Media 'contributing to rise of Islamophobia'

Telegraph ^ | 09/10/06 | David Harrison

[Salem]

"He did not understand why "the whole of our diverse community" was being targeted. "When the IRA was blowing people up, the entire Catholic population of Britain was not demonised, so why is it happening to the Muslim community?" "

As a Christian, I can effectively argue irrefutably from the New Testament against using any form of violence whatsoever to advance the Gospel.

2Co 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

After five years and a pretty vigorous education in the ancient history, beliefs, and contemporary reality of Islam as well as the life of Mohammad (much acquired through Free Republic and resources recommended through the impromptu FR PROP list), I am thoroughly convinced this is impossible with Islam.

Dr Bari needs to face hardcore reality.

We have.

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"It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world." [FReeper Retief]

[No2much3]

Until the Muslim community starts to police itself I don't believe a word that any of their "spokesmen/Imams" say.

If they believe in Sharia Law then I want to see them conducting it against their followers. I want to see them cutting the hand off of a thief. Beheading a murderer.

I think this coward is feeding the Brits a line of BS because he thinks the West is "weak". Let us all see how just Sharia Law is and you will then see the West stand up in outrage. When it is shown on the nightly news how women are treated by their religion then you will hear the screams of indignation. When we see what is being taught to six year old males (since females are not to be schooled) as normal, then maybe we will have the courage to say enough!

Sorry, just a moment of personal outrage. Thank You FR for being there.

JMO

[AnnaZ]

It boggles my mind, these statements that are nothing more than the archetype of hypocrisy. The Muslim Miss England said pretty much the same thing -- 'don't think that we're terrorists because we're Muslim or we will become terrorists but only because you thought we were.' What?

People didn't confer the violence of the IRA onto all Catholics because the IRA were clearly the aberration. I may not share all of the Catholics' beliefs, but they are without question a force for Good the more they practice their faith. There is simply no equivalence.

[theBuckwheat]

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People didn't confer the violence of the IRA onto all Catholics because the IRA were clearly the aberration.
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Additionally, Catholics openly and continually lamented, protested and worked to put an end to the violence.

The tip-off with Muslims is the deafening silence. The violence is so institutionalized that any Muslim who cannot bring himself to accept it dares not to speak in public lest he be found later to have been tortured before he was beheaded.

[Convert from ECUSA]

"Uh, I think it's terrorist attacks in Israel, on 9/11/2001, 7/7, the kook in Iran, terrorist attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan and Darfur, Somalia, Spain, France, ad inifinitum ..."

Nailed it!