Islam Is Not The Enemy

by Frank Pastore - February 18th, 2007 - Townhall.com

As Christians, we believe Islam is a false religion–and the belief is reciprocal.

As Americans, we believe in the free exercise of religion, including Islam–but this belief is not reciprocal.

So, how do we deal with tolerating a religion that is itself intolerant of us? Ought we to pride ourselves on our tolerance and eagerly embrace their intolerance even if it leads to our own destruction?

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As I wrote a few weeks ago, “Americans are alarmed by the advance of Islam into our society, and properly so, for who will assimilate to whom? Could a Muslim have written the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution? Does Islam believe in the separation of church and state, that all men are created equal, that there should be no religious test for political office holders, that government ought to be secular?”

The answer, of course, is no.

This is a second article on a subject that Pastore addressed recently. He calls it part two, but it really stands as simply a much better article on the same subject.

We are at war, not because we started it, or because we have done anything to justify it, but because another religion is populated with extremists who wish to recover a gradeur from a time in history when their religion was on top. They want to be on top and they are willing to die to kill us to make this happen.

Their religous text, the Quran, says they are supposed to be on top and all non Muslims are supposed to be dhimmis, slaves. There is nothing reciprocal in the bible or our government that rivals this arrogance and evil. However there is a large element in our society that despises our form of economic organization, called free enterprise. They are called socialists. The Muslim religion has inherent in it a complete acceptance of the concept of socialism, since it believes their religion should dominate everything, including government. It is not great distance from that to accepting socialism as the method by which Muslims are on top and all non-Muslims are dhimmis to the state.

For some reason atheists who are socialists accept Muslim as a superior way because they adopt socialism. They proclaim the Muslims to be better than our current government. They do this without thinking through the reality that they will be forced to adopt religion if the Muslims win. They will have to pray daily and abandon equality of the genders, as Pastore notes in this article.

This blind spot to the evil of Islam by socialists in the democrat party is a real problem. We have two enemies, Islamofascists and the socialist wing of the democrat party. Both want our form of government changed.

How do we deal with that? Any ideas?