"You can call me a racist for saying so if you want to, and a hate-monger, and a bigot, and all the rest of it. Go through the card, be my guest...but when you finally run out of names, it will still be the truth." ~ Pat Condell
by Pat Condell
Religion, with careful attention paid to Islam, represents everything I despise in how human beings can treat one another. Religion's sole reason for existence has been to justify injustices, inequality, anti-choice, anti-freedom, violence, sexism and racism. This ideology continues unmolested, with hardly a word of resistance from religious moderates.
Islam's open anti-semitism is part and parcel with Hitler's Nazi Germany. Both had and has wide spread support.
The self-avowed “Islamic warrior” Mohamed Merah, who opened fire on a Jewish school in France and slaughtered Jewish children and a rabbi in cold blood, was no “lone wolf,” as the mainstream media initially insisted.But even worse, his cold-blooded murders are winning him sympathy from Muslims and leftist around the world.
Will the Muslim community in France, famous for its rampages and car burnings, decry Mohamed Merah’s murderous deeds and Islamic Jew-hatredin general? Don’t bet on it. Millions of Muslims worldwide share Mohamed Merah’s genocidal inclinations. The hatred of Israel is commanded in Islam. The very existence of Israel is offensive to practicing Muslims. That should be no surprise, since the Quran, which calls the Jews the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82), commands that Muslims wage war against them (9:29). A hadith adds that Muhammad said: “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him’” (Bukhari 4.52.177).
So it was no surprise when Agence France-Presse reported Friday: “Facebook on Thursday removed a page that paid homage to the young Frenchman who died in a shootout with police after killing seven people, officials said.” “Frenchman”? He was a Muslim who would almost certainly have denied being French at all. “The page,” AFP stated, “which bore a picture of the self-proclaimed al-Qaida militant and was titled‘Homage to Mohamed Merah,’ was ‘liked’ by more than 1,800 people before it was removed just hours after it appeared, they said. Many visitors left comments that were hostile to the police or favorable to Islamic extremism.”
There are other ideologies with which to expunge the last vapors of reasonableness from a society's discourse, but Islam is undoubtedly one of the best we've got.
To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world—to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish—is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it.
By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally. ~ Sam Harris
References:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sam_Harris
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/pamela-geller-jew-killing-jihadist-now-a-hero.html