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Amil Imani
Islam Bashers
Repent
November 17, 2009
What does it take to make Islam bashers mend their ways? Why don’t these
folks come to their senses and see Islam as a religion of peace and
praise the God of Abraham for continuing his beneficence on humanity by
sending Muhammad to guide and humanize us?
Why is it that some people keep criticizing a religion that has nearly
1.5 billion followers throughout the world? Now, if this faith was
indeed what its detractors claim it is, wouldn’t these masses of people
see through it and dump it?
Didn’t our very own President go around the Muslim heartland and sing
the praises of Islam at every stop? Didn’t he bow with great deference
to the
King of Islam in Saudi Arabia? Didn’t he proudly proclaim Islam as
the faith of his dear and near kindred? Didn’t he, time and again, tell
us that Islam is indeed the religion of peace? Didn’t he with his
captivating oratory skills cite passages from the Quran to show how
reverent he was toward this religion? Didn’t he appoint a raft of
“devoted” Muslims to sensitive and high posts in government?
Even ignoring the President’s behavior and pronouncements, we have
numberless others in the know such as politicians, media experts,
academics and what nots who keep preaching to us that Islam is indeed a
sanctified religion wrongly vilified by a bunch of hatemongers. After
all, its very name means peace. How could anyone possibly have anything
but praise for a religion called peace? What is more precious than
peace?
Exacerbated, the champions of the religion of peace bemoan: what does it
take to convince the detractors of Islam to stop their unceasing effort
to present a distorted image of this wonderful world-encircling
religion?
Well, just a few problems that makes taking the President’s remarks and
actions, as well as all the other Islamic apologists and know-it-alls,
difficult.
▪ Claiming “Islam” means “peace” is fraudulent to begin with. Islam is
an Arabic word. And the word for peace in Arabic is “solh,” and not
Islam. Islam is derived from the root word “taslim,” which means
submission or surrender. Hence, Islam’s true name, surrender, is in fact
most descriptive of what it is: total, unconditional submission and
surrender of the individual and the community to the will and dictates
of Allah as revealed by his “rasool,” messenger, Muhammad.
▪ Further proof of the fraudulent nature of billing Islam as a religion
of peace is the irrefutable fact that Muhammad himself led his followers
during his lifetime in
78 battles, only one of which was defensive in nature
▪ Perusing the religion of peace’s holy book, the Quran, taken by
Muslims as the literal revelation of Allah, reads more like a manual of
intolerance and war than a divinely-revealed prescription from a
benevolent God for a life of brotherhood and peace.
Quran 2:216 "Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you;
but it may happen that you hate a thing which is good for you and it may
happen that you love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, you
knew not."
Quran 8:65
"O Prophet exhort the believers to fight. If there be of you 20
steadfast, they will overcome 200 and if there be of you a 100, they
shall overcome a 1000, because the disbelievers are a folk without
intelligence"
▪ Deeds speak louder than words. From its very inception, Islam was a
movement of violence.
Violence both within its ranks as well as against the non-Muslims
has been the unceasing practice. The minute Muhammad died, jockeying for
power among his disciples led to numberless murders and battles. The
faith of peace never saw peace even within its own ranks and never
allowed the rest of the world any peace at all by
lashing out to other lands near and far.
▪ A quick scan of the daily news shows the adherent of the religion of
peace engaged in unspeakable acts of mayhem and murder in much of the
world. There is hardly any need to allude to them here. But the
Islamists have an answer for that too. Islam is not responsible, they
say. It is only a bunch of opportunists who commit these acts for their
own political and economic objectives. We are to believe that those
daily suicide bombers explode their vests in the midst of marketplaces,
funeral processions, and even mosques are doing so to further their own
personal agenda.
▪ All these aside, a recent report from the FBI estimates that of the
2000 mosques in the
United States, 10% preach Jihad. Welcome to the religion of peace as
it is invading the land of the free to make it the land of submission.
This is not some Islam-hating crackpot group reporting. It is the FBI,
an agency known for its bending backward to be politically correct in
tune with the rest of the administration.
▪ The Muslim population is rapidly burgeoning in America by high birth
rate as well as successful extensive conversion in prisons. Even by the
rules of probability, a fraction of these Muslims may be deeply
influenced by the Jihad preachers and take upon themselves Islamist
missions of various severity and destruction. How many Jihadists did it
take to pulverize the NY Trade Centers? It took one
Maj. Nidal Hasan to take the life of 13 and injure 29 others in an
outburst of Islamic peace-making.
▪ Islamist apologists come in all shades. There are true faithful who
are out and out in front about it. They believe Islam and its ways are
the answer. It doesn’t matter whether it is seen as good or bad by
others. Then there are those who are hired mouthpieces who are like
lawyers that defend a murderer to the limit of their ability simply
because they are paid to do so. That’s their chosen profession. We may
not like either of the above two types, yet it is understandable.
▪ What really is hard to deal with are those who either, through
ignorance or a misplaced sense of fairness and multiculturalism, keep
saying that Islam itself is not bad, the Quran contains no more violence
than does the Bible, and that the moderate Muslims who are the vast
majority are good people and need to do something about the criminal
minority. These folks go even a step further and call those of us who
sound the alarm against Islam in general, as unjustified hatemongers.
But the notion of moderate Muslims is an illusion created by the wishful
thinking of a good-hearted yet deluded people. The so-called minority
Jihadist-types are indeed the real Muslims. These Jihadists hate the so
called moderate Muslims as much as they hate the kefirs – the infidels.
And it is always
the small group, the militant minority that eventually topples the
complacent uncaring majority. History is replete with support of this
contention.
In my view, truth and the naked truth should be the only standard. No
sugar-coating, no political correctness, no hired-guns to cover up for
the Islam menace that has inflicted humanity for so long and keeps
marching across the globe for doing more harm.
So who is
to repent? A Muslim by any other name is a Muslim. It is the human
calling for every Muslim to cast off the chain of Islam and take his or
her rightful place along the ranks of the truly peaceful and free people
of the world. |
