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Claims of Peace, Threats of War
The flap continues over Pope Benedict's recent remarks concerning the alleged violent nature of Islam. In the West Bank and elsewhere thousands of Muslims gathered today to protest the pontiff, waving banners and calling Benedict a "coward" and an "agent of the Americans." Though the pope has expressed regret about the reactions to his speech, many are not satisfied. In the past few days enraged Muslims have assaulted seven churches in the West Bank and in Gaza. These latest large-scale protests come only a day after a meeting of Muslims clerics in Lahore announced that jihad is not terrorism and that "Islam was not propagated with the sword." In a somewhat ironic twist, Muslim worshippers in Jerusalem, perhaps unaware of the meeting's verdict, raised banners displaying the phrase, "Conquering Rome is the answer." Other protesters took up the refrain, "The army of Islam will return."
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Agents of American
What the? 'Agents of Americans', is that supose to be an insult now? I heard of Agents of the devil, but agents of Americans?
These people need to calm down a bit.
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The prophet was a warrior
Islam was indeed initially propagated by the sword. That is not an opinion but an historical fact.
What the Muslims seem to not understand about their prophet is that he was a general of large armies that laid sieges to major cities (Medina and Mecca) and took them with great bloodshed. This information places the Pope's comments into proper perspective.
Need more evidence? Have a look at what they did in India.
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I cannot overstate the simmering hostility that currently exists between Muslims and the indigenous people here in the UK.
While Muslims openly call for Sharia law and the abolition of representative democracy, governments shower them with funds and "community facilities" with the intention of appeasing Muslim anger by lessening their "isolation". Public buildings, from prisons to libraries to airports to hospitals, must provide facilities for the exclusive use of a group which constitutes 0.8% of the population. By their violence, threats and continual protest, Muslims have become an aristocracy with unique privileges and immune from criticism.
The media continually assures us that we need only fear "a minority of extremists" in the Muslim community. And that the key to defeating "extremism" is to "engage with moderate Muslims". These mantras are also universally repeated across the (mainstream) political spectrum. In fact, polls of Muslim opinion do not reveal any sharp distinction between these 'moderates' and 'extremists', and that on the basis of the opinions that Muslims are prepared to confide to a white man with a clipboard.
While the Muslim community has protested against anti-terrorism arrests, against cartoons published in a foreign country, against British "foreign policy" and against the Pope's choice of citations, there has not been a single protest against those who carry out mass murder in the name of their religion. What is any rational person to conclude from this?
In order to believe the media stories about moderate Islam and the "minority of extremists" one increasingly has to deny the evidence of one's own senses. The Islamic zeitgeist is simply not one of moderation, it one of advancing the faith by ruthless realpolitik and , where necessary, violence. Arguments about the relative ratio of 'moderates' to 'extremists' are like arguing about the components of cigarette smoke: if only one chemical out of a thousand causes cancer *the whole habit causes cancer*. Likewise, even if hatred of the West were a property of only a minority of Muslims (which contradicts all available evidence), the presence of any Muslims guarantees terrorism.
As an aside, my parents spent a lot of time on the seventies in Yugoslavia. They tell stories of how one would not even know that there were Serbs, Bosnians or Croats, such was the unity and harmony in which people lived.
Twenty years later, the children they saw playing together were machine-gunning each other into mass graves. I sincerely hope that Europe is not travelling along the same historical route as Yugoslavia.