Analyst's note:  Absolutely must read.  To begin to understand radical Islam, which I refer to as the global Islamist jihad, will stun the average reader as you come to know it as a major threat to our national security.   Like many who knew little about the doctrines of Islam, I to have been involved in a major study over the past several years of this ideology of political Islam that is and will remain our enemy. 

Like most other people, I once tried to understand it relative to my own experience with other religions --- no more.  The feeling of being stunned is an understatement.  Most Americans will mentally try to compare Islam to what they currently have experienced other religion to be or what they believe a religion should be.

As explained by Robert Spencer, one of the greater mistakes that Western societies make in assessing Muslim practices is allowing ourselves to be cornered (or silenced) by accusatory rhetoric into evaluating the doctrine solely in the context of its function in facilitating man’s and woman’s relationship to the Almighty.  The Western World at some point will either lay down and submit before the Forces of Islam or make a stand and refuse to be silenced.  Radical Islamist who are based on the ideology of Islam and practice of jihad, short of death, will give no other options.

This is piece - along with "Islam 101" by Gregory M. Davis found by searching that title -- will help you to know the fundamentals of intrinsically violent Islam and help you to be able to more knowledgeably convey the facts to others.  In the article, "Stunning Videos: Islam In America - Learn what you can do to stop it!!!" also found in this site, we can learn what more of what we can do to stop this Islamist problem.  Through a series of videos, you can see and hear Brigitte Gabriel tell how Islam is seeking to take over America through what is to them a sacred jihad.  Don't be fooled by what is said in English -- the Islamist say something very different in Arabic.  The problem is also within our American universities and funded by millions upon millions of dollars into our high-profile universities.  Political correctness is contributing to the fall of this great nation. 

We must unite as American - not hyphenated Americans.  The politicians work for us - NOT the other way around.  If 40 - 50 people contact them -- then they generally feel obligated to respond.  "Show" them with with your actions.

Like the author of this article, I have come to understand  "[...] that Islam is very different from all other major religions of the world."

"[....] Where it is similar is the religious practices of devotion to deity and the obligation to a higher moral law. For instance, Judaism, Christianity and Islam all exhort worship, prayer and fasting. They all proscribe acts such as theft.


[....] ideology, enunciated in the Qur’an and Hadith (sayings and traditions of Mohammed), the holy books of Islam, that sets Islam apart from other religions.

The ideology of radical Islam has two key elements.

• It is a supremacist political ideology that advocates the advance of Islamic sharia law and the imposition of such law on all people. It is totalitarian and imperialistic.
  
• Jihad, or “striving,” is an obligation upon the Muslim “umma” (Muslim community of believers) as a central means of advancing and imposing Islamic sharia law.

Qur’an 9:5 is one among many Qur’anic passages commonly cited as doctrinal justification for the waging of jihad and the advance of sharia:

Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.