The Frog and the Scorpion A frog was hopping along in the forest,
heading home to her family, when all of
a sudden she came upon a small river.
Now, the frog, being a great swimmer as
frogs are, was about to leap into the river
in order to cross it - when she heard a voice: "Is there any chance, kind lady, that you
can help me across this river? For I cannot
swim." The frog turned toward the direction of
the voice, and was startled to see a
scorpion moving toward her on the river
bank. Now, everyone knows the history
of scorpions - they sting and have a
deadly poison. So the frog was understandably a bit frightened, and
trembled as she asked the scorpion: "If I help you across the river, will you
promise not to sting me? You see, I am on
the way home to my family and they
would miss me terribly." The scorpion answered: "Kind lady, I understand your concern, but
I too am on the way home to my family,
and if I sting you, we would both drown,
and who wants that? Besides, contrary to
what you may have heard, I only sting
for self defense - like if a fox should try to eat me. Please do me this great favor - I
would be so grateful!" The frog considered the scorpion's words,
which didn't seem like the words of a
killer. She thought to herself: "I mean no
harm to the scorpion, why should he sting
me? If he stings me, we will both drown,
and he must value life as much as I. If I help him, he will be my friend - because
he knows that I am a nice frog. As my
friend, the scorpion would surely tell all
the other scorpions that I am a friend,
and that they too should never sting me!
And they wouldn't sting my frog family or my frog friends either! And we frogs
would be more than happy to help all
scorpions cross the rivers! And maybe all
the scorpions would help protect all the frogs and other small creatures from the
truly dangerous creatures of the forest!" By this time, the frog was so excited
about helping the scorpion that she didn't
want to even start thinking of reasons
not to help. Besides the danger was too
scary to think about - compared to the
wonderful future that awaits the frogs and other small creatures of the forest
with this new era of cooperation. "It will
truly be a paradise.", she thought. So the frog crouched down and let the scorpion
jump onto her back. She then hopped into
the river with the scorpion on her back
and began swimming - and she swam
beautifully, as frogs do. But when they
got to the middle of the river she felt something painful in her side. "Ouch!" said the frog, "What was that" "I just stung you.", said the scorpion. The frog began to feel the poison take
effect. It became harder for her to move,
harder to swim. She thought about the paradise of universalistic brotherhood that could have been, and she cried out to
the scorpion: "Why did you do that?! Now we will both
drown - we could have been friends!
Perhaps you can save yourself; swim to
the other side!" But it was too late, and scorpions can't
swim. As they began to sink, the scorpion
answered: "I am not like you; we don't care about
dying or making friends. We lie and sting.
It is our nature, didn't you know that?" The frog and the scorpion sank fast to the
bottom of the river, and the frog thought
about the scorpion's question. "Yes.", thought the frog, still puzzled that
frogs and scorpions should think and act
differently, after all, they are both small
creatures of the forest. "Maybe I said or
did something to anger him...?!", thought
the frog. THE END!

In case you don't "get it" here are the
parallels of this parable to Islam and the
rest of us:
Scorpions can't swim - it needs to rely on other creatures; Islam has not succeeded
and cannont succeed without using
others.
The scorpion sought a decptive alliance
with the frog; Islam seeks deceptive
alliances with the "infidel." The scorpion cannot help but lie; Islam
teaches "taqiyya" - lieing to defend or
promote Islam.
The scorpion doesn't care about death;
Islam teaches that death is better than
life - it is the nature of it. The frog is puzzled because he assumed
that both he and the scorpion were alike
- both "small creatures"; Those of non-
Islamic "faith" are puzzled because they
assume they are just like Muslims
because Islam is a religion just like theirs. The Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey
Recep Erdogan is quoted as proclaiming:
"There is no moderate Islam. Islam is
Islam and that’s that. Democracy is like a
bus - you ride it until you arrive at your
destination, then you step off. Assimilation is
a crime against humanity..."

Before many will start calling me names, we should all read the history of Islamic caliphate, Ilorin emirate and kanem bornu (all in northern nigeria). The Indo-pakistan history, the mali tuareg history and metarmophisis of modern egypt-sudan. Read mohammed history and chronicles in mecca and then medina (and make your logical conclusions). Read the history and spread of Islam in france and spain and austria and it consequnce.

And above all, compare it with our contemporary boko haram issue, the british 'trojan horse' and the effect\problems of muslim immigrants in western europe.

And as an Igbo guy from the south eastern nigeria (who are currently 'immune' to Islamic brainwashing and ideology), a lesson to learn from these past and painful experinces and how we can continually guard ourselves of this present danger (the 'innocent' scorpion calling our friendship\assistance\co-operation).

i am never a friend of muslem. islam is evil. well said bro

Hmm,
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Very thought provoking!!

Perfectly stated