I have had people try to tell me that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. If so, then where are those who should be speaking out against this type of thing. Try reading the Koran sometime. It is one the must intolerant books I have ever tried to read. I have yet to make it all the way through.
It is historical fact that Islam was was spread by fire and sword. That much is Historical fact. That is not a religion of peace and tolerance. Children in Strict Islamic countries are being taught hate for the West, especially for America and Israel. This is fact, look it up. As for these poor mis-guided ignorant protesters, they probably couldn't locate the Netherlands on a map if it was the only country on the map. They are used and abused and kept totally ignorant of anything that approaches reality.
We as Christians are expected to put up with persecution, vilification, vile intolerant attacks. We are expected to sit by silently while God and the Bible are mocked daily by the mass media and our own Hollywood. And the things that come out of the Islamic press and websites is inconceivable. It is just mind blowing and we are expected, as a nation, to just sit back and take it. LIKE HELL!!!!
STAND UP AND HOLLER.
Protests, Calls for Boycott As Muslims React to Critical Film
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
April 07, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - An online documentary film critical of Islam continued to shake the Muslim world over the weekend, sparking street protests, attempted censorship, and calls for retaliatory boycotts.
As tens of thousands of chanting Pakistanis gathered in Karachi Sunday to protest Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders' film linking the Koran with terrorism and extremism, the speaker of Iran's conservative-dominated parliament urged Muslims to sever economic ties with countries that blaspheme Islam, saying Western nations would quickly repent once they saw their economies endangered.
Iran's Fars news agency reported that an Iranian non-governmental organization is preparing a response to Wilders' film in the shape of a documentary that will include clips of "crimes committed by extremist Christians" inspired by biblical passages.
In Indonesia, an association overseeing Internet service providers confirmed it was beginning to block access to some of the many Web sites where the film, entitled "Fitna," can be accessed, several days after the government asked the video-sharing site YouTube to remove it.
And in Saudi Arabia, the head of a bloc of 56 Islamic states stepped up calls for governments to enact and enforce laws criminalizing the abuse of free speech to attack religions.
Speaking in Jeddah, Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said it was high time that the international community agreed that actions like Wilders' film and the publication of newspaper cartoons lampooning Islam's prophet posed a grave threat to global peace and security.
Unless the perpetrators of such acts of "intolerance and racism" were made to face justice under national or international laws, they would be free to defy the will of the international community and undo progress in improving relations between religions, he said in a statement.
A range of governments and international organizations have denounced the short film, which went online late last month.
The film, and the reappearance in Danish newspapers earlier this year of cartoons depicting Mohammed, have fueled campaigns in the Islamic world against what many are calling "Islamophobia."
At the United Nations, OIC nations and some non-Muslim allies are working on highlighting the "defamation" of Islam while calling for restrictions on free speech when it comes to criticizing religion.
They also are pressing to have Islamophobia recognized as a contemporary form of racism, an issue that is expected to feature prominently at a global racism conference the U.N. is planning in the first half of next year.
The OIC, which has set up a special body to monitor Islamophobia, defines the phenomenon as an irrational fear or dislike of Islam, incorporating "racial hatred, intolerance, prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping," and says it has "assumed alarming proportions" in recent years.
As far as Muslims are concerned, said the OIC in a recent report, the cause of this is a "misconception and incorrect interpretation of Islam" and its values.
Wilders' film shows images of major terror attacks perpetrated by Muslims during recent years and footage of radical Islamists inciting violence, interspersed with translations of selected verses from the Koran.
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