Dean Barnett filled in for Hugh Hewitt on his radio program today.
I agree with his and his callers' reluctance to paint with too broad a brush while trying to correctly identify our enemy in the GWoT.
However, courtesy that obscures the truth -- especially in a time of war -- is no virtue. In this case, it is costing (and will cost) too high a price in American blood and treasure.
What is this lie? The assertion made by President Bush and other apologists for Jihad that Islam is a "Religion of Peace" and that a "tiny minority of radical, extremist, fundamentalist Islamo-fascists" have "hijacked" that "great world religion."
Nearly fourteen hundred years of Islamic theology, jurisprudence, and history demonstrate the terms "Radical Islam" to be misleading and "Genocidal Islam" to be redundant. And neither are those who would murder the innocent in service to Allah and those who support them a "tiny minority."
"Radical Islam" implies that "normal" Islam is as innocuous as any other major religion. It is not. It is more accurate to describe the doctrine and practice of truly "moderate" Muslims as "Apostate," "Liberal," or "Figurative" Islam.
Islam's "sacred" texts (Qur'an, Sira, and Hadith) make clear that the will of Allah and the example of Mohammed (described by his god in Qur'an as a "beautiful pattern of conduct") require the fighting against, subduing and humiliating, and killing of non-Muslims to establish the tyranny of Allah over all Mankind.
Mohammed commanded:
I agree with his and his callers' reluctance to paint with too broad a brush while trying to correctly identify our enemy in the GWoT.
However, courtesy that obscures the truth -- especially in a time of war -- is no virtue. In this case, it is costing (and will cost) too high a price in American blood and treasure.
What is this lie? The assertion made by President Bush and other apologists for Jihad that Islam is a "Religion of Peace" and that a "tiny minority of radical, extremist, fundamentalist Islamo-fascists" have "hijacked" that "great world religion."
Nearly fourteen hundred years of Islamic theology, jurisprudence, and history demonstrate the terms "Radical Islam" to be misleading and "Genocidal Islam" to be redundant. And neither are those who would murder the innocent in service to Allah and those who support them a "tiny minority."
"Radical Islam" implies that "normal" Islam is as innocuous as any other major religion. It is not. It is more accurate to describe the doctrine and practice of truly "moderate" Muslims as "Apostate," "Liberal," or "Figurative" Islam.
Islam's "sacred" texts (Qur'an, Sira, and Hadith) make clear that the will of Allah and the example of Mohammed (described by his god in Qur'an as a "beautiful pattern of conduct") require the fighting against, subduing and humiliating, and killing of non-Muslims to establish the tyranny of Allah over all Mankind.
Mohammed commanded:
". . . kill the unbelievers wherever you find them.""When you meet the Unbelievers, invite them to Islam . . . if they refuse, offer them to pay the jizya . . . if they refuse that, then fight.""Fight until all religion is for Allah."
The founder of the Religion of Tolerance also confessed: "I have been ordered to fight against the people until they confess that no one has the right to be worshiped but Allah and Mohammed is his apostle," and, "I have been made victorious with terror."
These are not fabrications from Islamophobic racists. These are the very words of Mohammed, considered the Ideal Man in Islam. He is the one whose command is to be obeyed and example is to be followed by the faithful Muslim under all circumstances.
"Radical Islam," "Islamofascism," "Islamic Extremism," "Genocidal Islam," and the rest are all just Western Infidel misnomers for Islam, which requires the use of any means necessary -- including offensive warfare against Infidels, even genocide -- to subjugate all men under Shari'a.
We are only in the latest phase of the ancient War of Self-Defense Against the Malevolence of Allah.
These are not fabrications from Islamophobic racists. These are the very words of Mohammed, considered the Ideal Man in Islam. He is the one whose command is to be obeyed and example is to be followed by the faithful Muslim under all circumstances.
"Radical Islam," "Islamofascism," "Islamic Extremism," "Genocidal Islam," and the rest are all just Western Infidel misnomers for Islam, which requires the use of any means necessary -- including offensive warfare against Infidels, even genocide -- to subjugate all men under Shari'a.
We are only in the latest phase of the ancient War of Self-Defense Against the Malevolence of Allah.