Posted by
Paul Derengowski on Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Will the talking
heads in the media ever get it straight when it comes to "radical
Islam"? For some strange reason, I doubt it. Case in point. This
morning I'm listening to the radio after taking a shower, and on pops
Rick Hadley of WBAP out of Dallas/Ft. Worth. He's the News Director,
and one would think that he would know better when it comes to such
subjects, but such was not the case.
After giving his
brief analysis of what took place at Fort Hood this past week, he
slipped in a couple of misstatements about both Nidal Malik Hasan and
Islam by stating that Hasan had somehow misrepresented Islam through
his act of violence, given that Islam was a religion of peace. First
of all, Hasan did not misrepresent Islam, and second, Islam is not a
religion of peace. The latter never has been peaceful, nor will it
ever be.
Islam from its
inception has been about nothing but violence. Muhammad was strangled
into submission by what he thought was a demonic presence. Then when
he finally secured enough military strength, which he achieved by
raiding caravans and killing off those who opposed him, he strove from
Medina to Mecca and took it by force as well. Not only were hundreds,
if not thousands, beheaded along the way, Muhammad himself participated
in much of carnage as Muslim historian Ibn Ishaq recorded in his Life of Muhammad:
"Then they surrendered, and the apostle confined them in Medina
in the quarter of d. al-Harith, a woman of B. al-Najjar. Then the
apostle went out to the market of Medina (which is still its market
today) and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for them and struck off their heads
in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches. Among
them was the enemy of Allah Huyayy b. Aktab and Ka'b b. Asad their
chief. There were 600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900.
As they were being taken out in batches to the apostle they asked Ka'b
what he thought would be done with them. He replied, 'Will you never
understand? Don't you see that the summoner never stops and those who
are taken away do not return? By Alah it is death!' This went on until the apostle made an end of them.—A. Gulliame, The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah (New York: Oxford, 1967), 150.
One
thing that is particularly maddening and frustrating is that guys like
Hadley will not listen. All they keep doing is repeating the same
rhetorical mantra of misguided misinformation. Then when thugs like
Hasan go on a rampage, he's somehow the one misrepresenting something
that the Hadley's don't have a clue as to what they're talking about.
No, Mr. Hadley. Hasan knew exactly what he was doing by following his
prophet's lead. In fact, it is commanded over and over and over again
in both the Qur'an and in the Hadiths to do the very thing that Hasan
carried out last Thursday (Sura 4:56, 74, 84, 91; 5:51; 8:38, 65, 67;
9:5; 12, 14-15, 70; 22:39; 47:4; 60:1; 98:6; Hadith 4.53, 271, 280,
386, 392).
Of course there
are those nay-sayers who'll say, but the Qur'an talks about peace and
that it is against Muslim belief to force its religion upon anyone.
That the only time murder, violence, and war take place is when the
Muslim is offended.
Indeed, the
Qur'an talks about peace, but only toward the front end of the book,
which in historical perspective is early on in Muhammad's career when
(1) he couldn't get anyone in Mecca to listen to his misguided rantings
about being visited (more like abused into submission) by Gabriel, and
(2) he was holed up in Medina, and didn't have the military firepower
to strike back at the Meccans. So, of course he spoke of peace. Yet,
from Surah 4 onward, things change in a hurry. Muhammad was no longer
interested in peace, but in conquest; vengeance, if you will. And
those who got in his way, died!
The fact is,
real, true blue Islam is still all about conquest, and that by the
sword if need be. Only those Muslims who are in rebellion against
Islams mandates are the "radicals." And those who so much as reject
the advance of the Islamic command to convert is assumed to be in
offensive opposition to Islam, and is thus targeted for extermination
or severe oppression. In other words, refusal to convert is seen as a
hostile act and is to be dealt with accordingly.
The only reason
we don't see extermination and oppression being carried out in the
United States today is because Sharia Law is not in effect, even it is gaining ground rapidly.
But, if guys like Hadley keep lying about Islam, especially in the
media, you may rest assure that blood will begin to flow, much like in
the days when Muhammad was personally butchering people by the
hundreds, if not thousands.
It's time to wake
up everyone. The fundamental tenets and ideology of Islam are not what
the CAIR's, the media, and even President Obama are making them out to
be. Islam is not about peace; it is about conquest, enslavement, and
death. Last Thursday we received another example of just how deadly it
is. Maybe before the next massacre takes place, the Rick Hadley's will
finally figure that out and start broadcasting the truth about Islam,
and not a distorted caricature which will only lead to more death and
mayhem.