Outrageous whitewashing

Submitted by Mary (Australia), Dec 17, 2002 at 09:06

Thanks, Dr Pipes, for exposing this outrageous whitewashing of ... Muhammad and his violent and intolerant teachings. In light of your earlier articles on the corrupt use of Saudi money to buy influence in the USA, it is not hard to guess where the funding might have come from to pay for this dishonest PR exercise. Also, new Islamic recruits, especially those that don't look Arabic, are valuable to the terrorists, and they often try to infiltrate Western jails (via extremist clerics) to try to pick up disenfranchised people on the fringes of our societies. Richard Reid (shoe-bomber) and Jose Padilla were two such recruits. Muslim clerics should be banned from interacting with any but their own in jails, if at all.

There is an interesting website (www.secularislam.org) run by some humanist intellectectuals of Muslim background, and a number of articles on that site analyse Islam and the Koranic teachings and expose the inherent violence and calls to murder all Jews, Christians and non-Muslims where-ever they are found. The following article article "A Call to the Muslims of the World from a Group of Freethinkers and Humanists of Muslim Origins" (http://www.secularislam.org/articles/call.htm) is a bit lengthy but it should be required reading for all in the West to understand the mindset of the Islamic extremists and terrorists that we are up against.

This is from people who know their material and were raised in the culture. They make it clear that any so-called 'peaceful passages' from the Koran were simply from the early years when Muhammad and his followers were weak in numbers (and needed to bide their time until they had the strength to rampage, kill and subjugate), and they are completely negated by the later violent Koranic teachings which are a blueprint for hate, intolerance, brutality and deceit. It is no wonder that the Islamist world is so dangerous and despotic and Sharia law is such an unmitigated disaster, leading to misery for its own people, neighboring countries and a grave threat to the rest of the modern world.

It is essential for the survival of Western liberal democracies that we are not too soft and gullible to accept sugar-coated nonsense about Muhammad and Islam...

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