Congratulations, House Republicans!

A Yiddish Curse fer the Doperino--- May you find yourself lost and stranded in a village of Palestinian Muslims, and may you be treated only with dignity, kindness and respect.

They attempt to legitimize their hatred....

The website also acts as an archive of Islam related violence, but they only include news that support their thesis that Islam is purely a violent religion.

Edward Said would argue in the introduction of Covering Islam “sensationalism, crude xenophobia, and insensitive belligerence are the order of the day, with results on both sides of the imaginary line between ‘us’ and ‘them’”

2. Muslims are encouraged to commit violence in the name of Islam.

Muslim theological documents — the Koran, Hadith, and Sunna — are filled with statements which encourage devout Muslims to commit violence in the name of Islam.

Here are just a few:

Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them(2:191)
Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood (9:123)
When opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you catch them (9:5)
Kill the Jews and the Christians if they do not convert to Islam or refuse to pay Jizya tax (9:29)
Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable (3:85)
The Jews and the Christians are perverts; fight them (9:30)
Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam (5:33)
The infidels are unclean; do not let them into a mosque (9:28)
Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water; melt their skin and bellies (22:19)
Do not hanker for peace with the infidels; behead them when you catch them (47:4)
The unbelievers are stupid; urge the Muslims to fight them (8:65)
Muslims must not take the infidels as friends (3:28)
Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Qur’an (8:12)
Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels

In addition to the Muslim theological documents mentioned above, Islamic social norms encourage violence. It is widely noted that Friday is the most likely day when jihad attacks will occur within Muslim society. This is because the mullahs use their Friday pulpits to encourage their flock to commit violence in the name of Islam.

In Muslim societies, even the media become involved in the incitement to violence. MEMRI.org has translated thousands of articles from print and electronic media. These translated articles are filled with direct incitement to commit violence in the name of Islam.

I found a source demonstrating Dopes site was based on a fraud and a liar.

If the Doper bothered to look, that wasn't the post I responded.

I read all about you on one of your own blog site links. Seems the RW fringe think you suck, too.

Could you please not respond to me quite so much you little pink stalker, you?

Sharia Law and the Politics of Islam

American involvement in the Middle East has put Islam, once a subject of far-off religious study, onto the public stage. The press of the last decade was abuzz with one jihad tragedy after another, beginning with September 11 and continuing with intermittent suicide bombings in Israel and elsewhere.

Though we recognize that our enemies in the Middle East are adherents of some form of Islam, our democratic sense of tolerance restrains us from demonizing the entire faith

After all, just about every religion has its abusers, those who twist scriptures into justification for their own iniquitous agendas. In the case of Islam, however, very little interpretive creativity is required to find divine basis for murder of nonbelievers, total subjugation of women, and establishment of worldwide theocracy, among other things

Indeed, more than basis for such injustices is found; Islamic texts demand all of these things of its followers. These commandments are organized into a political structure that is the duty of Muslims to install across the globe: Sharia law.

While the scriptures explicitly outline the requirements of Sharia governance, contemporary debate wrestles with the possibility of an Islam separate from scriptural dictates that are incompatible with civilized, liberal society.

A review of the scriptures legitimizing what most Westerners would consider barbarism is primary reading for any discussion of Sharia Law. Islam contains an almost imperial code of ethics that compels its adherents to dominate the world, purging it of nonbelievers: "Fight those who believe not in Allah, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth (Islam)." (Qur'an, 9:29) , and more explicitly, "slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them captive, and besiege them" (Qur'an, 9:5).

Muslim texts venerate death while opposing the enemies of Allah as the highest service to God: "Those who believe strive and fight with their wealth and their persons: for them are all good things, they will prosper" (Qur'an, 9:88).

From this, it would seem that the jihad attacks so often reported in the news are not only permitted by Muslim teachings, but blessed with Allah's special favor.

A woman's place under Sharia law is one totally ancillary to man's that approaches slavery when she is married. Again, the Qur'an rules unequivocally: "Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the man to excel the woman" (Qur'an 4:34).

In Sharia societies, a woman is either a dutiful wife or a licentious temptress, the former a privilege granted by man and the latter sanctioned by scripture: "I stood at the gate of the Fire and saw that the majority of those who entered it were women" (Sahih al-Bukhari, 62:124).

Incredibly, modern Islamic societies like Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia pin their women to an existence more exclusively domestic than anything found in the history of American housewives, a history of which we are freshly contemptuous.

While the scriptures may be an affront to our democratic sensibilities, it would be dogmatic to typecast all Muslims, or even a majority of them, as followers of a barbaric creed. Ancient religious texts tend to contain vestiges of ancient ways of life, dictates written to govern people of different eras; the Bible, Qur'an, the Vedas, etc. are all the same in this regard.

Selective readings that produce doctrines digestible to modern audiences seem downright reasonable: The world is in flux; our religions should be similarly mutable, no? Such an approach is reasonable if the teachings you are tinkering with are not the words of God.

If a religious text comes from on high, it would seem that God is its arbiter, and will amend it when he sees fit. In terms of Sharia, if God had intended his law to establish a modern Republic, he would have written it that way in the first place.

Thus, if Muslims are to practice the religion handed down to them by Allah and his apostles, they will be unable to separate their faith from Sharia law. This same call for consistency has been applied to Christianity time and time again, regularly in Furman classrooms: "What about the barbarism of the Old Testament? Who are you to declare some portions of the Bible more legitimate than others?"

As students steeped in the liberal arts tradition of impartial observation, of appreciation of all disciplines with the same critical eye, we cannot accept writings as "divine" if they fully assume the character of human designs. Viewed dispassionately, then, Islam is a religion that is not only incompatible with individualistic, Western society, but one that seeks political dominion over all of those apart from its banner.