Yesterday I wrote a blog entry, appealing to European governments not to give religion space to spread, particularly not by building mosques because there are a lot of Muslims in the country now. There are most probably people who think I have Islamophobia due to my statement. I would like to address this idea today.
First of all: I am not an Islamophobe but I recently read somewhere that this was the best way for people to stop any conversation – because any decent person would not like to be called that! I will not however stop communication here because I believe exactly that is what is so necessary!
I want to be very clear: yes, religion is the problem causing terrorism. And no, Islam is not a religion of peace. It has this violence in itself!
Look at these verses of the Quran:
5:33 – The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter.
4:89 – They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks.
9:29 – Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
These and other verses are the base of the violence we see in the news, which horrifies us and frightens a lot. Which makes people suspicious of Muslims, even if they are just peacefully living their lives, not harming any other person.
They do however believe in that holy book, they say it is the word of god and they, more than any other religion I know of, claim it to be infallible, insisting on the holiness of whatever is written in it.
And there is your problem, dear moderate Muslims! You cannot claim that every word of this ancient text is correct and then say that Islam is a religion of peace! You believe in the same Quran like those people who are terrorizing a huge part of the earth at this moment! Of course there are some good things written in the Quran, too – just like in every other scripture! But there are also all those horrible, brutal and cruel statements of what a Muslim should do!
Such texts exists in the scriptures of other religions as well but these religions just don’t insist that their scriptures are infallible and not outdated! They see their whole scripture in the context of time, which is something Islam normally fails to do.
There is no misinterpretation, there is no misunderstanding and no metaphor. It is an old text of times that were very bloody and cruel. And as long as you stick to this book, there will be people taking it literally, aiming to behead those who are not of their faith!
That’s why we need to stop this religion from spreading, in order to stop more fundamentalists, fanatics and extreme Islamists from being trained in places where the Quran is being taught. And that is the mosques with their religious scripture lessons.
It’s not an Islamophobic thought – it is just a normal conclusion and I know more people have had the same one, all while wishing to be nice to your fellow peaceful beings on this earth!
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I agree with you entirely on the issue of Islamic Barbarism, having in fact published a web page to make the same point regarding the attitude we Americans should have in the U.S.A.: http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/IslamicBarbarism.html .