I wrote this on last Sunday (about the coerced conversions):
"this is how and why islam spread from the Arabian peninsula through Christian north Africa and the Christian Middle East, and then through south Asia to Asia: By ruthless use of horrific violence and terror. Without it there would be no islam.And I wrote this yesterday:
"there has been not a single word of protest, not one single solitary whispered word. Even though the the koran forbids coerced conversions - at least in one quote:Today - via LGF - Dr. Andrew Bostom agrees:
Islam expressly forbids forced or coerced conversion, as demonstrated by this quote from the Quran: “There is no compulsion in religion” (Surah 2: 256).
So, if Muslims hold the koran sacred, then why aren't any Muslims anywhere protesting this sacreligious act or even speaking out against it, and demanding the perps get punished?
And while I'm asking, why haven't they protested the beheadings, or the mosques blown up by "radicals/militants/extremists"?
Because islam is not a religion; it is a martial creed which has created generations of terrorists and battered-people who tacitly, fearfully support terrorism.
This is not news; it is history - 1400 year old history. This is how they made Christian north Africa and the Judeo-Christian Middle East into a caliphateto begin with!
Terror, kidnapping, forced conversion and war: they are the SOP of the ROP.
Forced conversions in Islamic history are not exceptional—they have been the norm, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—for over 13 centuries. Orders for conversion were decreed under all the early Islamic dynasties—Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, and Mamluks. Additional extensive examples of forced conversion were recorded under both Seljuk and Ottoman Turkish rule (the latter until its collapse in the 20th century). But the list is much longer yet. The Shi’ite Safavid and Qajar dynasties of Persia/Iran. During the jihad ravages on the Indian subcontinent, beginning with the early 11th century campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazni, and recurring under the Delhi Sultanate, and Moghul dynasty until the collapse of Muslim suzerainty in the 18th century following the British conquest of India.Well, Bostom is right, and you read it here first. That is, unless you read world HISTORY! Then you knew it all along...
Moreover, during jihad—even the jihad campaigns of the 20th century [i.e., the jihad genocide of the Armenians during World War I, the Moplah jihad in Southern India [1921], the jihad against the Assyrians of Iraq in the early 1930s, the jihads against the Chinese of Indonesia and the Christian Ibo of southern Nigeria in the 1960s, and the jihad against the Christians and Animists of the southern Sudan from 1983 to 2001], the (dubious) concept of “no compulsion” (Koran 2:256; which was cited with tragic irony during the Fox reporters “confessional”!), has always been meaningless.
A consistent practice was to enslave populations taken from outside the boundaries of the “Dar al Islam,” where Islamic rule (and Law) prevailed. Inevitably fresh non-Muslim slaves, including children, were Islamized within a generation, their ethnic and linguistic origins erased. Two enduring and important mechanisms for this conversion were concubinage and the slave militias—practices still evident in the contemporary jihad waged by the Arab Muslim Khartoum government against the southern Sudanese Christians and Animists. And Julia Duin reported in early 2002 that murderous jihad terror campaigns—including, prominently, forced conversions to Islam —continued to be waged against the Christians of Indonesia’s Moluccan Islands.
Given this enduring and ignoble historical legacy, it remains to be seen whether contemporary Muslim religious authorities—particularly those within Palestinian society, and affiliated with Hamas or Fatah—will condemn publicly the forced conversions of the kidnapped Fox reporters.
senori: i am no jingoist.
ReplyDeletei advocate fighting back, counter-attacking, and preemptive strikes to defend the west from nuclear iran.
jingoists are adventurists and hegemonists. i am neither. jihadists are hegonists and adventurists.
as hey say over and over: they love death.
i do not. but i love libery and value the liberty of all my brothers and sisters everywhere.
and i believe that as the richest, and strongest democracy we have a special responsibility to defend liberty and expand it.
thanks for commenting.