Islamic Radicals   by Roger King 

Overview of Islamic Radical is only directed toward that small percentage of Islamic radicals that believe in the perpetuation of Islam and strict interpretation of Shariah Law throughout the world by any means necessary.  This group believe to that end you either force non believers to become Muslim's, pay a tax if they don't convert or kill dissenters.

Jihad Watch by Robert Spencer  (Best Site I know)

These are some of the typical lines I get when dealing with Moslems who try to defend ISLAM as a non violent RELIGION....Lets give them a reality check shall we? 

•  “If Islam were a violent religion, then all Muslims would be violent.” >>>REALITY CHECK>>> When they Dominate a country you will see the violence arise..and remember..Not all Nazi's killed people but they all hated the JEWS...Muslims may believe whatever they want to about what Islam says or doesn't say, but it doesn't change what Islam says about itself. As an ideology, it exists independently of anyone's opinion.  They may be called ‘extremists’ or ‘fundamentalists,’ but, at the end of the day, they are also the more literal and dedicated to the Qur’an and following the path of Jihad as mandated by Muhammad.
• “Other religions kill, too.”>>>REALITY CHECK>>> Muslims who compare crime committed by people who happen to be nominal members of other religions to religious terror committed explicitly in the name of Islam are comparing apples to oranges. One Tim McVeigh does not equal the THOUSANDS killed in the month of Ramadan alone in 2010.
• Muhammad preached 'no compulsion in religion' (Qur'an: 2:256)>>>REALITY CHECK>>> The Muslim who offers this verse may or may not understand that it is from one of the earliest Suras (or chapters) from the Medinan period.  Though most Muslims today reject the practice of outright forcing others into changing their religion, forced conversion has been a part of Islamic history since Muhammad first picked up a sword. As he is recorded in many places as saying, "I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah...
• "The Crusades>>>REALITY CHECK>>>.The first Crusade began in 1095… 460 years after the first Christian city was overrun by Muslim armies, 457 years after Jerusalem was conquered by Muslim armies, 453 years after Egypt was taken by Muslim armies, 443 after Muslims first plundered Italy, 427 years after Muslim armies first laid siege to the Christian capital of Constantinople, 380 years after Spain was conquered by Muslim armies, 363 years after France was first attacked by Muslim armies, 249 years after Rome itself was sacked by a Muslim army, and only after centuries of church burnings, killings, enslavement and forced conversions of Christians.By the time the Crusades finally began, Muslim armies had conquered two-thirds of the Christian world
• “Muhammad never killed anyone.”>>>REALITY CHECK>>>By using this logic, one can say Hitler never killed anyone either! Obviously, if you order the execution of prisoners or the murder of critics by those who are under your command, then you are at least as guilty as those who carry out your orders. In Muhammad’s case, the number of people that he had murdered were literally too many for historians to fully know. Indirectly, Muhammad is also responsible for the millions upon millions of people who have been slaughtered down through the centuries by those carrying on his legacy of Jihad. Not only did he kill, he is truly one of the bloodiest figures in history.
• The Qur'an Teaches that all Life is Sacred (Qur'an 5:32)>>>REALITY CHECK>>>Muslims vigorously employ verse 5:32, which is the closest thing they have to the Old Testament command of ‘Thou shalt not kill.” It reads: “On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.”
•  It turns out that this isn’t a command to Muslims after all. It’s a recounting of a rule that was handed down to the Jews. It isn’t an admonition against killing. It’s an indictment against the Jews for violating the law given to them. “Any one” doesn’t mean “anyone,” but rather “any one” of the Jews.
• Muslims only kill in self-defense.”>>>REALITY CHECK>>>Under Sharia Law TODAY, slaves and poets are executed, people are beheaded, and adulterers are put into the ground and stoned. None of these were done during the heat of battle or necessitated by self-defense. To this day, Islamic law mandates death for certain crimes such as blasphemy and apostasy.
• "Holy War" isn't in the Qur'an..(no but JIHAD is)>>>REALITY CHECK>>>although the Qur’an tells believers to “slay the infidels wherever ye find them,” and “smite their necks and fingertips,” showing “ruthlessness to unbelievers,” and 150 other violent admonitions to fight explicitly in the cause of Allah… the Arabic words “holy” and “war” don’t literally appear side-by-side. (Neither do the German words, “concentration” and “camp,” appear consecutively in Nazi documents, by the way).
• "Verses of violence are taken out of context.">>>REALITY CHECK>>>This is why new Muslims and non-Muslims alike, who begin studying the Qur’an and Hadith, are often confronted with an array of disclaimers and warnings by well-meaning Muslims who caution that it takes “years of study” to fully understand the meaning of certain passages. Neophytes are encouraged to seek the "counseling" of a Muslim scholar or cleric to "help them" interpret what they read. KILLING NON BELIEVERS IS EASY TO INTERPRET..Why do moslems think it is interpreted incorrectly?
• "Islam must be true, because it is the world’s fastest growing religion.">>>REALITY CHECK>>>slam is not "growing faster" than other religions because “people are accepting it,” but rather because the birthrate among Muslims is significantly higher than it is among Christians and others, particularly in the West. Kids can be raised to believe in just about anything, so this hardly constitutes any sort of accomplishment.
• "The Qur'an can only be understood in Arabic.">>>REALITY CHECK>>>It is fundamentally impossible for anyone to learn a language that cannot be translated into the only one they do know, which means the apologists who insist that “one must learn Arabic” in order to understand the Qur’an are committing a logical fallacy“
• If Islam were a violent religion, then all Muslims would be violent.”>>>REALITY CHECK>>> The Qur'an plainly teaches that it is not just proper to kill in the name of Allah in certain circumstances, but that it is actually a requirement. Muslims who don't believe in killing over religions may be that way out of ignorance or because they are more loyal to the moral law written in their hearts than they are to the details of Muhammad’s religion. Those who put Islam first or know Islam best know otherwise.

Despite Media Worries, Crimes Against Muslims Down Since 2001  By Rob on November 11, 2009  The idea that Americans engaged in some sort of national backlash against Muslims since 9/11, the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and now the more recent events at Fort Hood has been a staple of media reports since, well, 2001.

The problem is that the reality hasn’t quite matched the media’s narrative.  Not only are crimes against Muslims down, significantly, since 2001 but there have been about the same number of crimes against Christians and far more crimes against Jews:

 

Behead a Christian, raise your rank by Bob Unruh  February 3, 2009  Open Doors USA.  The organization today released its 2009 World Watch List, which cited Korea – for the seventh straight year – as the nation that persecutes Christians more intensely than any other around the globe.

But Somalia rose from 12th in 2008 to 5th this year because of the growing level of attacks there, according to the report which noted two of the worst three nations, Saudi Arabia and Iran, are nations governed by Islamic Shariah law, and seven of the Top 10 nations fall into that category.

It’s Not the Cold War  by Mark Steyn  The ideology has been so successfully seeded around the world that nobody needs a memo from corporate HQ to act: There are so many of these subgroups and individuals that they intersect across the planet in a million different ways. It’s not the Cold War, with a small network of deep sleepers being directly controlled by Moscow. There are no membership cards, only an ideology. That’s what has radicalized hitherto moderate Muslim communities from Indonesia to the Central Asian stans to Yorkshire, and coopted what started out as more or less conventional nationalist struggles in the Caucasus and the Balkans into mere tentacles of the global jihad.

5 Minutes to Midnight  by Gerard Group  January 14, 2009   It is difficult for Westerners to comprehend the depth of hatred that radical Islamists feel against those who are unwilling to adopt their faith. For them, multi-culturalism is not an acceptable way of life, it is evil

Their view of life demands that we either convert to their version of Islam, or die. They have made it plain that their goal is to globalize jihad, and turn the world into a global Islamist state ruled under shari’ah law. For them, negotiation is not an option, there is only one way, and there is nothing to negotiate.   ...

Radical Islam has taken a firm hold in our society. Hamas is only one of an undetermined number of radical Islamic groups that aim to do us harm. They have used the freedoms that they profess to hate to achieve access to our universities, our industries, our government, and our collective conscience.

They use our sense of fair play against us to impose their moral superiority, and demand our sensitivity to their rights, while simultaneously demanding that we forfeit our own.

So now, while Christian children can no longer pray in school, the same schools have adopted programs that teach our children what it is like to be Muslim, how they eat, and how they pray.

There are now terrorist cells in virtually every state in the union. Their aim is to globalize jihad, and replace our Constitution with the Koran, our penal code with shari’a law.

They range from the well known names such as al Qaeda, Hizballah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood (which masquerades under many other names), and includes lesser known groups like Jamaat al-Fuqra, Darul Uloom, and Islamic Jihad. Associated with these groups are not-for-profit front organizations through which these groups launder money to support terroist activities.

Gitmo -

Gitmo's Ghosts by Investor's Business Daily January 23, 2009  War on Terror: A Gitmo detainee released at Saudi Arabia's request has re-upped with al-Qaida and is now its chief of operations in Yemen. So, again, why do we want to empty the place?

Gitmo terrorist Said Ali al-Shihri was released to Saudi in 2007. Within no time, he was back on the terror circuit. In fact, the FBI now suspects he helped plan last year's deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital.

He's one of at least 30 former Gitmo inmates who have resumed terrorist activities as part of the Taliban or al-Qaida, despite signing pledges to renounce violence. (Yes, we're really that dumb.)

11 former Gitmo inmates on Saudi wanted list  By Paul Schemm  February 4, 2009  CAIRO (AP) - Saudi Arabia said Wednesday that 11 men released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay are now on the kingdom's most-wanted list despite having attended its touted extremist rehabilitation program.

Kuwaiti prof: 330,000 dead from 4 pounds of anthrax by Bob Unruh  February 25, 2009  A professor from Kuwait, the country liberated from Saddam Hussein's attack squads by the United States in the first Gulf War, has called Islamic terrorists "the most honorable people in the world" and has outlined on Arab television a potential terror attack that would involve smuggling anthrax from Mexico into the U.S. and killing 330,000 people in 60 minutes.

Hamas and Jihadism by Moshe Dann February 25, 2009

One goes like this: A foreign government or a terrorist group with substantial financial backing sets up several overseas hedge funds. Acting together, they dump U.S. stocks, perhaps by short-selling a major financial index or by targeting key U.S. companies. The attack begins slowly, picking up speed over several hours as it creates panic and confusion in the market.

The U.S. is more susceptible to such an attack today, analysts say, because Wall Street is so shaky.

Leftists worship at altar of death cult, says book at WorldNetDaily  March 1, 2009  Glazov points out that modern Islamism was actually incubated by both the Nazis and Marxist-Leninist thought.

"While militant Islam has its own unique religious component, it shares with the secular totalitarianisms the impulse to create an earthly paradise by washing the slate clean with human blood," he writes. "There is in fact no sacred/secular distinction in Islam, and Islamists envision enforcing the kingdom of heaven on earth. The greatest obligation of the Islamist, like that of the believer in the other two totalisms, is to submit his will to the deity and, if the opportunity arises, to give his life for it. Martyrdom and suicide become the favored expressions of this submission and of the radical desire for perfection. It is precisely this ingredient that has so attracted the Western Left to Islamism."

 ... "Like its ideological cousins, Fascism and Communism, Islamism wages war against Jews in its effort to secure its own survival," he says. "Totalist ideologies detest modernity, individual freedom and any value place on individual human life – notions with which Jews are strongly identified. Jews also personify the enduring struggle to survive, rather than the impulse to destroy and perish. … [S]uch a disposition is tantamount to a declaration of war."

UNDERSTANDING RADICAL ISLAM at DiscoverTheNetworks.org  This section of DiscoverTheNetworks offers readers a background in the history and tenets of fundamentalist Islam, and provides insight into how the Islamo-fascists have utilized those tenets to further their own goals. As one article ("Fundamentalist Islam: The Drive for Power)," authored by Martin Kramer, explains: 

The idea is simple: Islam must have power in this world. It is the true religion—the religion of God—and its truth is manifest in its power. When Muslims believed, they were powerful. Their power has been lost in modern times because Islam has been abandoned by many Muslims, who have reverted to the condition that preceded God’s revelation to the Prophet Muhammad. But if Muslims now return to the original Islam, they can preserve and even restore their power.

Another article by Kramer ("Ballots and Bullets: Islamists and the Relentless Drive for Power") elaborates on this theme: 

In the ideology devised by [major Islamist] thinkers and activists, Islam is much more than the final revelation, come from above to supersede Judaism and Christianity. It is hailed as the final system, come to supersede capitalism and communism as the true key to power in this world. There is nothing abstract about this idea of power. It is worldly, temporal power, of the kind Muslims enjoyed for the first millennium of Islam. Throughout that period, Muslims ruled vast empires, led the world in cultural innovation, and mastered the sciences. Now many Muslims ask why it is that foreigners come to dominate them, and why the Islamic world is poor and unproductive, left far behind by the West and, increasingly, by the Far East as well.

The Islamist answer is simple: Muslims have fallen away from the essence of Islam, personified by the example of the Prophet Muhammad and codified in Islamic law, the shari'a, a code based on direct revelation from God. Muslims will remain in their wretched state until they purify themselves by reinstituting this law. If Muslims do as the Prophet did—if they are willing to implement the law of Islam without apology and rely on their faith in revelation to defy the great powers of the day—then this world will be theirs.

The first step is repossession of the state. Islamism is not inward asceticism. It does seek to promote inner transformation, but with a political rather than a spiritual purpose: to fortify believers to make the sacrifices demanded by the pursuit of power. Nor is Islamism social service. Of course Islamist movements do seek to build social bases, and some are famous for distributing medicines and schoolbooks. But for Islamists, social transformation is never an end in itself because civil society is weak, and its conquest is no guarantee that Islamists will prevail.

The only locus of real power is the state, buttressed by the bureaucracy and the army. Only the state has the material means and the coercive force to Islamize itself and society. Islamism, therefore, cannot remain content to function as a social movement. To fulfill its destiny, it must capture the state and rule. From the very beginnings of Islamism, political power has been the obsession of every Islamist thinker, leader, and movement. . . .

The most pressing question that has faced Islamists has been how to pursue rulership. The rule of thumb here is that Islamist movements usually follow what looks to their leaders like the path of least resistance. They are not committed to any one strategy in the pursuit of their ends, and any means are legitimate as long as they accord with Islamic law, the shari'a. This law is not pacifist. It sanctions violence for the legitimate purposes of defending Muslims and establishing the rule of Islam. This explains why Islamist movements have slipped so readily into violence whenever it has seemed like a shortcut to power. In such circumstances, the use of force is not deemed a deviation, but an obligation. . . . 

[T]here is one common feature of Islamism as it assumes power: an irresistible leaning towards authoritarianism. The explanation, again, lies in Islamist thought: Islamists share the idea that God, not the people, is sovereign, and that obedience to God, not the rights of man, must be the governing principles of a just state. The role of the Islamic state is not to legislate the will of the people, but to implement the will of God.