The nation and world are caught in a sea of anger and protest over Rev. Terry Jones, of the Dove Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, continuing with his plans to make a bonfire and burn copies of the Quran on 9/11. Obama, Hillary, Holder and more have called the burning plans disgraceful, dangerous, Islamaphobic, racist and more. Even General Petraus has weighed in saying it would be dangerous to our troops and incite more violence from radicals.
So far Rev. Jones reports over 100 death threats and is now carrying a gun. He is no stranger in making the news. Last year he posted signs in the front of his church that “Islam is of the Devil.” That didn’t make the national and international news like this planned burning event.
Gen. David Petraeus said according to the AP that “images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan and around the world to inflame public opinion and incite violence.” I absolutely honor and respect Petraeus as a brilliant commander and General in Iraq and Afghanistan but am wondering how much more inflamed can Islamic radicals get regardless of what people or various groups do? They already torture, dismember, rape and kill troops or civilians in the way whenever they can. What??? Are they going to put more acid on a soldier’s left leg if a Rev. Jones burns a Quran? I think radical Islam has targeted us all for death for some time.
Already we are seeing Muslim radicals flip out. In Afghanistan, hundreds of Afghans were chanting “Death to the Christians on Thursday, while they burned a U.S. flag. This was in direct response to the proposed Quran burning event on 9/11.
There were more demonstrations. In the Capital of Afghanistan there were a reported 4,000 people marching and demonstrating. There are growing Islamic disturbances, demonstrations, threats and burnings everywhere, including Pakistan, where another 200 people also burned the U.S. flag and marched.
Many are fearing and we are already seeing retaliation not only against America and the flag but against Christian churches and ministries. Churches are being threatened and attacked. So, what do we do with all this typical response by Islamics…..run and hide under the bed, gut our 1st amendment rights…..shut up and take it as they order and expect?
Regardless of your position on whether it is okay or not to burn copies of the Quran to draw a line in the sand on 9/11, fundamentalists and radical Islam, peppered in the U.S. and throughout the world behave as they always have. They demand respect, obedience and submission by those in their faith and those outside or they attack, torture, burn and kill.
Look at the mayhem over the mere threat of a small fry Preacher wanting to burn the Quran, when for decades now, Islamics have targeted and continue to target Christians, ministries, civilians, women, anyone who dresses wrong, talks wrong, sins, goes against Sharia law in anyway, and dares notice the dominating and conquest agenda of Islam. Islamics have been burning churches, burning Holy bibles and murdering preachers for decades, yet we rarely hear about this in the news. We deserve it I guess.
Despite the rage and acting out going on regarding burning the Quran right now, what are the deeper and critical issues that must be asked and discussed within Islam and from the outside looking in?
According to Islam’s own writing and theology the last half of the Quran, trumps and has the reigning authority over the first half of the Quran which is the half talking about peace and loving type statements. The last half which is said to dominate the first half is about war, jihad, how to define, treat, pursue and kill infidels and violence in general.
Frank Salvato, editor of
newmediajournal.us was my guest this week on air and he stated that we must ask and demand that Islam answers this internal, theology challenge. “How do you respond to the fact that the last half of the Quran, the warring and violent part is said to trump the first half talking about peace?” If this is true as far as to how to interpret it then there is no ‘religion of peace’ but rather a religion of ‘war and conquest’ with a peaceful front only.
To obey the proper authority structure within the Koran, (the last half), one would have to truly believe that Islam’s goal is to indeed conquer, promote war, commit jihad, kill or enslave the infidels. The first part of the Quran seems to be nothing more then media friendly sound bites for mass consumption. If this were not so, how is it that much of the Islamic world, here and abroad is rapid with horror, rage and even violence already in response to a goofy, small Pastor of 50 exercising his 1st amendment rights, when Islam slams, threatens, burns Bibles and churches to the ground on a regular basis? We of course are supposed to just take it….not be rude, draw a line in the sand, not challenge the Quran, Sharia law or Islam.
Christians and Jews in America are to just take it. We are to move our plays, like the 3 little Pigs out of schools. We are to accommodate special prayer mats and places to pray at work places 5 times a day or else. We are to understand how our ‘persecution’ as they say, causes all the Islamic terrorists to continuously try to blow up planes, military centers, ships, cities and cars here and abroad.
Behind the obvious theological problem built within the Quran, where the last half is said to dominate any teaching in the first half, we have the core and legal center of Islam, Sharia law. What does Sharia law really say though and does that have any ability to relate at all along side the U.S. constitution?
The American Thinker has exposed 10 pillars and beliefs within Sharia law. You make up your own mind.
- Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped.
- Islam allows husbands to hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their wives.
- Islam allows an injured plaintiff to exact legal revenge-physical eye for physical eye
- Islam commands that a male and female thief must have a hand cut off.
- Islam commands that highway robbers should be crucified or mutilated.
- Islam commands that homosexuals must be executed.
- Islam orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped and adulterers to be stoned to death.
- Islam orders death for Muslim and possible death for non-Muslim critics of Muhammad and the Quran and even sharia itself.
- Islam orders apostates to be killed.
- Islam commands offensive and aggressive and unjust jihad.
We not only need to start drawing many, loud lines in the sand regarding Islam and its dominating spread in our culture, but our leaders and media must expose them from their own Holy books and Sharia law which they swear by. Let’s look at just a few of the dozens of scriptures, 109 verses at least, calling Muslims to war with nonbelievers.
Quran (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.”
Quran (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.”
Quran (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.”
Quran (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.
Quran (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 above verses are just a few of the many in the last half of the Quran that talk of the duty and calling of war and the eradication of the Christians, Jews and nonbelievers.
Forget a simple symbolic book burning on 9/11, our country needs a major line drawn in the sand, and 1000% stand against Sharia law and its evil. We also need to investigate and find out what is really going on in the 6000 mosques already in America and stand against the mockery and in your face push of the Islamic Mosque at ground zero in New York. Remember the front man in this push is Imam Feisal Rauf the President of the Sharia Index project, international leader of pushing Sharia law in the west and supporter of Hamas.
Our media and leaders within Islam should demand answers regarding the push for something as unconstitutional and brazen as Sharia law and ask them to give a REAL answer as to how they will deal with the theological challenge of the violent and warring half of the Quran trumping the peaceful half. Does that mean they are at war with America instead of wanting to live in peace? It seems that way. Remember, we were the victims on 9/11 not Islam.
