T. Belman. This is Part VI of the series, ISLAM, Our Deadliest Enemy: Time is Running Out. I have been posting one Part every day for the last week and will continue for the next week til done. These articles written by VIPs and renowned scholars devastate Islam more comprehensively than anything in print. It is intended that this series come to the attention of Trump’s committee to Study Islamic Terrorism, when formed.
ISLAM, Our Deadliest Enemy: Time is Running Out
By Prof. Paul Eidelberg, President, Israel-America Renaissance Institute, Jerusalem and Philadelphia
CONTENTS
Part I. Introduction
Part II. Identifying the Enemy
Part III. A Former Muslim Shows How to Combat the Enemy
Part IV. An Insider’s View of ‘Moderate’ Muslims
Part V. Beyond Multicultural Relativism
Part VI. The Theological Basis of Today’s Crisis
Part VII. Islamophobia: Facts and Fictions
Part VIII. Islamic Bellicosity and Blood Lust
Part IX. Blood Lust (cont’d)
Part X. Iran and Necrophelia
Part XI. Islamic Imperialism
Part XII. Islam: A Cult of Hatred, Especially of Jews
Part VI. The Theological Basis of Today’s Crisis
Having examined the hostile assessments bitter experiences of former Muslims concerning Islam, let us return to George Weigel. Dr. Weigel points out that St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Catholic theologian, refused to concede a parallelism between Judaism and Christianity, on the one hand, and Islam, on the other. It would have been sufficient to point out that Islam rejects the Judeo-Christian concept of man’s creation in the image of God. In his Summa Contra Gentiles, St. Thomas expresses the conviction that Muhammad distorted the Bible and taught great falsehoods. Islamic theology includes teachings that “render the notion of ‘three Abrahamitic faiths’ ultimately misleading … particularly if this trope is understood in the popular imagination as a matter of three equivalent legs propping up a single monotheistic stool.”
Nothing better illustrates the conflict between Islam and the West than Muhammad’s reputation in the Islamic world as the paradigm of virtue. Thomas does not see him through rose-colored glasses:
He seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasures … His teachings also contained precepts that were in conformity with [such] promises … the truths that he taught were mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity… he perverts almost all the testimonies of the Old and New Testaments by making them fabrications of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his law. It was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him of falsity.
Now let us compare the views of a Jewess, the Egyptian-born scholar, a Bat Yo’er. In her monumental work, Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide (2002), Bat Ye’or avoids discussing the relationship between Muhammad’s character and Islamic theology. Instead, she documents Islam’s fourteen-century record of plunder, rape, and genocide.
One would hardly know of such barbarism reading the doyen of Islamic scholars, Bernard Lewis. Judging from his book What Went Wrong? (2002), nothing is intrinsically wrong with the religion that enthralls 1.5 billion Muslims. This British-born Jewish scholar, polite as well as erudite, is not known as an apologist of Islam. However, that Islam is indeed a violent cult follows from the character of Muhammad, Islam’s role model. From the research of Dr. Serge Trifkovic we learn that Muhammad who concocted bestowed prophetic sanction for his own perversions.
For very recent evidence of Islamic violence, let us consult Middle East and Islam specialist, Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
Born and raised in the U.S. by Egyptian parents who were born and raised in the Middle East, Ibrahim has equal fluency in English and Arabic and an equal understanding of the Western and Middle Eastern mindsets. In a recent report, “Muslim Persecution of Christians,” which first appeared in http://www.meforum.org/3222/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012, Ibrahim writes:
The war on Christianity and its adherents rages on in the Muslim world. In March alone, Saudi Arabia’s highest Islamic law authority decreed that churches in the region must be destroyed; jihadis in Nigeria said they “are going to put into action new efforts to strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women”; American teachers in the Middle East were murdered for talking about Christianity; churches were banned or bombed, and nuns terrorized by knife-wielding Muslim mobs. Christians continue to be attacked, arrested, imprisoned, and killed for allegedly “blaspheming” Islam’s prophet Muhammad; former Muslims continue to be attacked, arrested, imprisoned, and killed for converting to Christianity.
To understand why all this persecution is virtually unknown in the West, consider the mainstream media’s well-documented biases: also in March alone, the New York Times ran a virulently anti-Catholic ad, but refused to publish a near identical ad directed at Islam; the BBC admitted it will mock Jesus but never Muhammad; and U.S. sitcoms were exposed for bashing Christianity, but never Islam.
Is it any wonder, then, that this same mainstream media ignores or at best whitewashes the nonstop persecution of Christians under Islam? Exposing such ugly truths would undermine their narrative of Islam as the “religion of peace.”
From the preceding multifaceted and multiracial as well as multinational survey, it should be transparent that the Muslim claim that Allah is the God of the Bible, or that Islam arose from the religion of the Hebrew prophets and Christian apostles, is absurd. In fact, this fantastic claim is contradicted by overwhelming archeological evidence. Islam is little more than a revival of the ancient Moon-god cult. Indeed, while it may be impolite and provocative to say, as others have said, that Islam is paganism and polytheism in “monotheistic wrapping paper,” various studies show that Islam has taken the symbols, the rites, the ceremonies, and even the name of its god from the ancient pagan religion of the Moon-god.
The sad part here is that one group adhering to an infantile superstition feels that another group who adhere to a slightly different (but more similar than either group would like to admit) infantile superstition. A third group, subscribing to a slightly different set of infantile superstitious notions, are in the middle making a total mess of it.
You’d have expected that the human race would have matured a little bit since the bronze age, but most sadly have not.