The Religion Of Peace

 

Was it GW Bush who coined the obnoxious and false phrase, Islam is a religion of peace"? I think it was, on the deck of an aircraft carrier which, ironically, was all about blowing Moslems to bits. Revolting, really, when you think on it, and not least because it's an utter lie.

Islam's not a religion of peace, it's a religion of war and's been so since its conception, it was born in warfare and Mohammed its prophet was its leader. This is indisputable. That same cult went on to conquer Spain and besiege Vienna, only to be driven back.

Today it's being welcomed into what was once Western Christendom by people who hate their culture and inherited faith. Will they be pleased with the result when their nearest LGBTQ+ Free Palestine Theater Group's member's thrown off some convenient tower in East London? No doubt they'll be upset by that, just like their Leftist friends in Iran. 

Winston Churchill said this:

Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, must always exert a modifying influence on men’s passions, and protect them from the more violent forms of fanatical fever, as we are protected from smallpox by vaccination. But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside.

The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as danger­ous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious blood­thirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting.

Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace. Luckily the religion of peace is usually the better armed. —The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), 26-27.

 

My Dad, rest in peace, once said, "For the first time in history we're in a position of total military dominance over Islam." And so we are, but apparently lacking the will to use it. Who knows how and if that will change. In the meanwhile, let's hope people wake up before it gets messy, because it probably will.

Your Pal,

LSP