The Good Muslim
Amos Umwhat
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I've been thinking about this recently, since the post about the Mosque near the 9/11 site. After 9/11 I took the time to read the Koran, and, from my decidedly Christian viewpoint, I thought: "If God wants to call someone to him through this document, He can." I followed this later with reading Rumi, a 13th century Persian poet, who decidedly was a devout and divinely inspired Muslim, who famously said: "I've been to the Synagogue, the Cathedral, and the Mosque, I saw One Altar." So, I figured the "good" muslims are out there, just afraid, as were the "good" Christians in Germany during the rise of Hitler. There is, however, an undeniable sickness in Islam today. I recently received what I shall paraphrase below, some thoughts adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery Terrorism and Islam. Apparently there is a kind of critical mass effect when Muslims settle into a new area. At under 2%, they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority, not a threat, as is seen in the U.S., Australia, Canada, China, etc. At 2 - 5 % the begin to proselytize, often recruiting from the jails and street gangs, as in Denmark, Germany, UK, Spain. After 5% they begin to exercise an inordinate influence, pushing for halal (food laws) and pushing for this in supermarket chains etc., to include threats to the owners. After 10% open lawlessness begins, with car burnings and crime such as is being seen in Paris and Amsterdam, and non-muslim action resulting in uprisings and threats. After 20% nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad, killings, burning of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues. After 40%, massacres, militia warfare, as seen in Bosnia, Chad, and Lebanon. Larger Muslim populations routinely engage in ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc. See the recent history of countries such as indonesia, Iran, Syria, Sudan, etc. The follow quote from Leon Uris "The Haj" describes 100% populations: 'Before I was nine, I haed learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother, me and my brother against my father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidel." A few years ago, I read a book by Alan Bloom titled: The Closing of the American Mind. Bloom contends that in is through tolerance that our culture will fall. At first, I thought "no way", after all, we need to be tolerant, don't we? Well, I'm starting to wonder. I'm thinking that if we remain tolerant of the intolerant, the world will soon become intolerable. Like the old maxim: All that is needed for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing. Food for thought, anyone see differently, or a productive way out of this mess? Thanks for listening, y'all, just had to get this out there.
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