MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

In Islam’s backward way of thinking, the woman is to blame for being raped. The Christian is to blame for their beheading. Israel is to blame for mideast insecurity. Naturally, Charlie Hebdo is to blame for last week’s massacre since it is the fault of every “infidel” for anything and everything that happens to them at the hands of Muslims. But when they tremble in judgment before a just and holy God to give an account for all their unrepentant evil, there will be none left but themselves to blame for all the lies they so willingly embraced …

Qur’an Sura 24:35, “Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth… Allah doth guide whom He will to His light…”

2 Corinthians 11:14-15, “… for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.”

By Hillel Fendel, INN – “The Clarion Project (‘Challenging Extremism, Promoting Dialogue’, according to its website) reports that Turkish newspapers responded to the Islamic slaughter perpetrated against Charlie Hebdo (‘Charlie Weekly’) by blaming the magazine.

In the Western world, on the other hand, though it did not blame the victims, CNN and others refused to show the caricatures that were the excuse for the attack.

Two Islamic terrorists burst into the Paris magazine’s office last week where a staff meeting was being held and opened fire; the result was 12 people dead, including two policemen shot afterwards.

These are Clarion’s findings:

The headline in Yeni Akit, a Turkish daily newspaper with ties to the ruling Islamist AK party, was: ‘Attack on The Magazine that Provoked Muslims.’

The Turkiye Gazetesi, another pro-AK party paper, ran an even stronger headline: ‘Attack on the Magazine that Insulted Our Master the Prophet.’ Following heavy criticism on social media, the magazine changed it slightly: ‘Attack on the Magazine that Published Ugly Cartoons of Our Prophet.’

Finally, Turkiye Gazetesi’s English-language website ran a lukewarm headline – ‘American Muslims Condemn Paris Attack on Charlie Hebdo’ – that did not give any hint as to the article’s contents. The article’s first sentence notes the magazine’s ‘history of publishing unflattering depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.’

The above newspapers implied in their reports that the writers and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo brought the terrorist attack on themselves byexercising their freedom of expression.

The lesson seems to have been learned. CNN, for instance, has decided not to exercise its freedom of expression in this matter. Apparently fearing Muslim wrath, CNN’s Editorial Director Richard Griffith sent an internal memo reading, ‘We are not at this time showing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet considered offensive by many Muslims.’ In addition, while the Charlie Hebdo attack was still considered ‘Breaking News,’ CNN’s Christiane Amanpour actually called the murderers ‘activists.’

CNN’s approach contrasted strongly with Fox News, whose Sean Hannity engaged in a …” Read more.

Because Muslims are somehow the real victims here in the West, not the dead and wounded targets of Islamic terror…

By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Mag – “It is important to remember that the real story is not the Jews, Atheists and Christians in France who fear being killed by Muslims…

…but the Muslims who fear being mildly harassed by the Jews, Atheists and Christians they haven’t killed yet.

In fact the latest hostage taker in France has already expressed concern about an Islamophobic backlash from the people he has taken hostage.

‘I can’t let down my guard for a minute,’ the worried terrorist reportedly said. ‘If I stopped holding a gun on them, then they and the police would attack me at any minute for no other reason than that I am Muslim.’

Across France, many Muslims have expressed similar concerns.

‘When I am burning a car these days, I get these looks,’ said Ahmed A. ‘as if I am beneath them because I am a Muslim and burning a car.’

There are similar worries in Australia where after the Sydney Siege and murder of two Australians by a Muslim Sheikh, some Muslims, who were not even killing people at the time, reportedly suffered dirty looks.

The problem has spread even to the Islamic State which is very worried about a backlash from the thousands of Kurds, Christians and others it has killed.

And the Islamic State in Nigeria, also known as Boko Haram, which killed two thousand people on Wednesday is also deeply concerned.

‘This insane Islamophobia must stop. Why do they hate our peaceful religion?’ Demanded Boko Haram leader Hodofo Simaru, a name which roughly translates to Kill All Non-Muslims, Burn Their Books and Steal Their iPhones. ‘We are very worried now that there will be a backlash against us by all the Christians we haven’t killed yet.'” Source – FrontPage Mag.

Flashback: It Isn’t A Phobia When It’s A Reasonable Fear

• ‘Muslims Are The New Nazis Of Europe’
• It’s Long Past Time We Had An Honest Conversation About Islam
• Bill Maher Exposes The Leftist Islamophobia Ruse For Even Leftists To See
• Islamic Training Session Teaches Students ‘How To Enjoy Beheading Procedure’
• Mainstream Media Absolutely Refuses To Write About Islamic Terror In A Truthful Way
• Former Muslim Warns: ‘Islam Is A Sick And Evil Religion’ And Will Stab You In The Back
• UK Mag: Forget About ‘Islamophobia’ Let’s Tackle Islamism, ‘It Is Time To Unfold The Lie’
• Islamophobia Outbreak: CNN Runs Feature On ‘World’s 10 Most Dangerous Terrorists’ — And They’re All Muslims

According to Islam, any Muslim who refuses to follow the murderous example of Islam’s “prophet” is a Muslim who is inferior to all those that do …

Hadith, Bukhari 52:54, “[Mohammed said] I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred.”

Qur’an Sura 33:21, “Indeed in Allah’s Messenger (Mohammad) you have an excellent example to follow for him who hopes in (meeting with) Allah and the Last Day …”

By David Wood, Answering Muslims – “When Muhammad entered Mecca, he ordered his followers only to fight those who refused to surrender to him, except certain people who were to be executed whether they surrendered or not. In our earliest detailed biographical source on the fall of Mecca, Ibn Ishaq lists eight people who were to receive the death penalty. The charges against four of the eight were ‘insulting Muhammad.’ One of the four critics was eventually pardoned; the others were killed.

Politicians, the media, and Muslim groups assure us that Muhammad never retaliated against people who insulted him. Too bad these modern apologists weren’t there to tell Muhammad how tolerant they would one day imagine him to be.

Here’s the passage from Ibn Ishaq, with details on the critics underlined. Pass it on.

Source – Answering Muslims.

 

Yep. In fact, according to the Qur’an and Hadith, ISIS is more Islamic than most of the Muslims we know here in the West …

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Qur’an Sura 4:95, “Not equal are those believers [Muslims] who sit at home and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit at home …”

Hadith, Sahih Muslim 1:33a, “The Messenger of Allah [Mohammed] said: ‘I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Mohammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish [Islamic] prayer …”

Qur’an Sura 8:12, “… terrorize and behead …”

Hadith, Bukhari 2977, “I have been made victorious with terror” – The “Prophet” Of Islam, Mohammed

Qur’an Sura 8:59-60, “The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them …”

Qur’an Sura 5:33, “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement”

Sky News is reporting that the Kouachi brothers “came out firing” as French forces launched their offensive and have been killed …

Qur’an sura 9:111a, “… They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed …”

Sputnik News – “Major police operations in France have reached their climax. The Kouachi brothers, holding a man hostage at a print workshop in Dammartin-en-Goele, have been killed. Shortly after, explosions were heard at a Jewish kosher shop in Porte de Vincennes, east of Paris, as several hostages were freed.

Gunfire and several explosions have been heard at Dammartin as counter-terrorism officers initiated an assault on a print workshop where two gunmen known as the Koachi brothers have been holding a man hostage. The gunmen are responsible for the brutal attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo earlier this week.

The town has been cordoned off by police with local residents told to stay locked in their houses while the police operation continues.” Read more.

According to the Qur’an, a true Muslim is one who pursues, fights against, strives against, is ruthless against, sieges, slays, beheads, strikes fear into the hearts of, and terrorizes non-Muslims in order to be victorious over them by either converting them to Islam or, if they refuse, destroying them. To question these teachings, however, is to question the so-called “god” of Islam himself. Like much of the Qur’an, the all-compassionate and all-merciful “Allah” has evidently abrogated compassion and mercy …

Qur’an Sura 24:2, “Let not compassion move you from carrying out [Allah’s] law …”

• Flashback: Islamic State Opens Demented ‘Cinema’ To Showcase Beheadings, Torture
• Flashback: Video Depicting ‘Life’ Under ISIS Rule Shows Women And Children Walking Past Headless Bodies In The Street Without Raising An Eyebrow

The Daily Star – “ISIS beheaded a Syrian imam Thursday for ‘insulting God,’ an activist group said.

‘The IS executed the imam of a mosque from the village of Abu Khuyut near Hasakeh city [in northeastern Syria] at dawn Thursday,’ said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, using an alternative name for the group.

The Britain-based Observatory added that three of the man’s sons were ISIS fighters, and that it was the first time the jihadis executed a religious official for this reason.

The man was detained after watching a video on executions carried out by ISIS and cursing because God had permitted them, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.

ISIS carries out near-daily executions in the territories of Syria and Iraq that it controls.

Originating in Iraq, it appeared in Syria’s civil war in spring 2013, and has since committed some of the conflict’s worst abuses.” Source – The Daily Star.

Flashback: Islamic State Announcement: Everyone Who Insults ‘Allah’ Will Be Beheaded – “Islamic State (IS) fighters have beheaded a man for allegedly working for Syrian President Bashar Assad and announced that all who insult Allah are to be executed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said Friday. ‘Der-Ezzor province: ISIS executed a man from al-Mayadin city in al-Jerdaq yard, on the charge of working for Bashar al-Assad as a cop, and judged him with ‘al-Radda’,’ the London-based observatory said on its official Facebook page. ‘ISIS fighters have announced today that everyone [who] insults Allah will be executed and beheaded,’ SOHR said.” Read more.

Flashback: Saudi Arabia ‘Justice’ Minister: Beheading Is Enshrined In Divine Islamic Laws, ‘We Cannot Change Them’ – “Saudi Arabia’s Justice Minister has defended tough Sharia punishments such as beheading, cutting off hands and lashing, claiming they ‘cannot be changed’ because they are enshrined in Islamic law. ‘These punishments are based on divine religious texts and we cannot change them,’ Mohammed Al Eissa reportedly said during a recent speech in Washington… ‘Islam is a religion of wisdom that calls for dialogue with other religious faiths and peaceful coexistence with other communities. [Edit ICA: Then why is there not one single Christian church in all of Saudi Arabia?]” Read more.

For peaceful purposes. RT is reporting that the incident near the Eiffel Tower may have been a false alarm …

Update: At least six explosions heard from site of kosher grocery store siege in east Paris, one hostage taker is dead and is reportedly the same man who killed a French police officer in the south of Paris yesterday. Explosions and gunfire was also heard from scene of second siege north of Paris, Kouachi brothers have reportedly been killed …

Update 2: At least four hostages have been killed at site of kosher deli siege …

Hadith, Tabari 9:69, “Killing Unbelievers [non-Muslims] is a small matter to us” – The Words of Mohammad, “Prophet” of Islam

Qur’an Sura 33:57, 61, “Lo! those who malign Allah and His messenger, Allah hath cursed them in this world and the Hereafter, and hath prepared for them the doom of the disdained … Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter.”

FOX News – “French police were confronting two separate — but apparently related — hostage situations Friday, after a jihadist couple suspected of killing a cop a day earlier stormed a Paris deli, killing two and taking as many as five prisoners even as the suspects Wednesday’s massacre at a Paris satirical magazine were holed up in a printing plant 25 miles north of the city, authorities said.

Authorities feared all four suspects, who may know one another, are bent on going out as martyrs, and potentially killing hostages and police officers in the process. The fast-moving developments came as nearly 90,000 police and military personnel were deployed to bring the terror crisis that has gripped the European nation since late Wednesday morning, when a pair of brothers conducted a bloody commando-style raid on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly satirical magazine that had angered Muslim radicals by repeatedly publishing images of Prophet Muhammed.

‘Even though these guys are a bunch of savages, the negotiators are going to be trying to calm things down … the less volatile things are, the safer it is for everybody,’ James Alvarez, who has worked as a consultant for Scotland Yard and the New York Police Department, told Sky News as the dueling situations unfolded.

The hostage takers in the second case, at a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris, were identified by police as Amedy Coulibaly and Hayat Boumeddiene, a couple suspected in the murder Thursday of Paris Police Officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe as she attended to a routine traffic accident in the city. Authorities believe the case is related to Wednesday’s attack, which 12 people, including two cops, dead at the publication Charlie Hebdo, which has angered Muslim radicals by publishing images of Prophet Muhammed.” Read more.

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Nearly 2,500 years after Zechariah wrote these prophetic words concerning Jerusalem, the surrounding peoples are today reeling over the status of this very city …

Zechariah 12:2-3, “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”

Flashback: The Cup Of Trembling

• NBC News Correspondent: ‘This Thing Ends In Jerusalem’
• Sudan Says Arab Revolts A Prelude to Liberating Jerusalem
• Iran Launches ‘Massive’ War Drills Codenamed ‘Toward Jerusalem’
• Hamas: Our War Is Not To Lift The Blockade But To Liberate Jerusalem
• Israel Warns Of Potential ‘Surprise War’ With Surrounding Islamic Nations
• Hezbollah Has ‘Many Surprises’ To Change Face Of The Region In Future War
• ISIS Fighters Pledge Allegiance To Leader, Vow To ‘Conquer Jerusalem’ From Jews
• ISIS To Set Up Caliphate In Sinai As ‘First Step Towards The Invasion Of Jerusalem’
• Turkey: Protecting Al-Aqsa In Jerusalem Our ‘Sacred’ Mission, Will Do ‘Whatever It Takes’
• Israel: Worry Grips Jerusalem Residents Awaiting Next Attack, Security Measures Not Seen In Years Now In Place

Joel 3:11-12, “Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves there. Bring down, O LORD, Your mighty ones. Let the nations be aroused And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I will sit to judge All the surrounding nations.”

It isn’t the first time blood-thirsty jihadists returning from Syria have killed in the name of Islam. And it won’t be the last …

Qur’an Sura 24:2, “Let not compassion move you from carrying out [Allah’s] law …”

Qur’an Sura 2:191-193, “And slay them wherever ye find them … for persecution [of Muslims] is worse than slaughter [of non-Muslims] … fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah.”

By Maya Vidon-White and William M. Welch, USA Today – “Authorities identified three suspects in a deadly shooting attack on a satirical newspaper that killed 12 people Wednesday as thousands jammed a public square for an evening vigil honoring victims of France’s deadliest terror attack in a half century.

Two of those killed were police officers, one of them shot dead on a sidewalk outside the newspaper. Eight journalists were among the victims.

The suspects are two brothers — Said, 34, and Cherif Kouachi, 32, both French nationals — and Hamyd Mourad, 18, whose nationality wasn’t known, a Paris police official told the Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

The youngest suspect surrendered at a police station in Charleville-Mezieres, a small town in France’s eastern Champagne region, Paris prosecutor’s spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said. French police early Thursday released photos of the brothers they were seeking, saying they should be considered armed and dangerous.

French news media reported late Wednesday that a major police operation was taking place around an apartment building in Reims, about 90 miles northeast of Paris.

The brothers were born in Paris of Algerian descent. Cherif was sentenced to three years in prison on terrorism charges in May 2008. Both brothers returned from Syria this summer.

At least 15,000 gathered at the Place de la République for a vigil after the three gunmen, wearing hoods and armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles, stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, shouting Islamic phrases and killing 12 people. The publication is a satirical newspaper that has caricatured the prophet Mohammed…

President Francois Hollande called the attack a terrorist act ‘of exceptional barbarism,’ and said other attacks have been thwarted in France in recent weeks. Fears have been running high in France and elsewhere in Europe that jihadis returning from conflicts in Syria and Iraq will stage attacks at home.

Cherif Kouachi was well known to French law enforcement. At 26, he was sentenced to three years in prison with 18 months suspended for criminal association with a terrorist enterprise for his conviction in 2008 as part of a group of seven men.

Prosecutors said the group recruited French Muslims to fight for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The group, known as the 19th Arrondissement Network for the working class Paris district where it was based, allegedly recruited young men, arranged for weapons training and helped them travel though Syria to Iraq. Police arrested Kouachi in January 2005, days before he allegedly planned to travel to Syria.” Read more.

Flashback: EU Anti-Terror Chief: Europe Can Expect More Islamist Attacks, French Expert: Threat Is Greater Than 9/11 – “Has Europe under-estimated the security threat posed by battle-hardened homegrown Islamic militants returning from Syria? … concern mounted Monday that the region is ill-equipped to cope with the threat posed by homegrown Islamic militants returning from Syria’s battlefields… Europe can expect further ‘small-scale attacks’ like the fatal shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, the EU’s anti-terror chief Gilles de Kerchove said Monday. ‘I don’t expect another 9/11,’ he said in a video statement. ‘I don’t expect a major sophisticated attack.’ ‘I [do] expect more small-scale attacks like the one in Brussels,’ he added. Not everyone agrees. French Al-Qaeda expert Jean-Pierre Filiu believes the threat posed by groups like ISIS, for Europe, is greater than that created by the Taliban’s sheltering of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan prior to the 2001 attacks on New York.” Read more.

Flashback: UK: Jihadist Fighter In Syria Threatens To Go On Killing Spree In Britain After Returning Home – “THE leader of the city council has moved to reassure people after it emerged a jihadi from Portsmouth posted he would go on a ‘killing spree’ if he returned from Syria. The comments from Councillor Donna Jones come after a man fighting with Al-Qaeda linked group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Syria wrote a message on Twitter. The man, using the name Abu Abdullah, seemed to threaten to kill non-Muslims. He wrote: ‘Yeah mate, go back to Britain. You got to be joking. I’ll probably end up going on a killing spree with all the kuffar around me.’” Read more.

The stench of Molech fills the air with death, destruction, endless despair. They spread Islam for the Father of Lies — Beelzebub, Baal, Lord of the Flies. Deceived and calloused they will never suspect that the one they serve is who they claim to reject …

Satan Is A Deceiver Who Leads Astray
Qur’an Sura 4:119-120, “[Satan says] ‘I will mislead them, and surely, I will arouse in them false desires … Satan’s promises are nothing but deceptions.”

Allah Is A Deceiver Who Leads Astray
Qur’an Sura 3:54, 16:93, “… Allah is the best of the deceivers … He sends astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. …”

Allah Masquerades As An Angel Of Light
Qur’an Sura 24:35, “Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth… Allah doth guide whom He will to His light…”

Satan Masquerades As An Angel Of Light
2 Corinthians 11:14-15, “… for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.”

Channel 4 News (Nigeria) – “A new assault on the town of Baga, in the north of the country, may have left 2,000 people dead, according to official Musa Alhaji Bukar, speaking to the BBC.

Militants were reported to have attacked and burned down the entire town yesterday, after having overpowered government troops on a base on Saturday.

A district head speaking to Reuters put the death toll at more than 100, with witnesses saying dozens may have been killed when insurgents began to shoot indiscriminately and burning buildings on Tuesday and Wednesday in attacks on the civilian population.

Amhed Khalifa, a senator for Borno state where Baga is situated, told NBC News that -10-to-20- other communities in the country’s northeast had been razed over the past five days of violence and confirmed that more than 2,000 remain unaccounted for.

There were reports in Nigeria’s media yesterday that the soldiers from Niger and Chad had withdrawn their troops from a Multinational Joint Taskforce based at the military base outside the town following the attack.

Half of the town of Baga was burned by Boko Haram militants in 2013, with almost 200 people killed.

2,000 people were killed by the militant group in total in the whole of last year.” Read more.

Revelation 13,4; 20:10, “… And they worshiped the dragon [Satan], for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast … and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”

Flashback: Nigeria: Nearly 1,000 Massacred After Muslims Attack Christian Village, ‘They Are Following The Strategy Of ISIS’ – “The death toll from Boko Haram’s takeover of the predominantly Christian town of Gwoza is nearly 1,000, not the 100 included in many reports, Nigerian relations expert Adeniyi Ojutiku told Baptist Press. The Nigerian military abandoned their weapons and fled Gwoza as Boko Haram attacked Wednesday (Aug. 6), burning government buildings, killing residents and taking hostages… Boko Haram has escalated its attacks to a new level, capturing towns and hoisting Boko Haram flags instead of killing residents and fleeing, Ojutiku said. He compared them to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).” Read more.

Read the Old Testament and it becomes apparent that it describes much violence and war that took place in the past between Israel and those who sought to oppress and destroy the Hebrew children. Unlike the Bible, however, the Qur’an doesn’t simply describe violence and wars. It calls upon all followers to continue down the same path today …

Qur’an Sura 4:95, “Not equal are those believers [Muslims] who sit at home and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit at home …”

Qur’an Sura 8:39, “And fight with them [non-Muslims] until … religion should be only for Allah …”

By Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute – “News recently emerged that Russia was banning key Islamic scriptures — including Sahih Bukhari — on the charge that they promote ‘exclusivity [supremacism] of one of the world’s religions,’ namely Islam; or, in the words of a senior assistant to the prosecutor of Tatarstan Ruslan Galliev, ‘a militant Islam’ which ‘arouses ethnic, religious enmity.’

If Sahih Bukhari, a nine-volume hadith collection compiled in the 9th century and seen by Sunni Muslims as second in importance only to the Koran itself is being banned for inciting hostility, where does that leave the Koran?

After all, if Sahih Bukhari contains pro-terrorism statements attributed to the prophet of Islam and calls to kill Muslims who leave Islam, the Koran, Islam’s number one holy book itself is full of intolerance and calls for violence against non-believers. A tiny sampling of proclamations from Allah follows:

• ‘I will cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, so strike [them] upon the necks [behead them] and strike from them every fingertip’’ (Koran 8:12).
• ‘Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and who do not embrace the religion of truth [Islam], until they pay the jizya with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued’ (Koran 9:29).
• ‘Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever you find them — seize them, besiege them, and make ready to ambush them!’ (Koran 9:5).
• ‘Fighting has been enjoined upon you [Muslims] while it is hateful to you’ (2:216).

That Islam’s core texts incite violence and intolerance has many ramifications, for those willing to go down this path of logic.

For example, as I argued more fully here, although Muslims around the world, especially in the guise of the 57-member state Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), continue to push for the enforcement of ‘religious defamation’ laws in the international arena, one great irony is lost, especially on Muslims: if such laws would ban movies and cartoons that defame Islam, they would also, by logical extension, need to ban the religion of Islam itself — the only religion whose core texts actively defame other religions.

Consider what the word ‘defamation’ means: ‘to blacken another’s reputation’ and ‘false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel,’ are typical dictionary definitions.

What, then, do we do with Islam’s core religious texts — not just Sahih Bukhari but the Koran itself, which slanders, denigrates and blackens the reputation of other religions?

Consider Christianity alone: Koran 5:73 declares that ‘Infidels are they who say God [or ‘Allah’] is one of three,’ a reference to the Christian Trinity; Koran 5:72 says ‘Infidels are they who say God is the Christ, [Jesus] son of Mary’; and Koran 9:30 complains that ‘the Christians say the Christ is the son of God … may Allah’s curse be upon them!’

Surely such verses defame the Christian religion and its central tenets — not to mention create hostility towards its practitioners.

In short, the argument that some Islamic books should be banned on grounds that they incite segregation and violence is applicable to the Koran itself, which Read more…