Muslims lie?

Submitted by Terry (European Union), Feb 22, 2007 at 17:57

You pose a question in your post. You ask whether or not Muslims lie about Islam. Well, I will turn that around to you and ask, do they ever tell the truth? Will you deny that a pillar of the Islamic faith is the globalisation of Islam? Tell me it is not the ultimate goal. Tell me that the repeated and ever mounting atrocities are only the work of a very few misguided folk, and not a means to an end. Tell me that all right thinking and 'normal' Muslims abhor, and denounce these acts of terror.

Then tell me that the so called clerics of Islam are wrong in their repeated condemnation of the west. Tell me Osama Bin Laden is a deluded creature, and that he and his henchmen are destined for the fires of hell at the hands of Allah. Tell me that the Taliban in Afghanistan are a repressive regime who seek to impose their values on an otherwise innocent society, that it is wrong to make women wear trhe full canonicals, and deny girls an education. The list is endless, but go on, have a try at it.

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