Our friend Adi, better known as Ruby on Rails Guy sent me this frightening video of hate speech coming from the Acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Ahmad Bahr. As an example, here is an excerpt:
America will be annihilated, while Islam will remain. The Muslims “will be victorious, if you are believers.” Oh Muslims, I guarantee you that the power of Allah is greater than America, by whom many are blinded today. Some people are blinded by the power of America. We say to them that with the might of Allah, with the might of His Messenger, and with the power of Allah, we are stronger than America and Israel.
Oh Allah, vanquish the Jews and their supporters. Oh Allah, vanquish the Americans and their supporters. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them all, down to the very last one. Oh Allah, show them a day of darkness. Oh Allah, who sent down His Book, the mover of the clouds, who defeated the enemies of the Prophet defeat the Jews and the Americans, and bring us victory over them.
yet time after time, we are told that Islam is a religion of peace, yeah right.
Go into most fundamental “christian” churches on any given Sunday morning and you may be (or may not be) surprised to hear very similar preaching touting the; destruction of non-believers, end of times, victory over godless souls, etc., etc.
It seems to me that many organized religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, to name just a few) have been hijacked by fundamental fringe elements within their ranks. The zealots are quite willing to shout above the masses in order to be heard while reasonable people of faith seem unwilling to publicly, and consistently disassociate themselves from these radicals.
Catbert,
You said:
First of all, I totally agree with you. Although religious people believe these things are true, they would be considered “scare tactics” by everyone else. However, I would like to point out the fact that in every church I’ve ever been in what they are talking about is what happens to your soul after you die.
The people in videos like the one here are talking about expediting your delivery into the afterworld. Pretty sizeable difference if you ask me. ;-)
John
Well, if someone comes in your house, locks you and your family up in one room, and takes over your house, would you pray/wish for their well being? Try looking at it from their point of view. The only “weapon” they have is their religion… I’m not with what he says, but I can understand why he says it.
dngloz
These attitudes, hate speeches and believes did not show up recently or after any war. These are real believes as part of their religion. It is documented and clear from hundreds of years.
Catbert
You said:
I prayed in many protestant, baptist and catholic churches (actually i was raised in catholic church for many years) through all my life and I never felt any thing even similar.
I doubt that in their religion it specifically mentions to destroy the US and Israel, you have over 1billion human beings following that religion, some live in the US, others in Europe, and some even in Israel. Do you know what would happen if they all hated the US and Israel?
Well, I am more than sure that what I told you is true.
They are more than 1 billion and all of them hate Israel and the USA, I mean it. What they can do? nothing! Why? Since people ability to do any thing is not by their count, but by their quality.
American Army managed to disable Iraqi army in 6 days in the last war , provided that Iraqi Army consists of more than 1 million soldiers. It is quality, rather than quantity. Corrupted, dis-functional and dishonest societies can not stand in front of country like USA even they are 100000 billion.
Those one billion can not even manage to find their own bread, USA gives it to them FREE for humanitarian reasons.
Adi, you may have prayed in many churches, but you haven’t prayed in all of them, and certainly not for the last 1900 years. There are documented examples of Christian churches and leaders condemning Islam and exhorting to its destruction. Jerry Falwell, to cite a recent example.
Keeping in mind that Islam is considered a blasphemous heresy in the eyes of Christianity, even if few religious leaders longer publicly admit it in this day.
Documented for hundreds of years, you say? Absolutely. Have a read of what Martin Luther had to say on Islam.
Please – nobody ever think for a moment that this type of hate-speech only occurs from Muslims.
For who can’t find their own bread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyVy5XHjuGI
And as for “all of them hate Israel and the USA”, you’re right, even those (muslims) who fought and died in US wars, in the US army, hated Israel and the USA… or,not?
You should seriously sit down one day and analyse where this hate you have towards them comes from, hate is like a virus, it spreads and gets out of control, try to find the source and point specifically at that, don’t generalize…
Now if by this article, you are trying to convince me that Christianity is better than Islam, you have failed, since they both have their strong and ridiculously weak points.
If you are trying to convince me that all Muslims are “evil”, you have also failed, since all I see is an extremist idiot preaching desperate people who are at their weakest point and have given up on everything at this stage. If their country wasn’t so screwed up, they would have had jobs and wouldn’t have had time to even listen to this extremist…
I am not trying to tell you that Christianity is better than Islam nor all muslims are evil.
FYI, the video that you showed to me has nothing to do with our discussion. Also, Peter reply went off the main topic.
To reply to your video, I as arab, I as human, and most americans are not happy to see Palastineans suffering. USA did not stop supporting them, they pay their salaries and almost everything they need.
I understand the point that you and peter want to say. You guys consider what Bush doing or what Martin luther said. Thats not the complete history of the problem. Please read about Islamic emperor, read about it well, and then reply to me.
Furthermore, I do not hate muslims. I hate few beliefs they have. I lived most my life in Islamic country. I have hundreds of muslim friends. I call few of them till now once or more every week. Again, I hate believes.
I suffered numerous number of times in my life as being minority, but i do not hate them. I still liked the place where I was born, I miss it, i did not go their for three years and I can not wait to go their again.
Thanks for replies..