A Lack of Tolerance That Is Justified

NY Sun ^ | October 13, 2006 | YOUSSEF IBRAHIM

[neverdem]

This week, the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference decried what it called the "shrinking space" for tolerance toward Muslims in Europe.

"Muslims have noted with concern that the values of tolerance are eroding and there is now shrinking space for others' religious, social and cultural values in the West," the Saudi-based OIC, the world's largest Islamic association, said a statement sent to Reuters.

This lack of tolerance is absolutely as it should be.

If anything, there is still far too much tolerance of European Muslim isolationists and their preachers, whom the OIC and its Saudi patrons train, fund, and influence to promote barricaded communities inside cultural ghettos, waging war against the societies that embrace them.

For decades, these interconnected webs of mosques, Islamic schools, and imported OIC imams have used the same freedom of speech they deny others to introduce the favored OIC concept of repressed societies to the heart of liberal Europe.

Their quest has not been limited to insulating their communities from a sea of democracy. They also have sought to reverse freedoms for Western citizens who want to publish, write, make films, and read. Witness the hounding of the British author Salman Rushdie and his books, the mayhem over the Danish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad, the upheaval over Pope Benedict's critical comments on Islam, and the far too numerous attempts...

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By contrast, the Saudi royal family has been allowed to fund the building of hundreds of thousands of mosques and schools in Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, where Muslims are free to worship and be indoctrinated in Wahhabism.

It is high time for equality.

This is what the pope meant by a "real" dialogue between Muslims and Christians — no polite exchanges over tea, but some serious, adult talk about whose tolerance is in question.

[neverdem]

Understanding the Origins of Wahhabism and Salafism

[NurdlyPeon]

It is high time for equality. This is what the pope meant by a "real" dialogue between Muslims and Christians — no polite exchanges over tea, but some serious, adult talk about whose tolerance is in question.

Well put, long overdue.

[Rurudyne]

The only "dialog" that the Koran enjoins is one where Muslims speak and others listen ... or die.

[Unam Sanctam]

This week, the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference decried what it called the "shrinking space" for tolerance toward Muslims in Europe.

The gall of these people, when Islamic nations like Saudi Arabia prohibit the practice of any non--Muslim religion.

[Jack Hammer]

"This week, the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference decried what it called the "shrinking space" for tolerance toward Muslims in Europe."

The 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference, meanwhile, very pointedly declined to decry the world-wide spread of violent Islamic terrorism. Cry me a river, fellas.

[NurdlyPeon]

The only "dialog" that the Koran enjoins is one where Muslims speak and others listen ... or die.

Yes, it's like "tolerance". They mean that you are suppose to "tolerate" them, it doesn't mean that they "tolerate" you. Liberals/Muslims = Nazi Brown Shirts.

[Fred Nerks]

Tolerance?

[Niuhuru]

They brought the 'shrinkiing tolerance' on themselves. After screeching and rioting over the littlest things, it is only predictable that the native population would soon get fed up and tell them to bug off.