“Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” How many
times have you heard that one? Sure, we heard Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade say
it, but to me, that was simply part of the Fox News plan to make their
viewers dumber, as we saw again this past weekend when its terrorism
“expert” Steve Emerson wascaught fabricating the story that Birmingham,
England, is closed to non-Muslims. But more alarmingly, even some
reasonable people have uttered this statement.
And that comment is often followed up by the question: Why don’t we see
Christian, Buddhist, or Jewish terrorists?
Obviously, there are people who sincerely view themselves as Muslims who
have committed horrible acts in the name of Islam. We Muslims can make the
case that their actions are not based on any part of the faith but on their
own political agenda. But they are Muslims, no denying that.
However, and this will probably shock many, so you might want to take a
breath: Overwhelmingly, those who have committed terrorist attacks in the
United States and Europe aren’t Muslims. Let’s give that a moment to sink
in.
Now, it’s not your fault if you aren’t aware of that fact. You can blame
the media. (Yes, Sarah Palin and I actually agree on one thing: The
mainstream media sucks.)
So here are some statistics for those interested. Let’s start with Europe.
Want to guess what percent of the terrorist attacks there were committed by
Muslims over the past five years? Wrong. That is, unless you said less than
2 percent.
As Europol, the European Union’s law-enforcement agency, noted in its
report released last year, the vast majority of terror attacks in Europe
were perpetrated by separatist groups. For example, in 2013, there were 152
terror attacks in Europe. Only two of them were “religiously motivated,”
while 84 were predicated upon ethno-nationalist or separatist beliefs.
Or what about the (dare I mention them) Jewish terrorists? Per the 2013
State Department’s report on terrorism, there were 399 acts of terror
committed by Israeli settlers.
We are talking about groups like France’s FLNC, which advocates an
independent nation for the island of Corsica. In December 2013, FLNC
terrorists carried out simultaneous rocket attacks against police stations
in two French cities. And in Greece in late 2013, the left-wing Militant
Popular Revolutionary Forces shot and killed two members of the right-wing
political party Golden Dawn. While over in Italy, the anarchist group FAI
engaged in numerous terror attacks including sending a bomb to a
journalist. And the list goes on and on.
Have you heard of these incidents? Probably not. But if Muslims had
committed them do you think you our media would’ve covered it? No need to
answer, that’s a rhetorical question.
Even after one of the worst terror attacks ever in Europe in 2011, when
Anders Breivik slaughtered 77 people in Norway to further his anti-Muslim,
anti-immigrant, and pro-“Christian Europe” agenda as he stated in his
manifesto, how much press did we see in the United States? Yes, it was
covered, but not the way we see when a Muslim terrorist is involved. Plus
we didn’t see terrorism experts fill the cable news sphere asking how we
can stop future Christian terrorists. In fact, even the suggestion that
Breivik was a “Christian terrorist” was met with outrage by many, including
Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly.
Have you heard about the Buddhist terrorists? Well, extremist Buddhists
havekilled many Muslim civilians in Burma, and just a few months ago in Sri
Lanka, some went on a violent rampage burning down Muslim homes and
businesses andslaughtering four Muslims.
Or what about the (dare I mention them) Jewish terrorists? Per the 2013
State Department’s report on terrorism, there were 399 acts of terror
committed by Israeli settlers in what are known as “price tag” attacks.
These Jewish terrorists attacked Palestinian civilians causing physical
injuries to 93 of them and also vandalized scores of mosques and Christian
churches.
Back in the United States, the percentage of terror attacks committed by
Muslims is almost as miniscule as in Europe. An FBI study looking at
terrorism committed on U.S. soil between 1980 and 2005 found that 94
percent of the terror attacks were committed by non-Muslims. In actuality,
42 percent of terror attacks were carried out by Latino-related groups,
followed by 24 percent perpetrated by extreme left-wing actors.
And as a 2014 study by University of North Carolina found, since the 9/11
attacks, Muslim-linked terrorism has claimed the lives of 37 Americans. In
that same time period, more than 190,000 Americans were murdered (PDF).
In fact in 2013, it was actually more likely Americans would be killed by a
toddler than a terrorist. In that year, three Americans were killed in the
Boston Marathon bombing. How many people did toddlers kill in 2013? Five,
all by accidentallyshooting a gun.
But our media simply do not cover the non-Muslim terror attacks with same
gusto. Why? It’s a business decision. Stories about scary “others” play
better. It’s a story that can simply be framed as good versus evil with
Americans being the good guy and the brown Muslim as the bad.
Honestly, when is the last time we heard the media refer to those who
attack abortion clinics as “Christian terrorists,” even though these
attacks occur at one of every five reproductive health-care facilities?
That doesn’t sell as well. After all we are a so-called Christian nation,
so that would require us to look at the enemy within our country, and that
makes many uncomfortable. Or worse, it makes them change the channel.
That’s the same reason we don’t see many stories about how to reduce the 30
Americans killed each day by gun violence or the three women per day killed
by domestic violence. But the media will have on expert after expert
discussing how can we stop these scary brown Muslims from killing any more
Americans despite the fact you actually have a better chance of being
killed by a refrigerator falling on you.
Look, this article is not going to change the media’s business model. But
what I hope it does is cause some to realize that not all terrorists are
Muslims. In fact, they are actually a very small percent of those that are.
Now, I’m not saying to ignore the dangers posed by Islamic radicals. I’m
just saying look out for those refrigerators.
On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 2:59:15 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote:
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> <http://saberpoint.blogspot.com/2015/01/famous-quotes-about-islam-islam-muhammad.html>
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> In the world of today, world leaders deny the tyranny of Islam. They
> rationalize it and are in deep denial about the murderous nature of this
> so-called religion. However, in times past, world leaders spoke out
> against it. Those opponents of Islam include John Quincy Adams, Voltaire,
> Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, Sir William Muir, and many others.
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> Here are some examples:
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> Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my
> travels that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who
> maintain others in the practice of this religion by terror. To liberate the
> Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him.
> *– **Joseph Ernest Renan*
> *French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizations*
>
> In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the
> lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent
> genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent
> spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and
> spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth.
> Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one
> omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood,
> that he was himself his prophet and apostle.
> *– **John Quincy Adams*
> *6th president of the United States*
>
> Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find
> things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword
> the faith he preached. God is not pleased by blood – and not acting
> reasonably is contrary to God’s nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the
> body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well
> and to reason properly, without violence and threats… To convince a
> reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or
> any other means of threatening a person with death.
> *– **Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos *
> Conversation between the Emperor and a Persian scholar, 1391.
>
> Read these and many more quotes here
> <http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/51971/>.
> http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/51971/
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> *Sunday, 3 November 2013*
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> *Quotes on Islam, or, The company we keep *
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> This comes from a new blog, *The Muslim Issue *
> <http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/islamophobes/>(with thanks to Dan
> Friedman).
> [image:
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> you are an Islamophobe (a word invented by muslims) you are in good
> company. Islamophobe means you are fighting against tolerance for the
> intolerable, and for protection of liberties and human rights against the
> very enemy of humanness, rights and freedom: Islam.Here are quotes from a
> few Islamophobes throughout history and their opinion on Islam:
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> [image: quincy] <http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/islamophobes/quincy/>
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> During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish
> soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved
> unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in
> consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and
> today nobody can find in them any “social values” whatever, in the sense in
> which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influence. There
> are such “social values” today in Europe, America, and Australia only
> because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the
> warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do
> – that is, to beat back the Moslem invader.
> *–** Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt*
> *26th President of the United States*
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> [image:
> http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/cicero_2.jpg?w=610]
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> The visionary: A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But
> it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less
> formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor
> moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling
> through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
> *– **Marcus Tullius Cicero*
> *Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer*
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> [image: http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/will.jpg?w=610]
>
> The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history.
> It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a
> precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and
> peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without
> or multiplying within.
> *– **Will Durant*
> *American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The
> Story of Civilization.*
>
> [image: http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/thomas.jpg?w=610]
>
> These future United States presidents questioned the ambassador as to why
> his (Islamic) government was so hostile to the new American republic even
> though America had done nothing to provoke any such animosity. Ambassador
> Adja answered them, as they reported to the Continental Congress, ‘that it
> was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their
> Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority
> were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them
> wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as
> Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure
> to go to Paradise’.
> *– **Thomas Jefferson*
> *To the Continental Congress about the brutal pirate attacks of the Muslim
> Ottoman Barbary (1801–1805 and 1815)*
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> [image:
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> How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
> Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia
> in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent
> in many countries. Improvident habits, lovenly systems of agriculture,
> sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the
> followers of the Prophet rule or live.
> *– **Sir Winston Churchill, 1899.*
> *British Conservative politician and statesman of the United Kingdom
> during the Second World War*
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> [image:
> http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/benjamin_3.jpg?w=610]
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> Nor can the Plundering of Infidels be in that sacred Book [the Quran]
> forbidden, since it is well known from it, that God has given the World,
> and all that it contains, to his faithful Mussulmen, who are to enjoy it of
> Right as fast as they conquer it.
> *– **Benjamin Franklin*
> *United States founding father*
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> [image:
> http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bertrand_1.jpg?w=610]
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> Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah
> supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them. And the minority
> that do understand continue to be Moslems because they have redefined their
> morality and ethics to fit within the teachings of Islam, which are
> floridly lacking in morality. They therefore redefine what is good and evil
> in order to fit their lives into what is preached by Islam, instead of
> examining Islam to see if it fits within the good life. Backwards thinking,
> imposed by a backward religion.
> *– **Professor Bertrand Russell*
> *British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social
> critic*
>
> [image: http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/ernest.jpg?w=610]
>
> Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my
> travels that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who
> maintain others in the practice of this religion by terror. To liberate the
> Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him.
> *– **Joseph Ernest Renan*
> *French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizations*
>
> [image: http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/john.jpg?w=610]
>
> In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the
> lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent
> genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent
> spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and
> spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth.
> Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one
> omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood,
> that he was himself his prophet and apostle.
> *– **John Quincy Adams*
> *6th president of the United States*
>
> [image:
> http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/churchill.jpg?w=610]
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> Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the
> religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No
> stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund,
> Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread
> throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and
> were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science,
> the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of
> modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
> *– **Sir Winston Churchill*
> *British Conservative politician and statesman of the United Kingdom*
>
> [image: http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/rumi_1.jpg?w=610]
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> Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and
> without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medieval age, restriction
> in thoughts and pains in conscience will not end. Without understanding
> that unbelief is a kind of religion, and that conservative religious belief
> a kind of disbelief, and without showing tolerance to opposite ideas, one
> cannot succeed. Those who look for the truth will accomplish the mission.-
> *— **Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi*
> *Persian Sufi poet and philosopher. Sufi’s have been outlawed and
> persecuted for seven centuries in the Islamic world.*
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> [image:
> http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/cicero_3.jpg?w=610]
>
> For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to
> his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the
> baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a
> nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars
> of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A
> murderer is less to fear.
> *-– **Marcus Tullius Cicero*
> *Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer*
>
> [image: http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/marri.jpg?w=610]
>
> Do not suppose the statements of the prophets to be true; they are all
> fabrications. Men lived comfortably till they came and spoiled life. The
> sacred books are only such a set of idle tales as any age could have and
> indeed did actually produce. They recite their sacred books, although the
> fact informs me that these are fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou
> (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the religious
> traditions or interpreted them!
> *– **Al-Ma’arri*
> *11th Century blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer. He labeled
> religions in general as “noxious weeds” and said that Islam does not have a
> monopoly on truth.*
>
> [image:
> http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/winston_2.jpg?w=610]
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> A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the
> next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every
> woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child,
> a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until
> the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
> *– **Sir Winston Churchill*
> *British Conservative politician and statesman of the United Kingdom*
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> [image: http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/byz.jpg?w=610]
>
> Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find
> things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword
> the faith he preached. God is not pleased by blood – and not acting
> reasonably is contrary to God’s nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the
> body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well
> and to reason properly, without violence and threats… To convince a
> reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or
> any other means of threatening a person with death.
> *– **Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos *
> Conversation between the Emperor and a Persian scholar, 1391.
>
> [image: http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/muir.jpg?w=610]
>
> Some, indeed, dream of an Islam in the future, rationalised and
> regenerate. All this has been tried already, and has miserably failed. The
> Koran has so encrusted the religion in a hard unyielding casement of
> ordinances and social laws, that if the shell be broken the life is gone. A
> rationalistic Islam would be Islam no longer.
> *– **Sir William Muir *
> *Victorian orientalist scholar, Cambridge 1881*
>
> [image: http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/lewis.jpg?w=610]
>
> The penalty for apostasy in Islamic law is death. Islam is conceived as a
> polity, not just as a religious community. It follows therefore that
> apostasy is treason. It is a withdrawal, a denial of allegiance as well as
> of religious belief and loyalty. Any sustained and principled opposition to
> the existing regime or order almost inevitably involves such a withdrawal.
> *– **Bernard Lewis*
> *British-American historian, scholar in Oriental studies, and political
> commentator.*
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> [image: http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/muir_2.jpg?w=610]
>
> The contrast between our own faith and Islam is most remarkable. There are
> in our Scriptures living germs of truth, which accord with civil and
> religious liberty, and will expand with advancing civilisation. In Islam it
> is just the reverse. The Koran has no such teaching as with us has
> abolished polygamy, slavery, and arbitrary divorce, and has elevated woman
> to her proper place. As a Reformer, Mahomet did advance his people to a
> certain point, but as a Prophet he left them fixed immovably at that point
> for all time to come.
> *– **Sir William Muir*
> *Victorian orientalist scholar, Cambridge 1881*
>
> [image: http://themuslimissue.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/john_3.jpg?w=610]
>
> He (Muhammad) poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by
> degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy;
> and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his
> religion, against all the rest of mankind. The essence of his doctrine was
> violence and lust: to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human
> nature..
> *– **John Quincy Adams*
> *6th president of the United States*
>
> The tree (of Islam) is of artificial planting. Instead of containing
> within itself the germ of growth and adaptation to the various requirements
> of time and clime and circumstance, expanding with the genial sunshine and
> rain from heaven, it remains the same forced and stunted thing as when
> first planted some twelve centuries ago.
> *– **Sir William Muir *
> *Victorian orientalist scholar, Cambridge 1881*
>
> The tree (of Islam) is of artificial planting. Instead of containing
> within itself the germ of growth and adaptation to the various requirements
> of time and clime and circumstance, expanding with the genial sunshine and
> rain from heaven, it remains the same forced and stunted thing as when
> first planted some twelve centuries ago.
> *– **Sir William Muir *
> *Victorian orientalist scholar, Cambridge 1881*
>
> … On the other hand, those who founded sects committed to erroneous
> doctrines proceeded in a way that is opposite to this [witness of signs,
> and God's wonders, and divers miracles]. The point is clear in the case of
> *Muhammad*. He seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which
> the concupiscence of the flesh goads us. His teaching also contained
> precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein
> to carnal pleasure.In all this, as is not unexpected, he was obeyed by
> carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward
> only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very
> modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many
> fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.He did not bring forth
> any signs produced in a supernatural way, which alone fittingly gives
> witness to divine inspiration; for a visible action that can be only divine
> reveals an invisibly inspired teacher of truth.On the contrary, Muhammad
> said that he was sent in the power of his arms—which are signs not lacking
> even to robbers and tyrants. What is more, no wise men, men trained in
> things divine and human, believed in him from the beginning, Those who
> believed in him were brutal men and desert wanderers, utterly ignorant of
> all divine teaching, through whose numbers Muhammad forced others to become
> his followers by the violence of his arms.Nor do divine pronouncements on
> the part of preceding prophets offer him any witness. On the contrary, he
> perverts almost all the testimonies of the Old and New Testaments by making
> them into fabrications of his own, as can be. seen by anyone who examines
> his law.It was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his
> followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him
> of falsity. It is thus clear that those who place any faith in his words
> believe foolishly.
> –*St. Thomas Aquinas** (1225 – 1274)*
> *Contra Gentiles, Book One, Chapter 6, Paragraph 4.*
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