IS ISLAM A RELIGION?
I recently saw an article about Islam in Japan. It said that:
-No Muslim can have citizenship
-No permanent residency for Muslims
-No propagating of Islam
-No importing of the Quran in Arabic
-Most corporations don't accept applications for employment from Muslims
-No renting of houses to Muslims
-No Sharia Law
There were more rules listed, but you can see the trend. One would think that, as the author of a blog promoting the free expression of faith, that I would be outraged by such rules. Actually, having spent 6 years regularly attending Muslim prayer meetings, reading the Quran and other Islamic writings, and discussing the topic with Muslim leaders, I can understand why Japan is taking such a stance.
My study of the subject has led me to conclude, along with many Muslim and non-Muslim folks, that Islam is not primarily a religion. It is a governmental system with a religious component. My conclusion is not unique. Consider the influential Islamic Spiritual leader Abul Ala Maududi who concludes, "Islam is an ideology. The five pillars of Islam cry out for a state to exist in order for their full establishment to be achieved. This is the nature of Islam as it is an ideology." Remember, Islam's most important goal, it's ultimate ambition, is the establishment of a worldly state, a global political empire: the Caliphate, to whose authority all of mankind-Muslims and non-Muslims alike- are subjected.
Professor Urbain Vermeulen, former president of the European Union of Arabists and Islamicists, says Islam is only 10% religion, while 90% deals with how people have to behave in accordance with Islamic law based on divine revelations Muhammad received.
Egyptian born Nonie Darwish, the daughter of an Egyptian Islamic martyr wrote, "Islam is a political and legal system of totalitarian control". She concludes that Islamic apostasy laws move Islam from a religion to a totalitarian political ideology.
The mistake much of Europe, the UK, Canada, and the U.S. is making is to think that Islam is primarily a religion and therefore afford Islam religious freedoms which have been used by Islamic leaders to establish governmental systems contrary to the laws and customs of the host country. It is causing chaos in Europe. A native of Berlin told me this week that when she visits her homeland, she is appalled by what is happening to her country. The Muslims are not assimulating. They are conquering and ravaging the land.
Only when the leaders of the west recognize the true nature of Islam as primarily a governmental system seeking to impose Sharia Law worldwide and to destroy our governmental system as contained in the Constitution and the other foundational documents upon which our societies have been governed, will we have a chance to maintain our freedoms.
Japan must have done it's homework and decided to act before it was too late.
