Editor’s Note: A friend, Dean Muehlberg, recently attended a seminar on Middle Eastern Culture. He graciously offered to share his notes and thoughts with us about this seminar and Islam. I will publish Dean’s notes in two installments. One appears below today and the next will follow in a few days. I’m sure Dean will appreciate your comments and thoughts on his report to us. Thanks, Dean.
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It is almost a cause célèbre, the mode du jour, to those on the left, to adopt a
Muslim, to embrace all of those quotes from the Koran that espouse peace and tranquility, to have a need to believe that Islam is like all other religions that grant dignity and respect to those of other faiths. And Islam does nothing to dissuade these dreamers, presenting a peaceful face and publicizing only snippets of the Koran that appear to reinforce this pious image.
It has always been a mystery why there has been no widespread dissent among that great and supposed majority of Muslims against those of terrorist tendencies. It brought me to attend a local community education class about Mid-Eastern culture, taught by a Saudi teacher who is an American citizen. Every student of the class, with the exception of me, appeared to be in a state of worship of the instructor and his material, bending over backwards in the attempt to present an attitude of acceptance. They, and myself, had no concept whatsoever, of what was in the Koran, and of how powerful it is to those of Islam.
I asked some questions that I thought should be asked after the instructor brought up Sharia law almost immediately, stating how ridiculous it was to have a law against it when there were so few Muslims in South Dakota. The others were nodding in agreement when I stated that I was a skeptic, and that I thought it was a good thing to ban it, even if there were only one Muslim in the state. The instructor made some weak excuses about not being able to pass on inheritance in the usual Muslim way should it be banned. It appeared extremely diversionary as an argument, ignoring all of the other extremes of Sharia that were more pertinent to the question, the subversion of U.S. and state law to that of a religion. Indeed, if the adherents of Islam were devout those problems of estate would easily be resolved within the family. Additionally, he later put the Muslim Brotherhood to the LEFT of center on the political scale, labeling them the “hippies” of Islam. The broad majority of Muslims in this country were at exact center; how convenient!
The entire three hours of the first session were spent in explaining Islam in an atmosphere that put forward the idea that it was just another religion like any other. But as I watched and listened, it only led to more questions. Islam says there is only one god, their god, and that he is also the god of everyone, including non-believers. If you are a Christian or a westerner you accept that other religions have their own gods, that you respect their god and they yours, that he is probably the same god but just a different version. Islam does not accept this, however. In arrogance unbecoming to the human race, their god is the ONLY god, and all other religions worship Allah, even though they don’t know it.
All of this led me to greater skepticism, and a need for greater understanding. Surely Islam had to be covered in any class about the Mid-East and its culture, but any salient understanding of the subject could not be given its due by such a quick and absolving and positive review.
Fortunately my neighbor, on discussing my impressions of the class, offered to lend me a copy of Robert Spencer’s “Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran,” a book he hasn’t yet read himself. The question in my mind about Islam and the mode of presentation of the class led me to readily accept his offer and to read it in full in a couple of days. Granted, Spencer makes his living exposing Islam for what it is, but as he says “Whether the Koran really says what this guide claims it says can easily be verified.”
My impression upon finishing the book is that we are up against a monolithic attempt at takeover by a religion that does not regard anyone of a different faith as an equal. The Koran is a mystic concoction of contradictions that can justify almost any action against non-believers. That wouldn’t be so scary if it were not that Muslims treat it as “the word” of god, and not a text
obviously written by man in an ancient time and place, of a political nature to ensure power by a charismatic leader. It also handily gives man dominion over woman and perceives her as less of a being. To Muslims, it is the beginning and the end, reinforced by the Hadith, the history and sayings of Muhammad.
It is a religion that has not changed since the 7th century. It’s basic theory is that a Muslim is superior to all other beings, that no changes can be made to it, even to allow for the enlightenment that comes from fourteen centuries of learning and progress. It is rigid, unforgiving, and wants only to subject the remainder of the human race to its dogma. It is patient, and knows that it can slowly take over countries by population growth, immigration, and conversion. It has only to continually reinforce its image as that of just another religion of peace, while using the laws of the West to promote its agenda.
There are many things in the Koran and Hadith that should be known by anyone that is not Muslim. As a non-believer or infidel, you will never be granted equal status to a Muslim unless you convert. You are given the level of a pig. Indeed, it is in the Koran that a Muslim cannot befriend a non-believer because if they do then they “are of them,” a complete humiliation. In addition, and peculiar only to Islam, lying is allowed, especially as regards a non-believer, to let him think he has been befriended. It allows this as a process of war, easily applied to the ongoing war of taking control of the world. How does that make you feel when you might think you have befriended a Muslim? It is also okay to lie to reconcile disputes and to appease a wife. The former would give you little confidence in respecting Sharia or business transactions with a Muslim.
For every innocent line plucked from the Koran there are more lines that claim the exact opposite, so that when presidents and progressives quote those lines of peace they are missing the entire contradictory picture, and misleading an American population that needs to be aware of what is actually there. Indeed, the Koran and Hadith can be so confusing to the Western mind. But it must be the same for any thinking Muslim, yet he has been brainwashed from his birth to accept the word, to believe that the Koran is the word of Allah, passed down to Muhammad, and that any divergence from it will cause them the same fate as those lesser beings, Jews, Christians, and other non-believers.
The terrorists, the Muslim Brotherhood, the militant jihadists are not the one’s I fear right now. They are easily identified. It is that so called peaceful and open-minded vast majority of Muslims that I fear the most. We hear no denunciation of terrorism from them because the framework of their religion will not allow them to question. In their heart they must agree, in their conscience they must agree with it all.
When you have a people who believe they are superior in all ways because of their religion, and which calls for the conversion or subjugation of all others, there is no way to accommodate them. It is not a religion that accepts dissent, so I don’t think that another fourteen hundred years will procure any more change than the first fourteen hundred did. They will never be able to admit that their religion is even of an equal scale as any other because the Koran does not allow for it.
The slow and steady infiltration into Western societies and the use of our laws to forward the intrusion is the most successful warfare they can wage. They do it well because they know that Western society is always ready to consider all things, to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, to allow talk and thought.
The class that I am in is a great example of how they do this. Citizens with a desire to learn about “Middle-Eastern culture” get fed an introductory piece on Islam for three hours, prefaced right out of the gate about how ridiculous it is to put through a law to ban Sharia. Those in the class know nothing of what are really the basic tenets of Islam and nod their heads in kindness figuring that anyone who questions anything about Islam must just not have an open mind.
We must make all “non-believers” aware of what is in the Koran and the Hadith. We must push strongly for anti-Sharia compliant laws. We must push for laws limiting immigration based on the fact that Islam is antithetical to Western culture. If we do not, we are only inviting the eventual takeover of it. And well before we get to that point, they will create enough havoc to make it feel like we have been taken before it actually happens, like it has in Great Britain and other European countries.
TO BE CONTINUED
