Robert Spenser posts about a story which quotes one of Iran's religious leaders as saying that liberty and democracy are "Satan's tools" -
"The devil presents himself in many forms, and employs every means to convey his message. He uses each concept such as liberty and democracy to achieve his plans."
Yeah. Right.
Well, I can certainly agree with Robert Spenser that there is plenty of immorality in the West, but I would direct Ayatollah Shirazi (quoted above) to note the immorality running rampant in the Islamic world: slavery, abuse of women, intolerance, genocide, suidical death cults... Or, how about this story (HT Gates of Vienna) -
On Monday, October 9, a prominent Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) priest, Fr. Paulos Iskander (Paul Alexander), was kidnapped by an unknown Islamic group. His ransom was posted at either $250,000 or $350,000. This group had demanded that signs be posted once again on his church apologizing for the Pope's remarks as a condition for negotiations to begin.Father Alexander was beheaded on Wednesday. [...]
Christians are living a terrified life in Mosul and Baghdad. Several priests have been kidnapped, girls are being raped and murdered and a couple of days ago a fourteen year old boy was crucified in the Christian neighborhood Albasra. [empha. mine]
... or this -
Christian Leaders in Iraq have asked their parishioners to be extremely cautious and not to leave their homes as a new group called the young Brigades of Fundamental Islam ' has distributed papers announcing the slaying of all Iraqi Christians in three days if the Pope does not Apologize.
... or this -
Genocide perpetrated against Black African non-Arab Muslims in the Darfur region of oil-rich Sudan rages on, yet these same Muslim Israel/Jew bashers will likewise not bash contemptible Islamic President Omar al-Bashir and his crew of subhumans; instigators and perpetrators of the pillaging, raping, torturing, mutilating, and murdering of such non-Arab Black Muslim men, women, and children in the homeland they control. Presumably, pillaging, raping, torturing, mutilating, and murdering non-Arab Black men, women, and children, albeit they are Muslims, is Koranically correct, to better serve Allah, as far as the outer Muslim apparently racist world is concerned.
... or this -
Robert Redeker went underground after publishing an attack on Islam on Sept. 19, in which he called the Koran "a book of incredible violence" and Islam's prophet Muhammad "a merciless warlord, a looter, a butcher of Jews and a polygamist."Islam, Mr. Redeker said, "exalts violence and hate."
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said the threats against Mr. Redeker, who teaches philosophy in a suburban Toulouse high school, were intolerable and showed that "we live in a dangerous world that is often marked by intolerance."
The threats came amid widespread criticism of Pope Benedict XVI by Muslims who accused him of implying in a speech that Islam was violent. And they coincided with the cancellation of a Mozart opera in Berlin out of fear of Muslim protests.
... or this -
"We tell the worshipper of the cross (the Pope) that you and the West will be defeated, as is the case in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya," said an Internet statement by the Mujahideen Shura Council, an umbrella group led by Iraq's branch of al Qaeda, according to the Reuters news agency."We shall break the cross and spill the wine. ... God will (help) Muslims to conquer Rome. ... God enable us to slit their throats, and make their money and descendants the bounty of the mujahideen," said the statement.
I much prefer the Christian worldview, frankly.
- 2 Cor 3:17 "Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
- Romans 12:18 "If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men."
- Matthew 5:9-12 "Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
Christians - as directed by our authoritative scriptures - are called to sacrifice themselves to holiness and righteousness, not to murder and hate.
Jesus is a far better example to follow than Mohammed (the pedophile, the murderer, the liar).
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