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May 16, 2004
Resistance is futile
Another excellent essay from Melanie Phillips needs reading. This concerns (and should really worry every last one of us) the decision to allow the Islamic apologists to brainwash children in Manchester's schools with the concept of jihad and suicide bombing as a "counter to negative media reporting".
Excuse me? I know that I have a problem with the medias bias - but I would have said that they go out of their way to excuse and apologise for the excesses of Islamic fundamentalism, while denigrating everyone else! If Islam has a negative image it is purely and simply because they refuse to leave the 8th Century! The view that Jews and Christians are "dhimmi" - allowed to practice their religions but must show their "inferiority" is not only insupportable but is frankly insulting.
The sop offered by the perpetrators of this garbage "that Jesus is an important prophet to Muslims" and that this should be acceptable to Christians is insulting and displays the massive ignorance about Christianity characteristic of the self-righteous and insidious fifth columnists of the Islamic Jihad movement. To Christians Jesus Christ is no mere Prophet. He is the one and only Son of the Most High God, the Word made flesh as St John puts it in his Gospel.
Once again we see the left leaning over backwards to appease these supporters of murder and terrorism when they should be bringing to bear the weapon they would be so quick to use against any Christian or Jew who made similarly insulting remarks about the man they call the ultimate prophet. Why have we not seen the new Act rushed through parliament last year to make it an offence to stir up religious discord used to charge this woman and the Muslim Council for insulting my religion, and worse, teaching this slewed and twisted garbage to children who are not Muslim?
Were I to demand the right to teach in the same classes the counter arguments and to show the far from sacred origins of some of the Koran, the same authorities who are pandering to this claptrap would have me before the magistrates on a charge before I had even finished making the suggestion!
If the left are allowed to continue in this twisted and biased fashion, pandering to Islam and denigrating any Christian beliefs and views, then prepare to either become a Muslim and live under Sharia Law or accept that you and your view will not be permitted to show itself in public unless in a subservient and inferior manner. Either way, this immoral crew and their equally immoral supporters will have won. Freedom of speech and of religion has been proscribed and is now limited to those who are practioners of Islam and restrict themselves to anti-Christian and anti-Jewish and other Politically Correct utterances.
At the present rate of progress the Borg battle cry will apply to this country very soon now. I hope Mr Blair and his cronies are satisfied.
"Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."
Posted by The Gray Monk at May 16, 2004 08:01 AM
Comments
Here we run into the crux of the problem.
You state the Muslim's religion is stuck in the 8th century. While they believe they have unerringly followed the course directed by GOD, and are damnded proud of it.
Understand I am a Christian. I do believe in God, but am willing to argue on religious aspects. I will not apologize for Muslims killing each other. But I am also unwilling to apologize for Jews, or Christians killing others in the name of religion either.
Does not the bible say there is a time for everything? Including a time for war? Did not Jesus say he didn't come to change the law but to fulfill it. As such a true follower of the bible would follow that law and live it's tenents.
Do American Christians follow what is written in the bible? No. They couldn't even if they wanted to. Slavery was a commen Bible element. It was fine by God that people own slaves. It was okay with God to sell your sister to another village as a slave, but you had to sell her to the right one. Stonings were the execution of the bible. Crucifiction was a Roman thing.
The Bible and the laws therein are not always ones of peace. But many Christians have learned to adapt their religion to society. While Islam is unwilling to do so. It would be an insult to God. They will firmly die believing this.
Posted by: IXLNXS at May 18, 2004 03:42 AM
I think both the Bible and the Qoran need to be read in the context of the period in which they were written. Understanding the background and the period in which some textes were written is essential to understanding thier meaning. I do not accept that adapting to society changing can "insult" God - He is after all guiding us in our daily lives and provides us with insight and understanding if we allow Him to do so. I cannot accept that God would wish us to turn the clock back and live as people lived in either the 1st or the 8th Century. I do believe He provides us with intelligence and the ability to progress and grow in His divine Grace.
Peace be with you in your journey IXLNXS.
Posted by: The Gray Monk at May 18, 2004 09:26 AM