A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi
A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi
A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
values giving comfort, moral-support, and sanctuary to terrorist foot soldiers. Each act <strong>of</strong> Islamic<br />
terrorism should be viewed for what it is, a collective criminal act.<br />
Both the executive and judicial branches <strong>of</strong> the U.S. government are essentially declaring itself to be<br />
the ultimate authority <strong>of</strong> what is truly Islamic and what is not, inadvertently providing cover to the very<br />
theology acting to destroy its protectors. With little intimate knowledge <strong>of</strong> Islamic doctrine and teachings,<br />
and almost completely ignoring recent and distant history, our government continuously attempts to sever<br />
the association between Islam and terrorism. Officials do not deny that self-proclaimed Muslims are<br />
constantly trying to kill Americans, but it stridently denies any connection between violent aggression and<br />
genuine Islam. Despite the fact that those proclaiming it are politicians, bureaucrats, judges, and other<br />
members <strong>of</strong> U.S. <strong>of</strong>ficialdom, such proclamations are patently false. Not everyone making such claims<br />
are being deliberately deceitful, most are simply making certain assumptions about one <strong>of</strong> the worlds<br />
largest religions, having no particular competence to decide what is or is not Islamic, and so are underqualified<br />
to make such judgments. Officials should contain themselves and not issue opinions on what<br />
constitutes the Islamic faith and which are its true representatives. Any individual who has struggled to<br />
review the material presented herein knows much more about terrorism and Islam than all <strong>of</strong> them, and<br />
indeed probably more than most Muslims know about their own religion as well.<br />
Hubris, defined as "outrageous arrogance", has brought down many powerful and great civilizations<br />
before. Just like the Roman Emperors and its citizenry who never imagined their most advanced society<br />
would become part <strong>of</strong> 'ancient history', Western elites display exactly the same stupid arrogance. Today<br />
there is hubris in the Senate and House <strong>of</strong> Representatives where a few, sworn to preserve and protect,<br />
visited the enemy in Iraq <strong>of</strong>fering themselves as unwitting propaganda tools for dictators and despots.<br />
Recently the potential Democratic presidential candidates exacerbated the difficulties <strong>of</strong> a nation at war,<br />
all willing to weaken national resolve in hope <strong>of</strong> gaining sufficient votes from ‘the convenient masses’ to<br />
secure the position <strong>of</strong> ‘Commander in Chief <strong>of</strong> the Armed Forces’, which forces they essentially<br />
denigrate. The party suffers from myopia, seeing all kinds <strong>of</strong> far-right conspiracies, but unable (or not<br />
allowed by the ‘politically correct’ blinders it designed and advocates) to see the enemy poised to strike<br />
us again and again. The Democratic Party seems only equipped to protect its advantage on ‘progressive’<br />
judges, the environment, abortion rights, privacy rights <strong>of</strong> terrorists, and the entitlements and delicate<br />
sensibilities <strong>of</strong> special interest groups, but otherwise seem wholly ill equipped to protect us from anything<br />
more <strong>dan</strong>gerous than vague unintended insults from the ‘insensitive’ Republican Party. Possibly the<br />
greatest Democratic president <strong>of</strong> all time, Kennedy, understood well the perils facing the US by<br />
communist totalitarianism and was willing to risk all to stand up to it, but sadly there are no Democrats <strong>of</strong><br />
his caliber in our day.<br />
All the while Islam, by its very nature, remains in permanent competition with other civilizations.<br />
This theory was expounded by the Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington, who coined the term<br />
"<strong>Islam'</strong>s bloody borders" -- a reference to the fact that wherever Islam rubs up against other civilizations -<br />
- Jewish, Christian, Hindu -- wars seem to break out. His work ‘Clash <strong>of</strong> Civilizations’ should be required<br />
reading at high schools, colleges, and universities. Amir Tahiri, the editor <strong>of</strong> ‘Politique International <strong>of</strong><br />
Paris’ noted October 2001 that <strong>of</strong> the 30 wars going on at that time, 28 involve Muslim people fighting<br />
either non-Muslims or other Muslims. The true Islamic concept <strong>of</strong> peace goes something like this: "Peace<br />
comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept <strong>of</strong> Allah" (i.e. Islam). As such the Islamic<br />
concept <strong>of</strong> peace, meaning making the whole world Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was<br />
inevitable and unavoidable that the conflict would eventually reach our borders, and so it has.<br />
Sura 9:122-123 "Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them. Know that<br />
God is with the righteous".<br />
So far we have gone to great lengths to reassure the Muslim world that we are not in a war with<br />
Islam, but only terrorists. However much <strong>of</strong> Islam understands better than our leaders do, that to fight the<br />
orthodox extremists in Islam is to fight against all that Islam holds sacred, and so in their minds we are<br />
indeed fighting Islam . But in reality we are not fighting all Muslims, just those who send, support, train,<br />
supply, fund, handle, protect, sympathize, admire, or hide Jihadic warriors worldwide. What percentage<br />
<strong>of</strong> Islam is that? A conservative estimate might be 25% <strong>of</strong> Muslims, which is still a number in the<br />
hundreds <strong>of</strong> millions. This is a huge problem any way you look at it, not likely to be solved by bombing a