WARNING: EXTREME VIOLENCE
What follows is a snuff video. Walt advises you to NOT watch it too soon before or after a meal. What you will see -- if you can stand it -- is a tight close-up of a Muslim cutting the throat of a young man who had the temerity to convert to Christianity. According to Sharia law, that's the crime of apostasy.
If you looked away, here's what you missed, as summarized by Raymond Ibrahim (a Muslim) on the Gatestone Institute's website.
A young man appears held down by masked men. His head is pulled back, with a knife to his throat. He does not struggle and appears resigned to his fate. Speaking in Arabic, the background speaker, or "narrator," chants a number of Muslim prayers and supplications, mostly condemning Christianity, which, because of the Trinity, is referred to as a polytheistic faith: "Let Allah be avenged on the polytheist apostate"; "Allah empower your religion, make it victorious against the polytheists"; "Allah, defeat the infidels at the hands of the Muslims," and "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger."
Then, to cries of "Allahu Akbar!"— Allah is greater!"—the masked man holding the knife to the apostate's throat begins to slice away, severing the head completely after approximately one minute of graphic knife-carving, as the victim drowns in blood. Finally, the severed head is held aloft to more Islamic slogans of victory.
Strong stuff, eh. But that's how "the religion of peace" treats those who renounce their faith. According to Ibrahim, a prominent Egyptian Salafi leader -- referring to the canonical hadiths, including Muhammad's command, "Whoever leaves his religion, kill him" -- recently stated that no Muslim has the right to leave Islam.
What's interesting is that the video, and the concept of death for apostasy, has received little negative comment in the Muslim world. Muslims seem to regard this barbarity as "normal" under Sharia law -- along with "honour killing", stoning of adulterers, hanging of homosexuals, lashings for "un-Islamic" conduct, and so on.
Yet leaders of of other world religions -- even the Pope, who should know better -- are very careful not to utter any politically incorrect thoughts about Islam. Is Islam primitive, barbaric and evil? Oh no, it's just another way of approaching God! Christians and Jews must respect Muslims and their heathen ways in the name of diversity!
The PC stance nowadays is all for false ecumenism and against any suggestion that one faith is superior to another. We must all learn to get along together. That's the "spirit of Assisi", for which Pope John Paul II and his successor have been very rightly criticized by traditional Christians.
In truth, the "spirit of Assisi" is the heresy of relativism. Catholics who've never heard about this are invited to e-mail Walt for more information.
However, knowing a good thing when he sees it, Walt is going to set up a registered charity to collect money for more "ecumenical outreach" programmes to welcome our Muslim brethren -- and their customs and their religion -- into our formerly Christian society. We could call it "Drawing All Faiths Together".
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