It is a sad irony that, while our brave soldiers in Afghanistan continue to be killed by treacherous Muslims, we are being told by Australian Muslims that Islam is a religion of peace and happiness. One only has to look at the daily news, which always features violence, killings and misery inflicted by Muslims around the world, to know that such claims are false. The history of Islam during and since the time of their prophet, Muhammad, can hardly be characterised by peace and happiness. Muhammad himself ordered the killing of hundreds of men who wouldn’t accept him as a prophet, while their wives and children were taken into slavery. After Muhammad’s death, the first three supreme leaders of the Muslim religion were all murdered by other Muslims and,in the next 100 years, Muslim armies had swept through the Middle East as far as India, as well as North Africa and present day Turkey, forcing the people to accept their religion, and killing thousands in the process.
Things are no different today. Muslims are killing thousands of Christians, and burning down their homes and churches in Northern Nigeria, the Sudan, Iraq, Syria and Indonesia, while the so-called Muslim Spring has brought increased persecution of Christians in other Muslim countries. Muslim Somalia and Afghanistan are failed states, while some other Muslim countries have required dictatorships to maintain law and order.
Unfortunately, what we are told by Muslims who migrate to Western countries is a very sanitised version of Islam which wouldn’t be recognised in Muslim countries. While most of these people accept our laws and way of life, the Head of ASIO, David Ervine, warns that there are small numbers of foreign and “home-grown” militant radicalised Muslims who are security threats to our nation. The economic cost of dealing with these security threats is enormous and must be contributing to the economic woes of the Western world. Muslims in the West claim that Muslim terrorism is not condoned by the Qu’ran, but it is known that half the time in terrorist training camps is spent studying the Qu’ran which motivates the trainees to terrorist acts.
In a well researched book titled “The life of Muhammad” (1923), Sir William Muir, who was the administrator of NW India (Pakistan) in the late 19th century, wrote these words: “The sword of Mahomet and the Coran are the most stubborn enemies of civilisation, liberty and truth that the world has yet known”. Looking at the chaotic and miserable state of much of the Islamic world today, one can hardly disagree.
I C R Holford
Tamworth
