Why Orthodox Muslims Like to Blow People Up
Friday
The more orthodox the Muslim — that is, the more devout, the more committed to the teachings of the Koran and Hadith and the example of Muhammad — the more motivated the Muslim will be to kill non-Muslims. Why?
There are several reasons. The selfish one is because it's the only way to guarantee passage to Paradise. A Muslim can be devout, pray five times a day, make the pilgrimage to Mecca, etc., and still have to face judgment (with a chance of not making it to Paradise). But if he or she dies while killing non-Muslims, there is no judgment. The Muslim who dies in jihad goes straight to Paradise.
Another (less selfish) reason is that any Muslim who dies in jihad gets to intercede with Allah on behalf of seventy of his relatives. That's a big motivation for a would-be Muslim martyr. He will be able to help his mother, father, brothers, cousins, etc., get into Paradise. This also at least partly explains the assistance jihadis get from their less-courageous relatives.
The goal of orthodox Islam is to bring the whole world under the rule of the law of Allah, by peaceful means if possible, but by war if necessary. The Islamic system of law is so abhorrent to anyone not raised with it, it has become clear down through the centuries that war is necessary for the goal to be accomplished.
By blowing up non-Muslim civilians, the jihadi has created a double-bind. It is a no-lose situation for an orthodox Muslim — some non-Muslims were killed and that's a good thing, and if the jihadi dies doing it, that's fine too. If the non-Muslims don't do anything in response, it will encourage other Muslims to become jihadis because no consequences followed. If the non-Muslims make a strong response, at least some other Muslims will see this as "war against Islam" and will take up arms to join their brothers in the fight.
With all this in its favor, why not blow people up?
2 comments:
Those terrorists brothers who planted and then set off those bombs were very motivated to commit vicious heinous murderous acts because they were inspired to to evil because their motivation was the militanr jihadism of Islam. Forexample, the Quran in Sura 47 teaches "Whenever you encounder the unbelievers strike off their heads,until you make a great slaughter among them."
A bomb can make a greater "slaughter among them" then a sword can. This is just one of the many places in the Quran that teach violence and killing.
This all brings to mind the wisdom in the words of Thomas Paine when he wrote in his book THE AGE OF REASON that "Any system of religion that has anything in it that shock the mind of a child, cannot be a true system."
Look on the bright side. They love blowing each other up, too. The Sunnis murder the Shiites and vice versa, for the heinous crime of each not practicing the exact same version of Islam. For that matter, both sides murder others of other Muslim sects.
All we need to do is keep them out of our countries and let them work out their religious destinies with just each other. We don't need to be over there killing them, that just gives them a reason to change focus from each other to us.
Leave them alone and let them go at it, and Allah bless.
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