Islamophobia, Salafi-jihadist Extremists and Millennialism (rant)

Perhaps this is the reason for islamophobia, and inspiration for extremists like those Islamic State militants:

Quran 8:12
"I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.

Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them".


However, the verse reads in full:

'Your Lord inspired the angels: “I am with you, so support those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. So strike above the necks, and strike off every fingertip of theirs.”'

Upon reading Quran 8, the Islamophobe has taken the chapter as proof that the Quran is a book of militancy.

Given that the word Islam means submission to God, the Quran inspires all Muslims to join the greater Jihad of taming the heart so that evil passions including anger, fear, and lust, are defeated by the five daily rituals of cleansing and prayer.

As well, the militants' extremism is evidence of the lesser Jihad which imposes politics upon Islam resulting in the extreme form of Sharia that aggressively imposes their will on men, women and children while claiming it is the will of God.

Yet the Quran exposes these aggressors.

"Fight in the path of God those who fight you, but do not aggress. Surely God does not love the aggressors. And fight them where you come upon them, and send them out from where they have sent you out, for persecution is a worse thing than fighting. And do not fight them at the Sacred Mosque (in Mecca) unless they fight you there, but if they fight you, then fight them back. That is the reward of the rejectors. Then if they cease, so God is All-Forgiving, Gentle. And fight them until there is no more persecution and the religion is for God. But if they cease, so let there be no hostility except against wrongdoers." - Qur’an 2:190-193

Though these Salafi inspired extremists have labelled righteous Muslims who fight them and Westerners alike as wrongdoers the aggressors are blind to their own wrongdoing, which they spin as righteousness.

Truly the extremists follow political Islam, Islamism, not as a religion but as a cultic militancy that is fascist, millennialist and totalitarian.   Contrary to the will of God, their ideology reflects the will of men bent on ushering in the Armageddon that they believe will result in the Second Coming of Christ.

We are dealing with extremists whose goal is the millennialism that is the shared hope of Christendom.   Few mainstream media outlets will mention this because it would cause panic among the Christian millennialists, which lead to unsubstantiated fear that a no-fly zone over Syria will lead to a world war.   Right-wing fear mongers even predicted that nuclear war with Russia was imminent if Hillary Clinton is elected.

Yet nobody in power will ever discuss this aspect of al Qaeda, Islamic State and Taliban ideology due to the moral panic it might cause.

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References

Understanding the Quran and Extremism: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-e-b-lumbard/understanding-the-quran-and-extremism_b_9528766.html

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-17/hillarys-war-drums-confirm-putins-fears-world-rushing-irreversibly-towards-nuclear-s

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/03/18/the-world-according-to-isis/

Notes on Salafi-jihadism

The Salafi groups—which experts say encompass some of the deadliest organizations today, including Al Qaeda, Hamas, and the violent splinter groups from the Muslim Brotherhood (al Ikhwan al Muslimun)—aim to re-create the perfection of the early Islamic period. Salafism is associated with the beliefs of Wahhabism (fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia) and fundamentalist interpretations of Islam throughout the Islamic world. Such groups advocate the use of violence and emphasize the smaller jihad against the nonbeliever over the more important and larger jihad within each individual. Salafism differs from Islamism in that it rejects any Western ideologies or constructs such as constitutions, political parties, and elections, which Islamists support (as long as Islamic parties benefit). - Mia Bloom, Bombshell

What is Salfism?
Salafis are fundamentalists who believe in a return to the original ways of Islam. The word 'Salafi' comes from the Arabic phrase, 'as-salaf as-saliheen', which refers to the first three generations of Muslims (starting with the Companions of the Prophet), otherwise known as the Pious Predecessors. - What is Salafism and should we be worried by it?

If the vast majority of non-Muslims find it difficult to strike the right chord between attacking Salafi-jihadists without being perceived as attacking Islam, the hurdles for the United States and its allies seem almost insurmountable. Therefore, a counter-terrorism approach that highlights the corruption of Salafi-jihadist ideology not on religious, but on secular grounds, is more likely to have the desired effect of weakening that ideology’s appeal.

Rather than highlighting the doctrinal and theological inconsistencies among Salafi-jihadists, the United States and its allies should grasp every opportunity to highlight the disastrous consequences that Salafi-jihadist violence has wrought on the everyday lives not only of Westerners, but first and foremost on Muslims themselves. It is a simple, though not sufficiently emphasized fact that the primary victims of Salafi-jihadists are Muslims, who are killed and maimed in far greater numbers than non-Muslims.

Salafi-jihadists openly justify the killing of civilians, including Muslims, under a logic of the ends justifying the means. It is equally a fact that leaders of Salafi-jihadist organizations hypocritically preach about the benefits of martyrdom, but rarely, if ever, conduct suicidal operations themselves, or send their loved ones on such missions. It is a fact that al-Qa`ida and associated groups offer no vision for Muslims other than perennial jihad—hardly an appealing prospect. - The Salafi Jihad as a Religious Ideology

Islamic State is an example of a Salafi-jihadist extremist group originally associated with al Qaeda that has brought Islamic fascism with a totalitarian spin on Sharia. Because of its extreme form of Salafi jihadism, most of the Muslim world has allied with the West to defend itself from this extremist group.

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References

Mia Bloom, Bombshell: the many faces of women terrorists, Viking Canada

Chris Hefelfinger, Radical Islam in America: Salifism's Journey from Arabia to the West

What is Salafism and should we be worried by it?: http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/6073/what-is-salafism-and-should-we-be-worried-by-it

Don't Fear Islamists; Fear Salafis: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/opinion/dont-fear-all-islamists-fear-salafis.html

The Salafi Jihad as a Religious Ideology: https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-salafi-jihad-as-a-religious-ideology

The Islamic State: Mapping Militant Organizations: http://web.stanford.edu/group/mappingmilitants/cgi-bin/groups/view/1

Make War No More in the Middle East (satire)

This article is not an anti-religion rant; it is an anti-war message. For my purpose for hurting the feelings of religionists, especially the post-Christians, is to spill my figurative guts about the forever war started by Christendom against the Muslims with the First Crusades.

All the Western powers that be are doing are perpetuating this war, rather than peace because they are forcing Western democracy on the Muslim nations and the Jihadis are also complicit in all of this too.

When the West admits that the War on Terrorism is a religious war against secularist globalism by the jihadis such as ISIS, that will mark their willingness to confront the truth.

Indeed, the Catholic Church has to make amends to the Muslim nations, and put their support behind the West and their UN and NATO forces.

As seen through jihadi eyes, the UN and NATO peace-keeping forces are viewed as a secular Crusade that threatens the integrity of world's only believers of God Almighty, ISIS and their al Qaeda and Taliban allies.

I condemn the Catholic Church for the trouble in the Middle East since the First Crusades, which was a mad grab for land, fame and power as well as removing unwanted lesser nobility so that the regal elite of Europe could vie for the honor of being offered kingdoms for forcibly converting the Teutonic, Gothic, and savage barbarians such as the Huns and Mongols.

As well, the Church failed to stop its petty wars in the Holy Land where it implemented proxy wars which still play out today. Indeed, the Crusades is the reason of why the Muslims are divided between jihadis and its Salafi origins within Saudi Arabia and the rest of Islam, both Shi'ite and Sunni.

Why do you think Christians are being persecuted today? Because of the delusion called "a healthy ego" and the rise of narcissism that gives rise to the arrogance of individualism. Even the public education system in the West promotes the ideals that is seen by the jihadis as "decadent hedonism" e.g. abandoning overdressed tradition for nearly-naked modernism.

Back over a thousand years ago, the First Crusade was when the current war against jihadis began &madash; back when the Saracens were growing more civilized in their conquered lands, two hundred years after Mohammed's death circa mid -7th century and continuing until the modern era.

It is indeed the epitome of a forever war; not in 1947, though.

For the rise of the state of Israel is actually a continuation of the rivalry between the French and the English, which was started when the Normans conquered England so long ago that only legends of that time remain.

Thus the proxy war that Bashir Al-Assad of Syria mentioned in an interview recently originally began with the Frankish and the English nobles founding a handful of kingdoms in the Holy Land.

Today, both France and England continue their rivalry in the Middle East to this day through their dealings with the US, Russia and China.

As well, the jihadism, the Salafism and the Islamism are also not new: they began right after Mohammed's death and continue on to this day.

It is time for the Church to continue to make amends with the Muslim nations, and to admit its part in this abuse of power starting with Charlemagne circa 768 CE.

For it is the backing of the State by Religion that is truly an evil: for example, the current case of the Orthodox Church in Russia. In their arrogance, the Russian Orthodox Church shows signs of corruption. Putin's pogrom against homosexuality is no different from the anti-gay rhetoric from the pulpits of Christendom in the Byzantine Empire. By scapegoating the LGBT community, the world's religions are distracting us from the fact that nobody really cares if a person is gay except to exercise control over their private affairs.

Likewise, the Muslim nations exercise control over the lives of its community with a big obsession with cleanliness, as though washing the hands and feet is enough to truly be clean.

No religion's hands are truly clean when it comes to war if they cannot turn their swords into ploughshares.

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Originally posted August 31, 2014 at 4:52 PM PDT

References:

Background for First Crusade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade

Background for Charlemagne: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne

Background for Jihadism, Islamism, Salafism, and Wahhabism:

Jihadism started circa early 19th century in the Fula Jihads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fula_jihads

Islamism begin in early 18th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism

Salafism developed in the latter part of the 10th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_movement

Wahhabism arose in the 18th Century:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Abd_al-Wahhab

JIhadi or Not Jihadi (satire)

Even though the Westernized converts to the Jihadi cult are homegrown and often mentally ill and former drug addicts, it makes you wonder exactly why the rest of the jihadis in the Islamic State are assumed to be sane.

IMO if you attack people in a Western country, you are assumed to be crazy unless fit to stand trial. What that means is you comply to the demands of the State (the Majesty's court in the Commonwealth) or its equivalent elsewhere except the Middle East.

In short, the mentally ill label is misused in the case of Westernized jihadi to mean the same as cult member. Hence, the IS warriors are just as crazy as the guys who kill Canadian soldiers.

It matters not what the guy's mother said. Labels are used to separate the sane from the insane.

Thus the mass media is resorting to a form of prejudiced profiling by labeling homegrown terrorists crazy and drug addicts.

There is even denial that they are terrorists. We can explain the Ottawa shooter as a disgruntled guy who was mad he didn't get his passport.

Then the mass media can sell "crazy guy shoots up Ottawa over passport" instead of calling a jihadi a jihadi.

IMO they are jihadi because they targeted Canadian soldiers but not pedestrians in a mall. However, it makes good copy to create doubt in the news consumers' minds.

I have no such doubt: two jihadi, homegrown, one dead and the other in jail.

It is likely the State will collaborate with the man who ran over two soldier, and it will be called an act of terrorism. Since then, all soldiers are ordered in Canada to dress like a plain-clothes ninja to blend in with the rest of Canadians.

It's about time. Out of uniform is the best disguise. Now the army can route out terrorism wherever it may start, or even instigate a riot to flush out the homegrown jihadi.

UPDATE: The late M. Zehaf-Bbibeau is not a terrorist, but a former homeless drug addict who was ignored by Ottawa and the system. Most likely he was off his medication and blamed the Canadian government for ignoring his pleas for help three years ago.

Although the shooting last week in Ottawa left two people dead, this is the Conservative government's fault for their inability to treat the homeless addicts across Canada with respect and dignity that Harper et al pays daily to people who can afford rehab.

This tragedy is preventable when compassion enables the rare politician to actually listen to them with their heart.

Karma is a bitch, ain't it, Ottawa?

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Reference:

http://globalnews.ca/news/1639555/why-didnt-ottawa-gunman-zehaf-bibeau-get-treatment-3-years-ago/

Islamic Terrorism an American Product? (satire)

Islamic terrorism is actually an American product.

al Qaeda was formed to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan with help from the CIA and Pakistan's ISI.

In essence Islamic terrorism has always been sponsored by the American government.

Meanwhile, domestic terrorism in America is actually Christian, e.g. Army of God. In Europe, it's not Islamists who are a threat. It's actually non-Muslim separatists. In Italy, Christian terrorists are killing Muslims.

So much for Islamic terrorism.

However, I do not believe al Qaeda and Taliban to be "Islamic" terrorists. Their imam is both a poor Islamic scholar and surgeon. Just by killing other Muslims, he is destined for the Fire. So are the martyrs, except for the suicide bombers they use.

The Islamophobes can decry Islamic terrorism as much as they want in America. It's not going to change the fact that the American government is sponsoring the al Nusrah Front and the ISIS by buying oil from OPEC and also asking Canada to secretly send home grown terrorists to Syria.

Nobody believes this because of their blind faith in America as a democracy. I find this hilarious because America has descended into fascism since 911, thanks to their politics.

I personally believe that the US secretly supports Canadian PM Stephen Harper, and if it were possible, they would keep Harper on a PM. I also believe that Canada is a rogue nation under Harper. Indeed, I liken Harper to a benign dictator rather than a democratic leader. He has propagandized against Assad, and pissed off the native people of Canada.

Yet the worst thing that Harper has done is allow home grow terrorists to fight in Syria.

Wait until the karma from that bites us in the ass.