Kindle Notes & Highlights
With little success, Mohammad attempted to convert the residents of Mecca to Islam (which means submission). He was scorned by the polytheists of that town and more or less banished from Mecca. He and his small band of followers retired to Medina. He returned to Mecca in 624 with an army and conquered it, compelling its residents to accept Islam as the "only one true religion" and Allah as the only God, and ordering the destruction of all pagan idols.
Islam was born of violence. It has been spread by violence. Its character is defined by violence.
When Islamic dawa, or proselytizing, fails to win new converts, it resorts to force, e.g., stoning, arson, beheading, slavery, murder.
Much is made of the "peaceful" verses in the Koran.11. But later verses abrogated all but a few of those verses with violent ones. It is the later, violent verses that define the Koran and its companion documents. The ''peaceful'' passages in the Koran are as irrelevant to Islam’s essence as is the fact that Mafia hit men might be ''peaceful'' at a child’s birthday party.
Islam, however, is a Hobson's choice: submit to it, or die, or be enslaved.
In practice, Sharia law is a brutal, primitive system which, among its other barbarities, sanctions the murder of Jews, homosexuals, apostates, and adulterous women (Muslim men are usually exempt from punishment for the latter offense); the genital mutilation of girls and women; the enslavement of infidels, otherwise known as kaffirs or dhimmis; the collection of a poll tax, or jizya (a kind of Mafia-style "protection" money) from non-believers; and the use of force to compel obedience and submission to Islam.
Islam also condones the tribal practice of "honor killing," when a female Muslim "dishonors" the family by becoming "too Western,'' i.e., when she makes independent choices, for example, about who to marry and what she will wear in public. Islam sanctions the killing of their daughters, cousins, or wives. This barbaric and criminal practice, common in Islamic nations, is on the rise in America and Europe in Muslim communities.
Islamist Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of what was once semi-secular Turkey, paraphrased that motto in 1998 in a poem: ''The minarets are our bayonets, the domes our helmets, the mosques our barracks, and the faithful our army.''19. The poem earned him a jail sentence and banishment from Turkish politics. However, the Turkish constitution was changed in 2001 and this allowed him to enter politics again.
And now he runs the place. Oops.
The cancerous progress of Islam in the West is made possible by, among other modern "isms," multiculturalism and egalitarianism.
