This is the second in a series which takes a closer look at the religion of Islam, often referred to (by the Muslims themselves of course) as the “Religion of Peace.” In the first part we looked at the treatment of women within this 7^th century religion. Today I want to explore a brief look at how the so called Religion of Peace looks at, and treats, other religions.

·         On November 25, 2008, that “moderate Muslim” country of Malaysia brought us this article, “The Islamic religious councils of seven Malaysian states and the Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association are turning to the federal court for the ban of the use of the word “Allah” in the weekly Catholic Herald.” A Christian newspaper. Even though the Malaysian constitution guarantees full religious freedom for all religions, it appears that an ordinance issued by the Muslim interior security ministry issued a 1986 law prohibiting the use of the word “Allah” (which simply means God) by non-Muslim publications. It is important to remember what with so many Muslims in predominantly non-Muslim countries such as ours, that despite those Religion of Peace practitioners’ insistences that the religion of Islam gets along with all other religions, it only does so as the superior and dominant religion.

·         This is further evidenced by the recent (Nov, 21, 08) report of a Muslim riot after a 14 year old boy, who didn’t know the segregationist status of “Dhimmi” behavior expected of non-Muslims resulted in a violent attack by a large mob of angry Religion of Peace adherents. “Muslim villagers attacked the homes and shops of Coptic Christians in Tayyiba (Egypt), a town with 35,000 Christians and 10,000 Muslims, after 14-year-old Copt Mina William failed to dismount his donkey as a (Muslim) funeral procession passed.” Don’t let the number of Christians vs. Muslims fool you as the total non-Muslim population of Egypt totals less than 15%. “Williams failure to dismount violated a local custom of showing respect, (this is another complete obfuscation, as any non-Muslim people’s, known as Dhimmis, are obviously required to show special reverence to any Muslims they may encounter) and members of the procession reportedly beat him before completing the procession.” Remember this was a 14 year old child who didn’t know any better. Of course the beating wasn’t considered punishment enough so after the funeral the Muslim population then used this opportunity to terrorize and steal from the local Christian population. Don’t expect any serious charges to be filed against any of the Muslim instigators of this atrocity by the Muslim government.

·         Every European and North American nation welcomes religious leaders from around the world to visit or live within their nations. How do the Religion of Peace adherents reciprocate this seemingly reasonable accommodation? Currently 22 Muslim nations don’t permit admittance of any non-Muslim religious leaders for either visits or residency. Two of those nations are Iraq and Afghanistan! The other Muslim nations impose very strict restrictions and laws making even formal visits by non-Muslim religious leaders very difficult. Isn’t it amazing how those Religion of Peace adherents only seem to insist (and often demand) that non-Muslims see them as such a fun-loving, tolerant, and peaceful religion in every non-Muslim country, but they don’t seem to worry about such trivialities when they are in charge of a country?

·         Every one of the Muslim ruled nations has some form of Sharia Law (Islamic Law) incorporated in part, or in it entirety, into their nations constitutional laws. Again, both Iraq and Afghanistan’s first order of business when they began drawing up their new national constitutions (after our soldiers demonstrated once again why they are the best soldiers in the world) was to install the concept that no law could supersede Sharia Law. How many billions of U.S. dollars, and gallons of U.S. blood, have we shed ourselves of, only to see the 7^th century religious/political/supremacist ideology passing itself as a religion, to reemerge yet again?

·         The recent violence in Iraq especially around the Mosul area, has been those Religion of Peace adherents we helped to “free,” killing and terrorizing the estimated 2 million Christian Iraqi’s, of which at least half that population has been forced to flee the country for their lives. This is of course, the actions of our “allies,” not that you will hear a word of this in our liberal (i.e., Christian hating) MSM.

·         In Thailand, the Philippines, India, China, and a very great many other nations around the world, come daily reports of rapes, murder, the desecration of churches and synagogues, vicious and unprovoked attacks with guns, machetes, knives, acid, and generally whatever else may be at hand; all committed by Muslim followers of the Religion of Peace. Still American’s don’t seem to have been able to put two and two together?

·         In that liberal bastion of Multiculturalism and Political Correctness, Minneapolis, Minnesota, we have seen the Muslim taxi drivers refuse to transport non-Muslim Americans  carrying pork products, alcohol, or even the blind’s sight assist dogs. Target cashiers have refused to ring up people trying to purchase other “haram” or Islamic forbidden items! This was also the scene of the infamous "flying imans" case. What’s the big deal, you may ask? Because the response has generally been the response of Dhimmis from those very same Muslim countries from whence these Religion of Peace adherents hail from. Target arranged to have other cashiers come and ring up those troublesome products, and prayer rooms and foot washing basins were installed at the Minneapolis airport, thereby ensuring an increasing demand for “special rights” by our Muslim citizens. I won’t even go into the security issues of actually creating areas within our airports for Muslims to loiter where no authority will dare question them for fear of being sued or even worse, being accused of being a racist “Islamaphobe.”

·         Have we already forgotten the brazen murder of Theo van Gough in Denmark? He made a short film questioning the so called Religion of Peace and was murdered in broad daylight. Or what of the tens of thousands of Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks? Or the 2005 “cartoon” riots that resulted in the deaths of more than 70 people?

·         Why is it ok for a Muslim to marry a non-Muslim woman but it is forbidden for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man? Why is the so called Religion of Peace insisting on the death penalty for any Muslim to convert to another religion?

·         How can there be so little questioning of Saudi Arabia’s insistence that a mosque be built in Greece when it is against Saudi law for any church or synagogue to be built in their nation?

   Again, this is just a very brief look at the so called Religion of Peace’s insistence of special accommodations to their every demand even as they deny all non-Muslims the same tolerance or accommodations? Are American’s even aware that we have the fourth largest Muslim population in the world? How long will we continue to whistle in the dark and hope against hope that this will all just go away?

Stay tuned as we delve into the life of the founder of Islam, the Prophet Mohammad himself, in my next installment.

   I am repeatedly amazed that so many Americans don’t understand the threat of Islamic fundamentalism so many years after 9/11. With the recent Mumbai attacks I thought I would do my small part to try and help those pour souls learn a few facts that still seem to elude so many.

   Islam is one of the monotheistic (belief in one god), Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) that was started by the Islamic prophet Muhammad back in the 7^th century. Islam means “submission,” and any person who accepts that Allah is the only true god and that the Prophet Mohammad was his messenger, is considered a Muslim. It is important to note that there is no “race” to Muslims, despite the many calls by irritated Muslims and Imams (Islamic religious leaders) who continue to claim that the current climate of “Islamaphobia” is an example of the rampant “racism” displayed against the Islamic community, or umma.

   I thought we should take a very brief look at the ways that this so called “religion of peace” has inserted itself into the very fabric of Western (read non-Muslim/infidel) nations in the hope that the reader will have a better understanding of just what this religion demands (especially from the infidels, or non-Muslim peoples), what it is willing to give (good luck on this one) and what it’s openly stated goals are. Another point of interest is how often did you hear our main-stream media mention the term “Islamic terrorists” during the recent Mumbai tragedy? A number of the MSM reports even indicated the possibility that the terrorists may actually be of Indian origin! Talk about obfuscation.

   First, let’s take a look at how the religion of Islam treats its fairer sex.

·         From the Telegraph dated November 12, 2008 – “Three Afghan schoolgirls suffered serious burns when attackers sprayed acid in their faces as they walked to school.” Their crime? They were not fully covered from head to toe in the formless burqa. (I am not going to cite every article as that would simply take up to much space for this article. You can Google these yourselves.)

·         Honor killings accompany every Muslim society, regardless of whether they are in Iran or the U.S.

·         Female genital mutilation (FMG) is reported to be performed on nearly 80% of all Egyptian females. We wouldn’t want them to let their hormones get the best of them. Of course you see no such requirements for males…

·         Since the Prophet Mohammad married Aisha at the tender age of 6 and consummated the marriage as soon as she turned 9, many Islamic “scholars” agree that marrying child brides by men as old as 85 is permissible. Indeed the Islamic teachings encourage all Muslim parents to marry their female children before their first menstruation to ensure their virtue and purity. Once again we see these wretched 7^th century concepts carried into the 21^st century virtually unchanged.

·         In many Muslim cultures it is permissible for men to have up to 3 wives.

·         The “virtue” of Muslim girls is apparently so cherished that when an all girl’s school caught fire in Saudi Arabia, the religious police actually got into fist fights with Saudi police and fire fighters, rather than allow more than a dozen of the young girls to escape the school without their coverings. As a result, all the girls were killed in the fire.

·         Recently a teenage girl was stoned to death in Somalia. Her offense? Adultery. Of course this sex kitten claimed that she had been raped by several local “jihadists” but since she couldn’t come up with the 4 witnesses required by Sharia (Islamic) Law to verify her story, she was found guilty and stoned. Victimized twice by that “religion of peace” that just keeps on giving.  

·         Recently the FBI actually took the bold stance of calling a recent honor killing of two teenage sisters by their father, what it was, an honor killing, only to reverse their decision 24 hours later. Apparently political correctness and multiculturalism prevents calling a duck a duck.

·         Malaysian Islamic leaders recently issued a fatwa banning lesbianism and “tomboy” behavior among girls and women. You don’t need to worry your little noodle about what defines such behavior, especially the “tomboy” behavior; as such things are decided by religious leaders, not the parents.

·         In Pakistan recently, two Christian sisters aged 9 and 13, were kidnapped by local Muslims, raped and “married” off to their abductors/rapists. It required an international effort to get the local Islamic verdict overturned (the Islamic court had agreed that she had wed of her own free will) on the 9 year old, but efforts are continuing to force the release of the teenage sister.

·         A Muslim man can divorce one of his wives by simply stating, or more recently, by phone texting her, and stating 3 times, “I divorce you.” Of course a woman, or girl, who has lost their virginity is generally disdained by their society and often turn to prostitution or suicide, if they don’t have family willing to support them for the rest of their lives.

·         The existence of Muslim women and girls are expected to sexually please their male partners, and may be legally beaten by their husbands for crimes as serious as not making a meal to the man’s demanding standards. They are also considered baby machines to further propagate the Islamic peoples. Jihad can play hell, what with everyone wanting to die in battle against us infidels, thereby ensuring their entry into the best part of Muslim heaven.   

·         Here is another title from just last month, “Female Kuwaiti cabinet ministers may face dismissal for not wearing headscarves.” This despite the lack of any Kuwaiti law requiring them to do so. In Iraq and Afghanistan female ministers and other elected politicians are faced with death threats on a daily basis, but if a Muslim man rapes any woman it is almost impossible to obtain a conviction. Islam teaches that a woman’s testimony is worth only half that of a Muslim mans. Hence the difficulty in obtaining 4 men (or 8 women) who actually witness the act of sexual penetration.  

·         Apparently Muslim women only seem to find some power when they practice their faith in predominantly non-Muslim countries. For example, very recently Muslim female employees of UPS won a lawsuit settlement against their employer. Their complaint? They were expected to wear the same uniforms as all the other female employee’s. The 8 women lost their jobs in 2005 because they refused to hike their skirts above the knee over their long pants, which posed a serious safety issue. Apparently slacks are considered to “revealing” for the pious Muslim woman.

·         In just the past two years there have been several high profile cases of girls as young as 8 demanding divorces from their “husbands.”

·         Earlier this month a Southern California county jail agreed to allow female Muslim inmates to wear headscarves after settling a lawsuit with a woman who claimed that deputies violated her religious freedom by making her remove her hijab. The county will now ensure that Muslim females have “a private” area to remove their headscarves after arrest and they must also be provided with county-issued headscarves, at taxpayer expense, with which they can cover themselves in the presence of men, and will also pay $45,000 in damages. Of course most of the payment will go to those stalwarts of American ideology, the ACLU, for their legal expenses. But in this at least, Muslim men and women find equality as evidenced by this recent tidbit of news. In the United Kingdom Muslim prisoners are given fresh clothes and bedding after K-9 dogs search their cells. The inmates say these items MUST be changed according to Islamic law (I don’t think anyone ever asked them to show the actual chapter and verse that “demands” this, but I digress) and the K-9 dogs have been BANNED from sniffing or touching the Koran and “other religious items.” In fact the PRISONERS are provided with “special bags” to protect these sacred artifacts before the search begins. Not too surprisingly both the prisons staff and other prisoners are upset by what they claim to be the special treatment of the Muslim prisoners! How very Islamaphobic of the heathens, wouldn’t you agree?

   Stay tuned as we delve into the way that Islam looks at “other religions” in my next installment.