Some Islamic Basics

• All humans are born as Muslims; That you don't now believe is your problem and you are an infidel
• The Koran is the only truth; not to be argued with, second guessed, parsed or nuanced
• Literal clarification is provided by Imams & blessed scholars
• Adherence requires absolute obedience & observance
• Religion trumps all, including government - thus the issue with secular democracy as it denies the supremacy of Islam by definition
• It is the solemn duty of all Muslims to fight for Islam's growth and dominance
• Dar al-Islam is the land of peace where Islam is in charge and Sharia is the law
• Dar al-Harb is the land of war, meaning non-Muslim lands
• If you live in Dar al-Harb you are to be warred against by any means
• Jihad in its various forms attacks Dar al-Harb unremittingly

More Heritage

Historically, the antipathy of American Blacks to the Republican Party amounts to an undeserved public relations coup for the Democrats. It is an allegiance completely without logic behind it. As stated previously, the Republican Party was founded in1854 as the party that was dedicated to the destruction of slavery in America. The Democrats of that time were the strongly pro-slavery party. It was Republicans and Lincoln who won the 1860 election that led to the civil war and the 13th Amendment. Fast forward to the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964. These legal break outs were almost unanimously supported by Republican legislators and were nearly exclusively opposed by Democrats, including Al Gore, Sr., Democrat Senator from Tennessee. Republican economic policies are clearly friendlier to the long term interests of the working poor, including blacks. Republicans at federal and state levels have put far more blacks into key governing and policy making positions. Yet, Democrats safely command well over 90% of the black vote. The answer is twofold; the weakness or outright absence of Republican outreach to blacks over the years and the convincing lies and misrepresentations of Democratic policies primarily enthroned in the creation of a welfare state that, at the end of the day, did much to destroy the black family and their natural conservative leanings. Even now, with the positive results of welfare reform yielding great benefits, blacks do not seem to have either benefited from or changed their political loyalties. Sadly, the recent political wreckage created by inept Republican leadership and the Iraq War is a very severe political set back that may turn out to be one squandered opportunity too many. RIP.

Slavery & The Constitution: A Perspective

OUR HERITAGE UNDER CHALLENGE

Liberals increasingly love to criticize both our Constitution and the founding fathers as fatally flawed because slavery was legal and some of those founders even owned slaves. Similarly, women did not have the right to vote and that also makes us evil and suspect, they say, even though no other country in the world had universal suffrage at that time. Our Revolution led the entire world of that time in liberal, democratic ideas. You should realize, however, that our Revolution and Constitution could never have happened had not an unhappy but necessary compromise been arrived at by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. This compromise meant legally continuing slavery while confining it to the states where it already existed. This was the accommodation that made it possible to enlist the southern states into the revolutionary cause. Therefore, that we started off with this built in disgrace is true. Without that compromise, however, we would still be flying the Union Jack.
What is also not adequately credited to our founders and early leaders is that an epic political battle and bitter debate was continuously ongoing from that time and ended only with the Civil War. There were growing numbers of principled people who were demanding an end to slavery. This bitter issue eventually caused the founding of the modern Republican Party in the 1850’s as well as the nomination of Abraham Lincoln as its first presidential candidate in 1860. Then the disgraceful Dred Scott decision from the Supreme Court of that time was another happening that intensified anti-slavery emotions. That decision made it legal to take a slave from a slave state to a non-slave state and raised the obvious fear that it would actually enable the further growth of slavery into the non-slave states, contrary to the Constitution. This 6-3 decision also reinforced the stupidly cruel notion that blacks were not equal. The ensuing outrage proved to be the catalyst for Lincoln’s election and the Civil War that followed at the cost of 600,000 American lives from both sides.
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued without clear legal authority in 1863, began the final freedom making process. Later, Constitutional amendments were adopted that embedded in that document for all time the equality of all men and, even later, of women. The 13th Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery was ratified quickly and became law on 12 Dec, 1865. It took until 18 Aug, 1920 for the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote to be ratified. No judge made the 13th happen and, in fact, no court in our history up to the Civil War had ruled against slavery. A judicial ruling aimed at redress, if successful, would likely have had the limited effect of establishing blacks as a victimized, exploited and protected class rather than solve the real problem of an unfulfilled Constitution. And in no way could such a ruling have resulted in the total effect needed. Happily, we did it the right way and, although the battle for equality took another hundred years to land on firm ground, it should now be rightly and loudly proclaimed that the free status of all Americans was clearly given greater dignity and meaning because of this successful struggle for Constitutional change. Many liberals and black activists continue to claim that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery. In doing so they unwittingly rob the American Revolution of its most glorious but bloody legacy. And, it can be fairly said, they rob blacks of a genuine reason to be among the proudest of Americans because they truly overcame.

What is Sharia Law?

• Detailed codified religious law derived from the Koran and Hadiths by Islamic scholars
• Considered to be all a Muslim individual or state needs to live and be governed by
• Saudi Arabia exists under this system. Pakistan, Sudan, Iran & others partially
• Univeersal rule by Sharia is a strong Islamic goal
• Sharia law has never produced a successful economy or social equality
• Democracy is considered to be un-Islamic and therefore sinful
• Secular Gov't is held to be evil because it denies Islamic supremacy by definition
• Imposition of Sharia is expanding rapidly, even in western Islamic enclaves
• It is a matter of time until they movey to impose it on non-Muslims

What Are Hadiths?

• So-called scholarly & authoritative interpretations of the Koran, & more, for guidance and added clarity
• So we really do have parsing of a sort - by a despotic & select few Imams
• Occupies same level of authority as the Koran and is not to be questioned by Islam's followers
• Hadiths have steadily evolved over the centuries indicating some study at high levels
• The Koran gets the publicity but Hadiths are equally revered
• Clearly indicates a double standard of interpretation

Convenient Islamic Revelations

• Received direct from Allah via Gabriel
• Began as rejection of Pagan polytheism
• Self established Mohammad as The One Prophet
• Source of Islamic religious doctrine
• Source of justification for extra wives, child molestation, murder, pillage & conquest
• Every problem he had begat a new revelation the next day that then became Koranic verse
• Many of these granted priveleges to Mohammad alone that no other Muslim has.
• How very nice and convenient for him.

Koran or Q'uran

• Analogous to Christian Bible as the story of Mohammad and his revealed word
• Claimed to be the exact word of Allah as given to Mohammad via the Angel Gabriel
• Existed as verbal records only for 150 years until finally recorded by his successors
• Not to be questioned, debated or parsed in any way. Free will not allowed in Islam