Maxtrue, in his impassioned defense of Islam, doesn't quite live up to his name.
Perhaps "MaxPropaganda" or "MaxGullible" or "MaxUsefulIdiotDhimmi" or "MaxPoliticalCorrectness" or "MaxLogicalFallacies" -- though not as eloquent -- would be more accurate (and less tragically-ironic).
He
observes:
your analogy is ludicrous. Hitler wasn't governed by a religious doctrine but by HIS false interpretation of reality and history. He exploited national greivences following the defeat in WW1 and directed them towards Jews and his neighbors who he claimed either took German land or imposed unfair terms of surrender.
Muhammad was governed -- or rather, governed others -- by "HIS false interpretation of reality and history." He exploited Man's vilest impulses and directed them at Jews, Christians, the rest of the non-Muslim world, apostates, women, and little girls.
What do you know about the "religious" doctrines of Islam?
Are you going to plead, "But I have a Muslim dentist, and he's a real nice guy"? Or, as Hugh Hewitt told Brad Thor recently, "I did a special on so-and-so and interviewed typically-good-natured-erudite-and-charming-moderate-Muslim-what's-his-name? and he asked, 'When are you going to give us our due?'" implying that you can define Islam by its apostates.
By what was Hitler governed? What did he seek to accomplish? Who were his allies in that effort?
Hitler sought total domination, the eradication of the Jews, and it was Hitler's mufti, not Hitlers' Pope.
Here's your buddy Muhammad's desire for total domination:
"Say to the Unbelievers, if (now) they desist (from Unbelief), their past would be forgiven them; but if they persist, the punishment of those before them is already (a matter of warning for them). And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone (in the whole of the world). But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do" (Qur'an 8:38; ayah 39 from Noble Qur'an).
Here's his desire to eradicate the Jews:
"Allah's Apostle said, 'The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him"'" (Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177).
". . . We were (sitting) in the mosque when the Messenger of Allah . . . came to us and said: (Let us) go to the Jews. We went out with him until we came to them. The Messenger of Allah . . . stood up and called out to them (saying): O ye assembly of Jews, accept Islam (and) you will be safe.
[. . .]
"he killed their men, and distributed their women, children and properties among the Muslims, except that some of them had joined the Messenger of Allah . . . who granted them security. They embraced Islam. The Messenger of Allah . . . turned out all the Jews of Medlina. Banu Qainuqa' (the tribe of 'Abdullah b. Salim) and the Jews of Banu Haritha and every other Jew who was in Medina.
[. . .]
"It has been narrated by 'Umar b. al-Khattib that he heard the Messenger of Allah . . . say: I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim" (Muslim Book 19, Number 4363-4366)."
Maxtrue continues:
There is not one dictator directing more than a billion Muslims, nor do Islamic despots even have clear control of their populations as Hitler did. We see tonight not "death to Israel" but "death to Russia" and "death to China" on the streets of Tehran. Neda who many Muslims have made the poster girl of resistance was wearing a cross when she died.
Muhammad and his allah "direct [potentially] more than a billion Muslims."
What do they command? Nothing less than slavery and death for those who refuse the "invitation" to Islam:
"the Messenger of Allah . . . would say: 'Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war. . . . When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. . . . Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them. . . . If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them . . .'" (Muslim Book 19, Number 4294).
"fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war) . . . " (Qur’an 9:5).
"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued" (Qur'an 9:29).
"Allah's Apostle said: 'I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle . . . '" (Bukhari Volume 1, Book 2, Number 24).
And those people protesting in Iran do so with various goals in mind. Many of them protest against the Islamic rule that you (apparently unknowingly) defend here.
With regard to Neda Soltani, were you aware that media had removed the cross from photos of her?
Why is that, I wonder?
Max adds:
What Muslim nation poses such enormous risk to the Western world as Hitler did?
9/11.
7/7.
3/11.
Mumbai, repeatedly.
Constantinople, 1453.
Gates of Vienna, 1683.
The Battle of Tours, 732.Iran with a nuke.
Jihadists gain control of Pakistan's nukes.Threat? What threat?Who's killed more American civilians, Hitler or Muhammad?
Muslims obeying Allah's commands and his prophet's example to wage war against "those who disbelieve" took more American civilian lives in one morning than Hitler could in four years.
And that Tuesday was only one morning's work.
Devout Muslims emulating Muhammad's example have carried out nearly 14,000 terrorist attacks
since 9/11 alone.
Do you honestly think that the US, Russia and China are no match for Iran, HIzb'Allah or Hamas? Your comparisons while couched in selective history completely ignore the historical differences between Germany and a Greater Islam. Certainly Jews would prefer the Muslim Spain they experiance to the Catholic one they were thrown out of.
Such a conclusion shows your ignorance of dhimma and what Jews endured under your "Islamic Golden Age."
You've been propagandized, Max, and
you don't even know it.
Here's what one of those lucky Jews had to say about
legendary (literally) Islamic tolerance in glorious Al-Andalus:
“Remember, my coreligionists, that on account of the vast number of our sins, God has hurled us in the midst of this people, the Arabs [Muslims], who have persecuted us severely, and passed baneful and discriminatory legislation against us … Never did a nation molest, degrade, debase, and hate us as much as they….”
-Maimonides, victim of Islam in conquered Spain
Here begins the flood of Max's logical fallacies:
Are you trying to tell us that more than 1 million Muslim Israelis embrace your literal interpretation of the Koran?
And what about the Old Testament? Are you suggesting that Jews around the world accept a literal interpretation of the Old Testament? Are jews of a singular mind? Ultra Orthodox Jews are against Israel whereas some Jews are for a greater Israel.
A
straw man and
red herring: I've never mentioned what "1 million Muslim Israelis embrace" nor what "Jews around the world accept."
Argumentum ad hominem: It's not "
my literal interpretation" of Islam's "sacred" texts that matter. It's how Muslims have interpreted them traditionally, which is,
literally, the way Muhammad intended.
Where have I claimed that anyone is of a "singular mind"?
I focus on the Source and Sustenance of nearly one and one-half millennia of global jihad, which is the word of Allah and the example of Muhammad. When I mention individual Muslims from history or current events it is to illustrate Muslim obedience to those dictates and emulation of that example.
And you can't analyze Islam as you would analyze Judaism, for they are directed by diametrically-opposed moral standards.
Max continues with a stunningly ignorant -- and
false --
moral equivalence:
Do you accept the literal interpretation of the New Testament? And if you do, why are you not as equal a threat to Jews as you say Muslims are?
Perhaps because Jesus commanded, "Love your neighbor as yourself" (every person is my "neighbor"), "Treat others the way you want to be treated," and, "Love your enemies."
On the other hand, Allah says:
"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued" (Qur'an 9:29).
So, it's not
me saying "Muslims are a threat to Jews" . . .
it's Muhammad.
Here comes utter cluelessness, bad logic, and an outright lie:
How many Muslim nations help us in our struggle with radical Islam? How many Muslims serve in our military forces and don’t you insult them by characterizing them falsely?
Where have I "characterized falsely" Muslims in our military?Paper is not people. Texts are not human beings.You're lying. Retract it.Which Muslim nations actually "help" us? Saudi Arabia, whose royals fund "radical" Islam here and abroad and supported the 9/11 attack? Pakistan, which takes our money gleefully while falling to shari'a? Iraq, whose prime minister celebrated our departure as a "victory"?
Some friends you've got there, Max.
Here's a false
tu quoque:
And what slaughter was carried out in the name of Jesus or by communist regimes? Did they not kill, rape and murder far more human beings than all killed by Muslims?
Speaking of "peddling nonsense under the pretense of a lecturing historian"!
No Christian ever murdered, raped, or enslaved
in obedience to Christ's commands, only
in violation of them, proving themselves criminals.
Communism has slaughtered scores of millions, but only in the last century.
On the other hand, in obedience to Allah's command and in emulation of Muhammad's example, Islam has been enslaving, raping, and butchering non-Muslims, apostates, women, and little girls for nearly one and one-half millennia.
Here's another false
moral equivalence from Max:
Again, shall I quote for you from the Bible?
Please do.
I guarantee you'll find no command from Christ (or Moses) to enslave, rape, or slaughter those who refuse the "invitation" to Christianity (or Judaism).
It is one thing to say that the literal interpretation of the Koran is used by radicals to promote jihadist thinking, but quite another in extending such thought to all of Islam thus proving to the critical "moderates" that Westerners are just as crazed as Islamic radicals.
Where have I tried to "extend such thought to all of Islam"? The texts say what they say. Muhammad did what he did. His followers conquered, enslaved, raped, brutalized, and butchered whomever they could. Do you know nothing of the spread of Islam?
Talk to the more than ninety-percent of official Islam which upholds offensive jihad against non-Muslims to make the world Islam.
More historical illiteracy from Max:
You prove to them an equivalency of ideology when the way we will eventual triumph against radicalism is not by killing a billion Muslims, but through reformation.
How are you going to "reform a billion Muslims"?
What are you waiting for? You'd better get started!Quoting their own texts does not "prove an equivalency of ideology."
Neither did I say, "kill a billion Muslims." Do you lie habitually?
If you're referring to the European "Reformation," that was a
return to obedience (more or less, depending on the confession) to the Biblical texts.
You
are seeing a comparable Islamic "reformation" in those Muslims who seek to obey Allah's commands to convert, subjugate and humiliate, or slaughter the non-Muslim world.
And what do you do with the fact that in the Islam Mr. Obama demands we respect, no major school of Sunni jurisprudence (nor Shi'ite) rejects offensive warfare against the non-Muslim world?
Another
ad hominem, this time in the form of guilt-by-association:
And your remarks on Hitler are astounding given the apparent alliance between many on your flank with neo-Nazis.
You have no apparent moral reservations about committing libel.At least you imply (accidentally!) that I despise Hitler.You're lying again. Retract it, if you have any integrity.My comments about Hitler are "astounding" only to the ignorant and the malicious, for I hate tyranny from wherever it comes, whether from a twentieth-century psychotic anti-Semite, or
a seventh-century one.
A silly non sequitur from Max:
Do you believe all who do not accept Jesus Christ are going to Hell? Do you believe that woman was created from the rib of Adam? Do you believe Homosexuals sin? Do you believe Jews killed Christ? Why cannot Muslims ask this of Christians? Why cannot Muslims ask if YOU see them as heathens regardless of Jihad?
I am happy to address everyone's theological questions, since I desire all people to trust in Christ for their salvation.
For the purposes of this discussion, I am concerned less about what Muslims wonder is going on
in my head than what they believe their god and prophet require them to do
with my head.
You do realize Muhammad commanded beheading non-Muslims for as little as "mischief," right?
And this is the worst part. Your mindset so angers centrist Westerners like myself, you divide the consensus needed to address the real threat which is the ability of radicals to exploit the Koran in an effort to extend THEIR hegemony. In this struggle we unquestionably need the many moderate Muslims on our side.
Yes, fairy tales are much more effective in winning wars.Which "mindset," telling the truth? If that's so, then you've got bigger problems than the ramblings of a "lecturing nonsense peddler."
Your ignorance of Islamic doctrine and historical practice retards our efforts at self-defense, for you accept unquestioningly the existence of "many moderate Muslims on our side."
Let's suppose for the sake of argument that your numbers are correct ("many") and that they truly are "on our side." How do those "many" moderates convince their coreligionists-in-doubt that theirs is the "true" Islam when the "radicals" can point to what Muhammad actually said and did?
If the texts say, "demand the jizya . . . subdue . . . kill . . . until all religion is for Allah," then how are the radicals "exploiting" Qur'an? Aren't they just
reading it?
Your thinking and declarations are counterproductive as you move from reasonable threat assessment of the spread of radicalism into extremism that denies the reality of hundreds of millions of Muslims seeking no Jihad, no death to infidels.
They're not
my declarations, they're
Allah and Muhammad's.
You are confusing what Muhammad said and did for what Muslims say and do.
Are you unable to make that simple distinction?
How does confusing the underlying ideology of jihad for those who do not adhere to it help us?Here comes another tired ad hominem. It seems as though Max is reading from
Islamic Apologetics for Dhimmis:
Perhaps you should get out more and see the world. Instead you point to unquestionable Islamic militancy and then spin it to impose your simplistic dialectic on history rather than see history for what it is. How do you explain that the world has more liberty today than it did a thousand years ago? Are you really claiming that human nature does not conspire to be free?
Anyone who can read will see that I've not "pointed to unquestionable Islamic militancy," but the words and works of Muhammad and his allah.
You're not calling Muhammad an "unquestionable Islamic militant," are you?
What are you, some kind of Islamophobe?
Or perhaps you're just unable to admit what your lyin' eyes are telling you when you read those texts.
As for human liberty? It is true that people want freedom for themselves.
Their neighbors? Not so much.
More often than not, they desire power over their fellows. Even in Ancient Greece, only some men were free.
The Liberty that the world enjoys today is the direct result of the teachings of Christ as embodied in the Declaration of Independence and of the courage and self-sacrifice of the American soldier, Marine, sailor, and airman.
Our Founding Fathers were nearly all orthodox Christians; even Thomas Jefferson -- often brought up as a contrary example -- confessed that he preferred Christ's teachings to all others.
He stated:
"The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind."
-Thomas Jefferson to Moses Robinson, 1801
