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It’s the Quran, after all

Posted by gimpel on October 02, 2006 - 6:44 AM

With suicide bombings spreading from Iraq to Afghanistan, the Pentagon has tasked intelligence analysts to pinpoint what's driving Muslim after Muslim to do the unthinkable.

We want it to be something controllable by a “good heart,” a bribe, or openness to reason. Surely, the bad Muslims really know right from wrong. Surely, they also know it is wrong to kill innocent children. Surely goodness is “written on their hearts,” too.

If the violence is caused by something the “bad” Muslims did, it’s something the “good” Muslims can correct.
If it’s caused by something Bush did, it’s something Kerry can correct.
If it’s caused by something “we” did, it’s something “we” can correct.
If, if, if… if only we could show them what their religion really is…

But what if…

Their preliminary finding is politically explosive: it's their "holy book" the Quran after all, according to intelligence briefings... They've found that most Muslim suicide bombers are in fact students of the Quran who are motivated by its violent commands – making them, as strange as it sounds to the West, "rational actors" on the Islamic stage.In Islam, it is not how one lives one's life that guarantees spiritual salvation, but how one dies, according to the briefings. There are great advantages to becoming a martyr. Dying while fighting the infidels in the cause of Allah reserves a special place and honor in Paradise. And it earns special favor with Allah.

What if, it’s the Quran, after all? What then?
A religion based on such cannot survive in the modern world.

Christianity had its Martin Luther.
Reason had its Thomas Jefferson.
America has its George Bush.
The Catholic Church has its Pope Benedict.
Who will be so brave for Islam?

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Submitted by mgroothand on October 02, 2006 - 9:09 AM.

Who will be so brave for Islam?
Gimple, it is well known that Ahmedinajan wants nuclear weapons. The reason he wants them is not necessarily to "wipe Israel off the map" (although that would likely be the collateral damage). He needs the weapons to cause the Armageddon/Apocalypse to bring the twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, to appear. Ahmedinejan has appointed himself to bring that about thus assuring himself the greatest Muslim martyr (he will die trying) that ever lived and that coveted place in paradise.
So the answer to your question is Ahmedinejan, if only for the Shiites.


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Submitted by weekapaug05 on October 02, 2006 - 11:58 AM.

Wasn't it Malcom X already?


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Submitted by mgroothand on October 02, 2006 - 12:32 PM.

Malcom X was a founding member of The Nation of Islam, not the same as Islam. The Nation of Islam still headed by, an apparently very ill, Louis Farrakhan (aka Calypso Louie) and recruits much of its membership from black prisoners. They dress conspicuously in dark suits, white shirts and bowties, ususally red. The last major speech Farrakhan made was about a year ago when he claimed that the Federal Government conspired to blow up the levees in New Orleans to drown the blacks there.


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Submitted by weekapaug05 on October 02, 2006 - 2:16 PM.

Well wasn't he right. Seems to me like a Nostradamus like prediction of Katrina, which we all know was created by the weather machine that the GOP built in Iraq. On a lighter note, the bowtie is a smart look.

On a more serious note; why don't the members of The Nation of Islam speak up against some of these other Islamic groups? They both worship Allah and use the Quran (Koran) as thier holy book, so why don't they try to reason some with their Islamic brethren, or do they hold the same opinion of 'Death to the Infidals'?


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Submitted by mgroothand on October 03, 2006 - 12:53 PM.

You're asking a question that I can't answer, I have asked that question many, many times. I have asked that question in public forums and tried it in private conversations. Mum is the answer and I smell some sort of conspiracy among Muslims everywhere. Shortly after 9/11 the local Muslim society held what they said would be a press conference. I attended and it was not, it was a declaration of the peacefullness of Islam and tough questions were never asked. We were still too shocked and full of PC.
As far as trying to reason..., one can not reason with unreasonable people


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