Scotsman.com News - Muslims link Pope to 'racists and bigots' over Islam speech
Muhammad Umar, chairman of the foundation [Ramadhan Foundation], said: "This attack on Islam and Prophet Mohammed by Pope Benedict is recognition that he has fallen into the trap of the bigots and racists when it comes to judging Islam on the actions of a small number of extreme elements. He is wrong in his analysis and I encourage him to study history through the mind of independence, not through pre-conceived prejudices."
Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. - Sura 2:98
On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. - Sura 2:161
Slay them wherever ye find them and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. - Sura 2:191
Allah has cursed the unbelievers and proposed for them a blazing hell. - 33:60
Unbelievers are enemies of Allah and they will roast in hell. - 41:14
"O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily God guideth not a people unjust." - 5:54
"People all over the world have come to realize that Hitler was right, since Jews . . . are bloodsuckers . . . interested in destroying the whole world which has . . . expelled them and despised them for centuries ... and burnt them in Hitler's crematoria ... one million ... six millions. Would that he had finished it!"
- Anis Mansour, Al-Akhbar, August 19, 1973.
"The English Historian David Irving's description of the so-called Jewish Holocaust by the Nazis in gas chambers as a big lie was enough to shake the foundations of Europe and turn Irving into a target for a campaign of slander..."
- Al-Ba'ath (Syria), February 7, 2000.
"...[The Israelites] have spread all over the world. Now Allah gathers them in this land. He brings them in groups from all countries of the world, in order to fulfill Allah's universal law: Judgment Day will come when Muslims fight the Jews, and the stone and the tree say: Oh, Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there's a Jew behind me, come and kill him. If the Jews were scattered throughout the world, how could we find them in order to fight them? The war between us and the Jews is a religious war. This is not a war over a path, a land or anything like that. The part of the Koran that was given at Mecca, before the Muslim even met the Jews, each chapter reveals who the Jews really are, their perversity and the danger they present. Our war with them is a religious war, and we must arm the nation with the weapon of faith."
- UAE Professor Mustafa Muslim, Al-Majd TV Saudi Arabia June 19, 2005
"Jewish tourists infected with AIDS are traveling around Asian and African countries with the aim of spreading the disease."
- Husniya Hassan Moussa, lecturer at the National Research Center, Al Ilm (Egypt) November, 2001
I'm not saying Islam is a violent religion, but the Koran sure states some seemingly violent and prejudice things. And, outspoken Muslims have spouted racists things for ages. I think the Muslim community needs to spend more time worrying and working on the Muslim community than getting mad at everyone else. We non-Muslims know there are radical elements which are giving you a bad name, and not all Muslims are evil terrorists ready to slit our throats. However, it would be more productive for Muslims to loudly decry those Muslims slitting the throats rather than words or cartoons by non-Muslims. My words here are more likely to cause a riot and protests than video taped executions of people done by extremists. That's sad.