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TheReligionofPeace.com is a
pluralistic, non-partisan site concerned with Islam's true political and
religious teachings according to its own texts. We present the threat that
Islam poses to human dignity and freedom, and we document the violence that ensues
as a direct consequence of this religion's supremacist teachings.
We are not associated with any organization. We do not promote any
religion, but we are not hostile to religion. We generally support the rights of
atheists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, homosexuals, woman, Muslims and anyone else
on the planet to live as they wish without violating the rights of
others.
We strongly condemn any
attempt to harm or harass any Muslim anywhere in the world because of their
religion. Every human being is entitled to be treated as an
individual and judged only by his or her own words and deeds. (see
About Muslims).
We also denounce any act of
vandalism against mosques or other property, including juvenile attempts to
offend Muslims by desecrating copies of the Quran. (The best way of discrediting the
Quran is to tell non-Muslims what it
actually says
about them).
At the same time, we see no use in pretending that
Islam is just another religion - which always seems to be the assumption of
those preferring not to look too closely.
In fact, Islam is dreadfully unique - and it should be
OK to say so.
What other religion's most devoted members
videotape themselves cutting
people's throats while screaming
praises to their god?
What other faith has tens of thousands of terrorists
across the globe united by an explicit
commitment to advance the cause of their religion by pursuing horrific mass
murder and
mutilation?
What other religion has clerics lauded as 'moderates',
'bridge-builders', and advocates of 'peace and tolerance' who, at best cannot
even bring themselves to condemn
suicide bombers or denounce
Islamist terror organizations, or at worst actually
support terrorism,
wife-beating,
female genital mutilation and justify the killing of
apostates and
homosexuals?
What other religion kills innocent people over cartoons
and teddy bears, and
murders humanitarian workers of other faiths who are merely trying to help
them?
What other religion actually
celebrated the 9/11
attacks,
described the carnage as "one of the miracles of the Quran" and
proclaimed it to be "God's work against oppressors"?
What other religion childishly brags about its
growth while at the same time openly denies other religions equal
opportunity to
evangelize - and even endorses
killing those who
leave?
What other religion has prominent PR organizations and
charities so closely tied to terrorism - organizations like
CAIR, which whine about dress codes
and
rubber
ducks in the West while ignoring the Jihad genocide of thousands in Darfur?
What other religion has verses in its holy book that
remind men of their divine permission to
beat their wives and
rape their
slaves?
The list could go on (and does - each day on
TheReligionof-Peace.com). Islam so routinely produces horrible
atrocities in the name of Allah that no one is all that surprised when...
Adults are
tied to
a tree or planted in the ground and
bludgeoned to death by
fundamentalists for engaging in consensual sex...
A New York woman trying to file for divorce is
beheaded by her husband, who also happens to be the founder of a
Muslim-American TV channel dedicated to combating "misconceptions" and
"stereotypes" about Islam...
Religious
leaders are
charged by authorities with plotting spectacular acts of mass murder in the name
of their god...
A Christian woman is arrested, raped and tortured
by police who also starve
her children in an explicit effort to get her to return to Islam...
A 14-year-old girl is
shot in the head by fundamentalists simply because she sought and
education and worked to promote peace...
Clerics advocate
raping
virgins prior to executing them for verbal crimes and political dissent...
Pollsters
admit that about 1 out of 3 Muslims worldwide (450 million) view the
terrorism of 9/11 as justified...
The most prominent self-proclaimed Muslim "civil
rights" group in America (CAIR) bluntly refuses to condemn an organization (Hamas)
that kills innocent people specifically in the name of Islam...
A Christian is murdered in front of his own family for
leaving Islam, and his children then kidnapped and 'conscripted'
by his killers... Muslims express no outrage when
an admitted terrorist is assigned by a government to
oversee "Islamic Affairs", nor even when unrepentant
child killers are
invited to make the holy pilgrimage with VIP treatment. 80% of all federal
terror prosecutions involve a religion that is practiced by only 1% of
all Americans...
How shocking any of this would be if it didn't involve
the Islamic religion. As it is, much of it barely registers in the media.
The very fact that the bar of expectation is set so low for "the Religion of
Peace" underscores just how different it really is from others.
In fact, Islam is more than a religion. It is a
rigid political and cultural system with a mandate to conquer and govern the
lives of others via necessary force "until
religion is only for Allah." Violence is sanctioned by the Quran
since, as the Ayatollah Khomeini bluntly put it,
"people cannot be made obedient except with the sword."
Thus, the enemy of this orthodoxy is not just
intellectual dissent and free speech, but human freedom. The divine
charter of Islam is to impose itself and thus prevent the individual from
discovering a different meaning for their own lives.
Islam breeds arrogance and self-absorption, which
accounts for the collective petulance and perpetual grievance characterizing
Muslim populations in general - along with the astonishing unwillingness to extend
equal moral consideration to those outside the religion.
This disregard for others is rooted in the supremacist
ideology of the Quran and Islamic law, which unashamedly draws the
sharpest distinction between those within the group of believers and those
without - towards whom arbitrary denigration is cast and
hatred,
harsh treatment
and eternal
punishment is prescribed.
As a consequence, not a day goes by without someone,
somewhere in the world being horribly
murdered by
devout Muslims in the name of this religion - over ten thousand persons each
year. More innocent lives were taken in two hours by devoted Muslims on
9/11 than by the Ku Klux Klan in its entire 140-year history.
Where Islam dominates, there is systematic
discrimination and oppression of those of other faiths.
Where Muslims are a minority, there is peevish self-interest, disloyalty and
eventual rebellion and terror when demands for special privilege and
entitlements are not met - all part of the eternal jihad to bring about the rule
of Islam as Muhammad ordered of true believers.
It
isn't the victims who need lessons in tolerance and
understanding - it is the Islamic world.
Can one name a single country in the West in which the
significant influx of Muslims has not been accompanied by severe social strain?
Can one name any country affected in the same way by Hindu immigration?
Those willing to open their minds will find that,
regardless of the excuse-du-jour, the remarkably wide-spread level of narcissism,
repression and violence is deeply ingrained in the teachings, double standards
and early history of the Islamic religion. While there is not a single
verse in the Quran that commands love for those outside Islam, there are over
493 that either promote violence or speak of Allah's hatred for unbelievers - in
a book that is
largely about how to think of and deal
harshly
with those outside the "true" faith.
Why rely on rosy platitudes and carefully-edited
fragments of Quran verses from apologists when Islam speaks so well for itself?
Beyond the whitewashing are obvious reasons why so many devotees do horrible
things in the name of Allah, while most of the rest never seem to get terribly
upset by it - busy as they are throwing tantrums and demanding for themselves what they
explicitly deny others.
How much favor are we really doing Muslims by not
challenging them to the sort of self-critique necessary for moral progress?
How much favor are we doing ourselves by desperately trying to accommodate that
which has no intention of accommodating us, or by continuing to sacrifice blood
and budgets for those who hate us in return? Is it really in our best
interests to assist the expansion within our own borders of a religion that is
consistently incapable of building countries in which even Muslims themselves
want to live?
Tolerance is a good thing, but not when we allow it to
be used
cynically against us by those who have no use for it once they obtain power.
We need to back away from the altar of political correctness and throw out our
preconceptions. We need to rediscover critical thinking.
The truth is that Islam is not a religion of peace and
it is not like other religion. Sometimes the truth isn't comfortable.
Sometimes the truth offends. But it is far better that we offend others
than lose our own freedom.
See also:
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
How We Feel about
Muslims
Our Case Against Race
What to Do about the Islamic
Threat
Go back to
the List of Islamic Terrorist Attacks
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