About TheReligionofPeace.

com
  TheReligionofPeace.com is a pluralistic, non-partisan site
concerned with Islam's true political and religious teachings according
to its own texts.  We present the threat that Islam poses to human
dignity and freedom, and document the violence that ensues as a
direct consequence of this religion's supremacist teachings.

We are not associated with any organization.  We do not promote any

religion, but we are not hostile to religion.  We support the rights of
atheists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, homosexuals, woman, Muslims and
anyone else on the planet to live as they wish without violating the
rights of others.

We strongly condemn any attempt to harm or harass any Muslim anywhere in the world
because of their religion.  Every human being is entitled to be treated as an individual and
judged only by his or her own words and deeds.  (see About Muslims).

We also denounce any act of vandalism against mosques or other property, including juvenile
attempts to offend Muslims by desecrating the Quran.  (The best way of discrediting the Quran
is to tell non-Muslims what it actually says about them).

At the same time, we see no use in pretending that Islam is just

another religion - which always seems to be the assumption of those
who prefer not to look too closely. 

In fact, Islam is dreadfully unique. 

What other religion's most devoted members videotape themselves

cutting people's throats while screaming praises to their god?

What other faith has tens of thousands of terrorists across the globe
united by an explicit commitment to advance the cause of their
religion by pursuing horrific mass murder and mutilation?

What other religion has clerics lauded as 'moderates', 'bridge-builders',

and advocates of 'peace and tolerance' who, at best cannot even bring
themselves to condemn suicide bombers or denounce Islamist terror
organizations, or at worst actually support the terrorism, along with
wife-beating, female genital mutilation and the justified killing of
apostates and homosexuals?

What other religion kills innocent people over cartoons and teddy
bears, and murders humanitarian workers of other faiths who are
merely trying to help them?

What other religion actually celebrated the 9/11 attacks, described the
carnage as "one of the miracles of the Quran" and proclaimed it to be
"God's work against oppressors"? 

What other religion childishly brags about its growth while at the same
time openly denies other religions equal opportunity to evangelize and
even endorses killing those who leave?

What other religion has prominent PR organizations and charities so

closely tied to terrorism - organizations like CAIR, which whine about
dress codes and rubber ducks in the West while ignoring the Jihad
genocide of thousands in Darfur?

What other religion has verses in its holy book that remind men of their
divine permission to beat their wives and rape their slaves?

The list could go on (and does - each day on TheReligionof-

Peace.com).  Islam so routinely produces horrible atrocities in the
name of Allah that no one is all that surprised when...

Adults are tied to a tree or planted in the ground and bludgeoned to

death by fundamentalists for engaging in consensual sex...

A New York woman trying to file for divorce is beheaded by her

husband, who also happens to be the founder of a Muslim-American TV
channel dedicated to combating "misconceptions" and "stereotypes"
about Islam...

Religious leaders are charged by authorities with plotting spectacular

acts of mass murder in the name of their god...
Clerics advocate raping virgins prior to executing them for verbal
crimes such as political dissent...

Pollsters admit that about 1 out of 3 Muslims worldwide (450 million)

view the terrorism of 9/11 as justified...

A Christian is murdered in front of his own family for leaving Islam, and
his children then kidnapped and 'conscripted' by his killers...

80% of all federal terror prosecutions involve a religion that is

practiced by only 1% of all Americans...

How shocking all of this would be if it didn't involve devout Muslims. 

As it is, most of it barely registers in the media.  The very fact that the
bar of expectation is set so low for "the Religion of Peace"
underscores just how different it really is from others.

In fact, Islam is more than a religion.  It is a rigid political and cultural

system with a mandate to conquer and govern the lives of others via
necessary force "until religion is only for Allah."  As the Ayatollah
Khomeini once put it, "people cannot be made obedient except with
the sword." 

Thus, the enemy of this orthodoxy is not just intellectual dissent and
free speech, but human freedom.  The divine charter of Islam is to
impose itself and thus prevent the individual from discovering a
different meaning for their own lives. 

Islam breeds arrogance and self-absorption.  The Quran and Islamic

law glaringly define a supremacist ideology which draws the sharpest
distinction between those within the group of believers and those
without - towards whom arbitrary denigration is cast and hatred, harsh
treatment and eternal punishment is prescribed.

As a consequence, not a day goes by that someone, somewhere in the

world, is horribly murdered by devout Muslims in the name of this
religion - over ten thousand persons each year.  More innocent lives
were taken in two hours by devoted Muslims on 9/11 than by the Ku
Klux Klan in its entire 140-year history.  
Where Islam dominates, there is systematic discrimination and
oppression of those of other faiths.  Where Muslims are a minority,
there is peevish self-interest, disloyalty and eventual rebellion and
terror when special demands are not met - all part of the eternal jihad
to bring about the rule of Islam as Muhammad ordered of true
believers.

It isn't the victims who need lessons in tolerance and understanding -

it is the Islamic world. 

Those willing to open their minds will find that, regardless of the
excuse-du-jour, the remarkable level of narcissism, repression and
violence is deeply ingrained in the teachings, double standards and
early history of the Islamic religion.  While there is not a single verse in
the Quran that commands love for those outside Islam, there are over
493 that either promote violence or speak of Allah's hatred for
unbelievers - in a book that is largely about how to think of and deal
harshly with those outside the "true" faith.

Why rely on rosy platitudes and carefully-edited fragments of Quran

verses from apologists when Islam speaks so well for itself?  Beyond
the whitewashing are obvious reasons why so many devotees do
horrible things in the name of Allah, while most of the rest never seem
to get terribly upset by it - busy as they are demanding for themselves
what they deny others.

How much favor are we really doing Muslims by not challenging them
to the sort of self-critique necessary for moral progress?  How much
favor are we doing ourselves by desperately trying to accommodate
that which has no intention of accommodating us, or by continuing to
sacrifice blood and budgets for those who hate us in return?  Is it
really in our best interests to assist the expansion within our own
borders of a religion that is consistently incapable of building
countries in which even Muslims themselves want to live?

Tolerance is a good thing, but not when we allow it to be used

cynically against us by those who have no use for it once they obtain
power.  We need to back away from the altar of political correctness
and abandon our preconceptions.  We need to rediscover critical
thinking.   

The truth is that Islam is not a religion of peace and it is not like other
religion.  Sometimes the truth isn't comfortable.  Sometimes the truth
offends.  But it is far better that we offend others than lose our own
freedom.

See also:

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

How We Feel about Muslims
Our Case Against Race
What to Do about the Islamic Threat

Go back to the List of Islamic Terrorist Attacks