Once in U.S. history an episode of Islamic terrorism was very quickly stopped. It happened in the Philippines in 1911, when Gen. John J. Pershing was in command of a small garrison. There had been numerous Islamic killings against the population, so "Black Jack" told his men to catch some of them and teach them a lesson.

Forced to dig their own graves, the terrorists were all tied to posts, execution style. The U.S. soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. Thus, the terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with hogs' blood. This would mean that they could not enter Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs.

All but one was shot, their bodies dumped into the grave, and the hog guts dumped atop the bodies. The lone survivor was allowed to escape back to the islamist camps and tell his brethren what happened to the others. This brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years.

“Approximately 51% of the Medinan Koran text is about jihad and verbal threats directed against Jews, non-Muslims and hypocrites (half-hearted Muslims). The Koran of Medina is 10.8% Jew hatred in nature. By comparison, only 6.8% of the text (measured by paragraphs) of Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kamph is anti-Jewish.” http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/20959...

Get some psychic help you all and a life – for sure!

Mohammed as perfect man = Hitler is always right
Ummah = Volk
Both anti-Semitic
Both hostile to Christianity, democracy, free speech and womens' rights
Both glorify war
Mohammed and Hitler both believed they were chosen by God

As for helping those supposed large numbers of Muslims who don't want to be in it, the West needs to help itself first. Only by keeping Islam out of the West will anyone, including Muslims who want to leave Islam, have any hope of finding a safe place to escape Islam. If Islam expands in the West including in America then there will be no safe place on earth for apostates from Islam.

If the West does get serious and restricts Islam in the West then it can begin a propaganda campaign to expose Islam.

The people living under Islam have to fend for themselves however. If they want to rise up they can do it but any and all involvement from the West only makes matters worse. The Christians of Iraq currently are the worst example. America should be ashamed for what it has done to them. As long as we treat Islam as a good thing, that only the “extremists” are the problem, any involvement on our part, acting from that flawed premise, only makes everything worse.

Yes, Islam keeps its followers largely ignorant of world matters, world history and modern life and the Koran is never supposed to be translated into other languages, since they are considered “impure” or some such nonsense.

What I have noticed is that the only really “educated” Muslims are those in the oil and gas engineering and business fields who have had contact with the west.

The main leaders of Islam also seem to have specific ethnic backgrounds, namely Arabic, Egyptian or Turk. This represents those same peoples who had vast empires throughout the period between 800 and the end of the Ottoman Empire.

Coincidence?

I think not.

And like the millions of westerners who have fallen into cult and have been assisted by friends and families to leave, I feel that millons of Muslims who have been literally brainwashed into submission are capable of leaving Islam by massive intervention and de-programming efforts.

Remember that there are probably hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world who are closet believers in other religions or are closet atheists. They dare not speak out since the control system they live under does not permit people to freely and openly choose to leave for another religion without dire consequences. It takes away the power and control from the leaders.

This last point is the one fundamental reason why more and more people are seeing Islam for what it truly is, a political and economic control system masquerading as a religion. That is was developed over 1,300 years ago does not change this fact.

Just because it is ancient does not make it a religion, even with prayers, scripture and ceremony layered on top. You must look at it from the personal perspective and also a global one.

How does it treat those who leave? Can you question its tenets and beliefs without fear of censure, ostracism or other punishments? How does it treat non-believers? Does its practices encourage universal, ethical behaviour toward those less fortunate in their culture, regardless of the beliefs of those people? How do the lives of their founder(s) display ethics and compassion? How are women treated? What are the punishments for relatively small crimes like petty theft? Does it allow freedom of conscience (ie can believers choose to leave and not fear for their lives)?

I'm sure that you can give negative answers for practically every question for many religions, but Islam seems to have the lion's share of negative answers for each. Add to this the fact that every day, Muslims commit atrocities in the name of their control system around the world and not a peep comes from the “moderates” among them. Not a peep.

And there are few Muslims in the west who would turn in to authorities those among them who are terrorists. It rarely happens.

The Reformation had as an unespected consequence the fact that people could follow their conscience for themselves without fearing that church leaders (and o thers eventually) were peering over their shoulders with each and every move they made.

The religion itself was not “taken down a peg or tow”, the leaders in it were because they now had coemptetition.

Islam has never had, nor will it tolerate competition. This is why jihad is so important. Mo and his thugs hated all competition and to this day, the leaders still do.

It is a perversion of the concept of Reformation when used in this way. The Christian Reformation was NOT a way of taking Christianity down a peg or two, it was a RETURN TO THE BASIC FAITH, THE WRITTEN TEXTS, the REMOVING from the faith of various man-made additions to it that had occurred over the years primarily by the Catholic Church. In the case of Islam, any “reformation” in the sense that it occurred in Christianity WOULD ONLY MAKE ISLAM WORSE! That in fact is what the radicals have done, stripped away the man-made additions to Islam – the liberal notions of modernity that they reject. Islam does not need a reformation, it needs for some of the basic elements of Islam to be rejected out of hand, and that is never ever in a million billion years going to happen because Islam says that it is perfect, dictated directly from Allah through an angel to Muhammad, there is no interpretation, it is black and white perfect end of story. Change one tiny little itty bitty thing and you are REJECTING THE ENTIRE PREMISE OF IT, so that cannot be done and never will be done. Hoping for an Islamic reformation is for fools and the West cannot risk their future on that hope.

What are trying to say here? At this point all that the West should try to do is prevent any other NON-ISLAMIC country or part of a country from falling to Islam. Any country that is already Islamic is a lost cause, there is nothing that can be done. Any non-Muslims in those lands for the most part need to just fend for themselves. Any involvement from us only makes matters worse for non-Muslims as has been proved in Iraq with what has happened to the Christians since we got involved.

“I think that one if its most telling features is that it denies followers the right to have freedom of conscience. Why else would its leaders (and founder) threaten them with death if they leave?”

There is no more damning piece of evidence against Islam than the fact that people are forced into it and killed if they leave it. Nothing more should need to be said about it. But the average twit brainwashing in the modern liberal West would respond that “all religions” do that or at least used to do that. Their cluelessness is simply limitless. They don't even understand that no one can be “forced” to be a Christian, that it is a personal choice. Jews may shun a family member who leaves their faith and becomes a Christian but they don't try to kill them. Any person or group that kills those who try to leave are fooling themselves if they think they are really loved or wanted. The real God only wants people around Him who want to be there, though I guess unbelievers would claim that the threat of Hell for eternity is a sort of forcing people to “want” to be with Him. But this is all beyond the point, Islam kills those in this life physically who leave it. That is proof enough that it is a pathetic weak faith. If all the Muslims worldwide were free to leave chances are good that there would be many many fewer Muslims. Simple statistics would say that in any human population a certain number would choose atheist, Christian, whatever, not 99.99% Muslim, no way.