Religion

Submitted by Arlinda (United States), Mar 12, 2009 at 06:49

Thank you Dr. Pipes

For Jihad to exist there must be tremendous support from within Islam. Jihad is an expensive endeavor. After September 11th all we heard was that Islam was the religion of peace, They danced in the streets throughout the Islamic world as Islam's spokeman from CAIR assured us that Islam condemns terrorism but America's policies have to be revised. CAIT always concluded that we were to blame for the slaughter of three thousand people. In keeping with the double talk, the most popular name for newborns in the Islamic world was Osama. He was revered not reviled. Islamics revered him for killing three thousand innocent Americans ... outrageous.

At the Harvard graduation ceremony following September 11th Jihad morphed into some kind of personal angst and Spain was attacked, Britain was attacked Austrailia was attacked all in keeping with the Religion of Submission's peaceful personal Jihad. All Islamics are not terrorists but all terrorists are Islamic.

For evil to exist all it takes is a few good men to do nothing. In Islam, silence in the majority with a few spin doctors offering demure criticism of terrorism is supposed to convince us, that September 11th never happened/was someone's personal angst/not an Islamic planned attack/America's fault.

Where ever there is rule by Islamic theocracy there is oppression of the many by the few including enslavement of half of the population, women. As long as women are enslaved, Jihad, Fatwah and world wide Islamic terrorism will always exist and tens of thousands of people will die. There will always be thousands of young recruits for the suicide missions because there are no mothers, women, to advocate for the rights of their children and for peace.

Elie Weisel said worse than slavery is for someone to advocate for their own enslavement. That is what the oppressed women of Islam do. There is no hope for such a religion and nothing will become it so in life as its leaving of it. Unless there is a holy revolution within Islam against the Ayatollahs, the Imams and the Sheiks and unless women rise up and revolt against their clerics and their husbands,Islam's murderous rein will go on ad nauseum.

Islamism is a disgrace to humanity and a burden to the earth,. Everywhere it rules there is death, destruction, impoverishment and enslavement. Living in democracies throughout the world has made no difference. Women still dress in rags, men still rule their families and personal power is in the hands of their Imams. It is hopeless.

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