"Similarly, none of the speakers I heard addressed the violence of radical Islam."

Who said it is their duty to do so? Do you expect the Pope to address the disgusting molestation of young boys by catholic priests in all of his speeches?

"While waiting for another session to begin, I caught the tail end of a speech by Zaid Shakir…"

"The tail end," as in, you only listened to part of the speech. So how do you know he didn't address the "violence of radical Islam"? Wouldn't you need to hear the whole speech to come to that conclusion?

All I'm saying is, for the people reading this article, please take it with a grain of salt. Realize that this is just one biased opinion and many other non-Muslims may have had a very different impression of it, considering the amount of people who have converted just in those three days. The RIS convention is a beautiful and uplifting experience for many and you should check it out for yourself before forming an opinion on it.

And the user comments are just sick and vile.

Shame on all of you.

Muslims are already part of Western society and must contribute positively to their adapted countries.

Translation: Muslims have infiltrated behind enemy lines and must now spread Islam.

Ramadan encouraged Muslims to integrate into Western society and to distinguish friends from enemies.

Translation: lay low and make use of useful idiots.

Although Muslims have criticisms of the West and moral values to offer, he argued that they must respect the laws of the countries in which they are living.

Translation: Islam is not yet strong enough to be spread by the sword, but when the numbers are right the knives come out.

The writer, Jonathan Usher, is obviously not familiar with Islamic double speak and thinking. No, Tariq Ramadan is no 'reformer', far from it. He is an Islamo agit prop, a hardcore da'awa merchant who wants to make the world Islamic, nothing else will do.

Will he kill and die for it? I can't answer that, but his religion commands it. Koran 9:111

We are becoming annoyed by your "religion".

Also Christianity promises a Utopia, the Kingdom of Heaven created by God. While that other religion now competing with Christianity for hearts and minds, the Left’s Marxism, promises a utopia made by human hand.

In fact, the heart of darkness now is that big business and big government elites are working together with the Left to form a one-world government that will give big business unlimited customers, cheap labor and one that will be a leftist totalitarian government as well.

And once again we see duality at work, the duality of freedom versus slavery that is present in the opposite beliefs of big powerful government versus a contained one. Or to use George Washington’s analogy of government being like fire—a useful servant but a fearful master.

For the Left believes that man is perfectible, not fallen in need of constraints being placed on the power that corrupts him. Thus the duality in life continues its march across the pages of history as the Left blindly ignores the reality of duality and insists that man is correctable and everything must be equal. Which is an impossibility.

Because naturally the elites “equality” won’t apply to the elites, as always some will be more equal than others. As a result duality will continue unabated with its haves and have-nots intact.

And, unfortunately before this pipe dream of a man made Utopia can be realized the United States must be brought down to the level of third world nations— to fulfill the Left’s “noble” egalitarian goal of equality. When equality is a lie that can’t and won’t be realized because man is fallen and flawed with a deceit so deep he even lies and deceives himself. This lying of fallen man even to himself is the reason psychiatry is needed.

Additionally the Left uses the lie of everything being in “crisis” to move its agenda. For example when I was a member of the Left, a feminist, I was told that the claim of crisis was the means to move to action, because otherwise nothing gets done.
Hence any lie is good if it moves the Left’s agenda in the twisted deluded morality of the Left, because to the Left believes the end justifies the means.

Jesus, however, said that “the Devil is a liar and the father of lies”, and this supposed “Utopia” is being built on lies. Plus Christianity teaches the end is determined by the means and is a product of the means.

Christianity teaches, “What is meted out shall be meted out again.” For good or ill whatever we send out will come back to us again as the end product of the means giving rise to a Christian version of Karma. And just as a wrong premise results in a wrong conclusion a bad idea, or seed, produces a bad outcome or rotten fruit every time.

Therefore this one-world government, this “Utopia” is bound for destruction because it is not of God and is based on deceit.

For it is only God who is the ultimate power, source of truth and author of freedom, that can heal the world and form a Utopia of hope. Fallen man is incapable of it.

END BLACK SLAVERY by Arab MUSLIM MASTERS
We Must Protest Globally Demanding Freedom for the Slaves.

BBC NEWS
13 December 2004
Slavery: Mauritania's best kept secret
By Pascale Harter
BBC News, Nouakchott

Skyra is a runaway Mauritanian slave. Her earliest childhood memories are of fetching water, tending animals and cooking and cleaning.

"I was tied up all night and all day.
They only untied me so I could do my chores. In the end I could barely move my limbs." She never earned a single penny…

Rape
Skyra was born to a slave mother so there was never any question she would be anything else. She remembers the years she spent treated like an animal.

"They raped me often," she says shaking with anger.

"My master is the father of my first child, my master's son is the father of my second child and my baby girl's father was my master's nephew".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4091579.stm

Mohammad, founder of Islam, beheaded 700 Jews who obeyed G-D's Laws, because they refused to follow the new religion of Islam. Mohammad was a huge slave trader and considered the perfect man and role model by Muslims.

January 22, 2001
by Samuel Cotton
(This article appeared in the February 1-February 7, 1995, issue of The City Sun.)
ARAB MASTERS-BLACK SLAVES

"Black Africans in Mauritania were converted to Islam more than 100 years ago," says Mohamed Athie, Executive Director of the American Anti-Slavery Group, [and]. . ."the Koran forbids the enslavement of fellow Muslims, but in this country race outranks religious doctrine. . . Though they are Muslims, these people are chattel: used for labor, sex and breeding."

Africa Watch reported that "Religion has been used by masters as an important instrument to perpetuate slavery.
http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/225…

When Muslims occupied and ruled Eastern Europe, as a tax, one out of five European children were taken as slaves to Turkey. In our day, hundreds of thousands of Black Sudanese Christians have been taken for slaves by Sudan's Arab Muslims.

Islamic SLAVERY, Atrocities and Tortures of Slaves so terrible, that the article 'ARAB MASTERS-BLACK SLAVES' (http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/225… declare they cannot print them. What IS printed is utterly horrific.

Conversion to Islam is supposed to buy protection from Islamic barbarism.

Bible, Genesis 4:10 And G-D said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground."

WHY no outcry and prosecution of these terrible crimes against Black humanity from the US/EU/UN?

WHY are Black Muslims not protesting by the millions against the barbarism and slavery perpetrated against Blacks by Arab Muslims? Black brothers and sisters are wickedly betrayed!

Why are African Muslims waging jihad against non-Muslim Blacks? Have the Black brothers and sisters not suffered enough down through history until this present day?

Why are African Muslims and ALL Black Muslims everywhere not fighting to STOP the barbarism and slavery perpetrated against Black Muslims in Mauritania and Sudan by Arab Muslims? It is SHAMEFUL.

FREE THE SLAVES

http://www.TheReligionOfPeace.com

http://www.TheThirdJihad.com

http://www.FaithFreedom.org