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Amil Imani
Liberal Pacifism v. Islamic
Extremism
March 3, 2010
The Gospel writers have noted that Jesus called his disciples to a way
of life in which any act of violence can be overcome by love. We must
not return evil for evil, Jesus taught, but must return good for evil;
we must not hate those who wrong us but must love our enemies and pray
for those who hate us. The Qur’an never says this. Instead it explicitly
declares that Allah does not love those who do not believe in
him:
"For He loves not those who reject Faith” (30:45)
Although many Muslims
become angry about anyone "insulting” their religion, but here is what
the Qur’an says about Jews and Christians:
Allah's
curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!
(9:30)
(See also Bukhari
8:427), one of the last things Prophet Muhammad ever said on his
deathbed was "May Allah curse the Jews and Christians.”)
Drawing a distinction from the Gospel writers are a few brushstrokes
suggesting ubiquitous and intrinsic Islamic extremism and also let us
keep in mind that the basic difference between Islam and Christianity is
that only Islam has a tradition and doctrine that sanctions war against
unbelievers:
"Allah, deal with the Jews, your enemies and the enemies of Islam. Deal
with the crusaders, and America, and Europe behind them, O Lord of the
worlds.” Ahmad Abu Halabiya
Hadith says that Muhammad believed rats to be "mutated Jews" (Bukhari
54:524, also confirmed by Sahih Muslim
7135 and
7136).
"To push the enemy - the greatest kufr - out of the country is a
prime duty. No other duty after Belief is more important than [this]
duty. Utmost effort should be made to prepare and instigate the Ummah
[community of Muslims] against the enemy, the American-Israeli alliance
- occupying the country of the two Holy Places.” Osama bin Laden
"Those who know nothing of
Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those are witless. Islam
says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does
this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the
unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter
[their armies]. ...Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to
the sword and the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient
except with the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which can be
opened only for holy warriors.” Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Complacency and appeasement on the part of the free world can only serve
Islamic hatred. There is absolutely no chance for co-existence with
Islamic dogma. All one needs to see is what is happening in Islamic
countries. That is exactly what is in store for free people of the world
if Islam is not held in check.
My fellow human beings, reforming Islam is not about prosperity, it is
about the survival of the human race, and the ability for all
non-Islamic ideologies to survive. However, in the absence of
evangelism, and without the ability to reveal peace-loving belief to the
Muslim world, people just don’t wake up and suddenly denounce it. Does a
seed grow in infertile soil? The brave are the ones who enable personal
conversion, not those who justify Islamic slavery by alluding to
salvation in nations possessed by evil.
Our Western liberals who actively aid and support evil regimes are in
fact
"Useful Idiots” and their strange but pleased Islamist bedfellows
use them as pawns. In the recent past it was the socialist evils of
Nazi-ism and Communism that also used Muslim hatred to further their
goals. Apparently evil wears many masks.
Islam is not compatible with Christianity and Western morality.
Currently, Islam has dominated
American public life. Unfortunately, you can't reason with people
blinded by centuries of hate and violence. You can't debate with people
blinded by Islamic faith. Islam takes away the power of the individual.
Islam prevents women from achieving of their potential. Islam does not
believe in the religious freedom of others. Islam loathes the
pre-Islamic heritage of other nations, as though, the world did not
exist before the arrival Islam. Islam is an invader with its creeping
Sharia law into our system of governance. Islam is against free will and
disregards democracy, liberty and justice for all man.
A true Muslim does not and cannot believe in liberty. Everything is up
to Allah, so says Mohammad. Everything that a Muslim does is contingent
upon the will and decree of Allah. It is for this reason that the phrase
inshallah (Allah willing) always accompanies any promise or commitment
that a believer makes. By embracing Muhammad as the unerring and eternal
emissary of Allah, a Muslim surrenders his liberty to decide for
himself.
The Muslims’ surrender of Liberty is not merely a matter of personal
choice. The Muslims, having abandoned their most precious rights, are
out to make all non-Muslims also do so, by hook or crook. It is said
that misery loves company. And the type of misery that Islam has visited
on the Muslims and the Islamic lands is a rapidly spreading plague that
must be resisted by all who cherish their God-given Liberty.
Until citizens, as well as other people of the world, must understand
the threat of radical Islam to its society and culture is real. If we
simply ignore this threat, people will continue to die in these sporadic
attacks. Until there is a true understanding of this faith and a means
to control its
fire, we, along with other people will continue to die as a result
of its teaching. There are many
Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan, (who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas,
and hurt 30 others) are running around in our country. But our
"Useful Idiots” look the other way. America, the threat of Islam is
real. Until the United States citizens understand that all violent
Islamic fundamentalist groups and all devout Muslims wish to kill all
non-believers, we will continue to remain at the mercy of the Islamic
terrorists.
So, who is right? What are the facts about Islam and how does Islam
impact the ever-shrinking village Earth and its inhabitants? Can Islam
ever be reformed? What can the civilized world do to diminish this
threat to its survival? How can we take out the militant Islam out of
the book? Admittedly, this is a huge question and cannot be answered
satisfactorily in one article.
The idea of reforming Islam is not new. Islam cannot be reformed. Keep
in mind that Islam claims that it is the perfect eternal faith for
mankind. Splits have occurred and will continue to occur in Islam. Yet,
reformation has not happened in nearly 1400 years and is not going to
happen. Islam is carved in granite, just the way it is. No change.
Allah's book is sealed.
About the only universal agreement that exists among Islamic authorities
is that every word of the Qur’an is the word of God and is not subject
to human modification, ever. The ‘Hadith’ also enjoys a similar
sacrosanct standing. And of course, the faithful Muhammad’s conduct as
recorded in the Sunna is the model to be emulated. Hence, one can pick
and choose, but one cannot discard or revise any part of the scripture.
For this reason a Martin Luther type reformation has not happened and
will not likely ever happen within Islam.
Numerous people have tried it in every imaginable way. The
Mu’tazelis tried it, the Sufis tried it, hundreds of old and new
schools tried it and they all failed. Islam is not reform-able for at
least the following reasons:
▪ At the heart of the problem is the Quran, Islam’s sacred book,
considered as the literal perfect and immutable words of Allah.
▪ Islam is a perfect religion:
Quran.5:3 : Today have I perfected your religious law for you, and have
bestowed upon you the full measure of My blessings, and willed that
self-surrender unto Me shall be your religion.
How can fallible limited humans possibly reform or improve the handiwork
of the all-knowing, all-wise author of the universe?
▪ Freedoms of all forms are anathema to Islam, which is squarely based
on total submission to the dictates and will of Allah. Muslims must obey
Allah and His Messenger.
Quran.33:36: And it behoves not a believing man and a believing woman
that they should have any choice in their matter when Allah and His
Messenger have decided a matter; and whoever disobeys Allah and His
Messenger, he surely strays off a manifest straying.
▪ Violence is part and parcel of Islam.
Quran 2: 216: Fighting is ordained for you, even though it be hateful to
you; but it may well be that you hate a thing the while it is good for
you, and it may well be that you love a thing the while it is bad for
you: and God knows, whereas you do not know.
▪ Reforming Islam, requires discarding Sharia, but also purging the
Quran itself from enormous suras that are not only patently false, but
totally repugnant to a civilized humanity. This line of thinking, to
sanitize Islam is explicitly forbidden in the Quran:
Quran 2:85: Do you, then, believe in some parts of the divine writ and
deny the truth of other parts? What, then, could be the reward of those
among you who do such things but ignominy in the life of this world and,
on the Day of Resurrection; they will be consigned to most grievous
suffering? For God is not unmindful of what you do.
▪ Islam is a super religion:
Muslims consider Islam, a super-religion and final religion of Allah.
Judaism and Christianity are the only other two religions that are
granted a grudging minimal recognition by Islam. All other religions and
those without religion are blasphemy and blasphemous. In short, Islam is
not reform-able. Reforming Islam requires purging of its sacred book,
the Quran. By so doing, then, we have a different religion, not Islam.
Let us look at some other points by explicit provisions of the Quran:
▪ Islam is misogynist. Men are superior to women. Women are to obey men
and are to be beaten when disobey or misbehave.
▪ Islam is racist. The Quran stipulates that the Arabs are superior to
all others and it clearly condones slavery. It explicitly stipulates
discriminatory laws for slaves.
▪ Islam denounces other belief systems and marginally recognizes the
validity of only two religions, Judaism and Christianity.
▪ Islam is violent. It not only condones jihad, it recommends it and
promises great reward for the jihadist.
▪ Islam is already splintered in a number of major sects and innumerable
numbers of secondary sects that harbor huge disagreement and animosity
toward one another as well as toward all infidels.
▪ Those who claim that they want to reform Islam, want to transform it
by stripping it of a great many provisions that are anathema to
civilized humanity. These people are, in fact, trying to make a new
religion out of the old with no divine authority that was, supposedly,
bestowed upon Muhammad to launch his religion.
If a reform should occur, the Islamic religious high authorities play a
critical role in steering the masses toward or away from hate. The late
Pope’s public pronouncement, for instance, absolving the Jews as the
Christ killers has reduced anti-Semitism among the rank and file
Christians. Fatwas—religious decrees—by Islamic Moftis and Ayatollahs
carry considerable weight with their respective followers. Sadly, most
decrees and adjudications of these high Islamic authorities are
exclusionary and even hostile toward the out-groups.
These high divines are the suppliers of opinions as well as the teachers
of the rank and file clergy who take the same ideas to the masses in
villages and cities. Madresehs in Pakistan, schools in Saudi Arabia and
Maktabs—religious schools—in Iran, as well as numerous mosques serve as
places where the disease of hate can be transmitted with considerable
success to the just too willing believers.
In Islam’s theocracy, religious authority is conferred by an informal
consensus of the peer group. One becomes an Ayatollah, for instance, by
demonstrating to other ayatollahs his undeviating devotion to the dogma
they hold. If one deviates from the accepted line, he is not likely to
make a village mullah, much less an Ayatollah. This is a systemic
problem that is not amenable to change. It is a pathological theological
inbreeding.
The Islamists, with the help of our liberal leftists, take advantage of
the provisions of the most benign system known to humanity, democracy,
to implode it from within. Islamists, by sheer numbers, will soon be in
a position to vote out democracy in many countries and eventually in the
U.S. They will elect Muslims to all positions of local influence, who
will create and enforce policy according to the Quran. Once they have
control over a town, they will begin to establish informal Sharia, and
there’s nothing the government can (or will want to) do about it.
Multicultural diversity is the elephant in the room allowing the
ultimate incursion and inclusion of Sharia law into the
United States government and into the way of
our lives. To put it mildly and nakedly, the West is on the road
to Sharia.
Sharia is the brutal means by which Islam controls its populations by
force, intimidation, and punishments for offenses against Allah.
Already, in many European countries, national governments have, out of
fear, given Islamofascists the right to establish their own shadow
governments within the borders of countries like Sweden, England and
Netherlands where they can control their own populations without
accountability. Proposals for Sharia are being taken seriously by
Canada. Politicians, hungry for votes and devoted to the practice of
political correctness, bend backward to accede to Islamists’ demands.
The current U.S. administration must represent the people of America
rather than catering to Muslims and Muslim organizations and keep
repeating the same mantra of its
peacefulness while Americans
soldiers
die by the religion of peace.
Appointing Muslims in high and sensitive governmental places is
simply a risky business and a threat to our national security.
"In
1991, Mohamed Akram wrote a memo for the leadership of the Muslim
Brotherhood that explained its work in America as "a kind of grand jihad
in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and
'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the
believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious
over all other religions."
One thing is certain, those who are not willing to speak up for fear of
being called a racist or an Islamophobe or afraid of losing their
prestigious jobs, should be discharged from the office immediately. The
lesson is clear. Beware of the liberal pacifists who live in our
democracies. Knowingly or unknowingly, they serve as the greatest
volunteer and effective soldiers of Islam. They pave the way for the
advancement of Islam and they will assuredly be among the very first
victims of Islam as soon as it assumes power.
About Amil Imani
Amil Imani is an Iranian-American writer, poet,
novelist, essayist, literary translator, public speaker, political
analyst and a pro-democracy activist who has been writing and speaking
out about the danger of radical Islam both in America and
internationally. He has become a formidable voice in America against
Islamic terrorism as well as for the struggling people of his native
land of Iran. Imani has been educating Americans regarding the danger of
radical Islam, and has encouraged democracy for Iran and helping the
Iranian people. His numerous articles about radical Islam have been
published in many newspapers and magazines around the world as well as
in thousands of Internet magazines, websites and blogs. Imani's writings
can be found on his website
Amilimani.com. He is a regular
go-to-guy on the Iranian issues on BBC World News. He is also 2010
honoree of EMET: "the Speaker of the Truth Award" at the Capitol Hill.
Imani is the author of the smashing book "Obama
Meets Ahmadinejad.”
