What words could possibly describe the Hamas Charter? After all, not many organisations are explicitly committed to rejecting peace and waging genocide.
Article 7 of the charter approvingly cites a quotation attributed to the Prophet: “The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!”
Article 13 spurns the whole idea of a peaceful settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. “From time to time a clamouring is voiced to hold an international conference in search for a solution,” reads the charter. “But the Islamic Resistance Movement [Hamas] … does not believe that those conferences are capable of responding to demands, or of restoring rights or doing justice to the oppressed.” For good measure, Article 22 recites a litany of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. “They [the Jews] stood behind World War I, so as to wipe out the Islamic caliphate,” it says. “They also stood behind World War II, where they collected immense benefits from trading with war materials.”
05 May 2016, The Tablet
A view of the world that is so rancid and bigoted as to be deranged
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I just heard of the Subhan Allah slogan on the buses. This is a slap in the face . I am the first person who wants dialogue and who respects all religions. I do want those other religions to respect me too. In the case of Islam , there is no way that they will respect any other religion even if they say they do. It is stated in their religion that they are the only ones for Allah and that ultimately the fight will have to go untill the whole planet is muslim.
It does not mean that every muslim will act upon this but the religion is commanding it.
We are living in a Christian country and do not dare to show it for fear of upsetting others. The "others" are muslims.mwhen they want to push through we allow them for fear of being called amracist and islamophobic.
When will we get our pride back? If the christians living in muslim countries would be treated like the muslims here we could say ok but their churches are torched, they are being slaughtered and murdered and we let it be ! When are we going to show some backbone? They will never respect us because we are being nice and tolerant. You cannot be tolerant to the intolerant. They lose all respect and think your religion is not worth it anyway , otherwise you would have stood up for it. If we are living in a secular country then muslims have to be secular too .