In Defense of Dr.
Ben Carson:
The Media, and the Myths Favoring Islam
v.s. Real, Here and Now Christophobia
by Pauly Fongemie
September 23, 2015
This is not meant as an endorsement of Dr. Carson for President. We as
yet have not decided what we will do in the coming election, for we are
not even certain there will be a normal election next year as world
events are geometrically exploding, furthering the implosion of the
West. But we are defending the good Doctor who has been under severe
criticism and mockery ever
since he was asked a hypothetical question about Islam, the purpose of
which was a gotcha moment in
order to attempt to embarrass him in the cause of expanding the
dominance of the PC police and all its phony phobias, while ignoring
the actual one within its midst partly instilled by the media itself,
Christophobia - even now the ACLU, while taking no action about
American students in government schools being forced to imbibe of
Islam, but not Christ, voluntarily,
is demanding that Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis be put before the
judge anew for crimes against the state as defined by them. Every day
Christians are being told what they are allowed to do and not do, one
former judge and now News commentator and pundit has implied rather
strongly that Christian conscience is limited as the US Constitution is
supreme. This, despite that sometimes the Court gets it wrong as it did
with Dred Scott, which was
eventually found to be unconstitutional. This, although the natural law
is the very foundation of the US Constitution and any ruling that
departs from it is null and void by definition, as was Dred Scott. Any judge who has
forsaken the principles of the natural law has no business commenting
in such wise and has lost all authority and credibility with those of
us who have not lost our minds in this morbid age of nihilistic stew.
Dr. Carson is the avowed enemy of the PC jackboots and their toadies in
the media. In a speech he delivered to a church group he warned about
the use of PC power to frighten people into compliance, which is the
means the proponents of the New World Order are using, on the
incremental plan. The goal is to topple belief in the One True God and
traditional family mores, two pillars that serve as the bedrock of
Western society and against global "values". Islamic Jihad, while not
originally envisioned as part of the NWO, is helpful to the cause
because it militates against these pillars, the ultimate aspiration of
Jihad is submission. The NWO gang is blind and simply does not believe
that, it, too, will be brought into submission.
Islam is thought by most modern sophisticates to mean "Peace". In
truth, its actually meaning is submission.
British Islamic preacher, Anjem Choudary, vociferous supporter of the
Islamic State and co-founder of the terrorist Al-Muharjiroun wrote in
an op ed piece:
"Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace, but
rather submission to the commands of Allah alone."
Dr. Carson knows this and he knows that Islam itself,
traditional, ongoing Islam is not compatible with the US Constitution
and Western ideals. He is being mocked on FOX News because he is
telling us the truth and refuses to be bullied into backing down. No
amount of ridicule will dissuade him because he is a man with a
mission, to warn America about its coming demise if she persists with
its PC penchant for enabling the myths of Islam while looking the other
way as Christophobia slowly takes root in the very heart of America. I
had occasion to discuss the GOP primary season with a devout liberal,
an ardent Obama supporter whom I have known for over seventy years. She
told me that under no circumstances would she ever consider voting for
Dr. Carson because he is a Seventh Day Adventist, and that he is dead
wrong in her opinion for thinking that we have a right to bar an
Islamist from the Presidency. Apart from the obvious, painful,
overweening hypocrisy, she was unable to explain to me why his religion
was so dangerous to the commonweal but that the notions inherent in
Islam proper, whatever branch, are not incompatible with life as we
know it. In other words, she is a PC operative, whether she realizes it
or not, she alone gets to decide who is qualified but the rest of us
are not. In another age she would be known as simply stupid or
ill-informed, a No-Nothing; today her mentality is deemed the height of
wisdom.
An adjunct to all this hysteria over Dr. Carson's truthful, frank
answer, knowing he was being set up, yet unafraid, is that in another
century Catholics were thought to be a threat to the Presidency. [Truth
be told, if every Catholic was who
he is supposed to be in the first place, we would still be hearing
anti-Catholic voices throughout the culture. They always bring up
Catholics when it is politically expedient to do so and only then.
Liberals and progressives [liberal cowards] still despise what
Catholicism actually stands for and why they adore the current Bishop
of Rome - because he rejects what they reject.]
This is
the proverbial argument of misapplying apples to oranges. And the
proverbial straw man, especially since only liberal Catholics are
thought to be okay with the intelligentsia and its cohort, the media.
The reasoning goes something like this, guilt by forced association. Because a
party in the past may have been mistaken, all parties in the future and
present who can be found to belong to the same line of questioning,
must be condemned in the same manner. There is no room provided for
distinctions with authentic differences - meaning all religions are
equal and equally of no consideration in the grand scheme of things as
long as that religion is not traditional Catholicism, that is.
Catholicism does not advocate or teach that women who commit
adultery ought to be stoned - in fact Christ condemned the cruel
hypocrisy of the culture of His time. It does not advocate forced or
compulsory conversion or execution for apostasy or blasphemy. Or any of
the other fundamental Islamic tenets.
Let us look briefly at some of the myths believed by Americans about
what moderate or mainstream Islamists believe:
We have already dispensed with the false notion of peace. In fact Islam
exists to make war against all unbelievers who do not submit. The
actual text, mis-cited by Obama and those of his ill-advised, reckless
PC ilk, is from Sura 5:33 of the Koran [Quran]. Obama et al claim that the submission is
voluntary and done in peace. Here is what this paragraph from Sura 5
[meaning the Feast] says:
Capital
Punishment: When is it Justified
The just
retribution for those who fight GOD
and His messenger, and commit horrendous crimes, is to be killed, or
crucified, or to have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides,
or to be banished from the land. This is to humiliate them in this
life, then they suffer a far worse retribution in the Hereafter.
[5:34] Exempted are those who repent before
you
overcome
them. You should know that GOD is Forgiver, Most Merciful.
The Cost of Disbelief
[5:36] Certainly, those who disbelieved, if
they
possessed
everything on earth, even twice as much, and offered it as ransom to
spare them the retribution on the Day of Resurrection, it would not be
accepted from them; they have incurred a painful retribution.
This
section of Sura 5 goes on to speak of righteous Jews and Christians,
but it is not clear and appears to be contradictory. One thing is
certain Moslems do not believe that Jesus is the Second Person of the
Holy Trinity, but a holy messenger only. It seems to mean that those
who claim to be Christian but accept Islam's idea of Christ are
righteous, but one is not sure.
This brings us to myth #2 being touted in the USA and abroad: that
there is not much difference between Islam, Judaism and Christianity,
that they are all part of one another and are the three great world
religions; in fact, since some Christians once believed in slavery,
then it is morally the same as Islam now. First, there is no tenet of
Christianity that proposes slavery as moral; any Christian practicing
it was sinning, not a justification. Second, Islam helped slaves in the
distant past, but only if they converted. Today the majority of
Islamists either approve of slavery, especially sexual bondage, or
simply look the other way. Sharia law permits it today. No Christian
church does.
The 3rd myth is that Jihad or holy war is an internal struggle and not
directed against unbelievers. This is perhaps the most easily disproved
if journalists were not PC followers and were doing their job,
investigating.
"The Reliance of the Traveler - Sharia Law in English"
This book is the
definitive book on Sharia (Islamic Law) in English. The author is the
Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Naqib al Misri. First published in 1991, and
translated into English by Nuh Ha Mim Keller, it explains all the
intricacies of Islamic Law, covering everything from fasting to
marriage to business to one section on "games, contests, and prizes."
Indeed, Sharia encompasses every possible aspect of life for the
observant Muslim. It is THE law which is binding upon ALL Muslims.
This tome (1115 pages of text) contains a section entitled
"Jihad" (found on page 599). Supposedly Americans just really don't
know what jihad is all about, since Islam is a religion of peace. This
is what al Misri says:
"Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived
from the word 'mujahada', signifying warfare to establish the religion."
Just what do people think about the mujahadin in Afghanistan,
where that name comes from, anyway? It certainly isn't coincidence.
One of the biggest lies or myths, #4 is that Sharia law is only for Muslims and would not be imposed here in America.
Let's see now; Obama has imposed all matter of unconstitutional
injustices on Americans and we have done nothing about it, even though
he is unpopular right now. How would we impeach an Islamic president
who seized the reigns as he saw fit as Obama has, when that would be
considered non-PC? If we are so afraid to speak out and are so easily
mocked now, what about then? O do give me and Dr. Carson a break!
Then, too, a poll conducted among American Moslems revealed that over
half of them want Sharia law, at least as a parallel law, some as the
superior law. Thanks be to God that Moslems are not also 51% of the
population. England does not have fifty percent of their population as
Moslem, but that country is having a hard time keeping Sharia at bay
even at that.
A town in Texas had Sharia until a court overturned it after time. But
how can we rely on courts that have been politicized so many times? All
bets are off! All of the Islamists who are fighting to impose the
Islamist State worldwide believe in the necessity and superiority of
Sharia.
I commend Dr. Ben Carson for his constancy, his courage, and his
humility, unlike the colorful, I will show you my humility kind of
"humility" currently in vogue. Would that more men would be willing to
stand with him in truth. Truth denied is a blight on the land and
without truth, bold, frank, unvarnished truth, we are like sheep before
plundering wolves who have nothing to do but wait upon events fast
turning apocalyptic.
Christ is being denied in so many sundry ways, His followers crucified
in the media, scorned even by those who ought to know better, while the
false religion, the man-made religion of Islam is given respect and
even honor in the courts of officialdom. Blasphemy certainly!
Christophobia is real, and practiced most by those espousing to believe
in Him because they are afraid of being non-PC. Derision for derailing
and denouncing at its most effective, most certainly!
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