One of the misunderstandings by the West of Islam, is that they believe that, since they are religious, they are politically on the Right. It’s not true. Like Marxism, they demand complete world dominance by any means. They are both political and religious philosophies. Marxism: the State is God. Islam: God is the State.

Communism requires suppression of religion to remain in power. Communism becomes the statd religion. Islam requires the co-option of religion to stay in power. In both cases, they are actually suppressing freedom via religion. Religion, a deep abiding faith which conquers your fear, is necessary to free oneself from one’s shackles.

Islam and Communism are both anti-God.

The Communists exterminate all legitimate religion. They stand with the Devil in this. Communists created Liberation Theology, which is nothing more than Communism dressed up in Christian clothing. This is why the adherents all hate America and its freedom. (see Rev. Wright and Goddamn America)

Islam worships a false God, the Moon God of Ur and the Morning Star (aka, Lucifer): The Moon and the Star. They’re very open about this. They claim to be derived from Judaism and worship the same God. This is false. They worship his Adversary. They have dressed up their Devil worship as Judaism.

Do they oppose homosexuality? Yes… in theory. In practice, however, it flourishes. They merely turn a blind eye. See no evil. With their power, they could end it in their regimes, but they don’t. Do they oppose abortion? Yes, but because they understand the power of numbers. They have actually conquered lands by immigration and out-breeding the locals. This is happening in Europe. (Communist China does this in Tibet and Mongolia.) The Islamists also oppose these things, because they must adopt at least some of the precepts of Judaism in order to maintain their disguise. They keep the things that promote their power.

Islam exterminates all other faiths. Convert or die. The exception is the People of the Book (Biblio = Bible = Book). They had to claim this, as they claim to worship the same God. As long as Jews and Christians acknowledge the superior status of Islam, they may continue to live. In practice, however, they are subjugated and exterminated. The Islamic hatred of Jews is intense. They are the Chosen of God. His Adversary hates the descendants of Adam and Eve.

They are both anti-God. The means are a bit different, but the ends are exactly the same. Both lead to the subjugation and murder of mankind. Look at their records. Look at the vast amount of out-and-out murder committed by each, which is not just condoned, but indeed, commanded by the leaders of their faiths. It is all Devil-worship. It is all on the political Left. It is power and control; subjugation and murder.

and if the total subjugation of women in muslim cultures is news to anyone then they are blind, death and dumb. and please note i said mulsim culture not islam because islam does not sanction this (so i am told) but the muslim culture most assuredly does so i conclude that muslims do not follow islam…islam is a religion with no followers

“I [...] gave Turkey as an example of a predominantly Muslim country where women are treated equally without segregation.”

Ever hear of Ataturk? Ever hear of “Kemalism”? Google the terms, and educate yourself. The extent to which Turkey is somewhat better regarding tolerance or the treatment of women etc. is the extent to which Turkey is a secular nation and ignores the dictates of Islam and Sharia. You can’t have it both ways suggesting that Turkey is somehow a paragon as an Islamic nation and then ignore the foundational secularism of Ataturk which allows that tolerance to exist. Also, the steady erosion of Ataturk’s secularism probably guarantees that Sharia will eventually make a comeback in Turkey. Your example is completely WEAK.

It’s all about Islam. The cesspool conditions, barbarity, and corruption of most Islamic nations — the fact that the Arab Block with nearly half a billion Arabs and unlimited oil wealth still produces less GDP than Spain, and relatively poor EU nation with less than 1/10th the population. Please get a clue.

I don’t think I met you in the 50′s and early 60s when I was a liberal follower of Ayn Rand. But back then “liberal” was in the Victorian sense: individualist and classicist with a libertine tinge.

But had I met you, I would have known you and hated you. You would have told me all the Proustian and Sartrean gobbledegook about your Afghan lover, and I would have told you straight out about Islam and him. Having studied the one, I knew the other. You would have called me racist, reactionary and (gasp!) Republican, none of which I’ve ever been. Today’s Liberals still do. But they’re “liberal” in the current sense: narcissistic true believers of the demogogues of altruism and relativism.

Now I’m an old man, gone long ago to Libertarianism, now finally to an I-don’t-give-a-damn but don’t-throw-bombs anarchist, and watching you misunderstand it all still. They’ve followed you home, Phyllis. They’re coming for you, “you” as in all Americans, to our own country.

And they’ll get you, because you still think it’s about you and it isn’t. It’s about them, that we haven’t and won’t kill them first.

It’s the shame/honour culture, and how very wrong that so many Western feminists back it up.

Interesting that your ex husband was so apparently Westernised when in the West. You hear about this time and time again, Muslim men who treat women like princesses until they’re married and back in their country of origin – then they treat them like slaves.

Islam, despite the claims of some (including yourself) is not the literal word of the Quran.

Islam is the accumulated beliefs and actions of those who profess to be Muslims.

If the Quran says “Be kind and gentle to kittens”, and Muslims show a greater propensity than others to torture kittens, then Islam is cruel to kittens.

All this “religion of peace” and “Mohammad was a great advocate of women” talk is a smokescreen to distract from the simple fact that the practice of Islam here on planet earth benefits neither women nor the prospects for peace.