NC Points outs: Adams got this way back when, but because of the lack of thinking abilities in our stoopid politicians today they will never be able to rise to the occasion of thinking great thoughts, and coming to any true and rational conclusions! It is THESE ignorant power trippers who actually began the murder of this NATION! Our Founders would be infuriated with how these post modern politicians have ruined this GREAT country and scoffed at the sacrifices our founding fathers gave to start a new land!
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President Adams on Islam
1830
In the seventh century of the Christian era a wandering Arab, of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combing the powers of transcendent genius with the preternatural energy of a fanatic and the fraudulent spirit of an imposter, proclaimed himself as a messenger from heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting, from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God, he connected indissolubly with it the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war as part of his religion against all the rest of mankind. The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust; to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in the characters, a war of more than twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extincture of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute are encouraged to furnish motives to human action, there never can be peace on earth and good will toward men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.
–John Quincy Adams, “Christianity—Islamism.” “Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War, and on Greece,” originally published in The American Annual Register for 1827—1829 (New York, 1830), Chs. X-XIV: 267—402.
by Bill Warner
Of Interest
Denmark is all in a twiddle about letting female judges wear a headscarf.
The more important question is how can Muslims become judges in a kafir legal system when their first allegiance is supposed to be to the sharia?
A Saudi reformer wants to have the sword removed from the Saudi flag. Is he denying the Sword verses in the Koran?
Like music and singing, maybe a dance or two? They are haram (forbidden) in Islam according to Sharia even though many Mohammedans continue to breakthis law.
This newsletter is one of a series on the subject:
An Ethical Basis for War Against Political Islam Newsletter #6
Who are the Kafirs?
The kafirs are condemned to Islamic Hell because we don’t accept Mohammed as any kind of prophet or leader. We are the dhimmis, the slaves, and the slain of every continent. Unfortunately, the kafirs are the ignorant, the unknowing and the frightened. We don’t know anything about the 270 million dead killed in the name of Allah. But consider the rest of our vast ignorance:
| Almost none of our diplomats and “experts” have never read any of the Trilogy, nor were they taught the doctrine of political Islam in college. Jews and Christians do not know about the Arabian Annihilation (the elimination of all Jews and Christians from Arabia). People don’t know that white women were the slaves of choice among Muslims for 1400 years. Our media and intellectuals do not acknowledge rape of the kafirs as a weapon of war. Christians don’t realize that they lost half their territory and 60 million people to Islam in Turkey, Syria, and North Africa. Political Islam destroyed half of Hindu culture. Political Islam annihilated most of Buddhist culture. Islam destroyed all of the native religious culture of Africa in Islamic areas. The theory and history of jihad are not taught in any military academy, foreign service school, or law enforcement school. The majority of our military, state department, and law enforcement personnel are ignorant and in denial. |
These facts about political Islam are like a dead elephant at a tea party. It’s not the elephant that is weird; what is weird is that no one refers to it. No one talks about it.
And the important thing about the kafirs, intellectual response to Islam is the same: we have done nothing; we know nothing. It is this nothing that must be explained.
The Acceptance of Ignorance
We know more about Mars than we do political Islam. Mohammedans have been killing, enslaving and raping for 1400 years and we ignore it. Why don’t we even know we are ignorant? Denial. Profound denial.
We accept violence and fear from Islam. Any author who writes a book critical about Islam can share Salman Rushdie’s fate-a death sentence by Islamic clerics. Here is the sick part: we don’t protest. We show no outrage. How can we have come to this? Have we no sense of decency left? No honor? No shame? No common sense? Kafirs, accept violence and fear from Islam without protest. This acceptance of violence is the sign of a profoundly molested psyche. Kafirs are the battered wife and molested child of Islam.
Violent molestation can cause complete denial.
Molestation of the Mind
Islam’s explosive jihad that destroyed half of Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism was pure violence. Now let’s look at what manifests after violent molestation. The YWCA Rape Crisis Counselor Training Manual shows the following reactions are common among victims of rape and child molestation.
Disbelief: the victim has an incredibly hard time believing that the attacks took place.
Kafirs are in absolute denial that a history of political Islam even exists.
Fear: fear is the tool that the abuser uses to control the victim.
Islam has used fear against intellectuals since day one. The first person Mohammed had assassinated was a poetess who mocked him. Any public critic lives in fear.
Fear the attacker will return
When will the next attack occur? (Answer: when we give up looking for it.)
Guilt: the victim finds a way to blame him/herself.
It is our fault. We have not treated Islam in the right way. When we have better social policies, life with Islam will be good.
Branded: the victim does not want others to find out about the crime.
Find a white person who knows that his ancestors were slaves for Islam or that Muslims paid top dollar to purchase a white sex slave in the Meccan slave market.
Humiliation: the victim feels shamed. The things that led to the abuse are hard to talk about.
The victims of jihad in the American immigrant community do not want to talk about the brutality that made them flee to America. Survivors are not bold. They are a beaten people.
Lack of control: during the attack the victim was helpless. This helplessness extends to dealing with the problem.
Where is the person who is optimistic about what can be done to deal with political Islam?
Anger: anger toward the attacker can be healthy. But frequently the anger turns inward.
Notice the rage and hatred in politics since 9/11. Everything is personal, hateful, mean, and spiteful. We don’t discuss ideas; we assassinate character.
Powerlessness: things will not get better.
Pessimism in all things is the note of the day.
Kafirs are the abused children of Islam.
The Abuser
Look at the traits and characteristics of the abuser.
Denial: the abuser denies that the abuse ever took place.
Find a single Muslim who accepts any of the crimes committed in the name of Islam. Anyone killed by jihad was killed in self-defense.
Inadequacy: Abusers come off as arrogant and overly self-confident.
A Muslim is never, ever wrong. Muslims are the best of people according to the Koran.
Domination
The word islam means “submit.” The abuser expects submission on the part of the victim.
Inability to understand or recognize the problem: the abuser is the last person to admit he has a problem.
Islam never has any problems. All of Islam’s problems are due to the kafirs.
Manipulation: the abuser wants to make the victim feel guilty.
Islam is the victim. Mohammed was always the victim. Study the Palestinian/Israel politics.
Obsessed with weapons
Have you ever noticed all the swords on Islamic flags and seals? The AK-47 rifle is even woven into Muslim rugs now.
We are all like abused children. Can we say that we fit the profile? Let’s look at Islam’s children one at a time and see how they manifest their abuse.
akhter
on May 29th, 2008
@ 9:29 pm:
Before you diss Islam, know your Christianity first… And quit generalizing, too.
While chatting with a friend the other day, we found ourselves on the topic of religion. This particular friend is getting a tattoo of the word in Islam for “infidel” in a few weeks. When I asked him why he would do this (he’s Christian), he told me that he was doing it as a mockery of the faith. He spoke of Islam as a violent religion, out to massacre and kill, pillage and rape. He cited this passage from the Quran: “Prophet make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate” (Quran 9:73) “Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah, and those who reject faith fight in the cause of evil: so fight ye against the friends of Satan” (Quran 4:76), and of course, he referenced suicide bombings.
This logic no longer surprises me, but it does continue to agitate me. The direct correlation between Islam and September 11, the assertions that all Muslims are America-haters and Christian-killers, that the religion teaches them to either convert non-believers or exterminate them… all of this I’ve heard time and time again, and all of it I roll my eyes at. The overt hypocrisy, the vast generalizations, and the sheer idiocy of these remarks are so easy to see, yet even easier to overlook.
The Christian Bible’s Old Testament repeatedly calls on those of faith to either convert or kill non-believers. For example, Deuteronomy 17 states, “17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant; 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel; 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.”
Why can we point out passages in the Quran that call for extermination of infidels while we continue to ignore the very passages in the CHRISTIAN BIBLE that promote the exact same actions? What makes our “peaceful” Christian religion justified in its writings urging murder yet labels Islam a violent faith?
After reaching this point in the argument, I am usually reminded of the events of September 11; I’m told that terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in the name of their faith, and thus, any faith that promotes such a thing must surely be a hostile one. I’d like to direct anyone who chooses to utilize this argument back to the actions of our peaceful Christian brothers and sisters. Think of the Christians who have blown up abortion clinics or attacked doctors and nurses who work there in the name of Christianity. Is this not a similar concept? European countries in the 16 and 1700s colonized and enslaved the people of Africa and Asia in the name of Christianity, in the name of saving the savage people from their filthy sin filled lives. Their land and resources were exploited and their human dignity ravaged all disguised under a veil of Christianity’s greater good, of a mission to bring the Christian faith to those who were too stupid and too uncivilized to know it.
But no, it is the Muslims who are violent.
The men who bombed the World Trade Center were not Muslims at all. The faith strictly forbids alcohol consumption, loose sexual values, and gambling, yet the terrorists of 911 drank heavily, utilized the service of prostitutes, and visited casinos all the night before their act of terrorism was to be executed. Wouldn’t it seem that men who are thought to be killing American lives all in the name of Islam would be interested in rigidly following the basic rules of their faith?
“Oh yes, well the Quran states that those who die for their faith will be rewarded greatly in heaven.” I would like to guide you toward Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount for a response to this argument. “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake/ Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. (Matthew 5:11-12). We honor martyrs and pray to saints, many of whom have died in the name of their Christian faith. We immortalize those who have died for the sake of Christianity… Sound familiar?
Of course, at this point I must add a disclaimer, although I know that there will still be someone who chooses to point this out: I am in no way saying that Islam is never used by evil people as a shield for evil deeds. However, we have to remember to separate the religion from the people. By this I mean, while the faith itself may say one this, someone else may interpret it to mean something else, something violent and hostile, and may act on it. This does not mean that that is what all Muslims believe!
Again, to Christianity… Some Christians believe that only through baptism can one be saved. Even if one has never heard of Jesus Christ, because that person has not been baptized and does not accept Christ as his or her savior (again, not by choice but because the belief in Christ has never been made known to that person), that person will go to hell. Not all Christians believe this. Not all Christians believe that homosexuality is a sin; not all Christians believe that the death penalty is bad; not all Christians believe evolution is real; not all Christians choose to wait to have sex until after marriage. This means that Christianity, like Islam, is not a uniform belief. Some people believe and do one thing while some people believe and do another. It is not just to generalize a whole people, an ENTIRE FAITH on the actions of the few or with regards to the events that we see on the news. It’s not fair, and it’s not right.
I really am becoming more and more disgusted with the hatred and bigotry toward Islam. Yes, there are bad Muslims out there, and Christians and Jews, and Hindus and atheists. We have to stop judging and entire faith on our shallow predispositions and skin-deep generalizations. We have to let go of our contempt and judgmental attitudes and stop being so childish and inane.
More senseless idealism and bleeding-heart liberalism from an untainted nineteen year old youth.
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
MLK Jr.
Perhaps it’s not too late…
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4 Responses to “Before you diss Islam, know your Christianity first… And quit generalizing, too.”
1. ahh Says:
January 2, 2008 at 12:07 am
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2. amberfireinus Says:
January 2, 2008 at 12:10 am
I absolutely loved your blog. Finally someone who tells it like it is!!! I love it! I am planning to send this link to people who I feel need to see it in their lives. I have tried to articulate these same thoughts in my own blog.
Very eloquently put. Bravo!!
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4. ilegirl Says:
January 2, 2008 at 2:32 am
Thanks for this well-stated post. It’s good to know that there are others who are as troubled by misinformation and misinterpretation of Islam as I.
akhter
on May 29th, 2008
@ 9:33 pm:
Kafir is one who denies (or “refuses to acknowledge”) the truth” in the widest, spiritual sense of this latter term: that is, irrespective of whether it relates to a cognition of the supreme truth ..
During an extensive conversation about the relationship of a Muslim with non-Muslims, the issue of who exactly is a kafir , or one who “denies the truth” (frequently translated as “infidel”), came up. Yet, when I delved deeper into the meaning of the words kufr and kafir in the Qur’an, I learned that these words have a much deeper, more profound meaning. And it has nothing to do with “being infidels.”
The late Muhammad Asad (God’s Mercy be upon him) eloquently defined the meaning of kufr and kafir in the Qur’an:
This meaning is easily grasped when we bear in mind that the root verb of the participial noun kafir (and of the infinitive noun kufr) is kafara, “he (or “it”) covered (a thing)”: thus, in Quran 57:20 the tiller of the soil is called (without any pejorative implication) kafir, “one who covers”, i.e., the sown seed with earth, just as the night is spoken of as having “covered” (kafara) the earth with darkness. In their abstract sense, both the verb and the nouns derived from it have a connotation of “concealing” something that exists or “denying” something that is true. Hence, in the usage of the Quran – with the exception of the one instance (Quran 57:20) where this participial noun signifies a “tiller of the soil” – a kafir is one who denies (or “refuses to acknowledge”) the truth” in the widest, spiritual sense of this latter term: that is, irrespective of whether it relates to a cognition of the supreme truth – namely, the existence of God – or to a doctrine or ordinance enunciated in the divine writ, or to a self-evident moral proposition, or to an acknowledgment of, and therefore gratitude for, favors received.
In the last part of Asad’s statement lies my rediscovery of the meaning of kufr. A kafir can refuse to acknowledge the favors given to him or her, i.e., be ungrateful. In fact, the opposite of the word shukr, or “gratitude,” in Arabic is none other than kufr. The Qur’an explicitly uses the word kufr to mean “ingratitude”:
And [remember the time] when your Sustainer made [this promise] known: “If you are grateful [to Me], I shall most certainly give you more and more; but if you are ungrateful, verily, My chastisement will be severe indeed!” (Quran 14:7)
The literal Arabic text denoting “but if you are ungrateful” reads: wa la’in kafartum. Thus, the Qur’an uses both renderings of the word kufr, namely, denial of truth and ingratitude. Yet, when I think of it more deeply, kufr is truly ingratitude and nothing else. I remember hearing at a spiritual conference that all aspects of worship are nothing more than acts of shukr or “gratitude” to God. Thus, the kuffar are all those who are ungrateful to God.
Yet, for what are we to be grateful to God? For His love for us. But, how do we know that God love us? There is no statement in the Qur’an that says flat out “God loves you.” There does not need to be such a statement. The paradigm of the relationship between God and humanity in the Qur’an is one of love, because the Qur’an is full of references to God’s Soothing Mercy. Yet, there is a deeper, more profound manifestation of God’s love.
God’s love is manifested by our living and breathing on this earth. We were nothing before God gave us life, before God brought us into existence. If it were not for God, we would not be here. We would not have existed. With each breath we take, with each step we take, with each action and movement on earth, we live out the love of God in bringing us into existence. What did we do to deserve His bringing us to life? What could we possibly offer the Lord to recompense His infinite grace?
Moreover, once He gives us this precious gift of life, His favors do not stop there. As a physician, I have been blessed with the opportunity to witness the awesome spectacle of the human machinery at work. It is so finely tuned, so meticulously controlled that it is a miracle we don’t drop dead at any moment. What’s more, if someone is afflicted with disease, the symptoms manifest themselves long after the disease process has started because of the redundancy built in the system. For instance, people with lung disease typically develop symptoms after more than 50% of lung function has already been lost. It is amazing how the human body runs, with several very complex systems working seamlessly together to allow us to go about our daily business without difficulty. All of this is nothing but a manifestation of God’s love for us.
With this understanding in mind, this verse in surah Al Baqarah makes so much more sense:
How could you deny the truth of God when you were dead and He gave you life? After which He will cause you to die, then He will bring you back to life, then to Him shall you return (Quran 2:28)
The literal Arabic term is takfirun billah. Thus, the verse could be translated to mean: “How could you be ungrateful to God after the fact that you were dead and He gave you life?” How can we be anything but grateful to God for the most precious gift of all: our life?
This understanding is easily extrapolated to the other kuffar in the Qur’an. For instance, the Qur’an says: “Indeed, those who say, ‘Behold, God is the Christ, son of Mary’ deny the truth…” (Quran 5:17), with the Arabic text reading: laqad kafara alatheena qalu… Yet, this can easily be understood to mean: “Indeed, those who say ‘Behold God is the Christ, son of Mary’ are ungrateful [to God for this claim].” The word kafara here does not fit with the word “disbelieve,” because Christians do not disbelieve in God.
On the contrary, they wholehearted believe in and worship the God of Abraham. To this, however, they add the claim that God is Triune and Jesus Christ is divine. Given the fact that God has given so much to humanity, for human beings to claim that Christ is God is being ungrateful for God’s favors – in the Qur’anic worldview – because God is too transcendent to beget offspring like human beings.
The same is true for the pagans at the time of the Prophet . Did they “disbelieve” in God? Were they atheists? Absolutely not. The Qur’an plainly states this:
Is it not to God alone that all sincere faith is due? And yet, they who take for their protectors aught beside Him [are wont to say], “We worship them for no other reason than that they bring us nearer to God.” Behold, God will judge between them [on ResurÆrection Day] with regard to all wherein they differ [from the truth]: for, verily, God does not grace with His guidance anyone who is bent on lying [to himself and is] stubbornly ingrate! (39:3)
Yet, to ascribe divinity to anything besides God – in the Qur’anic worldview – is to be utterly ungrateful to all the favors God bestows on the person who claims thus. In fact, the Arabic word for “stubbornly ingrate” at the end of Quran 39:3 is kaffar, which is derived from kufr and kafara.
This passage of the Qur’an even further bolsters the view that kufr is essentially ingratitude:
And so, when they embark on a ship [and find themselves in danger], they call unto God, [at that moment] sincere in their faith in Him alone; but as soon as He has brought them safe ashore, they [begin to] ascribe to imaginary powers a share in His divinity: and thus they show utter ingratitude for all that We have vouchsafed them, and go on [thoughtlessly] enjoying their worldly life. (Quran 29:65-66)
Again, the word for “ingratitude” is liyakfuru, derived from the root word kafara. Any other iteration of the word kufr does not work.
This is truly amazing. For so many years of my life, I had always thought a kafir was an “unbeliever.” I realize now how primitive and naive such a belief truly is. The Qur’an is such a profound book, with so many layers of understanding that are waiting to be discovered. The more I delve into the Qur’an, the more I want to keep swimming in its words and meanings. And the more I understand why God asks the question, ” Will they not, then, ponder over this Qur’an? – or are there locks upon their hearts?” (Quran 47:24).