The Soapbox: Political Discourse

Liberals, Libertarians, and Islamic apologists would have us believe that Islamic Terrorism is the result of the United States foreign policy and interference in the middle-east. The truth is Islam has been at war with western civilization for 1400 years. Islamic Terrorism is not new. In fact the United States first foreign war was fought against Muslim Barbary pirates in 1801 and again in 1815. What is new are the shift in tactics. Several events in the last century have helped shaped Islamic terrorism to what it is today, but the goal remains the same. Islam has a long history of conquests since it's inception. There's far too many to list here, so here is a map of Islamic conquest upon classical civilization, up until the end of the Ottoman Empire. Bear in mind this does not even include every battle but those primarily of Europe, the Mediterranean, and parts of the middle-east: The roots of modern Islamic terrorism really began with the formation of the Muslim Broth...

*While it is true not all Muslims are jihadists, all jihadists are Muslim and Islam itself is not Moderate. Islam was born out of war and violence. When Muhammad couldn't spread Islam peacefully he spread it through violence, hence the contradictions between the peaceful and violent verses in the Koran. In Islamic doctrine the later (violent) verses supersede the earlier (peaceful) verses. *It's estimated that 15-25% of Muslims are radical which would equate to around 180 million to 300 million Muslims out of 1.3 billion. 180 million is equal to a little more than half of the United States, and 300 million is almost equivalent to the entire population of the United States, a considerable amount no matter how you slice it. Even if hypothetically is was just 1%, that still leaves 13 million radical Muslims. By comparison the United States military, the largest in the world, has just 1.4 million active frontline personnel. However, size isn't everything. History show...

One day after ISIS released a video of the beheading of American Journalist Steven Sotloff, Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech in which he said Islam is a “peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings,” and continued to assert that ISIS is not “the real face of Islam.” A few days later President Obama echoed that sentiment, "ISIL is not Islamic. No Religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslims." -Barack Obama (Sep 10, 2014) Islamic apologists often like to distance Islam from Islamic terrorism the way atheists like to distance themselves from Communism. But just as Communism couldn't exist without atheism, Islamic terrorism couldn't exist without the Qur'an. The willful blindness about Islamic terrorism ignores the violent history of Islam and the Qur'an which encourages it. So what is the real face of Islam? To answer this question we must take a brief look at the ...