Weekly Think Piece ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Seeing the Threat of Islam is Not New
If you take a short romp through history you'll see the realization that Islam is
a threat to civilization is not new. Check out these quotes.
Lord Tebbit
"The Muslim religion is so unreformed
since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real
advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500
years"
Vernon Richards
"The true Islamic concept of peace goes
something like this: "Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his
concept of Allah" (i.e. Islam). As such the Islamic concept of peace,
meaning making the whole world Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was
inevitable and unavoidable that the conflict would eventually reach our
borders, and so it has."
Andre Servier
"Islam was not a torch, as has been claimed,
but an extinguisher. Conceived in a barbarous brain for the use of a barbarous
people, it was - and it remains - incapable of adapting itself to civilization.
Wherever it has dominated, it has broken the impulse towards progress and
checked the evolution of society."
Winston Churchill
"The religion of Islam above all others was
founded upon the sword ... Moreover it provides incentives to slaughter, and in
three continents has produced fighting breeds of men - filled with a wild and
merciless fanaticism".
John Quincy Adams
"The precept of the Koran is, perpetual
war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished
may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be
appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of
the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command
to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be
made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud,
or by force".
John Wesley
"Ever since the religion of Islam
appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to
all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws,
and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from
the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were
once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once
numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at
this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human
kind".
Hilaire Belloc
"Will not perhaps the temporal power of
Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will
shake off the domination of Europeans -- still nominally Christian -- and
reappear as the prime enemy of our civilization? The future always comes as a
surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial
judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe
that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam".
Bishop Fulton J Sheen
"Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem
countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself.
Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave
danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace
that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm
itself as a great anti-Christian world Power".
William Eaton, US Consul to Tunis, wrote
in 1799:
"Considered as a nation, they are
deplorably wretched, because they have no property in the soil to inspire an
ambition to cultivate it. They are abject slaves to the despotism of their
government, and they are humiliated by tyranny, the worst of all tyrannies, the
despotism of priestcraft. They live in more solemn fear of the frowns of a
bigot who has been dead and rotten above a thousand years, than of the living
despot whose frown would cost them their lives...The ignorance, superstitious
tradition and civil and religious tyranny, which depress the human mind here,
exclude improvement of every kind..."
Ayatollah Khomeini
"Islam makes it incumbent on all adult
males, provided they are not disabled and incapacitated, to prepare themselves
for the conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in
every country in the world. But those who study Islamic Holy War will
understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world.... Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all!
Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the
unbelievers] Islam says Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and
scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims]
overcome us Islam says Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill
you! Does this mean that we should surrender to the enemy Islam says Whatever
good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People
cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for Holy Warriors!
There are hundreds of other [Koranic] verses and Hadiths [sayings of the
Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that
Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war I spit upon those foolish
souls who make such a claim."
These men saw something then that we are just beginning to see now. We should heed their counsel.
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