US Postal Service won't send "any matter containing religious materials contrary to Islamic faith" to overseas military post offices

Want to send your brother-in-law in Iraq a Bible? An ikon? A kippah? Some joss sticks? Forget it. All that is "contrary to Islamic faith." Qur'ans and other Islamic articles only, please.

Sharia Alert from...the United States Postal Service: "Overseas Military Mail," from the U.S. Postal Service:

Mail addressed to military post offices overseas is subject to certain conditions or restrictions of mailing regarding content, preparation, and handling. The APO/FPO table below outlines these conditions by APO/FPO ZIP Codes through the use of footnoted mailing restrictions codes (see the Restrictions page following the table). [...]

RESTRICTIONS

[...]

C. Cigarettes and other tobacco products are prohibited.

C1. Obscene articles, prints, paintings, cards, films, videotapes, etc., and horror comics and matrices are prohibited.

D. Coffee is prohibited.

E1. Medicines or vaccines not conforming to French laws are prohibited.

E2. Any matter containing religious materials contrary to Islamic faith or depicting nude or semi-nude persons, pornographic or sexual items, or nonauthorized political materials is prohibited. [...]

SOURCE: http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/024002.php

Anti-Israel 'celebration' at the U.N.

The United Nations is currently marking the international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people, on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the UN's decision to approve the partition plan. For two days, the UN will hold blatantly anti-Israel events, including movies comparing Israel to the Nazis, and exhibits on the Israeli occupation and Palestinian suffering.

The climax will come in the form of a marathon of discussions, which got underway Monday and will culminate with six anti-Israel resolutions. These include ones calling for the Golan's return to Syria and for the division of Jerusalem. Israel normally ignores the annual solidarity day, yet this time officials decided to issue a harsh condemnation in light of the large volume of events and the fact that they are taking place while Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in negotiations. In a speech to be delivered Tuesday evening by Ambassador Gabriella Shalev, she is expected to condemn the UN's one-sided attitude. In the speech, Shalev will be pointing out that the UN does not have a day of solidarity with the rights of Israelis.

as reported by Dateline Israel

CNSNews.com Al-Qaida Insults Obama in New Audio Message

Cairo, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect -- along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice -- "house negroes."

Read the whole story.

Actor Jon Voight speaks out on behalf of Israel: “We’re overwhelmed by propaganda!”

In an rare interview, posted on YouTube, Academy Award winner - actor Jon Voight, father of actress Angelina Jolie, speaks out on behalf of Israel, the issues related to Sderot and the conflict in the Middle East.

Jon Voight is passionate about supporting Israel for “many reasons”. While not disclosing these reasons in specific terms, Mr. Voight gives us enough material to come to the conclusion that he is indeed for real when it comes to supporting Israel.

When asked by the interviewing journalist what is the reason he switched from being a “lefty to righty”, Voight explains that already after the Vietnam war, he realized the roots of the so called “anti-war” movement are Communist. The actor reiterates that Communists are good at propaganda and “that’s the real danger even today”. Again, Voight emphasizes his firml support for the success of the US-led military operation in Iraq and shares his concern that a premature pull out of the troops may lead to a civil war and a massacre of unheard proportions.

Direct link to the YouTube video: http://tinyurl.com/4fr73c

Islamic wahhabi radicals continue to peneterate the territory of Bulgaria

SOFIA, Bulgaria - May 22, 2008 - The Bulgarian State Agency on National Security (DANS) has announced that the Islamic organization "Faith" is preaching Wahhabism in Bulgaria. Bulgarian information sources report that the organization is not officially registered, but in fact it this is a conflicts with another report that says that the organization was indeed found in the registers of Sofia City Court. It was registered in 2002 as a foundation under the name "Faith". The agents working on the case discovered that activities of the foundation do not correspond with the purposes laid out in the registration with the court. The founders of the foundation are three Bulgarian citizens who have graduated Islamic theological education in Saudi Arabia. 

The activists of the organization were mostly targeting areas around Smolyan, a key city in the southern part of Bulgaria, traditionally populated with "pomaks" - ethnic Bulgarians who had been converted to Islam since the time of the Ottoman Empire controlled Bulgaria's territory between the 14th and the 19th centuries. 

Bulgarian information outlets who report the news also mention the fact that Wahhabism is the most radical form of militant Islam and its agenda is the islamization of the world. 

The Bulgarian Agency for National Security has also made a statement that the spread of this Islamic ideology among Bulgarian muslims has led to inner conflicts and it could also lead to radical conversions and social unrest, threatening the ethnic-religious peace in this small Balkan nation. 

On February 20th last year the Bulgarian authorities arrested in Sofia another cell related to Al-Qaeda and led by a Bulgarian mufti. The activity of the cell was mainly in recruiting muslims to go and fight in Chechnya. When asked by the media, Ahmed Hussein, member of Turkish party DPS in the Bulgarian parliament, dismissed the information as a rumor and played down the threat of radical islamist organizations advancing their agenda in Bulgaria. 

It's not a secret that the Bulgarian society in general has watched the conflict in the Middle East as a passive observer, while powerful political lobbies associated with the former Communist party and members of drug dealing criminal groups have taken part in arming radical groups such as the Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. 

Roubaix: the first occupied French city

Interview with Mohamed Sab'awi - a young sociologist from the catholic
university in Lille, Algerian by birth French by naturalization.

"Our peaceful invasion of European has not yet been completed. We
intend to act in all countries simultaneously. Because you give us
more and more space, it would be foolish of us not to take advantage
of this… We will be your Trojan horse. You've become hostages to the
very human rights which you are claiming. For example, if you were to
speak to me in Algeria or in Saudi Arabia, as I speak to you now,
you'd be most likely arrested on the spot.

You French are not able to impose respect from our youth toward
yourselves. Why they would respect a country that has surrendered to
them? One only respects whom it fears. When we have power, you will
not see a single Arab set fire to a car or a store… The Arabs know
that the inexorable thief deserves the amputation of his hand".

Mohamed Sab'awi continues during a recent interview:

"The laws of your Republic (France) do not conform to those of the
Koran and should not be imposed on Muslims, who can only be governed
by Sharia law. We will therefore work to take this power that we are
due. We will begin by Roubaix, who is now a Muslim city by more than
60%.

In future elections, we will mobilize our workforce, and the next
mayor will be Muslim. After negotiating with the state and the region,
we will declare Roubaix as a Muslim stronghold, independent (from
France,) and we will impose Sharia (law of God) to all inhabitants (of
Roubaix).

The Christian minority will have the status of Dhimmis. This will be a
special category that could redeem its freedoms and rights by a
special tax. This means, we will do what it takes to lead by
persuasion into our community. Tens of thousands of French have
already embraced Islam voluntarily, why not the Christians of Roubaix?
Currently at the University of Lille, we are setting up brigades of
faith, charged to "convert" the ungovernable Christians or Jews of
Roubaix, to have them to come to our religion, because God wills it!
If we are the strongest, it is God that wanted this. We do not have
the constraints of Christian obligation to provide assistance to
orphans, the poor and disabled. We can and must, on the contrary,
crush them if they constitute an obstacle and especially if they are
infidels ".

Article from: Le National Radical # 11, page 8
Translation: Erik Linawood

Minnesotans Pay for Muslim School

Minnesota taxpayers are footing the bill for a charter school that
reportedly violates the law by promoting religion — Islam.
Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) in Inver Grove Heights regularly holds
prayer sessions and includes study of the Koran in its curriculum,
even though charter schools are public schools and must not endorse or
promote religion, according to columnist Katherine Kersten of the
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.

She writes: "TIZA has many characteristics that suggest a religious
school. It shares the headquarters building of the Muslim American
Society of Minnesota, whose mission is 'establishing Islam in
Minnesota.' The building also houses a mosque. TIZA's executive
director, Asad Zaman, is a Muslim imam, or religious leader, and its
sponsor is an organization called Islamic Relief."

Zaman maintains that TIZA is not a religious school, and that prayer
is voluntary.

But Kersten says a substitute teacher who worked at the school told
her that students were taken to the bathroom to perform "ritual
washing," then were led into the gym where a man dressed in white with
a white cap led them in prayer.

"The prayer I saw was not voluntary," the teacher told Kersten, adding
that students were studying the Koran, "which gave me the impression
that Islamic Studies was a subject like any other."

The ACLU of Minnesota has begun an investigation of TIZA, and the
Minnesota Department of Education has also launched a review,
according to Kersten, who concludes:

"TIZA is skirting the law by operating what is essentially an Islamic
school at taxpayer expense…

"There's a double standard at work here — if TIZA were a Christian
school, it would likely be gone in a heartbeat."

as reported by newsmax.com

Palestinian Christians live in constant fear

You think only Israelis suffer from the terror of Hamas and other jihadists? Think again.

Presenting the "silent sufferers" - the Palestinian Christian minority.

There is no free press in Gaza. Outside reporters, whether Israeli or foreign, cannot move about freely and pursue such stories. Foreign reporters in particular need extensive handlers, as they do not know the local language, the local geography or the local leaders. It is much easier to stay in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem and rewrite press statements about the visit of the latest foreign dignitary.

Even if the reporters came, what would they be told? It is well known that Christian Palestinians who have been subject to firebombings, seizures of homes and businesses, assaults and death threats still tell foreign visitors that they have excellent relations with their Muslim neighbours. After the foreigners go home, these Christians must remain, and are loath to give any reason for jihadist extremists to think that they are stirring up trouble.

And so it goes -- news trickles out about one outrage or another, but it gets lost if it gets noticed at all. Meanwhile, Christians in Gaza and the West Bank try to live quietly, never knowing whether a newspaper in Denmark or a papal speech in Germany or nothing in particular might be the pretext for violence coming to their doors.

It is an awful way to live. It is more awful still that so few know, or care about it.

Read the full piece here.

Palestinians - the second largest importer of Israeli goods after U.S.

Here are some economic implications for both Israel and Palestinians if total blockade on Gaza becomes a fact:

* In 2006, total Israeli exports to the 60 million or so residents of France stood at slightly more than $1 billion. Israeli exports to the same amount of people in Italy stood at just below $1 billion.

* But total exports to both of these countries, which rank among the eight richest countries in the world, are equal to Israel's exports to the 3.5 million people of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. This is more than 6 percent of all Israeli exports, excluding diamonds. Despite all the intifadas, the Palestinian Authority is the second biggest customer of Israeli exports, after the United States.

If the blockade becomes permanent policy, Israel will lose a large part of its "captive market" - a stock phrase which in this case literally describes Gaza. "Israel benefited from its relations with the Palestinians," says Dan Catarivas, head of the foreign commerce branch of the Manufacturers Association and a former senior official in the finance and industry ministries. "And at the end of the day, it will lose if these ties are cut."

Whatever the 1.5 million people in Gaza need to live comes to them from Israel - from milk products to diapers, from medicine to cement. Even the humanitarian aid from international organizations is bought almost entirely from Israeli companies. Israeli firms also earn money as middlemen. Gas for cars is bought in Gaza via an Israeli intermediary at a tidy fee. About 5 percent of all freight that passes through the Ashdod port is earmarked for Gaza. This is to say nothing of the customs fees Israel is supposed to collect for the Palestinian Authority as part of the Paris Agreement signed in the 1990s, when everyone believed in a future of cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians. This money represents hundreds of millions of dollars that Israel put aside so it could eventually serve as a whip against the Palestinians.

An estimate by the Palestine International Business Forum shows that cutting off economic ties between Israel and the Palestinians would bring down the standard of living in the PA by one-third. Income per capita would fall to $500, the lowest in the Arab world, even lower than Sudan or Yemen.

Israel, according to this research, would lose around $2 billion per year. Some 76,000 jobs would be lost. Catarivas does not know whether these data are correct, but it is clear to him that Israel will be hurt. To his regret, he does not think that anyone really cares about this damage. "The system will adapt in the long run," Catarivas says. "Economic considerations will not have the upper hand over diplomatic considerations."

based on a report by Meron Rapoprt, Haaretz Correspondent

British Archbishop says sharia law unavoidable

The Archbishop of Canterbury has today said that the adoption of Islamic Sharia law in the
UK is "unavoidable" and that it would help maintain social cohesion.

Rowan Williams told BBC Radio 4's World At One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that
some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.

He says that Muslims could choose to have marital disputes or financial matters dealt with
in a Sharia court. He added Muslims should not have to choose between "the stark
alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty".

Dr Williams said there was a place for finding a "constructive accommodation" in areas such
as marriage - allowing Muslim women to avoid Western divorce proceedings.

Other religions enjoyed such tolerance of their own laws, he pointed out, but stressed that
it could never be allowed to take precedence over an individual's rights as a citizen.

He said it would also require a change in perception of what Sharia involved beyond the
"inhumanity" of extreme punishments and attitudes to women seen in some Islamic states.

Dr Williams said: "It seems unavoidable and, as a matter of fact, certain conditions of
Sharia are already recognised in our society and under our law, so it is not as if we are
bringing in an alien and rival system.

"We already have in this country a number of situations in which the internal law of
religious communities is recognised by the law of the land as justifying conscientious
objections in certain circumstances."

He added: "There is a place for finding what would be a constructive accommodation with some
aspects of Muslim law as we already do with aspects of other kinds of religious law.

"It would be quite wrong to say that we could ever license a system of law for some
community which gave people no right of appeal, no way of exercising the rights that are
guaranteed to them as citizens in general.

"But there are ways of looking at marital disputes, for example, which provide an
alternative to the divorce courts as we understand them.

"In some cultural and religious settings, they would seem more appropriate."

But his views were condemned today by senior Tory MP Peter Luff, who said: "This is a very
dangerous route which we should not go down. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You can't
have a little bit of sharia law.

"We should not start introducing new different legal systems alongside ours."

But the Archbishop defended his position saying people needed to look at Islamic law "with a
clear eye."

"They should not imagine, either, that we know exactly what we mean by Sharia and just
associate it with ... Saudi Arabia, or whatever," he continued.

"Nobody in their right mind would want to see in this country the kind of inhumanity that
has sometimes been associated with the practice of the law in some Islamic states: the
extreme punishments, the attitudes to women."

There were questions about how it interacted with human rights, he said.

"But I do not think we should instantly spring to the conclusion that the whole of that
world of jurisprudence and practice is somehow monstrously incompatible with human rights
just because it doesn't immediately fit with how we understand it."

Dr Williams said Orthodox Jewish courts already operated in the UK, and anti-abortion views
of Catholics and other Christians were "accommodated within the law".

"The whole idea that there are perfectly proper ways the law of the land pays respect to
custom and community, that's already there."

He said the issue of whether Catholic adoption agencies would be forced under equality laws
to accept gay parents showed there was confusion on the matter.

"That principle that there is only one law for everybody is an important pillar of our
social identity as a Western democracy.

"But I think it is a misunderstanding to suppose that means people don't have other
affiliations, other loyalties which shape and dictate how they behave in society and that
the law needs to take some account of that."

He said he accepted people might be surprised by his call but urged them to consider the
wider question.

"What we don't want is a stand-off where the law squares up to people's religious
consciences, on something like abortion or indeed by forcing a vote on some aspects of the
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in the Commons ... we don't either want a situation
where, because there's no legal way of monitoring what communities do, making them part of
the public process, people do what they like in private in such a way that that becomes
another way of intensifying oppression within a community."

Sharia law was originally more enlightened in its attitude to women than other legal
systems, he pointed out, but did now have to be brought up to date.

"But you have to translate that into a setting where that whole area of the rights and
liberties of women has moved on.

"The principle and the vision which animates the whole Islamic legal provision needs
broadening because of that."

Responding to comments by one of his senior bishops that Islamic extremism was creating
communities with "no-go areas" for non-Muslims, he said it was "not at all the case that we
have absolute social exclusion.

"But we do have a lot of social suspicion, a lot of distance and we just have to go on
working at how that shared citizenship comes through."

The Bishop of Rochester, The Rt Rev Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, said last month that non-Muslims
faced a hostile reception in places dominated by the ideology of Islamic radicals.

Dr Williams said the use of the phrase "no-go areas" had sparked controversy because it
reminded people of Northern Ireland.

"I don't think that was at all what was intended; I think it was meant to point to the silo
problem, the sense of communities not communicating with each other.

"Many Muslims would say that they feel bits of British society are no-go areas for them."

Mohammed Shafiq, director of the Ramadhan Foundation, welcomed the comments.

"These comments further underline the attempts by both our great faiths to build respect and
tolerance.

"Sharia law for civil matters is something which has been introduced in some Western
countries with much success; I believe that Muslims would take huge comfort from the
Government allowing civil matters being resolved according to their faith.

"We are however disappointed that the Archbishop of Canterbury was silent when Mr Nazir-Ali
was promoting intolerance and lying about no-go areas for Christians in the UK by Muslim
extremists.

"Unless he speaks out against this intolerance, Muslims will take his silence as
authorisation and support for such comments.

"The Ramadhan Foundation will continue to work with the Church of England to build
understanding and respect for our two communities."

Dr Williams's comments are likely to fuel the debate over multiculturalism in the UK.

But he insists that Sharia law needs to be better understood.

At the moment, he says "sensational reporting of opinion polls" clouds the issue.

THE EVENING STANDARD

Obama: Dhimmi Democratic candidate reveals his Muslim Summit Agenda

comment by Jerry Gordon
http://www.actforamerica.org

Senator Barack Obama, who appears to be sprinting in the pre Super Tuesday polls appears to have pulled off a real shocker. He revealed that he is a dhimmi Democrat. In a Paris Match interview yesterday, he indicated that one of the first things that he would do if elected would be to convene a summit with the leaders of the world's Muslim nations and enlist their aid in the war on terrorism.

Here is what Obama said in the Paris Match interview as translated by Reuters.

"Once I'm elected, I want to organize a summit in the Muslim world, with all the heads of state, to have an honest discussion about ways to bridge the gap that grows every day between Muslims and the West," Thursday's edition of Paris Match quoted Obama as saying,

"I want to ask them to join our fight against terrorism. We must also listen to their concerns."

Really. Sounds like appeasement to us. That amounts to letting all of the Islamic camel into the tent to eat our lunch. It's bad enough that we have Cultural Jihad and Sharia finance breaking on these shores, big time. Now, we have a possible presumptive Presidential candidate who doesn't realize that it is not the war of terrorism. It is the war against Political Islam that we are engaged in: the long war. Whether it is Jihad, the tag line from GOP contender Governor Romney,or,the war against radical Islamic extremism of Sen. McCain, at least they 'get it'.

Here's what Matt Brooks of the Republican Jewish Coalition said in a news release, today:

"We are deeply troubled by Senator Obama's desire to 'hold a summit in the Muslim world, with all heads of state' -- many of whom have yet to renounce terrorism or refrain from anti-Semitic incitement," said Brooks. "Nowhere in the Paris Match article does Senator Obama affirm Israel's right to exist. Nor does he condemn the repeated terrorist strikes against Israel -- the only stable democracy in the region."

"Further in his interview, Senator Obama said he wanted to listen to the 'concerns' of these nations. For many, their biggest concern is Israel's existence. It's worrisome that Senator Obama wants to 'listen' to those calling for Israel's destruction. It's also worrisome that he didn't use this interview to call on Muslims to stop teaching hateful anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda in their schools and textbooks."

"By asking Muslim nations, some of whom actively train and fund Hezbollah and Hamas, to 'join our fight against terrorism,' Senator Obama once again demonstrates his shaky foreign policy judgment and raises questions about his commitment to Israel's security. For all those who care about Israel, Senator Obama's Muslim nations summit is a cause for alarm and concern," said Brooks.

So where is Obama getting the idea that he should be engaged in dialogue with Muslims, who hold him and us in contempt, as kaffirs-"unbelievers"? Is it his half brother, a Luo tribesman in Kenya? Or his commiseration with Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga who cut a deal with the National Muslim Leaders Forum in Kenya to abet sharia?

At any Summit with leaders of the Organization of Islamic Conference, all they will do is spew out is nothing but taqiyyah-religiously sanctioned dissimilitude and suggest that a 'hudna' or cease fire, is all that is needed. A cease fire so they can regroup and attack us when we least expect it.

Many think that Obama has been listening to his racist and anti-Semitic pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ who has sucked up to Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan and Libya's crazed Muammar Gaddafi.

Perhaps, Obama has been taking advise from foreign policy advisers like the father Zbigniew Brzezinski and son Mark, former President 'Jimma' Carter and Tony Lake, former, Clinton aide. Or perhaps it is the eminence grise financier, hedge fund mogul and anti-US hegemon advocate, George Soros.

As Muslims consider Obama a murtadd or apostate, I wouldn't advise his attending any Muslim summit. They might have Imams, Mullahs and Ayatollahs issue a fatwa against him.

Lights out - more anti-Israel propaganda

Today's headlines include the LA Times's "Gaza dark amid Israeli blockade" and The Guardian's "Gaza plunged into darkness as Israeli fuel blockade takes effect". Similar headlines appear in many media outlets. You could be forgiven for thinking that Israel has cut off the entire electricity supply to the Gaza Strip.

Despite ongoing Qassam attacks from the territory, Israel has not switched off the electricity. In fact, Hamas itself shut down Gaza's only power station after inviting the media to watch it do so.

The mainstream media ultimately assisted Hamas in creating the impression of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The fact is Israel has restricted fuel supplies in response to the terrorism emanating from Gaza but continues to provide the Palestinians with electricity.

The Times of London omits this vital fact altogether in a story headlined "Darkness falls on Gaza as Israel takes revenge for rocket attacks". AFP, while quoting Israeli officials, also omitted the facts leaving readers with the impression that Israel is simply denying responsibility.

While Gazans are undoubtedly suffering, the dark picture painted by the mainstream media is different from the reality. As the Israel's Foreign Ministry notes, the supply of electricity to Gaza from the Israel and the Egyptian power grids (124 Megawatts and 17 Megawatts respectively) has continued uninterrupted. These 141 Megawatts of power represents about three quarters of Gaza's electricity needs.

Israel Electric Company workers' committee chairman Miko Zarfati goes further:

"This is Palestinian spin. No one has stopped the supply of electricity to the Strip," Zarfati told Ynet. He claimed that his employees worked day and night in a power plant in Ashkelon while putting themselves in danger of being hit by Qassam rockets falling in the area.

The Gaza power plant only produces 30% of the electricity consumed in the Strip while Israel supplies the rest.

"It is simply offensive and arrogant for them to claim that there is shortage," Zarfati said....

"The situation is totally absurd. We're continuing to supply them electricity despite the (demand) overload for electricity in Israel and despite the fact that Israeli residents and Electric Company workers that are being sent to Gaza Vicinity communities are under threat from Qassam rockets," Zarfati railed.

Ha'aretz also reports that despite the blackout in Gaza City, southern and central Gaza - which receive electricity from Israel and Egypt directly - were not affected by the shutdown.

Hamas manipulation of the media is evident in an AP story that reported "Children marched through dark streets holding candles, an angry Hamas TV announcer shouted at the camera "We are being killed, we are starving!"

Once again, the mainstream media has wittingly or unwittingly fallen into the Hamas trap. By plunging Gaza into darkness, the terrorist organization has managed to shift the story away from its own responsibility for the Qassams and terror on Sderot. Instead, Israel's image is taking a beating for a perceived humanitarian crisis of Hamas's own making.

Please correct the stories from The Times and AFP by writing to letters@thetimes.co.uk and http://www.afp.com/english/afp/?pid=contact respectively.

Also write to your local media outlets if you feel that they are not giving sufficient context and information to this story. Full contact details for many media can be found on HonestReporting's website.

Source: www.honestreporting.com

Golden Rule Islam

by Bill Warner

Islam's apologists say that Islam just needs a reform. After all, Christianity and Judaism have been reformed. But the apologists never get around to saying what the reform would be.

There are many kinds of reform possible to Islam, but does anyone care if they reformed prayer by praying towards LA rather than Mecca? No. The only thing that kafirs care about is how Islam treats us. We want our treatment changed. We want political Islam reformed.

Islam's treatment of us can be found in one word--kafir. The Koran says that a kafir (unbeliever) can be robbed, killed, tortured, mocked, insulted, beheaded, raped, crucified and on and on. The Hadith and the Sira agree with the Koran. Every single reference to the kafirs is negative, offensive and hateful.

The word "kafir" illustrates both of political Islam's principles--submission and duality. The Trilogy (Koran, Sira and Hadith) says that every kafir in the world must submit to political Islam.

The Koran also establishes dualism with its ethical system. A Muslim is not to kill another Muslim; a kafir may be killed, or not. A Muslim is not to lie to another Muslim; a kafir may be deceived or not. And so on. Islam has one set of ethics for Muslims and another set of ethics for the kafir--dualistic ethics.

The later political Koran written in Medina frequently contradicts the early religious Koran written in Mecca. The Koran gives a rule for removing the contradiction by saying that the later Koran "abrogates" the early Koran. But the earlier Koran is still true; it was given by Allah. So in Islam both sides of a contradiction can be true. This gives Islam its dualistic logic. Our unitary logic says that if two things contradict, then one of them is false

This dualism accounts for the two types of Muslims--the good Muslim at work and the Taliban Muslim. Both Muslims are "real" Muslims. Dualism gives the "good" Muslim plausible deniability when they say that jihadists are not "real" Islam. Dualism means the "good" Muslims and the jihadists are just two ends of the same stick.

The Koran, Sira and Hadith are filled with demands for all kafirs to submit to Islam. Kafirs can submit by joining the religion or submit by being a dhimmi (an apoligist). Either way, the Koran constantly demands that all kafirs submit to Islam.

So what kafirs want to reform about Islam is its principles of political submission and duality. What principle can be used to reform Islam? The key is how Islam treats the "other"--the kafir. The Golden Rule tells us how the "other" is to be treated. Every culture in the world has the Golden Rule as part of its heritage. But not Islam.

So what happens if we apply--treat others, as you want to be treated--to political Islam? All of the hurtful, hateful and harmful duality and submission disappear. What is amazing is how much of the Islamic doctrine goes away. About 61% of the Koran disappears. The Sira loses 75% of its words and 20% of the Hadith vanishes.

And those figures are low. All of the abusive words about women would go away as well. So the above reductions would be even bigger.

The Golden Rule even changes Hell. Islamic Hell is primarily political. Hell is mentioned 146 times in the Koran. Only 9 references are for moral failings--greed, lack of charity, love of worldly success. The other 137 references to Hell involve eternal torture for not agreeing that Mohammed is right. That is a political charge, not a morals failure. Thus 94% of the references to Hell are as a political prison for dissenters. The Golden Rule would empty the political prison.

Think how wonderful a Golden Rule Islam would be. No arguments, demands, accusations, law suits, threats, pressure, hateful speech, killings, or bombings. A Muslim could even be a true friend to a kafir. Islam would develop a sense of shame and admit to the terrible suffering of the 270,000,000 kafirs killed in jihad. A Golden Rule Islam would ask forgiveness about all the suffering of the dhimmis. A Golden Rule Islam would also admit to running the slave trade in Africa by killing and capturing the slaves they sold to the white slave traders.

Women would not have to be beaten and wear the hijab or burka. Honor killings would stop. Muslims could join us in the human race.

But all of those wonderful thoughts vanish when you realize what else it would mean to Islam. Mohammed had only 150 followers in Mecca after preaching the religion for 13 years. But when he went to Medina and became a politician and warlord, he conquered all of Arabia in 9 years by averaging a violent event every 6 weeks.

Duality and political submission were the principles that gave Islam its victory. Why would Islam drop the only principles that yielded success? Duality and political submission have crushed the world that believes in the Golden Rule.

CSPI (Center for the Study of Political Islam) could produce a Koran, Sira and Hadith that would use the Golden Rule. It would be a thin volume, but what Muslim would buy it?