I Am An Islamophobe Because I Am A Realist — Not Because I Am A Racist

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I Am An Islamophobe Because I Am A Realist — Not Because I Am A Racist

September 10, 2014 by John Myers

http://personalliberty.com/islamophobe-realist-racist/

I grow furious as ever more apologists speak to the popular media to proclaim that the Islamic State (aka ISIS or ISIL) is an evil group but is in no way a reflection of the loving, peaceful religion that is Islam. It is time to wake up to the truth that Islam is both a religion and a dangerous ideology bent on world domination.
Not so, said the current president and his two predecessors:

• In 1994, Bill Clinton said: “[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.”
• In 2002, George W. Bush said: “Here in the United States our Muslim citizens are making many contributions in business, science and law, medicine and education, and in other fields… [they are] upholding our nation’s ideals of liberty and justice in a world at peace.” And he said: “[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.”
• In 2009, Barack Obama said: “Islam has always been a part of America’s story… and since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.” He also said: “Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xCdehrV96U

The truth is, Mr. Bush, we can do a head count of Muslims who live with honesty, integrity and morality. And through polling we can also approximate how many Muslims around the world are driven to lie, deceive and even murder infidels (in other words, us).
Last month, Personal Liberty reported:

According to the results of a recent poll, support for the terror group is likely on the rise throughout the Western world. The poll, conducted on behalf of the Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya by ICM, found that among people in Great Britain, France and Germany 2 percent say they have a favorable view of Islamic State and 7 percent say they have a somewhat favorable view of the group. In France, which has a large Muslim population, 16 percent of those surveyed say they support ISIS; among people age 18-24 in the country the number jumps to 27 percent.

In a report about the poll, Vox’s Max Fisher wrote:

This is alarming, in part because a growing number of Europeans, often from predominantly Muslim immigrant communities, are not just expressing their support for ISIS in polls: they are traveling to Syria and Iraq to join up. The ISIS fighter who killed American journalist James Foley on video last week spoke with a strong London accent. European governments are rightly worried about the implications of this for their own national security.

It is time for our leaders to wake up to the fact that there is a large segment of Islam that is a threat to our national security and that, therefore, it is time to stop pandering to this so-called “religion of peace.”
After all, ISIS may be a small band of bloodthirsty murderers, but they are just one radical group that falls under the religious roof taught in mosques around the world. And as these groups kill and maim their way across the Middle East with ambitions against Americans, few Muslims will openly criticize their religious brethren. In fact, tens of millions of Muslims are in favor of killing infidels and dream of a future where Sharia law rules the world.
Yet our government seems to feel if we apologize enough, give in enough and are humble enough, Muslims will suddenly act like Buddhists and make friends with us Jews and Christians. Even the Washington neocons — the very ones who constantly proclaim that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was the seed that grew to become Adolf Hitler — cannot appease Muslims fast enough or thoroughly enough. I have bad news for these sheep in wolf’s clothing: ISIS is not a few bad apples that turned to terror. ISIS is part and parcel of Islam, an ideology more than a religion, and ISIS is casting a very dark shadow on freedom and liberty.
It seems to me the entire leadership in the West either wants to pacify Islam or is afraid to speak the truth. But avoiding the truth and the true goals of so many millions will not make this threat go away. America has to identify who the real enemy is. That means accepting that both the perpetrators of 9/11 and the terrorists who recently beheaded American journalists are indoctrinated by one religion, and it sure as heck isn’t Mormonism.

Last month, following the video broadcast beheading of American journalist James Foley, Collin Gordon tweeted, “10/10. The video of James Foley losing his neck is the perfection of ‘Terrorism.’”
Now I am going to jump to a conclusion: The two young Mormon men I met the other day are not going to go out and murder and celebrate beheadings because of something written in The Book of Mormon. I make the same prediction for Jews and Christians and their holy texts.
I can already hear the few bad apples retort from the progressives reading this. What I want to know is why those apples are showing up only in Islamic barrels.
Liberals Ignore Their Hypocrisy When It Comes To Islam

My wife and I have a daughter-in-law who is Lebanese and who has been shunned by the traditional Muslim elements of her family for committing the sin of falling in love with our American infidel son. Another of our children lived and worked in the Middle East. I was afraid to say too much about Islam in case they would suffer the consequences.
I have learned that in the Middle East, the bosom of Islam (that peace-loving religion), all you have to do is wear a crucifix around your neck to be arrested. And God help you if you are a woman because Allah sure as hell won’t help you. As a woman, you cannot in many Mideast countries be on the street without a male relative, you cannot drive a car or ride a bicycle, and you damn well better have enough clothes on or the roaming bands of religious police will put you under arrest. If you happen to be gay, that’s a death sentence.
Still, the bleeding-heart liberals lecture us on how we should not judge Islam. I’ve got news for you liberals, if we don’t deal with Islam now, they will deal with us the way the Nazis dealt with the Jews. Of course, you could always call-up the ACLU; but if Sharia law ever takes hold, there will be no ACLU.
I like to think I am fearless when it comes to writing what I believe, but even I am afraid to write too strongly about what I really think of Islam — not because somebody will hurt me. To hell with that, come and get me. But I fear repercussions on my publisher and my family. But frankly, as I am on the downside to 60, I don’t like to have to watch every word that I write in the off chance of retribution.
As for you progressives, I expect lots of messages. Yuck it up now. You have that right. But if Islam ever achieves its global goal of world domination, free speech will be something your children and grandchildren will not have; and you will have contributed to that end.
Yours in good times and bad,
–John Myers

[Longitude Zero]

Islam is a Cult of Hate. There are NO moderate Mooslimes.

[knkali]

I do not consider myself a liberal but I do not subscribe to painting an entire group of people with a single brush. This sort of rhetoric is how the Jews where singled out for extermination, and how the Japanese where interned here in the USA...... just two examples of unchecked hatred. I can find scripture in the new and old testament that can be cited as "hate mongering" scripture like that supposedly found in the Koran when looking for sound bites that are taken out of context. I cannot believe that I seem to be the only one on this forum that takes this position. C'mon guys, lets take a deep breath and collect our thoughts on this matter before we do something we ultimately might regret. If you don't like radical Islamists, maybe we should stop poking them with a stick. Leave these guys alone. How about we try that first? Instead we occupy their countries, kill their people, and then cannot understand why we are not loved; consequently, the haters must be killed before they kill us........Does anyone see the irrational context here? Why haven't the Israelis killed all the Palestinians? Because it isn't a solution to any problem. Neither is this hatred for all Muslims.
Please, anyone in agreement with me sound off. I am hanging out here to twitch in the wind... OR convince me that my thoughts here are plain wrong.

[berettabone]

First, who is poking whom with a stick? 911 was a pretty large poke, wouldn't you agree? You can't leave people alone, that sit around, treat their women like dogs, and think up any ways that they can to kill Americans. You can have any thoughts that you wish, that's why this country is so great, and that's why we continue to have animals move to this country. If it were up to me, I would not allow very many people from any country to move here. Melting pot, shmelting pot. We have enough problems of our own in this country, and for being a " civilized" country, people are still starving, and being killed every day. We don't need these religious extremists in this country. If you want to practice your religion, do it in your own country. They do have hate mongering in their religion.............don't bring it here. Peace loving, hardly, these animals have been fighting for ever, it's all they do, it's all they know. I do agree with a part of your " leave them alone" scenario. Let them blow the @$#^& out of each other, then we don't have to deal with them. We need to become oil independent more than ever, so it never comes in to play. I am one, who has no use for any of them.........harsh? Maybe. Do I care? No.

[marcinstl]

since the beginning of humanity there has been the leaders and the followers. leaders need power to command the actions of the followers to build a better world for the leaders to be in charge of. a common technique for keeping the herd in line is the use and misuse of mysticism* or what you might call religion (in the vernacular of salesmen and hustlers, the "long con"). the results of so-called religion(long con) is the crusades, all manner of cleansing, all manner of atrocities commited in the name of whatever popular "deity" by the hords of followers. while all that is going on the leaders gain or lose power and fortunes. whatever little piece of history your looking at, follow the money and see who made the most. (if you have any good stock picks for "the war on ISIS" please post them.)

*

• belief that union with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender.
• 
  belief characterized by self-delusion or dreamy confusion of thought, especially when based on the assumption of occult qualities or mysterious agencies.

[knkali]

First, who is poking whom with a stick? 911 was a pretty large poke, wouldn't you agree? You can't leave people alone, that sit around, treat their women like dogs, and think up any ways that they can to kill Americans. You can have any thoughts that you wish, that's why this country is so great, and that's why we continue to have animals move to this country. If it were up to me, I would not allow very many people from any country to move here. Melting pot, shmelting pot. We have enough problems of our own in this country, and for being a " civilized" country, people are still starving, and being killed every day. We don't need these religious extremists in this country. If you want to practice your religion, do it in your own country. They do have hate mongering in their religion.............don't bring it here. Peace loving, hardly, these animals have been fighting for ever, it's all they do, it's all they know. I do agree with a part of your " leave them alone" scenario. Let them blow the @$#^& out of each other, then we don't have to deal with them. We need to become oil independent more than ever, so it never comes in to play. I am one, who has no use for any of them.........harsh? Maybe. Do I care? No.

Yep 911 was big poke but my anger is at the perpetrators of the act not the faith they hide behind. Mexicans are coming up to this country and forming very violent organized crime syndicates which hurt Americans every day. Do we invade Mexico and kill everyone in Mexico to stop these violent acts against Americans? While I understand the sentiment, the practical application of what many propose here is fantasy. Fighting terrorism is a different animal requiring a different approach militarily and psychologically. What exactly that means requires much more thought than "kill them all and let Allah sort them out".

[berettabone]

Yep 911 was big poke but my anger is at the perpetrators of the act not the faith they hide behind. Mexicans are coming up to this country and forming very violent organized crime syndicates which hurt Americans every day. Do we invade Mexico and kill everyone in Mexico to stop these violent acts against Americans? While I understand the sentiment, the practical application of what many propose here is fantasy. Fighting terrorism is a different animal requiring a different approach militarily and psychologically. What exactly that means requires much more thought than "kill them all and let Allah sort them out".

It may require more thought from you.....................................me, not so much.

[knkali]

It may require more thought from you.....................................me, not so much.

understood

[Ikeo74]

People need to rethink the theory "Leave them alone and they will leave you alone" It doesn't work that way in today's world.

[marcinstl]

hehehehe, Jews, Arabs and the rest of us, wow. this all started with Abraham, who had 2 sons, Issac(from which Jews descended) and Ishmael(from which Arabs descended). (like any typically dysfunctional family, it's been war ever since). fast forward to after WW2 when the Brits and the UN gave Arab land (Israel/Palestine) to the Jews.
in any situation(middle east, former USSR) where the power is deposed, that power needs to be replaced with equal or greater power to keep the herd in line. if that isn't done, then there's ongoing power struggles until the top dog wins.
do not try to break up a dog fight, don't get in the middle. watch(and bet) from several rows back.
US foreign policy never quite seems to get that. some kind of stupid US ego that thinks we should be the world cops and social workers.
(or is the US really smart and selling arms and tech to the dogs makes us big money?)

[Bawanna]

I'm a big fan of leave them alone but watch them very closely if they stay over "there".

But they are here and multiplying worse than rabbits. Nearly the majority of the population now in Sweden and the surrounding countries. They will eventually take over just in shear numbers alone.
Much like the hispanic exodus we're experiencing right now in our country.

I don't compare the hunt for for muslims to Hitlers hunt for Jews. He was seeking some sort of supreme race, actually there is a comparison given more thought. The Muslims think they are the supreme race and want to kill everything else.

Guess I'm on board with the let Allah sort em out plan.

But I'm more on board with wrapping the the US in tyvek, you know the building paper material that allows moisture out but not in. Substitute the word hispanic for moisture and you'll understand my plan.

[berettabone]

Like him or not, GWB said it best............"you can't reason with these people. There is no getting through to them". They only understand one thing. Your wasting your time, thinking that these people will ever understand anything but the end of something that blows up. Using religion as their guide, they go through life hating anything that is American, or any religion that's not their own. Fighting is a way of life on the desert. All of those Middle Eastern countries are so barbaric. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Libya etc. All of them behead someone or something on a regular basis. Nothing short of animals. Can you say bunkerbusters for everyone

[SlowBurn]

I do not consider myself a liberal but I do not subscribe to painting an entire group of people with a single brush. This sort of rhetoric is how the Jews where singled out for extermination, and how the Japanese where interned here in the USA...... just two examples of unchecked hatred. I can find scripture in the new and old testament that can be cited as "hate mongering" scripture like that supposedly found in the Koran when looking for sound bites that are taken out of context. I cannot believe that I seem to be the only one on this forum that takes this position. C'mon guys, lets take a deep breath and collect our thoughts on this matter before we do something we ultimately might regret. If you don't like radical Islamists, maybe we should stop poking them with a stick. Leave these guys alone. How about we try that first? Instead we occupy their countries, kill their people, and then cannot understand why we are not loved; consequently, the haters must be killed before they kill us........Does anyone see the irrational context here? Why haven't the Israelis killed all the Palestinians? Because it isn't a solution to any problem. Neither is this hatred for all Muslims.
Please, anyone in agreement with me sound off. I am hanging out here to twitch in the wind... OR convince me that my thoughts here are plain wrong.

Islam is different. Unlike being Japanese or Jewish, or even "Palestinian" its not a race or a tribe. Its an ideology, and among its explicit prime tenets is the duty to subjugate non-believers, by any amount of force necessary until the entire world submits. Its true that most so called Muslims do not take the actions which their religion requires except to the extent they are forced or shamed into it. The same could be said for the majority of Nazis and Communists who joined up because of pressure etc. But THEY DON'T MATTER. The most consistent, dedicated "pure" adherents of any such ideology dictate what happens. Unless we recognize by name the enemy which is making war on us, and attack until they are beaten, we have no hope of being left alone. Its not "terrorists" or "extemeists". Its Islam.

[Bawanna]

We can start stamping em out with that dark complected fella in the white house. He's one too. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll behead Michele in between golf games.

[Longitude Zero]

If you read the Quaran cover to cover, and I have several times, you realize that it is a book of hate and destruction. Mooslimes are only interested in the utter destruction of non-mooslimes. They want to form the newest Caliphate here on earth. There are only two kinds of followers of Islam 1. Those that are radical and 2. Those that will become radical. They are not here in the USA to assimilate they are here to conquer. Those too blind, soft hearted, uneducated to see the truth will one day rue their current failure to understand. Sadly that failure will most likely be borne by the namby pambies children and grandchildren.