Is
this what they mean by "Muslim tolerance'?
By PETER HITCHEN=
S, The Mail on Sunday
16/09/06 - Mail comment section<=
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Listen to this:
"Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously wi=
th
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 quot=
ations
from the Koran, which Muslims believe to be the absolute word of Allah, and
which cannot be altered.
If you seek even mo=
re
ferocious attacks on Christianity and Judaism, you will find them in the
Week after week in =
those
lands where Muslims rule and Christians are a minority, the message pours o=
ut
from the mosques: "God did not have a son.&=
quot;
All the central doc=
trines
of the Christian faith are emphatically denied. Things are said about Jews =
and
Christians, sometimes comparing them to pigs and monkeys, which would attra=
ct
the attention of the Thought Police if they were uttered here.
Only recently an Af=
ghan
was threatened with death - the prescribed punishment under Sharia
law - for converting from Islam to Christianity.
Christians in Pakis=
tan
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.
Hypocritica=
l 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 cri=
nge 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 bas=
ed
on the denial and rejection of its rivals, dares to get into a self-righteo=
us
rage over an obscure quotation in a dull academic lecture by the head of the
Roman Catholic Church?
In Islam it is stil=
l the
year 1427. They have had no reformation. The more Islamic a state is, the m=
ore
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 men=
tality
that comes from the darkness of the Middle Ages&=
quot;.
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 lea=
ders
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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