Islam and the "Killing of Innocents"
by Denis MacEoin
September 17, 2014 at 5:00 am
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4702/islam-killing-innocents

"No religion condones the killing of innocents." =97 U.S. President Barack =

Obama, September 10, 2014.

"Islam is a religion of peace." =97 U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, =

September 13, 2014.

"There is a place for violence in Islam. There is a place for jihad in =

Islam." =97 U.K. Imam Anjem Choudary, CBN News, April 5, 2010.

Regrettably it is impossible to re-interpret the Qur'an in a "moderate" =

manner. The most famous modern interpretation by Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966), the =

Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, leads the reader again and again into =

political territory, where jihad is at the root of action.

If they deviated from the true faith -- as we are seeing in the Islamic =

State today -- "backsliders," like pagans, were to be fought until they =

either accepted Islam or were killed.

In India alone, between 60 and 80 million Hindus may have been put to death =

by Muslim armies between the years 1000-1525.

Last week, before the Islamic State beheaded its third Westerner, U.S. =

President Barack Obama announced that, "ISIL is not Islamic. No religion =

condones the killing of innocents."

Well, not exactly.

How often -- despite the current spectacle of the Islamic State [IS, ISIL o=
r =

ISIS] in Syria and Iraq -- do we hear politicians and church leaders say =

that Islam is a religion of peace; that Islamic extremism is a modern =

innovation, a profound deviation from some imagined "true" Islam, and even =

that its very name, the word "Islam," means peace?

It is not just Muslims who say that Islam is a religion of peace.

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