Showing posts with label Jihad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jihad. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2008

A Letter to Mankind

Picture: Suicide Bomber


Dear fellow human,

Today humanity is being challenged. Unthinkable atrocities take place on daily basis. There is an evil force at work that aims to destroy us. The agents of this evil respect nothing; not even the lives of children. Every day there are bombings, every day innocent people are targeted and murdered. It seems as if we are helpless. But we are not!

The ancient Chinese sage Sun Zi said, "Know your enemy and you won't be defeated". Do we know our enemy? If we don't, then we are doomed.

Terrorism is not an ideology, it is a tool; but the terrorists kill for an ideology. They call that ideology Islam.

The entire world, both Muslims and non-Muslims claim that the terrorists have hijacked "the religion of peace" and Islam does not condone violence.

Who is right? Do the terrorists understand Islam better, or do those who decry them? The answer to this question is the key to our victory, and failure to find that key will result in our loss and death will be upon us. The key is in the Quran and the history of Islam.

Those of us, who know Islam, know that the understanding of the terrorists of Islam is correct. They are doing nothing that their prophet did not do and did not encourage his followers to do. Murder, rape, assassination, beheading, massacre and sacrilege of the dead "to delight the hearts of the believers" were all practiced by Muhammad, were taught by him and were observed by Muslims throughout their history.

If truth has ever mattered, it matters most now! This is the time that we have to call a spade a spade. This is the time that we have to find the root of the problem and eradicate it. The root of Islamic terrorism is Islam. The proof of that is the Quran.

We are a group of ex-Muslims who have seen the face of the evil and have risen to warn the world. No matter how painful the truth may be, only truth can set us free. Why this much denial? Why so much obstinacy? How many more innocent lives should be lost before YOU open your eyes?

We urge the Muslims to leave Islam. Stop with excuses, justifications and rationalizations. Stop dividing mankind into "us" vs. "them" and Muslims vs. Kafirs. We are One people, One mankind! Muhammad was not a messenger of God. It is time that we end this insanity and face the truth. The terrorists take their moral support and the validation for their actions from you. Your very adherence to their cult of death is a nod of approval for their crimes against humanity.

We also urge the non-Muslims to stop being politically correct lest they hurt the sensitivities of the Muslims. To Hell with their sensitivities! Let us save their lives, and the lives of millions of innocent people.

Millions, if not billions of lives will be lost if we do nothing. Time is running out! "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." Do something! Send this message to everyone in your address book and ask them to do the same. Defeat Islam and stop terrorism. This is your world, save it.

The ex-Muslim Movement - www.faithfreedom.org

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Islam e Cristianità - Aggressori e aggrediti

Nella storia più che millenaria dei rapporti tra l'islam e la cristianità è sempre stata quest'ultima a dover difendersi dall'assalto musulmano. Il tentativo dell'islam di invadere le nazioni cristiane è pressocchè simultaneo rispetto alla nascita della fede in Allah. Sin dal VII secolo, i popoli cristiani patirono un terribile confronto che ha avuto soste, ma che non ha avuto mai termine.

Giovanni FORMICOLA
Aggressori e aggrediti
tratto da: Il Cerchio, settembre-ottobre 2002, p. 64-65.

Viviamo in tempi caratterizzati, fra l'altro, da un insopportabile «meaculpismo», come autorevolmente è stata definita la propensione da parte del ceto intellettuale occidentale, ma non senza ricadute «popolari», a denigrare, in occidente, l'Occidente, la sua storia e le sue radici culturali, ostentando vergogna per esse. Sembra quasi che i nostri nonni fossero tutti belve assetate di sangue (al che vien fatto di chiedersi donde verrebbero gli agnellini che noi invece oggi saremmo).

Uno dei temi su cui più frequentemente si esercita tale tendenza è quello delle crociate, che, insieme con l'evangelizzazione delle Americhe, sarebbero esempio del colonialismo culturale proprio dell'Occidente - ed in particolare della sua anima, il cristianesimo - e della sua aggressività. L'islam viene comunemente presentato, dai «meaculpisti» di professione, come il soggetto ingiustamente aggredito. Qualcuno giunge anche ad adombrare che in fondo ciò che è accaduto e sta accadendo nel mondo in termini di terrorismo islamico sia una sorta di reazione - beninteso, dicono i «nostri», esagerata, eccessiva, e qualcuno è tanto coraggioso da spingersi a dichiararla inammissibile - a quel lontano episodio ed al perdurare dello spirito che lo animò.

Appare dunque non inutile ricordare, sia pure sinteticamente, i fatti, per capire chi sia stato storicamente l'aggressore e chi l'aggredito, pur sapendo che come sono inammissibili le «leggende nere», sono inammissibili anche le «leggende rosa»; e che bene e male purtroppo si confondono e coesistono in ogni vicenda storica, che presenta sempre luci ed ombre. Tuttavia, ben tenendo presenti questi limiti, e non chiedendo alla storia di spiegare più di quel che può - ma neanche di meno -, alla scuola di un grande storico belga, Henri Pirenne (1862-1935), che. scrive quando la questione islamica è tutt'altro che attuale, e cioè nel 1935, e quindi senza essere sospettabile di animosità particolare. vediamo chi «ha cominciato», almeno per decidere se le crociate siano state un atto d'aggressione o di difesa.

Tutti sanno che Maometto muore nel 632 d. C. e che fin da subito la comunità politico-religiosa da lui fondata si espande militarmente, conquistando quel che restava dell'impero persiano e poi tutto il Nord Africa, muovendo dalla Penisola Arabica. Subito dopo, tocca all'Europa cristiana, alla cristianità seppure ancora non compiutamente tale, aggredita dal mare e via terra seguendo la «pista» delle tre penisole, quella iberica, quella italica, quella balcanica.

La sequenza di date è impressionante. Tra il 711 ed il 713 viene conquistata la Spagna, che solo nel 1492, anno in cui si conclude la Reconquista, verrà liberata. In Francia nel 720, viene conquistata Narbonne, nel 725 tocca a Carcassonne e Autun, nel 735 Arles, nel 737 Avignone. In Italia, già nel 650 l'onda si abbatte per la prima volta sulla Sicilia. Nell'806, viene conquistata Pantelleria, ed i monaci che vi si trovarono vengono venduti come schiavi (poi riscattati da Carlo Magmo); nell'810 la Sardegna: nell'8l2, vengono saccheggiare Lampedusa, Ponza ed Ischia; nell'831 è presa Palermo; nell'838, Brindisi e Taranto; nell'840, Bari; nell'841, Ancona e la costa Dalmata; nell'843, Messina; nell'846, risalendo il Tevere gl'islamici entrano a Roma e distruggono le basiliche di S. Paolo e S. Pietro provocando un fremito d'orrore in tutto l'occidente cristiano, il che indurrà ad edificare le mura leonine, che cinsero il Vaticano (Civitas Leonina, 848-852); nell'878, viene conquistata dopo strenua ed eroica resistenza Siracusa; nell'883, Montecassino e l'abbazia vengono saccheggiate e distrutte. Si potrebbe continuare ancora a lungo, ma sarebbe noioso. Un solo quesito, attesa la data di nascita dell'islam: chi l'aggredito, chi l'aggressore?

Riesce inoltre difficile continuare a nutrire complessi di colpa troppo intensi se poi si pone mente alla sorte delle popolazioni che vivevamo lungo le coste non islamizzate del Mediterraneo. Coste per secoli desertificate, e spesso ridotte ad acquitrini paludosi, a causa del terrore per le incursioni islamico-saracene, terrore che spinse chi le popolava (e coltivava) ad abbandonarle e a rifugiarsi in un interno impervio, montagnoso ed arido (che una - e sottolineo una - delle cause del «sottosviluppo» del Sud d'Europa sia proprio questa?). E come effetto di tali incursioni, a centinaia di migliaia si contano gli uccisi e stuprati, ma soprattutto rapiti - specialmente se donne e bambini - per essere ridotti in schiavitù e trasformati in «giannizzeri», eunuchi e concubine nell'harem, oltre che rivenduti in un turpe commercio.

«Con l'islam un nuovo mondo entra nel bacino del Mediterraneo [...]. Il mare, che era stato fino allora il centro della cristianità, ne diviene 1a frontiera. L'unità mediterranea è rotta». Così Pirenne. Il Mediterraneo viene «chiuso» e per «riaprirlo», anche al fine di consentire i pellegrinaggi in Terra Santa, furono predicate e promosse le crociate. Fallite queste, per aggirarlo si «apri» l'Atlantico, destinato a diventare il bacino di una Magna Europa, come Ionio e Tirreno lo furono della Magna Grecia.

Ricordare tutto questo è indispensabile. Certo non per coltivare sogni di rivincita o rinfocolare aggressività occidentali. Piuttosto per restituire alla storia un pò di verità - unica carità che le è concessa - e tramite questa promuovere tra le nostre genti un riequilibrio psicologico che c'induca ad essere pietosi verso il nostro passato, come quel figlio di Noè che coprì le vergogne del padre addormentatosi scompostamente perché ubriaco. Pietosi, ma anche orgogliosi di quel che di buono i nostri padri ci hanno lasciato - ed è tanto -, ed in primo luogo dei valori di fondazione del mondo da essi «creato»: il cristianesimo, la centralità della persona, la libertà di vivere la propria fede e la propria cultura.

E' indiscutibile: non ha cominciato l'Occidente, che, pur con tutte le sue colpe ed i suoi difetti, nei confronti dell'islam è aggredito e non aggressore. Anche oggi. Questo non ci autorizza a nient'altro che a ricordare, come insegna Nicolàs Gòmez Dàvila (1913-1994), che «le civiltà muoiono per l'indifferenza verso i valori peculiari che le fondano», e che oggi il «meaculpismo» promuove tale indifferenza quando non l'ostilità verso i valori occidentali, in un clima di relativismo culturale che conosce un solo assoluto: «tutto può andare bene, tranne l'Occidente.

Fonte: Storialibera.it

Guerra santa. Quell'anno in cui i musulmani presero Roma

Sandro MAGISTER

The Legacy of IslamPochi lo sanno, ma è accaduto. Un libro uscito negli Stati Uniti offre per la prima volta al grande pubblico i maggiori documenti sulla teoria e la pratica del jihad. Da Maometto a oggi. Un libro uscito da poco negli Stati Uniti alza il velo su un aspetto capitale dell'islam, di cui troppi sanno poco e male: il jihad, la guerra santa.
E' un aspetto su cui largamente si tace, come fosse un tabù. Anche tra i cristiani, nella memoria diffusa che si ha della storia della Chiesa, vi sono a questo proposito dei grossi buchi neri.
Un esempio? Molti ricordano cosa avvenne a Roma, nella basilica di San Pietro, la notte di Natale dell'anno 800. Finita la messa, papa Leone III pose solennemente sul capo di Carlo Magno la corona del Sacro Romano Impero.
La basilica di San Pietro brillava quella notte di stupefacente fulgore. Pochi anni prima il predecessore di Leone III, papa Adriano I, aveva ricoperto l'intero pavimento del presbiterio con lastre d'argento, aveva rivestito le pareti con lastre d'oro e cinto il tutto con una balaustra d'oro del peso di 1.328 libbre. Aveva rifatto in argento i cancelli del presbiterio e appeso all'iconostasi sei immagini anch'esse d'argento raffiguranti Cristo, Maria, gli arcangeli Gabriele e Michele, i santi Andrea e Giovanni. Infine, perché tale splendore fosse pienamente visibile a tutti, aveva innalzato un candelabro in forma di grande croce su cui brillavano le luci di 1.365 candele.
Meno di mezzo secolo dopo, però, di tutto questo non restò più nulla. E su che cosa avvenne regna oggi un generale vuoto di memoria, tra i cristiani.
Avvenne che nell'aprile dell'anno 846 degli arabi musulmani, arrivati con una flotta alle foci del Tevere, raggiunsero Roma, la invasero, la saccheggiarono e portarono via dalla basilica di San Pietro tutto l'oro e l'argento che conteneva.
E non si trattava di un attacco occasionale. Dall'anno 827 gli arabi avevano conquistato la Sicilia, che mantennero sotto il loro dominio due secoli e mezzo. Roma era seriamente sotto minaccia ravvicinata. Nell'847, l'anno dopo l'assalto, il nuovo papa Leone IV iniziò la costruzione di mura attorno a tutta l'area vaticana, alte 12 metri e munite di 44 torri. Le completò in sei anni. Sono le mura "leonine" di cui restano ampi tratti. Ma pochissimi oggi sanno che esse furono erette per difendere la sede di Pietro dal jihad musulmano. E tra chi lo sa molti tacciono per pudore. "Non muri ma ponti", è lo slogan che oggi è di moda.
Il libro che alza il velo sulla guerra santa islamica ha per titolo "The Legacy of Jihad", l'eredità del jihad, ed è curato da Andrew G. Bostom.
E' un libro essenzialmente fatto di documenti, molti dei quali per la prima volta tradotti in inglese dall'arabo o dal parsi, oppure ripresi da libri di orientalisti di difficile consultazione per il grande pubblico.
I documenti spaziano dal secolo di Maometto, il settimo, fino al ventesimo. E comprendono sia testi classici sul tema del jihad di teologi e giuristi musulmani, sia resoconti di guerra di testimoni antichi e moderni, musulmani e non, sia analisi del jihad ad opera di studiosi di vario orientamento.
Corredano il libro miniature che raffigurano momenti di jihad nella storia, e mappe geografiche che documentano l'espansione militare dell'islam secolo dopo secolo, dal settimo all'undicesimo. Ogni mappa è corredata da un sommario che elenca gli atti di guerra in ciascuna regione.
Ad esempio, in quel nono secolo in cui Roma fu presa d'assalto e la Sicilia conquistata, le armate musulmane occuparono in Italia Bari e Brindisi per trent'anni, Taranto per quaranta, Benevento per dieci; attaccarono più volte Napoli, Capua, la Calabria, la Sardegna; misero a ferro e fuoco l'abbazia di Montecassino; fecero scorrerie anche nell'Italia del Nord, arrivando dalla Spagna e valicando le Alpi.
Dall'imponente documentazione raccolta da Bostom un dato emerge con chiarezza: il jihad non è una delle forme in cui si attuò, in particolari luoghi e momenti, l'espansione dell'islam, ma è un'istituzione connaturata al sistema musulmano stesso, è una sua obbligazione religiosa permanente.
Una cosa che stupisce è che a pubblicare in Occidente questa documentazione sia un non specialista. Bostom è medico epidemiologo e vive a Providence nel Rhode Island. Ma forse proprio questa sua non appartenza all'accademia degli orientalisti e islamologi lo rende più libero dai tabù che imbavagliano molti di questi.
Contro il proislamismo di larga parte della cultura occidentale hanno scritto pagine graffianti, tra altri, Jacques Ellul, Oriana Fallaci e Bat Ye'or, quest'ultima grande specialista della condizione subordinata imposta sistematicamente dall'islam ai sudditi non musulmani dei paesi conquistati, nonché autrice nel 2005 di un saggio dal titolo eloquente: "Eurabia. The Euro-Arab Axis".
Una tesi centrale dei tre autori citati è che l'islam sia un tutto coerente e irreformabile nei suoi elementi essenziali, e che la libertà e i diritti della persona non vi possano appartanere.
Ma anche un autore che non condivide tale tesi ed è anzi uno dei più decisi assertori della compatibilità tra islam e democrazia - Bernard Lewis, uno dei più autorevoli islamologi viventi, professore a Princeton - ha criticato severamente le tendenze proislamiche in voga tra intellettuali e politici occidentali, persino ebrei.
In un saggio dal titolo "The Pro-Islamic Jews", Lewis ha riscostruito come l'idea di un'antica Spagna musulmana tollerante con cristiani ed ebrei - oggi evocata da molti come un'età dell'oro - sia un mito romantico del diciannovesimo secolo, creato proprio da ebrei in polemica con i cristiani.
Anche l'adesione della moderna Turchia al campo occidentale e il suo sostegno allo stato d'Israele hanno indotto una diffusa reticenza sui massacri da essa compiuti nel secolo scorso dei cristiani armeni.
E ancora, a incoraggiare il generale silenzio sulle guerre sante di ieri e di oggi - come anche sulla schiavitù tuttora praticata dai musulmani in talune regioni, sugli assalti a chiese e sulle uccisioni di cristiani - ci sono la ricerca di un buon vicinato con la crescente immigrazione musulmana in Europa, la paura di attacchi terroristici, la volontà di mostrarsi estranei allo schema dello "scontro di civiltà".
Ma di queste reticenze e silenzi dell'Occidente sono vittime, tra i musulmani, proprio coloro che coraggiosamente si battono per riformare la fede islamica e conciliarla con la democrazia e la modernità.
Meno male che, a non lasciarli soli, arrivano libri come questo di Andrew G. Bostom.

Fonte: Guerra santa. Quell'anno in cui i musulmani presero Roma
tratto da: chiesa.espressonline.it, 5.1.2006.

Muslims sack the capital of the Christian Church

On August 10th 846 the marquis Adalbertus of Tuscany, who watches over Corsica, writes to the pope to warn him of a near attack of the Arabs. But it is too late.
On August 28th 846 the Arabs arrived at the mouth of the river Tiber and they sailed towards Rome.
From Civitavecchia an army started the descent by land in direction of Rome.
Another army began the march from Portus and Ostia.
They didn't succeed in entering the enclosing walls, validly defended by the Romans, but the churches of St. Peter and St. Paul, outside the boundaries, were violated by the Arabs.
Uselessly Saxons, Longobards, Frisians and Franks defended St. Peter up to the last man. The Arabs brought away all the treasures of St. Peter, they tore the silver leaves of the doors, the gold foils of the floor of the confession, devastated the bronzy crypt of the apostle, took the gold cross that stood on the grave of Peter. They laid waste all the churches of the district Suburb.
The marquis Guy of Spoleto, arrived to help Rome, succeeded in defeating the Arabs who withdrew partly towards Civitavecchia and partly towards Fondi, following the Appian Way.
The Arabs' passage, in flight, provoked ruin and devastation in all the Roman country.
At Gaeta the Longobard army clashed again with the Arabs. Guy of Spoleto found himself in serious difficulties, but the Byzantine troops of Cesarius, son of Sergius, magister militum in Naples, arrived in time.
In November of 846 a storm provoked numerous damages to the ships of the Arabs, some of which were shipwrecked on the coast.
The pope Leo IV, in consequence of the attack against St. Peter, in 848 undertook the construction of the Civitas Leonina to protect the Vatican hill. The enclosing walls were completed in June 27th 852.

Source: Maat.it: The Arabs attack Rome

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

The Forty-Two Martyrs of Amorion

Icon: ST. GEORGE THE GREAT MARTYR, PATRON SAINT OF THE ARMED FORCES

ISLAM'S JIHAD AGAINST US IS NOT CONVENTIONAL.
Nor has it ever been. Our enemies are neither guided by the Geneva Conventions, nor by the Catholic Catechism, nor the rulings of the International Court of Justice and the US Supreme Court nor by the resolutions of the United Nations. Rather, the norms which determine the behavior of the Muslims engaged in war against us are drawn exclusively from the Quran and that which is derived therefrom. "I [Allah] will instill terror in the hearts of the infidels. Therefore, strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.: Surah 8: 12. "Kill them wherever you find them" Surah 2: 191. "… fight them until … there is no religion but for Allah" Surah 1: 193. "…slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush…" Surah 9: 5. "For the infidels, cut out garments of fire; boiling water shall be poured on their heads." Surah 22: 19. "The punishment of those who resist Allah and his apostle [Muhammad] … is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides of the body or they should be imprisoned." Surah 5: 33. "Whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers." Surah 3: 85
The above are but a few of the Quranic precepts which propel our enemies to plot and carry out their atrocities against us. There is no shortage of young men in ISLAMOFASCIST societies who are inspired by these precepts and who volunteer to engage in acts of terror even at the cost of their own lives.
What we are facing today is not a war between states or blocks of states as in past wars against Nazi-Fascism and Marxist Communism, but rather a war waged by a large confederation of people who adhere to a particular religion, indoctrinated in their mosques and madrassas, who are building a world-wide structure of their co-religionists preparing for a long struggle against us. The war against the infidel - jihad - is not new; it has been going on for fourteen centuries, at times vigorously and at others less so. Now as in times past, the goal remains the same - through jihad to the ultimate victory of Islam over all mankind which means nothing more or less than the conversion of all to Islam or their destruction, enslavement and subjugation followed by the establishment of a world-wide caliphate which is a totalitarian religio-political system based on the precepts of the Quran, Hadith and Sharia of, by and for the Muslim umma.

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Pakistani and Other Islamic Martyrs

By Robert Royal - Special to the HERALD

Following is part of an ongoing series of articles appearing in the Herald based on Bob Royal's book Catholic Martyrs of the 20th Century.

Pakistan’s relatively small Christian community of 2 million, about 3 percent of the population (two-thirds of them Catholic), has been subjected to systematic repression and death. Pakistan became an independent nation in the 1940s when India, which had previously included the region now known as Pakistan, ended its long existence as a British colony under the leadership of Mohandas Gandhi.
Though created to secure religious security for its own population, the Pakistani government has not extended religious rights to non-Muslims. In fact, in 1986 Pakistan adopted a religious blasphemy law. Section 295.C of the new Penal Code declares: "Whoever by words, either spoken, or written, or by visual representation, or by any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly, or indirectly, defiles the sacred name of the Holy prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) shall be punished with death." Given the ease with which such a sweeping law can be abused, it made it all but inevitable that Christians will be condemned to death.
Trials, when they occur, are far from impartial or peaceful. In 1993, Salamat Masih, a 12-year-old, and two other Christians were accused of having written a blasphemous slogan on a village mosque, even though all three were only semi-literate and were unlikely to have been able to write anything at all. During the course of their trial, they were attacked by an armed band. Salamat and one of his co-defendants were wounded and Manzoor Masih was killed.
International pressure forced the Lahore High Court to overturn the conviction of the surviving youths. The judge who made the decision, Arif Iqbal Bhatti, was assassinated shortly after. The two young Christians went into exile, but Islamic Fundamentalists have offered a $30,000 bounty for their deaths.
This incident was only one of many in Pakistan. In February 1997, 30,000 Muslims in the Punjab province burned and looted 13 Catholic churches and a Salvation Army center. Christian schools, businesses, and homes were sacked. The village of Shantigar, with a mostly Catholic population of 15,000, was destroyed. Police were slow to respond to reports of such illegal attacks by one group of citizens on another. Several Catholics were killed in the mob violence and John Paul II took the unusual step of sending a personal protest to the government.
A public demonstration in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, against the Shantigar violence only led to further arrests and beatings. Violent incidents occur almost daily. In May 1998, Ayub Masih was arrested merely for mentioning the controversial Islamic novelist Salman Rushdie — a charge he denied. But the blasphemy law makes it easy for anyone with a grudge against a Christian to bring unsubstantiated complaints that may lead to a mandatory death sentence.
Perhaps the most blatant instance of Christian martyrdom in Pakistan occurred in May of 1997. John Joseph, Bishop of Faisalabad and the first native Pakistani to run that diocese, died under suspicious circumstances in front of a court building. Pakistani officials claimed later that the bishop had committed suicide out of protest against anti-Catholic repression. Suicide by a courageous Catholic bishop, who had advocated non-violence, would, of course, have been an unorthodox way to protest.
The bishop had already distinguished himself for his public defense of those condemned under the blasphemy laws. For that work, he had received multiple death threats. A night watchman at the court reported to police that he had seen a car pull up to the gate and two men throw out a body. Though he called the police, they did not arrive for two hours. The bishop’s death evoked international outrage, but the Pakistani government has not carried out any credible investigation into the matter. At Bishop John Joseph’s funeral, Muslim mobs burned and looted Christian homes and the police fired on the 10,000 people gathered to mourn his passing.
The case of Pakistan is an important one because it reflects an emerging pattern in the Muslim world. Under the guise of religious law, Pakistan is making it all but impossible for Christians and other non-Muslims to find work. According to a Pakistani bishop, 90 percent of them are unemployed, and those who find jobs usually have to work at the mot menial tasks such as street cleaning. They are discriminated against when they look for housing.
The blasphemy law is merely the strongest weapon in the government’s battles against non-Muslims. This type of forced Islamization is by no means accepted by all scholars of the Koran in the Muslim world. But some Muslim countries, under Fundamentalist pressure, have even petitioned the United Nations to block the very use of terms such as "Islamization" to describe growing Fundamentalist campaigns of religious purity that involve persecution and death.
Saudi Arabia, the homeland of Islam, is even far more restrictive than Pakistan. Public Christianity is absolutely forbidden and, at least in theory, it is a punishable offense to say Christian prayers in your own home. When the Coalition Forces were stationed in Saudi Arabia during the 1991 Gulf War, for example, they were told they were not allowed to offer Christian prayers before battle. As elsewhere in the Islamic world, a Muslim who converts to Christianity is subject to the death penalty.
Saudi Arabia has a large contingent of guest workers, almost a quarter of the population, many of whom are Catholics from the Phillippines. Those caught trying to organize Christian services have been arrested and beaten; almost a thousand cases have been documented since 1990 alone. But penalties can be far worse: flogging, amputation, and beheading. Oswaldo Magdanal and Renato Poesdio, two Filipinos. were scheduled for beheading on Christmas day 1992 until an international protest led to their deportation. Just before Christmas day 1999, another Filipino was arrested for having an English-language Bible in a locked cabinet at his workplace.
Roughly equivalent abuses of rights occur throughout the Muslim Middle East in Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. Even Turkey, the most secular and Westernized of the Islamic countries, still restricts open Christian practice and converts from Islam may face death there. Turkey and Iran have also been trying to extend their influence into the mostly Islamic Central Asian Republics that have become independent since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
It seems certain that the Islamic world will show widespread and continuing persecution and martyrdom of Christians for many years to come.

Source: Arlington Catholic Herald
Robert Royal, Ph.D. is president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. Dr. Royal holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Catholic University of America. He has taught at Brown University, Rhode Island College, and The Catholic University of America. He received fellowships to study in Italy from the Renaissance Society of American (1977) and as a Fulbright scholar (1978). From 1980 to 1982, he served as editor-in-chief of Prospect magazine in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a regular columnist for Crisis magazine and his articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and other publications, including First Things, Communio, the Wilson Quarterly, the Catholic Historical Review, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The American Spectator. His most recent book publication is The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive Global History (2000, Crossroad). He writes and lectures frequently on questions of ethics, culture, religion, and politics, and has appeared on various television and radio stations around the United States.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

The Battle of Vienna, 1683

Juliusz Kossak Sobieski pod WiedniemThe large-scale battle was won by Polish-Austrian-German forces led by King of Poland Jan III Sobieski against the Ottoman Empire army commanded by Grand Vizier Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha.
The siege itself began on 14 July 1683, by the Ottoman Empire army of approximately 138,000 men (although a large number of these played no part in the battle, as only 50,000 were experienced soldiers (Turks), and the rest less-motivated supporting troops.). The decisive battle took place on 12 September, after the united relief army of 70,000 men had arrived, pitted against the Ottoman army.

(From: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

The heroism of valiant and visionary knights like Jan Sobieski could visualize the far-reaching dangers to European civilization from the Muslim Ottoman threat. In this sense, Sobeiski and Charles Martel stand tall over Alexander, Julius Caesar, Napoleon or Nelson. Sobieski marched to Vienna with an army of about 30,000 men.
Sobieski and the European kings of the 16th century could realize that an enemy is an enemy, regardless of whether he is in the armed forces of the enemy or is loyal to the enemy by reason of being a co-religionist of the enemy. Thus an enemy civilian is also an enemy. This is the harsh reality, that Americans and Europeans need to face. If they refuse to face it, there would be many more Theo Van Goughs in the near future in Europe, Australia, USA and the rest of the Western world.


(Quoted from http://historyofjihad.org/austria.html [strongly recommended! - not, however, for their atheism!])

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Qur’an and Hadith are a declaration of war on all mankind

Islam rises and falls on Muhammad. He is the religion's sole prophet, Islam’s solitary example, Allah’s lone conduit. Without Muhammad, Allah, the Qur’an, and Islam would be unknown. Yet the picture the Islamic scriptures paint of this man is not flattering; his words aren’t believable. According to the Qur’an and Hadith, Muhammad was a thief, rapist, and terrorist. It’s hardly the example you’d want your neighbor to emulate.
Muhammad, Allah, Mecca, and the formation of Islam are completely unknown to secular history. All we know of them is derived from the Qur’an and Hadith. The earliest and most important collection of Hadith is called the Sira, or Biography. Compiled by Ibn Ishaq, the Sira provides the only written account of this man, his god, place and religion within two centuries of his death. There is no other valid source from which Muhammad can be seen, or Islam can be interpreted, differently.
To write Prophet of Doom, I analyzed the Sira, the Ta’rikh, or History of al-Tabari, and the topical Hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim. Using Islam’s most holy books I was able to reorder the Qur’an chronologically and set it into the context of Muhammad’s life. The result is bone chilling. The depiction of the prophet by the most revered Muslim sources reveals behavior that is immoral, criminal, and violent. The five oldest and most trusted Islamic sources don't portray Muhammad as a great and godly man. They confirm that he was a thief, liar, assassin, mass murderer, terrorist, warmonger, and an unrestrained sexual pervert engaged in pedophilia, incest, and rape. He authorized deception, assassinations, torture, slavery, and genocide. He was a pirate, not a prophet. According to the Hadith and the Qur'an, Muhammad and his henchmen plundered their way to power and prosperity. And by putting the Qur'an in chronological order and correlating it with the context of Muhammad's life, we find that Allah mirrored his prophet's character. Muhammad's god condoned immoral and criminal behavior. Allah boasts about being a terrorist. He claims to have deceived men, to have stolen their property, to have enslaved women and children, to having committed acts of murder, genocide, and sadistic tortures.
If you are a Muslim reading these words you should be horrified and appalled, but not at me - instead at Muhammad and the clerics after him who have purposely deceived you. The evidence is overwhelming and undeniable. Prophet of Doom, relying exclusively on the Islamic Qur’an and Hadith, proves Muhammad was a con man, Allah doesn’t exist, and Islam is a fraud. If you care about your soul and that of your children, you will take advantage of the evidence and render a rational verdict. If not, you are now without excuse.
If you are a non-Muslim reading these words you should be disturbed, but not at me - instead at your politicians, media, and clerics for they have purposely deceived you. Following Muhammad’s example good Muslim jihadists are murdering and mutilating us while our leaders tell us that Islam is peaceful. We have been told that the terrorists have corrupted their religion when according to the evidence, Islam has corrupted them. If you care about your life and that of your children, you will survey the facts and render a rational verdict. If not, you too are now left without excuse.
Islam has been at war with everyone, including itself, for 1400 years. In Prophet Of Doom you'll see why Muslims celebrate, no matter how many innocents perish. You'll learn why the Islamic media promotes terror. You'll know why Muslim schools teach hate. It will become evident why imams encourage martyrdom and jihad. You will discover Islam's goals and read what it has to say about itself. You will see how violent conquest, racist genocide, and the spoils of war established the doctrine and turned a failed prophet into a world-renowned profiteer. You will recognize that the Qur’an and Hadith are a declaration of war on all mankind.
The story that unfolds in the Islamic scriptures starts out foolish, turns hateful, then punitive, violent, and repulsive. Muhammad's first Qur'anic revelations are demonic, fixated on disgusting depictions of hell, pain, and punishment. And that's the good part. The moment Muhammad and his gang slither out of Mecca, they pick up the sword and never put it down. The documentation you are about to encounter will shake you to your core.
Muslims must come to know Muhammad, Allah, and Islam as they are presented in the Qur’an and Hadith because informed people will not kill for such a demented spirit. And non-Muslims need to know that there is almost no mention of peace, tolerance, or love in Islam. We have been played for fools... (Craig Winn)
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