Saturday, March 25, 2017

Is the Koran Evil?

I'm well aware of many Western experts on the Koran as I receive hundreds (maybe thousands) of articles explaining its contents. Many condemn us for not taking a closer look at it. They read it to expose the dangerous material that lies therein. Some have even gone as far as to suggest that we learn Arabic in order to properly understand it.

While I'm glad that some of us in the West have invested a lot of time and effort to understand in detail, the contents of Islamic texts, I have not done so. Nor do I plan to. No, I'm sorry but I cannot quote you the book, paragraph and verse that says 'Kill the Jews and other infidels'. Knowing that somewhere in there it does say that or something very close to that, is good enough for me.

The Koran is just a book. From what I do know about it, it's a nonsensical, sick, comic book. I refuse to waste my time to learn any more about it, thanks. Kudos to those of you who have the patience to do so. But I really don't think it's necessary for all of us to do so.  More importantly I don't think it's really that important. What is far more important (my 2 cents) is to take note of what many of the people who follow that book do. That is to say, it's not what they read that counts near as much as what they do. For that matter I don't really care about what they read. I do care that they kill, injure and rape people.

Recent attack in London by Muslim extremist


The big issue is that Muslims comprise such a large population and live all over our world. Let's face it, if there were just a few thousand or even a few hundred thousand Muslims of which only a few hundred or even ten thousand were radical, extremist, terrorists and they mostly lived in Saudi Arabia, who would care? It's doubtful that anyone would even know about them. But since Muslims number well over a billion people of which millions are radical, extremist, terrorists and they exist all over the world, we are certainly aware of them and most of us care about them. Whether we admit it or not is another discussion entirely.

Let's put it another way. Many of us read trash (myself included- sometimes). We watch porn. Our kids play violent games on the internet. Most of us watch violent movies and TV shows often with regularity. Does that mean that we are bad people? NO. Should we be watched? NO. Some of us say nasty things. (most of us, again myself included) Does that mean we are bad people? Maybe, maybe not. How many of us have said in anger "I'm gonna kill you for doing that!" As long as we don't follow that up with a murder, we're still good people. So it's the actions that ultimately count. Now if we were to see that many people who watched violent movies or read violent, hateful books became violent and hateful, that would be a different story. We might then have to take those books and movies off the shelf. But thankfully, so far for Christians, Jews and others in democracies in the West, this is not the case, so no worries. Read all the trash you want folks.

I recently read an article about an Australian politician who ran on the premise of limiting Muslim immigration. But when confronted by a group of local Muslims about her knowledge of the Koran she was mute and kind of made a fool of herself. It's that article that inspired me to write this blog. Although she was condemned by some of my colleagues who are experts on Islam for not doing her homework and being able to quote directly from those books on the hateful aspects of Islam, I say no. I wouldn't admonish her for not knowing anything about them. Far more important would be able to list a number of recent Islamic terror events that occur daily throughout the world.

I never get into religious arguments with Muslims or others. One can take hateful sounding verses out of context from my Torah or the New Testament. Rather than me trying to explain the meaning of some of these verses, an expertise I don't have, I prefer to talk about the common actions of Muslims and compare their behaviour vs the followers of other popular religions. I also try to refrain from arguments about the definition of Islam. Is it a religion of peace or is it a political ideology of hate? Obviously I think it's the latter but I won't waste too much energy on this. Rather I'm happy to spend my energy on the dangers of modern day Muslims based on their actions. On any given day we can expect to hear about a serious tragedy in the West perpetrated by a Muslim extremist like the recent tragedy in London. Of course there are thousands of such events going on 24/7 in lesser known locals that we will not hear about. Despite the attempts to censor media about attacks from Muslim migrants by various governments in the West such as the leaders of Germany, France, Sweden, Belgium and others, these attacks are ongoing and getting worse.

If you do care about the very real threat from Muslim extremists I urge you to vote for government leaders who view the threat as real, not under rose coloured sun glasses and under the guise of diversity or political correctness. And don't condemn them if they are not Koranic experts.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

WE BLEW IT!

While I'm no prophet, what I'm reading lately about discussions between the Israeli government and the Trump team tells me that we might have blown our chance for a one state Israeli solution regarding the disputed territories. I've been pleading with the Israeli government to seize the moment as soon as Trump was elected to formally declare that Judea and Samaria are part of the Jewish State of Israel. I told Netanyahu that it's up to him and his colleagues to move forward on this quickly. This was a limited window of opportunity to change the shape of the growing nightmare on what to do with the 'West Bank'. I told him that Trump certainly won't do it for them. He can't be seen to be more of a Zionist than they.



It was high time for us to inform the world that this area is and has always been Israel's. For thousands of years it belonged to Israel. For a very short period of time Jordan occupied it and made it Jew free. They destroyed the Jewish holy sites. They made the Jewish holiest site, the Western Wall into a toilet! In the 1967 Six Day War when Israel was attacked on all sides for no reason other than 99% of Muslims hate Jews, G-d was on Israel's side and Israel won that war and reclaimed Judea and Samaria. It was another modern day miracle. The rules of war are simple: In a defensive war any land obtained by the country being attacked is legally theirs. So even if you don't believe in history, the Mandate for Palestine or the holy Torah which brought light to the entire world, according to modern rules of engagement in international law, Judea and Samaria (aka The West Bank) belongs to Israel. All of it. Not just Area A or B or C.

For many years, far too many Israelis and other folks have declared incorrectly that according to the demographics that they forecasted, the West Bank would contain far too many Arabs for Israel to govern in any case. Turns out that they were listening to the lies from Arab leaders. Modern day demographics based on actual population studies and birth rate records prove quite the opposite. Jews continue to outnumber Arabs in the territories as well as inside Israel proper and the divide is growing, thank G-d!

Thanks to Iran's desire to rule the world with nukes, the Sunni states including Israel's neighbour to the west and its former enemy Egypt are now far less concerned about their made up 'Palestinian' issue and are far more concerned about their own well being. Add to this the ongoing nasty war with Syria vs ISIS. This also would be advantageous for Israel as it shifts the focus away from Israel as the world is engaged with that war.

For far too many years, especially the last eight when Obama was in charge, it could have been lethal for Israel to formally annex her land. But when revolutions occur, these are the moments when changes can successfully be made. And Trump's win was no doubt another miraculous revolution. We had a chance right then to make our move. But months later why are we discussing what sort of limits we can put on 'settlement' construction on our land with Donald Trump?

I'm sorry but this looks very bad. Netanyahu should have told Trump directly to his face early on exactly what I wrote above instead of pussy footing around and using the same old language of settlements, peace negotiations, etc. Trump would have respected Netanyahu and Jews even more had they done so. We knew at the beginning that Trump was no historian. Like any successful businessman he needed an executive summary, a five minute history lesson to probably get him on side. But instead our timid approach got us this.

We blew it!