ISLAM 101, Part 1: MUST READ AND PASS ON!
"... to examine Islam is to come to appreciate that it knows no separation of the secular and the religious; that it is, in fact, a system of government ordained by Allah to hold sway over the entire earth.
It is this fact that puts it in perpetual combat with the rest of the world..."
Islam 101
by Gregory M. Davis, PhD
by Gregory M. Davis, PhD
producer/director: Islam: What the West Needs to Know --
An Examination of Islam, Violence, and the Fate of the Non-Muslim World
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Islam is less a personal faith than a political ideology that exists in a fundamental and permanent state of war with non-Islamic civilizations, cultures, and individuals.
The Islamic holy texts outline a social, governmental, and economic system for all mankind. Those cultures and individuals who do not submit to Islamic governance (Islam means "submission" or "surrender," and a Muslim is "one who submits") exist in an ipso facto state of rebellion with Allah (God) and must be forcibly brought into submission. Islamic doctrine divides the world into two spheres locked in perpetual conflict, dar al-Islam and dar al-harb, or the "House of Islam" (where Islamic Law -- Sharia -- governs) and the "House of War" (where Sharia does not govern). It is upon the House of War that the House of Islam is enjoined by Allah to make war until such time that the former is permanently assimilated into the latter. The misbegotten term "Islamo-fascism" is wholly redundant: Islam itself is a kind of fascism that achieves its full and proper form only when it assumes the powers of the state.
The spectacular acts of Islamic terrorism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are but the most recent manifestation of a global war of conquest that Islam has been waging since the days of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th Century AD and that continues apace today. This is the simple, glaring truth that is staring the world today in the face -- and which has stared it in the face numerous times in the past -- but which it seems few today are willing to contemplate.
The chief barrier today to a better understanding of Islam -- apart, perhaps, from outright fear -- is sloppy language. Let us take, to start with, the much-vaunted "war on terror." Upon scrutiny, the phrase "war on terror" makes as much sense as a war on "blitzkrieg," "bullets," or "strategic bombing." The "war on terror" implies that it is perfectly fine if the enemy seeks to destroy us -- and, indeed, succeeds in doing so -- as long as he does not employ "terror" in the process.
"Terrorism," it should be obvious, is a tactic or stratagem used to advance a goal; it is the goal of Islamic terrorism that we must come to understand, and this logically requires an understanding of Islam. And
The spectacular acts of Islamic terrorism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are but the most recent manifestation of a global war of conquest that Islam has been waging since the days of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th Century AD and that continues apace today. This is the simple, glaring truth that is staring the world today in the face -- and which has stared it in the face numerous times in the past -- but which it seems few today are willing to contemplate.
The chief barrier today to a better understanding of Islam -- apart, perhaps, from outright fear -- is sloppy language. Let us take, to start with, the much-vaunted "war on terror." Upon scrutiny, the phrase "war on terror" makes as much sense as a war on "blitzkrieg," "bullets," or "strategic bombing." The "war on terror" implies that it is perfectly fine if the enemy seeks to destroy us -- and, indeed, succeeds in doing so -- as long as he does not employ "terror" in the process.
"Terrorism," it should be obvious, is a tactic or stratagem used to advance a goal; it is the goal of Islamic terrorism that we must come to understand, and this logically requires an understanding of Islam. And
READ IT ALL AND PASS IT ON!!!
posted by jillosophy at 3/14/2007 10:11:00 AM
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