In an earlier post today we posted a speech by Douglas Murray on how political correctness created an incubator for Islam in the West that never could have happened if not for leftist narratives. It’s an excellent and even important speech. Frankly it is one of those explanations that really should have been enough to shut Islam down well before now, at least in the West where once we knew better.
There is a second reason why perhaps in particular the United States is having difficulty fighting back against the destruction of its constitution, culture, values and freedoms by Islam. And that is because the 1st amendment is being improperly applied. And that, is because the definition of religion was not given.
In this article at RAIR Foundation it is clearly explained, not by us, not by our side, but by a top shelf Muslim Jurist, not, as the article says, any comic-book diploma Imam, that Islam is sharia, and sharia is Islam.
Really I don’t think it can be said better, or much added than it is at RAIR. So please do click through and read the article. but I will embed a couple of the short video excerpts from the lauded jurist here.
Why this matters, again, which is explained in the article, is because we confuse a very Western understanding of religion with an Islamic one.
To quote Sam Solomon, another once very influential Islamic jurist, “In the West, religion is a part of life. In Islam, life is a part of religion”. You will see how that works as we come to understand sharia, which is Islam, which is sharia.
The essence:
How belief in Islam is mandatory, and is in fact, the sharia:
There is no comparison between Islam and any other religion. No other religion has compulsion to belief and a death penalty for failure to believe. And yes, Koran says something like, “there is no compulsion in religion” but that is abrogated by half a dozen other later sayings where it is clear there is. Like for example, “He who changes his religion (from Islam) kill him”. Etc.
Granting 1st amendment protection to Islam would be the same as doing so to Nazism and communism if they just called themselves a religion where Hitler, or Marx where the messiahs. And frankly a strong case can be made that the Soviets treated Lenin that way, and it would be a slam dunk to say the North Koreans treat their undead founder, the “Eternal President” of the DPRK Kim Il-sung that way as well.
The 1st amendment protects ritual that does not break laws or threaten your civilization. It didn’t even really cover polygamy as practiced by the Mormons. And Mormonism is sorta kinda a version of Christianity, depending on how your telescope or microscope is zoomed in of course. So protecting Islam under the 1st amendment is frankly insane. And the reason for the insanity is covered in the Douglas Murray speech at the bottom of this post.
Please do go read the entire essay and see the other related videos at RAIR Foundation.
The 1st Amendment – Publius Huldah
The Lie of “Separation of Church and State” & the U.S. Supreme Court’s Usurpations of Power.
By Publius Huldah – June 19, 2009
https://publiushuldah.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/religious-freedom/
The First Amendment does NOT give islamists the right to build mosques, proselytize, and institute sharia here!
By Publius Huldah – April 7, 2013
https://publiushuldah.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/the-first-amendment-does-not-give-islamists-the-right-to-build-mosques-proselytize-and-institute-sharia-here/
Islam Has No Right to Build Mosques, Spread Islam, or Institute Sharia Law In America
In the above video PH mentioned Teddy and the Immigration Act of 1965.
Sen. Edward Kennedy first trip to the Soviet Union was in 1974.
The Kremlin’s Dupe: Ted Kennedy’s Russia Romance
By Paul Kengor – April 12, 2018
Excerpt:
Dancing with the Bride
But even then, there’s much more to what I’ve reported on Kennedy and the Soviets. It’s this material that even conservatives have missed and largely glossed over from Dupes. Again, I urge readers to continue on.
One of these is an almost comical case of Russian manipulation smack on Moscow territory. On page 406 of Dupes is a photo of Ted Kennedy merrily dancing with a Russian bride at a reportedly staged Soviet wedding.
The source for the photo was Yuri Bezmenov, journalist and editor for Novosti, the Soviet press agency. A KGB hand himself, Bezmenov defected to the West in the 1970s. Among his chief duties in Moscow had been to handle Western visitors through propaganda and disinformation. This entailed some unique skills that applied to the likes of Kennedy. “One of my functions,” explained Bezmenov, “was to keep foreign guests permanently intoxicated from the moment they landed at Moscow airport.” He managed “groups of so-called ‘progressive intellectuals’ — writers, journalists, publishers, teachers, professors of colleges…. For us, they were just a bunch of political prostitutes to be taken advantage of.”
Bezmenov, sickened by the stench of the Soviet system, was deeply troubled that these progressives, who prided themselves on intellectual superiority, couldn’t detect the rot. (I’ve heard this lament many times from communist dissidents.) It nagged at his conscience. “I did my job,” he lamented, but “deep inside I still hoped that at least some of these useful idiots [would catch on].”
Among the worst of them, said Bezmenov, was Senator Ted Kennedy. With that, Bezmenov offered as an exhibit the photo of Kennedy dancing at a wedding at Moscow’s Palace of Marriages, but it wasn’t a real wedding. Gesturing to the photo, Bezmenov commented: “Another greatest example of monumental idiocy [among] American politicians: Edward Kennedy was in Moscow, and he… was being taken for a ride.” This was a “staged wedding used to impress foreign media — or useful idiots like Ed Kennedy. Most of the guests there [had] security clearance and were instructed what to say to foreigners.”
I know this seems absurd to modern eyes and ears, but such were the wretched lengths to which the Soviets descended. They were outstanding liars. They built phony factories, schools, and villages to hoodwink Western visitors, beginning back in the 1920s, when they went full force in cynically suckering what I call “Potemkin Progressives”: John Dewey, Margaret Sanger, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, etc.
https://spectator.org/the-kremlins-dupe-ted-kennedys-russia-romance/
The Dancing Bride
Yuri Bezmenov Ted Kennedy
I just learned, by watching a debate at a Texas Educaton Board meeting, that the “separation of Chruch and State” is NOT from the US constitution, but is from the Communist Manifesto.
I’ll look that up.
From Grok:
Where the confusion comes from“Demands of the Communist Party in Germany” (March 1848, written by Marx/Engels right after the Manifesto): This separate document does include “Complete separation of Church and State.” It was a short political platform for the 1848 revolutions, not the Manifesto itself. Some people bundle the two documents together or quote loosely and blur them.
Later Marxist/Leninist writings: Lenin and others repeatedly demanded “complete separation of church and state” (and school from church) as a tactical step to break the power of the established churches and promote atheism. Soviet constitutions and decrees used similar language, often as a prelude to suppressing religion.
The phrase itself originated in the West (Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 letter describing the First Amendment as “a wall of separation between Church & State”) and has no roots in the Manifesto.
So…
Jefferson’s context was the OPPOSITE of marx’s. Marx wanted the state to destroy religion, and he did use the phrase in a speech in Germany, but not im the manifesto, and Jefferson wanted religion to be SHIELDED from the state.
I tried to find that Texas debate with no success.
The first article by Publius Huldah goes through the history of church and state, starting with off with your heads Henry.
The beginning of Part 1
Where do rights come from
Publius Huldah – October 24, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpXBckyDac
Alan Keyes Separation of Church and State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj7p4r4iwag
“Islam is Islam. There Are No Modifiers. And Until You Realize Islam is a Political Movement Masquerading As a Religion, You’re Never Going To Come To Grips With It” – Admiral James (Ace) Lyons
You already know this Eeyore.
Ace Lyons: This Borders on Treason
by Baron Bodissey – September 1, 2016
American Freedom Alliance – August 21, 2016
Videos Adm Lyons, Stephen Coughlin, Daniel Greenfield, John Bolton and Andrew Bostom
https://gatesofvienna.net/2016/09/ace-lyons-this-borders-on-treason/
Right now we got bigger fish to fry.
It’s still on now!
https://www.adminmonitor.com/tx/tea/committee_of_the_full_board/20260407/
It’s … a long and difficult watch. Over NINE HOURS so far,.