Islam Owes Christianity An Apology

Oh brother! Where to start with this one? Let's start with Tigerhawk.

Sheikh Fawzi Zafzaf, President of the Interfaith Dialogue Committee of Al-Azhar, said during a press conference that his committee has sent a request to the Pope last February, demanding an official apology on Christian crusades against the Muslim world, following the example of the Jews.

Christians owe a debt to Jews that no apology can expunge. Christians owe no such apology to Muslims. The Crusades were a counterattack, and barely a pinprick in a thousand years of Muslim ascendancy against Christiandom. Neither the Crusades nor Christianity's tolerance of science, technology, industry and trade is a reason to apologize to Muslims. The whole idea is offensive.

Next LGF weighs in.

Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, the highest Sunni Muslim institution in the world (where the Grand Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi has gone on record many times praising suicide bombers, and where the Islamic Ruling Committee has called for Islamic nations to acquire nuclear weapons), now demands an apology from the Pope—for the Crusades.

Next up NRO.

Now put this down in your notebook, because it will be on the test: The crusades were in every way a defensive war. They were the West's belated response to the Muslim conquest of fully two-thirds of the Christian world. While the Arabs were busy in the seventh through the tenth centuries winning an opulent and sophisticated empire, Europe was defending itself against outside invaders and then digging out from the mess they left behind. Only in the eleventh century were Europeans able to take much notice of the East. The event that led to the crusades was the Turkish conquest of most of Christian Asia Minor (modern Turkey). The Christian emperor in Constantinople, faced with the loss of half of his empire, appealed for help to the rude but energetic Europeans. He got it. More than he wanted, in fact.

Indeed, we are once again engaged in "the West's belated response to the Muslim" crusades.

In Germany:

Is Europe giving way to blackmail? The question was raised in Germany last month by an article in Die Welt, the country's most heavyweight paper, by Mathias Dúpfner, head of the big Axel Springer publishing group. He titled it Europe — Thy Name Is Cowardice. He said that a crusade is under way "by fanatic Muslims, focused on civilians, directed against our free, open western societies" that is set upon the "utter destruction" of western civilisation. This enemy, he said, was spurred on by "tolerance" and "accommodation", which were taken as signs of weakness. Europe's supine response, he said, was on a par with the appeasement of Hitler.

In Britain:

Some radical Muslims in Britain are openly declaring war on their host country.

9/11, 3/11 and Bali were all part the current crusade being waged by Muslims.

On the Internet:

But is anywhere safe? Internet Haganah reports that increasingly radical Muslims are using the internet to hunt down Christians. On a free website at a datacenter in New York, on a server operated by a company in Quebec, we have found evidence that Islamists continue to gather information in an effort to hunt down Christians who participate in online chatrooms (presumably at PalTalk).

And all accross Europe Al Qaeda tightens its grip. Since 9/11 between 20 to 30 Muslim terrorists attacks have been foiled.

Muslims spread their hate from their mosques.

In the Red Zone has more "from the Center for Religious Freedom's absolutely essential report...

"To be disassociated from the infidels is to hate them for their religion, to leave them, to never rely on them for support, not to admire them, to be on one's guard against them, never imitate them, and to always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law.


-- literature found by the Center for Religious Freedom's researchers at the the Saudi Arabian-supported Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. (For a pdf-formatted version of this eye-opening report, go here; for an executive summary, here.)

In Holland:

Muslims threaten to kill politicians who criticize Islam.

Twelve Muslims arrested in Holland have been accused of threatening to kill prominent politicians critical of Islam.

The arrests followed the murder of a Dutch film director who made a movie that criticised the religion.

Prosecutors, speaking at a pre-trial hearing of the men, said last year's arrests had foiled further attacks.

Apology my ass! It's high time the west woke up to the Muslim crusade that is once again being waged against us and defeat it yet again. Thankfully, one man in the west is doing just that. George Bush.
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