Is Islam Misrepresented ?

Is Islam Misrepresented ?

Now that a caucasian, blond blue-eyed Norwegian has committed a terrible terror attack, many people and the mass media that are still critical on Islam will have to be silent in the future. Decades ago Marshall McLuhan observed, “The medium is the message.” As the print and electronic media penetrate more and more every aspect of life, their influence increases greatly in shaping views and behavior of the public. The power of the media is a mixed blessing. On one hand, it can serve to expose injustices, wrongdoings, and flaws. On the other, it is able to propagate misinformation and outright disinformation.

Manipulation and control of the media is of critical importance to the rule of totalitarian states. Free societies, although less subject to laundered information, are still at considerable risk of being selectively informed or misinformed outright. The public can be deceived more easily by the overlords of the media when political correctness is used as subterfuge for promotion of certain ideas.

A case in point is the media’s portrayal of Islam, articulated by politicians and pundits—the talking heads on television and radio, as well as the analysts who write for newspapers and magazines in the West. Time and again we hear and read that Islam is a religion of peace, in spite of the fact that Islam has been a religion of violence from its inception to the present. This mantra, “Islam is a religion of peace” is repeated so often that it has become an indisputable statement of fact in the minds of many.

While radical Muslims kill, behead and rape, the MSM remains silent and repeats the same mantra of Islam’s peacefulness in the name of multiculturalism.  They insist that the civilized world accept Islamic culture, under the rubric of multiculturalism. Muslims and their frequently well-paid apologists use the multiculturalism umbrella only in non-Islamic lands to shield themselves from the torrent of legitimate criticisms that those who know Islam better shower on this cult of violence peddled as the religion of peace.

Don’t listen to me and don’t listen to these conniving dissimulators. Find out for yourself. See if the euphemism of multiculturalism is ever printed in the Islamic press, or ever appears in any form anywhere in Muslim countries. This multiculturalism gambit is Islam manufactured to pull the wool over the eyes of non-Muslims while Muslims carry on with their unrelenting campaign of eradicating anything or anyone non-Islamic everywhere in the world.

Those of us, through reason and tremendous act of will, who have freed ourselves from the enslaving yoke of Islam placed around our necks from birth, know about all the heinous inside dirt of this plague of humanity. We have experienced Islam first-hand and up close from the inside. We have studied the Quran, the Hadith, and the Sunna. We have seen Islam in action where it holds sway. Some of us even tried desperately to cling to this security blanket that was wrapped around us from birth. Yet, the more we studied and the more we experienced Islam, the more our efforts to remain in the fold became untenable.

Is Islam Misrepresented

We broke away from Islamic slavery and found it to be our solemn duty to expose this fraud of a religion, help other Muslims to free themselves from it, and warn the good-hearted and gullible non-Muslims against falling prey to it.

Recall former President George W. Bush on several occasions repeated the mantra and attributed the horrific violence committed under the banner of Islam to a small band of extremists? The former President’s assertion was either based on ignorance of the facts about Islam or his attempt at political correctness. Perhaps the President’s reticence to speak on the true nature of Islam was due to his desire to avoid inflaming the already charged feelings of many about Islam. In any event, truth is sacrificed and the public continues to cling to the false notion that Islam is a peaceful religion. People who dare to disclose the true nature of Islam run the risk of being castigated as a bigot or a hatemonger.

Even a cursory examination of Islam’s history and Islamic texts conclusively proves the exact opposite of peacefulness. Islam was, and continues to be, a movement of unbridled violence.

The Arabs who sallied out of the Arabian deserts did not fan out to the outside world with the Quran in one hand and flowers in the other, preaching love and peace from street corner to street corner, thereby capturing the hearts and minds of the people. Islam was forced upon every people at the point of the sword and the imposition of backbreaking jazyyeh (special taxes) levied on those who were spared death and allowed to retain their religious beliefs. In spite of paying heavy Jazyyeh, the non-Muslims were treated, at best, as second-class citizens in their own homelands.

The abominable persecution of non-Muslims in Islamic countries is a standard operating procedure. In many Islamic countries non-Muslim marriages are not recognized as legal unions and the children of the couples are stigmatized as bastards. Never mind Saudi Arabia, the cradle of barbarism, and even Egypt, the more civilized Islamic country and recipient of billions of dollars in U.S. aid, treat non-Muslims as second-class citizens and deprive them of their legitimate human rights.

The pundits, the analysts and the politicians are doing a great disservice to the public, each segment for its own expedient reasons, by parroting the mantra regarding the peaceful nature of Islam. As a matter of fact, the so-called small band of Islamic extremists is the true face of Islam. Admittedly, from time to time and place to place, Muslims have shown a degree of tolerance for non-Muslims. This tolerance dates back to the very early years of Muhammad himself. Early on, Muhammad was meek and proclaimed, “For you, your religion, and for me, my religion.” This assertion lasted but a few years until Muhammad’s movement gathered strength and Islam became the only alternative to death or heavy taxation. The imposition of Jazyyeh was a clever ploy for filling the Islamic coffers to support its armies and to finance its further conquests.

A longstanding Islamic practice is to be meek while weak and assume despotic intolerant power as it gains strength. Recent migration of Muslims to non-Islamic lands began as a seemingly harmless, even a useful, trickle of cheap needed labor. Before long, greater and greater numbers of Muslims deluged the new territories and as they gained in numbers—by high birth rate as well as new arrivals—Muslims began reverting to their intolerant ways by, for instance, demanding legal status for Shariah (Islamic laws), the type of draconian laws that for the most part resemble those of humanity’s barbaric past.

Islam is indeed misrepresented. Islam is not misrepresented by its “detractors.” It is misrepresented by Islamic mercenaries: organizations and individuals generously funded by states as well as wealthy believers who are making billions of dollars pumping and selling oil at astronomical prices. Prestigious universities in the West, always looking for handouts, are tripping over one another to establish Islamic studies programs staffed by professors who sing the praise of Islam. Islamic associations routinely intimidate newspapers if they dare to print the truth about Islam. Legions of lawyers, both Muslims as well as hired guns, are on the lookout to intimidate and silence any voice speaking the truth about Islam. The media that fall in line may receive generous advertising and other incentives from Islamic lobbyists.

Hence, it is a fact that Islam is misrepresented. It is misrepresented very effectively by non-Muslim individuals and institutions who are generously rewarded by the modern day Islamic conquerors. This time around the Muslims are using the immense petrodollar they extract from the addicted non-Muslims. The sword is temporarily replaced by just as deadly a weapon—the petrodollar. Before long, the Muslims aim to add a more deadly modern version of the sword—the Islamic bomb. Read the Full Article at Familysecuritymatters !

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Nostradamus : War between Islam and West !

Just days ago one stupid movie enraged millions of Muslims, protesters aired their anti-American anger in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Morocco, Sudan, Iran, Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories. There are thousands of jokes about the pope, did believers go crazy and killed people that had nothing to do with it ??? In my opinion these happenings show that there is real hate against americans, not just because of that movie … there is just hate, and these are not only the “extremists”, these are millions of Muslims worldwide – There is only “one god” several religions, also Muslims believe – if they really believe this than why not just wait and let God do justice after we die ?!?

The fury over an anti-Islam film that targeted American diplomatic missions has spread to include a number of other Western facilities in the Muslim world. The Anti-American protests also hit Australia … at the moment Barack Obama does nothing … Seems like Muslims realy are 600 years behind modern humankind, maybe because the prophet Muhammed came 600 years after Jesus? Muslims are now in the ages 1400-1500 when the pope burned non-believers and witches in Europe … the spanish inquisition of the muslim world

Nostradamus : War between Islam (with the help of Russia/China) and the Western World

The attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were planned by the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist parties to punish the West for opposing Islam, according to former PLO operative and Muslim Brotherhood member-turned-terrorism analyst  Walid Shoebat.

Shoebat says translations of Arabic documents show that radical Muslims are beginning an offensive against the West.

“The attacks on U.S. embassies had very little to do with the latest [anti-Muhammad] film and much more to do with the old story of the Muhammad cartoon and the failure of Muslims to prosecute internationally the culprits who drew the Muhammad cartoons. This will be another attempt to change the laws globally,” Shoebat said. He said the attacks were a joint mission, and he cited an Arabic-language video to suggest that responsibility for the attacks could go all the way to the Egyptian leadership.

“This video brings us closer to answering that question. In fact, it not only points to the same attackers but possibly to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi himself,” Shoebat said. Shoebat highlighted an exchange in the video that starts at the 1:15 mark, in which gunmen in Libya say, “Don’t shoot, we were sent by Morsi.” The U.S. State Department declined to make any further comment when contacted by WND. Shoebat said other documents, translated from Arabic, also show that high-ranking members of the Salafist Nour Party and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt planned the attacks to force constitutional changes in Egypt and concessions from the West.

The Nour Party issued a call to demonstrate in support of Wisam Abdul Waris of Dar Al-Hekma, or House of Wisdom, who has called for changes in the Egyptian constitution and international law that would make it illegal to criticize Islam, Shoebat said. He said the Nour Party is the main culprit and Nour Party spokesman Nader Bakkar openly says members are after legal changes in Egypt and the world. Bakkar has said his party aims for legal prosecution of anyone who harms Islam at home or abroad.

On his personal Facebook page, Bakkar referred to the role of the anti-Islam movie trailer, “Innocence of Muslims,” in changing laws, according to Shoebat: After the movie that abused the prophet (peace be upon him), none will dare object to our determination to put an article in the constitution that criminalizes insults of the divine through portrayal or animation of the prophet, his companions, and all his house and mothers of the believers … this is the least we can do.

Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead said Egyptian activists are trying to make the U.S. legal system like the one in Egypt. “Egypt has a Civil Strife Statute. In Egypt, if they don’t agree with what you have to say to the government, they can fine you or lock you up. We don’t have that in this country,” Whitehead said. Whitehead called the protests against the odd film trailer, which is under 14 minutes, “personal grandstanding.”

“The key is the First Amendment is still alive,” he said. “The key to American freedom is protecting those you don’t agree with.” Whitehead said the attackers want the U.S. to make concessions to the Muslims. “There’s no doubt. Egypt would like the kind of laws here that they have and they want to impose them on the United States. We have the First Amendment that the Founding Fathers gave us to protect us from authoritarian regimes,” he said.

“Obama and his administration should not buckle,” Whitehead said. Shoebat said the Nour Party clearly is responsible for the embassy attack in Cairo. Bakkar, who is scheduled to be in the United States in the coming days, should be questioned, he said. “Make no mistake; the notion that these riots were spawned by an anti-Islam movie is completely and totally fallacious,” Shoebat said.

“It is not about the movie; it is about never letting a crisis go to waste,” he continued. “It is all about intimidating countries into implementing laws designed to extinguish free speech rights. The film is nothing more than a tool to be used to exploit politically correct inclinations.” He said the attacks were intended to extract concessions from the U.S. and exalt militant Muslims. The attacks were also part of a “support al-Qaida day,” he said, noting the Nour Party’s official Facebook page displays a photo of Osama bin Laden.

“To prove the point beyond a shadow of doubt that September the 11th was chosen without any connect to the film being released on that date, we can examine the sources as to when Egypt learned about the film,” Shoebat said. On Wednesday, he noted, the Wall Street Journal reported that the video trailer that allegedly prompted the attacks had been scheduled to be shown in the church of controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones.

Shoebat said “the spark that elevated the video from the Internet’s backwater” appears to have been provided by Morris Sadek, an Egyptian Coptic activist living in the Washington, D.C., area. Sadek has been an outspoken anti-Islamic activist in the U.S., where he runs a small group called the National American Coptic Assembly. On Sept. 6, Sadek sent an email to journalists around the world promoting a Sept. 11 event held by Jones, who previously sparked deadly protests by burning a copy of the Quran.

In the email, Sadek included a link to the anti-Islam trailer. Whitehead noted the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff even called Jones to ask him not to show the film clip at his church. Shoebat added that a Dutch film was the original target of Nour Party ire. Party spokesman Bakkar announced Sept. 9 that he was objecting to a Dutch film and that the Dutch were allowing Copts to move to Holland, Shoebat said.

Bakkar asserted the moves were an unacceptable interference in Egyptian affairs and an attempt to crack the unity of its citizens. Bakkar stated through his personal Twitter account that the Dutch anti-Muslim film against Muhammad “could not pass unnoticed, without there being an adequate response.” Shoebat said this adds to the argument that the Nour Party had failed to twist the arms of the Dutch, as well as the Germans and the English, to change their laws to respect Shariah.

So they then turned on the Americans and chose 9/11 for the date to protest, Shoebat said. An Egyptian citizen in Cairo, whose identity has been withheld for security reasons, also said the American film would have gone largely unnoticed if the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood hadn’t brought it to the public’s attention. “The past 48 hours have made the entire world aware of the existence of a movie that allegedly offends Muslims. Prior to the barbaric reaction of Muslims in Libya and Egypt, no one was aware of the existence of the movie,” the Cairo source said.

The source said bringing the American movie into the picture is an effort to insult America and to incite violence against Egypt’s Coptic community. “It is now very clear that only the actions of the radical Islamists gave the film world wide publicity. The timing of the protests were planned to coincide with the anniversary of the 9/11 attack that killed thousands of Americans by radical Islamists,” the source said.

The Cairo resident said that to justify the attack on the U.S. Embassy, Egyptian media continued falsely reporting the film was made by Maurice Sadek, a Coptic Christian living in the U.S., along with Pastor Jones. “The unfounded reporting was a willful act to promote incitement and resentment towards Egypt’s Coptic-Christian community,” the source said. Shoebat said Egyptian military officers are part of the attempt to implicate the Copts.

On the Nour Party Facebook page, he noted, Egyptian officers posted messages of support, including photos of themselves in uniform, promising to join the demonstrations. “Calls to terminate all the citizenships of Coptic Christians who live abroad litter the websites that support Nour Salfist party,” Shoebat said.

He noted a trend in Egypt for police officers to join “I am a cop with a beard,” an activist group that cooperated with the Voice of Wisdom and Nour Party to “express our anger” in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. The Facebook page has a photo calling Copts abroad “The Dogs of The Diaspora” and another photo featuring the chant, “Khaybar Khaybar O Jews, the army of Muhammad is coming for you,” Shoebat said.

Advertisements include posters encouraging demonstrations in front of the U.S. Embassy, he pointed out. One ad states “Tuesday, on 9/11. More is planned on the 14th and this time in front of the Presidential Palace.” Meanwhile, British Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary has responded to the anti-Islam trailer with a call for a demonstration in London to “defend the honor” of Muhammad.

“In light of the film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ insulting the final prophet, which is undoubtedly part of the global U.S. campaign to tarnish and spite Islam and Muslims, there will be a demonstration taking place tomorrow outside the American embassy in London to defend the honor of the messenger Muhammad,” Choudary said in his press release.

There also was speculation that Morsi will pursue legal action against the United States over the film.  Whitehead discounted that possibility. “The First Amendment allows for individuals to have the freedom to express themselves, so there’s really no cause of action that can be taken,” he said. (Full Article)

Nostradamus War with Islam getting closer

Why can’t we all live in peace together ??? What a sad sad world this is sometimes …

Source : WND

Movie : The Innocence of Muslims