RELIGION or POLITICS ??? Never Just The Economy, Stupid

Happy Monday to you friends. I believe this to be a very important article for everyone to read, bar none. It is written by Brian T. Kennedy, President of the Claremont Institute, and who has also written for such as the National Review, Wall Street Journal, and Investor's Business Daily.  This article was published in the Newsletter, IMPRIMIS. by Hillsdale College. Let's get to it.



IT'S NEVER JUST THE ECONOMY, STUPID------


      We are often told that we possess the most powerful military in the world and that we face no serious threat for some time to come.  We are conforted with three reassurances aimed at deflecting any serious discussion of national security: (1)   that Islam is a religion of peace;   (2) that we will never go to war with China because our economic interests are intertwined; and (3)  that America won the Cold War and Russia is no longer our enemy.   But these reassurances are MYTHS,  propagated on the right and left alike.   We believe them at our peril, because serious threats are already upon us.

      Let me begin with Islam.   We were assured that it was a religion of peace immediately following September 11.   President Bush, a good man, believed or was persuaded that true Islam was not that different from Judaism or Christianity.   He said in a speech in October 2001, just a month after the attacks on the Twin Towers and The Pentagon;  "Islam is a vibrant faith... We honor its traditions.  Our enemy does not.  Our enemy doesn't follow the great traditions of Islam.   They've hijacked a great religion."   But unfortunately, Mr. Bush was trying to understand Islam as we would like it to be rather than how countless devout Muslims understand it. 

      Organizationally, Islam is built around a belief in God or Allah, but it is equally a political ideology organized around the Koran and the teachings of its founder Muhammad.   Whereas Christianity teaches that we should render unto Caesar's and unto God what is God's -- allowing for a non-theocratic political tradition to develop in the West, culminating in the principles of civil and religious liberty  in the Ameerican founding -- Islam teaches tha to disagree with or even reinterpret the Koran's 6000 odd verses, organized into 114 chapters or Suras and dealing as fully with law and politics as with matters of faith, is punishable by DEATH.

      Islamic authorities of all the major branches of Islam hold that the Koran must be read so that the parts written last override the others.   This so-called theory of abrogation means that the ruling parts of the Koran are those written after Muhammad went to Medina in 622 A.D.   Specifically, they are Suras 9 and 5, which are not the Suras containing the verses often cited as proof of Islam's peacefulness.

      Sura 9, verse 5, reads:  "Fight and slay the unbelievers wherever ye find them in every stratagem of war.   But if they repent, and establish egular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them...."

      Sura9, verse 29, reads:  "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the religion of truth, even if they are of the 40 people of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

      Sura 5, verse 51, reads:  "Oh ye who believe!  Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protctors to each other.   And he amongst you that turn to them for friendship is of them.  Verily Allah guideth not the unjust."
      And Sura 3, verse 28, introduces the doctring of TAQIYYA, which holds that Muslims should not be friends with the infidel EXCEPT AS DECEPTION, always with the end goal of converting. subduing, or destroying him.


That is it for today, friend, and please be clear on just esactly what this says, and so why would you need any further proog of where we in America stand with the Muslim and Islamic faiths.  For your life, if not already, wake up to the facts and do not be deterred in your mission to wake up and stand up for the America of our Constitution. I shall continue this and it gets even better, so be sure to come back as I bring you more on this subject.  Cheers    CJ