“You may not be a Christian…Jew…Hindu. But the jihad is universal. You are on the list.”
This is a post for our militant atheists who like to deride and belittle those of us who (still) believe religion and spiritual enlightenment is a force for good.
Perhaps we should also mention that atheists have not even dhimmi status under Islam and can be killed at whim.
Read also: Radical Islam’s Defiling of Christmas –
by Joe Kaufman
The Byzantine icon above is the work of the 16th-century iconographer Theophanes the Cretan. There are many things that are un-Islamic about it:
1. It is an image of human beings, which violates the traditional Islamic prohibition of images;
2. It depicts Jesus not as a Muslim prophet but as the incarnate Son of God (his halo reads ο ων, the One Who Is, a title of divinity derived from the name of God that God gives to Moses in Exodus 3:14), in violation of the oft-repeated Qur’anic injunction that Allah has no Son (4:171; 9:30; 25:2; 39:4; 72:3; etc. etc.);
3. In line with #2, it depicts what Muslims would consider to be idolatry, as the holy child’s mother kneels and adores him;
4. In the beam or spear coming from heaven down to the child in the cradle, it depicts the activity of the Divine in the world, assuming the doctrine of the Trinity, which is rejected somewhat imprecisely in Qur’an 4:171 and 5:116;
5. The cradle resembles a casket, foreshadowing the redemptive death of Christ, which is denied in Qur’an 4:157.
Now, whether you are a Christian or not, whether or not you believe all or any of these things, the question that is before us this Christmas and every Christmas these days is whether or not people should be allowed to believe these things if they think they are true. Nowhere in the Islamic world today do people who believe these things enjoy full equality of rights with Muslims. In Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt and elsewhere Christians are frequently victimized because, as I have tried to show above, some of their core beliefs are considered blasphemous in authoritative Islam.
And that assumption of blasphemy, since Islam is a political program as well as a set of religious beliefs, does not allow for live-and-let live tolerance of those with whom one disagrees. The blasphemers and those who insult Islam must be subjugated under the rule of the Muslims. We see this agenda being articulated every day; we see Christians and others victimized by it every day; and we see the world largely yawning and indifferent as all this goes on.
This Christmas, remember that the Islamic supremacist program has you on its list. You may not be a Christian. You may not be a Jew. You may not be a Hindu. But the jihad is universal. You are on the list.
So this Christmas, may all of us whose conversion, subjugation, or death is envisioned by the adherents of Sharia stand together. Let us stand together as Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, secularists, what have you, and stand up against those who would kill us or subject us to institutionalized discrimination because they find our beliefs offensive.
For be assured: if we do not stand together, they will prevail. And if they do, and all the rich expressions of the human spirit, from Theophanes the Cretan to the fashioners of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, from Aristotle to Oriana, will be trampled into the mud, destroyed, exploded, ruined, effaced. We will all be the poorer. Our children will be the poorer.
Merry Christmas to all Christian Jihad Watchers who celebrate the Feast on this day.
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Robert Spencer is a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of eight books, eleven monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran, is available now from Regnery Publishing.
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Yusuf also sends his Christmas greetings:
Yusuf rubs it:
Although we normally associate Beyt Lahm with peace on earth and goodwill to all men, not much goodwill gets shown at the Israeli checkpoints, border crossings etc. In the nearby Christian village of Beyt Jala, Jewish settlements are being built on stolen land. Then again, suicide bombers don’t show much goodwill either.
Who is we, Yusuf? Goodwill to Pali Arabs causes dead Jews:
Palestine Today calls terror attack a “heroic operation”
The drive-by shooting death of Rabbi Meir Avshalom Hai last Thursday is being hailed in the Palestine Today newspaper as a “heroic operation.”
The paper reproduced photos of the scene of the terror attack, apparently from Israeli media, to celebrate the murder.
Update:
Justice served:
Murderers of Rabbi Chai Roasted By IDF, Security Forces
All three were convicted terrorists who had been committed to and later released from Israeli prisons. INN has more>>
Yusuf adds insult to death:
This Christmas, while you’re munching on turkey and opening presents, spare a thought and perhaps even a prayer for the people of Bethlehem.
Yep. And curse the Mohammedan scum who deprives the Christians of their birthright and murders Jews for your filthy Allah…..
Bethlehem’s Persecuted Christians
Every year, at Christmas time, the anti-Israel mainstream media uses it as an excuse to do double duty on what they do every single day: bash Israel and claim it’s “harassing the Palestinians of Bethlehem.”
But we know who is really harassing the Palestinian Christians–the few left of them that there are–of Bethlehem. The same group of Muslim persecutors who kill Christian Arabs all over the Mid-East. I’ve written about them many times on this site. I’ve noted thatChristmas is an especially stark time of fear for the scant few Christians left in Gaza, and noted that Last Rites in the Holy Land are truly the “last.” But it’s the same for Christians in Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, and in some parts of Lebanon (soon all of it). And forget any sign of Christianity in most of the Gulf states and Iran, as well as parts of Africa.
It should be noted that these Christians often bet on the Muslims–such as the Palestinian Christians, who historically sided with Arafat against Israel (a notable example was Hanan Ashrawi, Peter Jennings former concubine, who was removed from the Arafat camp because she was a Christian). But they bet wrong. And the Muslims have shown them that in spades. David Schwammenthal, a Wall Street Journal Europe editorial writer, has a must-read, “Bethlehem’s Persecuted Christians.” None of this is news to me, but it might be to many Christians who believe what they see on the nightly news.
Meet Yussuf Khoury, a 23-year old Palestinian refugee living in the West Bank. . . . Mr. Khoury fled his birthplace just two years ago. And he wasn’t running away from Israelis, but from his Palestinian brethren in Gaza.
