Islam And The West

• “The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health. The Muslim god appears to value the opposite. The personalities of each god are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them. ~ Ted Haggard (National Association of Evangelicals).
• “The persecution or elimination of non-Muslims has been a cornerstone of Islamic conquests and rule for centuries. The Koran provides ample evidence that Islam encourages violence in order to win converts and to reach the ultimate goal of an Islamic world. Conversions from Islam to any other faith are often punishable by death ~ Franklin Graham.
• “I wish fervently that the Turkish barbarians be chased away immediately out of the country of Xenophon, Socrates, Plato, Sophocles and Euripides. If we wanted, it could be done soon but seven crusades of superstition have been undertaken and a crusade of honour will never take place. We know almost no city built by them; they let decay the most beautiful establishments of Antiquity, they reign over ruins.” ~ Voltare.
• Mohammedanism was a [heresy] : that is the essential point to grasp
  before going any further. It began as a heresy, not as a new religion. It
  was not a pagan contrast with the Church; it was not an alien enemy. It
  was a perversion of Christian doctrine. It vitality and endurance soon
  gave it the appearance of a new religion, but those who were contemporary
  with its rise saw it for what it was_not a denial, but an adaptation and a
  misuse, of the Christian thing. ~ Hilaire Belloc – The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed.

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Ramallah is not Auschwitz. Israel is not the Third Reich. We have no death camps and we haven’t massacred one third of the Palestinian population in gas chambers. Therefore, everything we do is quite all right. We may fill the occupied territories with tear gas and blood, we may kill and injure and torture and blackmail and dispossess, we may surround millions by electric fences and tanks in tiny enclaves, we may hold them under siege and daily bombing, we may make pregnant women walk to hospitals, and we shoot ambulances too, don’t we. But as long as we fall even an inch short of the atrocities of Nazi Germany, it’s all fine and good, and don’t you dare make the comparison. ~ Dr. Ran HaCohen

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1. I don’t understand your optimism. Why should the Arabs make peace? If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it’s true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that? They may perhaps forget in one or two generations’ time, but for the moment there is no chance. So, it’s simple: we have to stay strong and maintain a powerful army. Our whole policy is there. Otherwise the Arabs will wipe us out. ~ David Ben Gurion.
2. “With Versailles (the treaty) in 1919, we viewed the Arabs as largely tribal, bedouin, backward. They couldn’t govern themselves… the French, British, provided the stable government that allowed commercial transactions…. As a consequence of our lack of confidence in them, we’ve communicated that democracy is a vital, difficult option for everyone but them.” ~ Bob Kerry.
3. “The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.” ~ David K Shipler.
4. “The Arabs are a backwards people who eat nothing but camel dung.” ~ Winston Churchill.
5. Arabs respect only the language of force. ~ Moshe Sharett.
6. Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.~ Carroll Quigley.
7. It should be remembered that in 1918, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Britain and France were handed 5,000,000 square miles to divvy up and 99% was given to the Arabs to create countries that did not exist previously. 1% was given as a Mandate for the re-establishment of a state for the Jews on both banks of the Jordan River. In 1921, to once again appease the Arabs, another three quarters of that 1% was given to a fictitious state called Trans-Jordan. ~ Jack Berger.
8. Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs… Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home. ~ Mohandas Ghandi.
9. “I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbours all of us against the foreigner.” ~ a Bedouin proverb.
10. The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war. ~Benyamin Netanyahu.

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“If the Arab population realised that the peaceful control of Mesopotamia  ultimately depends on our intention of bombing women and children, I’m very doubtful if we shall gain that acquiescence of the fathers and husbands of Mesopotamia to which the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Winston Churchill) looks forward.” ~ Sir Laming Worthington-Evans 1868-1931

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“The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our imperial record, and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are to-day not far from a disaster….” ~ Ex.-Lieut.-Col. T.E. Lawrence, The Sunday Times, 22 August 1920.

So it looks like history really does repeat itself.

For more on the modern history of Iraq see Youtube Video: A History Of Iraq

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