“IQ and the Non-Integrating Gap,” by Arcane, gnxp, 26 September 2004, http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/002790.html.

“The great divide: Pew surveys Muslim public opinion,” by Allahpundit, Hot Air, 22 June 2006, http://hotair.com/archives/2006/06/…

Melanie Phillips has the depressing diagnosis of British dhimmitude as the one-year anniversary of the 7/7 jihadi bombings approaches: The day after tomorrow, Britain commemorates a sombre anniversary that is also ringing the loudest of alarm bells. On…

They say the word ‘islam’ is derived from ‘asalama’, to “surrender, resign oneself.”

They relate it to the Syriac ‘aslem’ which means “make peace, surrender” which they say is derived from the Semitic ’slem’ which means ‘complete’.

They also relate ‘islam’ to the Arabic word ’salem’ which translates peace.

While I read that the faith means surrender to God, it is defined and woven into the semantics of the language in such a way that implies those who have not surrendered are fighting God, resisting the real solution. This in the context of a prophet who got people to surrender to god by using a sword, and who killed citizens of Medina because they would not convert (i.e. surrender to God’) and I see a formula that creates a movement to crush infidels (the unfaithful).

Interesting that we use the western latin word for non believers (infidels) but the mid-eastern word for believers (muslims). The muslim term for non believers is ‘kafir’ According to the USC muslims student association a kafir is
“a person who refuses to submit himself to Allah (God), a disbeliever in God.”
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/glossary/term.KAFIR.html

Perhaps we avoid the term kafir because it somehow was also a derrogatory term for slave (??) and was embedded in the South African slang as a derrogatory word for blacks.

Now there is an interesting and unpleasant connection between the refusing to surrender non believer and ’slave’.

Free-will not.

Islam is a “Religion of Peace”(TM) in the way that when when you shoot someone dead and stand over his corpse, you observe how “peaceful” he looks.

RH

Here is a great WSJ article about Pew:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110006499

IMHO, Pew rhymes with Skew

Taken by the Pew Research Center shows widening divide between Muslims and all of the West regardless of nation on most poll questions….

We have to be prepared for it.

Whether you like it or not.

This is like a curse that we cannot remove.

[5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

How can you bring peace between Muslim and Jews and Christians?

I have no idea.

Remember, figures don’t lie, but liars figure.

Duty, Honor, Country
(in THAT order)
Rowane

This is why I am skeptical.

Brother, if you have good news, authentic good news, don’t hold back.

There isn’t a lot of good news about this sort of thing. Or if there is, I haven’t been hearing it. If you know of good news, authentic good news, and not just propaganda, you are going to have to spread it here. You are also going to have to be ready for a lot of people telling you that you don’t know what your talking about, that you are crazy. I’ll be honest with you, I think they may be right. For what it’s worth, I hope they are wrong. I really do.

Muslims should not migrate to the west and should stay where they are.

the only way they can be allowed to exist any longer is to be separated from the free societies

While the numbers are discouraging, the poll results clearly indicate there is no monolithic they there. Islam is divided into many camps, and many of those have shown the ability to adapt and get along. Feeding carrots to these folks while the fanatics get the stick seems the sensible approach to me. Trying to segregate them reeks of a moonbat approach, frankly.

Naw, its called reality and yeah schools are bad…I reeducate my grandkids every day. My sophmore’s history test was more concerned with “interred Japanese” than in what Hitler did to the Jews!! Shish! My granddaughter had to change her major because of the lefty professors bagging on Bush 24/7.

It’s either we’re kept separate or one must kill the other.