Dr Imran Waheed's many deceptions...

Submitted by john S (United States), Aug 16, 2003 at 21:34

I would like to point out one glaring flaw among many in Waheed's letter cited below. He attempts to smear Western systems with the brand of slavery while ignoring the pink elephant in the room -- It was 1962 when Saudi Arabia got around to officially outlawing slavery!!!

And even today indentured servitude, and the selling of individuals is still practiced there and in many other Islamic countries. So in practice slavery still exists for broad swaths of Muslims, and hapless so called "non-believers" under their sway the world over. Waheed's unwillingness to confront the defects in Islam, and his method of distorting the truth and then attacking non-Muslim systems is one of the fertilzers that nurtures the Muslim myth of victimhood, which in turn helps nurture the harvest of terror we see in Islam today.

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