One more time: We are at war with Islam because Islam is at war with us.
Posted by: brendabowers on: June 3, 2009
Every once in awhile I get a comment like the following:
3 | Andrew
June 2, 2009 at 18:42 | edit
Your rhetoric with respect to Muslims and the Islamic faith is part of the reason much of the Middle East displays such hostility towards the West, and more specifically, the United States…because many Americans like yourself are willing to make broad accusations about hundreds of millions of people because of the dastardly and cowardice acts of a relative few.
I am by no means standing up for terrorists and those that commit violence. But your sweeping insinuations that the entire Islamic community and every Muslim is at war with the rest of the world is wrong.
Surely someone such as yourself who professes understanding of Christ and his teachings would know that your message of hate and intolerance towards all Muslims and the Islamic faith is the antithesis of Christ’s message of love and acceptance.
So, ONE MORE TIME I will let the actions of the peace loving Muslims speak for themselves. These articles are not about the “dastardly and cowardice acts of a relative few”. These articles are about everyday Muslims and Islam. These articles are about the everyday Muslims and their religious leaders who feel it necessary and right to defame Jesus Christ in any way they can and then riot in the streets by the millions when a silly cartoon is printed in a newspaper. We even had our peace loving Muslim neighbors here in Greensboro, NC get their dander up over that cartoon. Funny none of these peace loving Muslims seem to get their dander up over the Muslim suicide bombers who even kill fellow Muslims in their hate, and in their effort to follow the teachings of their holy book the Koran. Yes, the holy book of Islam teaches hate. The text books used in Muslim schools teach hate. These article are all about those peace loving Muslims and not one of them is about those “dastardly and cowardice acts of a relative few”.
Please read and learn Andrew. Sincerely Brenda Bowers
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This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.)Jul. 11, 2006 at 09:39
My older blog at : http:triadblogs.com/BrendaFayBowers has more article on Muslims and the Middle East
This page has the following sub pages.
I was born and raise in Tehran-Iran, till the so called revolution came about, and than we took off to America. I am Christian. Borne Christian, im what you call an “Assyrian”, I can tell you first hand that Islam been at war with us” Christans, none moslems, so forth and so on” for a very long time. What do you want from a religon that was founded on turst for power and blood. And as long as we ” The none moslems”, be tolerance and politicly correct, we will lose. and there will be none of us left to say much. great example of it is UK, moslems have thier own law aside from UK’s Law. Look around here and you see that we “Noen moslems” are becoming if not already, a minority.
By the way tolerance does not mean acceptance.
thanks
P.S sorry for bad spelling:(
wdenh, don’t worry about spelling as it is unimportant. What is important is what you have to say and regardless of what that is. Blogs are about people talking to other people. Getting to know about what other people are thinking and feeling. We are not newspapers or books that have to be perfect. We are about people!
BB
To paraphrase Forrest Gump: “Islam is as Islam does.”
It is not hate for a Christian to stand up against hate and, yes, evil. To the contrary, we are commanded by our Lord to do so!
I would encourage people to read this essay (not my work):
http://www.liberty-and-culture.com/isislamevil.html
Brief excerpt from the essay:
Negative moral pronouncements – bad and evil – are unavoidable if we are to take the requisite actions to avoid what is harmful to our lives and well being. Belief systems and ideas should be judged in the similar manner. Ideas have consequences; if they lead to inimical results they are harmful. If, by their very nature, they are blatantly horrific in their implications, are they not evil?
To Andrew,
Would you please tell me and show me [ref from the
Bible] about this statement you made?
:”Christ’s message of love and acceptance”.
Yes Jesus said love your enemy, but nowhere in the N.T Jesus
Christ spoke of acceptance or tolerance. In fact He
did the opposite. He stood up against all injustice, insofar as going to the temple and throwing all the money changers out. So
please please, and more please do not use the “Jesus tactic”
which is usually used. Do not insult in defense of your idea, speak, present facts( if u got any).
I do not know what is your natianality or choice of religon, what i know : Jesus was not, is not and won’t be silent toward Evil. He Pointed it out, and than CAST IT out.
so ANDREW With all the Love that Jesus has commended me to love YOU, I say Father forgive him for he does not know what he is doing(talking about). remember Do nort , please, do not twist Jesus’s teaching, make your argument, rationally, logicly and above all respectedly(if there is such a word). May God open the eyes of your mind and heart and show evil as evil is.
brendabowers, just thank you again i read the essay you recomonded. simply out standing. As itd been said: Evil is what Evil does:)
thanks
To Andrew, sorry about above reply signed “Anonymous”, it was not done on purpose. my name is wdednh. and the above reply is mine.
thanks
wdednh, I wasn’t sure if you were thanking me for the list of article I recommended or the one Always On Watch recommended http://www.liberty-and-culture.com/isislamevil.html It is a really excellent essay.
You might want to click on the “strong armed lady” logo and visit Always on Watch’s site as they are especially vigilant in watching the Muslim world. BB
Islam is not a peaceful religion,nor do they preach love and forgiveness as christians do. I have also been doing research on Muslims and I am sorry I have inate distrust for all of them and I could be wrong but I am staying with my opinion. This is not a Muslim country and I do not bow to Muslim kings. This country was founded on christian principles they should respect our beliefs.
Great point wanda, We have to stand up and voice our thought and opinions, for far to long Christians have side step and there for world thinks that we are door matt of some sort. again great point and I for one agree with you 100%
PS
hello Brenda Bowers hope all is well with you.
wdednh, All is well with me, or getting better after my recent operation. My doctor once told me that after age 40 we humans do not ever “get well” we just “get better”.. At 68 I “get better” very slowly however
BB
I feel very sorry for you. You are sad, ignorant and very mistaken. You should get educated by something other then American Cable Media. I just feel so very sorry you. Everyday Muslims are not in the news. The are millions and millions of amazing people that happen to be Muslim and live amongst us everyday.
Rebekah the beauty of living in America is everyone is entitled to their opinion. I have two sons in the middle east and let me tell you islam is not peaceful. I do not live in a muslim country I live in a christian catholic jewish country simple as that. I also have a daughter in law who lived in syria and they converted to christianity the whole family had to escape the country thanks to the Canadians. I do not feel badly regarding the way I think so dont feel sorry for me,my family has suffered due to them. I feel you are one of the lethargic ones until you or family is murdered by them. I feel sorry for you
Yes, Rebekah, I am aware of these everyday Muslims who live among us. I have seen them in action. Greensboro, NC is a fairly quiet city with a relatively small Muslim population. When the uprising over the Mohammad cartoon was causing riots all over the world we wondered what could be so bad as to cause that kind of outcry. many newspapers thru out the world and the United States refused to print the cartoon. Our local newspaper refused to print it in fact. But one of our weekly newspapers did print the cartoon in question and we were amazed at all the fuss! A bearded face with wearing a turban with a stick of dynamite sticking out of it. We were flabbergasted that so many people could take offense at something so silly.
Then the local Muslim population became outraged and damned the editor of the weekly who had published the cartoon and put it on his web site. These people claim to be good neighbors and good citizen but they wanted our freedom speech censored. Of course there are nastier by far depictions of Christ every day in Muslim papers, but that is different.
So Rebekah it is I who feel sorry for you. Anyone who believes in a God who would encouraged old men to rape young girls and even babies are a despicable people. Not even animals rape their young! Muslims are giving nothing to the world but hate and death and terror. The vast majority of them thru out the world live in ignorance and filth and decay. The Arab Muslim in Palestine have the same land as the Jews and the same amount of money has been pored into Gaza and the West Bank but Israel is a garden of Eden and a thriving country of commerce and education and culture, whereas Gaza and the West Bank are putrid slums full of masses of humans who can do nothing but reproduce like rabbits and hate. What ever the majority of Muslims touch in any nations in which they reside is corrupted because of the way they believe.
Read your Koran Rebekah and then tell me how yours is a God of love. I have read it and studied it closely for any signs of humanity and could find none. I only hope that little girl who found Jesus and ran off to Florida is not returned to her parents because she will surely be killed in an “honor” killing by a people who have no honor. Brenda Bowers
Thank you Wanda for your comments. You are far kinder than I have been in your reply to Rebekah. But then I learned early about these people, these haters and killers whose God demands that they be less than human. I had a Muslim roommate in college. She was a lovely, wonderful and very intelligent young lady. She wanted to become a doctor so she could work among the very poor in her country. She told me much about the poverty and ignorance and how amazed she was by America and Americans. First, how happy we were as a people. And the freedom to live and grow and be what we as individuals wanted to be.
Her father called her home after her sophomore year he said for the summer. She never returned to school. I wrote several letters because I could not believe she had just forgotten our friendship and her last letter to me was my so much like my friend. After several letters I received letter from her mother begging me never to write again because my letters angered her husband. My friend had been the victim of an “honor killing” by her brother with her fathers consent because she had “dishonored the family” while in America. The mother had two younger daughters and she was afraid for their lives if my letters continued to anger the men in the family.
I have no idea what she was supposed to have done. She never did anything but go to class and study. She was a shy lovely kind wonderful person. Her brother killed her because his God thru the Koran told him he had that right. And what is so terrible about this story is that these were wealthy and educated Arab Muslim!
This was my first experience with Islam, but not my last. It has been almost fifty years since this happened and I have spent this time learning about these people. I do not hate them just as I would never hate a jackal. I merely feel contempt and know the world would be far better off without them. BB
If you want more information on Islam and Muslims Look at Category: Muslims.
My feelings for these people has not been misplaced, nor is it far off the mark. BB
I am always amazed by the comments from passionate Muslims who rail against criticism of Islam and its Qur’an.
The mere act of stating facts about the teachings of the Qur’an preached by their own Imams sends your average Muslim into a fit of outrage while citing passages of Muhammad to damn you, your mother, your soul and your country in a whirlwind of flying slobber.
Have you ever noticed that whenever Islamic fascists protest a movie, a cartoon, a story in the press or a social event in a given country which attempts to illuminate how the Qur’an advocates, encourages and blesses violence and murder of non-believers or transgressors against Islam, the radical Muslim resorts to violence, death threats, murder, bombings, beheadings, etc., in the name of Islam as a way of protest? Whenever Muslims do this they are reinforcing the very point of the story, cartoon, movie, etc. And isn’t it “funny” how we have to apply the term “Moderate Muslim” to define the rest of the Muslims? The term shouldn’t have to exist in the first place.
When they complain about the West and civilized societies which make “sweeping insinuations that the entire Islamic community and every Muslim is at war with the rest of the world”, they demonstrate an inability to look inward into their own community and to question their religious leaders who conjure up whole armies of martyrs using the teachings from the Qur’an, preaching death to the West and non-believers in general.
It is the general belief the West see Muslims as still believing The Crusades never ended. It is up to them to challenge their leadership to abandon these teachings which debase women, hurl insults and threaten the lives of non-believers, teaches revenge, advocates the punishment of those who will not convert to Islam, to kill those who turn away from Islam to adopt other religions, teach that Jews are monkeys and Christians are pigs.
These teachings are what create the perceived characteristics and nature of the Muslim community in general and specifically, Islam and Muhammad which are held by most in the West.
It isn’t their fault when they turn to the Qur’an to learn about the religion and to further understand Muslims and read passages like these.
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Sura 3.85:
And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers.
Lesson : No other religion other than Islam is to be tolerated
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Sura 5.51:
O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
Lesson : Do not befriend Jews, Christians…
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Sura 3 – Al-E-Imran (MADINA) : Verse 140
If a wound (and killing) has touched you, be sure a similar wound (and killing) has touched the others. And so are the days (good and not so good), We give to men by turns, that Allâh may test those who believe, and that He may take martyrs from among you. And Allâh likes not the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong¬doers).
Lesson : teaches revenge
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Sura 8.12:
When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.
Lesson : Kill disbelievers
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Sura 9.123:
O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).
Lesson : Fight disbelievers
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Sura 9.123:
O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).
Lesson : Kill disbelievers
Very nice.
If the Muslim community is tired of being “misunderstood” they need to stand up and demand better leadership which doesn’t turn the Qur’an against them with its vile and hate-filled crap.
Any religion which espouses or advocates the dismemberment or beheading or killing as punishment or advocates honor killings is basically, fundamentally flawed to its very core.
The stories we read in the press, like the ones below, are messages which come from your own people who have stolen your religion from you and turn it against you. Do not whine to the West because we are taught this by your leadership while you stand idle in your shoes.
http://onislamicfascism.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/report-non-muslims-deserve-to-be-punished/
http://onislamicfascism.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/he-just-wanted-to-change-islams-image/
Either get involved and take your religion back and prove to the world it is as peaceful as you claim or simply sit down and shut up as you have lost your moral ground to voice a single complaint.
“It falls upon the Muslim leadership to tear out the hateful verses from the Quran. Muslims want you to make way for Islam, but Islam does not make way for you. The Government insists that you respect Islam but Islam has no repesct for you. Islam wants to rule, submit, and seeks to destroy our western civilization. In 1945, Nazism was defeated in Europe. In 1989, communism was defeated in Europe. Now, the islamic ideology must be defeated. Stop Islamisation. Defend freedom.” – Fitna
Agreed Ben. i simply can not understand how any human being can follow a religion that calls for killing and hating. It is just beyond me. These people who say Islam is a religion of peace are not reading their own holy book or are wilfully disregarding a large portion of that book. BB