S.M. Stirling and David Drake wrote an excellent series of books known as the the Raj Whitehall Series or, alternatively, as The General series. These were excellent books set in the far off future, but during a time in which humanity had largely reverted to barbarism, and was teetering on the edge of losing civilization altogether.
However, one of the fascinating things I remember when I first read the series is that in the first chapters of the book, Muslim raiders are stirring up trouble along the border of the protagonist’s own Civil Government. Yes, thousands of years in the future, on a completely different planet, as civilization teeters on the edge of extinction, Islam is still a problem. What was worse, however, was how very plausible this scenario was.
Islam is the eternal enemy of the West. The Jihad will never end until all humans are Muslims, and even then it is likely to continue with the persecution of the insufficiently Muslim, or the even the insufficiently pious. Did you forget that fifth prayer yesterday? Death to the infidel! Islam is an ideology based on conquest, and we shouldn’t be surprised by this.
Christianity originates from Jesus Christ, a man of peace (even if not quite the pacifist everyone makes him out to be). Hinduism originates from a collection of indigenous religions, with a history dating back to the original beliefs of the Indo-Europeans. Buddhism likewise lacks violent origins, and if Judaism has some violence in its past, such violence as it offers is restricted to an absurdly small geographical region.
But Mohammed was a warlord, a conqueror, as much as he was a priest or a would-be prophet. His goal was power. His successors took this philosophy and conquered half of the old Roman world and all of Persia with it. The spirit of this man continues on in modern Islam, it is woven into the Quran and the Hadith. Ben Carson was condemned for having the temerity to suggest that Sharia Law was incompatible with the United States Constitution and thus any man who espoused it was unqualified to be President.
Ben Carson is, of course, entirely correct in this assessment.
It is worse than that, however. Islam has bloody borders with everybody. From Bosnia to Pakistan, if you have a Muslim country for a neighbor, you will have fighting, and it will not cease until you are Muslim also. Even then it may not stop, just look at how the rest of the Muslim world treats the Kurds.
The recent affair with Ahmed and his clock shows that taqiyya, a sort of weaponized deceit aimed at non-believers, is in full effect. They intend for us to feel sorry about this boy, when all he did was throw the guts of a clock into a case designed to look as much like a bomb as possible. Now, that situation was handled poorly, but understand that his father, a Muslim activist, had some idea that we would handle it badly. That’s why he did it.
Taqqiya: Weaponized Empathy
Now Obama can appear on national TV, using this boy’s lies as a weapon, and triumphantly declare that us racist Americans need to be more open to the Muslim community. So, here we are, discussing whether or not 65,000 Muslims coming to America is a good idea or not. Here’s a hint: are you fucking stupid?
ISIS and other terrorists outfits would have to be absolutely dense beyond reasonable expectation not to sneak hundreds or thousands of operatives into Western countries this way. Remember my discussion on weaponized empathy? Ahmed’s clock just bought Islam 65,000 more invaders. You might tell me that “not all Muslims” are bad. Sure. I agree with you. But it just so happens there is a Pew study that gives us a rough percentage of how many are bad. Take a look for yourself. Most Muslim countries feature double-digit percentages in favor of terrorism against civilian targets.
Does anybody think that Americans would support civilian terrorism in such numbers? If we average that study’s figures, one can see that roughly 20% of Muslims are in favor of terrorism. Now, to be fair, that does not mean they are terrorists, only that they support terrorism politically, financially, etc… 65,000 Syrian refugees would give us an estimate of 13,000 potential terrorist supporters, if Syria is reflective of the rest of the Muslim world. Now, you figure that ISIS will seed some actual terrorists in with number, and you’ve just built yourself a homemade American terrorist network for ISIS, complete with 13,000 passive supporters who could be tapped for aid, succor, and political support.
Congratulations you fucking idiots. You’re asking for a new terrorist network in America.
Islam is not a peaceful religion. It is not the religion of peace. Just ask my ancestors, exiled from Armenia. They had three options granted to them. They could die, they could flee, or they could convert to Islam. So now my family is here, in America. Exile was the most preferable option of the three. But now Islam has followed us here. It is everywhere in the West. And our political leaders seem to have a veritable fetish for importing as many Muslims as possible.
Does this look like a religion of peace to you? If it had been, the Caliphs would have stayed in Arabia.
Are they stupid, or are they deliberately destroying their own nations, their own people and worse, their entire civilization?
Perhaps the Raj Whitehall series is correct, and in thousands of years we’ll be right back where we started, in a death battle with Islam, having to fight our own corrupt politicians as much as the Islamic enemy in an effort to preserve some modicum of civilization.
Either way, as I said on Twitter earlier, I wish the Catholic Church could invent a time travel device so as to replace Pope Francis with Pope Urban II. He’d know what to do in the present circumstances, I think.
Islam is, in fact, not a religion at all. It is a totalitarian sociopolitical system masquerading as a religion.
Quite true. Mohammed cribbed much of the religious character of Christianity, Judaism and Arab Paganism to cloak his desire for conquest underneath a religious banner. Islam is unique in this regard.
you got wrong, sir. Make a fair judgement.
The way the review was written makes me wonder if the writer understands the difference between “non-fiction” and “fiction”. The belief that in the future things will be the same is the author’s choice, not a fact. It may be his choice because he is a well known Islamophobe. Making statements about taking Muslim children from their parents to be raised as Christians. Killing all Muslims. This is not normal even in the spectrum of anti Muslim rhetoric. What he is saying is he wants to start a genocide. The map shown was the most sad thing is have EVER seen. Using a map showing the Muslim world as “too big” makes me wonder if the writer is aware that colonization around the world by the Catholic and protestant churches has reached EVERYWHERE. Yet Christianity is not viewed as non peaceful. Even when missionaries would take children from their families to teach them Christianity and try to beat their heathen ideas from them “in the name of Christ”. Let’s be realistic, those were horrible Christians. In our views TODAY when it was happening they wereally viewed as the best. The fact that S.M. Stirling thinks that way NOW shows he needs to have a psychiatric evaluation. Lastly, all faiths have sociopolitical sides. Let me say it louder for the people in the back, ALL FAITHS. If they didn’t we would not have state religions, or countries governed by the word of religious texts.
As a Christian, I’m seriously annoyed by the people who “excuse” Islam by talking about “evils” among Christians of today and in the past.
For that matter, the people who keep “damning” Christians & Christianity are mainly silent on the evils that are known to happen within Islam.
I’ve heard too many shit-heads who compare Christians to Muslims (in a bad sense) but label all criticism of Islam as “Islamophobia”.
Exactly so. Note that I never say Christianity is above reproach either. But note how my intrepid detractor sidestepped the Pew study (Pew not exactly being known as a right-wing source – they are much more likely to be favorable toward Islam).
The “ALL FAITHS” argument is fallacious. It presumes that terrorism and drive toward conquest is equal between different religions and cultures. It is not, and that is self-evident.
Tom Kratman once posed a question: what major branch of Islamic jurisprudence condemns the killing of homosexuals and the stoning of women for adultery? It is a trivial matter to find Christian churches that condemn both of these things.
The amusing part is, it isn’t Islam as a faith, as a religion, that concerns me. It is the political ideology wrapped inside of Islam, woven inextricably through it, that is most concerning. It is that political ideology that is incompatible with Western and, in particular, American jurisprudence. Where the two meet, conflict is the inevitable result. And where Christ implied a separation between the secular world, and the Christian world (give unto Caesar, and all that), Islam prohibits this. So you can’t cut out the political drive in Islam without, essentially, creating an entirely new religion.
The Bahais and Ahmadis show that such a thing is possible, mind you. But Islam views them as heretics and wants to kill them, too. You just can’t win…
Christianity are darkest Religion in the World Islam Is peaceful religion and it’s the right religion in all over the world
Your wishful thinking does not represent reality, just because you threaten to kill me because I do not agree with you does not make your religion the right one. Rather than being a religion of logic and truth, it is rather a religion of violence and cowardice that resorts to physical aggression like the animal you and your followers are.
What has Islam accomplished in the past 1400 years? Nothing but mass murder. Scientists, philosophers, doctors, mathematicians? None. 300 million deaths? Check.
For the one with only hatred in his heart, living is a worse punishment than death.
You all allah worshippers should kill yourself asap and leave the other people be, go to your immaginary god. Same goes for the rest of you retarded god-worshippers. THE WORLD IS FOR HUMANS not for some fucking gods. Idiots.