"The difference between a Muslim soul and souls of non-Muslims—all of them in all different levels—is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle."
Would such a statement surprise you? Probably not as most people are arriving from Jihad Watch at the moment. It's a pretty disgusting comment to make and does suggest the author believes 'the rest of us' are not very human, which is the evil that spurned Nazism....some people are more human than others. It's elitism at its worst as it offers no charitable hand for us lesser human beings. I can't imagine the author doing anything to even out the differences, which I suspect he likes. This is very different to most people who worry about muslim immigration as the differences are very unsettling and not things to feel smug about.
The author is not Muslim but Jewish. I changed the words Jewish to Muslim.
I've done this because it's important people talk about things openly and honestly. Muslims cannot bare to hear truths, Christians don't seem capable of it either and Jews seem to have always evaded the religious spotlight. The reason I say 'always' is because Jews have not, in modern times, had a Jewish state. Even Israel is secular. The Jewish fundies would no doubt like Israel to become a Jewish state and for their will to be enforced, and then we would see what Judaism is capable of for the first time since historical times. I think people would then realise it is very similar to Islam, baring all the same nasties so many people, myself included, find intollerable.
Please read this article, written by a Jew, about fundamentalist Judaism, read the stories of the OT (cross-reference with current day Islamic jihad and war) and ask yourself honestly if you could imagine a purely Jewish state becoming very similar to an Islamic one. Imagine the whole of Israel without democracy, with everyone going through religious schools, with all women hiding their hair, with men all wearing the same clothes, with very strict rules about behaviour, with absolute adherence to rituals, with animal sacrifice, with zero tollerance of sin (homosexuality, infidelity, sex outside of marriage, etc), with lots of death penalities and with a desire to remove all acum (infidels) as often occured in the Torah.
What's the difference? Mohammad? Well Moses was also a murderer and instructed many others to murder thousands of his own people! The truth is, we haven't seen Judaism in action. We've seen plenty of Islam because muslims have had plenty of opportunity to show it to us. To know what Judiasm is, your only option is to study the Old Testament, the Torah. There is a reason why fundamentalists are called fundamentalists and that is because they adhere very strictly to their religious texts. Find out what Jewish fundamentalists would like to see happen just as you do with muslim fundamentalists.
From the article....'We believe that awareness is the necessary first step in opposition. We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others. This, we further believe, would lead to a better understanding between human groups and would be followed, perhaps slowly and hesitantly, by better treatment of minorities.'
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