BorealFADE TO BLACKTriumph of the IrrationalIslamophobiaHaving read this far, you should appreciate that a fear of Islam is a legitimate fear, not a phobia. It is a rational fear of the irrational. Fear is what non-believers who get close and personal with the Koran and Allah’s unrestrained visceral hatred and cruelty for their kind will experience, for that is the intent. It is a fear nourished and amplified by the Author’s demands of believers when it comes to dealing with those for whom He has nothing but contempt: from avoiding them, to enslaving them, to killing them. We are facing an increasingly bloody and violent future made even bloodier by Islamic rituals and scriptures that condition believers, from childhood onward, not only to accept that killing unbelievers is a good thing, but to enjoy and celebrate their slaughter. Militants rejoiced as Canadians were beheaded. Abu Sayyaf extremists rejoiced as they watched two Canadians being beheaded in the jungles of the southern Philippines, said a still-shocked Filipino hostage who was freed Friday. Marites Flor tearfully recalled to reporters the moments when Canadians John Ridsdel and Robert Hall were handcuffed and led away to a nearby jungle clearing to be separately decapitated. “They were watching it and they were happy,” she said of the militants. Philippines — The Associated Press, June 24, 2016 We have come to a point in our history where criticism of Muhammad and the god for whom he claimed to speak is equated with insulting Islam, thereby making anyone who would offer a contrarian opinion, such as that Islam is not a religion of peace, a target for reprisals that include threats to life and limb. It does not matter that leaders of men, for whom Allah’s Words are fighting words, agree with you. Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No-one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels. There is no excuse for any Muslim not to migrate to the Islamic State... joining is a duty on every Muslim. We are calling on you either to join or carry weapons [to fight] wherever you are. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in an audio message made public May 14, 2015 The Islamic State taking Allah’s at His word about being harsh with unbelievers: 9:123 O you who believe, fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them see how harsh you can be. Know that Allah is with the righteous. ----- If you can't blow them up or shoot them, try to be alone with the infidel and crush his skull with a rock, knife him to death, run him over with your car, throw him off a cliff, strangle him, poison him… It does not matter whether he is a policemen or a civilian, the sentence is the same. They are our enemies and spilling their blood is justified. Abou Mohammed Al-Adnani, the second most senior leader of the Islamic State after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Kill everyone; the evildoers are all targets for us. Don't bother looking for a specific target, just kill them. Dar al-Islam (Land of War) No. 3 (My translation of an exhortation to believers worldwide published in Islamic State's French language signature magazine.) Through defamation and by threatening murder and mayhem, Islamists have taken control of the message. A key component of that message is that if you fear Islam you are an Islamophobe and you should be ostracized, if not sanctioned. Should you challenge the designation with horrific quotes designed to terrorise from an implacable deity, and its self-proclaimed mouthpiece, expect more accusations that your fear of Islam is unfounded and to lose that fear or else! Welcome to the Twilight Zone. AFP-JIJI: "Combination of pictures showing the five gunmen who carried out the July 1, 2016 attack in Dhaka, during which 20 hostages were slaughtered at a restaurant, posing in front of a flag of the Islamic State group at an undisclosed location." Image may be subject to copyright Those who would accuse you of Islamophobia would like you to concentrate on the smiling faces and ignore the guns. Don’t! If we are losing the battle, it is partly because of this type accusation and laws that make criticism of a person's religious beliefs a crime. After the London bombings of July 2005, the British government saw to it that no serious discussion the book that inspired the slaughter of 54 British citizens should ever take place. It silenced critics of Islam with threats of fines and imprisonment. A tacit bargain was struck with those for whom terrorism is a means to an end. Put away your bombs, guns and knives and you will be allowed to recruit, largely unopposed, in our corner of the Land of War (anywhere the Sharia is not the law of the land). The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 was given royal assent on February 16, 2006. From one day to the next, the country that fought a world war to preserve us from genocidal fanatics became a more tolerant and intolerant society. More tolerant of religious zealots, not unlike those in the following Daily Mail photograph who disrupted Armistice Day 2010 commemorations in central London, and less tolerant of their critics.
Canada will shortly make freedom from criticism of your religious beliefs a human right (Bill C-63) to be enforced by the Canadian Human Rights Commission who will be granted commensurate powers to fine/imprison those who would dare take your scriptures to task. This follows the appointment of an Anti-Islamophobia Commissioner whose mission is to silence those who would voice a rational fear of the irrational. The West has implicitly, if not explicitly, accepted Islam’s argument that limits should again be placed on criticism of religious beliefs, thereby allowing militant Islam to advance almost unchallenged. This gradual surrender of hard-won fundamental freedoms in the face of religious intolerance is slowly neutering the most effective weapons against the spread of this type of tyranny: freedom of expression and freedom of speech. I you are accused of being an Islamophobe, wear the label proudly, you’re the rational one.
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