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From Salon (dated October 25, 2014) comes this stunner about the nature of Islam:
Yes, the tone of the essay is anti-religion. Any religion. But that Salon has actually published the ugly truth about Islam represents a paradigm shift.
And, yes, the Canadian Parliament gunman was obeying the literal word of Allah. Waiting for those hordes of "moderate Muslims" to make themselves known in a meaningful and very public way.
Meanwhile, the following, based upon the Koran, continues (Click directly on the image to enlarge it):
- Phil Jiminez Thinks Religion Should Not Be Given Deference
Artist Jiminez posted the following: Many friends believe religion is the root of much evil; one author thinks we should stop giving religion a free pass: http://t.co/3pzs4543dD — Phil Jimenez (@Philjimeneznyc) January 8, 2015 While the Salon article...
- Reformist Koran: Putting A Happy Face On Evil
A review of a new "reformist Quran", by Larry Houle. From Islam Watch: (This) book "Quran—A Reformist Translation" is nothing more then an attempt to put a happy face on evil. The problem is not with the English translations of the Koran but with Islam....
- The Sacred Blood Rituals Of The Mujahideen
From TruePeers at the Covenant Zone: Mujahideen fighting the coalition forces in Iraq have revived a long tradition of blood rituals, particularly Quranic verses that beckon holy warriors to smite the necks of unbelievers. The modern version of this...
- Mohammed's Revenge
Mohammed's early experiences attempting to spread his religion in the city of Mecca left him a bitter man. By the time his religion began to catch fire in Medina, he was intent on revenge against anyone who would dare "humiliate" him by rejecting...
- Sometimes You Just Gotta Love Your Enemies: The Koran Told Me To Do It Edition
The defense for British radical Islamist Abu Hamza is that his actions and calls for violence rest on the ideas in the Koran itself: COPIES of the Koran were handed to the jurors in the Abu Hamza trial yesterday as his defence argued that some of the...
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Paradigm Shift
...[W]hat of all those ISIS warriors unschooled in French semiotic analysis who take their holy book’s admonition to do violence literally? As they rampage and behead their way through Syria and Iraq, ISIS fighters know they have the Koran on their side – a book they believe to be inerrant and immutable, the final Word of God, and not at all “malleable.” Their holy book backs up jihad, suicide attacks (“martyrdom”), beheadings, even taking captive women as sex slaves. This is not surprising; after all, the prophet Muhammad was a warrior who spread Islam by the sword in a dark, turbulent time in history. (Christianity’s propagation had, in contrast, much to do with the Roman emperor Constantine’s fourth-century conversion and subsequent decriminalization of the faith.)Read the entire essay HERE. Worth your time.
Moreover, the razor-happy butchers of little girls’ clitorises and labia majora, the righteous wife-beaters, the stoners of adulterers, the shariah clerics denying women’s petitions for divorce from abusive husbands and awarding sons twice the inheritance allowed for daughters, all act with sanction from Islamic holy writ. It matters not a whit to the bloodied and battered victims of such savagery which lines from the Hadith or what verses from the Koran ordain the violence and injustice perpetrated against them, but one thing they do know: texts and belief in them have real-life consequences. And we should never forget that ISIS henchmen and executioners explicitly cite their faith in Islam as their motive....
Yes, the tone of the essay is anti-religion. Any religion. But that Salon has actually published the ugly truth about Islam represents a paradigm shift.
And, yes, the Canadian Parliament gunman was obeying the literal word of Allah. Waiting for those hordes of "moderate Muslims" to make themselves known in a meaningful and very public way.
Meanwhile, the following, based upon the Koran, continues (Click directly on the image to enlarge it):
- Phil Jiminez Thinks Religion Should Not Be Given Deference
Artist Jiminez posted the following: Many friends believe religion is the root of much evil; one author thinks we should stop giving religion a free pass: http://t.co/3pzs4543dD — Phil Jimenez (@Philjimeneznyc) January 8, 2015 While the Salon article...
- Reformist Koran: Putting A Happy Face On Evil
A review of a new "reformist Quran", by Larry Houle. From Islam Watch: (This) book "Quran—A Reformist Translation" is nothing more then an attempt to put a happy face on evil. The problem is not with the English translations of the Koran but with Islam....
- The Sacred Blood Rituals Of The Mujahideen
From TruePeers at the Covenant Zone: Mujahideen fighting the coalition forces in Iraq have revived a long tradition of blood rituals, particularly Quranic verses that beckon holy warriors to smite the necks of unbelievers. The modern version of this...
- Mohammed's Revenge
Mohammed's early experiences attempting to spread his religion in the city of Mecca left him a bitter man. By the time his religion began to catch fire in Medina, he was intent on revenge against anyone who would dare "humiliate" him by rejecting...
- Sometimes You Just Gotta Love Your Enemies: The Koran Told Me To Do It Edition
The defense for British radical Islamist Abu Hamza is that his actions and calls for violence rest on the ideas in the Koran itself: COPIES of the Koran were handed to the jurors in the Abu Hamza trial yesterday as his defence argued that some of the...