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98 MIN MOVIE: ISLAM - WHAT THE WEST NEEDS TO KNOW
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98 MIN MOVIE: ISLAM - WHAT THE WEST NEEDS TO KNOW
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[ Subject: 98 min Movie: Islam - What the West Needs to Know
[ From: viji
[ Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006
What the West Needs to Know
An examination of Islam, violence, and
the fate of the non-Muslim world.
98 mins
http://www.whatthewestneedstoknow.com/about_the_project.asp
Main Idea
Virtually every major Western leader has over the past
several years expressed the view that Islam is a peaceful
religion and that those who commit violence in its name
are fanatics who misinterpret its tenets. This claim,
while widely circulated, rarely attracts serious public
examination. Relying primarily on Islam's own sources,
this documentary demonstrates that Islam is a violent,
expansionary ideology that seeks the destruction or
subjugation of other faiths, cultures, and systems of
government.
Content
The documentary consists of original interviews,
citations from Islamic texts, Islamic artwork, computer-
animated maps, footage of Western leaders, and Islamic
television broadcasts. Its tone is sober, methodical, and
compelling.
Outline of the Documentary
Introduction
We hear from prominent Western leaders that Islam is
peaceful and that those who commit violence in its name
are heterodox fanatics.
Part 1: 'There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his
Prophet'
Our interviewees affirm their belief that Islamic
violence is entirely orthodox behavior for Muslims and
stems directly from the teachings and example of the
Prophet Muhammad and the commands of the Koran. We learn
that the example of Muhammad is one of a violent warlord
who killed numerous people. The Koran - the verbatim
words of Allah - prescribes violence against non-Muslims
and Muhammad is the perfect example of the Koran in
action.
Part 2: The Struggle
We learn that jihad, while literally meaning 'struggle',
in fact denotes war fought against non-Muslims in order
to bring the rule of Islamic law to the world. Violent
death in jihad is, according to the Koran, the only
assurance of salvation. One of our interviewees tells of
his personal involvement in terrorism and his leaving
Islam.
Part 3: Expansion
Following the death of Muhammad, his 'rightly-guided'
successors carried his wars to three continents,
fighting, enslaving, and massacring countless Christians,
Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and others. Islam did not
spread through evangelism or through its natural appeal,
but through aggressive wars of conquest. The Crusades
were largely a belated response on the part of Christian
Europe to rescue Christians in the Holy Land suffering
under Muslim oppression. The Muslim world today, while no
longer the unified empire of the Caliphs, is exceptional
for being responsible for the vast majority of conflicts
around the world and for almost all of international
terrorism.
Part 4: 'War is Deceit'
A great problem with Western efforts to understand Islam
is due to the Islamic principle of 'religious deception',
which enjoins Muslims to deceive non-Muslims in order to
advance the cause of Islam. Muslim groups today in the
West employ deception and omission to give the impression
that 'Islam is a religion of peace', an utter fiction.
Part 5: More than a Religion
The most important characteristic of Islam not understood
by the West is that it is more a system of government
than a personal religion. Throughout its history, Islam
has never recognized a distinction between the religious
and the secular/political. Islamic law governs every
aspect of religious, political, and personal action,
which amounts to a form of totalitarianism that is
divinely enjoined to dominate the world, analogous in
many ways to Communism.
Part 6: The House of War
Islamic theology divides the world into two spheres
locked in perpetual combat, dar al-Islam (House of Islam
- where Islamic law predominates), and dar al-harb
(House of War - the rest of the world). It is incumbent
on dar al-Islam to fight and conquer dar al-harb and
permanently assimilate it. Muslims in Western nations are
called to subvert the secular regimes in which they now
live in accordance with Allah's command. Due to political
correctness and general government and media
irresponsibility, the danger posed by observant Muslims
in the West remains largely unappreciated.
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