The Rabid Conservative

I read a news article this week immediately following the aftermath which pretty much summed it up in one statement:

Please don’t let it be a Muslim (suspect), please don’t let it be a Muslim

It was a Muslim.  Actually a pair of them from Chechnya.

I’m not saying all Muslims are terrorists and killers but Islam, as a system of belief, as a collected religion with a history of bloody violence, does not globally push a message of peace. 

I do believe that acts like this are done by those in the extreme – by those who don’t represent the general populace of the Islamic community.  And some are going to say, “well, what about the right-wing extremists who slaughter abortion doctors”.  The thing is, right-wing extremists don’t control the the majority of Christian society or the general populace of the USA.  Muslim extremists, however, enjoy near total control of their world religion, including several countries pivotal to the world economy.  It’s these same extremists who use their money and influence for violence and hatred – and then they celebrate it.

[I am] happy to see the horror in America…American blood isn’t more precious than Muslim blood…Let the Americans feel the pain we  endured by their armies occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and killing our people  there.” - Mohammad al-Chalabi, head of an extremist Jordanian Muslim Salafi group

If Muslims don’t want to be viewed as being existential terrorists, then perhaps the rank and file, the everyday Muslims who claim the religion is peaceful and don’t want to be associated with their extremists for fear of being “guilty by association” should actually do something about their extremist problem.  Remove them from office, places of power, and silence their hate-filled rhetoric that condemns Islam to their stigma.  

Oh, and by the way, perhaps these verses, the words of Mohammad himself, should be either “explained” or “repudiated”.  Just sayin’.

Qur’an:9:88 – “The Messenger and those who believe with him, strive hard and fight with their wealth and lives in Allah’s Cause.”

Qur’an:9:5 – “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”

Qur’an:9:112 “The Believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, kill and are killed.”

Qur’an:9:29 “Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.”

Qur’an:8:39 “Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.”

Qur’an:8:39 “So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).”

Ishaq:587 “Our onslaught will not be a weak faltering affair. We shall fight as long as we live. We will fight until you turn to Islam, humbly seeking refuge. We will fight not caring whom we meet. We will fight whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains. We have mutilated every opponent. We have driven them violently before us at the command of Allah and Islam. We will fight until our religion is established. And we will plunder them, for they must suffer disgrace.”

Qur’an:8:65 “O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; if there are a hundred then they will slaughter a thousand unbelievers, for the infidels are a people devoid of understanding.”

Qur’an:9:123 “Fight the unbelievers around you, and let them find harshness in you.”

Ishaq:578 “Crushing the heads of the infidels and splitting their skulls with sharp swords, we continually thrust and cut at the enemy. Blood gushed from their deep wounds as the battle wore them down. We conquered bearing the Prophet’s fluttering war banner. Our cavalry was submerged in rising dust, and our spears quivered, but by us the Prophet gained victory.”