Avenger's Smoke and Mirror Message

Submitted by Mel Laraway (United States), Aug 22, 2007 at 14:12

"Avenger" (what an ironic name for an Islamofascist) has constructed a tapestry of obfuscation, innuendos, and downright falsehoods. Of course the prophets have always wanted mankind to follow the right path of morality and conformance to the commandments of God.

I agree that society is seriously flawed and that wickednessand sin run rampant in our modern societies, but God does not compel men to be righteous; it was Satan's plan to remove man's agency or freedom of choice and force him to do the right thing. Any religion that compels and forces people to "do right" is of the devil. Men must be guided by the pure love of God to repent and lead moral lives.

To equate political leaders of the Western democracies with totalitarian dictators such as Hitler and Nazism is pure sophistry and is hypocritical in the extreme; radical islam is truly the coersive nazi-like amalgamation of religion and cult fascism in which the end justifies the means, and the objective is to conquer the infidel Kaffir nations and either force them to convert, pay the jizya extortion tax and exist as dhimmis under the boot of their Islamic masters, or be driven out or be killed.

Since when have the prophets of God used force and coersion to spread the Gospel? Only an evil ideology does this. Throughout the world, radical islamists and jihadists are trying to achieve their objectives of islamizing by force and coersion, and crying "opression" and "discrimination" when their intended victims resist.

By the way, the "evil banking and capitalist systems" which "Avenger" rails against have brought great prosperity to the residents of the modern countries, unlike the miserable backwardness of virtually every Muslim country. Sharia law has proved to be a repressive, stultifying, leaden cloak (see Afghanistan under the Taliban, and the miserable state of the Iranians under the corrupt regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the wretched status of women in Saudi Arabia, for example). I, for one, will follow Him who preached salvation to all who would commit their lives to Him, and "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", not to hate the unbelievers and carry out jihad against innocents.

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