The apologists for Islam will often point out either what they say as similarities between the Abrahamic faiths and Islam, or where Islam has borrowed from the books of Christianity and Judaism. However a brief look around the Islamic world shows us a bit of the bible they forgot to borrow and that is the part of the 10 Statements (or Ten Commandments if you prefer) that says ‘thou shalt not commit murder’ (or ‘kill’ depending on the translation).

Although the taking of a human life is generally forbidden in Christianity and Judaism there are socially and morally acceptable exceptions to that rule such as judicial execution, self defence or on the battlefield. These exceptions, are in modern societies based on Judeao-Christian ethics, further guarded by laws and guidelines about when, where and how these exceptions to ‘thou shalt not commit murder’ are used.

This law against murder seems to be either not present or only present in an extremely bastardised form in Islamic culture. The rule seems to be if Mohammed the ‘prophet’ said that a type of murder was acceptable then that is the case for all time. Not for the Muslim the accretion of controls on killing that is prevalent in Western Judeao-Christian culture, in Islam the causing of death definitely seems to be part of the plan.

Wherever we look in the Islamic world and even within our own Islamic enclaves here in the West there seems to be a much more cavalier attitude to the taking of human life. Every human being has the capacity to commit atrocities but it has been from within the Judeao-Christian ethical culture that criticisms of such atrocities have come. It was those influenced by Christian and Jewish morality who spoke up against the atrocities committed against Africans in the Belgian Congo, Christians who spoke out and ultimately banned the Slave Trade and humanists, who speak up against the inequalities in our present day, and although they may not like it, are also influenced by Judeao-Christian morality, especially on the subject of taking a life.

You don’t see this desire for life in Islamic culture. You do not see lots of Muslims protesting against the bestial actions of the Jihadists in Syria, neither do you see them campaigning en masse against the abuses of human rights in Iran or Saudi Arabia or any other of the myriad Islamic crapholes that exist in the world today. It is as if there is a blind spot in Islamic morality regarding the taking of human life, especially if the life that is being taken is that of either a non-Muslim or a Muslim who other Muslims have declared to be apostates.

Although individual Muslims can be fine upstanding and peaceful people it now cannot and must not be denied that Islam the ideology is at its heart a violent death cult. Just because there are those who decide to disregard the more death cultish attitudes of Islam doesn’t take away from the fact that Islam is violent and that violence is not safely locked away or strictly controlled but is very close to the surface. This is just one reason why we should stop seeing Islam as a religion but instead as a political cult like Communism or Fascism as both these comparable ideologies also had or have a strong element of not being too morally concerned about killing people.

Because of Islamic violence it is very difficult to come to an understanding or an accomodation with it. Islam’s attitude to violence is so different from that of other beliefs that it should not be pandered to or appeased. Appeasing Islamic violence or the threat of Islamic violence doesn’t make this threat go away, it just makes it worse.

Surrender will not bring safety, but only more and greater oppression.