A Comment on Islam

From "Civilization and Mosques" by Mordechai Nisan

...Islam is not a private spiritual experience but a public campaign of conquest, colonization, and conversion. In the Muslim East, governments and mobs persecute, outlaw, and hound the Christian faith and faithful. Christians flee in fear from Iraq and Egypt, and churches are closed down in Algeria. Christianity is prohibited in Riyadh...Christianity is dwindling in the East: consider holy Bethlehem, Aleppo in Syria and Tripoli in Lebanon - while Islam flourishes in the West.

The Mosque

The mosque is the locus of religious faith and jihadic indoctrination. It is a place of prayer that serves as the barracks for gathering the soldiers. In the early days of Islam the mosque was a center for forging military preparedness, awaiting the spiritual command to go out and fight the enemy...

The history of Muslim warfare was traditionally crowned with mosque-construction in lands conquered and occupied in the name of Islam. Atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem the new rulers adorned aggression with a cultural symbol and built the Aqsa Mosque in 705. In late September 2000, the Palestinians launched their Al Aqsa Intifada against Israel, ending their rabble-rousing Friday public prayer in the Aqsa mosque by raining rocks on Jews praying below the Mount at the Western Wall.

A yet more arrogant practice was to either destroy churches, in Nazareth in 661, or to transform existing churches into mosques, in Damascus in 637 and the Greek Orthodox Church of Hagio Sophia in Constantinople (renamed Istanbul) in 1453. When the Muslims seized Hebron in 637, they desecrated while redesigning the Cave of the Patriarchs into the Ibrahim Mosque...

...Jihad is a stimulating and turbulent myth, while the mosque offers a space for mental transcendence, a headquarters for mobilization, a vision of conquest.

The muezzin call to prayer in Detroit and Manhattan, where mosques are disingenuously named ‘Islamic Centers', is a manifest violation of public space and private comfort for many. Muslims are determined to set the social rules by segregating classrooms, gyms, and swimming pools; promoting Muslim prayer in public schools; probing social resistance with women's head-covering scarves and non-alcoholic taxis; and enticing conversion through out-reach programs in prisons, religious discussions in mosques, and extensive internet missionary propaganda. For the Koran categorically states (3:18): "The only true faith in God's sight is Islam."

In America, the Muslim goal is not to earn acceptance but to acquire ascendancy in the mosaic of society. Omar M. Ahmed, former chairman of the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told a crowd of California Muslims in July 1998 (though he later denied this) that 'Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant'.

...Islam, engaging in archaic religious warfare, is committed to change the political order by a sweeping and fundamental transformation of society, culture, and morality. Rules and restrictions as in Saudi Arabia would strangle America; personal and public morality - concerning men and women - would be chiseled into form by the likes of Iranian ayatollahs and Egyptian muftis, though they speak American home-grown English. The individual happiness principle - just holding hands at the amusement park - would be smothered; and the intoxicating fragrance of individuality and creativity would be crushed in Islamic America.