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Elizabeth Gibson • 5 years ago

how do they protect them selfs from people that are not welcome to be there

Jean-Francois Morf • 5 years ago
Ivar Ivarson • 6 years ago

" All the major religions have reformed themselves, reducing or eliminating the all-too-human tendency to sanctimonious oppression—and none of these faiths, let us remember, endorsed oppression as a universal creedal or Divine imperative."

Those SJW/antifa types are practicing their "old-time" religion.

Thomas J. Hennigan • 6 years ago

People in the West generally think that other religions are like Christianity and obviously some are, especially Judaism. Others also share with Chistianity the Golden Rule, but Islam is "a horse of a different color". We must realize that historically there have been evil religions, such as that of Moloch followed by the Canaanites in Biblical times, and the religion of the Catheginians, which was rejected by the Romans due to the fact that it practiced human sacrifice, as well as the religion of the Aztecs, which sacrificed thousands of boys every year to its god. The Spaniards were so incensed by what they saw that they immediately destroyed the temple where these horrific sacrifices were carried out.. The Cathedral of Mexico City is built where it was. Islam is a dangerous cult and should be stamped out from any civilized country. ,

Martel Sobieskey • 6 years ago

Praises to the wisdom David Solway. "Islam is no more a religion than a wooden nickel is a gold coin" People who think otherwise which is nearly everyone cannot tell the difference between a glass of hemlock and a glass of apple juice. Any nation that grants this imposter the status of a religion is committing slow suicide. We are at war with Islam. It is an enemy invader disguised as a religion. All those who wrongly give Islam religion status have a severe case of Stockholm syndrome or are terribly corrupt.
We must heed the wise counsel of David Solway before Islam turn America into a living hell.

Patrick of Atlantis • 6 years ago

Islam is a religion and a mass psychopathy.

Patriot_panadero01 • 7 years ago

Great article and research. Now if only we can get the rest of the world to understand what Islam really is. Stop treating it as a religion.

J W S • 7 years ago

Time for another high profile, public debate on whether Islam is a peaceful religion.
Are there that many "peaceful" Muslims that will become violent Islamic jihadists if Islam is criticized?

But at least Europe and the US must destroy the ISIS ideology directly in an openly-declared war. It's hard to believe that if ISIS gets the war it wants that Western civilization would lose that war.

Joline Ribieri • 7 years ago

The Islamic view of Democracy
“He maketh none to share in His government.” Democracy is heresy. Allah shares his government with no one. 18:26 http://www.tafsirq.com/en/2...
While European Law is Human and Changing, Sharia is divine and unchangeable. The Quran does not allow freedom of individuals to have an opinion: `` When Allah and His Messenger have decreed a matter, they (the believers) should not have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger; he has indeed strayed into a plain error.`` Quran 33:36.
. The overall norm is: The Quran does not allow freedom of individuals to have an opinion: `` When Allah and His Messenger have decreed a matter, they (the believers) should not have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger; he has indeed strayed into a plain error. ` Quran 33:36

The seven principles on which Democracy is based: individual freedoms and civil liberties; rule of law; sovereignty resting upon the people; equality of all citizens before the law; vertical and horizontal accountability for government officials; transparency of the ruling systems to the demands of the citizens; equality of opportunity for citizens. This approach emphasises civil liberties, human rights and freedoms, instead of over-reliance on elections and formal institutions of states. These, not the sword, not guns, shape the state. Indeed, acceptance of some basic constructs such as a constitution and a parliament do not imply democracy when power continues to be wielded by bodies above constitutional law.
The Islamic concept of law maintains that the Quran is an expression of the divine will as revealed to Prophet Muhammed. Hence it does not consider Western concepts such as Human Rights. At the core of Western Democracy is freedom of expression, an independent and free media and Human Rights. Critical thinking has no place in Islam.
Secular jurisprudence of Western societies distinguishes between criminal and civil law. Unlike secular jurisprudence of Western societies that distinguishes between criminal and civil law, the Sharia does not address criminal law. The idea of Criminal guilt does not exist in Sharia. There is no general concept of penal law in Islamic Law (Schacht 1982, pg 187).

David GARE • 7 years ago

'Islamophobia' a convenient way for apologists to describe anything said against Islam or Muslims. Not knowing much about Islamic doctrine or Sharia law I decided to better inform myself by reading the Koran and other works pertaining to their politics and religion. Any phobia is an irrational fear. Now I am 'Islam Aware' I can understand that there are very real dangers to western civilization most of which come from the media and politicians who tell us that 'Islam is a religion of peace' this phrase is always trotted out soon after any atrocity committed by Islamic extremists.
I have some disturbing news, Islam itself is the most extreme political cult that mankind has ever seen. Ask yourself why does FGM (female child genital mutilation) practiced by Muslims go unpunished in our western society when it was declared a 'Crime against humanity', ask your own politicians and they will not dare to discuss the matter for fear of being branded 'Racist'. It beggars belief that neither our Politicians nor Media have ever bothered to educate themselves in regard to the aims of 'Political Islam'.Beware Politicians, Media and other apologists who try to stifle free speech here in the west.

jetgraphics • 7 years ago

Islam has been the enemy of America since its founding. Recall the Marine Hymn : "To the Shores of Tripoli..."
It is a violation of the Smith Act to advocate the destruction of American government, which, if enforced, would expel all Muslims and close all Mosques (houses of warship).

Brian • 7 years ago

American citizens should ask themselves after reading this article, "What kind of "leader" goes to great lengths to relocate as many Muslims as possible into our country, knowing that they have no intention of assimilation but instead a fervor for conquest and subjugation?" Never, ever vote for any politician who approves of Muslim immigration into this country. They are NOT working in your interests or those of your descendants.

Brian • 7 years ago

Our government needs to acknowledge the hard truth about Islam that Mr. Solway outlines so nicely here. Their failure to do so will almost certainly result in the people needing to take the matter into their own hands in order to defend their lives, liberty and property. If and when it ever gets to that point, Muslims will regret ever considering the United States as a target destination for their conquest. It's not too late to act to prevent the carnage that is clearly on the horizon.

Paladin • 7 years ago

Occult! Read Sura 72 (Picthall).

Lickster • 7 years ago

Their religion calls for the death of all non-believers , is this what they call a religion of peace? Give me break !

John • 7 years ago

There is going to be a law against joining
a right wing group? But no law about joining a radical cult group that want to
take over the world and force every one to join or be subjucated or murdered by
this cult if you do not bow to them, and brain dead left wingers and the PC
brigade think this is the right path to follow? I'm sorry but there are a lot
of people out there who are not as stupid and ignorant as these people and want
freedom and to live their lives without all this brain washing and oppression
that this cult called Islam wants to be able to do.

Joseph Broz • 7 years ago

Islam is a death cult founded by a butcher of innocent people. You gotta be pretty stupid to give these killers Sharia law.

Best George • 7 years ago

It is not a religion, a cult or divine highly being hijacked by users.

NewsRe • 7 years ago

a terrorist organization infiltrating countries around the world.

Eufrates Garcia • 7 years ago

"totalitarian political doctrine" disguised like "religion"? accurate description of this bubonic pest, Islam-muslims to the Mankind, is like rabies to the dogs. This savages acted with total impunity no because "they can" but allowed. This journal article must be extensebily published to inform to the naive, no informed even to the imbecils que stubornly want not accept the "real islam-muslims" are INCOMPATIBLE, AGAINST the Western Civilisation

George Garrett • 7 years ago

Islam is a religion and a political state that seeks absolute control, wherever and however possible. Any western Democracy that allows it to gain a foot hold within it borders is undermining itself.

Gevelsis • 7 years ago

Islam is not a religion. It is an evil, misogynistic cult. Muslims are its prisoners

Gevelsis • 7 years ago

Islam is not a religion. It is an evil, misogynistic cult. Muslims are its prisoners.

Gevelsis • 7 years ago

Islam is not a religion. It is an evil, misogynistic cult. Muslims are its prisoners.

Gevelsis • 7 years ago

Islam is not a religion - it is a CULT. This is so obvious, why can't we see it? Muslims are the victims of Islam. They have sold their freedom for a lie. That is all.

Reset X Reset • 7 years ago

The stupidity is the failure to properly identify the threat. You cannot apply reason to an un-reasonable or non-reasoning people in an attempt to second guess their motives. There is no "why" because it is the nature of such to infect, rob, rape and murder when prey is available and vulnerable.
As long as people subscribe to the belief that all cultures, religions and people are created equal, prey will be plentiful.

Wonder • 7 years ago

Any time you take women out of society you are left with 1/2 of a society. The gentler side of the faith is quieted. There are no checks and balances in this faith. It is purely a male society with few rules and male perceived rights that feed their desires. A "faith" that has a prophet that marries children and consummates that marriage at the age of 10, has set a standard so low they have no choice but to be animalist human beings.

Nancy Campbell • 7 years ago

Its all about Caliphate it is a conquering religion by ANY means. READ THEIR WORDS. They can only have peace amonst themselves in their countries.. and I do not even see that

sullinsea • 7 years ago

I've been considering the possibility for about a year or more that any "religion" that refuses to recognize each individual's inalienable God-given right to freedom of conscience - to be an infidel or an apostate, is not a religion to which the First Amendment applies. What does that mean? Treating the organized faith as hostile to the Constitution does not violate the establishment clause. And individuals practicing such a faith are not entitled to the same protections as those whose faith is the foundation for recognition of our First Amendment conscience rights, although advocacy of Shariah is still protected under the free speech clause, as is the advocacy of many non-theocratic forms of collectivism hostile to the Constitution.

nwwapiti • 7 years ago

Political Speech but not the attempt to supplant it's ideology over the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Islam is subversive and is not protected under the Constitution.

Brien • 7 years ago

This article is defective and propaganda.
"There are several ways in which Islam differs from all other major religions." ?? Except that all the major religions 'sanctions militant proselytization', and 'punishes apostasy', and 'countenances no separation between church and state', and ' “religion” itself takes precedence over the transcendent values'!!!
Then the author contradicts himself by saying that the " all faiths have at one time or another shown themselves prone to violence and repression".
Thus only the last paragraph has any relevance or logic.

Paul Metto • 7 years ago

I'm am sick of islam we should reject all moslem from western countries it is a satanic death an sex cult of a paedophile

Benjamin Scherrey • 7 years ago

Nassim Taleb has a great little article on "That Thing We Call Religion" that explains a lot of the confusion and overuse of the term. Well worth reading.

https://www.facebook.com/nn...

Shane Di • 7 years ago

Islam is a religion and religion is BAD. If it was good then why there is separation of state and religion? Why you shouldn't want a good thing in your state??

iconoclast73 • 7 years ago

It's a great idea to try to deny such a retrograde force as Islam general rights of a religion. But a religion is essentially a belief in some kind of deity and the perception of said deity's rules for living. Many old religions had human sacrifice as part of their religion - of course civilized people believe human sacrifice is wrong and no real deity would ask we do it. Islam is simply the most violent of religions still in practice in this age. Yes, it asks total submission and total control - but it is is still a religion.

Terence57 • 7 years ago

It doesn't "ask."

Canadave • 7 years ago

If Islam fits the definition of a religion then so does throwing virgins into volcanoes.

Red Robbo • 7 years ago

“Secularism cannot be a solution for countries with a Muslim majority or even a sizeable minority, for it requires people to replace their God-given beliefs with an entirely different set of man-made beliefs. Separation of religion and state is not an option for Muslims because it requires us to abandon Allah’s decree for that of man.”

All religion is ' man-made'. I have yet to see any evidence otherwise.

Sherry Davis • 7 years ago
StopTheChinazis.org • 7 years ago

Interesting and informative article, but the question is what Islam is in addition to being a religion, not whether it is a religion at all. The quality of being especially not-nice and having certain purposes not in the fore in other religions is not a disqualifying attribute.

The article starts by loading the definitional deck. Conceding that Islam is not a religion "in the common acceptation of the term as a community of believers dedicated to the loving worship of the Divine, the sanctity of life, and the institution of moral principles governing repentance for sins and crimes, making life on earth a stage toward a higher reincarnation, an ineffable peace, or a confirmatory prelude to eternity in the realm of a righteous and merciful God" is not to concede that the common acceptation carries so much freight. Is Islam a religion in the standard dictionary-definition common acceptation?

American Heritage: "a. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe. b. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship." The institutionalized system and the belief in supernatural powers are the ingredients without which one does not have a religion in the literal sense.

There is no rule that says a religion must be life affirming or teach to current moral and ethical standards. Islam is a great example of this. There have been attempts at reform within Islam, though, but most are considered heretical sects (e.g. B'hai and Ahmadiyyah) removed from the mainstream of that religion. That said, any religion that actively promotes and foments violence is fair game for observation by the authorities. We should also recall that the law giving presidential authority to limit immigration to any group that poses a threat in no way prohibits exclusion of followers of a religion, should it come to that. When Muslims in the US learn that their faith carries with it certain burdens (surveillance by authorities and limited immigration of other Muslims into the US), they'll have to reform radically, ditch it or pack up and go elsewhere. Contrary to the clownish and insincere Mr. Khan, there is nothing in special in the constitution that protects his precious fellow Muslims, when they commit violence, fraud or other unlawful activities in furtherance of its antiquated and barbaric Arabic codes.

Rusty • 7 years ago

Until Muslims stand up in protest en-mass against the violence, I shall consider Islam to be a terrorist cult and the Muslim population supporters of vile acts

random_observer_2011 • 7 years ago

And although this comment might be considered to come from a widely different perspective than my previous, it's worth noting as an aside that the Golden Rule is really more politics than morals. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is an excellent creed to serve as a mutual de-escalation of conflict pact in any society, but it's also a license to excess for anyone who thinks themselves strong enough to get away with abusing his fellow man and is willing to take the consequences of defeat if he is eventually overcome. In other words, any man willing to accept death if he is defeated is free also to kill in pursuit of victory.
For it to really be Christianity, you also need the cosmological superstructure of a just and loving God, an immortal and equal soul, and the sanctity of life. The Golden Rule alone is quite inadequate.

RexMottram • 6 years ago

That's why the Rule is couched in negative terms: Do not do to others...

Beagle • 7 years ago

That's a great point.

random_observer_2011 • 7 years ago

Christianity did indeed always have separation of Church and State, based on Christ's comments that one should render unto Caesar and that His kingdom was not of this world. On the other hand, what Christianity called separation of Church and State has meant often that the church is a department of the state, that the state is an arm of the church, or that both are mutually supportive or at least partners. It has not meant what moderns call separation of Church and State until quite recently. From a 21st century perspective, 2000 years of Christian practice don't look like separation of Church and State, which essentially now means segregation of religion from public life. Christianity doesn't countenance that, and what it does countenance does not look like separation to many secular people.
Most human religion throughout history has not countenanced such separation either. All premodern societies took religion and public business to be intertwined. From the collaboration of shamans and chiefs to priest kings to the state religions of Greek, Roman, or Egyptian civilization, to Hindiuism, religion and state were never separate. China in imperial times could make a partial claim, and indeed sometimes was disdainful of religion, save for the overweening fact that the Throne was held to be of divine origin and sanction.
And of course that inspiring para on the religion taking precedence over the transcendent values it should be stressing is just a string of particularly early 21st century liberal Judeo Christian ideals that have no necessary purchase on most of the religious experience of humanity, past or present.

random_observer_2011 • 7 years ago

That's also a lot of emphasis on "religions TODAY". Oh, so a tiny and predominantly secular sliver of human history, dominated by people to whom religion is at most a habit or a day-a-week cloak, then.

random_observer_2011 • 7 years ago

" a community of believers dedicated to the loving worship of the Divine, the sanctity of life, and the institution of moral principles governing repentance for sins and crimes, making life on earth a stage toward a higher reincarnation, an ineffable peace, or a confirmatory prelude to eternity in the realm of a righteous and merciful God."
Those are some extraordinarily specific requirements that many belief systems historically considered religions could not meet, certainly not in their entirety, or even all religions still extant. One might think you were stacking the deck.
Most Asian/Amerindian religious systems of ultimately shamanistic origins, but including Meso American polytheism, sought favours from the divine and to placate it, but neither necessarily did love it nor were required to love it. TO admittedly varying degrees, this might actually characterize most polytheistic systems of the West, of ancient Middle East and India, and China. The degree to which any divine being loved humanity in return was equally suspect, and at most an attribute of some gods/aspects of the divinity rather than all.
Most religions, and peoples, have not necessarily believed in the universal, uniform sanctity of life. Indeed, most have believed in it selectively at best. I do not exclude ancient Israel from this, on its own Biblical account.
Indeed, most of human religion through most of history would not meet most of those terms.
It is highly contestable whether the belief in the sanctity of life in all branches of Buddhism or Hinduism today can be considered uniform in either religion, or can in either case be considered to have the same meaning as the term has in Christianity. The goal of Buddhism after all is to ultimately escape life rather than consider it a gift.
Moral principles even among extant religions vary widely in their actual content- it is essentially meaningless to note they all have some kind of moral principles. The practitioners all also breathe air.
Similarly with repentance for sins and crimes. The definitions of 'repentance', sin and crime varies widely. Some religions focus on the strict obedience to the law rather than seeking mercy afterwards, or consider repentance to be a ritual act of recompliance with law and ceremony rather than an exposition of sincere sorrow or expectation of divine mercy.
Also, if one is to interpret that list so broadly as to include all other religions extant today, then there is nothing in it not found in Islam.

Donna Stadler • 7 years ago

This is a fantastic piece of work--one of the best things I've read on the subject explained so clearly. Anyone who can't see it is just being stubborn. It is amazing to me how people cling to a philosophy due to peer pressure or something and will do so right up to their demise.

During the first Iranian hostage crisis in the 70's there were two gentlemen who supported the overthrow of the shah and regularly appeared on TV in their designer suits with perfect English (obviously educated in the west) with condescending rhetoric. After the Ayatollah Khomeni took over we never heard from them again as they were both assassinated. But they had served their purpose.

Dee Bee • 7 years ago

Through a supposed rational process you are trying to define a process that is at least spiritual and perhaps emotional. The founders understood that every person needs to define their own interaction with God. Heck I am sure that other than the socially defined Christian denominations, people inside those denominations choose the definition of their religion. So, presumably, a non Muslim setting out to pontificate about Islam s as best arrogant and fool hardy. Muslims need to figure out for themselves how to traipse through their holy texts and culture, just as Christians do. and yes we as non Muslims have a duty to make sure that they are encouraged and perhaps coaxed strongly to take care of their own otherwise outsiders, presumably arrogant ones like you, will.