Islam - evil on a stick

Friday, September 23, 2005

I have been conversing with a Muslim woman who has taken great umbrage with me pointing out the truth about islam. This continues the conversation...

Dahlia,

The facts are these:

On September 11th, 2001, many Muslims who live here and abroad celebrated the WTC massacre with joy and excitement.

As I have outlined with actual sayings from your “holy book”, the koran is full of hatred towards Jews, Christians, Hindus and all non muslims.

In muslim countries today, there is almost universal hatred towards Jews and great enmity towards Christians. In your country, Egypt, The Protocols of the elders of Zion (...a classic in paranoid, racist literature. Taken by the gullible as the confidential minutes of a Jewish conclave convened in the last years of the nineteenth century, it has been heralded by anti-Semites as proof that Jews are plotting to take over the world. Since its contrivance around the turn of the century by the Russian Okhrana, or Czarist secret police, "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" has taken root in bigoted, frightened minds around the world) was made into a TV series and presented as fact. No wonder so many of you hate Jews.

Every Friday, in mosques throughout the islamic world, your religious leaders preach against western values, express hatred for infidels and long for the time when islam will rule the world.

As the Muslim Brotherhood theorist Sayyid Qutb said: "The foremost duty of Islam is to depose Jahiliyyah [the society of unbelievers] from the leadership of man."

Or Syed Abul Ala Maududi, founder of the Pakistani political party Jamaat-e-Islami. He declared that non-Muslims have "absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God’s earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own misconceived doctrines." If they do, "the believers would be under an obligation to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power and to make them live in subservience to the Islamic way of life."

Commenting on the first self-immolation by a female Hamas suicide bomber, one of the organization's leaders, Mahmoud Zahar, had this to say: "the march of resistance will continue until the Islamic flag is raised, not only over the minarets of Jerusalem, but over the whole universe."

These are not a few kooks who have misinterpreted your faith, but rather the mainstream Islamic thinking which is pervasive the world over. THAT is why I believe that islam is such a threat to civilization – for too many of you want to impose this barbaric belief system on us. The freedoms and faults of our secular society are many, but we have no intention of turning our back on them and will fight to the death to preserve them.

I once read a quote which said: "We will not judge your actions by your religion, but will judge your religion by your actions”. Your religion has been judged as being a cult of death and a belief system that oppresses humanity. In short, it’s evil on a stick...