Posted by
flagwaver on Friday, September 03, 2010 9:39:06 AM
September 2, 2010 marked the beginning of the Obama administration’s attempt to do what successive administrations from the days of Richard Nixon have tried to do, namely broker some sort of peace agreement between the Israelis and their “Palestinian” antagonists. With much media fanfare Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was paraded in front of the cameras with Israeli P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu and “Palestinian” leader Mahmoud Abbas in tow, all to show that there would now be face to face negotiations between the two groups that will create the mythical peace in the Middle East that the West has long sought.
What the Secretary of State and the American legacy media fail to recognize, either due to ignorance or design, is that as long as Islam predominates in the M idle East and Israel exists, there can be no peace between the two sides. Further, so long as the United States exists alongside the religion of Islam in the world, there can be no peace between Islam and the United States.
The reason that these peace plans and proposals always fail, and always will fail, lies in one simple fact about Islam that most people either do not recognize or willfully ignore. At its very heart, Islam is not like other religions in that it not a universal religion, but a doctrine of supremacy.
Most of the “great” religions of the world believe and espouse a notion that they have the ultimate truth that leads the followers to an eternal salvation. Hindus believe that through meditation techniques that man can become one with the universal life force; Mormons believe that following the dictates of the Church and completing the temple endowments ultimately lead to man becoming a God who will rule over an universe of his own creation; Jews believe that belief in Jehovah and the coming messiah will lead to salvation; Christians believe that acceptance of Jesus as Lord of your life brings salvation. All of these disparate beliefs come with the doctrine that they are open to anyone to embrace, and that acceptance of the doctrines is strictly voluntary. You must choose to become a Mormon, a Hindu, a Christian, or to be a practicing Jew; no one is going to force that upon you. And just as importantly, there is no hint of a belief that those doctrines are to be the supreme religion of the entire world. In essence, you can take them or leave them at your own discretion.
Islam is fundamentally different from those other faiths, in that it contains within it the strong belief that Islam is to be the supreme religion and that all others must bow before it. Koran itself makes this clear in passages such as this from the sura titled “The Table”: “Believers, do not seek the friendship of the infidels and those who were given the Book before you, who have made of your religion a jest and a diversion…Say: ‘People of the Book [Jews and Christians], is it not that you hate us only because we believe in God and in what has been revealed to us and to others before, and because most of you are evil doers?” Or take this passage from “The Spoils”: “Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion [Islam] shall reign supreme.” Or this from “Repentance”: “Fight against such of those to whom the Scriptures were given [Jews and Christians] as believe in neither God nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what God and his apostle have forbidden, and do not embrace the true Faith, until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued.” And for good measure, this passage from “She Who Is Tested”: “Believers, do not make friends with those who are enemies of Mine and yours. Would you show them kindness, when they have denied the truth that has been revealed to you and driven out the Apostle and yourselves, because you believe in God, your Lord?”
Nowhere in the sacred texts of the Bible or the Torah are such sentiments expressed as they relate to people of other faiths; nowhere do those books betray such a need for supremacy on earth. Some may say that the Bible expresses such sentiments, but always in the Bible sentiments such as these are linked with the judgment of the world by God Himself, and never are the followers of Christ encouraged to fight to establish the supremacy of the faith, or to mock non-believers as ‘evil-doers’, nor to withhold their friendship from non-believers. Yet Islam makes these very demands upon the faithful, and there can be no disagreement as the Koran is the literal word of Allah, and any such disagreement is to dispute with God Himself!
Until the world recognizes that Islam is not just a faith, but a supremacist ideology, attempts at peace will continue to be made….and continue to fail. Just as reconciling the Ku Klux Klan to the idea of Blacks having equality with Whites is a pipe dream, so to is the idea that Islam can be reconciled with the idea of allowing a Jewish state to exist in peace with its Muslim neighbors.