Posted by
John Caile on Friday, December 11, 2009 8:53:38 AM
I was not surprised to discover that 5 Muslim-Americans were arrested in Pakistan, apparently having gone there to engage in terrorism. Here in Minnesota, there is an ongoing investigation into the recruitment of Somali Muslims to become jihadists. What is most impressive in the Pakistani case is that one of the parents of the would be terrorists had the integrity, not to mention the courage, to notify American authorities.
This is unusual in the Muslim world, where allegiance to their religion supersedes their duty to their country. An explanation for this phenomenon may be found in the response by a Saudi Muslim to the following question:
Can a good Muslim be a good American?
He replied:
Theologically - No.
Because his allegiance is to Allah.
Religiously -
No. Because no other religion is accepted by his Allah except
Islam.
Scripturally - No. Because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam
and the Quran (Koran).
Geographically - No. Because his
allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a
day.
Socially - No. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make
friends with Christians or
Jews.
Politically - No. Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders) rather than the state - and it is the mullahs who
teach Annihilation
of Israel and Destruction of
America, the great
Satan.
Domestically - No. Because he is instructed to marry four women
and beat and scourge his wife
when she disobeys him.
Intellectually - No. Because he cannot accept
the American
Constitution since it is based on
Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be
corrupt.
Philosophically - No. Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do
not allow freedom of religion and
expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Virtually every Muslim government is
either dictatorial or autocratic.
Spiritually - No. Because when we
declare "one nation under God," the Christian's God is
loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as a heavenly
father, nor is he
ever called love in the Quran's 99 "excellent names" for Allah
I hope for our sake that he is wrong, and that the actions of the parents in the current case will become the rule, rather than the exception.
But I doubt it.