Buz says: "Islam's book, the Quran states that the ultimate goal of Islam is to conquer the world for Islam"
Arach says: "where, specifically? one could make a similar case for christianity -- we are told to go and convert the world. we evangelize because we think it's right, and for the good of the world. can you make the case that islam means violent overthrow, as opposed to peaceful conversion?"
Quran writes:
Fight then till strife be at an end, and the religion be all of Allah" (Sura viii, 39-42)
Sura 9:5 "And when the sacred months are passed, kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay wait for them with every kind of ambush: but if they shall convert, and observe prayer, and pay the obligatory alms, then let them go their way, for God is gracious, merciful.
Sura 9:30 "Make war upon such of those to whom the Scriptures have been given as believe not in God, or in the Last Day, and who forbid not that which God and His Apostle have forbidden, and who profess not the profession of the truth, until they pay tribute out of hand, and they be humbled. The Jews say, "Ezra is a son of God"; and the Christians say, "The Messiah is a son of God." Such the sayings in their mouths! They resemble the saying of the infidels of old! God do battle with them! How are they misguided? They take their teachers, and their monks, and the Messiah, son of Mary, for lords besides God, though bidden to worship one God only. There is no God but He! Far from His glory be what they associate with Him! Fain would they put out God's light with their mouths: but God only desireth to perfect His light, albeit the infidels abhor it. He it is who hath sent His Apostle with the guidance and a religion of the truth, that He may make it victorious over every other religion, albeit they who assign partners to God be averse from it.
The above Quanic scriptures are underlying Jihadic doctrine of all fundie Islamic nations, including Saudi Arabia. These nations are radical theocracies. To allow devout adherants of these doctrines of world religious conquest running our major ports is reckless endangerment of our nation by the Bush administration.
This was not a threat under the auspicy of the United Kingdom when they ran the ports. It is my notion that given the ports are ever as strategic as our land borders, no foreign power should be allowed ownership or control of them.
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