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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

IN UN SPEECH, MUSHARRAF CALLS FOR A BAN ON DEFAMATION OF ISLAM. BUT WHO REALLY DEFAMES ISLAM?

VIA PASTORIUS AT INFIDEL BLOGGERS:
PAKISTANI President Pervez Musharraf today called for a ban on the "defamation of Islam" in a speech to the UN General Assembly in which he took a veiled swipe at Pope Benedict XVI for his remarks linking the Muslim faith to violence.

"We also need to bridge, through dialogue and understanding, the growing divide between the Islamic and Western worlds," General Musharraf told the 192-member assembly.
Okay, fine.. I agree. BUT, WHO IS REALLY DEFAMING ISLAM: THOSE WHO COMMIT ATROCITIES IN THE NAME OF ISLAM, OR "NON-BELIEVERS" WHO REACT NEGATIVELY TO ISLAMIC TERROR?

If the islamoterrorists are not perverting Islam, then the "non-believers" cannot be defaming it.

I TELL YOU WHAT, PERVEZ: When a leading "non-believer" (like Benedict) can criticize Islam and NOT be met with violence or the threat of violence, then-and-only-then might I believe that Islam deserves ANY respect at all. Until then I shall consider it a vile, evil martial creed which inculcates violence and ignorance and genocide and misogyny.

IOW: Islam's best defense against defamation is Muslim's behaving well, tolerating criticism or responding to it with reason - and not with violence, and combatting terrorism committed in their religion's name!

Without that, what Pervez calls defamation is just the truth, baby. And sometimes: the truth hurts.

As Truman said: "I'm not giving them hell; I just tell the truth, and they think it's hell!"

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