islam is Radical

Submitted by Alan Stoddart (United Kingdom), Jun 20, 2008 at 08:20

As with the likes of Melanie Phillips and Nick Cohen, Daniel Pipes continues to appease the 'Muslim' world by claiming the likes of Bin Laden are extremist Muslims....Islamists. The methods the 'Islamists' employ to enforce their ideology are extreme but the message, the ideology itself is Islam...they want to go back to the pure Islam...the ways prescribed by the Koran and the Haditha. They are Muslim whilst the vast majority of the world's Muslims are not in fact Muslim.

The claim that Bin Laden and Co are extremists is like saying the referee in a football match is extremist for enforcing the rules of th game...players cannot make up their own rules and claim they are still playing football...just as Muslims cannot claim to be Muslim if they do not follow the 'unchangeable' rules of the Koran.

The Koran was sent by God as a final guide to the world precisely because the Jews and Christians did not follow his previous guidance...and they became unbelievers....so the Koran would have us believe....therefore....

The enemy has a name...Islam, the religion. It is medieval, oppressive and worst of all boring...the most revealing programme on Islam was Peaches Geldorf's much maligned film when she visited a family in North Africa.

If you want to live like that then Islam is not the enemy but to the vast majority of western people such a life is somewhat of a backward step....and as for Islam teaching us a thing or two about civilisation why not look at the crime statistics in any Muslim country, the assaults within families, the divorces., the corruption, the mass illiteracy, the poverty. Iran is the world's top consumer of heroin, Afghanistan its top producer. Then have a look for the artistic, literary or scientific achievements...won't take very long.

Islam has a toehold in your country, and it is getting bigger every day...you may not be Muslim but your life will change to defer to Islamic rules...Muslim doctors who refuse to treat certain people or ailments, swimming pools and other facilities suddenly barred at certain times so that Muslim women can use them alone, your children being made to learn about Islam in the cause of integration, Islamic areas...how long before there are Islamic mini-governments in each area, a parrallel legal system...how about a new 'Pakistan' in the USA? It's happening now and thinking that the enemy is a wild eyed man with a Koran in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other is merely looking the other way and almosta deliberate failure to tackle the real problem...because to do so would create enormous turmoil now but might avert outright civil war in 20 or 30 years with Muslims really becoming the new Jews.

You either let the Muslims set up their own Islamic states within the USA, and in Europe and accept the decline of your own civilistaion and values, or you deal with it. Dealing with it is of course what every politician wants to avoid and push on to the next generation, your children, or grandchildren...what will they think when the conscription papers drop through their letterboxes?

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