Hurkyl said:
I haven't.
As you mentioned , the first step is to "Recognize the problem". Follow your own advice: argue there is a problem before you move onto the next step.
Does this indicate a problem between Islam and the Western World?
Two powerful and aggressive religions that both believe they have the divine truth cannot coexist.
The Battle of the Yarmuk took place between the Arabs and the Byzantine Empire in 636. This was the first clash between Islam and the Western world. The Byzantine army was defeated and Syria and the Middle East, which had formerly been Judo-Christian was lost to Islam. The next Christian state to fall to Islam was Egypt in 642. The Islamic conquest continued across North Africa In 711 the Berber Tarik invaded and rapidly conquered Visigothic Spain. The Moslems invasion of Western Europe was stopped in France at the Battle of Tours in 732. In 1453 the Ottomans defeat the Byzantine Empire and continue expanding into the Balkans. In 1492 Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, ended Muslim rule in Spain.
The Ottoman Empire failed to keep up technologically with its European rivals, especially Russia. It suffered a huge naval loss at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. After its defeat at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the Ottoman Empire began a long period of decline. After the great defeat of the Ottomans at Vienna, Prince Eugene of Savoy lead Austrian forces to further victories. By 1699, the whole of Hungary had been conquered from the Ottomans by the Austrians. The decline culminated in the defeat of the empire by the Allies in World War I. of the Ottoman Empire[url
Between 636 and 1683 there was over a thousand years of aggression by Islam against Christianity and the Western World. Why did it end? Did Islam renounce the sword? Did it go thru a reformation, a renaissance ? Did a new prophet arise with a message of peace? No, Islamic conquests of Europe ended because Islam had not changed. It had over time become a primitive backward culture that was unable to compete in the modern world.
Beginning in the late 1960's Islam renewed its attack on the Western World. Again the question to be asked is what had changed in Islam? Had Islam undergone an industrial or technological revolution that would allow it to compete with the Western World? No, Islam was still the same primitive religion that first attacked the Western World in 636. What had changed can be summed up in one word, money. Money from the oil fields began to flow into the Middle East and North Africa. In the mid 1960's Islam nation began again their raids on the West with the nationalization of oil fields and refineries. Islam now had the money to purchase the weapons they could not produce and to finance a renewed assault on the West.
The first modern attack on the a Western nation, was a dismal failure, when tiny Israel single handily defeated the entire modern Islam world. The combined might of Egypt, Jordan, Syria along with their supporters Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Algeria was not enough to defeat one small Western Nation. The lesson of the inferiority of the Islamic fighters in open combat, despite overwhelming superiority in men and equipment, was not lost on Islamic militants. From that point on Islamic militants began to use terror as one of their weapons against the Western world.
The first attack against the United States in the renewed war came at about 12:15 am on June 5, 1968, when Sirhan Sirhan shot presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy for his pro-Israel stance..
Another weapon that the Islamic world had in its arsenal to use against the United States was the 1965 Immigration Act. This Act, sponsored by Democrats, allowed Muslims throughout the world to pour into the United States in numbers that were never before possible.
The Muslim population in America is estimated to be between 8 to 10 million. American Muslims represent about 3.7% of the total population and about 9.4% of the total voting public
http://www.ijtihad.org/Muslimvote2004.htm
You and I would vote for a candidate, because we felt that he had the best interest of our country at heart. The Muslims will vote for a candidate that they feel has the best interest of Islam at heart, even to the determent of this country.
On 9-11 the cries of “Allahu Akbar” rang out over an open mike as a hijackers struggled for control of an airplane. This was the same battle cry that Muhammad had taught his followers to scream almost 1400 years ago. You may not think we are at war with Islam, but Islam is at war with us as it has been for almost 1400 years, whether you agree with me or not.
In 1938 Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement as an appeasement to the Nazis and have his infamous “Peace in our Time” speech. On September 17, 2001, President Bush gave his “Islam is peace” speech as an appeasement to Muslims.
In 1936 Mein Kampf" was published. No one took the writings of a failed revolutionist sitting in jail seriously. Six years and 55 million lives later, they did. The Qur’an is Muhammad’s Mein Kampf. If we fail to take his writings seriously, then WWII will pale in comparison to what our children and grandchildren will face,
Mein Kampf was an influential text among the Arab Ba’ath Party activists. An Arabic edition of Mein Kampf has been published by Bisan publishers in Lebanon. It ranks on the best-seller list among Palestinian Arabs.
Why don’t the moderate Muslims speak out against the “terrorist that have hijacked their religion?” They can’t, because they cannot defend their position using the Qur’an or other holy Islamic books.
This guy's smart.
But I do it anyways because it makes a good lead-in for my typical next comment:
