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 |  Subject: The Consequence of Bowing to Islam  Fri Oct 03, 2014 7:47 am | |
| The Consequence of Bowing to Islam
Terror - Islam
Friday, October 03, 2014
Alf Cengia
Despite the mounting global incidence of violence and murder perpetrated by professors of the religion of peace and tolerance; the main steam media and politicians doggedly insist that Islam has been hijacked by extremists.Ironically, fundamentalist Christians are often depicted as potentially more dangerous than Islamic extremists. In his book, God Less America, Todd Starnes has catalogued a long list of examples showing how Christianity has been marginalized by the media, educational and government institutions, atheist and left wing activists, and the Obama Administration.We've already seen how Senator Barack Obama mocked Christianity in 2008. The president has his defenders who insist he was taken out of context from an edited portion of a video. Apparently, what he really meant was that one couldn't formulate policies based on a literal interpretation of the Bible. It's a clever excuse.I certainly wouldn't want a Dominionist Senator pushing public stoning laws for diverse sins such as rebellious children and infidelity. But there's a world of difference between a Christian president's reluctance to impose his beliefs on a secular society, and actually working against his own faith. So I don't buy the defense.In fact Obama's statements were loaded with sarcasm: - Quote :
- “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”
The president would never have spoken of Islam in the same way. During a 2009 interview, President Obama told French Media Canal that the West and the United Sates had to educate themselves more effectively regarding Islam. I'm all for that too.He also noted that: "if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." At least one video pithily points out that the president's statement as somewhat factually-challenged.Again, he has his defenders - sort of. While some concede that Obama's optimistic estimationmight be challenged, they note that he never said America was a Muslim nation. No, he didn't. But he has felt the need to punctuate the point that America is no longer just a Christian nation.And he's doing his best to keep it that way.In spite of the president's apologetics, we've seen more troubling examples of domestic Islamic violence since my last column. A Muslim convert beheaded a woman in Oklahoma, and another threat to behead someone followed almost immediately after that. In Australia, a Muslim teen terror suspect was shot dead after critically stabbing two police officers. He had initiated the meeting with the intent to kill them. The Islamic Council of Victoria quickly expressed "deep sorrow" for the incident. However, they went on to note: - Quote :
- “This tragedy highlights the real cost of a failure to deal with these serious issues and why we have made numerous calls on the Australian government to deal with the root causes of alienation and disaffection of people such as this."
One Islamic preacher with ties to terrorist groups claimed the Australian government was endorsing “institutional terrorism”. He blurted: - Quote :
- “We ask Allah to destroy those who plot against us, and to keep their harm away from us. Ya Allah look after your obedient servants and protect them from the harm of this government...”
The nature of these responses highlights the real problem. The Australian Islamic leaders are avoiding their responsibility for these "disaffected" teens' spiritual formation.My brother and I were raised in a struggling Catholic-Italian family in Australia. We were bullied at school (like most other kids) and we were subjected to mild religious and racist taunts (like many other migrants). But it never dawned on us to blow up infidels for our religion, or behead someone because of our perceived misfortunes.Life in Australia compares favorably to its neighboring nations, which is why so many migrate there. In contrast to my early years, political correctness is now a Sacred Cow there.The problem lies with Islam.Apologist David Wood has shown the "Good, Bad and the Ugly" sides of Muhammad's example. At times he showed compassion to widows and orphans and he was a monotheist who pointed to the biblical prophets. Yet he also reacted violently towards any groups resisting his advance of Islam. The ugly side of Muhammad's example involved the treatment of captured woman whose husbands had been slaughtered during his Islamic raids.Unlike Christianity's founder - who died for the world - Muhammad prescribed death for the cause of Islam. Christ's disciples died proclaiming their faith while Muhammad's disciples died and killed in the process of imposing their beliefs. President Obama's protective stance on Islam has impacted American security issues. According to New American, Obama prohibits the FBI from scrutinizing Muslims (and suspect terror Mosques). One can appreciate the potential abuse of power, yet the following is also true: - Quote :
- "Could you imagine if the government had prohibited consideration of ideology (Nazi leanings) in identifying possible internal threats during WWII?"
The president's myopic attitude to Islam has affected his foreign policies as well, especially regarding Iran.Bruce Thornton notes the Iranian Regime's 35 years of bloody animosity towards America and its affiliation with terrorist organizations. Despite this, Obama “bent over backwards,” and “extended his hand” to the mullahs “without preconditions.” He even ignored the rigged Iranian elections and the regime's brutal suppression of the protests.Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi recently agreed with Obama that "ISIL is neither Islamic, nor a state." That's a surprise? One wonders what criterion he uses to define an Islamic state when his own regime regularly kills Muslim converts to Christianity.Does President Obama agree with Araghchi's bizarre claims that Israel's actions in Gaza can "only be called genocide", and that ISIL's demise must be tied to “an end to the Israeli occupation of Arab lands”?Despite these inflammatory statements, John Kerry has gone on record to say that: - Quote :
- "There is a role for nearly every country in the world to play [re battling ISIS],including Iran.”
That trust, coupled with the US president's apparent blindness to the Islamic ideology that drives the Iranian regime, sets a dangerous precedence.They either refuse to get it or pretend the problem does not exist.Iran's irrational hatred of Israel and America, and its Mahdi-inspired eschatological aspirations have not suddenly evaporated. This mutual Islamic State crisis is a convenient diversion for Iran to achieve their nuclear goals right under Western noses.And then there's Israel. Can they really afford to sit back and see what Iran does?I doubt they will.http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=7901
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