These acts of terror are not a hijacking of Islam from the peaceful religion it was designed to be. Rather these acts are the true face of Islam and until we acknowledge it for what it is we will continue to be victims bowing at the feet of our executioners." - Washington Times columnist Mark Christian
As a former Muslim Sunni imamnow a grateful convert to Christianitythe aptly named Mr. Christian is an authority on defining what Islam is. According to this expert any independent thought decision-making or movement away from the Islamic religion is a violation of its one set of guiding principles: Sharia law. Unmistakably the penalty for non-compliance is always the same: death to infidels. By his own admission understandable fear dogs Mr. Christian for leaving the worlds second most popular religion. Indeed Islams clear orthodoxy of convert or die (given the backdrop of periodic beheadings of Christians and others) is a sobering reality. Why such Dark Ages barbarity isnt loudly condemned from every civilized corner of the earth is astonishing. In freedom-loving places like 21st century America (and stridently by the Vatican) most of all.
Where is good Christian" Barack Obama? Where is Hillary giggles" Clinton? Where is the eyes covered MSM? Why are all of these philosophical bedfellows hypercritical of the Wests lack of tolerance" (read: Trayvon Martin) while completely blind deaf and dumb to the truth of this worldwide scourge? Specifically why do these powers-that-be refuse to call a spade a spade? Why do they summarily disregard practitioners of (radical) Islam who do terrorist killings in the name of that faith?
Of this religion Mr. Christian explains: While there are a number of different strains of Muslims many of which publicly eschew violence there is only one Shariah" and it is the foundation in common for all of Islam. These ancient governing laws are drawn from Islamic scripture (often established as a religious duty by Mohammed himself) and have not changed in 1400 yearsnor has the violence contained within." That violence has plagued Europe for over 1000 years. Not to be left out America has been dealing with radical Islam for three centuries. Thats since Thomas Jeffersons time. How did Mr. Jefferson respond to the clear and present danger of kidnapped and tortured Americans abroad? He formed and dispatched the U.S. Navy.
Contrast that to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obamas antithetical wait and see" attitude. These leaders from behind"abetted greatly by the mendacious mediascapegoat the usual suspects: guns hate and homophobia. Related to Orlando mass murder Omar Mateen when he beat his ex-wife or executed 49 innocents at gay nightclub (the ironically named Pulse) he was exercising his religious mandate as a Sharia-compliant Muslim. To Islam assaulting the spousesame as killing homosexualsis the compassionate" response. Once again this time in The Washington Posts Five Myths section an obscure academic in Wisconsin spins fiction:
And on a range of issues Islam can fairly be described as feminist. Fiqh scholars for instance have concluded that women have the right to orgasm during sex and to fight in combat."
By combat does this Post scribbler refer to Omar Mateens domestic struggles with his battered first wife? Sharia is not anti-woman? Well thats certainly a kick in the head to the former Mrs. Omar Mateen! This writers spurious (frankly absurdist) proof" of Muslim mens open-mindedness" is womens orgasms? Seriously? Well bully for them! Luckily these Muslim womens draconian husbands havent figured out how to control those too! Speaking of sexual matters and control how is not killing the abhorrent 49" not brutal punishment? Did liberals lose their minds or are they just missing entirelylike the newly decapitated?
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.