I’ve been watching and listening to this whole Teddy Bear fiasco and to be perfectly honest it makes my blood boil. It’s hard to express how much rage bubbles up directed at syria, sudan, saudi arabia, iran, and any other islamic cesspit located throughout the middle east and in America.

There’s always much barking (from our President, even) about how islam is a “religion of peace” that has been hijacked by just a few extremists giving the religion as a whole a bad name.

No. That’s a cop-out. That’s avoiding the problem just like pointing at “illegal guns” and blaming them for murders throughout societies here and abroad.

Behind every action that every person takes on this planet, there is a motive. Something drives each and every one of us to do the things we do. A gun cannot make somebody a killer. Indoctrination, however, can.

In the case of islam which is supposedly completely benign and being given a bad name by a fringe group of crazies hell-bent on beheading anyone and everyone that doesn’t believe precisely what they do, indoctrination starts young:

To say that this is a rare scenario is to completely ignore stark reality. It’s why you see very little uproar from muslim countries in regards to suicide bombings, beheadings and the application of sharia law.

Jailed for two weeks because a Teddy Bear was named Muhammed at the request of your students? Calls for execution by the public because of it? It’s too much. Cartoons (some of which were obvious fakes), speeches, “Western-style clothing“, even. 200 lashes for getting gang-raped? Being hanged for homosexuality:

islam is a disease and it’s more than just a few bad apples that are infected. Many people in the United States are affected as well. You don’t hear condemnations from NOW against regular beatings, rapes, lashings, and subjugation of women unless it fits an anti-Bush agenda. You don’t hear gay rights groups crying about death sentences for homosexuals. Instead, we’re all treated to a big heaping dose of “religion of peace” and “hijacked by extremists”. Garbage. All of it.

After all, it is sura 9 in the quran which contains the “verse of the sword,” stating, “slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.”

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YUSUFALI: But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.
PICKTHAL: Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

SHAKIR: So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

I feel the warm fuzzies already. Religion of peace, indeed.

Imagine our Western world under this kind of rule. Imagine gays being hanged because they’re gay. Women being tortured because they’re gang-raped. Western-style clothing getting you arrested. Beheadings being justified by your holy book.

That’s not a religion of peace, that’s hell. Hell on Earth, and it’s a problem. Those who speak out against islam or who are perceived to slight the religion or it’s practices find themselves hunted and subject to death threats or simply killed. Just ask Theo Van Gogh.

It’s with all of these facts in mind when I say islam is a disease. Adults infect children and the cycle continues - a cycle of death, hatred, and unthinking violence. By not speaking out and condemning the horrors of islam, those who claim to be “moderate muslims” are just as guilty of these atrocities as those who slit throats in the name of their shared god.

And as technology moves, innovation continues, and “Western” countries move on with greater inventions, infrastructure, and quality of life, it’s the islamist cess-pits of Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. who will be left behind, having never given their children the possibility of bettering their lives through freedom and innovation. One generation of thugs, murderers, and barbarian savages raising another generation of thugs, murderers, and barbarian savages to continue with a backwards ideology hell-bent on destroying anything which questions their infection.

So with that, I shake my head at any mention of the “religion of peace”. I shake my head at feckless multi-culturalists who preach “tolerance and understanding” of islam. My blood boils at those who scream about how our foreign policy is the only reason violence is associated with islam, and I feel a serious duty and responsibility to our founding fathers who fought their own version of tyranny to make our lives free and overflowing with liberty. Particularly when some of our own citizens are so quick to dismiss my fears in the face of overwhelming evidence just because they don’t want to offend a “peaceful” religion.

If it’s truly that peaceful … what are they so afraid of?