Who thought Iraq had WMD? Most everybody
(24 May06)“…51 percent of Americans, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, think the commander in chief "deliberately misled" us about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. "Deliberately misled"? Once again, let's go to the videotape:… Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright , February 1998: " Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."… Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger , February 1998: "He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has 10 times since 1983..” Who thought Iraq had WMD? Most everybody by Larry Elder “… Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso , October 2003: "When [former President Bill] Clinton was here recently he told me was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime."… French President Jacques Chirac , February 2003: "There is a problem -- the probable possession of weapons of mass destruction by an uncontrollable country, Iraq . The international community is right . . . in having decided Iraq should be disarmed." Gen. Wesley Clark , Vermont Gov. Howard Dean Remember him??...” And the list goes on…
(24 May06)“… Yugoslavia is gone, forever. The country that emerged from World War I and Versailles as the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, land of the South Slavs , has passed into history… In 1991, Macedonia peacefully seceded. Slovenia and Croatia fought their way out, and Bosnia broke free after a war marked by the massacre at Srbenica and NATO intervention…The nation-state is dying. Men have begun to transfer their allegiance, loyalty and love from the older nations both upward to the new transnational regimes that are arising and downward to the sub-nations whence they came, the true nations, united by blood and soil, language, literature, history, faith, tradition and memory…” The death of the nation state by Pat Buchanan “..Transnational institutions, the embryonic institutions of a new world government to which the elites of the West and Third World are transferring allegiance and power, include the United Nations, the EU, the World Trade Organization, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the International Seabed Authority, the Kyoto Protocol, the IMF and the World Bank…not only are nations subdividing, losing their monopolies on the love and loyalty of their peoples, but they are being superseded by "non-state actors" that are challenging the monopoly on warfare enjoyed by the nation-state since the Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years War…”
(24 May06)“…And so it unfolds. This war. Based on cultural infiltration rather than traditional warfare, the Islamists exploit the democratic spaces within our society and insert their religious dogma via our own societal modes. And when Islam oversteps and the ignorant Westerners protest, Islam screams, “Racism, Xenophobia”, and the gatekeepers of Western culture rollover and go back to sleep….For years the Australian Refugee Review Tribunal has been granting asylum to Islamic refugees who claim to be members of the Muslim Brotherhood…” Rolling Over Australia by Sharon Lapkin FrontPageMagazine.com “…The Australian (April 08, 2006) reported that Ahmad al-Hamwi had “alleged links to terrorist organisations spanning a good part of the globe.”… Despite this, Australia granted al-Hamwi asylum in 1996… the West, it appears, is determined to sleep through the invasion. Just as in Europe, Australia is appeasing and ignoring. It is censoring its own freedoms and democratic principles to assuage Islamic cultural sensitivities. It is turning a blind eye to Islamic racism against Australian citizens and succumbing to the bullying tactics of those who attempt to frighten anyone who dares to name it….”
Western and Muslim concepts of honor create an unbridgeable cultural divide
(21 May06) The honour shame axis is one of the main themes in the David Pryce Jones book The Closed Circle. This Blog by Aussiegirl brings it all into fine focus.
“… If we are to prevail in this war with fanatical and terrorist Islam, it is extremely important that we understand our enemy thoroughly, from his perspective, not from ours….In order to fully understand what we are dealing with we need to take the world view of the Muslim, and see the conflict from his point of view, not from our own. Unfortunately, this level of cultural relativity has not penetrated the prevailing mindset….The last time the liberal West encountered this form of shame and honor culture was in WWII, when Americans faced the Japanese, to whom the concept of "face" was more important than life itself. It is why there were such huge casualties when we invaded the Pacific Islands and places like Iwo Jima , when wave after suicidal wave of Japanese kept coming, long after it made any strategic or tactical sense. It was better to die an honorable death, than to live a dishonorable life…” Western and Muslim concepts of honor create an unbridgeable cultural divide By Aussiegirl “.. .In addition to honor and shame, and concomitant with it, comes the Muslim sense of manhood or manliness, which involves being capable of great violence and mayhem in defense of the family name or his religion. Our own concepts of tolerance seem hopelessly weak and pathetic to a culture such as this, and in no way makes us palatable to the Muslim male, who sees only weakness…We would be wise to take into account these cultural characteristics, and not make the mistake that the compassionate liberal makes -- which is that given enough understanding and tolerance, the other fellow will see your point of view, and come in the end, to be as tolerant as you. In a sense, this is the illogic of tolerance, it assumes that tolerance is the logical endpoint of all understanding and culture. It is not…” 
(21 May06) “…If it hasn't occurred to most Americans by now, Arabs don't think like us. They see the world in very different terms. Rationality, logic, and common sense do not rate high among their priorities…. In 1980, Edward V. Badolato, a retired U.S. Marine Colonel with a distinguished career in government and private enterprise and a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College with several tours of duty in the Middle East, beginning in 1967 shortly after the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, wrote a white paper, “Learning to Think like an Arab Muslim: a Short Guide to Understanding the Arab Mentality”. I am going to provide a brief introduction to it. At only 14 pages, (click here) it is not a long document, but it succinctly explains why Americans and others in the West are encountering such difficulty understanding why Arab Muslims appear, by our standards, to be completely insane..” Thinking like an Arab by Alan Caruba “…Badolato begins by describing Arabs as “a proud and sensitive people whose culture is mainly derived from three key factors: family, language, and religion…you are either a Muslim or you are an infidel and, by definition, a threat to Islam…What America and the West are up against are Islamic fundamentalists and countless sympathizers who would destroy us in a desperate effort to retain their Arab identity….Their very identity as Arabs and/or Muslims is at stake. The validity of Islam as the one, true faith is at stake…Arab Muslims are not like us. They do not want to be like us. If they become more like us they will have to let go of a culture that both stunts their humanity and provides an odd, brutal security blanket at the same time. For the West that leaves us with the same demand we made of Japan and Germany in the last century, unconditional surrender..”
Exclusive: Shah of Iran 's Heir Plans Overthrow of Regime
(20 May06) Important and compulsory reading!
“…Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shah of Iran, told the editors of HUMAN EVENTS last week that in the next two to three months he hopes to finalize the organization of a movement aimed at overthrowing the Islamic regime in Tehran and replacing it with a democratic government. He believes the cause is urgent because of the prospect that Iran may soon develop a nuclear weapon or the U.S. may use military force to pre-empt that. He hopes to offer a way out of this dilemma: a revolution sparked by massive civil disobedience in which the masses in the streets are backed by elements of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard…. The following are excerpts from the interview with the editors of HUMAN EVENTS in which Pahlavi explained why and how he thinks his country can be transformed from an Islamist dictatorship into a free democracy….” From Human Events Online Exclusive: Shah of Iran 's Heir Plans Overthrow of Regime
(18 May06) “…Which two of the following three things are so obviously dangerous that they've just been banned? And which one was this week declared safe for distribution?
Exhibit A: Free Bibles placed by Gideons International in the bedside cupboards of public hospitals.
Exhibit B: A jokey TV commercial in which Wogs Out of Work's George Kapiniaris complains about an Indian call centre.
Exhibit C: A book sold last year by Sydney's Islamic Bookshop that praises suicide bombing as "legitimate and praiseworthy" and says it's best to "wire up one's body, or a vehicle or a suitcase with explosives, and then to enter among a conglomeration of the enemy and to detonate"…. Yes, it's the Bibles and the Indian joke that have been banned for the immense harm they might do.
And it's the jihad book, Defence of the Muslim Lands, that the Australian Federal Police and Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions this week said could be sold without fear of prosecution for inciting violence… Oh my God!! A Bible by Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun “…Imagine the trauma one of our ethnic friends might feel if he or she opened the drawer and found . . . OH MY DIFFERENT GOD, a Bible.
Professional pain-avoiders have averted this catastrophe by removing every single Bible from the bedsides of leading public hospitals in Victoria, South Australia and Queensland…It seems the real racists -- the real troublemakers -- are the multiculturalists who assume Muslims are so intolerant they can't safely be shown a Bible, or denied their own books that preach such violence.
And once more we should heed the warning -- especially in Victoria , where we prosecute two Christian pastors who warn against jihad but tolerate the most radical imams who preach it…”
Signed copies of Andrew's book Still not Sorry can be ordered on 9292 1234
Wafa Sultan Renews Islam Critque-In English
(16 May06) “…Psychiatrist, writer and activist Dr. Wafa Sultan, a Syrian expatriate has become one of the most famous Muslim heretics in modern times…. In her televised comments, in Arabic, she called the “clash” between Islam and the West “a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality.”… Last week, in Los Angeles , she spoke in a public forum for the first time in English….“I have lost hope for Islam and I think it's the duty of all thinkers to be blunt and straightforward to change the minds of Muslims,…” Wafa Sultan Renews Islam Critque-In English “…The daughter of devout Muslims, Sultan first began to question Islam as a medical student at the University of Aleppo, where she witnessed members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood political group shoot dead her professor while shouting “Allah is great.”… There is no moderate Islam at all because Islam is different from any other religion,” Sultan said. “They believe the Quran is the absolute word of God and we're not supposed to play with it or change it.”…In addition, she said, in Islam religion and politics are intertwined, making state enforcement of Islam a religious goal among devout Muslims in any country….”
Cardinal Questions for Muslims
(16 May06) “…At the close of a compelling, thoroughly documented address ( delivered April 2, 2006, at The Legatus Summit, Naples, Florida ) entitled, “Islam and Western Democracies,” Cardinal George Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney , posed four salient questions for his erstwhile Muslim interlocutors wishing to engage in meaningful interfaith dialogue… Media attention was focused almost exclusively on the Cardinal's statement that, “ In my own reading of the Koran, I began to note down invocations to violence. There are so many of them, however, that I abandoned this exercise after 50 or 60 or 70 pages ”—an unassailable observation, given, for example that sura (chapter) 9 alone comprises in its entirety a series of timeless war proclamations against Jews, Christians, and pagans…” Cardinal Questions for Muslims by Andrew Bostom “…Dr. Habib Malik, in an eloquent address delivered February 3, 2003 at the at the 27th annual Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Presidents Conference decried the platitudinous “least common denominators” paradigm which dominates what he aptly termed the contemporary “dialogue industry”:… This is politicized dialogue. This is dialogue for the sake of dialogue…if this is dialogue, it's pathetic. …C ardinal Pell's unanswered questions highlight the predictable failure of the feckless “We're all three Abrahamic religions”, “dialogue for the sake of dialogue” approach to both Muslim-Christian, and Muslim-Jewish dialogue. Until Muslims are willing to address with candor these admittedly wrenching questions, Dr. Malik's sobering conclusions from his February 2003 speech will remain apposite: "One certainly needs to be open at all times to learn from the Other, including to learn at times that the Other right now has nothing to teach me on a particular issue..."
The Terrorists' Motivation: Islam
(16 May06) “…The near silence about the true role of Islam in motivating Islamic terrorists has two main causes: multiculturalism and religion. Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture….Islam, like all religions, rejects reason as a means of gaining knowledge and guiding action; it holds that all important truths are grasped by faith in supernatural beings and sacred texts. The Koran explicitly states that knowledge comes from revelation, not thinking….Islam advocates the subordination of every sphere of life to religious dogma, including the legal system, politics, economics, and family life; the word "Islam" means literally: submission. The individual is not supposed to think independently but to selflessly subordinate himself to the dictates of his religion and its theocratic representatives…” The Terrorists' Motivation: Islam by Edwin A Locke and Alex Epstein “…The Koran is replete with calls to take up arms in its name…These ideas easily lead to fanaticism and terrorism. In fact, what is often referred to as the "fanaticism" of many Muslims is explicitly endorsed by their religion ….It is true that many Muslims who live in the West (like most Christians) reject religious fanaticism and are law-abiding and even loyal citizens, but this is because they have accepted some Western values, including respect for reason, a belief in individual rights, and the need for a separation between church and state. It is only to the extent that they depart from their religion--and from a society that imposes it--that they achieve prosperity, freedom, and peace….”
Where was George Clooney during the genocide in Iraq?
(14 May06) Typical of your vacuous, dopey Hollywood Himbo…
“…It is the first genocide of the 21st century," (George) Clooney said after his first visit to Darfur, where he used his "celebrity credit card" to call attention to looting, murder, rape and refugees….The last time celebrities told us to "do something" in Africa, President Clinton sent troops to Somalia in 1993 and we lost 18 soldiers (Blackhawk Down) ….Now Clooney wants us to "do something" about Darfur, where Arab Muslims who control the government have murdered about 300,000 black Muslims. But where was Clooney during the past 20 years while 2 million Christians and non-Muslim black Africans were murdered in Sudan by Islamic fundamentalists who declared a jihad against "infidels" in 1983? Where was George Clooney during the genocide in Iraq? By Peter Bronson “ ... But for some reason, Clooney doesn't mention Islamic fundamentalists. He blames President Bush instead…Clooney gripes that America "has been slow to respond" to Darfur . Not true. Bush has done more than any president or foreign nation: $1.3 billion in humanitarian aid and visits by a real secretary of state long before Clooney discovered Darfur….People like Clooney are in favour of using the U.S. military to protect anyone but Americans….Clooney also erroneously insisted "there was no connection between al-Qaida and Iraq" and said our government operates "exactly like the Sopranos."…. Hollywood foreign policy operates exactly like the Simpsons…”
(12May06)The MSM (mainstream media) dropped the ball on this one. Not paying attention and down right ignorant at their peril. An Islamic Declaration of War.
Suffice to say that the first steps in the process of Dahwah is to issue an invitation to join the faith. From then on, if the invitation is declined, it is all down hill. Ahmadinejad's letter to George Bush contains just such an overture. It is a text book opening gambit straight from 7 th century Islam.
Osama Bin Laden issued similar invitations to the West pre-September 11 and we witnessed the results of failure to comply. Read more specifics (highlighted) from the Ahmadinejad's letter
The Muslim Brotherhood Project
An extremely important read!
(12May06) “…One might be led to think that if international law enforcement authorities and Western intelligence agencies had discovered a twenty-year old document revealing a top-secret plan developed by the oldest Islamist organization with one of the most extensive terror networks in the world to launch a program of “cultural invasion” and eventual conquest of the West that virtually mirrors the tactics used by Islamists for more than two decades, that such news would scream from headlines published on the front pages and above the fold of the New York Times , Washington Post , London Times , Le Monde , Bild , and La Repubblica . If that's what you might think, you would be wrong….In fact, such a document was recovered in a raid by Swiss authorities in November 2001, two months after the horror of 9/11. Since that time information about this document, known in counterterrorism circles as “The Project” , and discussion regarding its content has been limited to the top-secret world of Western intelligence communities …” The Muslim Brotherhood Project by Patrick Poole FrontPageMagazine.com
“… What makes The Project so different from the standard “Death of America! Death to Israel !” and “Establish the global caliphate!” Islamist rhetoric is that it represents a flexible, multi-phased, long-term approach to the “cultural invasion” of the West. Calling for the utilization of various tactics, ranging from immigration, infiltration, surveillance, propaganda, protest, deception, political legitimacy and terrorism, The Project has served for more than two decades as the Muslim Brotherhood “master plan” (Just some of the tactics include) “…Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn't conflict with shari'a law…Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam..(think the sham and snow-job of interfaith dialogue)… Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals; (think, the left and the Unholy Alliance)… Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims…In reading The Project , it should be kept in mind that it was drafted in 1982 when current tensions and terrorist activities in the Middle East were still very nascent….”
Read HERE about how members of the Muslim Brotherhood are using Australia's asylum and refugee laws to infiltrate under the guise that they are a persecuted minority and the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration of Australia's Academe.
(7May06)When you read Exposing the Muslim Lobby by Ilana Mercer ….Think Australia
“…Paul Sperry's shoe-leather investigative journalism is showcased to its fullest in " Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington , in which he sets out to prove that, for the past 30 years, the burgeoning Muslim community's representatives in the United States …
“.. have been working clandestinely to undermine America's constitutional government and the Judeo-Christian ethics on which it was built ... Their goal, quite simply, is to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Quran, the Muslim sacred book, and turn America into an Islamic state… ”
“..Sperry's most controversial claim is that the radical Islamist assault on the West is based not on some perverse interpretation of Islam, but is rooted in Islam itself….The book begins by exposing the countless U.S. Muslim leaders who masquerade as moderates, forswear terrorism, but then do what the Quran commands: "instill terror in the hearts of unbelievers" (Surah 8:12). Embraced by American presidents, the likes of Sami Al-Arian, Abdurahman M. Alamoudi, and Muzammil H. Siddiqi – to name but a few – represent the creme de la creme of "moderate" Islam in America. Sperry traces the career trajectories of these (and other) faux moderates as they've gone from "the White House to the Big House":…Take imams Siraj Wahhaj and Muzammil H. Siddiqi as examples…” Exposing the Muslim Lobby by Ilana Mercer, WorldNetDaily “…In 1992, a year after Wahhaj gave the invocation to Congress, no less, he "suggested to a Muslim audience in New Jersey that Muslims had the numbers to take control of the United States in a political coup." For his part, Siddiqi was given the "solemn honour of representing the Muslim faith during the prayer service for [9-11] victims at the national Cathedral in Washington ."… Osama has heeded , not hijacked , Islam …..In the event that doubts linger, "Infiltration's," "Top 10 Myths Of Islam" blows an even bigger hole in the heart of the Religion-of-Peace fable. Terrorism is an excrescence of Islam, Sperry argues, because while the murder of "innocents" might be prohibited, "orthodox Muslims do not consider Jews and Christians [much less Israeli civilians] necessarily innocent." In other words, "What the public recognizes as murder, these Muslims recognize as justice." The Quran, after all, doesn't teach tolerance toward other faiths, but inveighs against the Jewish "apes and swine" and the Christian blasphemers….”
(7May06) In the previous post Exposing the Muslim Lobby by Ilana Mercer, you would have become familiar with the name, Sami Al-Arian…Gone from “The White House to the Big House” as they say. To see videos of the deceptive and duplicitous Al-Arian in action click on John Loftus . A picture is truly worth a thousand words..
The Four Horsemen Gallop Through the Horn of Africa
(7May06)“…A strange sense of déjà vu hangs over all these stories about hunger in the Horn of Africa. Haven't we been through all this before? Didn't Bob Geldof take care of this problem back in the 1980s by having a bunch of famous rock-'n'-rollers like Sting do benefit concerts for Africa? Didn't Bill Clinton send our boys into downtown Mogadishu in 1993 to fix everything?... The climate in Africa isn't the problem. Drought recurs there periodically, as it does in many places. It is predictable, and can be dealt with. Oklahoma sometimes experiences severe drought, but nobody holds telethons to benefit the starving children of Muskogee…” The Four Horsemen Gallop Through the Horn of Africa “…The problem in Africa is – as it has been ever since the departure of the European colonial powers – corrupt, tyrannical, and unaccountable government…All of this can be credited to the legacy of Socialism. When the colonial powers left, Marxism took root in much of Africa, as it did in so many parts of the Third World. And African Socialism was a particularly brutal and despotic strain. With the collapse of worlwide Communism, the countries in question were left with simple brutality and despotism, unfettered by ideology…”
How Bad Is Inflation in Zimbabwe
(5May06) “…For untold numbers of Zimbabweans, toilet paper — and bread, margarine, meat, even the once ubiquitous morning cup of tea — have become unimaginable luxuries. All are casualties of the hyperinflation that is roaring toward 1,000 percent a year, a rate usually seen only in war zones…..Zimbabwe has been tormented this entire decade by both deep recession and high inflation, but in recent months the economy seems to have abandoned whatever moorings it had left….Those with spare cash put it not in banks, which pay a paltry 4 to 10 percent annual interest on savings, but in gilt-edged investments like bags of corn meal and sugar, guaranteed not to lose their value…Inflation, about 400 percent per year last November, edged over 600 percent in January, but began to soar after the government revealed that it had paid the International Monetary Fund $221 million to cover an arrears that threatened Zimbabwe's membership in the organization…” How Bad Is Inflation in Zimbabwe by Michael Wines, New York Times “..Hyperinflation is a cradle-to-grave experience here. The government recently announced that the price of childbirth, now $7 million, would rise 463 percent by October. Funeral costs are to double over the same period….Critics say that Zimbabwe's rulers are oblivious to such suffering — last year, Mr. Mugabe completed his own 25-bedroom mansion in a gated suburb north of town, close by the mansions of top ministers and military allies…As a whole, the nation has only now sunk to standards common elsewhere in Africa….the government may have reached the limit of its ability to do anything about it. Cutting spending seems impossible, and raising taxes further is unthinkable. That leaves one option: "much more inflation," he said. "Because this government is always going to be printing its way out of its current difficulty…"
(5May06)“…I am not going to waste your time this morning with yet another treatise on the nature of Islam, with yet another refutation of the alleged dichotomy between "true Islam" (peaceful, tolerant, etc.) and its supposedly aberrant terrorist fringe. We are way beyond that…..Those who still have doubts on this score should read not only my books, but also those by Robert Spencer, Ibn Warraq, Bat Ye'or…and above all, they should read the Koran…. Another result is an elite consensus that de facto open immigration, multiculturalism, and the existence of a large Muslim diaspora within the Western world are to be treated as a fixed given, and must not be scrutinized in any anti-terrorist debate. That consensus, I contend, is ideological in nature, flawed in logic, dogmatic in application, and disastrous in its results….Even the ultra-tolerant Dutch have seen the light after Theo van Gogh's murder, but they are hamstrung by a ruling class composed of guilt-ridden self-haters and appeasers. Their hold on the political power, the media, and the academe is undemocratic, unnatural, obscene…” Jihad's Fellow-Travellers by Serge Trifkovic FrontPageMagazine.com “… If Europe is to survive they need to be unmasked for what they are: traitors to their nations and their culture. They must be replaced by people ready and willing to subject the issues of immigration and identity to the test of democracy, unhindered by administrative or judicial fiat… A foreigner who becomes naturalized has to declare, on oath, "that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty” etc…. For a Muslim to declare all of the above in good faith, and especially that he accepts the Constitution of the United States as the source of his highest loyalty, is an act of apostasy par excellence under the Islamic law…. So how can a self-avowedly devout Muslim take the oath, and expect the rest of us to believe that it was done in good faith? Because he is practicing taqiyya, the art of dissimulation that was inaugurated by Muhammad to help destabilize and undermine non-Muslim communities almost ripe for a touch of Jihad…”
(4May06) An important essay presented by the Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, in his address to the Legatus Summit in Naples, Florida, February 2006
“…On the pessimistic side of the equation, concern begins with the Koran itself. In my own reading of the Koran, I began to note down invocations to violence. There are so many of them, however, that I abandoned this exercise after 50 or 60 or 70 pages….Irenic (conciliatory) interpretations of the Koran typically draw heavily on the suras written in Mecca, when Muhammad was without military power and still hoped to win people, including Christians and Jews, to his revelation through preaching and religious activity. After emigrating to Medina , Muhammad formed an alliance with two Yemeni tribes and the spread of Islam through conquest and coercion began…One calculation is that Muhammad engaged in 78 battles, only one of which, the Battle of the Ditch, was defensive..” Islam and Western Democracies by Cardinal George Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney “…The suras from the Medina period reflect this decisive change and are often held to abrogate suras from the Meccan period....But in any case, the so-called “verses of the sword” (sura 95 and 936), coming as they do in what scholars generally believe to be one of the last suras revealed to Muhammad, are taken to abrogate a large number of earlier verses on the subject (over 140, according to one radical website…The suggestion that jihad is primarily a matter of spiritual striving is also contemptuously rejected by some Islamic writers on the subject. One writer warns that “the temptation to reinterpret both text and history to suit ‘politically correct' requirements is the first trap to be avoided”, before going on to complain that “there are some Muslims today, for instance, who will convert jihad into a holy bath rather than a holy war, as if it is nothing more than an injunction to cleanse yourself from within”…. The history of Islam's detrimental impact on economic and cultural development at certain times and in certain places returns us to the nature of Islam itself. For those of a pessimistic outlook this is probably the most intractable problem in considering Islam and democracy.. . Considered strictly on its own terms, Islam is not a tolerant religion and its capacity for far-reaching renovation is severely limited…”.
Global Jihad: Gadhafi: Islam taking over Europe
(4May06) Libyan Leader, Moammar Gadhafi. Still crazy after all these years.
"…We have 50 million Muslims in Europe," Gadhafi said. "There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe – without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades."…. Europe is in a predicament, and so is America ," Gadhafi said. "They should agree to become Islamic in the course of time, or else declare war on the Muslims…" Global Jihad: Gadhafi: Islam taking over Europe “… Excerpts of Gadhafi's speech, broadcast April 10, were translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute , or MEMRI. A video clip of the speech can by viewed online …."Some people believe that Muhammad is the prophet of the Arabs or Muslims alone. This is a mistake. Muhammad is the prophet of all people…He superseded all previous religions. If Jesus were alive when Muhammad was sent, he would have followed him. All people must be Muslims…"The so-called Old Testament and New Testament are neither Old Testament nor New Testament - because both testaments were superseded, and they are forged. They were written by hand hundreds of years after Jesus….." "In the Bible there are things that are inappropriate for both Jesus and Moses. If we want to mend the state of humanity, and live in a global village, because of the globalization, we must search for the true Bible, because the Bible that exists today is a forgery. Today's Bible does not mention Muhammad, whereas our Lord's Bible mentions Muhammad repeatedly…"