Naming your enemy

Submitted by Christine-Lucia (United States), Apr 14, 2006 at 19:17

On "naming the Enemy"

As to Islam, the first lesson is that the Supreme Virtue of Islam is Patience. For more than a thousand years, Islam has been biding its time. In 668,began the first Jihad in Europe . Now, Islam is slithering its way ever deeper into the bosom Western societies. The second lesson is Islamo-speak - an insidious p.r. double-speak whereby Muslims "communicate" with infidels.

Muslims learn our languages and work at speaking like super-Westerners, (just as actors polish their lines), but they do not cease to be Muslims. More exactly, they should be seen as super-Muslims who excel at applying the Islamic doctrine of taquiyya (deceit, dissembling ) and kitman ( half-the truths, witholding the truth) when they present themselves among the infidels.

For instance, Muslim writers avoid being explicit (as Omar Ahmad of CAIR) about replacing our Constitution with Islamic rule. They discreetly inform us that when Muslims have the majority at the ballot-box, they "will select the correct beliefs".

A more brazen example is in the Muslim petition to establish exclusively Islamic colonies in the U.S.A.. The Muslim Petitioners use hallowed terms of Western Civilization, "human" and "excellence" . The Islamic communities they wish to establish are dedicated to "Human Excellence". They use this idealistic Western phrase although they reject the Western concepts it encompasses - Freedom, Reason, Human Rights, - while they actually condone suppression of any individual human rights whatsoever, and physical violence toward women, honor killings, etc., i.e., they are dedicated to all that is the direct opposite of what the West considers "human" or "excellence". They promote under the term of "Human Excellence"...all that the West considers most un-civilized, repugnant, savage and inhuman.

As the Islamic presence increases in the West, we need a Dictionary of Islamo-Speak, - just, as Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984, we must become familiar with what Islamic "double-speak" actually means. We need to be able to cut through the taqiyya and kitman - the deceit and half-truths which Muslims are taught to use in dealing with us, the infidels (unbelievers).

If we do not know what a Muslim really means when he is speaking to us, using familiar words and phrases with benign denotations and connotations in our understanding, we are doomed to lose every battle, especially of wits, with these people.

Our first task is to identify the enemy by a name of our own, exclusive choosing. We must select the very letters and sounds that make up the name which speaks for our view of him. If we allow the enemy to impose his self-serving, euphemistic term about himself, if he succeeds in having us identify him by the name whereby he wants to be identified in our eyes and mind, he has already won the first battle against us.

If the first rule of life, is "Know thyself", the first rule of war is "Know thy enemy," We must comprehend and judge who he actually is, not according to his Islamo-speak description of himself.

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