Uh Oh - Looks Like Someone Didn't Get the "Koran Bans Forced Conversions" Memo
We provide the following links as a public service to Juan Cole, CAIR, and the Guardian. We know that they hate it when anyone implies that any part of Islam endorses forced conversions. They must have missed these people, and we know that they take every opportunity to condemn people that would dare to imply that Islam isn't entirely peaceful.
Sol managed to find this news about a Gaza group. Juan Cole, CAIR, and the Guardian must not be reading the same newspapers he is:
Citing the words of the Prophet Muhammad, Muslim religious leaders in the Gaza Strip on Sunday warned Pope Benedict XVI that he must "accept" Islam if he wanted to live in peace. The warning, the first of its kind, came as many Christians in the West Bank expressed anger over a spate of attacks on churches in protest against remarks made by the pope about the Muslims and the Prophet Muhammad. Two more churches in the West Bank were targeted on Sunday in protest against the pope's remarks, bringing to seven the number of churches that have been attacked over the past three days.
"Citing the words of the Prophet Mohammed"? Oh dear, that can't be right. They must be using a different version of the Koran than everyone who says that it never justifies forced conversions. You know who else apparently hasn't read the Koran and doesn't know that it discourages coercion? Gaddafi's eldest son:
The elder son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has called on Pope Benedict XVI to convert to Islam immediately, dismissing last week's apology from the pontiff for offending Muslims. "If this person were really someone reasonable, he would not agree to remain at his post one minute, but would convert to Islam immediately," Mohammed Gaddafi told an awards ceremony on Monday evening for an international competition to memorise the Qur'an. "We say to the pope - whether you apologise or not is irrelevant, as apologies make no difference to us."
Someone should send them copies of the Koran STAT so that they know that there's no way that Islam can mean anything but peace (seriously: how can you fix a religion if you don't acknowledge that there could ever, by definition, be a problem?)
Sol managed to find this news about a Gaza group. Juan Cole, CAIR, and the Guardian must not be reading the same newspapers he is:
Citing the words of the Prophet Muhammad, Muslim religious leaders in the Gaza Strip on Sunday warned Pope Benedict XVI that he must "accept" Islam if he wanted to live in peace. The warning, the first of its kind, came as many Christians in the West Bank expressed anger over a spate of attacks on churches in protest against remarks made by the pope about the Muslims and the Prophet Muhammad. Two more churches in the West Bank were targeted on Sunday in protest against the pope's remarks, bringing to seven the number of churches that have been attacked over the past three days.
"Citing the words of the Prophet Mohammed"? Oh dear, that can't be right. They must be using a different version of the Koran than everyone who says that it never justifies forced conversions. You know who else apparently hasn't read the Koran and doesn't know that it discourages coercion? Gaddafi's eldest son:
The elder son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has called on Pope Benedict XVI to convert to Islam immediately, dismissing last week's apology from the pontiff for offending Muslims. "If this person were really someone reasonable, he would not agree to remain at his post one minute, but would convert to Islam immediately," Mohammed Gaddafi told an awards ceremony on Monday evening for an international competition to memorise the Qur'an. "We say to the pope - whether you apologise or not is irrelevant, as apologies make no difference to us."
Someone should send them copies of the Koran STAT so that they know that there's no way that Islam can mean anything but peace (seriously: how can you fix a religion if you don't acknowledge that there could ever, by definition, be a problem?)
