One thing should have become apparent to all who study Islam and communism as a threat doctrine. And that is when dealing with an alien system of thought, any attempt to fight it is doomed to fail or at least the cost of winning becomes unimaginably high if you do not understand how the enemy thinks, and therefore why they do what they do, and even in fact, what it is they intend to do. Once you can understand these things, you can predict their actions. If you can predict their actions you have at least the potential to defeat them.
For example, Islam differs from Christianity in several fundamental ways. One of them is in the eschatology. Christianity believes that “Jesus will come as a thief in the night” . One critical aspect of this is that nothing humans do can make these events unfold. Christian end times events are set by God and not by man.
Islam on the other hand, believes that it is up to the followers of Mohamed to create the conditions to bring on the end times. Worse, that the martyrs who died fighting for global Islamic manifest destiny are stuck waiting in their graves for the final battle in a city in Syria until the believers can force this mighty battle to decide all things. This city was Dabiq and was also the name of the Islamic State monthly magazine when they had it. And this is why all roads from the Islamic eschatology point of view, leads to Dabiq.
Understanding even this one tiny example of the fundamental difference in system of thought allows for a large degree of greater understanding in terms of Islam and what it seeks and why.
Another more contemporary example, and one that will set keyboards afire as they object to it, is how Israel had allowed itself to think that Hamas was in fact thinking like Israel does, and was trying to accumulate wealth and build a civilization for their own people and had given up the idea of the destruction of Israel. This I am told, by significant sources, was the reason for Israel’s lack of readiness on Oct. 7 2023. They were not able to understand Islam’s actual core motivations, and therefore Iran’s, The Muslim Brotherhood and its various branch offices like Hamas. Islam, like Nazism has a core belief that motivates their actions. Material comfort and security is not among the attributes. But they do understand how we think very well and use that to their advantage in all propaganda and attacks.
The basic human tendency when looking at huge things is to try and reduce it to the simplest formulae within our own frames of reference. This is because learning another frame of reference is difficult and very few can be bothered to do so, especially when the threat appears to be over. At this point we might all agree that these threats are likely never really over so much as dormant. The “Cold War” with communism being the best current example. And understanding the system of thought of threat doctrines is key to preventing its total victory over us. And it it never really too late to do that even though the later the hour the higher the cost of reconquest.
The current examples of course, are leftism and Islam. Both of which have boat loads more in common with each other than with Western thinkers. And while this may seem counter-intuitive based on leftist and Islamic propaganda, but any self-honest observer can see the truth of it.
In the following two videos, TIK History makes the case that Nazism was also a religion, and an old one at that. A Gnostic cult and provides evidence from Hitler’s own speeches and book. And a case can be made, and it has, that we are fighting the Nazis now. More accurately, the Nazis are fighting us now as we aren’t really fighting back yet. But the COMINTERN, UN, EU and WEF have more in common with Nazis than anyone else except maybe Maoists. And one might argue that would also be a distinction without a difference.
UPDATE: New video from TIK History. Correcting the myth that Hitler was funded by capitalists
This was a very interesting essay, Vlad.
There is another strain of thought about Christianity. It relies on a literal reading of the bible. It is not Gnosticism and it is not even organized into a religion. It is simply a different way of approaching Christianity, and it supports the divinity of Jesus but not the entire Christian narrative.
Example: compare the book of Revelation, chapter 13:1-2 to the Old Testament book of Hosea chapter 13:7-8. You will be amazed at the implications.
NLT, Rev 13:1-2
Then I saw a beast rising up out of the sea….
This beast looked like a leopard, but it had the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion! And the dragon gave the beast his own power and throne and great authority.”
NLT, Hosea 13:7-8
* It is essential to understand that the speaker is Yahweh / YHVH.
“So now I will attack you like a lion,
like a leopard that lurks along the road.
Like a bear whose cubs have been taken away,
I will tear out your heart.
I will devour you like a hungry lioness
and mangle you like a wild animal.”
Other translations say “beast” instead of “wild animal”.
Rev 13:1-2 points to the way to identity either Satan or a demonic entity. It points to the words of Yahweh in Hosea 13:7-8.
What then, are the implications for the way that Christianity has been organized for the last 1,700 years?
What was the true message of Jesus? You need not look any further than the gospels for the answer.
What does is mean for Islam, if Allah is Yahweh?
All the religious wars based on the Abrahamic religions would lose their justification.
Simply reading the bible and understanding the true message of Jesus could bring people closer to Jesus and bring world peace.
Christians tend to receive a narrative that is specific to their particular denomination. They listen to sermons and read only selected parts of the bible that are interpreted for them by their pastor. Most Christians don’t have a thorough knowledge of their bible. There are now many different translations of the bible, and the King James Version obscures some of the messages.
Christians never respond directly to the evidence revealed in the comparison of the scriptures quoted in the post above, nor to any of the other evidence supporting my point.
There is NO PROOF that the people of the same tribe who would eventually become MoHamMad’s Muslims, are in any way related to, or influenced by Abraham.
I am so sorry, but we all have been lied to about ISLAM, and many have unfortunately bought into those lies as if they were the truth! It is the Dhimwits who continue to believe the lies! However, there is plenty of proof refuting those lies.
Islam has no province for what they ‘claim’. They ‘claim’ to be the final revelation of “god’s” word. Yet the followers of this so-called ‘religion’ claim that they ‘worship’ the same ‘god’ as Christians and Jews and are an “Abrahamic religion” yet are utterly alien to Jewish and Christian modes of belief, theology, and practice!
Any ‘successor’ religion would necessarily have to fulfill and complement the prior religion. Jesus and his Ministry were predicted many times in the Torah and Tanakh. One of the great advantages of having the Old Testament and the New Testament in one Bible is that they give support to each other. Together they strengthen our faith that both are God’s Word.
The Old Testament verses are Prophecy and Prediction; the New Testament verses proclaim the Fulfillment of God’s Word. There are NO predictions in the Torah and Tanakh or the New Testament that refer to Islam or Mohammad!
However, Islam does not fulfill or complement anything either Jewish or Christian… it instead is antagonistic, antithetical, contradictory, diametrically opposed, and irreconcilable in all ways!
According to Islamic claims and beliefs, the basis of Islam is that Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed are part of the same family with the same message from “Allah”.
Islam is, in their view, the way all three faiths are hemmed in together.
So, IF there truly are: “3 faiths, 3 names, 1 God.”
Explain this:
What part of the Christian’s Holy Bible, the Jewish Torah and Tanakh, or even Civilized Law allows anyone to do all the EVIL that Islam’s Koran commands Muslims to do, and they do it with a passion?
There are 109 verses straight from the koran, demanding ALL muslims to steal from, hate, murder, and commit terror against all people who will not submit to a Dhimmi status, or convert to Islam.
Not one place in the Old Testament or The New Testament does it TEACH to kill all people for all times for being infidels or for others who do not believe in your own “religion”, However, the EVIL koran does!
How could this “Allah” of pre-Mohammad pagan Arabia be the same as the God of Israel? For many hundreds of years “Allah” or the ‘Moon-god’ who was the Head ‘god’ of Mohammad’s pagan Quraysh Meccan Arab tribe’s pantheon of about 360 deities.
So, can anyone tell me why, just because they ‘worship’ only one fabricated ‘god’ that this so-called ‘god’ is the SAME GOD as worshiped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
THE DIFFERENCE IS:
Christians are horrible people when they act CONTRARY to Jesus’s teachings and example. When you commit atrocities “in the name of Christ”, you are violating Christianity.
Muslims are horrible people when they FOLLOW Muhammad’s teachings and example. When you commit atrocities in the name of Islam, you are obeying “allah” and Islam.
The ISIS and Hamas, and all of the rest of the Islamic Terrorist organizations are following Mohammad’s teachings and the Koran to the letter.
They unknowingly worship the devil named Satan!
Using Moslem words and names:
They unknowingly worship the Shaytan named Khunzub AL-MUMÎT, The Causer of Death!
There is NO PROOF
that the people of the same tribe who would eventually become MoHamMad’s Muslims, are in any way related to, or influenced by Abraham.
I am so sorry, but we all have been lied to about ISLAM, and many have unfortunately bought into those lies as if they were the truth! It is the Dhimwits who continue to believe the lies! However, there is plenty of proof refuting those lies.
Islam has no province for what they ‘claim’. They ‘claim’ to be the final revelation of “god’s” word. Yet the followers of this so-called ‘religion’ claim that they ‘worship’ the same ‘god’ as Christians and Jews and are an “Abrahamic religion” yet are utterly alien to Jewish and Christian modes of belief, theology, and practice!
Any ‘successor’ religion would necessarily have to fulfill and complement the prior religion. Jesus and his Ministry were predicted many times in the Torah and Tanakh. One of the great advantages of having the Old Testament and the New Testament in one Bible is that they give support to each other. Together they strengthen our faith that both are God’s Word.
The Old Testament verses are Prophecy and Prediction; the New Testament verses proclaim the Fulfillment of God’s Word. There are NO predictions in the Torah and Tanakh or the New Testament that refers to Islam or Mohammad!
However, Islam does not fulfill or complement anything either Jewish or Christian… it instead is antagonistic, antithetical, contradictory, diametrically opposed, and irreconcilable in all ways!
According to Islamic claims and beliefs, the basis of Islam is that Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed are part of the same family with the same message from “Allah”.
Islam is, in their view, the way all three faiths are hemmed in together.
So, IF there truly are: “3 faiths, 3 names, 1 God.”
Explain this:
What part of the Christian’s Holy Bible, the Jewish Torah and Tanakh, or even Civilized Law allows anyone to do all the EVIL that Islam’s Koran commands Muslims to do, and they do it with a passion?
There are 109 verses straight from the koran, demanding ALL muslims to steal from, hate, murder, and commit terror against all people who will not submit to a Dhimmi status, or convert to Islam.
Not one place in the Old Testament or The New Testament does it TEACH to kill all people for all times for being infidels or for others who do not believe in your own “religion”, However, the EVIL koran does!
How could this “Allah” of pre-Mohammad pagan Arabia be the same as the God of Israel? For many hundreds of years “Allah” or the ‘Moon-god’ was the Head ‘god’ of Mohammad’s pagan Quraysh Meccan Arab tribe’s pantheon of about 360 deities.
So, can anyone tell me why, just because they ‘worship’ only one fabricated ‘god’ that this so-called ‘god’ is the SAME GOD as worshiped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
THE DIFFERENCE IS:
Christians are horrible people when they act CONTRARY to Jesus’s teachings and example. When you commit atrocities “in the name of Christ”, you are violating Christianity.
Muslims are horrible people when they FOLLOW Muhammad’s teachings and example. When you commit atrocities in the name of Islam, you are obeying “allah” and Islam.
The ISIS and Hamas, and all of the rest of the Islamic Terrorist organizations are following Mohammad’s teachings and the Koran to the letter.
They unknowingly worship the devil named Satan!
Using Moslem words and names:
They unknowingly worship the Shaytan named Khunzub AL-MUMÎT, The Causer of Death!
Those who know, like us, are in the low minority.
Yes, their book and their man are into violence and submission. What I tell people: What kind of man orders the beheading of 600 males, including young boys bearing a trace of facial hair? That is not a good individual.
I also tell people, including Muslims, that I have high respect for ISIS. Why? Because they are honest and simply following in the footsteps of their ideal guy. One can respect someone without admiring him/her. Stunned, Muslims have no reply to my statement.
The road to Oct. 7: How Hamas got the intelligence it needed
New information on why Israel was caught off guard by the scope and quality of the information the terrorists had in planning the atrocities.
https://www.jns.org/the-road-to-oct-7-how-hamas-got-the-intelligence-it-needed/
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OMG, this is horrifying!
Never, EVER underestimate your enemies!
That’s a lesson that’s costing lives of both sides in the NATO-Russian war in Ukraine. Propaganda is an essential weapon of war, but political and military leaders should never breathe their own exhaust.