CAIR to Answer?
The Investor's
Business Daily's editorial board confronts CAIR.
Here are some excellent questions that people really do want answered.
What better time for CAIR and other Muslim leaders to step up, cut
through the politically correct fog and provide factual answers to the questions
that give so many non-Muslims pause?
Generally speaking, those questions focus on whether the Quran does indeed
promote violence against non-Muslims, and how many of the terrorists' ideas —
about the violent jihad, the self-immolation, the kidnappings, even the
beheadings — come right out of the text? But even more specifically:
- Is Islam the only religion with a doctrine, theology and legal system that
mandates warfare against unbelievers?
- Is it true that 26 chapters of the Quran deal with jihad, a fight able-bodied
believers are obligated to join (Surah 2:216), and that the text orders Muslims
to "instill terror into the hearts of the unbeliever" and to "smite above their
necks" (8:12)?
- Is the "test" of loyalty to Allah not good acts or faith in general, but
martyrdom that results from fighting unbelievers (47:4) — the only assurance of
salvation in Islam (4:74; 9:111)?
- Are the sins of any Muslim who becomes a martyr forgiven by the very act of
being slain while slaying the unbelievers (4:96)?
- And is it really true that martyrs are rewarded with virgins, among other
carnal delights, in Paradise (38:51, 55:56; 55:76; 56:22)?
- Are those unable to do jihad — such as women or the elderly — required to
give "asylum and aid" to those who do fight unbelievers in the cause of Allah
(8:74)?
- Does Islam advocate expansion by force? And is the final command of jihad, as
revealed to Muhammad in the Quran, to conquer the world in the name of Islam
(9:29)?
- Is Islam the only religion that does not teach the Golden Rule (48:29)? Does
the Quran instead teach violence and hatred against non-Muslims, specifically
Jews and Christians (5:50)?
There are other questions, but these should do for a start. If the answers
are "yes," then at least Americans will know there's no such thing as moderate
Islam, even as they trust that there are moderate Muslims who do not act out on
its violent commands.
HT: Michelle Malkin