure of post-modernism in these and so many other cases is founded in the refusal to place people and events in a rational and legitimate context; Utopian fantasies are no way to explain the world.

If it is true that there is a doctrinal basis for 9/11 and Fort Hood (there clearly is), then universal radical tolerance is impossible—for how can radical tolerance positively affect ideologically driven foes whose purpose is the destruction of the very concept of radical tolerance itself and those who support such concepts?

Post-modernists are unknowing self-haters. They are self-haters because they will not dare to make a negative judgment about an ideology that despises them and their concepts of humanity and the functioning of the world.

We are in an existential conflict understood now by many more than understood only a year ago. Post-modernism is a Utopian dream built upon ignorance and wishful thinking only; there is little that can be said in its defense. If the world functioned in the way that post-modernists and multiculturalists believe that it does there would not have been 9/11 or Fort Hood and the doctrine of Islam would be something other than what it is.

Post-modernism is a denial of truth and the ability of humans even to know “truth”. In the world of post-modernist relativism everything is true and everything is equivalent. This is an extreme radicalism that we must oppose so that rationality built upon knowledge and understanding can again arise across the country and the West.

To those who believe there is truth and untruth and accept this historically valid concept of the dichotomies of life which are “truth/untruth” and “good/evil”, the way forward is both challenging and difficult. It is a comfort in a sense to know that history and raw experience is on the side of knowledge and rationality; post-modernism and multiculturalism are irrational.

The denial of history, of the good and bad of humanity and the horrors of our experiences (9/11, Fort Hood, etc.), cannot long be sustained by those Utopians who prefer the world to be something other than what it is.

Those who know Islamic doctrine and understand that jihadists commit atrocities because the doctrine of Islam commands them to do so cannot live in a post-modern/multicultural world because such a world is a Utopian fantasy.

If we accept the world for what it is (and not the illusion of how we would wish it to be) and if we compare ourselves, our government, and our Constitution with those of other lands present and past, we can come to a conclusion based upon knowledge that what we have and what are are are worthy of defense.

If we accept the world for what it is and not for how we would wish it to be, we can divine the truth and accept that the clarity that comes with acceptance of reality is illuminating. We are not dreamers but realists. We have the audacity to learn the doctrine of our enemies, to discuss it, and to extrapolate from it so that we can understand events of the world in which we all live.

The post-modernist and multiculturalist concepts of us and the world (and our place in it) will fall away as the idea that truth can be known and understood again comes into fashion.

We are rationalists and students of reality; we are not dreamers living in a fantasy who reject reality because it is impossibly unpleasant (as multiculturalists and post-modernists do). We accept that we cannot change the world by inviting those who would destroy us into our fantasies of universal radical tolerance and ignorance.

We build our opposition to conditions today and to ideologies of hatred and violence on knowledge and acceptance of reality. We accept the understanding that others have of themselves and of how they relate to us; we have friends, allies, and enemies.

The essential truth of humanity and history has not changed; we would prefer a happier world but accept the world for what it is. This is our audacity; the audacity to speak the truth and challenge falsehoods and lies. We mourn our lost innocents and make them a promise that we will make things better so that their tribulations, sacrifices and pain are not in vain.

We are all learning, and sharing our knowledge. This is the foundation of the future. A new year is approaching and we welcome it with great hope.

The Spirit of Christmas and Islam

Would Islam become a religion of the today's spirit of Christmas---"peace on earth, good-will to men"---than of war and ill-will, as Islam has been since its founding and continuing...
This is the time of the year that the air is filled with everything Christmas. There is something for everyone: gifts for family and friends, prayers at churches, and Christmas music everywhere. It puts me in a contemplative mood, particularly when I hear the delightful Christian refrain, peace on earth, goodwill to men. This is the gift I want. This is my Christmas. When there is peace on earth and all people dispense and receive good will.
Yet, I am saddened to see the world as it is, particularly with what Islam is doing to it, which is the exact opposite of working for peace and extending goodwill to all people.
My contemplation takes me to the genesis of Islam. Something I have come to view as a scourge of humanity, and here are a few of my random thoughts about the founder of Islam: the person who launched a religion that has denied peace to mankind right from the start, the person who advanced a religion that began with war, continues with war, and aims to carry on with bloodletting to the end of time. All this makes me think and shake my head in bewilderment.
Starting with the premise that an all-knowing powerful God is the creator of this awe-inspiring universe where we humans are an infinitesimally insignificant part of his creation humbles me. Muslims call this creator Allah—a recast of one of 360 idols in the pre-Islamic Idolatry of Mecca—and attribute numerous superhuman qualities to him. It is awe-inspiring to realize that a being of that description may indeed exist.
That leads me to some questions: Why would such an indescribably exalted creator, with his ascribed boundless wisdom and resources, pick an illiterate Bedouin to become his prophet for then and forever? The man himself, Muhammad, admitted in the Quran to his own illiteracy. Yet, Allah persisted in choosing this man? Was Allah bored with the rest of his universe and playing a joke on us helpless mortals? Or was it a case of Allah not being able to get any reasonably literate man to take the job?
I don’t have an answer to this or a bevy of other questions and the answers I have seen so far from Muslims are far from satisfactory. I am forced to mark this as one of the enigmas of life and move on to further look into Muhammad, his claims, his life and the way all might come together with Allah’s choreography of our life of drama.
Muslims claim that Muhammad was the most perfect man, the kind of saintly man that each and every one of us should adulate and aspire to follow. On the top of their list is the desire to lead their lives in such a way that would please Allah, if they can.
Muhammad has done that, Muslims claim. And apparently Allah, in his infinite kindness, does not require the rest of us mortals to do things that we are incapable of doing. And Muhammad has brought us the perfect life manual, the Quran, to help us in our quest, we are told.
Besides, a great inducement for me to check Islam out is the promise of eternal life in an indescribably lush sensual paradise of Allah if I make the grade. If I fail, I am told, my forever destination is the dreadful inferno of hell.
I have also checked out those schools of thoughts that say life starts here and ends here. End of discussion. Well, buying into the idea that I am going to end up as fertilizer in some desolate cemetery is not something I would like to contemplate. So, I kept looking into this Islam thing since I was born and raised in it. After all 1.5 billion people have bought into it. They can’t all be misguided, can they?
This quest led me to examine the teachings and life of Muhammad closely. And here are a few of my findings that have thrown me for a loop. Hence, I am sharing my findings with the readers in the hope that someone would supply me with explanations that would relieve me of my perplexities.
I have, in my quest, read, re-read, and read again the Quran—purportedly the literal word-for-word of Allah transmitted to Muhammad by the Archangel Gabriel over the course of some 20 years.
Right away I am troubled. Is Allah the same creator who has created the entire universe by a single word of his mouth—kon va yakoon—be and became, as Islam claims? Then why did it take this magnificent all-knowing lightingly-fast-Allah 20 years to get across a dime-novel-size hodgepodge of contradictory and nonsensical verse called the Quran, to us poor creatures?
Was it because Muhammad was illiterate and he couldn’t write them down? But that can’t be. He didn’t write down anything himself. He dictated to anyone who could write and was around at the time to do it. Therefore, in the course of some 20 years what is claimed to be the word-for-word dictates of Allah went through a number of intermediaries and materialized in several versions.
First the Archangel Gabriel whispered it to Muhammad, then Muhammad found some Arab who could write—not an easy find among the masses of the most backward illiterates of Arabia—and who happened to have a pen of some sort and a parchment to jot down what Muhammad still managed to recall.
Perhaps this does explain the several versions of the Quran that popped up after Muhammad’s death and the Caliph Othman’s choice of one as the genuine and burning of the others. The practice of burning books Muslims don’t like to talk about, goes all the way back to their venerated second Caliph, Othman.
Now, how could a fallible politician like Othman be the judge of Allah’s genuine utterances? Was there another Archangel that helped him out, or he just simply liked that particular version best? One thing you can say about Othman. He was an astute enough politician to realize that you can’t have one Islam with several versions of the word-for-word revelation of Allah.
Here is another problem. Even the chosen version of the Quran, if you can make any sense of it at all, reads like two different books. The early part is known as the Mecca Quran. This part is much about meekness, tolerance, kindness and so forth. This was the time that Muhammad’s wife Khadija—a monotheist Hanif, in contrast to polytheist idolater Muhammad—introduced her young troubled husband to her Christian uncle and exposed him to the teachings of Christianity that influenced his “revelation.”
During this early phase of his ministry, Muhammad spoke respectfully about the “people of the book,”—Christians and Jews, the people from whose book he liberally plagiarized to launch his monotheistic faith with the invaluable encouragements of his wife Khadija.
It was Khadija who convinced the young man that he was indeed chosen by Allah to be his spokesperson; that the jinn and angels communicated with him were parts of Allah’s plan for him.
Muhammad, during his Mecca years, was ridiculed for his confused sayings by his own tribe of Quraish. He was called shaeron majnoon—crazed poet. At this early stage he went by his birth name of Abulqasem. It was later that he took on the new name of Muhammad—Praiseworthy-One—to go better with his ministry.
Muhammad, having been judged as a hallucinating insane poet, was tormented by the Meccans in many ways. It got so bad, that after his wife’s death he left for Medina where a significant Jewish community provided a safer place for him to gather followers, build a powerbase, reveal his Medina Quran of intolerance and vilification, and launch his religion in full force and by brute force.
Once in Medina, Muhammad hit on a most powerful formula for success. He justified everything, on the spot, by saying that Allah wants it this way. And Allah was nothing to trifle with. He held the key to the most magnificent paradise as well as to the dreadful hell. The duty of a good Muslim became unquestioning obedience to everything that Muhammad said and wished. Muhammad became Allah’s gatekeeper to paradise and hell.
Muhammad’s formula worked magic with the Bedouins of Arabia who thrived on robberies and killings. His religion spread like a pandemic disease in no time at all. And here we are in the 21st century, at Christmas time, praying for peace and goodwill to men, while Muhammad’s men are working overtime to make sure that men see neither peace nor goodwill.
I would like to join the chorus of peace on earth and goodwill to men. Yet, deep in my soul, I find it my solemn duty to keep on sounding the alarm about the fire of Islam even at this poignant moment of Christmas.
Peace on earth and goodwill to men is a perennial prayer. It can be only when enough men and women of goodwill, with iron resolve, arise and disempower the Islamist people of war and ill-will.

How to slit throats: Jihad maneuvers taught at New York compound

A new video released by the Christian Action Network shows Muslim women at a compound in New York state practicing throat-slitting techniques and assault weapons attacks.

The video was distributed by the makers of the movie "Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.," which documents how a jihadist group has developed dozens of training camps across the nation.

WND reported at the time how Jamaat ul-Fuqra has built 35 compounds – mostly in the northeastern corridor of the U.S.

Now the organization has posted on YouTube a "chilling" training video provided to CAN by an unnamed law enforcement source about the Muslims of America headquarters in Hancock, New York.

http://www.youtube.com/v/ebg6AFylios

Muslims of America reportedly is the name Jamaat ul-Fuqra, believed to have been involved in the beheading of reporter Daniel Pearl, uses in the U.S.

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The video includes segments of training exercises in which one person appears to practice a maneuver that would slit the throat of a victim. There are episodes of what appears to be automatic weapons fire at a target and incidents in which a handgun is held point-blank at a "victim's" head:

http://www.youtube.com/v/ebg6AFylios

The video shows women marching in military formation, scaling walls, engaging in hand-to-hand combat and also reveals a Muslim confirming that the organization's own census revealed that Muslims are a majority in the United States and they are claiming it as their own.

The speaker states, "We are 100 percent sure that Muslims are the majority in America."

He continues, "Our Islamic political party has based its manifesto on this fact. We want to declare once and for all that America is our country."

According to CAN, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2005 warned about Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani-based organization that "had the capacity to attack" America.

The U.S. State Department's 1998 "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report notes the organization "seeks to purify Islam through violence."

The report continued, "Members have purchased isolated rural compounds in North America to live communally, practice their faith and insulate themselves from Western culture. Fuqra members have attacked a variety of targets that they view as enemies of Islam."

CAN, led by Martin Mawyer, has researched Muslims of America for years and has provided its video to the FBI, State Department and Homeland Security.

To date, there has been no response from the government, the group said.

Mawyer told WND the political correctness America has adopted ultimately will be costly.

The hands of law enforcement and investigators are tied at this point, he said, because members of the organization are part of "a minority religion," "they are African-American" "and in this particular case, are women."

"Gilani has stated he is preparing his members to the Soldiers of Allah, and he's set up the most advanced guerrilla warfare training camps," he said. "He's being true to his word.

"If the evidence is right in front of our face and we have the words from the leader," Mawyer said. "I don't know how we continue to close our eyes and be blinded by such obvious affront to American values, the Constitution and our way of life."

The organization's "Homegrown Jihad" video includes a chilling scene of Jamaat ul-Fuqra's leader Sheikh Mubarak Gilani telling followers to "act like you're his friend. Then kill him."

According to the Religion of Peace website, there have been more than 250 jihad attacks by Muslims around the globe – including two inside the U.S. – in just the last two months.

The death toll from the attacks has surpassed 1,400, the report says.

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'Islamic indoctrination' taken to Supreme Court
Judges asked to rethink 'Islamic-indoctrination'
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Breaking Free from Islam

A Christian convert's torturous experience with Islam, and how she broke away from the cult of oppression and death alive and returned to her root...
I was born in the U.S. as a Christian, or at least I was called a Christian, as is the tradition of anyone born into the religion of his/her parents. I began going alone to a local Baptist church when I was around ten years old.
The preacher scared me intensely, during one of the Sunday Sermons, when he shook his stern pointer finger right towards me and said I was going to “hell in a hand basket“. He was talking to the entire congregation, but at ten years old and no one there to explain things to me, I felt he was indicating hell for me personally and solely.
I walked reluctantly up the church aisle a few times, between the ages of ten into my early twenties, to make a public profession of faith, more out of fear than understanding. I couldn’t comprehend the concept of some of the doctrine of Christianity, like the Trinity.
It was never explained to me about Jesus being the Word, as John speaks of in his Gospel. I memorized John 3:16 –“for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life”.I was taught that He was the Son of God, but I really didn’t appreciate or assimilate the true essence of that statement.
My interpretation within the finite walls of my little pea brain, was that God was the mean and vengeful one and Jesus was the loving one who turned the other cheek. The Holy Spirit played no part in my life at all. Since I could never begin to understand His role, I just dismissed that part altogether. I had no inkling of God’s undeniable character and deep and abiding love for me at that time.
I thought I was saved, but my walks up the aisle at church didn’t seem to quite take hold in my life. I would become emotional at a church meeting or revival, but there was never a real change in my heart, nothing lasting. Rather than try to study and pray more in hopes of making sense of it, I turned from religion altogether when I was in my twenties.
My experience in church had become more of an emotional struggle than a spiritual awakening and personal walk with God. It would be years before I tried to even speak to God again. I didn’t think He cared about me at all. I no longer knew what to believe about the differing doctrines in the diverse churches and denominations I tried over that time. The more I saw in church, the more confused and skeptical I became. Church no longer played a role in my life at all. I became totally lost and thrown off balance by life’s circumstances, as I was naïve and perplexed about how to handle the trepidation of life.
I left God at church, and went out to find my own answers and seek my own way. I would later learn that we are all here on this earth for a purpose. That purpose is to worship our Creator, our loving Heavenly Father.
In 1998, I met a Muslim man online in a chat room. He began telling me about Islam. I was so naïve at that time about any and all religions, and as far as I knew, Muslims were the people who worshiped cows. I was completely ignorant on the topic. He promptly set me straight, informed me that this is not what Islam is about, and then proceeded to introduce me to a teacher at the Islamic Society of North America in a major U.S. city where I lived. This encounter eventually would lead to a drastic and chaotic chain of events that would forever change my life. The next ten years of my life would give rise to a reign of horror unlike anything I had ever experienced in my life. That horror had a name – Islam.
I was given just enough of the teachings of Islam to be convinced that it was truly a religion of God, a religion of peace. It came at a time in my life when I was looking for spiritual fulfillment from a Higher Power, and definitely a little peace in my life. I believed in God, but that was about it. The Muslims had me at an advantage, because my religious slate was practically clean. They could easily convince me of anything they wanted, and they did.
It should have been a red flag to me that I was forbidden by this teacher to have a Qur’an, or even read it in the beginning, until he approved me to do so. Just the same, I was lured into this cultic fanatical religion based on the facts regarding Islam given to me at that time. Their teachings – first and foremost, Islam is a “religion of peace“.
I was taught that Islam shared the same Prophets as Christianity; the same Abraham, Noah, Moses, David, and even Jesus. Muslims’ belief in creation is the same as Christians in that they believe Adam was the first man born from the spirit of God, and Eve was created as his helpmate. That was pretty much the end of similarities between Christianity and Islam, as I would later learn. These basic beliefs in most of the same Bible characters appealed to me, allowing for a smoother transition and convincing proof for converting to this new religion called Islam.
I had been confused for years about the concept of Christianity’s Trinity, not being able to wrap my head around the idea of it, so I just let it go. Islam took care of that confusion by denying the Trinity altogether, and condemning that belief as a major, unforgivable sin called shirk – having more than one god, or associating partners with God.
Another positive aspect of Islam for me at that time was the idea that all Muslims were considered equal, and no racism supposedly existed under the umbrella of Islam. Racism is something that I had vehemently abhorred most of my life.
An astounding statistic introduced to me was that Islam was the fastest growing religion in America at that time. It was recorded that one fifth of the world’s population were Muslim. I had to wonder why this was the case. What was it about this religion I had never heard of before that was so appealing to so many Americans today, especially women? One reason for this is that Islam teaches that women are important citizens of Islam, being allowed to keep their own name when they marry, as well as their own property, and are to be protected by their male counterparts. Muslim women are to be allowed their freedoms, according to Islamic propaganda. Another reason, besides the “peace” factor, is that Islam advocates giving to the poor and needy. How can such a religion that upholds charity as one of its main tenets of faith be bad?
One major belief held by Muslims is that Jesus is not the Son of God. One who holds the belief that Jesus indeed is the Son of God is called a kafr or infidel, according to Islam. This was the hardest part of Islam for me to swallow. I had a difficult time letting go of that long-held Christian belief about Jesus, but was eventually convinced with traditional Islamic propaganda that Jesus wasn’t the Son of God as the so-called kafr’s believe, but indeed was highly respected by Muslims as “one of the mightiest messengers of God” and a major prophet of Islam, bringing the message of the Oneness of God to the Israelites by way of the Injil, or the Gospel.
Muslims also deny that Jesus indeed died on the cross, believing instead that Judas Iscariot died in his place, and Jesus was ascended up to Heaven. It took a while for me to be convinced that Jesus was not the Son of God, but rather a messenger for God to the people of Israel only.
According to Islam, all prophets came with the same message, preaching One True God – Allah. Four prophets came with Holy Books – Moses brought the Torah for his people, David came with the Psalms for his people, Jesus with the Injil, or the Gospels, for the Israelites, and Muhammad, the final messenger of Allah, the Qur’an, for all mankind. They strongly believe and teach that the Bible has been corrupted, and only parts that coincide with the Qur’an are accurate.
Once I fell for the lies and manipulation, I began attending the Islamic class, and converted to the religion the following month. I was treated like royalty; waited on hand and foot, invited to various homes, made to feel extremely important, and completely accepted, like I had never experienced before in my life. What human being wouldn’t be enticed by that sort of special treatment, especially if you are longing for that sense of belonging and persistent yearning to be loved and accepted by your peers. Hence the reason for so many cults these days. Parents and teachers should beware of these dangers.
Eventually I was assigned a ‘wali’, which, for a convert, is sort of like a step-father. My wali just happened to be the Pakistani teacher of the Islamic class in the city where I lived. During that same time, it became a foregone conclusion that I should marry, as it is an important part of the religion.
I met and married a Palestinian Muslim man from the class a few months later. He seemed very kind, loving, and thoughtful, at least at first. As soon as we were married, within the first week, everything changed. He no longer was kind, but became extremely controlling, overbearing and quite physically and verbally aggressive toward me. I was immediately ordered to begin wearing Islamic clothing any time I would leave my home, which included to work. He would show up at my job to make sure I was wearing traditional Islamic dress, which included a hijab (head scarf), and he insisted that I wear no makeup, perfume or jewelry.
I was not to talk to any men at all, even friends I had before we were married. My husband was extremely jealous. He, however, used ‘dawah’ (spreading of Islam) to collect emails from women. He met a myriad of unsuspecting females in the grocery stores, all in the name of Islam, despite the fact that Islamic law prohibits men from looking into the eyes of a woman who is not his wife, or be alone with them. He always used Islam to capture their attention, citing that he wanted to “save them from the hellfire”.
It was only within a few months that I became completely isolated from all my prior friends and ultimately my family as well. I was not allowed to go shopping or do any of the fun things I had done before, like seeing movies or going to the beach. I was denied to have any collectibles, and to have any pictures of my family on the walls was forbidden. I was often called stupid, crazy, dog, and a few other choice names. I was berated and told that I was weak-minded, that I needed him, that I couldn’t make it without him, that no one in the world cared about me or loved me. What little confidence I had became completely shattered.
I was instructed to memorize verses from the Qur’an and to read the entire book each month, which I did faithfully. I was strongly advised also to read and write Arabic, as Allah would not accept my prayers if I did not pray them in Arabic, which was the chosen language of God. I read the hadiths (sayings and teachings of Muhammad) daily, and gave my husband a report on what I learned. Most of the teachings he had never heard of before, as he obtained most of his knowledge about Islam from the Imam at the local mosque. It is quite a familiar scene to find Muslims, especially women, who are not educated about the teachings and beliefs of Islam. Oftentimes, as was in my case, the converts became better teachers of the religion due to the fiery fervor they exude in relation to their newfound faith.
I was often whisked off to churches and other sites to speak to Christians and Americans in general about Islam, and show them that a blue-eyed, blond-haired American woman believed in Muhammad and Islam, so they should too.
Basically, I was used to help spread their propaganda and win souls into the fold of Islam. I was used to teach new Muslim women the five daily prayers and the basics of Islam, and eventually became a scholar of sorts for the women in the Islamic community. In general, women of Islam are not encouraged to study their own religion, yet American converts are pushed to the forefront, in the hopes of getting more converts to embrace Islam.
Once I was showing my husband some revealing negative stories and aspects about Muhammad from these hadiths. One story read that Muhammad had a couple killed for rejecting Islam, despite the religion’s teaching that there is no compulsion in religion.
Another hadith is about a non-believing woman who was married to a Muslim man. She was saying all sorts of evil things against Muhammad. Her husband killed her; Muhammad was grateful to him and appreciated his actions. Muhammad ordered his men to kill all non-believers, I.e., Jews and Christians (People of the Book), as well as Pagans.
Muhammad married one of his wives, Aishah, when she was six years old, consummating the marriage when she was nine years old. When she was older, she often complained when Muhammad would compare women to dogs or donkeys. When I shared these stories from the Islamic books with my husband, he accused me of “trying to shake” his faith, or that the “Jews must have planted” these awful stories in his own Islamic books.
Shortly thereafter, I made the mistake of saying something that he didn’t like. He beat me so badly that I could barely sit for a full week. Many times I tried to leave, but when I attempted, he would pull my hair, throw me to the ground and call me names. I was told that I was no good, and that no one cared about me except him. He convinced me that I would never make it on my own. Never in my life have I felt so alone and hopeless.
On September 11, 2001, I was completely and utterly devastated, as were all Americans, and even the entire world. If you were old enough to remember that tragic event, you remember exactly what you were doing on that horrific day that forever changed the lives of every American for all time.
I was teaching third and fourth grade at an Islamic School. One of the other teachers, who was an American convert married to a Saudi Muslim man and had seven children, came running to tell me what had happened. At first, I thought, how sad that a plane hit a building in New York. A few minutes later, she came running back to tell me that a second plane hit the second tower, and that it was apparently intentional. I became terrified and wondered what was happening in my world, just as millions of other citizens were wondering the same thing. My husband became defensive when I questioned him about these terrorists being Muslims, telling me that no Muslim could do this, believing that it had to have been the Jews who were responsible.
His hatred for the Jews was unwavering. When I asked him why he hated them so disdainfully, he stated, "I’ll have to get back with you on that". In other words, he had no answer without speaking with the Imam first.
After the 9/11 tragedy, I really began having misgivings about this marriage, as well as about the religion of Islam. The day after this horrific terrorist attack on our homeland, he ordered me to dress in full Islamic clothing and paraded me around at the local U.S. Post Office. I begged him not to make me do this. I felt he did this only for show. He wanted people (Americans) to see me like this for his own wicked and twisted agenda. It was as though he wanted to flaunt it in their faces. I was terrified of how I would be treated after such a devilish ordeal the day before.
The next few years were not good ones for our marriage and my faith. I no longer had any faith to speak of. For one thing, I could not understand why God/Allah, would not accept my prayers unless I said them in Arabic. It seemed to me to be a lot of ritualistic acts with some head knowledge, devoid of any heart connection with God at all. To me, this didn’t seem right. I began doubting that Islam was really the truth from and about the God that I knew as a child and young adult. I started to veraciously soul search, but didn’t exactly know how to begin or where to turn.
I read a book by Ibn Warraq, “Why I Am Not A Muslim”. I went to different sites all over the internet, trying to find out what would make a Muslim want to leave Islam. I was looking for a good excuse to leave, even though I no longer had faith in Islam at all. I was looking for help, a way out. I also began corresponding with renowned Egyptian activist and author Nonie Darwish. She had converted to Christianity after being born Muslim, and having a father in the Fedayeen, who died a martyr when she was young.
Nonie sent quite a number of convincing emails to encourage me to leave this religion and my unhappy marriage to a man who had no respect for me as a human being, much less his wife.
In 2004, I finally left him with strong encouragement from my now grown children. It was a very difficult thing to do, because I had absolutely no confidence in myself to accomplish any task without his help. I couldn’t do anything on my own and feel good about it because I had been told how ignorant I was for so long that I completely believed every word he had said to me for all those years.
I had to sneak away while he was at work because I was terrified of my husband. I had no idea what he might be capable of. He considered this apostasy a betrayal towards him personally.
While living away from him, my tires were slashed. I called AAA, and the guy told me the tires were deliberately cut. My husband had his friends call me constantly to go back with him. I broke down and went back home to him after a short while. Even though I had been away from him for a six-month time, he still had me mentally in his grips.
In 2006, I really began soul searching and praying for God to show me the truth. I was feeling so hopeless at this point, that I didn’t even want to live any more. I literally begged God for death. I wanted to die in the worst way. I prayed to Him day and night, begging for His mercy and His forgiveness and His help. I told Him that if I couldn’t find the truth, I would rather die than to go on living the life I now believed to be untruths regarding Islam.
I couldn’t bear to hear any longer of how Christians would go to hell for making partners with God, but yet suicide bombers were martyrs, and would enjoy their 72 beautiful virgins in Paradise. I could no longer stand it when my husband would tell me that it was a good thing that a Jewish baby had been killed by Palestinians so he wouldn’t grow up and become a Jewish man. I couldn’t allow myself to listen to another absurd word from an Imam stating matter-of-factly how wonderful and blessed the 9/11 terror attack was. How wonderful and blessed? Are you kidding me? The mindset of some of these people now in my life was simply mind boggling.
My husband told me on numerous occasions that I would only be allowed to go to Paradise if he was pleased with me. For me, making that man happy was an impossible feat at this point in life. I could no longer pretend, as I had done for the past few years, that I believed in a god named Allah or his prophet Muhammad, who was evil incarnate.
I could no longer stand behind my husband and in all earnest pray to a god that didn’t hear me because I couldn’t pray in Arabic. I was finished with all the five daily prayers, dressing in Middle Eastern garb, and going to the mosque to listen to senseless rhetoric and irrational and foolhardy propaganda against my beloved country and its people.
I was finished with the unrelenting thirty-day fasts that caused excruciating bladder infections, bleeding stomach ulcers, and exceeding resentment, all done in vain for a man who had no respect for women, who followed and believed in a pedophilic, murdering false prophet with a hijacked religion called peace, backed up with a little made up god named Allah, also previously known as Allat, the moon god, who had no power to begin with.
I had been cut off from the Islamic community years prior because of my lack of faith in Islam and Allah and Muhammad. More than once I asked why they worship and follow after this dead guy. This, by the way, was not advisable conversation to have with devout Muslims.
Something in me told me to go back to my roots, back to the beginning when I had a little faith. Fearfully and tearfully I began going to church. I was afraid of what my husband might do if he found out, but I was also afraid I would go to hell for doubting the way I was, and for trying to worship God the wrong way by doing shirk (making partners with God). I literally shook over my entire body the first visit to church.
The first person I met was a very tall, friendly woman who could clearly sense my anxiety and apprehension, albeit she had no clue what was happening in my life. She came to me and put her loving arms around me as though she really cared, despite the fact she had never seen me before in her life. I could feel the power of God in this place. Everyone was so kind and nice and gentle, and real.
As she walked with me to show me where the worship center was, I told her a bit about my past few years and my involvement with Islam. This was my last best hope. I needed God more than I needed air to breathe.
This sweet and precious lady led me to a seat in the back of the church, per my request, in case I felt the need to run out. She promised to come for me and to walk me to a ladies class after the service.
I was worried that the devil might be in this place, as I had been taught in Islam. I was afraid that being in this church might cause me to be a kafir (unbeliever), and I definitely had enough faith to know I didn’t want to go to hell for being in a church with other kufar (unbelievers).
I sat in a chair all alone in the worship center, yet I didn’t feel alone at all, but excited and extremely anxious, watching people connect with one another in a positive, loving manner, unlike the fighting I so frequently saw in the mosque. I saw husband caress the back of his beloved wife, and I saw neighbor reach out to neighbor in a friendly gesture, as they embraced one another in a way that seemed so genuine....
After the service, the tall lady came back to get me just as promised, and together we went to the Ladies Sunday School class to learn more. These ladies were the most accepting and loving group of ladies I had encountered in many, many years. The women I was used to at the mosque would push you and fight you for a meal during Ramadan. These ladies in the Sunday School class seemed like they would give you anything they had, and genuinely feel like they were blessed to do it.
I was very happy, yet nervous to be there, but I knew in my heart, it would not be my last visit to this wonderful and caring place. There was something there that I needed tremendously – hope.
I did indeed go back to that precious church with those kind and caring ladies in the class. At first, I would tell my husband I was going somewhere else that he would approve of. It didn’t take him long to figure out something was going on. The church knew about me, so they were being very discreet, never calling me at my home, but encouraged me to call them when it was safe and I was able to do so. Even then, these wise ladies knew the dangers that loomed around me during this pivotal time of my life.
The giveaway was that I had a newfound joy! God was changing my heart, and the Holy Spirit was leaping up and down in my gut, even though at the time I had no clue what was happening! I began to understand God and His precious love for me and all people, even Muslims.
The change didn’t happen overnight though. It took hours and hours, days and days, weeks and weeks of diligent seeking and earnest prayer. I would lock myself in my bedroom so I wouldn’t be discovered studying the Bible and researching old Biblical manuscripts on the internet.
God had to first convince me that the Bible was His Word, true and infallible. In Islam, I was taught, along with my husband, to tear the Bible apart, looking for inconsistencies. I believed, like he did, that the Bible was corrupted......
I believed and accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, converted back to Christianity and had an overwhelming desire to be baptized to show the world that I was a believer, that Jesus was my Savior, that He died for my sins, and that He loved me and knew me before the world was.....
By that time, I could no longer keep my new faith a secret. I began talking about it, in the hopes that my husband would be saved too, and that we could worship God together in a loving way like I had witnessed other couples in the church do. That wasn’t to happen. He became a nightmare.
He began to terrorize me mentally and emotionally. He told me I would be sorry if I went through with the baptism. He spit in my face and said, “If you do this, you will be in danger”. I took this threat very literally. I warned my family that if anything happened to me, he did it!
I prayed for his salvation and that God would open his heart and the eyes of his understanding. I wanted him to experience the awesomeness of God. I wanted salvation for him too, and I prayed fiercely for it, but it just didn’t happen. He would not even listen to my explanation of how I came to realize the truths about God. He wanted no part of it.
I asked him so many times to just pray to God, ask God to reveal to him anything that was not truth. He was arrogant about it, and refused to discuss it any further with me, but only became argumentative, telling me that it would be better for me to not believe anything at all, rather than to believe Jesus is God’s Son.
I went through this for about a year. I had to get out because I felt my husband was right when he said I was in danger. Not that I was afraid of what he could do to me physically, but rather most importantly, that my spirit would be harmed, and my faith would dwindle. My spiritual growth was at risk of being stunted.....
My husband was not willing for me to live with him under these circumstances. He made it adamantly clear that I was not wanted unless I was a Muslim wife and I gave up all ideas of Jesus being the Son of God.
That was all I needed. I had prayed for him long and exhaustively, but he wouldn’t budge. I felt God gave me permission to leave. It was time to take a stand for what I believed in. It was time to confess loudly and proudly to this man that I did and would forever believe that Jesus, the Son of God, the God gave me the confidence and the strength and the means to do what needed to be done, but He made it so easy for me, and confirmed that what I was doing was completely His perfect will. My husband not only signed the paperwork for an uncontested divorce, but he bought me a new car, and paid for my move to a new apartment.....
...My prayer is that God will use me to hopefully save some women from the same torment I went through. I considered myself to be one of the lucky ones because I got out alive. I don't call that luck. Now I call it BLESSED!

This is a truncated version of testimony that first appeared in Former Muslims United.

Muhammad: A Cult Leader

From Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allâh's Prophet
We are often taken aback by the level of fanaticism of Muslims. Millions of them riot, burn churches, and kill completely innocent people because a newspaper has published a few cartoons of Muhammad or because the Pope has quoted a medieval emperor saying that violence is not compatible with the nature of God.
People generally are biased towards a belief system that has this many followers. They believe that the sheer size of Islam qualifies it as a religion. But is Islam really a religion?
Some say all religions start as a cult until, with the passage of time, they gradually gain acceptance and the status of religion. However, there are certain characteristics that distinguish cults from religions. Dr. Janja Lalich and Dr. Michael D. Langone have created a list that describes cults fairly well.[1] The more a group or a doctrine has these characteristics the more it follows that it should be defined and labeled as a cult. The following is that list, which I have compared Islam to point by point.
1. The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
Muslims are extremely zealous about their faith and have an unquestioning commitment to their prophet, whose book, the Qur’an, for them is Truth and Law.
2. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
Muslims are forbidden to question and doubt the basic tenets of their faith, and dissent is punishable by death.
3. Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
Five times during the day Muslims stop whatever they are doing and stand for a repetitive and ritualistic prayer and chant the Qur’an. In addition, for one whole month in the year they must fast and abstain from drinking or eating, from dawn to dusk, a practice that can be particularly taxing in summertime.
4. The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel, Ffor example, members must get permission to date, change jobs, marry—or leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, whether or not to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth.
Every detail of the life of a Muslim is prescribed. He is told what is forbidden (haram) and what is permitted (halal), what food to eat, how to dress, and what rituals to follow in order to pray. A Muslim is not allowed to date, and marriages are arranged. Corporal punishment, including torture for disobedience to the authorities, is enjoined, both for children and adults.
5. The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members. Ffor example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar—or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity.
Muslims claim special status for their prophet, while they vilify all other religions. They can become extremely violent if their prophet is slighted. They regard themselves as superior to all others, and when in a non-Muslim country, they constantly lobby for concessions and preferential treatments like the special privilege of having a special room set aside in publicly funded schools so that Muslim students can pray there. They are frequently granted exceptions unavailable to members of other religions. Recently in Ontario , Canada , they tried to make Islamic law (Sharia) recognized and binding, so they could bypass Canadian law. They were defeated, thanks largely to the tireless opposition of ex-Muslims.
6. The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
Muslims have a very strong us-versus-them mentality. They call all non-Muslims, regardless of faith, kafir, an expressly derogatory term, which means one who blasphemes God. For them, the world is forever divided into Dar al Salam (House of Peace) and Dar al Harb (House of War). The non-Muslim countries are the House of War. It is the duty of every Muslim to wage jihad on the House of War, to fight, kill and subdue non-Muslims and convert that land into the House of Peace. Peace, according to Islam can only be attained by subduing non-Muslims and making them subordinate to Islamic rule. The idea is not so much to convert everyone to Islam, but to make Islam dominant. The non-Muslims can continue practicing their religion, but only as dhimmis, a term which means protected and is only applied to Christians and Jews. The Christians and the Jews (the people of the Book) will be protected, provided they pay the protection tax, known as the jizyah and feel themselves humiliated and subdued, as stated in the Qur’an.[2] If they fail to pay the jizyah, they can be exiled or put to death. This is how the Mafia operates. If you own a business, you could be harassed or even killed, unless you pay them a protection fee to be left alone. As for those unbelievers who are not protected, i.e. the pagans, the atheist, the animists, etc., they have either to convert or be killed.
7. The leader is not accountable to any authorities.
For Muslims, all actions of Muhammad constitute law. He cannot be held accountable for his actions. He was entitled to marry or have sex out of marriage with as many women as he wished. He could raid civilians, kill unarmed men, loot their properties and take their women and children as slaves and even rape them. He could assassinate his critics and torture them to make them reveal where they had hidden their treasures. He could have sex with children. He could lie and deceive his opponents. He could massacre his prisoners of war in cold-blood. None of that bothers his followers. At first they deny all of the above charges vehemently, accusing you of maligning their prophet, but once the evidence is presented, they suddenly change tactic and defend him, justifying his evil deeds, the very deeds they outrageously denied. For Muslims, Muhammad’s actions are not measured by what we humans know as right and wrong. Rather he is the standard, the measure of right and wrong. As the result, if a crime was committed by Muhammad, that crime becomes a holy deed and is emulated by his followers unquestioningly. Muslims are capable of committing the most atrocious acts of indecency and savagery with clear conscience, because it is sunnah (performed by Muhammad).
8. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members' participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (for example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).
In Islam, the ends always justify the means. For example, killing is bad, but if it is done to promote Islam, it is good. Suicide is prohibited, but suicide bombing that will cause the death of non-Muslims is a holy act. Stealing from fellow Muslims is prohibited and the thief’s hand will be chopped, but looting non-believers was practiced by Muhammad and so is considered acceptable by Muslims. Sexual intercourse out of marriage is taboo, but rape of the women of unbelievers is okay. The goal, which is the establishment of the reign of Allâh on Earth, is regarded to be so lofty that everything else becomes secondary. In the history of Islam, we read that people murdered their own fathers or waged war against them. Such actions are praised as the sign of faith and devotion of the believer. Lying in Islam is prohibited, except when it is said to deceive the non-Muslims and advance the interests of Islam.
9. The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
Muslims’ thoughts tend to be overridden with guilt. If a Muslim does something contrary to what is permitted, other Muslims are required to remind him or her of the Sharia law and demand compliance. In most Islamic countries, particularly in Iran and Saudi Arabia , it is the state that makes sure the individuals follow the religious law. In March 2002 Saudi Arabia 's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress.[3] As a result fifteen girls were burned alive.
10. Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
Muslim converts are encouraged to cut their ties with family and friends if they are not Muslims. I have received countless heart-rending stories from non-Muslim parents whose children converted to Islam with whom they have lost touch completely. Occasionally, they may receive a call or a cold visit, but the visit may be so restricted, so bereft of any love from their children and their Muslim spouses that the outcome further saddens the already heartbroken parents. The purpose of these visits is usually to ask the parents to convert to Islam. They leave, as soon resistance is encountered.
11. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
Muslims’ main goal is to promote Islam. This practice of promoting Islam is called da’wa. It is the duty of every Muslim to bring new converts, starting with their own family and friends. Expanding Islam is the main obsession of every Muslim.
12. The group is preoccupied with making money.
Raising funds for jihad is one of the main objectives of all Muslims. Today this is done through what are known as Islamic “charities.” However, during the time of Muhammad, and throughout the course of Islam, raising money for jihad was done principally by looting. Islam’s main goal is to establish itself as the pre-eminent earthly power.
13. Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
Muslims’ main preoccupation is Islam. They are required to regularly go to the mosque, attend obligatory prayers five times a day, listen to the sermons, etc. So enwrapped do they become in their thinking about how to perform their religious duties, what to wear, what to eat, how to perform their prayers, etc. that they are left with very little time for thinking of anything else. In fact, they are even told what to think and what not to think.
14. Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
Muslims are taught to shun kafirs and are encouraged to socialize only with fellow Muslims. The Qur’an prohibits taking friends from among unbelievers (Q.3:28), calls them najis (filthy, impure) (Q.9:28), and orders harshness towards them (Q.9:123). According to Muhammad, the unbelievers are the vilest animals in the sight of God. (Q.8:55)
15. The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group.
The thought of leaving Islam is something so unbearable for true Muslims they can’t even entertain it. Despite the fact that millions of Muslims have left Islam in recent years, hardcore Muslims remain adamant in believing nobody ever really leaves Islam, that such claims are all fabrications and part of the conspiracy to shake the faith of believers. Emails I have received from Muslims share one common theme. They all warn me of hellfire in the afterlife. Between the fear of hell and fear of reprisal, Muslims are trapped in a web of terror of their own making.
Islam was not created to teach humans spirituality, nor make them enlightened. The spiritual message in Islam is secondary or virtually nonexistent. Piety in Islam means emulating Muhammad, a man who was far from pious. Rituals like prayers and fasting are mere window dressings to lure the foolhardy inside, to give Islam the appearance of sacredness and spirituality.

[1] www.csj.org/infoserv_cult101/checklis.htm

[2] Qur’an 9:29 “Fight those who believe not in Allâh nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1874471.stm

Cause for Hope – 2010 Elections – Heroes Step Up!

As this difficult and challenging year rapidly comes to a close (and none too soon), it is good to know that there is cause for hope. “Hope” has become an abused word in our culture, much like “change”; as they were the propaganda tools used to befuddle the American polity during last year’s elections here.

We must re-capture these stolen and abused words just as we must re-embrace our foundational concepts and liberties, so many of which are under threat by a confused and craven post-modernist leadership. The Constitution of the United States is the outstanding means given to us by our founders to secure our liberties in perpetuity. This is why oaths of office across the country, civilian and military, include defending the Constitution from foes both foreign and domestic. Perhaps not since Aaron Burr has the Constitution been under such threat as it is now.

Those who have researched the doctrine of Islam and understand its purposes; those who see the evidence around them and pay attention to jihad and jihadists, know that the threat of Islam is real, and existential. The people of the country are beginning to learn the unpleasant truth, just like the classically uber-liberal population of Switzerland did when they voted to ban minaret construction in their country recently. There is cause for hope. Individuals are learning the truth and are stepping up to protect the Constitution and the country.

Let us review the past year and remember the lessons learned.

Our great failure as a nation is our failure to learn from history. We are a forward looking people, but our obsession with moving forward has had disastrous consequences. We are nowhere in our failed halls of a once great academia trained on the doctrine of Islam, nor on how to apply the lessons of recent or distant history. We are a culture unprepared for jihad against us; but we are learning. There is cause for hope.

Remember these cases, and learn from them. The message of all of these cases of Islamic violence and intolerance is that there is an active ideological and violent war against us ongoing. Again and again cases such as these repugnant examples of hatred and violence arise. It is impossible to ignore them any longer.

• Phoenix - Misunderstander of the “religion of peace” father runs over daughter and kills her for being “too Western”.
• Baltimore – Misunderstander of the “religion of peace” husband, owner of “BridgesTV”, beheads wife for wanting to divorce.
• Binghampton, NY - Misunderstander of the “religion of peace” grad student murders Jewish professor (a convert from Islam).
• Ohio – Rifka Bary flees her misunderstander of the “religion of peace” parents who have threatened her with death for converting to Christianity.
• Texas – Fort Hood massacre by misunderstander of the “religion of peace” soldier screaming “Allah Akbar” as he shoots down his US Army colleagues.
• Texas, New York, Denver – Massive jihad attacks averted.
• Washington, DC – Five Muslim men disappear; they surface in Pakistan under arrest by the Pakistan government. They are all jihadists and were planning a massive attack there.
• Minneapolis – Somali men disappear and re-appear in Somalia as jihadists.
• Iraq- bombings of civilians by jihadists ongoing.
• Afghanistan – bombings of civilians by jihadists ongoing.
• Israel – Rocket attacks and terror by jihadists ongoing.

Despite the obviously incomplete list above, there is cause for positivity. There are now at least 4 candidates for state and national office who are aware of jihad, and the threat we face from Islam. All candidates who support the US Constitution and oppose jihad and the Islamization of the United States are candidates who have our support.

Minnesota, 5th US Congressional District – Lynne Torgerson

Lynne Torgerson is a defense attorney now running for Congress in the 5th Congressional district of Minnesota. This is the very same seat now held by Mr. Keith Ellison (D-Umma). This race could well be one the most important of the 2010 election cycle. Mrs. Torgerson has an extensive position statement about Islam on her website which includes

Further, evidently, the goal of Islam is to Islamize the entire world, or, global Islam.

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And, what do I know of Islam? Well, I know of 911. Nineteen (19) men from Saudi Arabia, all Muslim, hi-jacked planes, and flew into the two (2) World Trade Towers murdering thousands of people, and tried to fly into our Pentagon, and some believe they also tried to fly an airplane into our White House. From this, what I perceive is Islam conducting an act of war against my country.

You can read her position statements here.

Bravo, Mrs. Lynne Torgerson!!

California, 26th District, California State Senate – Rabbi Nahum Shifrin

Rabbi Shifrin has a fascinating background which includes authoring a book called “Kill Your Teacher” about the collapse of decency and discipline at a California high school where he taught. Shifrin’s positions are strong and appear to be essentially conservative, his position statements include

We must… declare a war to the death on “multiculturalism” (this is nothing but propaganda and inculcating our youth to hate America, while yielding to the forces of Islam and radical activists whose target is middle class America and its values)

Bravo, Rabbi Shifrin!!

Florida, 22nd District, United States Congress – Lt. Colonel Allen West

Colonel West is a vibrant voice for freedom, and democracy. He is a superb speaker as one can readily tell by the videos of his speeches posted on his site and elsewhere on the Internet. Like Rabbi Shifrin in California, Mrs. Torgerson in Minnesota, and Vijay Kumar in Tennessee Colonel West has strong positions based on a fundamental appreciation of American liberty and our Constitution.

We are seeing a revival of patriotism now in our country – these candidates are the leaders. Colonel West is a strong supporter of Israel and understands that the jihad enemy of Israel is also our enemy. You can read his position statements here.

Now we face the resurrection of the original enemy of the Jewish people, a resurgent islamic fundamentalism evidencing itself in totalitarian, imperialist design. This time it has morphed itself using 21st century technologies, yet still retaining a 7th century mentality, utilizing terrorism internationally to promote its perverse aims. One of those objectives is the destruction of the State the world agreed to support when creating, Israel.

In keeping with previous traditions established by muhammad, the modern islamic warriors promote taqiyya, lying to promote islam. They also, just as muhammad, use the Treaty of Hudaybiyya as a model to delay and deceive their enemies until they are ready to strike. Under Yasser Arafat some 200 agreements were never honored.

Why would we trust any word coming from the mouth of the psychopathic delusional leader of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? The mad mullahs, insane imams, and combative clerics are again calling for the supremacy of islam, no different from earlier centuries.

Bravo, Colonel West!!

Tennessee – 5th District, United States Congress – Vijay Kumar

Mr. Vijay Kumar is a learned student of Islam doctrine, jihad, and Sharia law (Islam’s appalling anti-human “legal code”).

Islamic Sharia Law sanctions murder of non-Muslims and apostate Muslims, and so it violates the God-given human right to life, which our forefathers spelled out in the Declaration of Independence. Islamic Sharia Law suppresses human liberty, which our forefathers declared to be a God-given human right.

Mr. Kumar’s outspoken positions educating Americans about post-modernism and the totalitarian nature of Islamic doctrine and jihad (Islamic warfare) have made him widely known in and out of his district. Mr. Kumar was interviewed on Frontpage Magazine, here and here.

Bravo, Mr. Vijay Kumar!!

Cause for Hope

So, you see now that there is cause for hope even as we continue to face widespread denial and the inability to process any information that challenges multiculturalist, and post-modernist concepts of ignorance and radical tolerance. Multiculturalism and post-modernism are the anti-intellectual engines of stupidy that fuel ignorance and self-hatred across the West; they both must be discredited and destroyed.

We live in a time of great moral, ethical and existential challenges. The people of the United States and of Europe are awakening from the deadening slumber of multiculturalism and political correctness that prevents learning, knowledge, and wisdom. We have cause to hope because we have heroes who are stepping forward to educate and lead in these difficult times.

The ban on minaret construction by direct referendum in Switzerland shows that while leadership is asleep or dhimmitized the populace is no longer. Post-voting polls across Europe showed that popular support for the ban in other countries is high.

While the march of totalitarianism continues we should have hope in the knowledge that our people are learning about political Islam, and that there are an increasing number of those who understand the issues and are stepping forward to defend the nation and our Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic.

Bravo to our candidates! We all must continue to learn, educate, then step forward to lead.