Posted on 09/16/2006 7:41:54 PM PDT by Pikamax
Listen to this: "Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate."
Or then again, this: "Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends."
Then there is the instruction to fight against those who are not of the true faith "until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued".
All are direct quotations from the Koran, which Muslims believe to be the absolute word of Allah, and which cannot be altered.
If you seek even more ferocious attacks on Christianity and Judaism, you will find them in the Hadith, Islam's other great book of scripture.
Week after week in those lands where Muslims rule and Christians are a minority, the message pours out from the mosques: "God did not have a son."
All the central doctrines of the Christian faith are emphatically denied. Things are said about Jews and Christians, sometimes comparing them to pigs and monkeys, which would attract the attention of the Thought Police if they were uttered here.
Only recently an Afghan was threatened with death - the prescribed punishment under Sharia law - for converting from Islam to Christianity.
Christians in Pakistan live in constant fear of attacks on their churches and their homes, usually following false allegations that someone has burned a Koran.
Coptic Christians in Egypt suffer a similar misery. Christian Arabs who can afford to have been emigrating by the thousands to avoid increasing persecution by their Muslim neighbours.
Hypocritical fury
For years Liberals in the West have spread the myth of "Muslim tolerance". It does not exist and never did. Where Islam rules, other faiths must cringe in humiliated subjection.
These are facts. Is it not astonishing that this militant, angry religion, whose name means not "Peace", but "Submission", whose whole existence is based on the denial and rejection of its rivals, dares to get into a self-righteous rage over an obscure quotation in a dull academic lecture by the head of the Roman Catholic Church?
In Islam it is still the year 1427. They have had no reformation. The more Islamic a state is, the more its women are shrouded and confined, the more its minorities are despised - and the more freedom of thought and speech are crushed.
And yet the deputy leader of Turkey's Islamist ruling party, Salih Kapusuz, attacks the Pope for having "a dark mentality that comes from the darkness of the Middle Ages".
If we bow to this manufactured, hypocritical fury, then we will already have lost one of the most important battles to face us.
While our silly leaders bleat and panic about terror threats, a far greater menace to our free societies comes from the growing power of Islam in our midst.
Much of that power results from the weak-kneed refusal of our own liberal elite to stand up for what is good about our Christian civilisation. Back the Pope.
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Amen! Thanks for posting.
Hmm, I didn't know Christopher Hitchens brother.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hitchens
Muslim tolerance = oxymoron
I hope the pope's speech was a brilliant move to make all of these hateful folks crawl out from under their rocks so all the world can see their peaceful religion in action.
The Dems are probably going crazy right now trying to figure out which side to back.
As long as its against Christians and Jews OK. That is not only acceptable it has been the template for the media for the past 40 years or so.
Try saying that about one of the sacred cow minorities and you could end up screaming about bloody Luddy Van!
It's been many moons ago (15 years?) that I think I saw a "point-counterpoint"
on TV of the Hitchens brothers arguing about the royal family:
Peter in favor, Christopher against.
It was a loud, acrimonious and FUN thing to watch.
Muslims act out on what the Koran says. It is not unusual.
The War on Terror may end up being a CRUSADE, the LAST one.
Wow! Great article. When is the American press going to come out and say something like this?
How about this: as soon as someone produces examples of the catholic faith engaging in torture, beheadings, etc. of non-christians, the rest of us will repent. Hmmm....all I hear are crickets!!
Translation: How can we use this to hurt Bush.
Yup, they're showing their (bloody) colors. Getting harder and harder to keep from laughing when muslims say theirs is a "religion of peace."
bttt
Ummm .. what happened during the Inquisition?
Really, there is no instruction in the New Testament to torture or kill your enemies. Only instructions to pray for them, and love them.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
That is exactly muslim tolerance, treating those of other faiths worse than blacks in the Jim Crow south.
Given his brothers views on Mother Theresa I am a bit surprised by this column.
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