Islam: A violent religion intolerant to all others.
by stablemanAugust 19th, 2010 at 5:02 PM
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Article from AP, - USA-Today is worth posting. "An Arab group was fined for a Holocaust cartoon." A Dutch appeals court convicted an Arab cultural group Thursday of hate speech for placing a cartoon on its website questioning the Holocaust. The court said in a written judgment the cartoon "is insulting to a group of people, the Jews, because of their race." The cartoon shows two apparently Jewish men poking a pile of skeletons and discussing whether they can count non-Jews to increase the Holocaust death toll. Arnhem Appeals Court fined the Dutch arm of the Arab European League $3,210 after overturning a lower court's acquittal of the group. Islam religious clerics are taking advantage of the freedom found in other nations. They are getting more organized in their approach to legal issues and are beginning to use the courts to advance their own culture and Islamic laws. In a reaction on its website, the center welcomed the conviction, saying that the Arab group's anger over Muhammad cartoons "may in no way lead to insulting comments about Jews. It is clear this cartoon had no other aim than to be unnecessarily hurtful to Jews." Hate speech prosecutions are rare in the Netherlands, but the Arab European League case is one of several high-profile ones to come to court recently. Lawmaker Geert Wilders, who has become one of the country's most popular politicians on an anti-Islam platform, is facing criminal prosecution later this year for alleged hate speech violations. Wilders has called for the Quran to be banned and compared it to Hitler's Mein Kampf, and has branded Islam a violent religion." Islamic censorship enforced by individuals is bad enough, but when the state gets involved, freedom of thought is threatened on an entirely new scale. That's what has happened in several majority-Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. All three have implemented anti-blasphemy laws to prevent any criticism of religion. Saudi Arabia treats blasphemy as apostasy, which it claims is punishable by death. Afghanistan has historically leveraged its blasphemy law to silence any opposition to public law, with life imprisonment or death as punishment. even sentencing students and journalists to life imprisonment or the death penalty. The death penalty is their answer to enforce Islamic religion. In Pakistan, too, anyone even indirectly insinuating an insult to the prophet Mohammed can be sentenced to death or life imprisonment. When countries endorse such punishments for blasphemy, it follows that millions upon millions of people are exposed to such raw-tortured thinking. And, the intolerance spreads. This is an abuse of religion by all the political figures and the politics in intolerant countries, which then spreads and infects the minds of Muslim youth in other nations. Is it any wonder how 3 middle class, college educated dentists could suddenly plan, attack & bomb England's rail-tunnels? These were men who did not grow-up in any of the Islamic motherlands. They felt compelled to strike-out against innocent civilians in England to show support for Islam. It was a terrible deadly attack for what? Islam: A violent religion intolerant to all others. Clearly, there can be no doubt about it! Stableman |
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Show Oldest FirstI have to agree with this article. It is a forward thinking topic on Islam and soon we will be too late to reinvent what went wrong, etc.
A German aristocrat prior to World War ll owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.'Very few people were true Nazis 'he said,' but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.
We are told again and again by experts and talking heads that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant.
It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide.
It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill.
It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. Is the peaceful Islam majority silent, or are they just watching the war?
It is the fanatic clerics who take over mosque after mosque. When a mosque reaches a population number requirement a new cleric will soon follow that teaches "violent" Islam. For them there is no other way to continue their religion.
Hans Brighton
So sorry for you and your family Hans. When I sent a message to President Obama, it was supporting the idea of a memorial for all. I also understand where you are coming from but to know what it was like only you know. There are similarities with your past life and what my parents and their parents before them went through. When Spain and Japan claimed our island as theirs. I will end it here. Thanks