Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Nicolai Sennels, a Danish psychologist who worked for several years with young criminal Muslims in a Copenhagen prison. He is the author of Among Criminal Muslims. A Psychologist’s Experience from the Copenhagen Municipality. The book will be out in English later this year. He can be contact at: nicolaisennels@gmail.com.
FP: Nicolai Sennels, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
I would like to talk to you today about your experience working with young criminal Muslims in a Copenhagen prison. Let’s begin by talking about how you got into your line of work.
Sennels: Thank Jamie.
Well., many people think that I took the prison job because I wanted to get a closer look at Muslim mentality, failed integration and Islam. But I did not. I was just looking for a job and having worked as a social worker taking care of teenagers for several years part time while studying at Copenhagen University to become a psychologist, it was natural for me to apply for a job involving juvenile offenders. I had no idea that seven out of ten teenagers in the average Danish youth prisons have a Muslim background. Since I was the first psychologist at the institution I was very free to develop my position as psychologist.
The main job was to find out the young peoples’ pedagogical and therapeutic needs and develop therapeutic methods fitted for those needs. And this I did and this is what my book is about. The unusual thing about my work is that I found out that my Muslim clients had certain psychological characteristics that my non-Muslim – mostly Danish – clients did not have. They were all between 15 and 17 years old, most of them showed antisocial behaviour and a big part of both groups came from homes with a certain lack of emotional support. I guess nine out of ten were boys and though the main part came from less well functioning homes I also had many Muslim and Danish clients who’s parents and elder siblings were well educated, had normal jobs and so on.
I worked in the prison for a bit less than three years and had around 150 Muslim clients and 100 Danish clients. I conducted group therapies and individual therapies and with such a large amount of both Muslim and non-Muslim clients I had a relatively large background material for understanding and comparing their psychological development and the underlying conditions influencing this development. Normal “real” research projects of this kind – consisting of long and several qualitative interviews – most often only have 20-30 subjects as background material.
FP: Ok, so some of your conclusions?
Sennels: Well, one significant conclusion was that having been raised in a Muslim environment – with Muslim parents and traditions – includes the risk of developing certain antisocial patterns.
About two thirds of all teenagers accused for criminal actions in Copenhagen have a Muslim background. For years the explanation for this phenomenon has been that Muslims are discriminated against by Danish employers and are thus unable to find a job. The consequence is that Muslims are poor – and this poverty then gets the blame for the high crime rate among young Muslim men.
As a humanist and psychologist I have to expose and oppose this faulty explanation. Explaining psychological development and complicated human mental and behavioural patterns by pointing on the amount of kroner, Euros or dollars rolling in to a person’s bank account every first bank day of the month is a very materialistic and two-dimensional view on the human being. What is first of all deciding our actions is our own free will and motivation – which are first of all influenced by the emotional, cultural and in some cases religious frame that we grew up in.
It is easy to establish a statistical connection between poverty and criminal behaviour – but what comes first? I saw a lot of young teenagers sowing the seeds for their own future unemployment by not going to school, staining their criminal records and developing unattractive social habits such as aggressiveness, insecurity and lack of respect for authorities.
FP: Did you find any real differences between Muslims coming from different parts of the Muslim world?
Sennels: My experience from working with Muslims is that the culture developed under Islamic influence supports the development of certain psychological characteristics. I had Muslim clients from most of the Muslim world: most of the Middle East, Muslim countries in Africa, Pakistan and ex-Yugoslavia. I did not register any major differences between the mentalities between these countries. The only real importance deciding the impact of Muslim mentality was whether the client himself identified himself strongly as belonging to the Muslim society or not. There was a quantitative difference from the often less Islamic Muslims from e.g. ex-Yugoslavia and the clients from the Middle East who mostly identified themselves strongly as being Muslims.
By far the most of my 150 Muslim clients expressed strong loyalty to their God, Allah, and their prophet but less than half was actively practising Islam by doing their prayers, Quran studies etc. But there did not seem to be any difference between the actively practising group and the group that could be called loyal but passive believers. Seen from the therapy room, the mentality stemming from Islamic influence on the societies where it is the dominating value system is so strongly rooted in the culture that Muslims are influenced by its dogmas and values no matter if they pray five times a day and can recite the Quran or not.
FP: Draw for us a psychological profile of Muslim culture. How does it shape a human being’s mind and behaviour to grow up in such a culture?
Sennels: The most important characteristics that I found concerns aggression, self-confidence, individual responsibility and identity.
Concerning anger, it quickly becomes clear that Muslims in general have a different view on aggression, anger and threatening behaviour than Danes and probably most of our Western world.
For most Westerners, it is an embarrassing sign of weakness if people become angry. This view on anger is probably consolidated already in early childhood. I have been working as a school psychologist for several years and bullying is a continuous problem at the schools that I work in. The interesting thing is that the children who are most likely to be the target of being bullied are the children that get angry the easiest. If people get angry we have a tendency to lose respect for them and in many cases we try to tease them to provoke them even more – with the pedagogical aim of helping the person to realize the childishness of his or her behaviour. Trying to get one’s will by acting aggressively or using threats is seen as immature and our reaction is often to ridicule or simply ignore them. Thus, the shortest way to lose face in our Western culture is to show anger.
It is completely opposite in the Muslim culture. While most of my Danish clients who had problems with anger felt embarrassed about it, none of my Muslim clients ever seemed to understand our view on anger. I spent countless hours doing Anger Management therapy with both Danish and Muslim clients and hence I had very good opportunities to experience the cultural differences concerning this specific emotion, ways of handling it and reacting to it.
In Muslim culture, it is expected that one should show anger and threatening behaviour if one is criticized or teased. If a Muslim does not react aggressively when criticized he is seen as weak, not worth trusting and he thus loses social status immediately.
This cocktail of cultural differences has sparked the ongoing debate on free speech all over the world. The free world’s criticism and jokes about Islam is met with anger and threats of terror. When a Danish cartoonist shows the Muslims’ prophet with a bomb in his turban to illustrate the fact that Mohammed conducted dozens of massacres and called for global violent jihad against non-Muslims, the reaction of Muslim leaders and their followers was exactly to confirm Westergaard’s drawing: They responded with jihad on all possible levels – threats of genocide, terror, economical boycott, lawsuits and using democratic systems in our countries, EU and the UN to challenge and destroy our laws on free speech.
The wisdom and bravery of any child in any school yard to people using aggression to hide their own insecurity because of a simple drawing would lead to more jokes and logic as a mean to pedagogically point out obvious human weaknesses. Unfortunately most of our politicians are not as wise and brave as the average school child.
FP: Expand a bit on the differences between Muslim and Western cultures in terms of self-confidence.
Sennels: The concept of honor in the Muslim culture is – just like in the case with anger – opposite of our Western view. It is common in the Muslim culture to be exceedingly aware of one’s status in the group, other peoples’ view of oneself and any signs of any kind of criticism. The aggressive response to anything that can make one insecure is seen as an expression of honorable behaviour. But what is honorable about that? What kind of honor needs to be defended by all means necessary – including the abolishment of women’s human rights, such as the right to pick their own sexual partners, clothes, husband and life style? What is honorable about anger and the lack of ability to ignore provocations and handle criticism constructively?
After listening to more than a hundred Muslim teenagers telling their stories about their feelings, thoughts, reactions, families, religion, culture, the life in their Muslim ghettos and their home countries, it became clear to me that to a Muslim such behavior is the very core of keeping one’s honor. But seen through the eyes of Western psychology, it is all an expression of a lack of self-confidence. According to our view, the base of being authentic and honorable is to know one’s strengths and weakness – and accepting them. The ability to think “your opinion about me, not mine – and mine counts to me” when provoked and being mature enough to handle criticism constructively is a source of social status in the Western world.
Unfortunately, the Muslim concept of honor transforms especially their men into fragile glass-like personalities that need to protect themselves by scaring their surroundings with their aggressive attitude. The show of so-called narcissistic rage is very common among Muslims. The fear of criticism is in many cases not far from paranoia. It is not without reason that self-irony and self-criticism is completely absent in the Muslim societies. Seen from a psychological perspective – whose aim is to produce self-confident, happy, free, loving and productive individuals; and not to please a hateful God or culture traditions – Muslim culture is in many ways psychologically unhealthy to grow up in.
FP: Ok and how does individual responsibility fit into all of this?
Sennels: To discuss individual responsibility, I need to first introduce the readers to the psychological term “locus of control.” Locus of control concerns if people see their life mainly influenced by inner or outer factors. In our Western culture, we see inner factors as more important than outer ones. Our point of view, our way of handling our emotions, our way of thinking, our way of reflecting, our way of reacting is all seen as ways that we decide our own lives. We may not always be aware of the way we think etc. and a whole industry has appeared because of that fact. Indeed, psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, coaches plus countless self-help books and magazines are overflowing in our societies and are all aiming at helping us to become aware of how we decide our own lives.
None of these things exists in the Muslim world. The few psychiatrists they have are often educated in the West and whatever psychology and pedagogy that exists in Muslim countries does not have root in the Muslim culture but are ideas imported from the West.
Thus, when a Westerner experiences problems he asks himself: “What can I change in myself/my life to become happier?” This mentality showed it self clearly among my Danish clients. It was deeply rooted in them that talking about oneself can be a way of finding better ways of handling one’s own life. When having Muslim clients on my couch it was in most cases like having someone from another planet visiting me. Under normal conditions, Westerners and Muslims can communicate relatively easy – as long as it does not involve criticism. But in a setting where the whole concept is centred about that the Muslim client has to talk about his own feelings and thoughts because the psychologist thinks that it will help him to become more happy and able to live constructively, the “chain falls of the bike” as we say in Denmark. They shake their heads: in which way can they become happier if they expose the weaknesses that they have been taught since birth to hide in order to retain their honor? No way, José. I finally managed to develop a therapeutic method that to a certain extent could address these cultural difficulties, but therapy and Muslim mentality will probably never become real friends.
An important aspect of this difference concerning locus of control is that people who see their own lives mainly guided by outer factors – a fearsome God, a powerful father, influential imams, ancient but strong cultural traditions – very easily develop a victim mentality. It is thus not without reason that conspiracies and blaming the non-Muslims are so central in Muslim leaders’ rhetoric and politics. This victim mentality also dominates the mentality of Muslim immigrants, who often have a long row of demands for economic support and Islamization of our societies to satisfy their personal needs.
FP: Well it becomes pretty obvious why Muslims cannot integrate into our Western society. Crystallize the reasons for us.
Sennels: My experience is that you need three things to be able to integrate. You need to want it, you need to be allowed and you need to have the surplus. Very few Muslim immigrants fulfil these three criteria.
First we have to ask ourselves: why should Muslim immigrants want to integrate? They can live their culture, receive enough money, and have a full functioning social life with their Muslim friends without even learning our language — or even working. There is not really anything that makes it necessary to integrate. Of course there exist immigrant Muslims who want to adapt to the lifestyle and mentality in their new country but they are very few. In France only 14 percent of the millions of Muslim immigrants see themselves as “more French than Muslim.” In Germany only 12 percent of Muslims identify themselves as more German than Muslim.
A survey in Denmark showed that only 14 percent of the Muslims living here can identify themselves as being Danish and democratic minded. My experience from my Muslim clients is that they do not see their Muslim identity as compatible with leading a Western life style. Being a Muslim also means that you see yourself as very different and actually as a better person than non-Muslims. This mentality easily leads to apartheid and racism. This is probably the reason that even though Muslim immigrants are more than five times as violent as ethnic Danes – according to crime statistics - three out of four victims of violence are Danish.
The second criteria – being allowed to integrate – is also not very common. There is an exceedingly strong social control in the Muslim society. Everybody is keeping an eye on everybody and if someone does not follow the cultural or religious codex they are met with strong criticism and risk to be excluded from their society – often even from their own family. In worst case – and there are many of those – especially Muslim women live under a constant death threat that keeps them from entering our Western life style that includes such human rights as to pick one’s own sexual partners, clothing style, friends, religion and life style overall. Most of my Muslim clients saw their religious and cultural background as the height of civilization and morality – leaving it would be seen as a kind of cultural and religious apostasy by their kinsmen. Such acts often have severe consequences in not only gangs like Hells Angels and other tribal communities but also – and especially – among Muslims.
Finally, it takes a lot of personal surplus to integrate into another culture. It involves changing a part of one’s identity from belonging to one group into belonging to a group with completely other cultural values and traditions. It is not just like changing a bad habit such as quitting smoking – integration goes much deeper concerning the individual’s psychology. I met a few Muslim girls who as part of Western inspired teenage rebelling wanted to integrate and did not care that they were not allowed. Those girls did not posses the personal surplus and ended up in complete identity crises, going too wild, doing drugs and having random sex with all kinds of strange men etc.
For these reasons I am completely convinced that Muslim integration will never happen to the necessary extent.
FP: What is your view of the future of Europe in terms of the skyrocketing Muslim population?
Sennels: We are in the historical embarrassing situation that we have invited millions of people to our continent that do not want to integrate and are also not able to. Since the integration of Muslims will never happen – a fact I think that has already been proven years ago – we will end up with a significant part of our population that are actively working to Islamize our societies. There exist both Muslims and non-Muslims that see this Islamization as Islamic jihad – but it is more than that: it is human nature. People who do not feel at home where they live will naturally strive to change their surroundings. Muslims attempts to Islamize our societies have just begun — as they are feeling stronger and stronger in power and numbers. This process is pushed forward by Muslim leaders inside and outside Europe and helped on its way by a kind of collective cowardice called Political Correctness.
The World Economic Forum published a huge survey in 12 Muslim and 12 non-Muslim countries in their report “Islam and the West: Annual Report on the State of Dialogue, January 2008.” The report in general shows a great amount of distrust between the two groups of countries and discloses strong feelings of enmity. The last question in the survey is: “Do you think violent conflict between the Muslim and Western worlds can be avoided or not?” The report shows that a majority of the populations in all 24 countries believed that such a conflict can be avoided. But at the same time a majority of the 22 countries think that “the interaction between the Muslim and Western world is getting worse.” The majority of people still haven’t lost their hope but at the same time a majority see this hope getting smaller and smaller.
As Muslim immigrants push for Islamization and the original Europeans increasingly feel being exploited and threatened by growing and still more violent Muslim communities, a continent wide civil war might become unavoidable. We are already on our way to get our own European Islamic Gaza Stripes where non-Islamic authorities are met with flying stones and angry crowds while Islamic authorities such as imams, groups of elderly men and home made Sharia courts, are free to exercise their power. Such developments are very alarming and should be confronted with large amounts of police, strict laws, and cuts on economic support for families having more children than the country’s average and demands that Muslim organizations and leaders reform their version of Islam.
My guess is we will see more dead police men and kidnappings as a mean to negotiate the release of imprisoned Muslim religious or gang leaders, terror bombs, economical and practical support from Muslim countries to Muslim communities here in the West. Economic and police resources are already being drained by the many consequences of Muslim immigration and the need for profound reforming of our welfare system and for involving the army is inevitable in the long run. The feeling of safety and social coherence is already long gone in many parts in hundreds of European cities as a result of Muslims’ antisocial behaviour and enmity towards non-Muslims.
As I see it, the greatest danger is that the common European will fall into strong negative feelings and that the population and our authorities will feel pressed to compromise our own humanistic values in order to overcome the catastrophe. The sooner we handle the problems the greater the chance is that we can keep our important and unique human values.
FP: It’s all pretty depressing what political correctness and the Left has achieved in engendering and overseeing this Muslim infiltration of our society. The Left wanted to destroy its host society and it shrewdly figured out how to do so through the weapon of “multiculturalism.” Talk a bit about where this might not all be hopeless, how those of us who care about or society’s values can fight back. What can we do to avoid the surrender that the West is engaged in as we speak?
Sennels: Well Jamie, first let me stress that our “surrender” so to speak would not be enough. Only mass conversion would satisfy the rules of the Quran and its preachers. And even though Muslim leaders continuously claim that the only way to ensure global peace and morality is for all of mankind to become followers of their prophet, I am not so sure: Muslim countries are definitely less peaceful and morality concerning free speech, human rights and respect for human life is clearly less existent under Islamic rule than anywhere else.
Besides my suggestions mentioned above, the Western world has to put a complete halt to Muslim immigration and non-Western immigrants who did not already receive a citizenship. They should either fulfil a long row of criteria concerning integration or leave the country. Permanent citizenships to Muslim refugees should not be possible. I would like to mention that the average price for having an asylum seeker living in Denmark is 33.000 Euros (45.000 US dollars) a year. According to UNHCR the price for helping a refugee in a refugee camp close to his own country is 33 Euros (45 US dollars).
We should in general make it so unpleasant and the economic disadvantage so big that the consequences of non-integration would motivate resident Muslims to emigrate – preferably to a Muslim country where they can live in a culture where they already know the language, culture and religion and do not live under the pressure to integrate and do not feel stigmatized by anti-immigration organisations and Islam critics.
Responsible lovers and protectors of our Western culture should make an effort to write letters to the editors, and internet bloggers have to make sure that the information that our main stream medias consciously avoid to publish gets known. We need to create a UN exclusively for democratic countries and the EU’s power to force immigration onto its member states should be taken away. Oil should only be used for transport, while heating should be replaced by green energy and nuclear power – to avoid dependency on Arab oil.
FP: Nicolai Sennels, thank you for joining us. You have shared some dark realities and warnings with us. I pray the West will eventually gain the will and capacity to defend itself.
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Editor’s note: To get the whole story behind why the Left aids and abets the Muslim infiltration of the West, get Jamie Glazov’s new book, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny and Terror.
The Muslim mind is a Medieval mind and Islam is the frozen Medieval religion of the desert , that is too ridged to change and evolve with time …..unlike Christianity , it has not mellowed or matured with age and is essentially a religion in ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Muslims are a distant mirror of medieval times , emotionly immature , hysterical , irrational and hideously cruel…. a perfect picture of medieval man
They are also deeply superstitious and afraid of the sexuality of women
It's as if the whole of Islam is trapped in a timewarp of medievalism and transported into the 21st century….talk about culture clash
Man? More like a petulant, selfish and self-centered child.
That's what medieval people were like …emotionly immature and irrational , constantly having mood swings from anger to joy …..hysterical weeping and uncontrolable anger with deep insecurities , masked by an over inflated sense of Ego and ''honour''
Logical thinking and rational behavior is a product of the modern world and this is why Moslems are so unpredictable…..it's rather like playing chess with someone who is playing by a completely different set of rules
We , in the modern world , take logic and reason for granted , because we are tought it from a very early age at school and assume it's natural to the human condition….it's NOT…..irrational superstition is natural and doesn't need to be tought to anyone
Ah, yes, superstition. Still very much alive in primitive cultures. And what passes for culture in the Middle East.
Those twats thinks there's jinni's in almost everything. If I had been a scientist I would have developed a virus which only affected mahoundians and I would call it the J-virus with J standing for jinni to play on their superstition. Undoubtedly they would think it was supernatural since the kuffar would not be affected.
Is it anything like swine flu?
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Even in midieval times The West wasn't THAT bad…
After all, christianity was très á la mode at the time.
The prophet Mohammed, however, set the rules and made it okej
to be intensely cruel, criminal and in general not very sympathetic at all…
It's impossible to accept this in the western world.
Mohammed = Zero EQ
Islam = STUPID
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I am reminded of Lerner and Lowe's "Camelot" and the scene where King Arthur realizes that not every insult must be returned with the sharp edge of a sword…but that the sword could be used instead to enforce order in an innately ethical society.
Muslims have no moral ethos, other than legalism. They have no enforcement mechanism of "right" other than anger and violence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGtKu2ovTYc&fe…
Any one familiar with the study of the Middle Ages will instantly recognise Islam as medieval man dressed up in modern clothes
Good point Tarleton, but what modern clothes are you referring to?
Jamie …..I posted this elsewhere….
.The most macabre thing about Islam is it's obvious Medievalism dressed up in modern clothes , a kind of eerie timewarp where the religious fanaticism comes calling with a creepy smile and modern weapons…a kind of invasion of the body snatchers , or a form of religious rabies , where you don't know who's infected until they ignite….It's almost as if they are from a sci/fi movie, where the horseback warriors of 13th century Islam are put on a time machine and transported into the modern world ,with a pat on the back ''to go kill the Infidels''…. when they arrive , they dispose of their homespun clothes , chain mail and swords and kit themselves out in clothes from the nearest mall and weapons from the nearest gunshow…Allah ua Akbar !
The Nazis and Communists were political psychopaths , the Muslims are religious psychopaths and MORE dangerous than the previous secular versions , because they wish to die and take the infidel with them….the nuclear standoff with the Reds ended peacefully , how would a similar standoff with the Muslims have ended ?….APOCALYPSE !
I think you are being unfair to medieval men.
What Islam has done is to freeze the development of the Muslim Mind so that it cannot evolve further that the 6th century desert bandit it is modeled on – Mohammed. The "values" of Islam are that of a sociopathic brigand with no regard for anyone other than himself. It is no mystery as to why Muslim boys model themselves after Islam "most perfect" man.
I have read the Qur'an and that knowledge prepared me for Mr. Sennels conclusions. There are no surprises in this interview. The question is whether we will submit to this invasion or resist it.
There's an article on Islam Watch that profiles Mahound as a malignant narcissist. Well worth a read. http://www.islam-watch.org/
There's an article on Islam Watch that profiles Mahound as a malignant narcissist. Well worth a read. http://www.islam-watch.org/
There's an article on Islam Watch that profiles Mahound as a malignant narcissist. Well worth a read. http://www.islam-watch.org/
There's an article on Islam Watch that profiles Mahound as a malignant narcissist. Well worth a read. http://www.islam-watch.org/
There's an article on Islam Watch that profiles Mahound as a malignant narcissist. Well worth a read. http://www.islam-watch.org/
I checked it out. WOW!
Yes, that was my reaction too.
I certainly recognise the medieval persona – but Imams in modern clothes? Not around here.
Burkas & chequered dish cloths across faces are just so not 21st. century.
Bunkum, European Middle Age men weren't at all like this. Their culture was chivalrous. Read "The Waning of the Middle Ages" by Johan Huizinga.
Remember, Muslims have overrun Europe before: conquering Spain, raping nuns on the altars of Italian churches, etc. It seems impossible now, but eventually Europe will fight back. Or die.
The man was a self-described humanist… the outcome of the particular apostaste condition that developed out of historic Christianity in Eyrope and here in the USA. They are aware that they are paying the Muslims to come in and destroy their culture.
What is your evidence for this, John: "raping nuns on the altars of Italian churches?" Also, it is well known that American military and coalition forces have been involved in the rape of women in the countries they are trying to "liberate."
And 50 million more have been slated for immigration, by the governing elite, to move into Europe in the near future.
EU is working frenetically to get in Turkey and all the north-african states as we speak. So the muslim tsunami could happen anytime, any day now for us in the EUSSR/Eurabia.
I hope you've got your bags packed.
I hope you've got your bags packed.
And where do the natural Europeans go?
I should read Jamie's book, clearly. Because I find the impulse driving this phenomena baffling. Watchful reports "50 million more have been slated for immigration, by the governing elite," for example. Considering the absolutely raving fear that the powerful alliance of academia and modern government clerics shares of Christ, why force an inevitable Civil War upon themselves? Between the irrational and the micron-thin rationale given for this balkanization, this importation of a genocidal time bomb, something is missing. This kind of determined, long-term policy, it seems to me, cannot be sustained, especially in democracies built around short-term electoral accountability.
In the United States the election cycle of the U.S. House of Representatives makes it very difficult to sustain long-term policy commitments, like the NASA Constellation program, for example. In short, why do the majority of eligible voters support this kind of cultural suicide?
As someone with an interest in WW2 , I imediately recognised the similarities between the Imperial Japanese and Islam , not just the obvious Kamikaze attacks and suicide bombers , but the overall mindset of the Japanese
Untill the mid 19th century Japan was in a state of medieval isolation and only became industrialized after been opened up by the West . Determined to compete with the West , Japan went through a rapid industrial revolution and produced a modern army that was sent on the rampage in China and south east Asia , but modernity was only a veneer around a still, medieval core
The rampages by the Japanese army were purely medieval in their hysteria , fanaticism and sadistic use of samurai swords and bayonet and the ''Rape of Nanking'' was something out of the European ,Hundred Years War
The Japanese were irrational , hysterical and emotionally immature and very similar to the Moslems……it took Curtis LeMay and the A bombs to put an end to their rape and pillage spree and give them an attitude ajustment that they'll never forget…..they've been convinced democrats ever since and it will probably take something similar to make Muslims into lovers of democracy
I suggest' vaporizing Mecca & their Kabbah.
Which direction to pray now? ?
Did anyone else notice that Sennels spoke of “Muslim and Danish clients” or “Muslim and non-Muslim clients,” but never Christian clients?
Interesting, yes? Is it surprising?
The others may not have been all Christians. Besides, it is the Muslim mindset compared to the non-Muslim.
Excluding jailhouse conversions what Christian would be in jail, except for having the belief and practicing his religion? Christianity has no anti-social element to it. That’s the general drift of my thoughts on the subject.
No, not surprising at all. There's very little Christianity in the American sense of the word in Denmark, almost all Danes are atheists in practice. Apart from some baptists in remote villages in Jutland, the only real Christians are kooky old ladies peddling pamphlets in the streets. One of the only preachers in Denmark able to fill his pews, is a guy who openly declares that he doesn't believe in god. And nobody (like in 'nobody at all') believes the Bible to be true in the literal sense.
Strange but true.
It is interesting, and no, it’s not surprising, but strange. At least we know prison is overcrowded with kooky old ladies.
That is because Danes are firstly DANES and only secondly (if at all) of a religious affiliation. Whereas, mohammedans are members of the Umma & islamic first and Danes second.
Of course, faced with muslim paranoia, more people are coming out as "full-time christians", but there are still enough of us atheists around, who insist that religion should be private, and ethics are more important. Affiliation with a religious community is just so dark-ages.
Yes. Christianity is discreet in Denmark, and too discreet for my liking. Christian ethics are widely accepted in Denmark, also among atheists, which is Good. Anti-Christian ethics cause us much trouble…
Maybe its that discreetness, which comes from a secular world, causes a sense of embarrassment when it comes to Christian beliefs. People know the system works, but have told often that it must be private, and many ‘private things’ are seen as an embarrassment. Does that make any sense?
Anti-christian ethics? I get so tired of christianity taking credits for our ethics and moral standards. Do you think that we didnt know not to murder or steal before the bible got written? The ten commandments (except the stuff about god) are human ethics that we are born with. They are a part of us just like flying is a part of birds. there were many laws before the bible that stated the same things. So stop claiming that we wouldnt have ethics without religion. In fact, the countrys with the lowest crime rates are the least religious ones. Like the scandinavian countrys and japan. (85-90% atheist) Altough the crimerates in scandinavia is climbing bcoz of all the muslim immigrants.
I suppose you have never visited a black "Christian" ghetto in the United States before?
I have never met an ethical atheist raised by an atheist family.
Just wondering…can anyone point to any country anywhere in the world where Muslims have immigrated in mass and where the majority of the Muslim immigrants successfully integrated and assimilated and then matriculated into becoming productive and contributing citizens? If not, then why are we shooting ourselves in the foot by encouraging Muslims to immigrate to America?
We need to ban and reverse Muslim immigration ASAP because it is a ticking time bomb. Indeed, the greater the percentage of Muslims the greater the percentage of problems. Besides with zero Muslims living in the country, there will be virtually zero probability of Islamic terrorist attacks.
Not to mention also that when you take a close look inside Muslim countries what do you see? Systematic oppression of women and persecution and often violent oppression of non-Muslim dhimmis. Hence, since it is clear that it is impossible for Muslims to integrate and assimilate, the alternative, living in an Islamic society via Islamization of our society, would be an extremely harsh and very oppressive one.
Therefore, the only solution is to ban and reverse Muslim immigration ASAP. Indeed, the sooner the better!
I mean GWB already doubled the size of the federal government just to accommodate Muslim immigration and the excess baggage that goes along with it. Wouldn’t it have been far more sensible to acknowledge in 2001 that Islam is completely incompatible with Western society and to have banned and reverse Muslim immigration instead?
I mean years from now when we look back in time at the GWB presidency, people are going to learn that he was one of the most misguided presidents in history. Of course, par for course, Obama is even more of a lost cause than even GWB.
I agree with what you say. It amazes me that these 6th or 7th century barbarians would WANT to live here, until you see that they do in order to take over our culture, religion government and land. The only solution is to "Arizona" them. Kick them out or kill them.
I'm an immigrant -former country Iran- and consider Islam an ideology far worse than Nazism and Communism combined. My intention is not to lower the crimes of Nazism and Communism but to show the danger of Islam threatening humanity, freedom, art, innovation and civilization. I'm critical of the West's MSM, politicians and Westerners who have lost the will and courage to defend freedom and defeat the enemy. There are many immigrants who think the same as I do.
Hi again from Austria, Well I'd like to voice my opinion as well. No country should limit Immigration based on Religion. But what can (and I think it is being done, is immigration based on WORK. The Person wanting to come to the country should provide poisitive proof that he or she has a job in the country. Not just for a couple of months, but longer and the person will loose his/her job, than it is goodby! The affirmation must come from the Company/Business where the future employee will work. No such affirmation? Sorry don't have a job for you, stay in your home country!
What about the assassin who comes to your country and finds work only to subsidize his terrorist activities. You must absolutely limit immigration based, not only on religion, but on culture, attitudes, affinities and language. Otherwise you are toast.
Hi Martin, that is how my husband + i came to USA 40 years ago no visa w/out guarrantee job and we had to have health card + vaccinations.Profesional job exams on US.Embassy there 1-2 years A always wonder why now Mrs C. still calling for more froY.+ rest CANT THEY SEE WHAT WE SEE SO CLEARLY they have children also. It will come to blood or prayer rug thanks dani
I should read Jamie's book, clearly. Because I find the impulse driving this phenomena baffling. Watchful reports "50 million more have been slated for immigration, by the governing elite," for example. Considering the absolutely raving fear that the powerful alliance of academia and modern government clerics shares of Christ, why force an inevitable Civil War upon themselves? Between the irrational and the micron-thin rationale given for this balkanization, this importation of a genocidal time bomb, something is missing. This kind of determined, long-term policy, it seems to me, cannot be sustained, especially in democracies built around short-term electoral accountability.
In the United States the election cycle of the U.S. House of Representatives makes it very difficult to sustain long-term policy commitments, like the NASA Constellation program, for example. In short, why do the majority of eligible voters support this kind of cultural suicide?
If we ban Moslem immigration to the U.S., we are discriminating on the basis of religion! Is that unconstitutional? If we expel Moslems, again we are going against our fundamental rights.__And yet this situation, and the Moslem psychology as expressed in the article above, waas simply not foreseen by our founders.
Isn't islam more of a socio/political/economic type deal that is in opposition to our constitution/form of government? Religion being only a component of it? Therefore, there would be no discrimination based on religion? Just asking.
I absolutely agree with you that it not foreseen by our founders. If they had forseen this disease, they would have acounted for it in the Constitution
Our founders knew the muslim mind well. Check the barbary wars for confirmation. What our founders did not forsee was the total insanity of letting them immigrate to our country, much less encouraging them to do so.
How many times do you have to shoot yourself in the foot before you recognize the pain and damage your are doing to yourself? You cannot have any rule of law without self-preservation.
@Northwind: Islam is not a religion, but a large criminal gang. (Sort of large Mara Salvatrucha). Muslim invaders deserve the same treatment as the American Nazis during WWII: "The German American Bund or German American Federation was an American Nazi organization established in the 1930s. Its main goal was to promote a favorable view of the Nazi Germany… With the start of World War II, most of the Bund's members were placed in internment camps, and some were deported at the end of the war." source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-American_Bund
DEPORT MUSLIM INVADERS!
@Northwind: Islam is not a religion, but a large criminal gang. (Sort of large Mara Salvatrucha). Muslim invaders deserve the same treatment as the American Nazis during WWII: "The German American Bund or German American Federation was an American Nazi organization established in the 1930s. Its main goal was to promote a favorable view of the Nazi Germany… With the start of World War II, most of the Bund's members were placed in internment camps, and some were deported at the end of the war." source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-American_Bund
DEPORT MUSLIM INVADERS!
"we are discriminating on the basis of religion? Is that unconstitutional?"
Islam is much more than a religion. It is a complete life system. It is a
theocratic totalitarian ideology bent on world domination. It's a code of laws, Shariah, it's a political system, theocracy, it's a culture governing how its members must dress, behave, when to marry, etc. etc. covering all aspects of life. Neither Christianity nor Judaism require all of this of their adherents. Embedded in the ideology is the faith system which possesses the hearts and minds of its subjects. Allah is big Brother, always watching, always judging. We must begin to inject this view of Islam at every opportunity into the national discussion on the problem of Islam.
Exposing it as an ideology, we may on that basis, bring about a cessation of immigration. Would we knowingly allow immigration of Nazis? I think not.
And Islam bears a very strong resemblance to Hitler's brand of fascist sociology, Naziism.
Ain't no rule says you gotta let everyone in. Only let in the people you think would be valuable to our society. You want cheap labor? Hire a Mexican. Got you a good Muslim scientist? let him in!
Muslim is not a nation. Muslim is a brain-washing ideology. Like Nazism. Nazi ideology is banned, but Germans are not discriminated.
@Northwind
You raise an interesting point. I wonder what the attitude of the Founders was towards, say, Hessian immigration?
I agree with you entirely that the current situation could not have been foreseen by the Founders. However, the Constitution … as they wrote it … would allow the Federal government, along with the States, to determine through the legislative process how many people from which countries would be allowed to immigrate to the United States.
However, they could not have foreseen the anti-Constitutional attitude of the Feds in the year 2010.
@Crossbow87
I live in Illinois. My senators are Dirty Dick Durbin and Roland Burris, and my Congressman (11th District) is the freshman Debbie Halverson. I'm not likely to get a good response from them! However, we could contact congressman likely to see it our way in other districts and states, and bring the issue up in town hall meetings, this year.
If we can agree to restrict or eliminate immigration from Muslim nations, has anyone here tried contacting their senators and/or representatives? How do we make that happen?
The idea of Islam being an ideology, rather than a religion,
I don't believe has crossed the minds of our leaders yet. There's nothing else to do but to
inject this reidentification of Islam at every opportunity, including in letters to our represen-
tatives. My own rep. is a conservative, so he might be not as dismissive as a politically correct left-wing rep would be. But we have no time to lose. The Muslims are already exercising dominance, which is one of their specialties. And using their money to buy influence.
Tarleton and Tanstaafl (love that acronym!) :
Got to agree with Tanstaafl. I too am dismayed when, as an admirer of the brilliant work of the great Dante and sainted Tomaso d'Aquino, hear folks call Islamic ideology "medieval". No way could any of the imams go head to head with the author of the great Summa Teologica cuz they ain't got the Catholic Combo of Faith and Reason. Even the anonymous laborers of the Middle Ages who built the great cathedrals and monks who painstakingly copied and illustrated so many manuscripts achieved more and ordered their labor toward a God of truth and beauty. Just do not find that in Shazaad, Nidal Hassan, or any of their jihadi ilk.
But there's another face of the Middle Ages , beyond Dante , great Cathedrals and beautiful manuscripts , isn't there ?……a dark world lit only by fire , a world of superstition , ignorance and fanaticism…of witchunts , heretic burnings , Inquisition and murderous crusades……the four horsemen of the Apocalypse…..God wills it !
Take a look at the fanatics and throat cutters in yugoslavia in the 1990's …that's the hideous cruelty and barbarism of medieval man , or to paraphrase Trotsky '' great gobs of undigested barbarism , regurgitated from medieval times and spat out into the modern world''
if u read this… its not about reason, its about knowing the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. Islam was founded on a revelation of another "god", the god of this age. There is no comparison between Israel's God and the moon god of antiquity who became known as "Allah".
Awesome article Jamie… Thanks for this interview.
I'm an immigrant -former country Iran- and consider Islam an ideology far worse than Nazism and Communism combined. My intention is not to lower the crimes of Nazism and Communism but to show the danger of Islam threatening humanity, freedom, art, innovation and civilization. I'm critical of the West's MSM, politicians and Westerners who have lost the will and courage to defend freedom and defeat the enemy. There are many immigrants who think the same as I do.
I'm an immigrant -former country Iran- and consider Islam an ideology far worse than Nazism and Communism combined. My intention is not to lower the crimes of Nazism and Communism but to show the danger of Islam threatening humanity, freedom, art, innovation and civilization. I'm critical of the West's MSM, politicians and Westerners who have lost the will and courage to defend freedom and defeat the enemy. There are many immigrants who think the same as I do.
Hi again from Austria, Well I'd like to voice my opinion as well. No country should limit Immigration based on Religion. But what can (and I think it is being done, is immigration based on WORK. The Person wanting to come to the country should provide poisitive proof that he or she has a job in the country. Not just for a couple of months, but longer and the person will loose his/her job, than it is goodby! The affirmation must come from the Company/Business where the future employee will work. No such affirmation? Sorry don't have a job for you, stay in your home country!
@Northwind
You raise an interesting point. I wonder what the attitude of the Founders was towards, say, Hessian immigration?
I agree with you entirely that the current situation could not have been foreseen by the Founders. However, the Constitution … as they wrote it … would allow the Federal government, along with the States, to determine through the legislative process how many people from which countries would be allowed to immigrate to the United States.
However, they could not have foreseen the anti-Constitutional attitude of the Feds in the year 2010.
@Crossbow87
I live in Illinois. My senators are Dirty Dick Durbin and Roland Burris, and my Congressman (11th District) is the freshman Debbie Halverson. I'm not likely to get a good response from them! However, we could contact congressman likely to see it our way in other districts and states, and bring the issue up in town hall meetings, this year.
The reason America's Founding fathers never envisaged a Muslim problem in the USA is because they never thought that an America would come about that would allow Muslims to emmigrate to America. It was as absurd to them as allowing Martians to become citizens of the USA.
In fact, America's Founding fathers would be aghast to see millions of illegal aliens from countries that are not English speaking.
I have posted for years that Islam is the killer of civilisations – far worse then communism and Nazism combined. To combat such a threat, constitutional safeguards will need to be suspended for a time.
J.Glazov, great interview. Mr, Sennels gives a very well rounded answer to the questions explored in his study. He mentions the great danger facing Europeans of loosing their human values while resorting to action in self preservation. I belieave that it is inevitable that the Europeans will revert to a strong response to an existential threat. A civilizational catastrophe. We are all facing it, and wether we like it or not, it is World War IV being fought in multiple fronts. Lets wake up a face reality.
The confrontation with the muslim world in Europe and America will
eventualy lead to a new sort of crusade. What is lacking at the moment
is an charismatic leader who will unite the non muslim world.
Geert Wilders not good enough?
Yeah. Like a new-age Hitler!
We have two enemies. Muslims and the left. I don't know which one is worse.
We have two enemies. Muslims and the left. I don't know which one is worse.
Arselifters are worse. They have religion, or what passes for religion.
This is a wonderful interview. Thank you.
It is full of basic information, explanations, and then,
suggestions for handling the problem.
Everyone should read this.
It answers questions which people are asking.
Islam is not a religion. It is a Ideology. Ok, it lacks of race hate and concentration camps like in fascism, or Gulags like communism, but it is still a totalitarian social order which determinates every single part of the human life in all countries which are under the despotic law of sharia. It´s a kind of Cavemen-Fascism or a Clay-hut-Communism. It murders dissidents and apostates, it calls for rape, looting, torching and torture. It praises violence against woman and children. It promotes slavery, taqiyya (perjury) intimidation and compulsion. He declares this sins as good deed as long as it benefits Islam. Islam doesn't need concentration camps and a race ideology. Cause the entire Islamic world in truth is a concentration camp. All inhabitants are guards as well as prisoners. And death penalty can strike everyone and at any time. Islam doesn't need a race ideology, cause they have a alternative. The Kafir .. the nonbelievers. He´s that, what in fascism the Jew or the Gypsy was. Thee ultimate enemy. And there we have it … fascism !
Islam is not a religion. It is a Ideology. Ok, it lacks of race hate and concentration camps like in fascism, or Gulags like communism, but it is still a totalitarian social order which determinates every single part of the human life in all countries which are under the despotic law of sharia. It´s a kind of Cavemen-Fascism or a Clay-hut-Communism. It murders dissidents and apostates, it calls for rape, looting, torching and torture. It praises violence against woman and children. It promotes slavery, taqiyya (perjury) intimidation and compulsion. He declares this sins as good deed as long as it benefits Islam. Islam doesn't need concentration camps and a race ideology. Cause the entire Islamic world in truth is a concentration camp. All inhabitants are guards as well as prisoners. And death penalty can strike everyone and at any time. Islam doesn't need a race ideology, cause they have a alternative. The Kafir .. the nonbelievers. He´s that, what in fascism the Jew or the Gypsy was. Thee ultimate enemy. And there we have it … fascism !
Wow:)
Dear readers
Thanks for all your comments. Interesting to follow – glad you like the interview.
Nicolai Sennels
If Europe does not bestir itself of its lethargy soon I foresee the day when St. Peter's in Rome will be converted into the principal mosque of Eurabia, that the Eiffel tower in Paris will be turned into the most important minaret, that the priceless treasures of Europe's meseums, accumulated through the millennia, will be commited to the flames, its invaluable statuary smashed, making the destruction of the colossal Banyan Buddha in Afghanistan by the Taliban mere child's play by comparison. In short, all its accomplishments, all that has defines the essence of western civilization, will be irreparably and forever destroyed. What a pity
The islamists who are already Muslim since birth are not our biggest problem.
In my opinion these are those which are converted.
Ordinarily I have no problem with them if somebody else thinks or believes like me. If, someone wants to say to me that only his religion is the only true, then is for me a problem.
Sennels has introduced a crucial understanding of what non Muslims are up against. In particular, the culturally inherent tendency of Muslims to immediately react to criticism with an aggressive/violent response as way to avoid appearing weak and lose honor… and how utterly contrasting this is to the West… where expressed anger is acknowledged as a complete loss of composure and utter weakness. It reminds me of a conversation I had with a French friend… who explained that arrogance, in France, is synonymous with exceeding confidence and subsequently eagerly embraced by the French as a great source of pride… contrasted by most others, who view arrogance as unbearable and a source of shame.
The Islamic mind does not entertain the idea of an 'unconscious and sees all human actions as motivated by consciously arrived at decisions. Since Islam eschewing of mystery as a strategic tool against other religions everything within it must be easily comprehendable or appealingly 'logical'. and leaves little sympathetic room for that inner conflict or turmoil that has been so characteristic of Western literature.. No 'to be or not to be' autonomous Hamlet moments. Imagine the response to 'to believe in Allah or not to believe'.. No 'doubting Thomas' either. Doubt and conscience can not be allowed to draw a boundary..
In response a theological offensive could make clear than Islam is not something of a eccentric cousin of Judaism and Christianity but a religico- political movement foundered on a conception of a Deity whose moral essence is incompatible with that of the moral essence of the Judeo-Christian conception. That is, Islam's inculcation that the killing of others can be a pious and sacramental act of obedience to the will of an Allah putatively revealed by the prophet Muhammed. However, in Britain the Archbishop Rowan Williams instead of safeguarding society from the incursion of this morally alien and dangerously warranting conception – actually aggrandizes Islam by promoting Sharia 'law' on the insensible grounds of 'community cohesion' rather than looking to the perilous task of liberating captive Muslims from this aspect of Islam.
First of all I wish to thank Nicolai Sennels who has so incredibly summarized the sickness that is Mohammedanism, inside the West and in their own failed “cultures”. They are incapable of constructing anything beautiful but very adept at destroying the precious! Thank you for allowing us to see into criminality of this cult!
Unless the West converts and re-embraces our Christian Heritage, we will be doomed, due to our own horrid choices. While the Mohammedans have been previously defeated so decisively and miraculously I might add, at Tours, The Gates of Vienna, and especially at the great sea battle at Lepanto, we were Christians then and we recognized what the great Anglo-French Early 20th Century write, Hilaire Belloc recognized: “Europe is the Faith and the Faith is Europe”. With the loss of the Faith Europe has chosen a path that will lead to its destruction.
So the solution is to become Christian fundaMENTALists…..we need to become religious nuts , in order to fight religious nuts ?
Christianity was hopelessly anachronistic in the 20th century ….here in the 21st , it's just pathetic !…..the diference between your silly religion and Mohammed's is that your's is benign and their's is malignant !…….HOLY FOOL
The Mohammedan Cult is a horrid destruction upon the human race, and it is said that more people have been damned for all eternity due to one man, Mohammed, than through all others combined. That is simply a sobering thought. If we Westerners do not value our Civilization, the GREATEST that man has ever created, then we deserve to lose it. As God did to the Israelites in Biblical Times, when they strayed and forsook Him, their enemies were triumphant. When we turn back to Our Lord Jesus and recognize that our civilization became great because of our Christianity only then do we stand a chance to overcome the Mohammedan Scourge which he has allowed for our chastisement. Real Western Men & Women, as few as we may be, we must be the leaven that will turn back this satanic scourge of Mohammedanism!
Maybe I read this wrong but the concept that expression of anger is immature and seen as weakness by Western culture struck me as inaccurate and unhealthy.
On the other hand, if one believes it is acceptable to express anger without considering self control or introspection, as Muslims appear to do, it shows emotionally damage.
Look at congress. Our highest leaders gain their power through intimidation – angering their opposition, and most do gain fearful (misplaced) respect if they can carry it off.
Nobody masters anger. It’s a constant learning opportunity. To automatically cut yourself off from experiencing the feeling is repressive. Repressed anger stunts emotional development and no one masters it or should believe it is possible to master it. To expect one’s self to be in constant control over certain emotions is to set one’s self up for failure.
As I recall, those who were bullied in grade school seemed to be those who showed the greatest fear, and would not protect themselves by using hostility to scare the bully away.
Kay , you sound like you're about 15 years old , typical female psychobabble
It is our killer instinct which must be harnessed if we expect to survive the Jihadists. Our weapons only our tools. It is a hard heart that kills. If our killer instincts are not clean and strong we will hesitate at the moment of truth. We will not kill. We will become dead Americans or Dhimmis if we survive. And for those that survive, they will be in a new Dark Age. So kill 'em all, wrap 'em all in their prayer rugs, put 'em in piles and burn 'em, and let Allah sort 'em out!!
It is our killer instinct which must be harnessed if we expect to survive the Jihadists. Our weapons only our tools. It is a hard heart that kills. If our killer instincts are not clean and strong we will hesitate at the moment of truth. We will not kill. We will become dead Americans or Dhimmis if we survive. And for those that survive, they will be in a new Dark Age. So kill 'em all, wrap 'em all in their prayer rugs, put 'em in piles and burn 'em, and let Allah sort 'em out!!
If the people of Europe don't want their countries to eventually turn into islamic hellholes they should make islam illegal and kick out any muslim who want to live by that ideology. The only really effective cure for islamization is the old method of Reconquista.
interesting, & shared! if these people cannot accommodate western secular civilization they should be deported or imprisoned, there is no allah, to man be the glory
Nice fear mongering on the last set of questions, thanks for adding to the friction just for some extra money. You are part of the problem, you just don't realize it.
Saying that "a continent wide civil war might become unavoidable" may, on the other hand, be wishful thinking. It implies a "war," something that takes place between organized forces, like an army. It implies identifiable adversaries, usually in uniforms. It implies clear geographical boundaries. It implies the use of military weapons.
But that kind of "civil war" will not happen with an ethnic and religious immigrant population. They are not a Trojan horse that will suddenly show itself. A better analogy might be a wide group of brush fires, that keep growing until the engulf their societies, their fuel. Or else, a body disease, that becomes so ingrained and dispersed that it cannot be excised without killing the host – Europe. Surgery is only an option at first.
What's needed, IMO, is for the population of P.C. – political cowards – to define a new term: cultural profiling. Forget skin color, clothing, age, etc. The culture is the superstructure, the earth beneath the visible foundations. It is the DNA and lifeblood of the immigrants moving from S. to N.
Saying that "a continent wide civil war might become unavoidable" may, on the other hand, be wishful thinking. It implies a "war," something that takes place between organized forces, like an army. It implies identifiable adversaries, usually in uniforms. It implies clear geographical boundaries. It implies the use of military weapons.
But that kind of "civil war" will not happen with an ethnic and religious immigrant population. They are not a Trojan horse that will suddenly show itself. A better analogy might be a wide group of brush fires, that keep growing until the engulf their societies, their fuel. Or else, a body disease, that becomes so ingrained and dispersed that it cannot be excised without killing the host – Europe. Surgery is only an option at first.
What's needed, IMO, is for the population of P.C. – political cowards – to define a new term: cultural profiling. Forget skin color, clothing, age, etc. The culture is the superstructure, the earth beneath the visible foundations. It is the DNA and lifeblood of the immigrants moving from S. to N.
"If someone wants to say to me that ony his religion is the only true, then is for me a problem."
It depends on how you define ""true religion." Do you mean by that that only one particular religion is the only way to Heaven.? As a Christian, I must believe that my faith in Jesus Christ is my entry into Heaven. Jesus said "I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me." Do I say that Jesus is wrong in his statement, or that he is lying, or that he doesn't know what he's talking about? If he's wrong about that, why should I believe anything else he said? Why should non-Christians be offended by that? It's a belief system. I don't object to what others say they believe.
Hi Paula,
As a compassionate Christian believing Jesus' statement above, your conscience is a-ok with the thought that billions upon billions of people will burn in Hell for an eternity because they either never heard of Jesus, where similarly indoctrinated into a different belief system from birth, or simply did not find any logical reason to adhere to Christianity in favour of the hundreds of other "true religion" options available? Is this conclusion in any way just? Is it compassionate? Is it remotely reasonable? Could you enjoy your "heaven" knowing that a single person suffers eternal torment?
islam is NOT a religion , but a cult .And the most profound conclusion Mr .Sennels comes to , that 'sitting down with muslims is like sitting down with a Martian .
Absolutely CORRECT .
Muslim terrorists do not need excuses in order to commit assassinations.
The war imposed upon us by extremist Muslims is for real. Each and every citizen has a role to play in this war, mainly in understanding that a concerted war effort is crucial. The list of Do’s and Don’ts includes the following: Don’t judge progress based on casualty reports; Don’t have unrealistic expectations; Don’t overreact to bad news or future terrorist attacks; Do be alert; and Do put aside political differences in order to present a unified front against the enemy. Unfortunately, the bad news is being over-reported, while the good news is being under-reported. This is causing great confusion and creating divisions in the public opinion that is significantly reducing public support for this critical war. The continuing erosion of support – not defeats on the battlefield – could cause us to eventually lose this war. The enemy is counting on this as explained at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/02/u…
What can we expect from Islam ?
Islam claims : “Islam was the first institution ever to advocate and implement human rights as universal equality. In fact, Islam promoted the universality of the human experience over 1300 years before the United Nations.” Discover the Islam “Human Rights” at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/04/m…
All that needs to happen is for all of them, at the same time, to realize that Muhammad was a false prophet. It would be like a dream. The whole world would celebrate for 40 days. There would be a surge of joy and happiness thoughout humanity.
One can dream right?:)
Oh well… the future does not look as bright as that. A reality check is indeed needed in Europe. Great article! I love my fellow danish people. (swede here)
Christianity is a religion, as is Islam – you can't have it both ways… Christianity has been the cause of many, many needless deaths, torture and brutality, and continues to be used often as an instrument of oppression to this day. This is also true of Islam, we're talking here of a couple of ancient fairy stories which promulgate themselves from generation to generation. The comments here by Christians don't sound too different from the comments of most Muslims…. The problem for the rest of us is how to have a rational dialog with people who get their picture of their own life and of the world around them from some damn book.
Thank you for such a wonderful explanation on how a muslim thinks and views the world. It makes so much sense and answers a lot of questions I have had about their illogical and barbaric behavior.