Points to Ponder Number 17
We have been told so many times that Islam is a religion of peace and that the various fundamentalist organisations are aberrations that we believe this canard. After all we know so little about Islam. We have never read the Koran. And to top it all, President Obama has authoritatively stated that the members of ISIL (IS) are not really Muslims.
Ponder then on the words of a Moroccan born former Muslim and undergraduate student of religious studies who quotes the Koran chapter and verse to show to us that the members of the violent Islamic organisations are indeed following the teachings and example of Mohammed.
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When we ponder what drives these young Muslims from all over the world, including the democratic west, to join the various fanatic Islamic organisations we are invariably told that we are responsible. It is because of the poverty and discrimination that we inflict on them.
With our heads buried deep in the sand, we look no further. We do not check to see what it is these impressionable young men and women, and their parents, are being taught by their imams when they attend prayer services in the mosques.
We do not demand that our media show us the Muslim rallies held in almost every city in the free world (of course demonstrations are banned in Muslim counties). We never get to see to what the Muslims themselves aspire.
Wake up! Watch this clip.
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How many times have you heard it said that Israel is the only theocracy, the only country with an official state religion? And that of course tacitly means accusing Israel of discrimination against its non-Jewish population.
Ponder on these few:- the official church of Britain is the Church of England; the constitution of Norway states that Evangelical-Lutheran is the official religion and that of the Federal Government of Argentina states that it supports the Roman Catholic Apostolic church; Switzerland bans the building of minarets; the constitution of Greece states that Eastern Orthodox Church of Christ is the prevailing religion of Greece and adds a theological paragraph as does the Irish constitution which begins “In the name of the Most Holy Trinity”.
The states which acknowledge that Islam is their official religion include Malaysia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Algeria, Maldives, Brunei, and the UAE to name but a few.
Another canard bites the dust!
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