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Quotations and Miscellaneous Information

 

A Religion of Peace?

"It is not in fact possible for there to be any peace or coexistence between 'the Islamic Religion' and non-Islamic social and political institutions" [Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian Muslim leader, Le Manifeste Islamique, p81, quoted at hirhome.com/islam/culture01.htm].


A Religion of Death

"A Hamas representative in the PA legislative council this year expressed pride in the fact that women and children are used as human shields in fighting Israel. He described it as part of a 'death industry' at which Palestinians excel, and explained that the Palestinians 'desire death' with the same intensity that Israelis 'desire life'. The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas representative Fathi Hamad: 'For the Palestinian people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death as you desire life' (Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas) Feb. 29, 2008) [PMW, 29 Dec 08].

"[The goal of radical Islamism] is not to exalt its people - Palestinians or Muslims, as such - but to implement God’s will. God is above the people. And the deity must be served no matter how many of the people, even Muslims, die or suffer. Thus we see the massive bloodshed in the Algerian civil war and the terrorist attacks against other Muslims in places like Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Even an anti-Israel demonstration in Iraq was hit by a suicide bomber recently. Thus, there is this tireless emphasis on martyrdom, and people can be martyred even if they don’t choose that for themselves. What is startling - and like so many significant facts gone unnoticed in much of the world - is that Hamas never had any program for social development, quality education, improved health, or anything else but warfare for the Gaza Strip. Its only concern was to wage a war of extermination on Israel, no matter how much time and how many lives it cost" [Barry Rubin, The Rules of War and the Rules of Logic, 4 Jan 2009].

"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children.  We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.  We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us" [Golda Meir].
 

A Muslim World?

"We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. Europe is in a predicament, and so is America. They should agree to become Islamic in the course of time, or else declare war on the Muslims. ... All people must be Muslims" [Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, speaking on Arab satellite network Al Jazeera, [no date] quoted at http://www.lightforthelastdays.co.uk/view_page.asp?page_id=336&menu_id=228].

"Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a state on the basis of its own ideology and program … the objective of Islamic jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish instead an Islamic system of state rule. Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single state or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution" [Sheikh Maolana Maududi, no date].

"There is no escape from a new civilization ... The Western world is not capable of fulfilling this role ... There is only one nation capable of discharging this task and that is our nation [Islam]. ... This religion [Islam] will defeat all other religions and it will be disseminated, by Allah's will, through the Muslim Jihad fighters" [Passage from a text book used in schools run by the Palestinian Authority, quoted at http://www.lightforthelastdays.co.uk/view_page.asp?page_id=264&menu_id=228].

"We are convinced that this Hadith [a saying not in the Quran, but given equal weight in Islamic teaching] heralds the spread of Islam and its rule over all the land. Oh beloved, look to the East of the earth, find Japan and the ocean; look to the West of the earth, find some country and the ocean. Be assured that these will be owned by the Muslim nation, as the Hadith says, 'from the ocean to the ocean'" [Sheikh Ibrahim Mahdi, sermon given from the main mosque in Gaza 12 April 2002, broadcast by Palestinian TV, quoted at http://www.lightforthelastdays.co.uk/view_page.asp?page_id=264&menu_id=228].