Wednesday, March 08, 2006

A letter from a reader

I’d like to share with you all this very interesting email* I received from a reader – we’ll call here Christine to preserve her identity – only yesterday, as a response to my article, Islam: The enemy of democracy and freedom! which appears on FaithFreedom.org.

Hello Mark,

Your view on Islam and the West is very precise. I could not agree with you more. I am married to an Egyptian Muslim. I am, and will always be, a devoted Christian.

One thing is true about MODERATE Muslims...

My husband has never read the Quran. Ask him about Jesus or about Mohammad and he knows very little, only what he has been taught by his parents and his role-playing. I have studied Islam, and have read the Quran and much of the Hadith. It’s extremely alarming. I cannot believe how little we know about this enemy of ours! I think a lot of the people here in the US are brainwashed by President Bush that Islam is a peaceful religion. Little do they now that it is a cult!

I have learned that a Muslim is a solider for Allah and will never believe in our way of life. Yes, any person that believes in the Quran and Hadith, etc., is, or has the potential to be, a terrorist! They come in all sizes, colors and genders! Because they are willing to deceive and lie and cheat, they are the most dangerous of the human species! I care about the world and every day I pray that we open our eyes and stop sucking up to these people. We are pathetic. Is it all for money?

Have we forgotten what humanity is, or how to feel compassion for our fellow brother and sister? Once, I asked my husband a question after 9/11: Could you strap on a bomb to yourself and detonate it? His reply: Only if I had to! Those words stay with me always. I shall never forget the potential of a moderate Muslim to crack.

I believe that the fuss over those cartoons to be a way of educating the West before we will all be having to pray 5 times a day, before our women will be enslaved. Wait till the world religion is Islam! If we do nothing, it will happen. I once read an article by a Muslim politician. He claimed that Muslims are great in number here in the US, and if Muslims had more knowledge of the political system, they could take over the US permanently! He kids us not!

We must inform the public about this impending disaster. I beg my husband to read this Quran of his, which he knows nothing about. So he knows nothing of the evil in it. Only that it’s God’s last word and that Mohammad is the prophet to the world as they understand it.

I do not hate anyone but no-one has the right to take another's life and be the judge and jury. Do we retaliate when our citizens get captured and are beheaded? Is that not permissible because we are less than human? Who made them God, and who gives them this right? One diseased and deranged man called Mohammad. He is the culprit. I know a lot of people, and when I speak to them about Mohammad and Islam, it is always the same: Oh they are not all bad, or terrorists. Wrong! There’s always that potential for the weak-minded just to snap. The imams here in the US have the power to abuse and brainwash that moderate Muslim to spring him into action here in the States, and all around the world. I pray for us, and for them, every day, that they come out of the devil's powers.

Again, I have enjoyed your article. Keep up the good work.

Christine

* Please note: When emails or letters appear on this site, this does not mean that I endorse each and every point expressed in them. They are, and remain, the views of the writer, and the writer alone!

14 comments:

Dan Zaremba said...

During the "cartoon crisis" (we published the Jyllands Posten cartoons in the beginning of January) our blog was flooded with comments from the followers of Allah.
95% of the comments - abuse, obscenities and death threats.
Not a single argument as we would understand it.
The remaining 5% - lies; how peaceful Islam is or that our quotations were taken out of context.
In most cases it was evident that vast majority of these Muslims have never ever read the Qur'an or even didn't know the Hadith.
Another interesting fact: most of the Muslim visitors were instructed to visit our blog from 5-6 Islamic discussion forums.
Their visits stopped as abruptly as they started.
Somebody told them - enough.

Mark said...

Missinglink:

How interesting! How very, very interesting!

Mark said...

Missinglink:

I have just seen that you have my weblog on your blogroll. Thank you. I shall return the kindness.

cybercrusader said...

Christine's story is deeply moving. It is clear testimony to the fact that indeed, a new dark age is fast approaching.

Always On Watch said...

Mark,
This letter is sobering. What this woman must be living through! And her warning is clear: I cannot believe how little we know about this enemy of ours!

Thanks for posting this.

Mark said...

Always:

Sobering indeed! I found the letter rather touching,too. It backs up all I have said.

Papa Ray said...

I firmly believe that the Bush Administration is engaged in dis-information and is working to buy time for "The West" to become not only knowledgable about Islam but to become afraid of it.

(I can't believe that Bush and Co are so dumb that they don't know the truth about the cult of Islam.)

Also, for those of you who don't follow our Military's status, we are not ready (with the exception of our Navy and Air Force) for any more massive Land Combat Operations.

Fear is the greatest force to make someone defend themselves or to make them take the offense against the "danger". Right now the average American knows nothing about Islam and is not afraid of it. They just think its another wacky religion.

Unfortunatly many (myself included) believe that it will take another disaster the size of 9/11 or larger before the American people will become afraid enough and mad enough to allow/force our Government to take drastic actions against Islam and the Muslim world.

I am just hoping we can elect someone to replace Bush and Co that will have the ability and the guts to do what must be done.

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA

Mark said...

Papa Ray:

Right on! That's EXACTLY right! Thank you for this superb analysis.

Dan Zaremba said...

Mark,
Thank you. I shall return the kindness.

My pleasure Mark.
My pleasure.
I used to cruise around the blogs as "felis" but then I found out that my Muslim fans could find me and there were a few cases when they started trolling my friends' blogs.

beakerkin said...

Mark

I would like you to explain the laws of the UK. I understand you do not have the First Amendment laws we have in the states and your libel standards are lower.

Is Oriana Fallachi's works banned in the UK ?

I have been also told that the standards of hate speech are different. Thus a person claiming that there is no such ethnicity as Palestinian is illegal in the UK .

Mark said...

Missinglink:

Cheers, my friend! Cheers!

Mark said...

Beakerkin:

I would like you to explain the laws of the UK. I understand you do not have the First Amendment laws we have in the states and your libel standards are lower.

No, we don't have a First Amendment, so our freedom of speech is nowhere 'written in stone', so to speak. Our freedom of speech has evolved over the years and, generally, because just about everyone has taken that freedom for granted, it never got challenged. This is changing now, with the Muslims!

The reason it is not written anywhere, of course, is because he British do not enjoy a written constitution. Our rights are what are conferred on us by the Crown. We are, as you probably know, not rightfully citizens of the UK; rather we are subjects of the Queen. Sounds rather feudal to an American, doesn't it?

The situation now is rather new and different with regards to freedom of speech and expression. Tony Blair has recently passed a law to protect the Muslims from criticism! As I have not been in the country since December - I have been in the States - I am not totally familiar with what has been done there. I could have picked it up on the Internet, of course. (But why get depressed when on vacation? Albeit a working vacation.) I shall soon be up to speed when I return home though. That will be in about 10 days' time.

To my knowledge, Oriana Fallacci's works are not banned in the UK. The Rage and the Pride can be procured from my vitual bookstore, Librabunda.com from the UK section, Books UK. You can verify this by making a search in the Amazon.co.uk search box at the top of the page. I have just done it, and The Rage and the Pride comes up. Perhaps you would like to check it out for yourself. And search for a few other controversial books on Islam while you're at it. Even my book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age is available there! :-)

I have been also told that the standards of hate speech are different. Thus a person claiming that there is no such ethnicity as Palestinian is illegal in the UK .

The standards of hate speech have changed recently, as I have said earlier. Blair changed the law on this in order to pander to the Muslims in our midst. The Muslim population are natural Labour/Socialist voters. Blair is the head of them as a Labour Prime Minister. By going to war in Iraq, he angered the Muslims, and therefore lost a lot of their votes. So to assuage their anger, he has passed this bill, limiting the freedom of speech of the majority to win the favour of the minority. Clean game, politics, isn't it?

As for it being illegal to deny the ethnicity of the Palestianian, I have no idea. This is the first I have heard about it.

beakerkin said...

Your book arrived from Tenesse tay but Fallachi is up first.

I was told by our resident leftist that the claim there is no such thing as a Palestinian is considered hate speech in the UK.
What the basis for this ethnicity is is unknown. It is not language, history or culture.

I was born in Brooklyn so therefore I am a Canarsie Indian.
I do not speek the language of the Canarsie. I do not follow the culture of the Canarsie. I do not have any genetic ties to the Canarsie.

I want a Nation of Brooklyn called Brooklynistan.

Mark said...

Beakerkin:

Thanks for buying the book. I appreciate that. I hope you enjoy it.

As for your intention to read Fallaci's book first, that's okay. Gentlemen always place ladies first! :-)