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Can A Devout Islamic Be A Dedicated American?

The current war, War on Terrorism, is being fought against Radical Islamic Fundamentalists and it is quite evident that this group of people being driven by religious fanaticisms is no different than any group of zealots intent on forcefully imposing their beliefs and ideologies on others. It is quite obvious that the Radical Islamic Fundamentalists refuse to accept any people who do not subscribe, nor will subscribe, to the Religion of Islam; and the solution in overcoming this non-subscription is total annihilation of the non-believers. These people can be dealt with head-on in open battle.

The dilemma I perceive is whether a group of non-fanatical people fervently adhering to their religion, a religion that expresses non-acceptance of any other religion, will ever be compatible in a nation where religious tolerance was one of the founding blocks of our structure; and will these people ever be able to swear an allegiance to the United States if their religion dictates that their allegiance is to Mecca. It is questionable whether a devout believer of Islam is able to obey the United States Constitution (The Supreme Law of the Land) that is based on Biblical Principles, as he believes the Bible to be corrupt and the Quran is the ultimate authority. Further, devout followers subscribe to a Theocratic form of government, a government totally contradictory to the form of government established by the Founding Fathers of this country.

I do not believe any person should be required to alter their faith in their God; however, religion is not a faith it is a set of rules made up by man and often times a detriment to mankind. Any organization, whether it be religious or political, that employs an ideology in direct contrast with the tenets of our Founding Fathers, and the drafters of our Constitution, must be looked upon with a “scrutinizing eye.” In light of the extremely strict dogmas of the Islamic Religion, I think anyone believing that assimilation of devout followers of the Islamic Religion into our country is engaging in an exercise in futility. Continued extension of special preferential treatment to the followers of Islam and the continued denunciation of other religions are tantamount to endorsing a specific church and in direct violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution. Unfortunately, our extreme tolerance to religious freedom and adherence to our Constitution will be the demise of our country as we know and love; and the enemies of our country know full well how to use these weaknesses to their fullest advantage. We must get our heads out of the hole in the sand and jump out of the slowly boiling pot, or we will befall the same fate as the Ostrich or the Frog. A devout follower of Islam amongst any other religious group is about as compatible as water is to oil, they do not mix; and to think a devout follower of Islam can be a dedicated American is the precis of an oxymoron.

The Islamic purports that the religion of Islam does not compel the infidels to forsake their religions, nor does Islam subscribe to acts of violence. To dispel these assertions I submit the following passages from the Holy Book of Islam:

Quran 9:25 “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”

Quran 9:5 “So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them.”

Quran 9:30 “And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say:

The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!”

Surah 98:7 states “The unbelievers among the people of the Book [Jews and Christians] and pagans shall burn forever in the fire of Hell,”

Surah 66:9 finds Allah telling Mohammed to “make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and deal with them sternly. Hell shall be their home, evil their fate.”

According to the passages alluded too, it is apparent that infidels are not accepted without conditions. I do not consider compulsory payment, or compulsory renouncing of ones religion in favor of another, to not be compelling. Further, the acts of force and violence to achieve a dominance of Islam over all other religions is pretty much validated in the passages, as noted above, from the Holy Book of Islam. The fact that Islam subscribes to a Theocratic form of government and there is only the Deity of Islam, any person who is an infidel will be considered third rate and will not be considered for any office of eminence.

To buttress and strengthen my argument further, I need only reference a letter sent to former President G. W. Bush from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current President of Iran and a devout follower of the Islamic Religion. Excerpts of the letter and observations as presented in the San Francisco Chronicle (May 10, 2006), are as follows:

—liberal democracies are collapsing—“Those with insight can already hear the sounds of the shattering and fall of the ideology and thoughts of the liberal democratic systems.”—United States give up the liberal democratic secular system and turn more toward religion—. The letter was rife with inferences indicating Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is monotheistic and the only Deity is the Deity of Islam.

September 2010 a rogue Christian Minister was touting the burning of Korans (Qurans) in deference to the memory of the near 3000 innocent victims of the 9/11/2001 Twin Towers attack; an attack that was perpetrated by Radical Muslim Fundamentalists. The response to this intended burning was presented by a notorious Islamic leader, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail, to a crowd of tens of thousands of Muslim faithfuls; and stated in part:—“we come to respond to this criminal, this liar, this crazy priest who reflects a crazy Western attitude toward Islam and the Muslim nation. We came to say the Koran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Koran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God’s lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book.”

The Founding Fathers of our nation had the infinite wisdom to realize that a guarantee of freedom and liberty to a society was dependent on the rule of law. The law was not intended to control the people it was intended to control a potential oppressive government, and our Constitution does just that; however, the constitution of the Islamists, the Quran (Koran), is a direct opposite. The Quran definitely controls the people, and even if the Quran was not in conflict with our rule of law, a society cannot have more than one Constitution. As John Adams stated, “we are a nation of laws not a nation of men.”

I believe it is time for the exalted elite in this country to engage in deference to the principles set forth by our Founding Fathers of this nation:

“Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.”—Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 1816.

“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”—Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

My answer to the question, Can A Devout Islamic Be A Dedicated United States Citizen, is categorically: NO; however, You Make The Call.

1 For the purpose of this writing American is a U.S. Citizen