MUSLIM INTOLERANCE
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- Date: 30 Dec 2005 08:21:10 -0800
Islam's Religious Intolerance
By Rachel Ehrenfeld
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 19, 2005
[The following statement by Dr. Ehrenfeld was read by Alyssa Lappen at
the meeting on "Protection of Religious Sites and Prevention of the
Use of Religion to Incite Terrorism/Violence" which took place at the
U.N. Headquarters in New York on December 13th, 2005. Dr. Ehrenfeld was
ill with pneumonia].
No churches or synagogues have been destroyed in Saudi Arabia since it
was established in 1932 -because none are allowed. Those who want to
establish churches "are, unfortunately, fanatics," according to the
Saudi First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense and Aviation
and Inspector General, Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, in an interview
with the Associated Press on March 13, 2003. He concluded: "There are
no churches - not in the past, the present or future...."
There is no declared Muslim state, which offers full civil rights to
members of other religions. Many Christians work in Saudi Arabia, but
they are not allowed to practice their religion in public because there
is no religious freedom in Saudi Arabia. The State Department's report
on Religious Freedom points out that the Saudis do "not always
respect this right in practice and do not define this right in law."
Last April, 40 Pakistani Christians including men, women and children
were arrested for holding prayers in a private home in Riyadh. Needless
to say, their prayer-books were confiscated.
Moreover, in the 1990's, Christian religious services in the American
Embassy were terminated at the Saudi government's request. And even
websites devoted to other religions and to religious freedom and
tolerance are blocked by the Saudi government.
And the Saudis not only oppress all other religions but actively
promote an ideology of hate in their own country and abroad. Freedom
House documented how the Saudi government is involved in propagating
internationally a "religious ideology that explicitly promotes hate,
intolerance, and other human rights violations, and in some cases
violence, toward members of other religious groups, both Muslims and
non-Muslims."
In Iran, where the president has repeatedly said, "I want to stop
Christianity in this country," last month, a Protestant pastor has been
murdered because he himself converted from Islam. It is important to
note that all five schools of Islamic law agree that the penalty for
conversion - "apostasy" - is death.
In Indonesia, especially in the Moluccan islands, thousands of
Christians were massacred and tens of thousands driven from their homes
in the last decade alone by Islamist mobs.
In Egypt, Christians face persecution in the form of rapes, kidnappings
and forced conversions as well as economic discrimination and
restriction on their property and on what they can build.
Similar situations apply in most Gulf States, which were Islamized long
ago. In Yemen, "the government forbids conversions, requires
permission for the construction of new places of worship and prohibits
non-Muslims from proselytizing." The country has two churches in the
city of Aden. One of the churches was bombed on January 1, 2001. And on
December 30, 2002 - three Southern Baptist missionaries working in the
Baptist Hospital at Jibla were killed.
In November 2005, Qatar allowed to construct the first church in 14
Centuries. However, no "freestanding cross" to identify the
building as a church is allowed. Yet, this is seen as a big step
towards reform.
However, radical Islamists adhere to medieval traditions and laws
mandating the Jihad. According to the Dictionary of Islam: conquered by
jihad, subjugated people are given three choices:
1) convert,
2) pay a head tax, or
3) die.
Thirteenth Century jurist Ibn Taymiya, often quoted by Osama bin Laden,
wrote that spoils of war "received the name of fay since Allah had
taken them away from the infidels in order to restore them to the
Muslims.... [The] infidels forfeit their persons and their belongings
which they do not use in Allah's service to the faithful believers who
serve Allah and unto whom Allah restitutes what is theirs...."
This creed dictated that in conquered regions, ancient religious sites
be confiscated and infidels banned from using them. Thus, the Dome of
the Rock was constructed on the ruins of the Temple Mount in 691 AD.,
Al-Aqsa Mosque over the Basilica of St. Mary in 712, AD, and the Grand
Mosque of Damascus, was built over the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist in 715 AD.
In India, the Vikramasli temple was razed to the ground in the 13th
Century, and its foundation- stones thrown into the Ganges. According
to scholar K.S. Lal, thousands of Hindu temples were destroyed and
their stones used to build mosques.
Muslim scribes recount the detestation on a church in Georgia in 1551
by Safavid Shah Tahmasp. "The Shah and his nobles went to see the
church and slew twenty evil priests and broke the bell of 17
maunds...and destroyed the doors of iron and gold and sent them to the
treasury."
Only when infidels surrendered could they preserve religious buildings,
and then only if a clause specifically allowed them, but in that case
modifications and improvements were prohibited. Furthermore, 11th
Century jurist Abu Al-Hasan Al Mawardi wrote that non-Muslim dhimmis
"are not allowed to erect new synagogues or churches in the territory
of Islam and any built are to be demolished without compensation."
In countries with a Muslim majority, Islamists regularly target
churches, synagogues and other non-Muslim holy sites for desecration
and destruction. The list of old and new examples of Islamic edicts
preaching intolerance of others and calling for their destruction as
well as the destruction of their holy sites is long.
Unless those - still the majority of the world - who do not adhere to
such dogma, take action to stop this aggression, our future is in
jeopardy.
The history of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, headed by
Yasser Arafat, is filled with religious violence. From 1975 to 1982,
when the PLO operated in and from Lebanon, it terrorized Christian
communities and ransacked their churches. Even after the newly
established Palestinian Authority committed to religious tolerance in
the Oslo Accord, its own police forcefully took over Abraham's Oak
Russian "Holy Trinity" Monastery in Hebron, on July 5, 1997, wounding
several monks and nuns.
Then, in January 2000, the PA evicted five White Russian monks from
their 19th Century Jericho Monastery.
In September 1996, Palestinians destroyed the synagogue at Joseph's
tomb in Nablus. Then, in October 2000, the reconstructed synagogue and
yeshiva at Joseph's Tomb was sacked and burned by mobs, and Rabbi
Hillel Lieberman, who went there hoping to save Torah scrolls and other
holy objects, was murdered. The next day his bullet-ridden body was
found in a cave. Today, the Jewish holy site is buried under the new
mosque that was built over the ruins of Joseph Tomb.
The PA's Tanzim terrorist group invasion and desecration of
Bethlehem's Church of Nativity, in May 2002, was premeditated,
according to their commander Abdullah Abu-Hadid. He stated on record:
"The idea was to enter the church in order to create international
pressure on Israel... We knew beforehand that there was two years worth
of food for 50 monks. Oil, beans, rice, olives, good bathrooms and the
largest wells in old Bethlehem."
The PA terrorists "stole gold objects from the monks, ate their scarce
food, and urinated on the church floor."
Muslims have attacked the "infidels" and their houses of worship in
order to take over their properties for centuries. In the September
1955 "Istanbul Pogrom," Muslims sacked the homes, businesses and
churches of tens of thousands of Greek Christians, Armenians and Jews
in Istanbul. "Dozens of Greek men and women were raped, and a number
of men were forcibly circumcised by the mob." Today, of the 200,000
of the Greek community, only 1,500 live in Istanbul. And only 24,000
Jews remained of more than 100,000 at the beginning of the last
Century. As for the Armenians, their massacre in 1915 has been well
documented.
In the Balkans, since the Serbs were defeated in Kosovo in 1999, more
than 100 ancient Orthodox holy places were destroyed, some dating back
to the 13th through 15th centuries.
The destruction of the two fifth-century Buddha statues lining Bamiyan
Valley's soaring cliffs, in March 2001, came after a fatwa ordered by
the Taliban that all Afghan "idols" be destroyed as anti-Muslim.
Islamists scholars supported the destruction of the Buddha statutes.
Among the supporters was American Muslim, Sheikh Ali al-Timimi, who in
July this year was sentenced by a judge in Virginia to life in prison
because he worked to get a group of young Americans Muslims to obtain
terrorists training so that they could go to Afghanistan and fight with
the Taliban against the "infidels." He wrote that there is
"overwhelming evidence from the Quran and the Sunna where we have
been commanded to destroy all images and flatten all graves."
Unfortunately, many other holy sites of other religions have been
destroyed because of the intolerant Islamists - both Shiite and Sunni
dogmas that teach disrespect for the rights of Jews, Christians and
other non-Muslims. The most flagrant proponent of this hate lately is
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who not only denies the Holocaust
as a historical event, but uses every opportunity to reiterate that
Israel "must be wiped off the map."
Statements like this encourage not only the massacre of Jews and their
holy sites, but also are responsible for the mass murder of Christians
and the razing of churches worldwide-in Indonesia, Pakistan, Sudan
and Nigeria-which happens in in 83% of nations with Muslim
majorities, according to Tom Barrett in American Daily.
To remedy the situation, the UN-as well as all other international
organizations-should sanction all the countries that do not allow
religious freedom and withdraw all membership privileges of all the
countries that do not provide legal protection and equal rights to all
their citizens.
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