Have law-abiding citizens lost their constitutional rights?
This is a very interesting article. …….
By JIM BOWMAN
Times Guest Columnist
This incessant drumbeat, testing not just the will and knowledge of our people but also probing for a weakness in our constitutional guarantees, is really getting old.
In all likelihood, a successful usurpation of our constitutional rights continues to be thwarted by the word “inalienable.” Its definition resembles a traffic light stuck on red to those who would whimsically revise our blessings at birth.
Thomas Jefferson said it best in our Declaration of Independence when laying the foundation to our freedom with the words, “endowed by their Creator” (for emphasis, a capital C), “with certain inalienable rights …”
This distinction acknowledges that our individual rights, of which our Second Amendment is certainly one, are rights inherited at birth from our “Creator.” As such, they are above the corruptive machinery which is so characteristic of big government. Or, as Jefferson termed, above “the mischief of man.” This is the lesson to be studied by those so intent upon altering and ultimately erasing our blessings of freedom.
EPA Surrenders to NRA on Gun Control Issue
I see B.O.’s bullies, the EPA, have backed it down a notch from the lead ammunition scheme. They’re awfully busy implementing B.O.’s crap & tax system, so they’re probably just putting this scheme on the back burner for now.
Of course, like a kid caught stealing and lying, we’ll have to watch them CLOSELY so they don’t try to backdoor this in. You KNOW they will try.
EPA rejects attempt to regulate lead in bullets after NRA protests
By Paul Bedard
Posted: August 27, 2010
In a swift and unexpected decision, the Environmental Protection Agency today rejected a petition from environmental groups to ban the use of lead in bullets and shotgun shells, claiming it doesn’t have jurisdiction to weigh on the controversial Second Amendment issue. The decision came just hours after the Drudge Report posted stories from Washington Whispers and the Weekly Standard about how gun groups were fighting the lead bullet ban.
MEXICAN FEDERALES DESCEND UPON NY STREETS.
So. The Mexican Government, along with the United States Government, have decided they have the right to patrol our streets and are deployed in NY so they can protect the mexicans here in our country.
I wonder how long the New York Militia will allow them to stay.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/mexican_police_234.html
Meet George Soros. The Evil Puppetmaster
Comprehensive List of Problems With Obamacare. Repeal & Replace
On March 29, Rep. Peter Roskam announced open registration for Healthcare 218, a daily Twitter update chronicling the massive new costs, delays, hidden problems and bureaucratic hurdles the recently passed healthcare legislation imposes on American families. The educational course counts down the days until November 2, 2010 and highlights the urgent need to repeal this flawed healthcare legislation and replace it with meaningful reforms that actually bring down costs.
See Rep. Roskam’s floor speech below in which he opposes the ABC’s of PelosiCare: the Arrogant nature by which it was forced through the House and Senate; the Budget-Busting nature of its provisions and the Crippling of the economy that will occur as a result of its passage.
In urging passage of the Democrat health overhaul bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the American people, “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” The Healthcare 218 course will do just that, educating the public about what this $1 trillion legislation actually accomplishes: raising healthcare costs and taxes on the middle class, piling on to the national debt, and interfering with the doctor patient relationship.
QUOTES From the mouth of B.O., But It Didn’t/Doesn’t Matter.
Be sure to read the last one.
From Dreams of My Father: “I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”
From Dreams of My Father : “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”
From Dreams of My Father : “There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.”
From Dreams of My Father : ; “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
From Dreams of My Father : “I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.”
From Audacity of Hope: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
People said it didn’t/doesn’t matter…………….
When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist,
When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialists, sent null mother to a socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young null,
When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and step father were both Muslims,
When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
When he admittedly, in his book,said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college, people said it didn’t matter…
When he traveled to Pakistan , after college on an unknown national passport,
When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate,
When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology,
When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the “most liberal senator”,
When the Palestinians in Gaza , set up a fund raising telethon to raise money for his election campaign,
When his voting record supported gun control,
When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done,
When he received endorsements from people like Louis null and null null and Hugo null,
When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing,
When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and null null who were revolutionary radicals,
When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question,
When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry,
When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises,
When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance,
When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition
When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues,
When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination,
When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him,
When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate,
When he had an association in Chicago with Tony null, a man of questionable character,
who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home,
When it became known that George null, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected,
When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communist,
When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to “fundamentally transform this nation” into something else,
When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN,
When he appointed cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and socialist,
When he appointed a science czar, John null, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers,
When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in “Explicit Consent”, harvesting human organs with out family consent, and to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting,
When he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, Education network, as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers,
When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez,
When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama’s senior White House advisor and she is an avowed Socialist,
When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration,
When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well known socialist working on Cap and trade as the nations largest tax,
When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known,
When Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat,
When as president of the United States ,he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia ,
When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness,
When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel , our long time friend,
When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States ,
When he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians,
When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field Commanders said we had to have to win,
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When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off,
When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected,
When he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc.
When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government,
When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control,
When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States
through Cap and Trade,
When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State, people finally woke up…….. but it was too late.
Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter. But…. when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that our Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this, do an internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America ? Personally, I like happy endings.
If you are an Obama Supporter, please do not be angry with me because I think your president is a socialist. There are too many facts supporting this. If you seek the truth you will be richer for it. Don’t just belittle the opposition. Search for the truth. I did. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and what have you, we all need to pull together. We all must pull together or watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish. If you are a religious person, pray for our nation.
Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy. Don’t rely on most television news and what you read in the newspapers for the truth. Search the internet. Yes, there is a lot of bad information, lies and distortions there too but you are smart enough to spot the fallacies. Newspapers are a dying breed. They are currently seeking a bailout from the government. Do you really think they are about to print the truth? Obama praises all the television news networks except Fox who he has waged war against. There must be a reason. He does not call them down on any specifics, just a general battle against them. If they lie, he should call them out on it but he doesn’t. Please, find the truth, it will set you free.
Our biggest enemy is not China, Russia or Iran; no, our biggest enemy is a contingent of politicians in Washington DC and in State Capitols across this Nation.
27 Charges Against the Obama Administration to be Investigated
The Charges
Charges against the Obama Administration to be investigated:
- The Obama Administration committed fraud by issuing the following report as a true an attested production of the seven-member committee from the National Academy of Engineering on deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico: INCREASED SAFETY MEASURES FOR ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF on MAY 27, 2010 – Issued by Ken Salazar;
- The Obama Administration has knowingly, willfully, and with malice aforethought, circumvented the Constitution in particular, the Senate of the United States of America’s role to “Advise and Consent” on appointees referred to as “czars” or Presidential Advisors on at least 25 occasions;
- The Obama Administration has seized, or caused to be seized private assets without the consent of Congress or Due Process through the Judicial Branch. i.e. – AIG, General Motors, Chrysler, and others;
- The Obama Administration has committed bribery in garnering votes from Senators Landrieu of Louisiana, Nelson of Nebraska for the passage of H.R.3590 Title: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act;
- The Obama Administration has sealed, sequestered, or caused to be sealed and/or sequestered vital documents of Constitutional importance which are subject to public disclosure in express violation of 44 U.S.C. § 2201;
- The Obama Administration has knowingly, willfully, and with malice aforethought, accused the United States of America of wrong doing while on foreign soil;
- The Obama Administration has knowingly, willfully, and with malice aforethought, usurped or seeks to usurp the sovereignty of the several states along the border of Mexico, and the Gulf Coast;
- The Obama Administration has failed to secure the safety of United States citizens, their property, their livelihood, and their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness by not enforcing Federal Laws on illegal entry into the United States of America through its many borders and points of debarkation;
- The Obama Administration has committed several open and notorious acts of lying and making fraudulent statements to mislead the Congress and the citizens of the United States of America under color of authority;
- The Obama Administration has, by acts of omission, malfeasance, dereliction of duty, and onerous disregard for the safety of the United States of America, her citizens, and those legally residing in the country allowed enemies of the state to invade the country, causing death, mayhem, and gross property damage;
- The Obama Administration has, by acts of omission, malfeasance, dereliction of duty, and onerous disregard of the law, allowed foreign nationals to wrest the possession of Federal and private property from the citizens of the United States of America;
- The Obama Administration has knowingly, willfully, and with malice aforethought caused the property of citizens to be confiscated and then redistributed such property to others without due process, Congressional Enactment, or by order of a court;
- The Obama Administration has knowingly, willfully, and with malice aforethought sought to convey the sovereignty of the United States of America, in whole, or in part, to foreign entities and the United Nations;
- The Obama Administration has by acts of omission, malfeasance, dereliction of duty, and onerous disregard, caused the death, and/or injury of United States of America military personnel and allied forces of other nations;
- The Obama Administration has by acts of omission, malfeasance, dereliction of duty, and onerous disregard, caused or is attempting to cause the economy of the United States of America to decline precipitously;
- The Obama Administration has knowingly, willfully, and with malice aforethought, committed the citizens of the United States of America to unmanageable, unrecoverable debt to foreign entities;
- The Obama Administration has knowingly, willfully, and with malice aforethought, given aid and comfort to enemies of the United States of America by causing tax payer funds to be expended on behalf known terrorist organizations such as Hamas and others, and has caused said sworn enemies to be transported to the United States of America endangering her citizenry;
- The Obama Administration has feloniously interfered with local elections by offering goods in return for action by candidates in several states in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 595, and 18 U.S.C. § 600;
- The Obama Administration has caused to be created, a list of enemies, and has openly and notoriously slandered several United States Citizens, legal institutions, citizen groups, and law enforcement agencies;
- The Obama Administration has hired, and/or appointed tax evaders, felons, associates of enemies of the state, associates of known terrorists, and known supporters of communism to positions within the Federal government;
- The Obama Administration has by acts of omission, malfeasance, dereliction of duty, and onerous disregard, failed to enforce, through the Department of Justice, the laws regarding voter intimidation in the case of the Black Panthers in Philadelphia in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 594
- The Obama Administration has interfered with, promoted, and/or acted with willful and malignant force in the affairs of a foreign nation, and its political process; i.e – Kenya, Indonesia, Pakistan…et al
- The Obama Adminstration has knowingly, willfully, and with malice aforethought, provided information, omitted information, and/or mislead the American public in manner that invalidates any person’s security clearance, especially in the office now held;
- The Obama Administration, specifically the President of the United States has demonstrably, and without question, manifests psychological deficiencies that preclude him or anyone displaying such deficiencies and mental disorders of holding any security clearance what-so-ever. He is therefore unfit for duty;
- The Obama Administration has knowingly, willfully, and with malice aforethought, provided information, omitted information, and/or mislead the American public in the use of foreign passports, travel documents, and other Constitutionally important documents concerning foreign citizenship, foreign travel, and foreign allegiances;
- Mr. Obama, has employed the use of falsified documents, obtained false documents, employed deceptive measures to secure such, and has committed fraud of the American public. i.e. – Multiple Social Security Numbers, one of a person who died before he was born in Connecticut, passports, visas, employment records, financial disclosure statements, and other public domain documents;
- Mr. Obama is unfit for duty as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, and is unfit to hold clearance for state secrets.
The charges may also be downloaded in PDF format.
What Does Islam and the Qur’an Teach About Violence?
What does the “Religion of Peace “Teach About…
Violence?
Question:
Does the Qur’an really contain dozens of verses promoting violence?
Summary Answer:
The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called ‘hypocrites’ and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.
These verses are mostly open-ended, meaning that the historical context is not embedded within the surrounding text – as are nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence. They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of Allah, and just as relevant or subjective as anything else in the Qur’an.
Unfortunately, there are very few verses of tolerance and peace to abrogate or even balance out the many that call for nonbelievers to be fought and subdued until they either accept humiliation, convert to Islam, or are killed. This proclivity toward violence – and Muhammad’s own martial legacy – has left a trail of blood and tears across world history.
The Qur’an:
Qur’an (2:191-193) – “And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution [of Muslims] is worse than slaughter [of non-believers]…and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah.” There is a good case to be made that the textual context of this particular passage is defensive war, even if the historical context was not. However, there are also two worrisome pieces to this verse. The first is that the killing of others is authorized in the event of “persecution” (a qualification that is ambiguous at best). The second is that fighting may persist until “religion is for Allah.” The example set by Muhammad is not reassuring.
Qur’an (2:244) – “Then fight in the cause of Allah, and know that Allah Heareth and knoweth all things.”
Qur’an (2:216) – “Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.” Not only does this verse establish that violence can be virtuous, but it also contradicts the myth that fighting is intended only in self-defense, since the audience was obviously not under attack at the time. From the Hadith, we know that Muhammad was actually trying to motivate his people into raiding caravans with this verse.
Qur’an (3:56) – “As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help.”
Qur’an (3:151) – “Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority”. This speaks directly of polytheists, yet it also includes Christians, since they believe in the Trinity (ie. what Muhammad incorrectly believed to be ‘joining companions to Allah’).
Qur’an (4:74) – “Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.” The martyrs of Islam are unlike the early Christians, led meekly to the slaughter. These Muslims are killed in battle, as they attempt to inflict death and destruction for the cause of Allah. Here is the theological basis for today’s suicide bombers.
Qur’an (4:76) – “Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah…”
Qur’an (4:89) – “They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks.”
Qur’an (4:95) – “Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward,-” This passage criticizes “peaceful” Muslims who do not join in the violence, letting them know that they are less worthy in Allah’s eyes. It also demolishes the modern myth that “Jihad” doesn’t mean holy war in the Qur’an, but rather a spiritual struggle. Not only is the Arabic word used in this passage, but it is clearly not referring to anything spiritual, since the physically disabled are given exemption. (The Hadith reveals the context of the passage to be in response to a blind man’s protest that he is unable to engage in Jihad and this is reflected in other translations of the verse).
Qur’an (4:104) – “And be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy; if you suffer pain, then surely they (too) suffer pain as you suffer pain…” Is pursuing an injured and retreating enemy really an act of self-defense?
Qur’an (5:33) – “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement”
Qur’an (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them” No reasonable person would interpret this to mean a spiritual struggle.
Qur’an (8:15) – “O ye who believe! When ye meet those who disbelieve in battle, turn not your backs to them. (16)Whoso on that day turneth his back to them, unless maneuvering for battle or intent to join a company, he truly hath incurred wrath from Allah, and his habitation will be hell, a hapless journey’s end.”
Qur’an (8:39) – “And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah” From the historical context we know that the “persecution” spoken of here was simply the refusal by the Meccans to allow Muhammad to enter their city and perform the Haj. Other Muslims were able to travel there, just not as an armed group, since Muhammad declared war on Mecca prior to his eviction. The Meccans were also acting in defense of their religion, since it was Muhammad’s intention to destroy their idols and establish Islam by force (which he later did). Hence the critical part of this verse is to fight until “religion is only for Allah.” According to Ibn Ishaq (324), Muhammad justified the violence further by explaining that “Allah must have no rivals.”
Qur’an (8:57) – “If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember.”
Qur’an (8:59-60) – “And let not those who disbelieve suppose that they can outstrip (Allah’s Purpose). Lo! they cannot escape. Make ready for them all thou canst of (armed) force and of horses tethered, that thereby ye may dismay the enemy of Allah and your enemy.”
Qur’an (9:5) – “So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them.” According to this verse, the best way of staying safe from Muslim violence is to convert to Islam. Prayer (salat) and the poor tax (zakat) are among the religions Five Pillars.
Qur’an (9:14) – “Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace…”
Qur’an (9:20) – “Those who believe, and have left their homes and striven with their wealth and their lives in Allah’s way are of much greater worth in Allah’s sight. These are they who are triumphant.” The “striving” spoken of here is Jihad.
Qur’an (9:29) – “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.” “People of the Book” refers to Christians and Jews. This was one of the final “revelations” from Allah and it set in motion the tenacious military expansion, in which Muhammad’s companions managed to conquer two-thirds of the Christian world in just the next 100 years. Islam is intended to dominate all other people and faiths.
Qur’an (9:30) – “And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!”
Qur’an (9:38-39) – “O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place.” This is a warning to those who refuse to fight, that they will be punished with Hell.
Qur’an (9:41) – “Go forth, light-armed and heavy-armed, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the way of Allah! That is best for you if ye but knew.” See also the verse that follows (9:42) – “If there had been immediate gain (in sight), and the journey easy, they would (all) without doubt have followed thee, but the distance was long, (and weighed) on them” This contradicts the myth that Muslims are to fight only in self-defense, since the wording implies that battle will be waged a long distance from home (in another country and on Christian soil, in this case, according to the historians).
Qur’an (9:73) – “O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination.” Dehumanizing those who reject Islam, by reminding Muslims that they are merely firewood for Hell, makes it easier to justify slaughter. It also explains why today’s devout Muslims have little regard for those outside the faith.
Qur’an (9:88) – “But the Messenger, and those who believe with him, strive and fight with their wealth and their persons: for them are (all) good things: and it is they who will prosper.”
Qur’an (9:111) – “Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur’an: and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme.”
Qur’an (9:123) – “O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness.”
Qur’an (8:65-81) – This parable lays the theological groundwork for honor killings, in which a family member is murdered because they brought shame to the family, either through apostasy or perceived moral indiscretion. The story, which is not found in any Jewish or Christian source, tells of Moses encountering a man with “special knowledge” who does things which don’t seem to make sense on the surface, but are then justified according to later explanation. One such action is to murder a youth for no apparent reason (74). However, the wise man later explains that it was feared that the boy would “grieve” his parents by “disobedience and ingratitude.” He was killed so that Allah could provide them a ‘better’ son.
Qur’an (21:44) – “We gave the good things of this life to these men and their fathers until the period grew long for them; See they not that We gradually reduce the land (in their control) from its outlying borders? Is it then they who will win?”
Qur’an (25:52) – “Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness, with the (Qur’an).” “Strive against” is Jihad – obviously not in the personal context. It’s also significant to point out that this is a Meccan verse.
Qur’an (47:4) – “So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners,”
Qur’an (47:35) – “Be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace, when ye should be uppermost (Shakir: “have the upper hand”) for Allah is with you,” This very important verse asserts that the Religion of Peace is not to grant peace to the broader society until Islamic rule has been established.
Qur’an (48:17) – “There is no blame for the blind, nor is there blame for the lame, nor is there blame for the sick (that they go not forth to war). And whoso obeyeth Allah and His messenger, He will make him enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; and whoso turneth back, him will He punish with a painful doom.” Contemporary apologists sometimes claim that Jihad means ‘spiritual struggle.’ Is so, then why are the blind, lame and sick exempted?
Qur’an (48:29) – “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves” Islam is not about treating everyone equally. There are two very distinct standards that are applied based on religious status.
Qur’an (61:4) – “Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way” Religion of Peace, indeed!
Qur’an (61:10-12) – “O ye who believe! Shall I lead you to a bargain that will save you from a grievous Penalty?- That ye believe in Allah and His Messenger, and that ye strive (your utmost) in the Cause of Allah, with your property and your persons: That will be best for you, if ye but knew! He will forgive you your sins, and admit you to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow, and to beautiful mansions in Gardens of Eternity.” This verse was given in battle. It uses the Arabic word, Jihad.
Qur’an (66:9) – “O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey’s end.” The root word of “Jihad” is used again here. The context is clearly holy war, and the scope of violence is broadened to include “hypocrites” – those who call themselves Muslims but do not act as such.
From the Hadith:
Bukhari (52:177) – 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 (52:256) – The Prophet… was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, “They (i.e. women and children) are from them (i.e. pagans).” In this command, Muhammad establishes that it is permissible to kill non-combatants in the process of killing a perceived enemy. This provides justification for the many Islamic terror bombings.
Bukhari (52:220) – Allah’s Apostle said… ‘I have been made victorious with terror’
Abu Dawud (14:2526) – The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Three things are the roots of faith: to refrain from (killing) a person who utters, “There is no god but Allah” and not to declare him unbeliever whatever sin he commits, and not to excommunicate him from Islam for his any action; and jihad will be performed continuously since the day Allah sent me as a prophet until the day the last member of my community will fight with the Dajjal (Antichrist)
Abu Dawud (14:2527) – The Prophet said: Striving in the path of Allah (jihad) is incumbent on you along with every ruler, whether he is pious or impious
Muslim (1:33) – the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah
Bukhari (8:387) – Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah
Muslim (1:149) – “Abu Dharr reported: I said: Messenger of Allah, which of the deeds is the best? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: Belief in Allah and Jihad in His cause…”
Muslim (20:4645) – “…He (the Messenger of Allah) did that and said: There is another act which elevates the position of a man in Paradise to a grade one hundred (higher), and the elevation between one grade and the other is equal to the height of the heaven from the earth. He (Abu Sa’id) said: What is that act? He replied: Jihad in the way of Allah! Jihad in the way of Allah!”
Muslim (20:4696) – “the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: ‘One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire (or determination) for Jihid died the death of a hypocrite.'”
Muslim (19:4321-4323) – Three separate hadith in which Muhammad shrugs over the news that innocent children were killed in a raid by his men against unbelievers. His response: “They are of them (meaning the enemy).”
Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, “Kill any Jew who falls under your power.” Ashraf was a poet, killed by Muhammad’s men because he insulted Islam. Here, Muhammad widens the scope of his orders to kill. An innocent Jewish businessman was then slain by his Muslim partner, merely for being non-Muslim.
Tabari 9:69 “Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us” The words of Muhammad, prophet of Islam.
Ibn Ishaq: 327 – “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”
Ibn Ishaq: 990 – Lest anyone think that cutting off someone’s head while screaming ‘Allah Akbar!’ is a modern custom, here is an account of that very practice under Muhammad, who seems to approve.
Ibn Ishaq: 992 – “Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah.” Muhammad’s instructions to his men prior to a military raid.
Additional Notes:
Other than the fact that Muslims haven’t killed every non-Muslim under their domain, there is very little else that they can point to as proof that theirs is a peaceful, tolerant religion. Few verses in the Qur’an can be construed to fit the contemporary virtues of religious tolerance and universal brotherhood. Those that do are earlier “Meccan” verses that are obviously abrogated by later ones. Small wonder that Muslim apologists spend a lot of time speaking of the “risks” of trying to interpret the Qur’an without their “assistance.”
Far from being mere history or theological construct, the violent verses of the Qur’an have played a key role in actual massacre and genocide. This includes the brutal slaughter of tens of millions of Hindus for five centuries beginning around 1000 AD with Mahmud of Ghazni’s bloody conquest, including the massacre of those who defending their temples from destruction. Buddhism was very nearly wiped off the Indian subcontinent. Judaism and Christianity met the same fate (albeit more slowly) in areas conquered by Muslim armies, including the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Europe, including today’s Turkey. Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of a proud Persian people is despised by Muslims and barely survives in modern Iran.
So ingrained is violence in the religion that Islam has never really stopped being at war, either with other religions or with itself.
Muhammad was a military leader, laying siege to towns, massacring the men, raping their women, enslaving their children, and taking what was once the property of others for his own. On several occasions he rejected offers of surrender from the besieged inhabitants and killed those whom he could take prisoner. He inspired his followers to battle even when they did not feel it was right to fight, promising them slaves and booty if they did and threatening them with Hell if they did not. Muhammad allowed his men to rape traumatized women captured in battle.
It is important to emphasize that Muslim armies waged aggressive campaigns, and it was the companions of Muhammad who made the most dramatic military gains in the decades following his death. The principle set in motion early on was that the civilian population of a town was to be destroyed (ie. men executed, women and children taken as slaves) if they defended themselves. Although modern Muslim apologists often claim that Islam only attacked in self-defense, this is not only an oxymoron, but it is flatly contradicted by the accounts of Muslim historians and others going back to the time of Muhammad.
Consider the example of the Qurayza Jews, who were completely wiped out only five years after Muhammad arrived in Medina. Their leader opted to stay neutral when their town was besieged by a Meccan army, sent to take revenge for Muhammad’s deadly caravan raids. The tribe killed no one from either side and even surrendered peacefully to Muhammad after the Meccans had been turned back. Yet the prophet of Islam had every male member of the Qurayza beheaded, and every woman and child enslaved, even raping one of the captives himself (what Muslim apologists call same day “marriage”).
Muhammad’s failure to leave a clear line of succession resulted in perpetual internal war following his death. Those who knew him best first fought to keep remote tribes from leaving Islam and reverting to their preferred religion (the Ridda or ‘Apostasy wars’). Then within the closer community, early Meccan converts battled later ones. Hostility developed between those immigrants who had traveled with Muhammad to Mecca and the Ansar at Medina who had helped them settle in. Finally there was a violent struggle within Muhammad’s own family between his favorite wife and favorite daughter – a jagged schism that has left Shias and Sunnis at each others’ throats to this day.
The strangest and most untrue thing that can be said about Islam is that it is a Religion of Peace. If every standard by which the West is judged and condemned (slavery, imperialism, intolerance, women’s rights, sexuality, warfare…) were applied equally to Islam, the verdict would be absolutely devastating. Islam never gives up what it conquers, be it religion, culture, language or life. Neither does it make apologies or any real effort at moral progress. It is the least open to dialogue and the most self-absorbed. It is convinced of its own perfection, yet brutally shuns self-examination and represses criticism.
This is what makes the verses of violence so dangerous. They are given the weight of divine command. While Muslim terrorists take them as literally as anything else in the Qur’an, and understand that Islam is incomplete without Jihad, moderates offer little to contradict them – outside of opinion. Indeed, what do they have? Speaking of peace and love may win over the ignorant, but when every twelfth verse of Islam’s holiest book either speaks to Allah’s hatred for non-Muslims or calls for their death, forced conversion, or subjugation, it’s little wonder that sympathy for terrorism runs as deeply as it does in the broader community – even if most Muslims personally prefer not to interpret their religion in this way.
In fact, many Muslims are simply unaware of the Qur’an’s near absence of verses that preach universal non-violence. This is because their understanding of Islam comes from what they are taught by others. In the West, it is typical for Muslims to come to believe that their religion must be like Christianity – preaching the New Testament virtues of peace, love, and tolerance – because Muslims are taught that Islam is supposed to be superior in every way. They are somewhat surprised and embarrassed to learn that the evidence of the Qur’an and the bloody history of Islam are very much in contradiction to this.
Others simply accept the violence. In 1991, a Palestinian couple in America was convicted of stabbing their daughter to death for being too Westernized. A family friend came to their defense, excoriating the jury for not understanding the “culture”, claiming that the father was merely following “the religion” and saying that the couple had to “discipline their daughter or lose respect.” (source).
For their part, Western liberals would do well not to sacrifice critical thinking on the altar of political correctness, or look for reasons to bring other religion down to the level of Islam merely to avoid the existential truth that this it is both different and dangerous.
There are just too many Muslims who take the Qur’an literally… and too many others who couldn’t care less about the violence done in the name of Islam.
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Obama Hauls Arizona Before the UN Human Rights Council
By: Ben Johnson, Floyd Reports
Apparently Barack Obama is not content to make a federal case out of his immigration feud with Arizona; he just made it an international one.
The president’s first-ever report on U.S. human rights to the UN Human Rights Council contains a rich vein of offensive material. So far, one aspect has not been reported: our petty president used the situation to bash Arizona’s immigration law — and possibly transfer jurisdiction over the law from Arizona to the UN. Throughout the report, which sounds like an Obama campaign speech, the president discusses “the original flaw” of the U.S. Constitution, America’s tolerance for slavery, and his version of our long and despicable history of discriminating against and oppressing minorities, women, homosexuals, and the handicapped. After each complaint, he addresses how he is delivering us from ourselves, patting himself on the back for such initiatives as ending “torture,” promoting Affirmative Action, and passing health care legislation.