DESERTION FROM THE ARMED FORCES HAS LONG BEEN A CRIME PUNISHABLE BY DEATH.
ESPECIALLY IN A TIME OF WAR.
IN ISLAM, APOSTASY IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH.
APOSTASY MIGHT BE DEFINED AS DESERTING ONE'S FAITH.
ISLAM IS THE ONLY RELIGION THAT HAS THIS AS A BASIC TENET AND COMMON PRACTICE.
SINCE THE HOLOCAUST, SOME JEWS CONSIDER RELATIVES WHO MARRY OUTSIDE THEIR FAITH TO BE "DEAD" - IN A FIGURATIVE SENSE AND THEY SHUN THEM, BUT THEY DO NOT LITERALLY KILL THEM.
IS ISLAM, THESE "DESERTERS" ARE KILLED - OFTEN BY FAMILY MEMBERS WHO DO SO TO REGAIN THEIR "ISLAMIC HONOR".
I THINK THIS REVEALS HOW ISLAM IS MORE LIKE A MARTIAL CREED THAN A RELIGION.
AFTER ALL, IF FAITH IS AN ACT OF CONSCIENCE, THEN HOW CAN ANYONE BE COERCED TO BECOME A MEMBER OR REMAIN A MEMBER OF A CERTAIN FAITH OR CERTAIN SECT?
MUSLIMS WHO ARE CONVERTED UNDER THREAT OF VIOLENCE OR DEATH ARE MORE LIKE UNWILLING CONSCRIPTS INTO AN ISLAMIC ARMY THAN CONVERTS TO A "RELIGION OF PEACE".
A "RELIGION OF PEACE" CANNOT BE ONE WHICH THREATENS DEATH TO ANYONE WHO WISHES TO LEAVE THAT RELIGION; NOR CAN A "RELIGION OF PEACE" BE ONE WHICH USES VIOLENCE AND THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE TO GAIN ADHERENTS.
SUCH AN ORGANIZATION IS A MARTIAL ONE, NOT A RELIGIOUS ONE.
IT IS A GANG OR ARMY, NOT A RELIGION.
IT SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH.
WE DON'T DO SO AT OUR PERIL.
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You are quite right. The public Muslim prayers that are recited 5 times a day resemble close order military drill exercises more than they resemble the prayer services of any other religion. The Ummah is conceptually a horde. In fact, the words "horde" and "Urdu" (the name for the language of Pakistan) come from the same root. As the ever-reliable Wikipedia puts it: "The word Urdu is derived from the same Turkic word ordu (army) that has given English horde."
ReplyDeleteThe paramount importance of the Jihad as a sacrament of Islam goes without saying.