Wings of the Muslim Brotherhood

[level_head]

I've posted here before, to a certain amount of objection, that organizations like Hamas and Fatah and CAIR and al Qaida are franchises of the "non-violent" Muslim Brotherhood.

I've never called them "wings" of the Muslim Brotherhood, but I was amused to see this confirmation about the terrorists in Israel:The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of

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[melvin_udall]

If only anyone could have seen this coming.

[level_head]

The current administration is not at all troubled by the rise and takeover by jihadists across the Middle East. Neither possibility -- that this is knowing or ignorance on President Obama's part -- is comforting.

But independent of politics, jihadism is growing furiously this year, in every sense of that word.

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[melvin_udall]

It absolutely is.

It isn't just Obama. The Left of all the media is giddy in anticipation at what's coming at Israel.

As always what really makes me sick is the apathy or encouragement by America's Jews. Zionist or not, supporting people who seem to long for a mass of dead Jews is taking ideology to a truly sick level.

And while I am no fan of Israel and don't like neocon power projection world policing, I think it would be nice if a few among the GOP would wake up to the obvious and at least say something.

[hannahsarah]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxthorn
Boxthorn is mentioned in the biblical Book of Proverbs as besetting the paths of the wicked (Proverbs 22:5)

Awesome, I need to get me some of these! I'll plant a privacy hedge around my house, and then the bastards can't get me!

[torakiyoshi]

You might be very interested to read the work of Mano Bakh, From Terror to Freedom. I thought of you today while listening to him on Janet Parshall's radio show, "In the Market" (her site includes a link to his website, which is not working at the moment). Bakh spoke very clearly today on the fact that Islam is incompatible with our Constitutional Freedoms, and that those who understand the practices of Islam and take its legal practices correctly cannot help but be bent on harming those of us in the free world, though he also distinguished between the faith of Islam and the practice of Sharia. It was an interesting discussion.

[c_eagle]

"The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, ...and each tree and stone will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!' Except for the Gharqad tree."

Uh... is this a part of the actual Koran??

[level_head]

Not exactly. Islam has three holy works: the Qur'an, al Hadith and Sunnah. These are, approximately, the dictation of the Angel Gabriel, the collection of stories about Muhammad, and a smaller collection of his sayings. The last two overlap -- and especially the Hadith differ between Shi'a and Sunni Muslims

[c_eagle]

Interesting elaborations.. thanks!

Summarizing, would you say that Islam is the only (or largest) religion in our current age that advocates killing for minor offenses (based on our constitutional rights) or for simply existing? Or is it just Muslim extremists, as many contend?

[level_head]

There are eight thousand or so religions on the planet. Islam is the only major one that meets the criteria of advocating (in its founding documents) that its members kill members of other faiths, but there are strange ones indeed on the fringes

[deckardcanine]

You may have answered this before, but what do you think of the theory that Muhammad was bipolar?

[level_head]

There is evidence from the Hadith that he had pretty severe epilepsy. But these are independent considerations form whether Islam is true and correct. I don't think there's any good evidence for that, but I don't need to find some infirmity with Muhammad to get there.

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[jordan179]

I think he was some kind of psychotic, given his claims of visions, and their content.

[jordan179]

And before anyone says the obvious, note that the only points in the New Testament where Jesus has what could be interpreted as hallucinations is when he's under extreme physical stress.