Islam should get no privileges that are not available to others

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Jul 2, 2022 at 15:41

Dear Dr Pipes, In the above article you tell us about Yasser Arafat's objection to Israel's 10-agora coin. The coin seems to indicate that Israel wanted to expand her boundary from the Nile to Euphrates. If Islam can have the ambition to enter every house/door (ref 1), what is wrong if Israel/Jews have aspirations to reach the entire region between the Niles and Euphrates?

If any aspiration is bad for others to possess, a similar aspiration must be bad for Muslims to possess. So, the referred Hadith must be bad or the 10-agora Israeli coin must be acceptable as harmless.

Our world has gotten so used to Islamic stubbornness that we unconsciously extend certain privileges to Islam/Muslims that we do not extend to the rest of the humanity. I see no justification for that. I will be very happy to be corrected by the readers.

ref1: (Hadith about Islam reaching every house): https://www.ummah.com/forum/forum/misc/comparative-religion/473210-islam-will-enter-every-home

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