The Pen and the Sword: Islamo-fascism a threat: The End of Peaceful Islam
Ryan Bilodeau
Issue date: 10/18/07 Section: Editorial/Opinion
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10/18/07 - Islam is the submission of oneself to the will of Allah. The problem with that is, in fundamental terms (as subscribed to by Jihadists and fascists), the entirety of Islam was "revealed" to only one man: sixth century prophet (and warlord) Mohammed and no other. Quite convenient.
Mohammed wrote the Koran and Hadith, the two most important texts of Islam. They were written, one could say, for a much earlier and far different time than we are now living in. The problem with that is, fundamentalist Muslims don't agree. They think it's just fine to interpret it word for word, even today.
Admittedly, some of Mohammed's earlier teachings were what could be considered peaceful, written when he was relatively powerless and had few followers. What followed in later years - and texts - were ever-increasing espousals of and incitements to extreme violence, war, ethnic cleansing, foreign population subjugation and enslavement, and the extreme maltreatment of women, Jews, Christians and Zoroastrian Persians.
Fundamentalists subscribe to these later teachings written when the prophet Mohammed was more emperor and warlord than anything resembling a roving, peaceful teacher.
Today, we see the forced submission of others to the "will of Allah" all too frequently. In what were once heavily Christian and Jewish areas of the Middle East, including Jordan, Syria and especially Lebanon, we see today the increasing encroachment and spread of not "just" Islam, but of extremely radical and dogmatic Islam, the kind espoused by Hezbollah, Hamas and the PLO.
It is the kind that motivates ignorant, indoctrinated youth to launch rockets into Israel and to detonate themselves in marketplaces where women are buying food for dinner.
Islamic-fascism is rearing its ugly head on the battlefield of ideas on America's campuses as well. Through "political correctness," censorship of free speech, and even lawsuits, Islamists are fighting the West by using our freedoms against us, and by appealing to kind-hearted, yet foolhardy progressive liberals.
Mohammed wrote the Koran and Hadith, the two most important texts of Islam. They were written, one could say, for a much earlier and far different time than we are now living in. The problem with that is, fundamentalist Muslims don't agree. They think it's just fine to interpret it word for word, even today.
Admittedly, some of Mohammed's earlier teachings were what could be considered peaceful, written when he was relatively powerless and had few followers. What followed in later years - and texts - were ever-increasing espousals of and incitements to extreme violence, war, ethnic cleansing, foreign population subjugation and enslavement, and the extreme maltreatment of women, Jews, Christians and Zoroastrian Persians.
Fundamentalists subscribe to these later teachings written when the prophet Mohammed was more emperor and warlord than anything resembling a roving, peaceful teacher.
Today, we see the forced submission of others to the "will of Allah" all too frequently. In what were once heavily Christian and Jewish areas of the Middle East, including Jordan, Syria and especially Lebanon, we see today the increasing encroachment and spread of not "just" Islam, but of extremely radical and dogmatic Islam, the kind espoused by Hezbollah, Hamas and the PLO.
It is the kind that motivates ignorant, indoctrinated youth to launch rockets into Israel and to detonate themselves in marketplaces where women are buying food for dinner.
Islamic-fascism is rearing its ugly head on the battlefield of ideas on America's campuses as well. Through "political correctness," censorship of free speech, and even lawsuits, Islamists are fighting the West by using our freedoms against us, and by appealing to kind-hearted, yet foolhardy progressive liberals.