Considering the lengths that radical Muslims go to “protect” their ritual purity (e.g. Ayatollah Khomeini, after the Iranian revolution, declared that all non-Muslims were impure. He said that to wash the clothes of non-Muslims (you have to touch them), to eat with non-Muslims (sharing food), or to use personal items touched by non-Muslims (such as…
Category: Terrorism
Christianity, Islam, Media, Terrorism
What’s in a Name? Part II:
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What you call something is significant. In a much maligned recent miniseries on CNN, God’s Warriors, Christiane Amanpour, who produced and anchored the program, said the following while discussing martyrdom: To the West, martyrdom has a really bad connotation because of suicide bombers who call themselves martyrs,” Amanpour stated. “Really, martyrdom is actually something that…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Islam, Religion, Terrorism
Culture: Islam vs. Christianity
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Christianity began as a subculture to the existing culture and can be see as such in many areas of the world today. It can honestly be said, despite Western Civilization’s sometimes claim to the contrary, that there is no Christian culture, only cultures with Christian influences. For Islam, it is the only culture and it…
Conflict and War, Culture & Social Issues, Politics and Government, Terrorism
History and Reflection
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My degree is in Ancient History. You could legitimately call me an historian, especially since I tend to view things using the tools of history. Historians depend on reflection from a distance, seeing things from a wider angle, not getting mired in the details. That is why it is hard to write an accurate history…
Christianity, Conflict and War, Islam, Religion, Terrorism
Islam Has Ordered Us… Part II
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I never expected the original posting to have a Part II. However, in interacting with those who have responded to the first post I stumbled across a September 29, 2004 article from FrontPage Magazine titled John Quincy Adams Knew Jihad by Andrew G. Bostom. Hat tip The Cassandra Page. After reading the article, its conclusions…
Christianity, Conflict and War, Islam, Religion, Terrorism
Islam Has Ordered Us…
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“Islam has ordered us to terrorize our enemies and whoever denies that is an infidel himself.” So says the Algerian Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat (GSPC) which is a known North African Al-Qaida affiliate group as it applauded the 7-7 terrorist attacks in London and called for more attacks. See this article on the…
Christianity, Conflict and War, Terrorism
The Devil As A Terrorist
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Matt Wretchard over at Belmont Club, in an article discussing Kim Jong Il lying to Carter and Clinton about Koreas nuclear weapon program, cut to the quick when explaining why most of the world would rather have the illusion that North Korea was keeping its agreements than the truth. The alternative is to abandon the…
Art, Literature and Entertainment, Islam, Media, Terrorism
Quintessential Volkswagon Ad
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Bore Me, a site that tracks what it calls “viral emails”, not to be confused with viruses but instead emails (usually touting some film clip or other) that spread from person to person, making their subject momentarily famous or popular, has a spoof on a VW Polo commercial that demonstrates why terrorist car bombers should…
Christianity, Conflict and War, Culture & Social Issues, News and Commentary, Politics and Government, Religion, Terrorism
A Clarion Call To Prayer
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Hello! Welcome. Lend me your ear for a moment. Now that I have your attention I want to issue a sincere call to all Christians. I ask that you please pass this clarion onto everyone you know who calls Jesus Lord. It is one week until the U. S. Presidential election and the politics of…
Conflict and War, Politics and Government, Terrorism
Nascent Democracy In The Middle East
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One of the strategic cornerstones and fundamental rationales of the Bush decision to invade Iraq has been the plan to plant and cultivate the seed of democracy in the heart of the Mideast. It is argued that giving democratic freedoms an opportunity to spread to the surrounding populations will effect lasting change in the Arab world. Many of those who support the war see this as our only hope of ending the Islamic terrorist threat.