Islam is currently divided (in both its Shia and Sunni implementations) between those who want to practice Islam authentically as taught by Mohammed, and those who want to modernize and internalize it. The latter are extraordinarily good neighbors. The former are, sadly, the actual orthodox Muslims.

Mohammed, you see, was not merely a good synthesizer of Jewish and Christian theology and scruples, although he was certainly that: He took the most-believable and easily-agreed upon common bits of Judaism and Christianity and repackaged them into a canon more perfectly suited for 7th-century Arabian tribalism: A stripped-down and mechanistic monotheism.

He was particularly clever about circumventing the endless debates between Jews and Christians about what constituted Holy Writ: Rather than collected works from many inspired authors (requiring interpretative effort and opening the door for disagreement about the nature of inspiration and which books belonged), Mohammed proffered a single work “dictated by God” in a single language from a single era of which any translation is regarded non-authoritative: A less messy and debate-prone proposition, and one promoting meme-cohesion and cultural cohesion in future followers by requiring the learning of that language.

But Mohammed was more than than a plagiarizer, he was a warleader: An early Arabian attempt to produce Shaka Zulu. All schools of Islamic jurisprudence teach abrogation: That the later Suras, when they contradict the earlier, overrule the earlier.

Unfortunately, this means that the more peaceful Suras (which date from the time that Islam was a minority movement incapable of waging open war against its neighbors) are overruled by the later ones (in which Mohammed calls all Muslims to dissimulate when in positions of weakness, but to conquer, humiliate, and subjugate all non-Muslims when opportunity arises).

The Byzantine emperor correctly commented that Mohammed brought absolutely nothing new to the religious life of the world except one very bad thing; namely, the advocacy of forcible conversion, compelled obedience, and economic oppression to grind down the conquered who held to other monotheistic faiths. (Conquered pagans were to be killed outright.)

This is old news to the jihadis. It isn’t often appreciated by the occidentalized Muslims who’re taught a bowdlerized form of Islam. Their children are getting the message, though, thanks to Saudi money.

Some Muslims of the more peaceful variety have posted here, shocked and outraged at what is said about their faith. This is understandable: They genuinely don’t know. (Say what you like about Christians, but they’re generally keenly aware of the failings of their forebears. Then again, those failings can generally be shown to contradict the character of Jesus whereas Islamic violence is entirely in character with Mohammed’s regime.)

My inclination is: Treat the occidentalized Muslims with respect, while gently nudging them towards the available evidence. I think most of them genuinely mean no harm; when they discover that Mohammed genuinely meant plenty of harm, they’ll have a choice to make, won’t they?

But the genuine, authentic, unreconstructed Muslims (that is to say, the jihadis and their sympathizers)? I don’t see why they should be permitted free travel to or within any civilized country on earth. They are not practitioners of a religion, but members of an armed totalitarian political movement with religious overtones. All the difference in the world.

Thanks again and God bless!

A 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to 90 lashes and two months’ prison
in Saudi Arabia after she took a mobile phone to school.

A court ordered the girl to be flogged in front of her classmates
following an assault on the school principal, according to the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan.

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just to make islam look evil , ok it wont happend most of

i very proud of my brother muslims in indeonisa and people from other religon god bless you all

by the way womens never killed in muslims country and even men for the reasons that you said stop telling people fake things about islam

wonen killed in USA and westren country for cheting on her husband and raped all the time

islam is make the women like pearl no one get it unless he is ready to marry it so she coverd her self so no body enjoy her expet her husband

islam is the right way every body love this religion just read a true thing

The bombers of Bali are very very proud moslems too. Why are they so proud? Are you as proud as they are? After reading about what your people did to the Balinese how can you comment here and say how proud you are? A moderate moslem would not mention pride in this context.

I have moslem friends in Indonesia. We drink beer together and they are very trustworthy and loyal friends for many years. We work together and they always watch out for me. They are ashamed of what happened in Bali and they are very clear when they speak about it.

You say there are no mosques in Bali. Bali does have plenty of mosques. Most Saudis avoid Bali because it’s a Hindu land and it’s brothels that they don’t have. Saudi tourists go to moslem Java because there are many thousands of brothels that cater to arabs. The people of Java refer to prostitution as “Saudi sport” because Saudis are the number one customers. Maybe that’s why you didn’t notice any mosques in Bali. You say you were in Bali twice yet you didn’t pray in a single mosque in Bali? What were you doing? My moslem friends all go to mosque every Friday in Bali. All moslem shops are closed on Friday. Where do you think they are? It’s not hard to find a mosque there. On friday groups of men from Java and Madura cannot be missed as they walk to worship with their submission rugs on their shoulders.

In 1900 Bali was 99.6% Hindu with a few Chinese and westerners but not one single mosque. Today up to 7% are moslem who chauvinistically regard the Balinese as savages. They live separately and resentful of the Balinese success in tourism and export trade. This points to one of the motives of all Islamic terrorists. They want to damage the successful “other” and in so doing ease the extreme embarrassment that success inflicts on the moslem psyche. It is for this same reason that they attack the west and by extension Israel. During the last 4 decades of the 20th century tiny Bali became the largest foreign currency earner in Indonesia, far out-performing Java in per-capita income. As the world marveled at Bali’s success in export and tourism the Javanese grew jealous and embarrassed by their relative poverty and failure to attract commerce.

It’s this moslem pride which you claim that caused the Bali bombings. Pride in Islam always manifests itself in violence because that’s how mohammed lived his life. The central principal in islam is submission, and those who do no submit by paying tax and groveling to islam must be attacked until they convert, or bow down and accept the yoke of sharia law. Woe to them that demonstrate to the world by their industry what retrograde failures moslem societies are by comparison.

Hindu’s are marked doubly by Islam because they pray in a multi-faceted divine realm. As polytheists they are excluded from any accommodation according to sharia. One only has to strike up a conversation with a Sikh or Hindu man from India to learn of the many millions killed there over the centuries by moslems following islamic rules.

The Dayak of Borneo, Indonesia were head-hunters until the colonial powers outlawed and stopped it in the 18th and 19th centuries. When are moslems going to stop being head-hunters? When will Saudi Arabia stop chopping women’s heads off in public in the name of your king? How many heads did the perfect man cut with his sword for the ancient arabian moon god? I hope you are not so proud a moslem that you would follow his example and kill for allah.

El Marco