it's fun to watch abrahamics persecute each other rather than the sane, logical and peaceful.
On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 12:38:20 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.rightsidenews.com/editorial/rsn-pick-of-the-day/good-islam-bad-islam/ > > > > Daniel Greenfield | Sultan Knish <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> > > Our only hope of defeating Islamic terrorism is Islam. That’s our whole > counterterrorism strategy. > > [image: Description: > http://www.rightsidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tumblr_mjx4q0UfHe1s5flgxo1_500.png] > > But Islamic terrorism is not a separate component of Islam that can be cut > off from it. Not only is it not un-Islamic, but it expresses Islamic > religious imperatives. Muslim religious leaders have occasionally issued > fatwas against terrorism, but terrorism for Muslim clerics, like sex for > Bill Clinton, is a matter of definition. > > The tactics of terrorism, including suicide bombing and the murder of > civilians, have been approved by fatwas from many of the same Islamic > religious leaders that our establishment deems moderate. And the objective > of terrorism, the subjugation of non-Muslims, has been the most fundamental > Islamic imperative for the expansionistic religion since the days of > Mohammed. > > [image: Description: Quantcast] > > Our strategy, in Europe and America, under Bush and under Obama, has been > to artificially subdivide a Good Islam from a Bad Islam and to declare that > Bad Islam is not really Islam. Bad Islam, as Obama claims, “hijacked” a > peaceful religion. Secretary of State Kerry calls Bad Islam’s followers, > “apostates”. ISIS speaks for no religion. It has no religion. Which means > the Islamic State must be a bunch of atheists. > > Our diplomats and politicians don’t verbally acknowledge the existence of > a Bad Islam. Even its name is one of those names that must not be named. > There is only Good Islam. Bad Islam doesn’t even exist. > > This isn’t just domestic spin, which it is, but it’s also an attempt at > constructing an Islamic narrative. Our leaders don’t care what we think. > They just want us to keep quiet and not offend Muslims. They do care a > great deal about what Muslims think. And so, in their own clumsy way, they > try to talk like Muslims. > > They are attempting to participate in an Islamic debate without the > requisite theological credentials. They want to tell Muslims that they > should be Good Muslims not Bad Muslims, but they’re too afraid to use those > words, so instead they substitute Good Muslims and Not Muslims. All Muslims > are Good Muslims and Bad Muslims are Not Muslims is their Takfiri version > of the No True Scotsman fallacy. > > Our counterterrorism strategy has been constructed to convince Good Islam > to have nothing to do with Bad Islam. And any of us who criticize Good > Islam or argue that the artificial distinction between Good Islam and Bad > Islam, between Saudi Arabia and ISIS, between Iran and Hezbollah, between > Pakistan and the Taliban, is false are accused of provoking Good Islam to > transform into Bad Islam. > > Nothing so thoroughly proves that the difference between Bad Islam and > Good Islam is a lie as the compulsive way that they warn that Good Muslims > are capable of turning into Bad Muslims at any moment. Offend a Good > Muslim, criticize his religion, fail to integrate him, accommodate his > every whim and censor what he dislikes and he’ll join ISIS and then he’ll > become a Bad Muslim. > > After every terror attack, the media painstakingly constructs a narrative > to determine why former moderates like Anwar Al-Awlaki, the Tsarnaevs or > the San Bernardino killers turned bad without resorting to religious > explanations. Their efforts at rationalization quickly become ridiculous; > Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood killer, contracted airborne PTSD, Anwar > Al-Awlaki, the head of Al Qaeda in Yemen, became an “extremist” because he > was afraid the FBI had found out about his prostitutes and the Times Square > bomber turned into a terrorist because his “American Dream” was ruined. > > Nobody, they conclude, becomes an Islamic terrorist because of Islam. > Instead there are a thousand unrelated issues, having nothing to do with > Islam, which creates the Muslim terrorist. Even the term “Radical Islamic > Jihadist”, an absurd circumlocution (is there a moderate Islamic Jihadist), > has become a badge of courage on one side and a dangerous, irresponsible > term that provokes violence on the other. > > But what is the distinction between Good Islam and Bad Islam? It isn’t > fighting ISIS. Al Qaeda and the Taliban do that. It isn’t terrorism. Our > Muslim allies, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar, are hip deep in > the terror trade. It isn’t equality for non-Muslims. No Muslim country > under Sharia law could have that. Equality for women? See above. > > What are the metrics that distinguish Good Islam and Bad Islam? There > aren’t any. We can’t discuss the existence of Bad Islam because it would > reveal that Bad Islam and Good Islam are really the same thing. > > Our Good Islam allies in Pakistan fight Bad Islam’s terror, when they > aren’t hiding Osama bin Laden. Bad Islam in the Islamic State beheads > people and takes slaves and Good Islam in Saudi Arabia does too. Qatar is > our Good Islam ally helping us fight Bad Islam terrorists by arming and > funding Good Islam terrorists who sometimes turn out to be Bad Islam > terrorists so we can’t figure out if the Islamic terrorists the CIA is > routing weapons to are Good Islam terrorists or Bad Islam terrorists. > > The moderate Muslim Brotherhood wins democratic elections. The extremist > Muslim Brotherhood then burns down churches. The moderate Palestinian > Authority negotiates with Israel and then the extremist Palestinian > Authority cheers the stabbing of a Jewish grandmother. The moderate Iranian > government signs a nuclear deal and then the extremist Iranian government > calls for “Death to America”. > > Like the saintly Dr. Jekyll and the mean Mr. Hyde, Good Islam and Bad > Islam are two halves of the same coin. When Dr. Jekyll wanted to act out > his baser nature, he took a potion and turned into Mr. Hyde. But the nasty > urges were always a part of him. When a moderate Muslim pulls a Keffiyah > over his face and starts stabbing, bombing or beheading, he doesn’t become > an extremist, he just expresses his dark side. > > Good Islam borrowed all sorts of noble sentiments from Judaism and > Christianity. But when non-Muslims didn’t accept Islam, then Mohammed > stopped playing nice and preached murder. Bad Islam is not something ISIS > invented on a website. It’s always been a part of Islam. We attempt to > separate Good Islam and Bad Islam because we don’t like being beheaded. But > Muslims don’t make that distinction. > > Our counterterrorism strategy is based on empowering Good Islam, on > building coalitions with Muslims to fight terrorism and enlisting their > cooperation in the War on Terror. But we’re trying to convince Dr. Jekyll > to help us fight Mr. Hyde. And Dr. Jekyll might even help us out, until he > turns into Mr. Hyde. > > Our moderate Afghan Muslim allies, when they’re aren’t raping young boys > (one of their cultural peculiarities we are taught to ignore), sometimes > unexpectedly open fire on our soldiers. The Muslim migrants who arrive here > to “enrich” our societies sometimes start shooting and bombing. The head of > Al Qaeda was hanging out near the West Point of Pakistan. The mastermind of > 9/11 was saved by a member of the Qatari royal family. The call is coming > from inside the house. Mr. Hyde is Dr. Jekyll. > > When we “empower” and “build coalitions” with Good Islam, we’re also > empowering and building coalitions with Bad Islam. Just ask all the Muslim > terrorists running around with our weapons. > > Our leaders want Good Islam to shield us from Bad Islam. If Good Islam is > out front, then Muslims won’t see a clash of civilizations or a religious > war, but a war between Good Islam and Bad Islam. But the Muslim > understanding of Good Islam and Bad Islam is very different from our own. > > Sunnis see their Jihadis as Good Islam and Shiites as Bad Islam. Shiites > look at it the other way around. The Muslim Brotherhood, that our elites > were so enamored with, saw secular governments as Bad Islam. To win them > over, we helped them overthrow more secular governments because our leaders > had adopted an understanding of Good Islam in which giving Christians civil > rights was Bad Islam. > > To win over Good Islam, we censor cartoons of Mohammed and criticism of > the Koran, open our borders, Islamize our institutions and then wait to see > if we’re on the good side of Good Islam. We adapt our societies and legal > systems to Islamic norms and hope that it’s enough to let us join the Good > Islam Coalition. If we go on at this rate, the experts will tell us that > the only way to defeat Islamic terrorism is for us to become Muslims. Only > then will we become members in good standing of Good Islam. > > There is no Good Islam and no Bad Islam, as Muslim leaders occasionally > trouble to tell us. The distinction that our leaders make between Good > Islam and Bad Islam is not theological, but pragmatic. They dub whatever is > shooting at us right now Bad Islam and assume that everything else must be > Good Islam. That is the fallacy which they used to arrive at their Tiny > Minority of Extremists formula. > > There is no Tiny Minority of Extremists. Behind the various tiny > minorities of extremists are countries and billionaires, global > organizations and Islamic banks. Outsourcing our counterterrorism strategy > to the countries and ideologies behind the terrorists we’re fighting isn’t > a plan, it’s a death wish. > > Islamic terrorism is just what we call Islam when it’s killing us. > > The Jihad isn’t coming from some phantom website. It’s coming from our > Muslim allies. It’s coming from Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. > It’s coming from the Muslim Brotherhood and its front groups. It’s coming > from the moderate Muslim leaders that our leaders pose with at > anti-extremism conferences. And it’s coming from the mosques and homes of > the Muslims living in America. There is no Good Islam. There is no Bad > Islam. There is just Islam. > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmMzg0aWU5BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NTU2NDY5MzM-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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