Ben Carson's View about Islam is Correct until Proved Otherwise

by Tawfik Hamid, www.TawfikHamid.com

 

Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson was round-ly criticized for his comments in September about Islam. When asked whether he believes that Islam is consistent with the Constitution, his response was: "No, I do not. I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation."

     Unfortunately for the critics, ridicule, derision and condemnation are not actually arguments. They are the last refuge of a defeated thought.

     As a Muslim - and particularly as a former member of a radical Islamist group - I can state unequivocally that Dr. Carson is correct. Without a single exception, the approved Islamic literature teaches violent principles such as killing apostates, beating women, killing gays, and enslaving female war prisoners for sexual purposes. If anyone doubts this, or wishes to challenge it they need to prove this to be wrong.

     If Carson's critics could provide a single approved Islamic theological book that would undermine his position; if they could point to just one treatise that is accepted by the leading Islamic scholars at Al-Azhar University or the religious authorities in Saudi Arabia (the two Sunni religious bodies responsible for approving a printed Quran) that rejects the traditional barbaric principles of Islamic law; if they could produce a solitary approved Islamic text that stands clearly and unambiguously against, for example, killing apostates, beating women, killing gays, and enslaving female war prisoners for the express purpose of raping them, then perhaps the criticism would be justified.  But they cannot because such a text does not exist.

     In fact, until such a reference is found, Ben Carson is proved correct. Failure to produce such a text proves that these Sharia values and principles which are so hostile to the American Constitution are still an integral part of mainstream Islam. Dr. Carson was right and he will remain so until proven otherwise.

     And worse, the aforementioned horrific values are considered "maloom mina aldeen Bil-Darora" (a necessary article of the religion). So if a Muslim were to reject them, then under Sharia law he must be considered an Apostate (one who has forsaken his religion), and therefore, under the same law, must be killed. In other words, any Muslim who rejects killing gays and apostates or beating and raping women is no longer considered a Muslim under Sharia law, and must be killed (and thus such Muslims should not be offended by his comments!). Until Islamic law and theology changes and allows those who deny these inhumane values to remain Muslims, Ben Carson is right. Sharia law is in fact the antithesis of the American constitution.  

ISIS is Planning 'The Largest Religious Cleansing In History.'

Nir Har-Zahav

IsraelNationalNews.com, September 25, 2015

A veteran German journalist who became the first to gain access as an embedded reporter with Islamic State (ISIS) revealed the jihadist terror group plans to bring nuclear annihilation across the globe.

     The journalist, Jurgen Todenhofer released his findings in a book called “Inside IS – Ten Days in the Islamic State,” reports the UK's Daily Express on Friday. Todenhofer, who previously was an MP in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party before turning to journalism in 2000 as a war reporter, spent ten days with ISIS.

     He was overseen during his visit by “Jihadi John,” the ISIS terrorist from the UK named Mohammed Emwazi who gained fame in gruesome beheading videos. According to the journalist, the West is unprepared for ISIS. He writes that “the terrorists plan on killing several hundred million people. The west is drastically underestimating the power of ISIS.”

     ISIS intends to get its hands on nuclear weapons, says Todenhofer, calling the group a “nuclear tsunami preparing the largest religious cleansing in history.” Those warnings are made all the more stark by the possibility of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East sparked by the Iran nuclear deal, with rival states such as Saudi Arabia eyeing their own nuclear arsenal leading to a higher proliferation – and a higher chance that nuclear weapons could fall into ISIS hands.

     Describing how he got the close-up expose with ISIS, Todenhofer detailed the intense negotiations with “the leadership of the Caliphate, via Skype, over several months, hammering out the security details.”

     “Of course I'd seen the terrible, brutal beheading videos and it was of course after seeing this in the last few months that caused me the greatest concern in my negotiations to ensure how I can avoid this. Anyway, I made my will before I left.”

     In speaking about the extent of ISIS's power, he noted, “they now control land greater in size than the United Kingdom and are supported by an almost ecstatic enthusiasm the like of which I've never encountered before in a war zone. Every day hundreds of willing fighters from all over the world come.”

     “They are the most brutal and most dangerous enemy I have ever seen in my life. I don't see anyone who has a real chance to stop them. Only Arabs can stop IS. I came back very pessimistic.” Those pessimistic warnings highlight criticism against the limited Western campaign against ISIS.

1599 Geneva Bible

 
Imagine if the President of the United States outlawed your version of the Bible because he considered it to be a threat to his rule. Imagine that he authorized a new government "approved" version for you to read instead. That's exactly what happened in the tumultuous year of 1611. King James despised the revolutionary and "seditious" Geneva Bible. He thought the Geneva Bible's study notes on key political texts threatened his authority, so he outlawed it and ordered a new translation of the Bible - the King James (Authorized Version). While the King James Version is an excellent translation, it was edited and authorized by the government. The Geneva Bible was not. It was truly a Bible by the people and for the people.

     When the Pilgrims arrived in America in 1620, they brought along supplies, a consuming passion to advance the Kingdom of Messiah, a bright hope for the future, and the Word of God. Clearly, their most precious cargo was the Bible. Have you ever wondered what version of the Bible the Pilgrims brought to America on the Mayflower? Believe it or not, it was not the King James Version of 1611. It was actually the 1599 Geneva Bible—a treasure we have all but forgotten.

     The Geneva Bible, printed over 200 times between 1560 and 1644, was the most widely read and influential English Bible of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This superb translation was the product of the best Protestant scholars of the day and became the Bible of choice for many of the greatest writers, thinkers, and historical figures of that time. Men such as Shakespeare, John Bunyan, and John Milton used the Geneva Bible, and alluded to it in their writings. During the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell issued a pamphlet to his troops containing excerpts from the Geneva Bible. William Bradford cited the Geneva Bible in his book Of Plymouth Plantation.

     The Geneva Bible is unique among all other Bibles. It was the first Bible to use chapters and numbered verses and became the most popular version of its time because of the extensive marginal notes. These notes, written by Reformation leaders such as John Calvin,[1] John Knox, Miles Coverdale, William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, and others, were included to explain and interpret the Scriptures for the common people.

     Tolle Lege Press’s version of the 1599 Geneva Bible has been painstakingly re-typeset and proofread to produce a clean, crisp, modern version that is absolutely identical in all substance to the Bible the Pilgrims carried on the Mayflower.

Why Are So Many Muslims in Prison?   by Johanna Markind  

www.meforum.org/blog/2015/08/islam-prison

The New Yorker reports that, according to Paris-based Iranian sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar, "of France's 64,000 prisoners, up to 60% are Muslim. (Muslims are thought to compose only 8% of the population.)"

     Based on data from 2011, Pew Research Center estimated that Muslims made up 9% of the 1,598,780 state and federal prisoners in the United States. Pew also reported that as of 2010, about 0.8% of the U.S. population was Muslim, up from 0.6% in 1990. Data allegedly provided by the federal Bureau of Prisons reported that, as of 1997, Muslims made up 7.27% of the federal prison population.

     In other words, Muslims are over-represented in the French prison population by 7.5 times their percentage of the population. In the United States, although their overall percentage is smaller, Muslims are over-represented in the prison population by 11.25 times their percentage of the population.

     Why? A couple of possible explanations spring to mind, neither one of which is exclusive. One possibility is that Muslims may be committing crimes at a much higher rate than other groups.

     Another is that large numbers of prisoners are converting to Islam. There is evidence that this is in fact the case. The New Yorker article offers a sociological explanation of why and how this happens in French prisons. Conversion also appears to be common in U.S. prisons.

     What makes this truly disturbing is the form of Islam to which prisoners are converting. Much has been written about the radicalization of Muslims in French prisons. It is also happening in U.S. prisons. Despite earlier efforts to obscure this issue, it isn't going away any time soon. Expect it to get worse before it gets better.

Obama Throws Christian Refugees to the Lions

The fate of those Iraqi Christians who had fled from the Islamic State only to be incarcerated in the United State has finally been decided by the Obama administration: they are to be thrown back to the lions, where they will likely be persecuted if not slaughtered like so many Iraqi Christians before them.

Raymond Ibrahim

The Gatestone Institute 9/24/2015

www.meforum.org

     Fifteen of the 27 Iraqi Christians, who have been held at a detention center in Otay Mesa, California, for approximately six months, are set to be deported in the coming weeks. Some have already been deported and others are being charged with immigration fraud.

     Many of the Iraqi Christian community in San Diego—including U.S. citizen family members vouching for the refugees—had hopes that they would eventually be released. Mark Arabo, a spokesman for the Chaldean community, had argued that "They've escaped hell [IS]. Let's allow them to reunite with their families." One of the detained women had begged to see her ailing mother before she died. The mother died before they could reunite, and now the daughter is to be deported, back to the hell of the Islamic State.

     Why are Christian minorities, who are the most likely to suffer from the chaos engulfing the Middle East, the least wanted in the USA?

     The answer is that the Obama administration defines refugees as people "persecuted by their government." In other words, the only "real" refugees are those made so due to the actions of Bashar Assad. As for those who are being raped, slaughtered, and enslaved based on their religious identity by so-called "rebel" forces fighting Assad—including Islamic State—their status as refugees is evidently considered dubious at best.

     As Abraham H. Miller argues in "No room in America for Christian refugees": "What difference does it make which army imperils the lives of innocent Christians? Christians are still being slaughtered for being Christian, and their gov't is incapable of protecting them. Does some group have to come along—as Jewish groups did during the Holocaust—and sardonically guarantee that these are real human beings?"

     In fact, from the start of Western meddling in the Mid-East in the context of the "Arab Spring," Christians were demonized for being supportive of secular strongmen like Assad... More than three years later, the Western-supported "Arab Spring" proved an abysmal failure and the same Christian minorities that Fisk took to task were, as expected, persecuted in ways unprecedented in the modern era.

     Even without defining refugees as people "persecuted by their government," the Obama administration never seems to miss an opportunity to display its bias for Muslims against Christians. The U.S. State Dept. is in the habit of inviting scores of Muslim repre-sentatives but denying visas to solitary Christian representatives. While habitually ignoring the slaughter of Nigerian Christians at the hands of Boko Haram, the administration called for the "human rights" of the jihadi murderers. And when persecuted Copts planned on joining the anti-Muslim Brotherhood revolution, Obama said no. Then there is the fact that every Arab nation the Obama administration has meddled in—especially Libya and Syria—has seen a dramatic nosedive in the human rights of Christian minorities.

     The Obama administration's bias is evident even regarding to the Iraqi Christians' illegal crossing of the U.S.-Mexico border, the occasion on which they were arrested. WND correctly observes: "At the same time the Obama adminis-tration is deporting Christians, it has over the years allowed in hundreds of Muslims from Africa and the Middle East who crossed the Southern border the same way the Chaldeans did."

     Meanwhile, as the Obama administration nitpicks at the definition of refugee and uses it against severely persecuted Christian minorities, it turns out that four out of five migrants—or 80 percent—are not even from Syria.

     And while Christian minorities pose little threat to the United States—indeed, they actually bring benefits to U.S. securityMuslims all around the U.S. are supporting the Islamic State and Muslim clerics are relying on the refugee influx to conquer Western nations, in the Islamic tradition of Hijra, or jihad by emigration.

     As Koran 4:100 puts it: "And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many locations and abundance. And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him—his reward has already become incumbent."

     In Islamic usage, the "cause of Allah" is synonymous with jihad to empower and enforce Allah's laws on earth, or Sharia. In this context, immigrating into Western lands is a win-win for Muslims: if they die in the process somehow, paradise is theirs; if they don't, the "locations and abundance" of the West are theirs.

     All the while, true Christian refugees, fleeing the same hostile Muslim forces being allowed to enter Europe and America by the thousands, are thrown back to the lions by the Obama administration.

Raymond Ibrahim is a Judith Friedman Rosen fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Shillman fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Massive Ingathering of Exiles Could Double Number of Jews in the World by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz  www.BreakingIsraelNews.com

A new global campaign has been launched to locate Bnei Anousim, Jews who were forcibly converted during the Spanish Inquisition, which began in 1391 and continued until 1497. The initiative, headed by Shavei Israel, has the potential to return millions of Jews to the global community in a massive ingathering of exiles. Estimates by the Jewish Agency have put the potential total population of Bnei Anusim at twice the present Jewish population.

     “We are at the beginning of an historic turning point, one that will see millions of people throughout the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world reconnecting with their Jewish roots,” said Michael Freund, chairman and founder of Shavei Israel, in a statement. “There are millions of people throughout Spain, Portugal, and Central and South America who are descended from Iberian Jews, and we believe it is time for the Jewish people to reach out to them.”

     According to genetic studies conducted over the past decade, 20 percent of men in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) have Jewish ancestry. Similar studies in Brazil estimate that 5-10 million people there are descendants of Bnei Anousim.

     Shavei Israel set off a wave of interest when the organization published a free Spanish-language practical guide to discovering Jewish heritage, “Do You Have Jewish Roots?”, which has been distributed to almost 10,000 people. It contains information on subjects such as how to conduct a genealogical search, traditionally Jewish names, names unique to Bnei Anusim, and identifying hidden Jewish customs.

     The term “crypto-Judaism” describes the phenomenon of secretly observing Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith. Often, secret observance of Jewish customs and commandments can go on for many generations within a family. There have even been cases discovered of entire communities continuing to observe customs they no longer understand and don’t realize have Jewish origins.

     Many Bnei Anusim keep Jewish burial customs, wrapping the deceased in white shrouds as opposed to coffins. Some dietary customs are clear indications of Jewish heritage. Many Bnei Anusim have an oral tradition of having an allergy to pork or not eating blood in the form of the traditional Spanish blood sausage. There have been cases of Bnei Anusim who refrained from eating leavened products during Holy Week, which coincides with the observance of Passover. Some Bnei Anusim relate to Saturday as their day of rest. Lighting candles on Friday night is another tradition that has lasted throughout many generations, even after the connection to Judaism has been lost.

     The legacy of the Inquisition and hidden Jews is not a myth or a legend, but a reality recognized by the Spanish and Portuguese governments, which have extended an offer of citizenship to the millions of descendants of expelled Sephardic Jews.

     This is not a uniquely European phenomenon. Many communities in remote corners of the globe have been discovered to have Jewish roots. The discovery of the Jews of Ethiopia led to a dramatic rescue mission by the State of Israel. The Subbotnik Jews of Russia, the Jewish community of Kaifeng in China, descendants of Jews living in Poland, and most recently, the Bnei Menasha Jews who arrived in India by way of China, have all been able to trace their roots back to a Jewish source.

     Jews hide their identity not out of shame, but as a reaction to the anti-Semitism which has accompanied the Jewish people throughout their exile. During that time, they were scattered  among the nations. Many were lost in their wanderings, intermarrying and converting, their descendants assimilating into their adopted cultures until their Jewish identity disappeared. Part of the messianic prophecy, the proof as well as the promise, is the ingathering of the exiles, a miracle that is happening in front of our eyes.  These prophetic days are bringing back Jews from the farthest corners, reawakening Jewish souls that have forgotten their roots in the Holy Land.

 

PROMISED LAND RUNNING OUT OF ROOM?  Israel's birth rate, the highest in the developed world was once seen as a survival tactic in a hostile region. The average Israeli woman has three babies in her lifetime, nearly double the fertility rate for the rest of the industrialized countries in the OECD. That, accompanied by heavy Jewish immigration has seen Israel's population double in the last 25 years.

     The birth rate is even higher among Israel's Arab community and more than double among its ultra-Orthodox Jews, two groups that also have low participation in the workforce, dragging the economy down. Today's population of 8.4 million is forecast to reach 15.6 million by 2059 and 20.6 million in a high case scenario, suggesting the small country could be in danger of running out of room. Government policies are geared to encouraging a high birth rate. The reasons are various, from the biblical command "Be fruitful and multiply" to the death of six million Jews in the Holocaust, to fears of being outnumbered by Arabs. (J. Post) The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.’” Isaiah 49:20.

 



After Muslim terrorist attacks, we’re told that the killers just “misunderstood” their religion. They misunderstood the peaceful nature of Ko-ranic verses such as "Kill them wherever you find them", "They should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides" and "Strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them."

by Daniel Greenfield

www.frontpagemag.com

     But the misunderstandings of Islam are just getting started.  Not only are Americans and Europeans being murdered by Muslim terrorists due to these unfortunate misunderstandings, but European girls are being raped because of more misunderstandings.

     The principal of Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium was concerned about his female students. So he sent a letter warning their parents that the Muslim refugees who had been put up next to the school gym "are marked by their own culture." And now Germans were being “marked” by their culture. Girls were told to wear "modest clothing" to avoid "misunderstandings." But rape isn’t a “misunderstanding.” The only misunderstanding is the politically correct leftist idea that the rapist should be excused because of his culture and religion.

     The Koran states, “O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks all over their bodies that they may thus be distinguished and not molested.” The obvious implication is that women who aren’t dressed in a Burka may be “molested.” Or as the commentary states, “It is more likely that this way they may be recognized (as pious, free women), and may not be hurt (considered by mistake as roving slave girls.)”

     The Muslim migrants who have invaded Germany just might “misunderstand” and mistake the teen girls going to the gym as “roving slave girls.” And under Islamic law, that’s what they are. Islamic law permits Muslim men to rape even married infidel women in the Dar al-Harb ("House of War"). Let alone unaccompanied girls.

Unfortunately the misunderstandings are well underway in Germany. A letter about an asylum camp in Germany warns of a “culture of rape and violence” with “numerous rapes, sexual assaults” and “forced prostitution.” Even though the women in the camp are ... fellow Muslims, who are well acquainted with the means of avoiding “misunderstandings” with a Muslim man (wear a hijab, wear a burka, never make eye contact, never smile), the misunderstandings still keep taking place...     Because there was never any misunderstanding. As the letter points out, these men “regard women as their inferiors and treat unaccompanied women as ‘fair game.’

     The misunderstanding here isn’t on the part of the Muslim men who view women as fair game. When a mugger snatches a purse or a burglar breaks into a home, he isn’t the victim of a “misunderstanding”.

He just happens to have a different ethical code than the society he is victimizing. But these rapists are members of a society where rape is a crime for a woman, not for a man. The only misunderstanding here is on the part of the Westerners who allowed them in to commit their cultural crimes.

     Muslim sexual offenders have used “misunderstandings” due to “cultural differences” as their defense. Esmatullah Sharifi, an Afghan refugee, repeatedly raped Australian women and claimed that he was confused about consent due to "cultural differences." Almahde Ahmad At-agore, a Libyan Muslim, sexually assaulted girls as young as 13. The judge told him, he was "very ill prepared to deal with cultural dif-ferences." But it was really his victims who were ill prepared to deal with his “cultural differences.”

     The Pakistani rapists who went after 18 women and girls claimed that they could rape a girl because "she was not related to us" and "she was not wearing any headscarf." Their Grand Mufti agreed, saying, "It's 90% the women's responsibility. If you take uncovered meat and put it on the street, on the pavement, in a garden, in a park or in the backyard, without a cover and the cats eat it, is it the fault of the cat or the uncovered meat?” the Grand Mufti asked. “The uncovered meat is the problem.”

     But if you get rid of the feral cats that show up in civilized countries, scratching at the door to be let in, the problem goes away. If the Grand Mufti and his favorite rapists were picked up by animal control, put in the pound, neutered and then released back into the wild that they came from, that would be it.

     Germany has decided to take in huge numbers of Muslim men who come from a religion and culture where a woman who isn’t wearing a Hijab and isn’t escorted by a man can be raped. And that leads to “misunderstandings” between the invaders and the native population.

     Over the summer, some of the “misunder-standings” included five Turks trying to rape a girl, a 14-year-old boy being raped in a train bathroom and a 7-year-old girl being raped in a park. That last “misunderstanding” happened in a park where the misunderstander lured the little girl away from her mother at the playground and into the bushes. It was a "cultural" difference. Her age (7) was the same as that of Aisha, one of Mohammed’s wives...



[1] Not all of these were great men of God. John Calvin was a rabid anti-Semite.  RAC