Monday, February 06, 2012
You lie! Obama claims that Islam teaches the law of love
At last Thursday's National Prayer Breakfast, Obama claimed that his policies are motivated by "God's command to 'love thy neighbor as thyself'." He then conflated this law of love with the golden rule, and made a blatantly dishonest claim about Islam:
When Jesus was asked "who is my neighbor?" (Luke 10:29), he answered (via the parable of the good Samaritan) that everyone is everyone's neighbor. Islam, in contrast, instructs Muslims to be good only to other Muslims. Koran, verse 48.29:
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"That" Golden Rule vs. "The" Golden Rule
I guess Obama can call the law of love "that Golden Rule" if he wants, but there actually is a corollary of the law love (implied by the law of love but not implying it) that is called THE Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Matthew 7:12). There is a hadith in Islam (a reported saying of Muhammad) that is similar in form to the Golden Rule, but opposite in substance. It only calls for goodwill towards other Muslims:
Islam rejects even the idea of cooperation. Koran, verse 9.28:
Not loving: the Koran's endless instructions to subjugate and kill infidels
Verse 9.29:
Well meaning left-wing multiculturalists convince themselves that these verses are no worse, and no more relevant, than God's Old Testament instructions to the Jews to annihilate one people after another on their mission to conquer the promised land, but those were not universal instructions to conquer everybody. They are framed as specific permissions from God to attack a specific people at a specific place and time. In accordance with this specificity, these Bible verses have rarely if ever been used as a justification for aggressive conquest.
Not all Christians have always heeded the law of love in its properly universal Christian form, but that was no fault of the Bible, while to Christianity's great credit its various churches have all long since dedicated themselves to understanding and following the law of love as well as flawed human beings are able, and Judaism has done the same.
Decades before Jesus declared that the commandments to love God and to Love your neighbor are all the law and the prophets, Rabbi Hillel had said the same about the golden rule:
Our taqiyyist president
Obama quite obviously "don't know much about history," and "don't know much about a science book," but he does know the Koran. He studied it for years as a child and even took classes in "menjaji," or Koran recitation in Arabic, which is the gold standard of fundamentalist Islamic education.
Hatred of the infidel is not hidden in Islam. It is the essence of it. No one can study Islam at all without comprehending this, and Obama surely does comprehend it. His claim that Islam embraces the law of love can only be a strategic lie, what in Islam is called taqiyya, and the fact that he seems to be engaging in taqiyya is pretty good evidence that Barack Hussein Obama actually is Muslim and is using the Oval Office to promote Islamic supremacism.
Obama's claim that he is Christian, not Muslim, is not probative because Islam's very first instruction to converts is that they should lie about their religion. Tabari 8.23 (one of the hadiths, or reported sayings of Muhammad):
In one set of hadiths, Muhammad asks who will murder a man whose poetry Muhammad finds offensive. He then grants a volunteer (Muhammad bin Maslama) permission to lie to the victim in order to get close enough to do the deed, and the volunteer proceeds to pretend that he has turned against Muhammad (i.e. that he is no longer a Muslim). This is regarded by orthodox Islam as model behavior.
In sum, Obama is certainly lying about Islam, and hence is almost certainly an orthodox Muslim who embraces the Islamic law of hate. So what else is new? Honestly, we knew this before the 2008 election.
How to FORCE Islamic reform
Well here's something new, for those who are interested: Part III of this commentary on Obama's Prayer Breakfast [Will add link when I get it posted.] continues with a demonstration that if we take the Koran seriously, there is no way that Muslims can ever escape the Ten Commandments, making the orthodox Islam of today, with its relentless murder lust, a definite non-contender for the title of "true Islam."
I attach this discussion as a Part III here because presupposes the above documentation of the hateful and murderous character of orthodox Islam. In other words, you've already read the introduction. The conflict between this murder-cult Islam and the Ten Commandments provides an opportunity for the West to FORCE Islamic reform.
They aren't going to reform themselves. They use blasphemy laws to intimidate or kill anyone in their jurisdictions who criticizes orthodox Islam in any way, but now they are challenging societies that are built on liberty and free speech, and WE can hold them to the Ten Commandments. Their only choices will be comprehensive reform (matching the comprehensiveness of their violations of the Ten Commandments) or they can deny that they need to abide by the Commandments, and reveal themselves as marching their followers into Hell. Very doable, if we will just do it.
(Part I points out the sheer destructiveness of the policies that Obama claims to be required by love: "You've gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet".)
I know the version of that Golden Rule is found in every major religion and every set of beliefs — from Hinduism to Islam to Judaism to the writings of PlatoIn fact, Islam repeatedly and explicitly rejects the law of love, teaching instead a law of hate.
When Jesus was asked "who is my neighbor?" (Luke 10:29), he answered (via the parable of the good Samaritan) that everyone is everyone's neighbor. Islam, in contrast, instructs Muslims to be good only to other Muslims. Koran, verse 48.29:
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those with him are firm of heart against the unbelievers, compassionate among themselves.Verse 3.28 says that Muslims can only pretend to befriend infidels:
Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them.Of course we are very familiar with this in practice, as one revealed terror-plotter after another is described by surprised neighbors and co-workers as the nicest guy.
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"That" Golden Rule vs. "The" Golden Rule
I guess Obama can call the law of love "that Golden Rule" if he wants, but there actually is a corollary of the law love (implied by the law of love but not implying it) that is called THE Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Matthew 7:12). There is a hadith in Islam (a reported saying of Muhammad) that is similar in form to the Golden Rule, but opposite in substance. It only calls for goodwill towards other Muslims:
None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself.Preceding hadiths back up Kahn’s non-universalist translation of the Muslim version of the Golden Rule. Bukhari 1.2.10 reads:
Bukhari 1.2.13, translated by M. Muhsin Khan.
The Prophet said, "A Muslim is the one who avoids harming Muslims with his tongue and hands…”In Islam the principle of reciprocity is extended only between Muslims, which makes it a principle, not of reciprocity at all, but of bigotry and prejudice. Islam is the only religion of any significance that does not embrace a universal principle of reciprocity.
Islam rejects even the idea of cooperation. Koran, verse 9.28:
O ye who believe! Truly the Pagans are unclean; so let them not, after this year of theirs, approach the Sacred Mosque. And if ye fear poverty, soon will Allah enrich you, if He wills, out of His bounty, for Allah is All-knowing, All-wise.i.e. Go broke rather than have dealings with infidels.
Not loving: the Koran's endless instructions to subjugate and kill infidels
Verse 9.29:
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.Another murderous verse (Koran 9.5) is the infamous “verse of the sword,” so central to traditional Islamic doctrine:
Slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush.Etcetera ad nauseum.
Well meaning left-wing multiculturalists convince themselves that these verses are no worse, and no more relevant, than God's Old Testament instructions to the Jews to annihilate one people after another on their mission to conquer the promised land, but those were not universal instructions to conquer everybody. They are framed as specific permissions from God to attack a specific people at a specific place and time. In accordance with this specificity, these Bible verses have rarely if ever been used as a justification for aggressive conquest.
Not all Christians have always heeded the law of love in its properly universal Christian form, but that was no fault of the Bible, while to Christianity's great credit its various churches have all long since dedicated themselves to understanding and following the law of love as well as flawed human beings are able, and Judaism has done the same.
Decades before Jesus declared that the commandments to love God and to Love your neighbor are all the law and the prophets, Rabbi Hillel had said the same about the golden rule:
"What is hateful to thee, do not unto thy fellow man: this is the whole Law; the rest is mere commentary."Orthodox Islam, in contrast, is aggressively carrying its law of hatred and violent aggression to every corner of the globe.
Our taqiyyist president
Obama quite obviously "don't know much about history," and "don't know much about a science book," but he does know the Koran. He studied it for years as a child and even took classes in "menjaji," or Koran recitation in Arabic, which is the gold standard of fundamentalist Islamic education.
Hatred of the infidel is not hidden in Islam. It is the essence of it. No one can study Islam at all without comprehending this, and Obama surely does comprehend it. His claim that Islam embraces the law of love can only be a strategic lie, what in Islam is called taqiyya, and the fact that he seems to be engaging in taqiyya is pretty good evidence that Barack Hussein Obama actually is Muslim and is using the Oval Office to promote Islamic supremacism.
Obama's claim that he is Christian, not Muslim, is not probative because Islam's very first instruction to converts is that they should lie about their religion. Tabari 8.23 (one of the hadiths, or reported sayings of Muhammad):
en Nu'aym came to the Prophet. 'I've become a Muslim, but my tribe does not know of my Islam; so command me whatever you will.' Muhammad said, 'Make them abandon each other if you can so that they will leave us; for war is deception.'If Obama is Muslim, he would lie about it. Muslims who live amongst Christians are supposed to pretend that they are Christian, if by doing so they can advance the cause of Islamic conquest.
In one set of hadiths, Muhammad asks who will murder a man whose poetry Muhammad finds offensive. He then grants a volunteer (Muhammad bin Maslama) permission to lie to the victim in order to get close enough to do the deed, and the volunteer proceeds to pretend that he has turned against Muhammad (i.e. that he is no longer a Muslim). This is regarded by orthodox Islam as model behavior.
In sum, Obama is certainly lying about Islam, and hence is almost certainly an orthodox Muslim who embraces the Islamic law of hate. So what else is new? Honestly, we knew this before the 2008 election.
How to FORCE Islamic reform
Well here's something new, for those who are interested: Part III of this commentary on Obama's Prayer Breakfast [Will add link when I get it posted.] continues with a demonstration that if we take the Koran seriously, there is no way that Muslims can ever escape the Ten Commandments, making the orthodox Islam of today, with its relentless murder lust, a definite non-contender for the title of "true Islam."
I attach this discussion as a Part III here because presupposes the above documentation of the hateful and murderous character of orthodox Islam. In other words, you've already read the introduction. The conflict between this murder-cult Islam and the Ten Commandments provides an opportunity for the West to FORCE Islamic reform.
They aren't going to reform themselves. They use blasphemy laws to intimidate or kill anyone in their jurisdictions who criticizes orthodox Islam in any way, but now they are challenging societies that are built on liberty and free speech, and WE can hold them to the Ten Commandments. Their only choices will be comprehensive reform (matching the comprehensiveness of their violations of the Ten Commandments) or they can deny that they need to abide by the Commandments, and reveal themselves as marching their followers into Hell. Very doable, if we will just do it.
(Part I points out the sheer destructiveness of the policies that Obama claims to be required by love: "You've gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet".)
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My limited understanding of Islam is that it cannot be understood by comparing it to anything in Western civilization. We in the West think: "fist comes the human being, then come the rules for the human being (to follow)". But Islam thinks: "first comes the division between Muslims and non-Muslims, then come the rules for each group to follow". There is no starting concept of "human being" in Islam. But then Islam is opposed to all of the great freedoms of Western civilization, to include any critical thinking that strays outside of Islamic teachings.
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