Useful Idiots

8:65 The unbelievers are stupid; urge the Muslims to fight them.

9:5 When opportunity arises kill the infidels wherever you find them.

9:30 The Jews and Christians are perverts, fight them.

9:123 Make war on the infidels living in your neighbourhood.

22:19 Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies.

47:4 Do not hanker for peace with the infidels; behead them when you can catch them.

Islamists will argue we are misinterpreting these verses and taking them out of context. We must learn to recognise the sound of taqiyya.

To reform Islam, one must remove Muhammad, whose life encompassed murder, incitement to murder, deceit, slavery, sex with prepubescent girls and many other activities rejected by Christianity. For Muslims to distance themselves from Muhammad it really requires them to reject Islam. That is, they become apostates.

Our society tends to tolerate all who behave peacefully. Islam tolerates nothing. It intrudes into every part of life. It regulates eating (try ordering a bacon sandwich in Riyadh). It regulates work-breaks, foot-baths, food regulations, the killing of animals, slavery, and tells everyone whom they can befriend. Even the height of houses. While their numbers are small, Muslims try changing regulations where they think they can get away with it. As they increase, so do their demands.

News Weekly does not seem to acknowledge the real Islam, but instead presents us with a Potemkin Islam in which the members are victims, and quite misunderstood. There is no mention of the unprovoked attacks made by 'asylum seekers', who have introduced taharrush gamea to Western Europe. In this activity, Muslims surround a girl whose offence is attempting to walk along a road in a European city. The outer members ensure that no one interferes, while the inner circle gropes the girl, removing her clothing. This is what they do in the Middle East, which might be called Harassment Central. No girl is safe in the Middle East. And now, in Western Europe. The open-door policy of German Chancellor Angela Merkel towards "asylum seekers" may result in the cultural disintegration of Europe and it is strange that the National Civic Council is not apprehensive about that.

After the Second War, millions of migrants came to North America and Australia. They did not look for handouts for multiple wives, but instead got to work and built this country. The thought of Italian and Greek no-go areas is ludicrous. Not so for Islam. Italians, Greeks, Vietnamese, Hindus and Sikhs did not refer to Australian girls as 'uncovered meat'.

Neither Byrne nor Kepel mention Islam's infamous blasphemy laws, under which several Christians and Muslims are on death row in Pakistan. It is deeply saddening that Pat Byrne even removed from the News Weekly website articles critical of these blasphemy laws and of Islam, articles by Cardinal George Pell, Rev. Mark Durie, Bill Muehlenberg, Babette Francis and many others. What excuse does he offer for deleting an article about Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who has been in death row in Pakistan for over five years, on spurious charges of blasphemy? If she renounced her faith and converted to Islam, she would be immediately released, garlanded with roses and have a triumphal procession in the streets of Pakistan, but she has been steadfast in her witness to Christ. Kepel does not mention that the (presumably "moderate") 57-Members of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation is trying to impose, through the United Nations, blasphemy laws on all the 193 Member countries of the UN.