Religion of Peace, My Ass! (Part 15)
I know some think I've been a little too hard on the Religion of Peace-see my other posts-but there are more moderate views. For example, at OpinionJournal.com and Townhall.com.
I don't disagree, but I take back nothing.
Dinesh D'Souza (in Townhall) states how tolerant Islam was in the past to Christians and Jews...but not to pagans, of course. Also, he points out just how tolerant Islam was to Hindus when Muslims ruled northern India, while at the same time Christian Spain was forcefully converting or killing Jews. Okay, granted, some serious crimes were committed in the long past by Christians.
But here's the deal...that was the past. Christianity came out of its dark ages. Islam just went farther in. If Islam was something other than a dark ages religion, it wouldn't be practiced by the present day savages and terrorists.
And don't give me crap about some Christians being murderers, etc. Those people aren't mainstream Christians and most Christians are aghast at such actions and are vocal in their denouncing of them.
And at present, no sect of Christianity tolerates murdering infidels...and apologies to D'Souza, that's what Christians and Jews are considered by a growing sector of today's Muslims.
Which is supported somewhat by what Tawfik Hamid (a former member of a radical-that is, terrorist-Islamic group says in OpinionJournal.
"But indeed, there is much that is clearly wrong with the Islamic world. Women are stoned to death and undergo clitorectomies. Gays hang from the gallows under the approving eyes of the proponents of Shariah, the legal code of Islam. Sunni and Shia massacre each other daily in Iraq. Palestinian mothers teach 3-year-old boys and girls the ideal of martyrdom. One would expect the orthodox Islamic establishment to evade or dismiss these complaints, but less happily, the non-Muslim priests of enlightenment in the West have come, actively and passively, to the Islamists' defense."
Also,
"It is vital to grasp that traditional and even mainstream Islamic teaching accepts and promotes violence. Shariah, for example, allows apostates to be killed, permits beating women to discipline them, seeks to subjugate non-Muslims to Islam as dhimmis and justifies declaring war to do so. It exhorts good Muslims to exterminate the Jews before the "end of days." The near deafening silence of the Muslim majority against these barbaric practices is evidence enough that there is something fundamentally wrong."
I don't disagree, but I take back nothing.
Dinesh D'Souza (in Townhall) states how tolerant Islam was in the past to Christians and Jews...but not to pagans, of course. Also, he points out just how tolerant Islam was to Hindus when Muslims ruled northern India, while at the same time Christian Spain was forcefully converting or killing Jews. Okay, granted, some serious crimes were committed in the long past by Christians.
But here's the deal...that was the past. Christianity came out of its dark ages. Islam just went farther in. If Islam was something other than a dark ages religion, it wouldn't be practiced by the present day savages and terrorists.
And don't give me crap about some Christians being murderers, etc. Those people aren't mainstream Christians and most Christians are aghast at such actions and are vocal in their denouncing of them.
And at present, no sect of Christianity tolerates murdering infidels...and apologies to D'Souza, that's what Christians and Jews are considered by a growing sector of today's Muslims.
Which is supported somewhat by what Tawfik Hamid (a former member of a radical-that is, terrorist-Islamic group says in OpinionJournal.
"But indeed, there is much that is clearly wrong with the Islamic world. Women are stoned to death and undergo clitorectomies. Gays hang from the gallows under the approving eyes of the proponents of Shariah, the legal code of Islam. Sunni and Shia massacre each other daily in Iraq. Palestinian mothers teach 3-year-old boys and girls the ideal of martyrdom. One would expect the orthodox Islamic establishment to evade or dismiss these complaints, but less happily, the non-Muslim priests of enlightenment in the West have come, actively and passively, to the Islamists' defense."
Also,
"It is vital to grasp that traditional and even mainstream Islamic teaching accepts and promotes violence. Shariah, for example, allows apostates to be killed, permits beating women to discipline them, seeks to subjugate non-Muslims to Islam as dhimmis and justifies declaring war to do so. It exhorts good Muslims to exterminate the Jews before the "end of days." The near deafening silence of the Muslim majority against these barbaric practices is evidence enough that there is something fundamentally wrong."
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