Friday, March 17

Misrepresenting the messenger

When presenting Islam's "sacred" texts and history to a non-Muslim, their reaction is often one of disbelief (followed by ad hominem attacks). Too many in the West are ignorant of what Allah and his (false) prophet command and practiced, and when confronted by the truth remain inexplicably unwilling to admit it.

Unfortunately, many more days like 9/11, 3/11, and 7/7 will come when it will be impossible to ignore or deny any longer that Allah requires the fighting against, subduing and humiliating, and killing of non-Muslims to make the world Islam.

Eviscerating more willful Infidel ignorance and dispelling more "moderate" Muslim mythology, Spencer points out the falsehoods and poor reasoning in the New York Sun's review of Oriana Fallaci's The Force of Reason:
All right. Because Fallaci was offered champagne and a trip to Mecca by a Saudi, therefore moderate Islam exists? Stoll is confusing, or hoping we will confuse, laxity in Islamic observance with the existence of an actual Muslim group or tradition that does not teach Islamic supremacism and the subjugation of the infidel.

Of course there are millions of Muslims who don't follow the teachings of Islam to the letter. There is a spectrum of fervor and practice in Islam as there is in all religious traditions (and in every group of every kind, for that matter). They will never fight jihad. There are even some Muslims who oppose these ideas and would like to see them definitively rejected. But none of that changes the fact that jihadists today can point to teachings that are firmly rooted in the Qur'an and Sunnah to justify their actions.

The existence of moderate (or, in this case, simply lax) Muslims does not establish the existence of moderate Islam. There are eight madhahib, or schools of Islamic jurisprudence. Every one of them teaches that the Islamic social order, as delineated by Islamic law, must ultimately be imposed over the whole world, and that Muslims must fight for this. This will involve institutionalized discrimination against non-Muslims and women. I do not consider that a 'moderate' idea. The only Muslim groups that reject these ideas, such as, notably, the Ahmadiyyas, are reviled and persecuted as heretics by members of mainstream Muslim sects."