tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post115679382246332212..comments2024-03-27T14:07:52.573+00:00Comments on Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: Islam's WeaknessPastoriushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-1156848947832659342006-08-29T11:55:00.000+01:002006-08-29T11:55:00.000+01:00I sometimes worry that Christianity doesn't allow ...I sometimes worry that Christianity doesn't allow enough "fighting." After all, it was Christians (and Jews) who were Dhimmis for 1400 years. But is was also Christians that fought off Islam in Tours, Vienna, Lepanto, etc. It remains to be seen if the West still has what it takes to do it again. So far we have a problem killing the enemy. In the midst of a war we are obsessed with "winning their hearts and minds." This isn't how we won wars in the past. We're going to have to stap out of it ... soon.Jason Pappashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18233796281520274898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-1156805212646126032006-08-28T23:46:00.000+01:002006-08-28T23:46:00.000+01:00I have maintained, in my latest post, that "fascis...I have maintained, in my latest post, that "fascistic" is not a modifier for "Islam", but "Islamic" is a modifier for "fascism". That is, there isn't a fascistic branch of Islam (to contrast with some other, progressive, branch), but Islam is a branch of fascism--the religious branch of fascism, as Communism is its economic branch and Nazism its racial branch. Each has a different focus, but all are heads of the same fascist hydra.ziontruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17234663249940661181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-1156803233042636422006-08-28T23:13:00.000+01:002006-08-28T23:13:00.000+01:00And here (according to Gita Mehta) is how Buddhis...And here (according to Gita Mehta) is how Buddhism developed from a small sect to a major religion by conversion of the warrior king Ashoka . It seems to be the diametrical opposite to Mohammedanism.<BR/><BR/>"Through a series of brilliant and bloodthirsty military campaigns, Ashoka extended an empire stretching from Afghanistan to Nepal into the south of the subcontinent. He finally met his fiercest resistance in the southeastern republic of Kalinga. In that dreadful war, an inscription relates, every able-bodied male in Kalinga fought against Ashoka. <BR/><BR/>Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, women and children were taken prisoner, and, when the final battle was lost, more than a hundred thousand warriors lay dismembered with their slaughtered horses and elephants next to a river running red with blood. <BR/><BR/>....the emperor walked the battleground that night, glorying in his massacre. Suddenly a beggar stepped out of the red water of the river carrying a dripping bundle in his arms. <BR/><BR/>"Mighty king," the beggar said, approaching Ashoka and holding up his bundle. "You are able to take so many thousands of lives. Surely you can give back one life -- to this dead child?" <BR/><BR/>Some say the beggar was a Buddhist monk. Some say the beggar was the Buddha himself. All that is certain is that Ashoka never raised his sword again. And to this day the river is called Daya -- compassion. <BR/><BR/> The inability to give a child life taught Ashoka the compassion that would place him among history's most enlightened rulers. <BR/><BR/>At the very pinnacle of his glory as a conqueror Emperor Ashoka embraced the philosophy of ahimsa, nonviolence, declaring, "Instead of the sound of the war drum, the sound of Dharma will be heard."<BR/><BR/>Teachings become world religions through the power of those who embrace them. Without the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion, Christianity might have remained a cult; and what Constantine was to the Christian church, the Emperor Ashoka was to the teachings of the Buddha. <BR/><BR/>...Missionaries were dispatched to distant 'lands. Great universities were founded; ambassadors were sent to the kings of Greece, Syria, and Egypt carrying Ashoka's message of peace, "desiring for all beings ... security, self-control, calm of mind, and gentleness. " <BR/><BR/>.... in the words of H.G. Wells, "the greatest of kings ... far in advance of his time." <BR/><BR/>For instance, in ancient India Ashoka was already providing what we would today call free health care to his subjects. Throughout his vast empire he established hospitals and dispensaries as well as hospices for the dying. <BR/><BR/>From http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/59/gita/ashoka.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-1156801256146197312006-08-28T22:40:00.000+01:002006-08-28T22:40:00.000+01:00Unnattractive and illogical though Islam may be, i...Unnattractive and illogical though Islam may be, it does have one internal strength which Christianity does not - it is a power structure. And that power structure extends all the way down from Allah the brothel-keeper in the sky, through his Ulema representatives on earth, then the tribal/community elders and village Imams, right down into the marriage bed.<BR/><BR/>There is the power wielded by the Ulema in pronouncing arbitrary death sentences for people who question their authority.<BR/><BR/>There is the power of the hate-filled Imams and Mullahs over the raging mobs.<BR/><BR/>There is the power of any Muslim bully over the despised dhimmis.<BR/><BR/>And in every household there is the power of man over woman.<BR/><BR/>Dismantling Islam is not going to be an exercise in spirituality, rationality, ethics or aesthetics. It is going to be an exercise in dismantling power structures.<BR/><BR/>We can start by resisting our own dhimmification. We can continue by emancipating Muslim women, forcibly if necessary, and we can undermine the clerics by vigorous monitoring of their activities and unceasing ridicule of their beliefs. <BR/><BR/>But there are a lot of vested interests who are not going to take kindly to this process.<BR/><BR/>Islam is an oppressive social and political system with a 'religious' justification. It is 'religious' in a very narrow sense - there seems to be little genuine spirituality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com