Posted on 05/29/2008 3:19:22 PM PDT by Alouette
Following are excerpts from an interview with former Saudi information minister Muhammad Abduh Al-Yamani, which aired on Iqra TV on May 25, 2008.
Interviewer: How come calls for dialogue with [the West] were only made following 9/11?
Muhammad Abduh Al-Yamani: The main reason is that we have inadvertently given in to this accusation, and accepted the fact that 9/11 was pinned on us, as if Islam calls for such a thing, but when acts worse than 9/11 were perpetrated by Christians and Jews...
Interviewer: Such as?
Muhammad Abduh Al-Yamani: Attacks within America itself... Why wasn’t the attack on the White House labeled a “Christian” or “Jewish” attack? We’ve been dragged into accepting that 9/11 was an Islamic attack. This group [Al-Qaeda] carried it out, and unlike this group, we do not sanction the killing of any human being, because according to the Koran and the guidance of the Prophet, we are not allowed to harm any dhimmi [non-Muslim living under Muslim rule], as long as there is a covenant between us. We have accepted the blame...
Interviewer: Who has?
Muhammad Abduh Al-Yamani: The Islamic world has accepted the blame, and apologized by saying: “We are sorry for what Islam did.” Islam did not do this! Why don’t you say that it was carried out by a group that made a mistake, like the men and women among you who make mistakes every day? Why do you pin this on Islam, as if the religion of Islam calls for terrorism, which is absolutely untrue. We were dragged into this, and then they began attacking us, people with vested interests started maligning Islam, and we’ve begun to give in. So we had no choice but to declare a “Jihad” that includes dialogue with the other side, and to explain the facts accurately, so they would know what Islam is all about, what the Koran is, and who the Prophet is.
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The [Judeo-Christian] religion is monotheistic. They did not create it. This religion was sent down to Jesus and Moses...
Interviewer: But Islam got rid of it, in order to remain all on its own.
Muhammad Abduh Al-Yamani: It was not Islam that got rid of it. It was caused by the contamination that occurred in this religion. They changed, altered, and distorted their holy books, and Islam came to rectify this. Islam has not changed a thing in the teachings of Moses.
Interviewer: So one of the basic principles of this dialogue is to accept that the [Jews and Christians] have a religion.
Muhammad Abduh Al-Yamani: Yes, and we respect this religion, but we say to them: “You’ve changed it, and you know that the books you have are not the divine gospel and the divine Torah. You have changed them. You yourselves admit that your books were written by priests and others who altered them. We want to bring you back to the original religion.”
Well the Muslim Koran is a forged document!
Ummmm.... because it was cheered by Muslims and lauded by Muslims and claimed by Muslims the world over.
Slandering other faiths is not a good-faith way to start an interfaith dialog.
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Yep. The Christians and Jews had left out the part about large rocks crying out 'there is a jew behind me... come kill him' & stuff like that.
This is a former Saudi minister talking. And to think the Democrats and their anti-energy policy have forced us to kowtow to people like him.
The charge that the Bible has been altered is every day stuff among muslims, but no particulars are offered. Muslims are not known among scholars researching the ancient scrolls, for example, you won’t find them doing comparative linguistic work on old Ethiopic documents, comparing them to old Bulgarian ones, or whatever. They just say, its been distorted, but offer no proof, no archaeology, no exegesis of biblical texts, nothing at all.
Its just something they say. They’ve not actually read it. They’re not going to read it.
There are lies and then there are damned lies. This exceeds even that, IMO.
Islam doesn’t condone violence against non-muzzies? Bull puckey... It’s in their own book.
This cult is a cancer on humanity and survives only by keeping its adherents under the oppressive yoke of its theocracy.
Hey, buckhead, have you got a time machine at your disposal??
I’ve got a little document analysis job for ya.
Mormons tell us the same thing.
So do Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Scientists, unitarians, Seventh Day Adventists, etc. They all have their special revelations that contradict traditional scripture.
INTREP
“...we do not sanction the killing of any human being, because according to the Koran and the guidance of the Prophet, we are not allowed to harm any dhimmi [non-Muslim living under Muslim rule], as long as there is a covenant between us.”
Very telling quote there. It strongly implies that, we here in America, are in a ‘dhimmi’ status having accepted a ‘coventant’ with Islam.
Interfaith dialogue is stupid.
Nothing wrong with that. I believe the same about all false religions. Except I am right & they are wrong.
Only good reason for “interfaith dialogue” is to convert them to Noachides. Otherwise, I have nothing to discuss.
'Amen ve'amen! "Interfaith dialogue" is strictly for people who believe religion is merely rational moral philosophy under the guise of a number of ethnocultural mythologies (none of which is literally true or morally wrong).
Now, how many muslims are islamists?
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