I usually just delete this type of rubbish but I'm confused...
Why is a quote from Leon Uris, a Jewish-American, who never visited an Arab country and was known for his pro-Israeli views used? 'The Haj' is a fictional book written by Uris in 1984 about Palestinian Arab family caught up in the area’s historic events of the 1920s-1950s as witnessed by Ishmael, the youngest son. Uris is known for researching his fictional books well but I have would hesitate to quote Arab stereotypes from a fictional book written by a Jewish-American!
According to his own website, Dr. Hammond is a christian minister in South Africa that has spent many years fighting christian oppression. In his article "What Islam isn't" he cites the CIA world fact book as his source for the percentages he uses. Here is a brief summary of what the fact book actually covers...
The World Factbook…is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world...It provides a two- to three-page summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 266 U.S.-recognized countries, dependencies, and other areas in the world. (Source-Wikipedia)
My question is this...why would a reference almanac that specifically shows demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 266 U.S.-recognized countries have anything about a religion's population percentage and its corresponding destabilization rates?!?!
Remember, Islam is a religion, not a country. So a refence almanac that has information on countries would not have this type of information. True, it would have Islamic religious population percentages but nothing more.
To check, I went to the CIA world factbook and ran every keyword search I could think of from Hammond's article...and found nothing!!!
Here's what Hammond did...he took Islamic population percentages (he could have got those from many sources including wikipedia & you guessed it...CIA factbook!) from various countries & used those figures to support his theory...and then he throws in the CIA tag to make it appear "factual" and "legitimate"!!
Don't get me wrong...I am not a pacifist that wants a weak America & I fully realize that there are many, many people that want to see America fail.
However, this type of hate-spewing about an entire religion is ignorance & makes us no better than the radical Islamics that should be rightly gotten rid of.
Lets act like the greatest nation on earth and have informed discussions about the world...not this crap!!
Jon Larson
From: RICHARD L KIRKLAND
'Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel. – Leon Uris, 'The Haj'
for those who prefer to read rather than watch a video, here is the article link http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=4DE15EF9-A76C-4DD4-81E2-75683AEED74D My challenge is this: if we are a nation of morally sound people and believe in providing a future for our children and the American way of life- what are we doing or perhaps what can we do to ensure that our children and this nation have that opportunity of freedom. Our parents and grand parents fought for their nation "Under God" because they had a belief in ther nation. We have allowed our nation to make laws to protect the little guy which allowed opportunity for terrorist infiltration. we stand by idle watching as our country squabbles over the right to gay marriage and 14 children without a job, does any of that matter if the sleeping giant begins training their children to be-head the infidels at age 6? My wife and I have focused our lives to teaching our children everything that is important to us- our constitutional rights including freedom to succeed on our own without the crippling hand- handout of the government. to stand up to adversity when it means oppression of our ideals and beliefs. We moved from Utah because our daughters weren't getting the opportunity to become their best. That was a choice based on religious and individual differences- A "choice" that is protected by this great nation as much as the choice we made to move to Utah to learn the meaning and ways of family values. That is what made America great, the right to choose and practice freedom of religion. When a religion outwardly attacks other religions for the goal of "Sharia Law" then it loses it's right of protection under the U.S Constitution. If individuals spend every waking moment training to change us to their beliefs or destroy us to achieve their goal we can not run away from them. We can not hide in our television or our less important squabbles without recognizing the resolve that is already in place to end our freedoms. This article is only a beginning of what the rest of the world has been dealing with while most of us, including my self wasted our time with reality television and the latest hip-hop rave.
This is a warning of what could become-"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."~Edmund Burke (1729-1797), in Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (April 23, 1770).
Awareness is the first step.I have to believe that the greatness of this nation starts at the foundation of each family. perhaps we need to evaluate what "the Haj" learned at nine and teach our own to be aware. it's a start anyway..............
