BR Note: We are at war. Some people don't seem to have noticed that we are at war. This is an unconventional asymmetric war, to be sure, but it is a war no matter how you try to explain it away. If this was WWII you would expect people generally to bring up the subject of Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan on a frequent basis. During the Cold War the subject of the Soviet Union and militant Communism was daily fare on the part of journalists and opinion leaders. Well, we are at war once again, and the enemy is true-believer Islam, like it or not. As much as possible, since I do not like it, my preference is to post about other subjects. Even when still more atrocities are committed in the name of Muhammad and Islam. Hopefully, there will be as few posts on the subject as good sense allows. This whole mess is unpleasant to even think about. It is a needless war, a stupid war, and even an insane war. But it happens to be painfully real and is a threat to all of us. It doesn't help matters to pretend something else, or to pretend that the enemy isn't authentic Koranic Islam. I just had the displeasure of researching the history of Muslim terrorism. It seems as if Muhammad himself, according to some of the most respected (among Muslims) writers of Hadith, took part in, or ordered, a large number of atrocities, which modern-day Muslims sometimes seek to emulate. This includes mass murder, especially of Jews, killings by crucifixion and by burning captives alive and, needless to say, beheadings. I am well aware that in some places, like Indonesia, this is not how average Muslims view their religion. However, literalistically speaking, Indonesian "average Muslims" are heretical to any kind of "pure Islam." There is no question about it, and that means any kind of Islam that looks to the example of Muhammad for guidance. There is no moral difference between Muhammad and Adolf Hitler. This is the cold, sober truth. Billy ========================================== Real Clear Politics The President and 'Violent Extremism' By _Dennis Prager_ (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/dennis_prager/) - February 24, 2015 Regarding Islamic violence -- the greatest world evil since Nazism and Communism -- the president of the United States, his administration, and the left generally live in a make-believe world, a world of denial. In their world, Islam is today, and has always been, a religion of peace; Muslims are threatened by Islamophobia; Christians are wiped out by "violent extremists;" European cartoonists incite radical Muslims to murder them; fundamentalists of all religions are equally problematic; the hundreds of millions of Muslims who support violent Islamists have nothing to do with Islam, but the Inquisition was conducted by normative Christians; and slavery was defended in the name of Christ, but no mention is made of the far more ubiquitous (and ongoing) slavery in the name of Allah or of the fact that the movement to abolish slavery in the West was due entirely to Christians. Nothing better reflects those Orwellian beliefs than President Barack Obama's speech last week at the conclusion of the absurdly named Summit on Countering Violent Extremism. President Obama: "With the brutal murders in Chapel Hill of three young Muslim Americans, many Muslim Americans are worried and afraid." The president made this comment -- at the beginning of his address -- despite the fact that there is not a shred of evidence that the three young Muslims were killed because they were Muslim. They were murdered by a man angry at them about an ongoing parking place dispute. It was the height of irresponsibility to cite these terrible murders as an example of religious hate. Obama: "Around the world, and here in the United States, inexcusable acts of violence have been committed against people of different faiths, by people of different faiths -- which is, of course, a betrayal of all our faiths. It's not unique to one group, or to one geography, or one period of time." What is he talking about? In America are Christians killing Jews? Jews killing Muslims? Buddhists killing Mormons? Mormons killing Hindus? "Not unique to one group?" Other than Muslims murdering Christians, Jews, Yazidis and other Muslims, who in the world today is murdering in the name of their religion? Obama: "We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam." Normative Islam demands theocracy. Does the president not know that? Does he not know that 91 percent of Iraqis and 89 percent of Palestinians believe that Sharia should be the law of the country? That 29 percent of Egyptians believe that suicide bombings are justified? That the majority of Muslim-majority countries have blasphemy and/or apostasy laws? And if he did, would he say they are all perverting Islam? Obama: "The terrorists ... no more represent Islam than any madman who kills innocents in the name of God represents Christianity or Judaism or Buddhism or Hinduism." More make-believe moral equivalence. What Christians, Jews, Buddhists or Hindus are "killing innocents in the name of God?" And what religion other than Islam has scriptures that exhort its followers to slay unbelievers? Obama: "No religion is responsible for terrorism; people are responsible for violence and terrorism." I wish he would say that about criminal gun-use. "No guns are responsible for violence; people are responsible for violence." Obama: "We also need to lift up the voices of those who know the hypocrisy of groups like ISIS firsthand, including former extremists. Their words speak to us today. ... 'This isn't what we came for, to kill other Muslims.'" Whoever made this comment obviously thought that he was joining Islamic State in order to murder, rape, burn and behead non-Muslims. And this is a voice the president wants to lift up? Obama: "If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism ... countries have to truly invest in the education and skills and job training that our extraordinary young people need." Spoken like a true leftist: The answer to evil is material, not moral. If only people had more money in their pockets, there would be fewer violent Islamists. The reason Muslims gravitate toward violence is a broken moral compass, not a lack of education or jobs. Obama: "The essential ingredient to real and lasting stability and progress is not less democracy; it's more democracy." The Muslim Brotherhood was democratically elected in Egypt. Hamas was democratically elected in Gaza. Democracy is only as good as the values of its voters. Obama: Here in America, Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding. ... The first Islamic center in New York City was founded in the 1890s." Given that America was founded in 1776, doesn't the second sentence belie the first? Never before in American history has an American president denied the existence of the greatest evil of his day. That should make everyone -- except the Islamist terrorists he won't name -- very uneasy.
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