Terrorists Today Use Islam to Justify Their Acts of Violence
On September 5, 2003, the Palestinian Sheikh Ibrahim Mudeiris declared: “The Prophet [Muhammad] could, by means of unbroken ranks, conquer Byzantium, the greatest power compared to today’s America….America is our No. 1 enemy, and we see it as our No. 1 enemy as long as we learn from the lessons of the Battle of Tabouk [which Muhammad fought in 630AD]: ‘Make ready for them whatever you can of armed strength and of mounted pickets’ [Qur’an 8:60].”
As late as November 2003, the website of the Islamic Affairs Department (IAD) of the Saudi embassy in Washington exhorted Muslims to “sword.” It quotes Muhammad delivering Allah’s words: “Whoever of My slaves comes out to fight in My way seeking My pleasure, I guarantee him that I will compensate his suffering with reward and booty (during his lifetime) and if he dies, I would forgive him, have mercy on him and let him enter Paradise.”
In December 2003, an Iraqi jihadi explained: “The religious principle is that we cannot accept to live with infidels. The Prophet Muhammad, peace be on him, said, ‘Hit the infidels wherever you find them.’” This quote was not from Muhammad but from Qur’an 9:5.
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You will scoff at this, but it is a perfectly fair comparison.
Christians use Christianity and the Bible to justify their acts of violence and discrimination towards Muslims, both Muslim Americans and Middle Eastern Muslims.
President Bush himself claims spiritual insight in the inception of the Iraq war.
But the facts are the facts. Terrorists have killed less than eight thousand Americans since the year 2000. Americans have killed over 100,000 Middle Easterners since the year 2000.
You can hate Muslims and terrorism all you want, but at the end of the day, Americans and our Christian leadership have caused multitudes more death and suffering. You can argue logistics, semantics, intentions, and 'what's right'. But admit it -- Christianity has caused another war in the world against a Muslim nation. And like the Crusades, we are in a bloody, endless war against a religion, justified by 'our' religion.
Islam does not promote more violence than Christianity. Religion far too often is used just for persuasion or reason for military conflict. Crusades, Reconquista and Jihad are just few for example.
And it does not matter which holy book to cite - Qur’an or Bible, any of those have some neat expressions: "The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD's fierce anger may turn away from Israel""
(Numbers 25:14)