Islam is the religion of peace, we are told.
Salman Rushdie has been knighted in Great Britain, and the response from Muslim leaders has been predictable.
From the Guardian, “This is an occasion for the 1.5 billion Muslims to look at the seriousness of this decision,” Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, religious affairs minister, told the Pakistani parliament in Islamabad. “The west is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism. If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so unless the British government apologises and withdraws the ‘sir’ title.”
Can’t you just feel the love there?
Read the entire article here.
After the publication of the “Satanic Verses”, the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against Rushdie. This is a holy decree of death sentence against one who has blasphemed against the Islamic faith. It is a sentence of murder, that states directly that it is a duty of any Muslim with the opportunity, to kill Salman Rushdie for the crime of writing a book.
This is love? This is tolerance?
The simple fact of the matter is that there is no message of love in the Islamic religion, it is merely another method of control, by forcing the will of human leaders onto it’s followers under the premise that they are doing the work of God. It is ancient, tribal superstition, founded on ignorant bullshit and lacking any care for anyone outside of its control. No evidence supports its assertions. No evidence supports its claims. Like all other “revealed” religion, it is pure fiction. In this case, a dangerous fiction.
Those who follow this religion and others constantly harp about how we are supposed to “honor all religions”, and the method they want this honor to come is always in the form of obeying the religion’s principals. Well, I’m sorry to say that there is a difference between honoring a religion and obeying it. Like the ignorant morons in this country who thump their Bibles and scream for respect, they are merely painting themselves as the intolerant ones, showing their true colors for all to see. Tolerance and honor to them, is obedience.
The fact of the matter is, these people are receiving tolerance. From the secular, worldly point of view, the pronouncement that one is “Muslim” or “Christian” or whatever revealed religion you want to name, is simply a self-proclamation that one is delusional. I can’t speak for Britain, but I think we’ve been pretty tolerant of these delusional people in this country. After all, where else can you go where it is inscribed in the deepest law of the land that the government cannot interfere with the people’s practice of their delusions?
Religious tolerance does not include having to respect the religion’s belief system. Religious tolerance is allowing those following a religious belief to practice their beliefs, in any way they wish, as long as it is not harming others. Religious tolerance does not include an automatic respect for those beliefs, as if they have intrinsic value. Religious tolerance does not include looking aside when a religion calls for someone’s murder.
While the Islamic world throws a temper tantrum over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood, the world should ignore them. Until Islamic leaders stop calling for fatwas and jihads against the things it disagrees with, the world should rightly treat them as the murderous scum they are and fight them every step of the way.
