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Cult of Personality is Not a Religion

Reader comment on item: Israel's President Reflects Candidly on Islam

Submitted by Joe (United States), May 8, 2006 at 18:01

It is unfortunate that we in the west refuse to really face the truth about Islam and instead continuously try to appeal to the 'better angels' of the Islamic spirit by looking under every rock for a 'moderate' to stand up and 'lead' the true 'non-violent religion' away from it's terrorist 'hijackers'. It is a dead end for western civilization if we take this path. The president of Israel is on this path, and that is a sad day for the world.

Islam as practiced today is not a legitimate religion---it is a cult of personality of the 'Prophet'. Just as Mao had his secular religion in China, and as Stalin and Hitler had their cults of personality in their respective countries, what the Jihadists like Bin Laden and the Ayatollahs have successfully accomplished is to universalize a cult of personality around 'God's messenger', Mohammed. Just as in China's 'Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution', Mao used teenagers and students and peasants to attack the government bureaucracy he had created, so too do the Jihadists. If you think you are going to heaven on the 'A' train right after you explode, if you think Mohammed is going to be there with 72 virgins for you, hell that's a great way to go. Unfortunately we do not spend time or resources attacking the basis of Islam which is dysfunctional superstition. ...

I'm not a Jew, and I'm not a practicing Christian, but if I have a choice between a holy man who jumped into to a crowd to keep a prostitute from being stoned to death (Jesus) and a 'holy man' who consummated his marriage to a 9 year old girl, it's not a hard choice. We in the west need to get past our institutional co-dependence and start kicking the toxic superstition junkies in Islam to the curb everywhere on the planet. They are the new neanderthals. We are homo sapiens.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
He is right [20 words]Abdul MannanJul 27, 2008 23:26135754
Moshe Katsav [72 words]CassJul 23, 2006 16:4050673
The President of Israel is correct [289 words]S.H.Jun 20, 2006 20:4447971
suspension of disbelief [209 words]donvanMay 23, 2006 11:0146203
Shuvi, Shuvi, Israel [352 words]MalachiMay 20, 2006 18:3946031
Who Know's [177 words]BlackspeareMay 13, 2006 13:0345518
The "Purity" of Islam -- Why Katsav Is Right. [141 words]orange yonasonMay 10, 2006 00:4945215
Sorry to Disagree with the President of Israel [504 words]ron thompsonMay 9, 2006 18:5945179
Correction [130 words]MosheJun 7, 2006 11:1045179
On Katsav, religion, ideology, secularism, and the defense of liberal values [1179 words]Pro-Israeli DemocratMay 9, 2006 17:0545159
Bush has already commented [40 words]D WilliamsMay 9, 2006 13:1045113
Katsav's comment reflects moral relativism [67 words]JonathanMay 9, 2006 11:1445106
Moshe Katsav's comments on Islam [97 words]Kenneth S. BesigMay 9, 2006 09:5845100
The President of Israel is ignorant [158 words]f.shakkiMay 8, 2006 20:2545058
The Jew asked a question and Muslims of Islam were silent [4 words]SirsethMay 8, 2006 18:4545050
Violence and religion [211 words]rickMay 8, 2006 18:2245048
1Cult of Personality is Not a Religion [319 words]JoeMay 8, 2006 18:0145043
It would be nice... [275 words]Denis MacEoinMay 8, 2006 17:3645041
Israel's President Reflects Foolishly on Islam [99 words]JoelMay 8, 2006 17:1545040
What a crock [125 words]EskiMay 8, 2006 16:3545035
Judaism: Last Religion Standing [114 words]ShlomoMay 8, 2006 08:3545016
Learning about Judaism was interesting and I think Islam is making a mistake saying everybody was Islamic but Jesus was actually a Jew [85 words]JennyMay 8, 2006 23:5545016
Response to Shlomo [731 words]LactantiusMay 9, 2006 16:4545016
Response to Lactantius and Shlomo [68 words]MosheJun 7, 2006 15:3045016

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