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Hostages to Islam and stockholm syndrome

Reader comment on item: Ridding the West of Pigs, Pork, Pig Stories, and Piggybanks

Submitted by Ted (United States), Jul 3, 2010 at 22:08

Dear Dr Pipes:

In some sense non-muslims of the world have become hostages to Islam. Unlike Muslims, most muslims do not advertise their religion on buses and billboards, they do not block streets routinely to pray, they do not take time off to pray in the middle of the working day, they do not routinely dress to reflect their religion, they do not routinely pray on loud speakers at odd hours, they do not go on bragging that their beliefs are the only good ones and one day the entire world will follow those beliefs.

While most non-muslims do not assert their religious rights (and non-rights) in respect to other people, Muslims have no qualms about doing so. Muslims have taken the world as hostage. Every action that our people and governments do, has to be done while keeping Islamist cry-babies in mind.

The conversion of so many people to Islam could be partly due to this hostage-taking and resulting stockholm syndrome -- if your street is blocked every Friday for prayers by a mob, you might eventually start believing that it is easier to join the blockers than to resist.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
4The Schnitzel-War of Betzdorf [1470 words]LokiNov 26, 2010 06:25180489
1Hostages to Islam and stockholm syndrome [191 words]TedJul 3, 2010 22:08175096
1Where does this stop - [112 words]john NormanJun 22, 2010 13:46174669
to John Norman [39 words]FreedomJun 30, 2010 09:26174669
No Betrayal [17 words]johnJul 1, 2010 15:04174669
Dogs and dhimmis [27 words]johnJul 3, 2010 09:44174669
1Regarding pigs and dhimmis [216 words]Marian HenningsJun 15, 2010 00:19174420
1WOW, thank goodness our politicians are on the case protecting muslims from seeing pigs or pics of pigs, and not bothering to stop things like HONOR KILLINGS or extreme numbers of ISLAMISTS IMMIGRANTS coming to our countries. [332 words]Phil GreendJun 14, 2010 13:49174401
To phil Greend [168 words]FreedomJun 30, 2010 09:41174401
1Phil, you need to know the facts [112 words]johnJul 4, 2010 06:21174401
do they know ? preserving the british sausage [142 words]mythJun 13, 2010 18:13174369

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