Months ago, I helped popularize a now-infamous video of Hank Johnson fearing the capsizing of Guam. I simply said, “Wow.” This video brings out the same reaction from me, but for entirely different reasons.
by Michael Naragon
This clip should be publicized and passed around to as many of your friends and neighbors as possible, citizens of the Republic. Or at least to those who would like to see the face of the enemy. The site: The University of California-San Diego. The situation: A question-and-answer session with David Horowitz, conservative activist and author of Unholy Alliance, an examination of the links between Islam and the radical Left. This exchange left me, for a moment, unnerved.
Horowitz’ handling of this Muslim student was perfect and an excellent object lesson. Exposure is an effective tool for mobilizing your allies, and he definitely shined a spotlight on this would-be terrorist.
For those who claimed–and continue to claim–that Islam is a religion of peace and long for a day when we call all get along, I say that Muslims want this as well. The difference is that they want the world to come together as Muslim, and they will use our ridiculous sensitivity to political correctness and our pathetic refusal to offend at all costs to their strategic advantage. I will admit, for a brief time I parroted the line that American politicians have used since 2001, that we are not at war with Islam, but instead are at war with only the radical extremists.
I have since modified my position to one more politically incorrect and realistic. Islam is at war with us. There is a radical arm, to be sure, but the Islamic world is bent on conquest. In my world history classes, we review the phases of Islamic empire building. From its inception, Islam was a religion of force. It once controlled much of North Africa, the Middle East, India, and crept into Europe. Only Providentially was it turned away at various points, most notably the Battle of Tours in A.D. 732, when Charles Martel and the Franks defeated Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi and his conquering hordes.
Now, after centuries eroded the military conquests and empires of the Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatamids, Mughals, Safavids, and the Ottomans, the Islamic world has re-emerged with a new strategy of conquest: immigration. While we debate our open borders and Americans fight over the political and economic aspects of illegal aliens, millions of Muslims are pouring into Europe and the United States, and they are fulfilling God’s command to Adam: “Be fruitful and multiply.” It is time, friends, to quit watching it happen and fight tooth and nail to stem the tide.
Hopefully this will help those undecided about the Muslims to wake up to the threat to anyone not of their beliefs that they would like to see us all dead.
That is ridiculous.
That is CRAZY!!! And she is not even the worst of them!
Finally the truth comes out. Great post. Thanks!
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A few weeks ago I read something very ignorant and I thought that it couldn’t be trumped. Until I read this.
Do you personally know any Muslims? I doubt it.
Funny, my Mom’s church sends missionaries all over the world, lately, to Algeria to convert Muslims to Christ. Does that make her a threat?
Islam is a religion, it is practiced as differently as the Pope pracitces compared to David Koresh.
Sure, there are some Muslim extremists. They are the minority. The vast majority of Muslims are content to live their lives in faith and in peace.
Here’s a thought, go online and read about Christian and Israeli terrorism and see if we (Christian-Americans) have much room to throw stones from our glass house…
You’re right Scott, most Muslims are peaceful, so why don’t they speak up and castigate the radical Muslims who are causing us to view them all in a bad light?
I always find it humorous when people make a statement about my alleged ignorance, then proceed to make an ignorant statement about what they believe are my allegiances and associations.
As a matter of fact, I do know Muslims. My wife has personally dealt with the Muslim establishment in Guinea, West Africa, and one of my best friends is a Coptic Christian from Egypt. I’ll treat you with a smidge more respect than you did me and won’t assume you don’t know what a Coptic Christian is. But for the sake of my readers, my friend was tattooed upon his conversion to Christianity. He still bears a fading blue number and cross on his wrist, the remnant of his time in a peaceful Muslim country. He wanted to become an accountant, but was unable to attend the best schools due to his religion. He was forced to move to the United States, where he proceeded to get his education. He could give you an interesting perspective on the Religion of Peace.
As to the terroristic actions of Christianity, I agree that within every organization or among all those who profess a certain creed there are those who do not practice its true tenets. For example, there are those who have, in the past, attacked abortion clinics in the name of Christian values. I, as a Christian, do not accept this, and I have spoken out against such actions as misguided and performed by people who don’t understand the true nature of the Bible.
Historically, “Christians,” usually in the form of the Catholic Church, have launched wars and inquisitions against those who believed differently. Hundreds of years ago. I also believe they were acting counter to Christ’s philosophy and teach that in my World History classes.
Christ actually preached peace and did not kill a human being. He expressed a desire for tolerance for his enemies, even forgiving those who were responsible for his death. Muhammad, on the other hand, ordered the deaths of many and personally beheaded 800 men and boys of the Banu Qurayza tribe. There is a stark difference between true Christianity and true Islam.
If there were no such true difference, you would hear a cacophony of protest from the “legitimate” Muslims concerning the actions of this tiny minority of alleged radicals. The silence, instead, is deafening.
Mr. Anderson, Muslims do speak out against terrorism all the time. You aren’t likely to hear about it on the US news though. Interestingly, Al Jazeera (Enlgish) has a more balanced news than does Fox or CNN. Two days ago I watched as Al Jazeera interviewed an Israeli official who blasted Hamas for attacking a school in Palestine. Interestingly, you will rarely, if ever see any criticism of Israel in the US media.
Publius, we are in agreement that there is discrimination towards Christians, my point is, that so is there discrimination towards Muslims. Your attitude seems to be to paint everyone in Islam with the same brush. That my friend, “is” ignorant.
I find it fairly comical that someone would call Al Jazeera, which I use as source material on an occasional basis, unbiased. But that may just be my ignorance talking.
Having said that, I think there are Muslims who do not necessarily advocate terrorism as we’ve come to know it in 2010. However, at the risk of getting into this labeling game, it is naive to say that the expansion of Islam is not an issue and to compare Christian fundamentalism with Muslim fundamentalism. There is no comparison, and those who fail to understand the implications of this global move we are seeing will find themselves overtaken before they realize they’ve been in a fight.
Islam is, at its very heart, an anti-American religion. What is the problem that Islam seeks to solve? Sin? No, that is the Christian problem. Islam was created to solve, in its way, the problem of pride and the idea of self-reliance apart from Allah. The United States, and, to an extent, its European parents, were built on the idea of self-reliance and the freedom that must exist to allow men to be self-reliant. Islam, as a religion, is diametrically opposed to this. There have been times in the past when you can see groups of Muslims embrace or reject this ideal, but it is at the core of Islam. In modern Islam, mosque and state are not separate, hence the call by an increasing number of imams in England and the United States for our nations to move closer to a sharia system, or, at the very least, to allow Muslim communities to rule themselves outside the auspices–and rights–of the United States.