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Al Qaeda And "Radical" Islam - Is There Any Other Kind? By Dorothy Anne Seese - Sierra Times.com
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Pocatello, Idaho October 16, 2002

The following article by Anne Seese of Sierra Times,
ponders Islam and radicalism
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Al Qaeda And "Radical" Islam - Is There Any Other Kind?

By Dorothy Anne Seese

Published 10. 15. 02 at 21:59 Sierra Time

Mohammed was no gift from God to this world. Right from the outset,
this man who claimed to be a prophet put together a religion around
which he could rally various Arab tribes and move into non-Arab
tribal areas of the 7th century. He wasn't a nation builder, he was a
religious empire builder.

What no political force could do -- get warring tribes to find a
commonality other than removing each other's heads for the sake
of fun and a bit of tribal glory -- a religion peculiar to "his" people
(the worshippers of his god Allah) could at least partially accomplish.
Thus, rather than be just another tribal leader out of some whack
village in Arabia, he became the great spiritual leader of a new religion.
Further, he had a clever plan for his new religion. He would and did
go back to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Yahweh, the God
of both Jews and Christians (although Christians see God as incarnate i
n Jesus Christ and Jews do not) and "restore the true religion" that got
corrupted by Jews and Christians. The way to restoration was to
convert or kill -- nice program for a peaceful religion.

He provided both a unique religion for the Arabs and non-Arabic
Muslims that would direct their hatred toward all infidels (all those
who would not bow to Allah) and he would give his forces a built-in
enemy ... Christians and Jews.

So tell me now -- when was Islam a peaceful religion?

Were the Selucid and Ottoman Turks a peaceful people? Were the
Islamic Persians a peaceful sort? How did the Assassins get their name?
By assassinating folks. The fanciful Arabian Nights saga was about as
realistic as a Rambo movie. Only the Rambo movie was probably as
violent as most Islamic leaders and their armies.

However, religion has served Islam well as a vehicle to carry out its
plan of conquering the planet for Allah. Seems people invent "gods"
to suit their mission, rather than searching out and being obedient to
God. But that pattern goes back to Abel, Cain and the mess in Eden.
People want a god like themselves. As a whole, they want nothing to
do with the God who IS. However, if the United States is going to
take on radical Islam, then we must ask ourselves: What part of Islam
is not "radical?"

Are the nations of the Arab League openly condemning the acts of
Al Qaeda? Not really. They silently applaud the heinous attacks on
the innocent civilians of any western culture who travel abroad or
stay home, who are vulnerable to terrorist attacks as and when
Al Qaeda sees fit to blow up someone. It isn't just Jews, or professing
Christians, it's anyone from the Western Culture who is fair game now.
Transforming Bali from the tropical paradise of tourists' dreams into a
nightmare of blood and carnage is a fun sport to Al Qaeda.

And where's the outrage from the League of Arab Nations? Where are
the apologies profusely flowing from the mosques in America and other
western nations? Umm ... either they aren't there or they are a lip service
to appease the world and keep an angry and militarily superior western
civilization from making a bit of scorched earth out of the nations of the
Arab League and their cohorts in non-Arab but Islamic Iran and
Indonesia.

What is annoying, even disgusting, is the attempt of the western cultures
to gloss over the facts about Islam's history and doctrine to keep the oil
flowing. That says something about American and European greed and
lack of integrity. And their political correctness ... this "moral equivalence"
thing that keeps popping up and at which our forefathers in the US would
have cringed in horror. However, all religions are not equal. Jihad is killing
people around the globe under the flag of a shadowy Al Qaeda that seems
to thrive in cells in any nation, but is funded and protected by the religion of
Islam and the nations that embrace that belief.

When one hears "radical Islam" it's hardly possible to keep from asking,
"which part is not radical?"

Has anyone seen a Buddhist revolution or "jihad" come to pass? Are
Confucionists killing people at random? Hindus have a war going on
continually but against whom? Islam! Mostly against Islamic Pakistan.
For all the contemplative, nonviolent religions in the world that just mind
their own business, the nations of the world are willing to say "Islam is
basically a peaceful religion." Ha. They're basically the world's oil
merchants. However, their history of violence goes back fourteen
centuries, so it isn't wise to buy into the idea that it's the west's prosperity
that has the Islamics torqued.

The fact is, they've always been a violent people in a violent religion
founded by a violent madman!

Now it is evident that Christianity was not always Christian in thought,
word or deed. It is evident that Christianity has suffered much from man's
evil nature and has gone far, far astray from what Jesus Christ taught.
That is not any justification for calling Jihad a "holy" war. To be holy is
to be godlike. Holiness comes from God Almighty. Jesus Christ is holy,
not all who call themselves His followers are ... but that is to beg the
point and distract from the present evils of Islam.

Just when ... when in its fourteen centuries of history ... was Islam peaceful?

And if it is a warlike religion, why don't we just declare a religious war and
be done with it?

Probably because there's money involved. Man cannot serve God and
mammon, Jesus said so, man has proved it. That's no reason not to declare
war against Islam and take out the evil of a really horrid religion.

There are other religions for any "peaceful" Muslims ... they can become
Hopi or Buddhist or .. whatever. They might even become Christians, and
be more zealous for Christ than many westerners. But Mohammed and his
warlike religion designed from the start to obliterate Christians and Jews
under the crescent flag? No way is that a peaceful religion.

Notice: This article is not politically correct and makes no claim to such.
It's just honest.


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