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Comment by Barry Lee Phillips on March 26, 2011 at 7:49am

Rick,

The Khilafah link was very informative.  One of the participants, Raymond Ibrahim, is an associate director of the Middle East Forum, which is a conservative think tank with a self-described mission:

The Middle East Forum promotes American interests in the Middle East and protects the Constitutional order from Middle Eastern threats. 

The Forum sees the region — with its profusion of dictatorships, radical ideologies, existential conflicts, exportation of extremism, border disagreements, political violence, and weapons of mass destruction — as a major source of problems for the United States. Accordingly, it urges active measures to protect Americans and their allies.

Dr. Daniel Pipes, also an American Middle-Eastern scholar, founded the Middle East Forum and actively takes on Islamists of all stripes.  The reason you see Ibrahim in the discussion is because the MEF believes in taking action whenever and wherever it can.  Notice that when Ibrahim called Hamas a terrorist organization, the moderator quickly took offense at that characterization.

President Thomas Jefferson fought Islamic terrorists in his day. They were known as the Barbary pirates.  President John Quincy Adams said this about Islam in 1829:

“….he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind…The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God…the faithful follower of the prophet may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force.”

This nation has been and is now spiritually and physically engaged in a war with Islamism.  Militant Islamists would exterminate Christians or members of any other religion if they could.  In addition, there are Islamists residing in this country who seek to subvert the principles and institutions on which this country was founded and replace it with a Islamic theocracy.

Any theocracy is diametrically opposed to the founding principles contained in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

While one would hope that all believers of any religous persuasion desire to live in peace with one another, it is naive to think that all believers of Islam think that way.  Some do not and those who do not are at war with me.

 

 

 

Comment by Wayne Humphrey on March 26, 2011 at 6:30am

Great blog!

 

After reading extensively on the subject of Islam, I have learned irrefutable, driving fact -- there are no radical Muslims, there are just Muslims. By that, I mean that both the Quran and Hadith mandate that all who are Muslim to fight in the cause of Islam.

 

References:

 

Khan, M. M. (2007). Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 52: Fighting for the Cause of Allah (Jihaad). University of Sothern California for Muslim-Jewish Engagement. Retrieved September 13, 2010, from http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/...

 

Ali, A. (1946). The Holy Qur’an – Translation and Commentary. Bronx, NY. Islamic Propagation Centre International.

Comment by tamara stephenson on March 25, 2011 at 11:16am

I refuse to live in fear of any religious group or idea.  there are extremists in every religious and political idea, and while some are willing to do harm to further their agenda, I will choose to believe that most wish only to live in peace.  Call me naive.

Comment by Joe Story on March 25, 2011 at 11:01am

Don't think they are after freedom or democracy as we define them!  Listen to the Khilafah link 9:01 minutes in you might change your mind.

Comment by Joe Story on March 25, 2011 at 9:45am

What does democracy mean in the Islamic world? http://www.khilafah.com/index.php/multimedia/video/11468-video-wher...