extremism is inherent to islam.

Submitted by G.Vishvas (Germany), Oct 8, 2008 at 14:30

Whether a muslim is an extremist, fascist, fanatic etc. or not is to be decided also by the non-muslims, not by the muslims themselves.

Islamic propaganda would like us to believe that islam means peace, or those who commit terror acts just cannot be muslims, or all muslim violence is merely a desperate last-pitch reaction to the ill-deeds of the evil non-muslims, or in all muslim vs. non-muslim conflicts the muslims are the innocent lambs etc.

Many muslims are known to lie when asked about their sympathies for muslim terrorists. Many may be hiding (doing takiya about) their sympathies for the muslim terrorists.

Islamic history-writing puts in convenient cut-off dates so that all earlier muslim misdeeds and aggressions against non-muslims are quarantained into the ignorance shelf. Muslim-history writing is done with the intention of glorifying islam and muslim plunderers and fascists and upholding muslim claims to greatness and territory, and to vilify or ridicule the non-muslims and dismiss their claims. That is what and how muslim children and youth get "knowledge".

Those muslims who sincerely do not support islamic fanaticism, fascism, primitivism etc. are a timid and useless minority. Yes, they are a useless and timid minority - otherwise islam would never have been able to carry out its inherent totalitarian intentions.

Since kuran calls those who do not actively support islamic expansionism and the required ruthlessness as munafiks (hypocrites) we have to admit that the supporters of fanaticism among TRUE muslims is about 100%. The kuran says clearly that some muslims may deem violence and war (for the sake of islamic expansion and total control) as unncessary and such muslims are wrong, disobedient, opportunistic, worthy only of being held in disdain, cowards and hypocrites.

In islam you have an enemy in comparison to which the soviet communists can be regarded as progressive humane noblemen.

For example: CAIR = Camouflaged Agitation for a (totalitarian) Islamic Rearrangement.

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