Ah, but you forget: While the New Testement is a fictitious, hyperbolic account of some prophet (maybe), the Koran is absolutely accurate history. Suggesting that it is anything other than complete and perfect is denying the truth, unlike doing likewise with the NT (or declaring it false outright). </sarc>

www.rhjunior.com Great comics with a hefty dose of Christian and anti-nutjob goodness.

"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." -Miyamoto Musashi

They are such cowards when it comes to Islam and Muslims. But yet they get away with horrible things they write about Christianity.

Everytime someone brings up NAMBLA I get this sick feeling in my stomache.  Ew ew ew.  This world of ours is getting nasty. :(

"Ah but Christians aren't known for going around making bomb threats--at least outside the mind of Rosie O'Donnell."

Here are a few facts and references I have found that shine some light on the so called "religion of peace":

The Truth about Islamic Crusades and Imperialism, By James Arlandson: "Historical facts say that Islam, including Muhammad, launched their own Crusades against Christianity long before the European Crusades. Westerners—even academics—accept the notion that the West alone was aggressive. It seems that Islam is always innocent and passive. It is difficult to uncover the source of this Western self—loathing. It is, however, a pathology that seems to strike Westerners more than other people around the globe. This anti—West pathology shows up in Westerners' hatred for the European Crusades in the Medieval Age Muslims seem to forget that they had their own, for several centuries before the Europeans launched theirs as a defense against the Islamic expansion. 638 Muslim Crusaders conquer and annex Jerusalem, taking it from the Byzantines. 639—642 Muslim Crusaders conquer Egypt. 641 Muslim Crusaders control Syria and Palestine. 644—650 Muslim Crusaders conquer Cyprus, Tripoli in North Africa, and establish Islamic rule in Iran, Afghanistan, and Sind. 710—713 Muslim Crusaders conquer the lower Indus Valley. 711—713 Muslim Crusaders conquer Spain and impose the kingdom of Andalus. This article recounts how Muslims today still grieve over their expulsion 700 years later. They seem to believe that the land belonged to them in the first place. 831 Muslim Crusaders capture Palermo, Italy; raids in Southern Italy 1050 Creation of Almoravid (Muslim Crusaders) movement in Mauretania; Almoravids (aka Murabitun) are coalition of western Saharan Berbers; followers of Islam, focusing on the Quran, the hadith, and Maliki law. 1075 Seljuks (Muslim Crusaders) capture Nicea (Iznik) and make it their capital in Anatolia 1086 Almoravids (Muslim Crusaders) (see 1050) send help to Andalus, Battle of Zallaca 1094 Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus I asks western Christendom for help against Seljuk invasions of his territory; Seljuks are Muslim Turkish family of eastern origins; see 970 1095 Pope Urban II preaches first Crusade; they capture Jerusalem in 1099

So it is only after all of the Islamic aggressive invasions that Western Christendom launches its first Crusades. It must be noted that Islamic expansion continues until well into the seventeenth century. For example, the Muslims Crusaders conquer Constantinople in 1453 and unsuccessfully besiege Vienna for the second time in 1683 (earlier in 1529). By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Islamic Crusades receded, due to Western resistance. Since that time until the present, Islamic civilization has not advanced very far.

Khalid al—Walid (d. 642), a bloodthirsty but superior commander of the Muslim armies at the time, also answers the question as to why the Muslims stormed out of Arabia...'I call you to God and to Islam. If you respond to the call, you are Muslims: You obtain the benefits they enjoy and take up the responsibilities they bear. If you refuse, then [you must pay] the jizyah. If you refuse the jizyah, I will bring against you tribes of people who are more eager for death than you are for life. We will fight you until God decides between us and you.'

When the Islamic Crusaders go out to conquer, carrying an Islamic banner inscribed in Arabic of the glory and the truth of their prophet, Ibn Khaldun would not deny that the army's mission, besides the material reasons of conquest, is to convert the inhabitants. Islam is a 'universalizing' religion, and if its converts enter its fold either by persuasion or force, then that is the nature of Islam. Moreover, Ibn Khaldun explains why a dynasty rarely establishes itself firmly in lands of many different tribes and groups. But it can be done after a long time and employing the following tactics, as seen in the Maghrib (N and NW Africa) from the beginning of Islam to Ibn Khaldun's own time: The first (Muslim) victory over them and the European Christians (in the Maghrib) was of no avail. They continued to rebel and apostatized time after time. The Muslims massacred many of them. After the Muslim religion had been established among them, they went on revolting and seceding, and they adopted dissident religious opinions many times. They remained disobedient and unmanageable . . . . Therefore, it has taken the Arabs a long time to establish their dynasty in the . . . Maghrib. (p. 131)

It is only natural that the Quran would be filled with references to jihad and qital, the latter word meaning only fighting, killing, warring, and slaughtering. Textual reality matches historical reality in the time of Muhammad. And after. But this means that the Church had to fight back or be swallowed up by an aggressive religion over the centuries. Thus, the Church did not go out and conquer in a mindless, bloodthirsty, and irrational way—though the Christian Crusades were far from perfect. Islam was the aggressor in its own Crusades, long before the Europeans responded with their own."

Other References:

Top ten reasons why sharia is bad for all societies, By James Arlandson

Martyrdom? What a bargain! By James Arlandson

The Echo Effect: For Muslim zealots little has changed since the seventh century, BY ERIC ORMSBY

The Jews should own the 'Kingdom of Heaven', By James Arlandson

Slave-girls as sexual property in the Quran, By James Arlandson

The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, by Andrew Bostom

The Legacy of Jihad in Historical Palestine (Part I), By Andrew G. Bostom

The Legacy of Jihad in Historial Palestine (Part II), By Andrew G. Bostom

Jihad begot the Crusades (1), By Andrew G. Bostom

Jihad begot the Crusades (2), By Andrew G. Bostom

And, finally, getting back to the main point, i.e. that the publisher was afraid of what would result, here is how things have been handled for centruries by the "religion of peace":

"An unapologetic view of Islamic history reveals that forced conversions to Islam are not exceptional—they have been the norm, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—for over 13 centuries. Moreover, during jihad—even the jihad campaigns of the 20th century [i.e., the jihad genocide of the Armenians during World War I, the Moplah jihad in Southern India [1921], the jihad against the Assyrians of Iraq [early 1930s], the jihads against the Chinese of Indonesia and the Christian Ibo of southern Nigeria in the 1960s, and the jihad against the Christians and Animists of the southern Sudan from 1983 to 2001], the dubious concept (see Paret, above) of 'no compulsion' (Koran 2:256; which was cited with tragic irony during the Fox reporters 'confessional'! ) , has always been meaningless. A consistent practice was to enslave populations taken from outside the boundaries of the 'Dar al Islam', where Islamic rule (and Law) prevailed. Inevitably fresh non—Muslim slaves, including children (for example, the infamous devshirme system in Ottoman Turkey, which spanned three centuries and enslaved 500,000 to one million Balkan Christian adolescent males, forcibly converting them to Islam), were Islamized within a generation, their ethnic and linguistic origins erased."(from The Pope, Jihad, and 'Dialogue', By Andrew G. Bostom).

And, as for the "academic", Ms. Spellberg, the scene described in the novel is not near as graphic as some of the actual sacred writings describing relations between men and young girls, i.e. "Muhammad was betrothed to Aisha when she was six years old, and he consummated their union when she was only nine. The hadith says of her age: . . . [T]hen he [Muhammad] wrote the marriage (wedding) contract with Aishah when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed [sic, consummated] that marriage when she was nine years old...(Bukhari)"

..."The following hadith proves beyond doubt that Muhammad pursued Aisha when she was six years old. Abu Bakr was Muhammad's right—hand Companion and the father of little Aisha. The Prophet asked Abu Bakr for Aisha's hand in marriage. Abu Bakr said 'But I am your brother.' The Prophet said, 'You are my brother in Allah's religion and His Book, but she (Aisha) is lawful for me to marry.' (Bukhari) (from 'Plowing fields' and marrying little girls in the Quran, By James Arlandson)

This is not reading for the faint of heart or easily offended, especially if you go to the last article and follow out the links that I have not included (the author also offers the documentation of these sections of sacred texts as links with appropriate warnings to the readers sensibilities, rather than including all the text in his article). 

What is going on here is not just the intimidation of one publisher.  It is a systematic, ongoing, never ending jihad.  We cannot ignore it.  In "The Face of Evil:...", in the words of the defector son of the most popular leader of Hamas:

 "You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas. Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death."

Note that it is not a state but an entire society, and entire people that sanctifies exterminating Jews, and that the inspiration comes from their God. Find me the Muslim state or leader or organization who condemns Hamas or Hizabullah and their genocidal agendas or repudiates the saying of the prophet Mohammed that Muslims should kill Jews. Find me the progressive leftist who is uncomfortable supporting this call to the murder the Jews. We are facing an evil greater than Nazism and we are still referring to their religion as one "of peace" and describing their allies as "liberals" and "progressives."  

To borrow a phrase (I don't know the origin), "We are all Jews now." 

"The future is not set.  There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

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