ISIS is not the only form of Islam but it is fair dinkum authentic Islam.
Robert writes on FB: Good to know: al-Azhar University (Cairo) refuses to deem ISIS terrorists as heretics. Al-Azhar is the closest equivalent for Sunni Islam as the Vatican is for Catholicism. BTW, al-Azhar’s main publication, “The Reliance of the Traveler,” explicitly endorses female genital mutilation — and in lovely, fully descriptive detail.
Yet time and again we’re fed the egregious lie that these terrorists have nothing to do with Islam.
I rarely use Facebook, and I almost never post anything political, but I refuse to be silent anymore. I also just read in the Washington Post (hat tip, Matthew J. Peterson) that it is on *us* to prove that Muslims can peacefully coexist in Western societies. Unbelievable. I’ll stick with Alexis Tocqueville who studied the Koran thoroughly and who, in intellectual caliber, leaves in the dust our moral pygmies berating and shaming us into complaisance:
“I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.”
and:
“Jihad, Holy war, is an obligation for all believers. … The state of war is the natural state with regard to infidels … [T]hese doctrines of which the practical outcome is obvious are found on every page and in almost every word of the Koran … The violent tendencies of the Koran are so striking that I cannot understand how any man with good sense could miss them.”
