COMMENTARY P1

[Muslims] are taught to be great neighbors and obey the laws of the countries in which they reside, until they are called up. Then, they will slice your throats as easily as they came to your barbeques. (a foreign Muslim)

Reader Rex Goodwin contributed three articles, for which we are most pleased to publish:

"I have a small talent which is dedicated to fighting Islam. I would like to submit articles for your blogs. Three attachments are from a book our organization, "Foundation For International Understanding", has produced. The other two are from a website entitled <allaboutmuhammad.com> of T. Nelosni, one of our contributing writers."

The Qur'an, or Koran, is for Muslims, Allah’s Holy Word, as revealed to Muhammad, through various supposedly divine revelations. These revelations occurred over a period of 23 years, commencing when Muhammad was 40 and lasting until his death at age 63. For Muslims, the Koran is infallible, as Allah’s direct word, and as such, cannot be interpreted. This is just as well, since for well over a thousand years, not even the most studious and brilliant scholars, of Islam as well as infidels, have agreed as to the exact meanings of many of its passages. In the words of the German scholar, Gerd-R. Puin, “About a fifth of Koranic passages make no sense at all!” He further says, “If the Koran is not comprehensible, not even understood in Arabic, then it isn’t translatable.” Today, even the most educated Arab speaking Muslims would need some sort of translation to make any sense of the Koran. However, for Muslims, any attempt at an objective analysis of the Koran is considered as the most heinous heresy, and in numerous instances, has led to the death of the annalist.

Notwithstanding the difficulties of translating the Koran, several are available, and in several languages. A good English translation is “The Meaning of The Holy Qur’an” by ‘Abdullah Yusuf ‘Ali, published by Amana Publications. Its main quality is the extensive footnotes attempting to justify Muhammad’s numerous crimes, and the revelations from Allah providing justification for those crimes. Also recommended is the only modern English translation by N.J. Nawood, published by Penguin Books.

There are several difficulties regarding any serious consideration that the Koran is the clear and immutable voice of God. The first, being the passage of some 150 years after Muhammad’s death before the Koran was codified into its present form. While alive, Muhammad’s revelations were mostly committed to memory by his followers on scraps of parchment, stone, clay tablets, wood, or whatever else happened to be at hand. The Tradition says that, about a year after the Prophet’s death, his closest friend and the First Caliph, Abu Bakr, ordered that the Koran be set down in writing. Then, the Third Caliph, ‘Uthman (644-656), ordered that an official version of the Koran be established, and the book took more or less its present form. He then ordered all other versions to be burned. ‘Uthman was also one of the first Muslim martyrs to the Koran, accused of apostasy, the worst crime for a Muslim. (See “Martyrs to Islam”, Pg. 78).

The Koran is roughly equivalent in length to the New Testament, and divided into 114 sections, or “suras”. The present day version of the Koran consists of 28 suras revealed in Medina, and 86 in Mecca. They vary considerably as to length and format, and with no chronological or thematic order as to their placement. In general, the suras are organized according to their length, beginning with the longest first.

The Koran has borrowed extensively from the Talmud and the Christian Bible, and a significantly large part of the Koran re-tells various stories of the Bible, though with some interesting changes. Additionally, besides these appropriations, there are several stories which could only be compared with those of “A Thousand and One Nights”. It is not known if Muhammad was literate or not, but he always dictated his revelations. Besides the revelations from Allah, as set forth in the Koran, several thousand sayings, often of a trivial nature, called hadiths, are revered because they were said by Muhammad. Examples are how to entertain guests, keep one’s hair, and conduct marital relations.

Secondly, the intricacies of the Arab language, one of the most difficult in the world, can lead to gross interpretations as to the meaning of a word or phrase. Muhammad belonged to the Quraysh clan, whose dialect differed considerably from that of the other nomadic tribesmen of the area. According to Muslims, for the most part the Koran is written in Classical Arabic, the style of language born out of the Quraysh dialect. This, in itself, seems to be erroneous, since most scholars agree that Classical Arabic did not become standardized until between the 8^th and 9^th centuries. Unfortunately for Arabic speaking Muslims, only a limited number can understand spoken Classical Arabic, and even fewer can read it! Colloquial dialects are spoken in all Arabic speaking countries, and the divergence between these dialects can be considerable. However, Muslim law dictates that the Koran must always be read in Arabic, which is basically Classical Arabic. The result is that the imam, or religious head of a mosque, well knows that most of his congregation will not understand what is read, even if he himself can read Classical Arabic. The result is that an imam leads his congregation in rote memory recitals, in Arabic, of prayers and innocuous passages from the Koran, followed by a homily in the local language. The expression of: “The blind leading the blind” comes to mind!

Another difficulty for Muslims to understand their religion is that most Muslims do not speak Arabic. They reside in non-Arabic speaking countries, including Turkey, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iran, the Philippines, and the Muslim countries previously a part of the Soviet Union. And, since they are prohibited from reading the Koran except in Arabic, they remain in abject ignorance of their own religion.

Though Muslims believe the Koran descended from Allah to Muhammad, in its present form, forgetting for the moment the interventions of Caliphs Bakr and ‘Uthman, the discovery of a “grave” in Yemen, in 1972, gives lie to this claim. While restoring the Great Mosque of Sana’a, the workmen discovered a remarkable grave, not of human remains, but of a large cache of parchment fragments of the Koran, seeming to date back to the 8^th and 9^th centuries, or that is, during the first two centuries of Islam. The president of the Yemeni Antiquities Authority, Qadhi Isma’il al-Akwa’ sought the help of a visiting German scholar. This, in turn led to a project, funded by the German Government, to preserve and study more than 1,000 individual pieces of parchment. Though still an ongoing project, which will take several years to complete, the overwhelming evidence is that the Koran, as Muslims proclaim, is not the timeless, perfect, and unchanging word of God! However, considering the increasing influence of Muslims in Germany, it is extremely doubtful that the abovementioned study will ever be completed.

Ignorance only indicates a lack of knowledge of a particular subject. Stupidity, however, can mean that, either a person lacks the mental capacity to analyze determinable facts which have been presented or, that the person has such a mindset regarding a particular subject that their mind is closed towards the receipt of any new information which might lead to a change in their position. The following old, but tried and true sayings may be of benefit for an understanding of the present confrontation with Islam.

DON’T GET BETWEEN TWO FIGHTING DOGS; YOU MIGHT GET BIT! & THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND! The “fighting dogs” in this case are the Sunnis and the Shi’ites, the two most powerful sects of Islam. They have hated each other for well over a thousand years, and their considerable hatred for each other is exceeded only by that towards “infidels”. Their committed goal, as specifically ordained by the Koran, is to kill or enslave all non-Muslims! And, at practically any opportunity, acting individually or in alliance, they will kill infidels, because, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

YOU CAN’T MAKE A SILK PURSE OUT OF A SOW’S EAR. The “silk purse” in this case is freedom, democracy and the inherent capitalism accompanying the first two. The “sow’s ear” is Islam!

Democracy is non-existent in all 53 countries of the Muslim world, and freedom is an abstract concept. All these countries have come to Islam by bloody conquest and there are no exceptions! And all major capitalistic enterprises are reserved for the dictators in power and their cronies. Any attempt to change the ingrained customs of any societal structure, except by ruthless measures, in one or two generations is doomed from the start. And Islam has had over 1,350 years to solidify its societal structure.

A good example of the idiocy of attempting to modify a society, in a brief period of time, along supposedly altruistic measures, is what transpired after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The U.S. was determined to bring Russia into the camp of democracy and capitalism after only slightly over 70 years of Communism, and several billion dollars were given, not loaned, to the Russian Government to prop up their economy.

But the Russians, after only a relatively short while under Communism, had no conception of free enterprise or democracy. They were accustomed to being told where to work, where to live and what to think. The injection of several billion dollars into the Russian economy undoubtedly helped some of the general population but mostly helped their previous Communist overlords and the Russian Mafia, the only segment of Russian society that had always operated within a capitalistic system. Then, thanks to the incompetence of the I.N.S., thousands of Russians were allowed into the U.S. including many members of the Russian Mafia. They are now operating in our major cities, better organized and far more ruthless than the Sicilian based Mafia of old. And, the Russian Government, under President Putin, an ex-KGB officer, is again becoming a police state.

But, Islam has, and still uses, an effective manner of altering a society within a single generation! After a society had been conquered, and the initial orgy of rape, murder, enslavement and pillage subsides, the following measures are implemented: Adults, with a knife at their throats, have a choice of conversion to Islam or their throats cut! Most became instant Muslims, and these new converts to Islam know that they will face

certain death if any backsliding occurs. Then, all churches, synagogues and temples of other religions are destroyed or converted to mosques. The children are then educated in Muslim schools. These means are effective in converting a society to Islam in only one generation, as done in the Balkans in the 14^th Century, and as is presently ongoing in the Sudan today.

And, a saying of the Southern U.S. is: IF YOU SLEEP WITH DOGS, YOU’RE LIABLE TO WAKE UP WITH FLEAS! Islam, because of its long existence, its estimated 1.3 billion loyal followers, and its expenditures of well over 50 billion dollars towards the subversion of Western civilization in the last 30 years, considerably more than World Communism spent in over 70 years, demands and receives considerable respect as a major religion from ignorant Westerners. Islam certainly deserves respect as a mortal and evil enemy, and certainly should be feared, but Islam, Allah, Muhammad, and the Koran, which in effect are all one and the same, deserve only ridicule, and firm opposition!

Muhammad, if having invented Islam recently, and still alive, would be in a padded cell of an asylum for the criminally insane, or on Death Row, for the numerous capital crimes he personally committed. These include: murder, often by beheadings or crucifixions, mutilations, rape, kidnapping, extortion, theft, slavery, spousal abuse, pedophilia, false witness and adultery. All these crimes are well documented in the Koran, the Hadith and by Christian, Jewish and even Muslim biographers and historians. The Koran explicitly condones all of the above crimes, and Islam holds the world’s record of genocide, in the hundreds of millions, many times more victims than that of Nazi Germany and World Communism combined! Over two million have been killed in the Sudan alone, since 1980!

Any person associating him self, or her self, with Islam stands convicted of their own base nature or their abject ignorance!

CUT YOUR LOSSES! Any well run business, once realizing drastic mistakes of its past operations, will cut its losses and change its tactics. The United States is the biggest business in the world, but any hot-dog stand at Coney Island is better managed. The U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan were, in charitable words, ill-advised.

Bush had multiple reasons for the invasion of Iraq, including the fact that Saddam Hussein had ordered a hit on his father, George Bush, Senior. And, though considerable evidence was discovered that Saddam had previously possessed WMD’s, none were actually found. Once no WMD’s were found, and Saddam Hussein captured, we should have withdrawn immediately.

With the collapse of Saddam’s forces, thousands of powerful, mostly U.S. companies now have a vested interest in the reconstruction of that country. And, every U.S. taxpayer continues to support this foolishness. If you have an enemy whose religious duty is to kill you, it is abject stupidity to reconstruct his country!

And, without Saddam Hussein’s firm hold on the country, al-Qaeda, a Shi’ite organization, rushed in to the vacuum to continue their jihad against the Sunnis and the occupation forces. The Shi’ites will prevail and eventually the U.S. will withdraw, leaving a worse situation in Iraq than before our occupation. Iraq will then unite with Iran, with a 90% population of Shi’ites. The U.S. will withdraw whenever we can do so “with honor”!

As regarding Afghanistan, the primary reasons or excuses for its invasion was to get Osama ‘bin Laden, and supposedly to liberate the Afghans from the terrible oppression of the Taliban. A third objective was to destroy the source of heroin, since at that time, Afghanistan supplied about 75% of the word’s raw opium needed to produce heroin. However, today, U.S. forces control only a small perimeter around Kabul, the capitol, with Muslim warlords controlling the rest of the country. Bin Laden is supposedly still alive and the Taliban is becoming stronger each day, using arms and equipment, including tanks left behind by the Russians and SAM missiles supplied to the Afghans by the U.S. Many U.S. aircraft knocked down by the Taliban are by SAM missiles previously provided them by the U.S. And the opium fields are flourishing again!

KNOW YOUR ENEMY! All societies of the world have been engaged in a global war with Islam for well over a thousand years. Our politically correct media insists upon labeling terrorists as “insurgents”, “dissidents”, “militiamen” and even occasionally “terrorists”, but seldom call them by their true name, “Islamic Terrorists”! They are not Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu or Shinto terrorists; they are Islamic terrorists, just following the exhortations of Allah (Muhammad) through the Koran! Unfortunately, President Bush, his advisors, and most members of Congress are either completely ignorant regarding Islam, or prefer to turn a blind eye for their personal gain. And, of course, most of the general public hasn’t a clue!

YOU’RE DAMNED IF YOU DO, AND DAMNED IF YOU DON’T! Any, and all, attempts to placate Islam by the U.S. or other democratic governments are doomed to failure. Regardless of any concessions made, Islam will accept only unconditional surrender! This inflexibility is built into the religion by the Koran. And, regardless of what political party controls our government, either is doomed to failure regarding our survival unless a realistic evaluation of Islam is accomplished.

DON’T MESS ON YOUR OWN DOOR STEP; YOU MIGHT TRACK IT INTO THE HOUSE!, & THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST! There are countless organizations and individuals, presently contributing to the destruction of our democracy. T

They are “messing on their own door step”. Some do so wittingly and some through ignorance of the Islamic threat, but the result is the same. At the forefront of the Muslim penetration are public schools and universities teaching that Islam is a “peaceful and benevolent” religion! Most universities with Islamic or Middle Eastern Studies are initially funded by Saudi Arabia, and thereafter by U.S. taxpayers. The professors are almost always Muslims or persons sympathetic to Islam. These schools are cranking out thousands of potential home grown terrorists each year. Several have already emerged.

Saudi Arabia is the seat of Islam, the birthplace of Muhammad ‘bin Abdallah, where he invented the religion, and the site of Medina and Mecca, the two holiest cities of the Muslim world. It is also the country that provided 15 of the 19 Islamic Terrorists of 9/11, and is the home of Osama ‘bin Laden. But Saudi Arabia also provides the U.S. with about 20% of the oil needed to run our economy. To that add the numerous lobbyists, in Washington, paid by Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries, the various charitable Islamic front organizations raising money from the gullible American public for terrorists and ignorant members of Congress attempting to convey Constitutional civil rights to Islamic Terrorists captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan. And, let us not forget the A.C.L.U., whose principal founder was a Communist, and that is now allied with the foremost Islamic front organization of the U.S.

But, the most frightening of all is the complacency of the American public! It is quite evident that the Muslim attack of 9/11 was an insufficient wake up call. As a nation, we grieved for awhile, and then it was “business as usual”.

The F.B.I, C.I.A., Homeland Security, the Justice Department and various other law enforcement agencies have foiled numerous small terrorist plots but al-Qaeda, though certainly capable of doing so, has not made an all-out attack with atomic devices or biological weapons, which they supposedly have. It could well be, as their success in Europe has demonstrated, that they prefer to take over the U.S. by gradual subversion, with just a few minor attacks.

“The chickens are coming home to roost.” But, hopefully, sooner or later, the American public will awaken, and quit “Messing on its own door step!”