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.
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.
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. security
— Muslims 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.
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...