We must understand our Enemy #5

What is Sharia Law?

With the attack in Nice, France and Newt Gingrich's comment about Sharia Law, the talking heads in the media are twisting themselves in knots to make excuses as to why Sharia Law should be allowed in the United States of America.  As the previous posts in this series have explained the truth of Islam, this installment will expel the arguments that Sharia Law is not dangerous, and any attack on it is unconstitutional.

We have a Constitution in this country that lays out the foundation for the rule of law we live by.  All countries have laws by which their citizens live by, and the Constitution written by our Founding Fathers is ours.  So, for another set of laws brought here to replace our Constitution is not only against our laws it is in fact, an act of war.

Here are some facts about Sharia and why it is against our Constitution.  Those following Sharia have no desire to become a part of this great country like so many other immigrants did before them.  Their goal is to replace our Constitution with Sharia Law, thus forcing all of us to live under Islamic Law.

Sharia Law is the law of Islam. This law is from the actions and words of Muhammad and the Quran.  Sharia law cannot be altered, but the interpretation of Sharia law by imams is given some latitude.

Sharia Law is a legal system.  Sharia law regulates public behavior, private behavior, and even private beliefs.  Of all legal systems in the world today, Sharia Law is the most intrusive and restrictive, especially when it comes to the rights of women.

This is what those practicing Sharia law believe:

·         Theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand.

·         Criticizing or denying any part of the Quran is punishable by death.

·         Criticizing Muhammad or denying he is a prophet is punishable by death.

·         Criticizing or denying Allah, the god of Islam is punishable by death.

·         A Muslim, who becomes non-Muslim, shall be liable to death.

·         A non-Muslim who leads a Muslim away from Islam is punishable by death.

·         A non-Muslim man who marries a Muslim woman is punishable by death.

·         A man can marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is 9 years old.

·         A girls' clitoris must be cut.

·         A woman may have 1 husband. However, a husband may have up to 4 wives

·         A man may beat his wife for insubordination.

·         A man may divorce his wife; however, a woman needs her husband's consent to divorce.

·         A divorced wife loses custody of all children over 6 years of age or when they exceed it.

·         The testimony of four male witnesses is required to prove rape against a woman.

·         A woman who has been raped cannot testify in court against her rapist or rapists.

·         A woman's testimony in court, allowed in property cases, carries ½ the weight of a man's.

·         A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits.

·         A woman cannot drive a car.

·         A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative.

·         All meat eaten must come from animals sacrificed to Allah - Halal.

·         Muslims are encouraged to engage in Taqiyya, which is to lie to non-Muslims to advance Islam.

As you can clearly see, Sharia Law is NOT merely a religious belief.  So, those claiming this is a manner of religious freedom are missing the mark.  Sharia Law is a legal system, which must replace our laws in the minds of those wishing to live under it in this country.  Do not be fooled by those claiming religious freedom and that wanting to prevent those wanting Sharia Law from coming to this country in the refugee program or those already here is unconstitutional.

Sharia Law itself is unconstitutional, and those wishing to implement it here desire to overthrow our Constitution and all of the laws of OUR land.

There is NO room for Sharia Law in the country, and we need to do everything we can to stop its steady spread across the world.

Those who follow Sharia have one and only one goal, and that's for Sharia to be the law of the entire world.

We must understand our Enemy #4

This week we will dispel the myth of the contributaions to society by Islam and the Muslims

We have all heard President Obama claim that Muslims built the very foundation of the United States of America.  Well, this is a practice that has been done by Muslims throughout time.  I’m so saying he’s a Muslim because that is for a different discussion.  What I am saying is Muslims often claim that Islam has fostered a rich heritage of scientific discovery, which paved the way for modern advances in technology and medicine.  This post will dispel that myth.

Muslims will usually cite the period between the 7th and 13th centuries when Europe was in its Dark Ages.  During this period the Muslim world was acquiring new populations and culture through violent conquest.

Although one cannot argue the Muslim world was relatively more advanced during that period than the Christian world, it had nothing to do with the Islamic religion itself.  In fact, the religion tends to discourage knowledge outside of itself (Quran 5:101-102), which is why the most prolific Muslim scholars are usually students of religion rather than science.

There are four basic reasons why Islam has little true claim to scientific achievement:

First, the Muslim world benefited greatly from the Greek sciences, which were translated for them by dhimmi Christians and Jews.

Secondly, many of the scientific advances credited to Islam were actually stolen from other cultures they conquered.  The algebraic concept of “zero” is erroneously attributed to Islam when in fact it was a Hindu discovery and was merely introduced to the West by Muslims.

Truth be told, conquered populations added greatly to the history of supposed Muslim science until gradually being decimated by conversion to Islam under the pressures of dhimmitude.  Muslims were never more than a minority in the Muslim world, and they were in fact merely claiming the accomplishments of others as their own.  It is no accident the Muslim world has had little to show for itself in the last 800 years, since running out of new civilizations to cannibalize.

Third, Muslim scientists and cultural icons were often considered heretics in their day.  Persian scientist and philosopher, al-Razi often has his impressive works held up as proof of Muslim accomplishment.  However, al-Razi was denounced as a blasphemer, because he followed his own religious beliefs which were in contradiction to teachings of traditional Islam.

Fourth, even the contributions credited to Islam and often inaccurately, are not terribly dramatic.  There is the invention of certain words, such as alchemy and elixir, even assassin, but not much else that survives in modern technology which is of practical significance.

In fact, the majority of Muslim achievements owe their true origins to the many conquered civilizations.  It’s quite amazing how the truth of these discoveries is often omitted.

So in conclusion, the significant achievements touted to have come out of the Islamic world were done by non-Muslims who lived under Islamic rule, or by heretics who had little interest in Islam.

Happy Birthday, America!

A Marine stuns the crowd at a Tea Party event by singing a little known verse of the Star Spangled Banner. So much for us being a Secular Nation.

We all need a reminder from time to time that our rights come from God and not any man or group of men. Watching this will make your heart swell with pride and is sure to bring tears to your eyes.

Happy Birthday, America!

We must understand our Enemy #3

This week we are going to go into what the word Islam truly means.

How many times have we heard, “Islam is a Religion of Peace?”  They then go on to say, in fact, the word Islam actually means peace.  However, that is not true.

Muslim apologists will claim the root word of Islam is “al-Salaam,” which means “peace” in Arabic.  However, a word in Arabic only has ONE root.  The root word for Islam is “al-Silm,” which actually means “submission” or “surrender.” 

There is no disagreement about this among Arabic or Islamic scholars.  al-Silm (submission) does not mean the same thing as al-Salaam (peace). Otherwise, they would be the same word.

In our culture, submission has a much different meaning than peace.  We do not believe that peace is gained by submission to others.   As the modern-day Islamic scholar, Ibrahim Sulaiman, says, "Jihad is not inhumane, despite its necessary violence and bloodshed.  Its ultimate desire is peace which is protected and enhanced by the rule of law."

In truth, the Quran not only commands Muslims to submit to Allah, but it also orders them to subdue those of other religions until they submit to Islamic rule.  This has led to the aggressive history of followers of Islam to conquer other cultures and bring them under the rule of Islamic law.

The Quran says all will be judged by Allah.  However, this does not mean all have equal rights or are judged by the same standards.

There is no doubt in the teachings of the Quran, the life of Muhammad, or Islamic law as to the inferiority of women to men.  No matter how hard apologists today try to say there are verses that teach otherwise, there is NO such progressive interpretation found in the Quran.

Muhammad would often hand out captured women as war prizes to his men after military conquests.  In at least one case, he ordered the women be raped in front of their husbands.  Then those captured women were made into sex slaves by the same men who had killed their husbands and brothers.  There are four verses in which Allah makes clear that a Muslim Master has full sexual access to his female slaves, yet there is not one that prohibits rape.

The Quran also gives Muslim men permission to beat their wives for disobedience.  However, not one verse commands love in marriage (although it does say love exists).  The verses plainly say Husbands are a degree above their wives.  The Hadith says women are intellectually inferior to men, and the majority of Hell’s occupants are women.

Under Islamic law, a man may divorce his wife at his choosing.  If he does this twice, then wishes to remarry her, she must first have sex with another man.  Men are exempt from such degradations.

Muslim women are not free to marry whomever they please as Muslim men are.  Their husband may also bring other wives and/or slaves into the marriage bed.  A wife must also be sexually available to her husband at any time.

Muslim women do not inherit property in equal portion to males.  This is somewhat ironic since Islam owes its existence to the wealth of Muhammad's first wife.

A woman's testimony in court is considered to be worth only half that of a man’s, according to the Quran.  Unlike a man, she must also cover her head, and often her face.

If a woman claims to have been raped, there must be four male witnesses to corroborate her account.  This is mandated by strict Sharia Law.  Otherwise, she can be jailed or stoned to death for confessing to adultery.  You see, it’s not rape without the four male witnesses.

All this clearly shows there is NO equality under Islam.  This claim is merely a ploy designed for those unwilling to accept the truth and reality of Islamic law and history.

Jihad is mentioned over 200 times in the words of Muhammad.  In Arabic, jihad means struggle.  However, in Islam, it means HOLY WAR.

This constant argument of who the true Muslims are is foolish because the Quran clearly distinguishes the true Muslim from the pretender in Sura 9 and elsewhere.  In this, one of the last chapters of the Quran, the true believer strives and fights with their wealth and persons while the hypocrites are those who sit at home, refusing to join the jihad against unbelievers in foreign lands.

Muhammad organized 65 military campaigns in the last ten years of his life and personally led 27 of them.  The more power he attained, the smaller the excuse needed to go to battle, until finally, he began attacking tribes merely because they were not yet part of his growing empire.

Muhammad left his men with instructions to take the battle against Christians, Persians, Jews, and polytheists, which came to include millions of unfortunate Hindus.  For the next four centuries, Muslim armies, attacked unsuspecting neighbors, plundering them of loot and slaves, and forcing the survivors to either convert or pay tribute at the point of a sword.

As we’ve already covered in this series, by the time of the Crusades when the Europeans began to fight back, the so-called Religion of Peace had conquered two-thirds of the Christian world by the sword, from Syria to Spain, and across North Africa.  Millions of Christians were enslaved by Muslims, and tens of millions of Africans.  The Arab slave-trading routes would stay open for 1300 years until pressure from Christian-based countries forced Islamic nations to declare the practice illegal.  To this day, the Muslim world has never apologized for the victims of Jihad and slavery.

There is not another religion in the world that consistently produces terrorism in the name of their God as does Islam.  The most dangerous are those who interpret the Quran most transparently.  They are the fundamentalists or purists of the faith and believe in Muhammad’s mandate to spread Islamic rule by the sword, putting to death those who will not submit.  In the absence of true infidels, they will even turn on each other.

The holy texts of Islam are full of verses commanding violence and hatred toward those outside the faith, as well as the hypocrites, who are Muslims, who don't act like Muslims by following the commands of Muhammad.  In earlier verses of the Quran, violence was forbidden, then as it progressed violence was permitted, and then finally it was mandatory.  The handful of previous verses that spoke of tolerance is overwhelmed by the later ones that carry a much different message.  While Old Testament verses of blood and guts are generally bound by historical context within the text itself, Quranic imperatives to violence usually appear open-ended and subject to personal interpretation. 

From the history of the faith to its most sacred of writings, one who wants to believe in a peaceful Islam has a lot more to ignore than do those who want to perform acts of terrorism.  To be completely honest, the Religion of Peace has been the harshest and bloodiest religion the world has ever known.  In Islam, believers say there will be no peace unless Muslims are in power.

What Muslims call tolerance, others would consider institutionalized discrimination and enslavement.  The consignment of Jews and Christians to dhimmis under Islamic rule means they are not allowed the same religious rights and freedoms as Muslims.  They cannot share their faith, or build houses of worship without permission.

Historically, dhimmis are forced to wear distinctive clothing or cut their hair in a particular manner.  This is to mark their position of inferiority and humiliation, such as how the Nazis labeled the Jews.  They do not share the same legal rights as Muslims, and must even pay a poll tax called the jizya.  Then they are killed or have their children taken from them if they cannot meet the tax collector’s requirements.

For hundreds of years, the Christian population in occupied Europe had their sons taken away and forcibly converted into Muslim warriors known as Jannisaries by the Ottoman Turks.

For those who are not the People of the Book, such as Hindus and atheists, there is very little tolerance to be found once Islam establishes political superiority.  The Quran commands Muslims to fight in the way of Allah until religion is only for Allah.  Then those who find themselves conquered face death if they do not establish regular prayer and charity in the Islamic tradition according to the pillars of Islam, which is what is being taught in many of our schools across this country today.

Tens of millions of Hindus and Buddhists were displaced or forcibly converted over the last thousand years.  Islamists in Somalia today behead Christians, and in Iran, they are jailed.

There are about 500 verses in the Quran that speak of Allah’s hatred for non-Muslims and the punishment he has prepared for them.

As for Sura 109, any true Quran scholar will point out that the purpose of the verse was to distinguish Islam from the Gods of the Quraysh, one of which was named Allah, rather than to advocate religious tolerance for non-Muslims.

At the time he narrated this very early verse, Muhammad did not have any power, and thus no choice but to be tolerant of others.  However, no real tolerance was shown once he returned to Mecca many years later and demanded the eviction or death of anyone who would not convert to Islam.  In fact, he physically destroyed the cherished idols of the very people he addressed in Sura 109.

We are told to believe that Islam teaches to be tolerant and peaceful, but as you can see by its history and actions of those professing their belief in its teachings, then Islam is fundamentally the most intolerant religion we are facing today.

Don’t allow those pushing the false narrative about Islam.  Don’t let them guilt you into silence.  We are fighting not only for our lives but our futures.  Do we want to live as a free people to worship and live as we choose, or do we want to submit to Islam and live a life of fear?

Next week we will cover the myth told by Muslims of how Islam has fostered a rich heritage of scientific discovery, which paved the way for modern advances in technology and medicine.

Source material – The Religion of Peace-What makesIslam so different?

Happy Independence Day

On this special day, as our families come together for barbecues, cookouts, and shooting off fireworks, let us remember the true meaning of 'The Fourth of July.

The true meaning is stated in the title, "Independence Day" for that is what we fought for in that great battle against Britain, the new America's freedom; Freedom from Tyranny, and the freedom to live our lives as individuals.

July 4, 1776, commemorates the publication of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain when the thirteen American Colonies declared themselves a free nation. This new nation would now be called The United States of America and no longer a part of the British Empire.

During the American Revolution, the legal separation from Britain occurred on July 2, 1776, but it got its final approval and signatures on July 4, 1776.

On July 2, the Continental Congress voted for a resolution of independence which had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee from Virgina. After the Congress voted for independence, they then began to focus on the declaration document to give an explanation for separation. Led by Thomas Jefferson, the principal author, a committee of five prepared the Declaration of Independence. Debate and rewording of the document occurred until they finally agreed upon the statement of the document on the Fourth of July, 1776.

On July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, stating that he believed July 2, would be a most memorable event and celebrated through the generations as a great festival.
Adams, of course, was off by two days as the Declaration was not officially signed and recognized until the Fourth day of July.

Historians have long argued against the Fourth of July as the official day of the signing, but Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin all wrote that they had indeed signed the document on the Fourth.

The following year, on July 4, 1777, they celebrated their Independence Day in Bristol, Rhode Island, by firing thirteen gunshots in the salute, once in the morning, and once that evening.

We have the copy of the Declaration of Independence attached to this blog so you can read it at your leisure. I, myself, recite the Declaration of Independence on every Independence Day holiday, to remember why our forefathers worked so hard to bring about this document. To many, it's just words on a page, but to me, it's more. It is the very fiber of our existence as Americans for which we live, love, and enjoy our freedoms.

We, Americans, are Americans today because of the blood, sweat, and tears of our Forefathers endured in those long, tiring, sleepless times as the burden of the future of their children rested in their hands. What an awesome, yet terrible feeling they must have had knowing the decisions they made would affect the generations to come after them.
So, on this Independence Day, we wish you a Happy Fourth of July as you spend your day of activities with your family and friends. I only ask that you, please pause for a moment to remember the bravery of our forefathers and those brave men who fought, suffered, and died so that we, their future, could live in a free country.

God Bless The United States of America, and may our FREEDOMS reign.