Value of a Muslim life

Submitted by Thomas Justin Kaze (Australia), Sep 6, 2006 at 07:14

Value of a Muslim life

How precious is life, according to Muslims? Not much really, unless you dedicate it to Allah alone. If you just stay at home, pray and fast, Allah will not be very pleased with you; ...When Muslims kill each other, and I am not referring here to the so-called "collateral damage", it is hardly ever reported. I allow myself to quote from the recent report from Nablus, where Palestinian gunmen fire hit a 12 year old boy:

"The child's family, Fatah loyalists, refused to condemn the militants: ‘Unknown men fired, and as unintentional result he was hit', said the boy's uncle." Just imagine the fury and the outrage, should the boy have been hit by an Israeli bullet. It makes me wonder why the Arab media have not blamed the Jews for the boy's injury – knowing their propaganda, they could have.

Muslims cut off another Muslim's head (video) for allegedly co-operating with the infidel (Crusader) invaders – no comments, and no Muslim outrage. A Muslim militant is killed before he can blow himself up in the midst of an infidel crowd – an entirely different story: "An innocent civilian (sic) murdered – Muslims swear revenge! Allah will reward him in Paradise!" ...

By demanding the release of 800, or something close to it, Islamic terrorists in exchange for two kidnapped Israeli soldiers, Muslims clearly admit that one Israeli life is worth 400 Muslim lives – something I have always thought. Fair enough; my estimates were even higher. Apparently Muslims do not value their own (or anybody else's) lives very highly. As for the worthlessness of their own lives, I cannot but agree with them...

Now, the case of "mistaken identity" – I have no problem with that, either: Muslims kill infidels indiscriminately; as long as the victims are not Muslims, Allah'u akbar. The killed infidel may have been innocent, but – are there any innocent infidels? On the other hand, all Muslims are "innocent", even if they have killed dozens of infidels or other Muslims who did not worship Allah well enough. Allah'u akbar, of course, there rolls another head. All innocents go to Paradise; I can almost see an infidel enjoying the virgins, sharab and all, no pork. Sure, they have got the wrong infidel – no problem. But what if we get the wrong Muslim? Just tune to CAIR and hear their ranting, their profiling, their racism, their hatred! The US of Arms must become Islamic… Yeah; say, when?

We are at war, a war that we have not started. The September 11 attacks have proven, once and for all, that it is not some ambiguous or abstract "terrorism" that we are confronting; it is Islam with its ‘jihad' notion (Islamic power, Islamic victory etc), that we are at war with. And it is not Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists or atheists who are our sworn enemies – it is Muslims; the others just want to live in peace… Only that the word "peace" means something different to us, something entirely different to them. The cult of death will never give up, until it has subdued the whole world.

Well, Hitler and Stalin have tried that, and failed. We can win this war, too, if we do not procrastinate for too long with the use of extreme force. When Muslims want to enter our countries and to live among us, let them leave Islam outside, like one leaves his dirty shoes, before entering a Japanese house or a shrine. We have but little choice – to tolerate their intolerance and to let them have their way with us, or to wipe them out and live in peace for the next five hundred years. ...

And one more thing: with all those dozens of (Islamic) anti-Western, anti-Jewish, anti-Christian and anti-democratic parties and organizations, can we have at least one serious anti-Islamic party? If not – why not; please explain.

Thomas Justin Kaze

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