Submitted by analyst (United States), Jul 18, 2007 at 09:00
I can understand reviewing the incidents of Islamist insurrection toward govemment takovers. That they have specified ingredients that only work in rare circumstances. But that rarity is fading. This brings me no comfrort to understand.
My struggle with them starts at them propagating in my country at all.
They have had since 630AD (or thereabouts) to have designed at built a nation for which all are free and welcome to live and contribute without threat, the motivations of strict cultist fears and imposed radical false-doctrine.
To me, the religion is a cancer. On the cellular level all cancers attempt to dupe the host immune system. The rogue cells, failing to resond to proper genetics, try to give off authentic eletro-chemical shrouds that try to represent their cell is healthy. The host police and immune cells bypass them at the risk of an eventual tumor growing out of control.
America is at that state now. We have numerous tumors growing. I understand there are 10 million Muslims in this country.
A moderate Muslim told me there are only three reasons a Muslim can live in a non Islamic country:
1) to get and education
2) to make converts
3) to wage war
I do not fear a gvmnt takover so much as catatrophic damage to a relatively peaceful way of life our forfathers wrought for us. Islam brings only war and turmoil wherever they are allowed to exist.
Wherever Islam has rooted, whether by invitation or force, they have brought only extremism, pain and horror. Their lands hold the records for poverty and ignorance exceeding third workd levels almost to establish their own new basement consdition of world human classification. They provide no innovations in any venue of respect. Choose education, econoics, medicine, science, politics and even military industry or self defence, they command no emulation and depict the lowest levels in these for failure, except for the ability to spend their oil billions.
And in this they represent God? They assume agency for Him to go about doing missions they think He demands? Yes, how the world needed that woman shot in the head by Taliban in the soccer stadium. That was heroism, valor and progressive insight wasn't it?
How do you wish your doctor to treat a metastasizing tumor? Do you want to hear him tell you to just live with it? That it is a tumor of peace?
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