Evidence which suggests that Mahometan scholars have not quite a full command of logic (or facts*) can be seen in propaganda from Islamic Online University:
Of course, Islam is a religion of peace because Mahomet hardly ever advocated bloodshed, there are very few Koranic verses endorsing violence, not all that many Mahometan governments have ever suggested exterminating Jews and annihilating Israel, and during Mahometan conquests in various countries over the centuries non-Mahometan populations were never totally exterminated or brutally forced to convert.
* A better estimate of the total number of Mahometans, for example, would be around 1,600,000,000 or about 23% of the world’s population.
UPDATE I (29 September): reasonable observers might find it remarkable that so many people who, one minute, loudly decry any prejudiced assumption that one group of Mahometans might typify the rest will also, next minute, readily assert that a Westerner who thinks ill of any Mahometan must be a bigoted redneck.
UPDATE I (29 September): reasonable observers might find it remarkable that so many people who, one minute, loudly decry any prejudiced assumption that one group of Mahometans might typify the rest will also, next minute, readily assert that a Westerner who thinks ill of any Mahometan must be a bigoted redneck.
Similar Arguments
Very few serpents
are lethal; a fair man’s a
snake-disregarder;
and I’m no glutton
because I still have some food
left in the larder.
Ebola virus
can’t be very bad because
Africans survive,
and other plagues too
have had an unkind rap since
humans are alive.
Few Mahometans
are murderers; the rest are
unfairly hated
by folk around the
world who, so far, have not been
annihilated.
Lions and jackals
can’t be carnivores because
zebras still exist,
and my neighbour is
so amiable he can’t
be a jihadist.
Anyone who thinks
Islam bad has been watching
too much Murdoch news;
the world’s real problem
is global domination
by prejudiced Jews!
Very few serpents
are lethal; a fair man’s a
snake-disregarder;
and I’m no glutton
because I still have some food
left in the larder.
Ebola virus
can’t be very bad because
Africans survive,
and other plagues too
have had an unkind rap since
humans are alive.
Few Mahometans
are murderers; the rest are
unfairly hated
by folk around the
world who, so far, have not been
annihilated.
Lions and jackals
can’t be carnivores because
zebras still exist,
and my neighbour is
so amiable he can’t
be a jihadist.
Anyone who thinks
Islam bad has been watching
too much Murdoch news;
the world’s real problem
is global domination
by prejudiced Jews!
UPDATE II (29 September): A wilful ignorance of logic and facts can be seen in propaganda being spread all over the place wherein it is asserted that no one regards the Ku Klux Klan as representative of Christianity so no one should be so foolish as to believe that the murderers of the supposed Islamic State are obeying the commands of their holy texts. See “Islamic State isn’t just like the Ku Klux Klan” by Aussie Madness:
While the KKK claimed it was based on Christianity, it was condemned by every Christian denomination, and the KKK would be very hard pressed to point to particular verses in the Bible to justify its actions. Even if it could, Christianity has gone through many reinterpretations in the last 2000 years and there are very few denominations which still claim the Bible to be the literal word of god.
On the other hand, Islamic State is a perfect implementation of Islam as set out in the Qur’an, and their members are emulating the acts of Muhammad to the letter.
Unlike Christianity, Islam has gone through no reinterpretation or modernisation since its 7th century beginnings, and such a reinterpretation is strictly forbidden anyway. The word of the Qur’an is the infallible and literal word of god, which can never be questioned or changed. There is no freedom to put any spin on it. […]There are literally hundreds of verses in the Qur’an which disparage and preach hatred for, and violence against, ‘infidels’. And there are plenty of hadith which describe similar acts of Muhammad during the founding days of Islam, and since Muhammad is the ‘perfect man’, all Muslims must strive to emulate him.
UPDATE III (15 November, 2015): Adam Hills (the very image of an intellectual comedic commentator for “progressives” who have little knowledge, imagination, humour or intellect), provides another instance of mischievously fallacious and duplicitous folly:
I shouldn’t mind wagering that, say, French cartoonists or Dutch film-makers could publicly insult peanuts, bees and the NHS without fear of lethal consequences. Furthermore, I’m fairly certain that peanuts, bees and the NHS have seldom called publicly for the death of the West.
“Radical Islam
hasn’t killed all of us yet:
it can’t be a threat.
“We’re quite safe from harm!”
shout appeasers who, meanwhile,
feed the crocodile.
hasn’t killed all of us yet:
it can’t be a threat.
“We’re quite safe from harm!”
shout appeasers who, meanwhile,
feed the crocodile.
It is worth noting that Adam Hills is a fervent advocate for “gun control” and has lambasted the USA for failing to ban those rifles which he dislikes but, if semi-automatic rifles, for instance, “were really dangerous we’d all be dead right now.” He has more chance of being killed by a bee sting, a peanut, or the NHS yet he wants to ban all “assault weapons” and “assault rifles”.
UPDATE IV (15 November): an hilarious example of the comedic genius of Adam Hills:
UPDATE IV (15 November): an hilarious example of the comedic genius of Adam Hills:
Note that, whereas the Islamic State explicitly follows the official manual of Mahometanism—the Koran—, the alleged dumb extremist, Pauline Hanson, neither follows nor professes to follow a manual of Australianism. Note also that Adam Hills endorses the learned opinion of that famed religious expert, Piers Morgan, who insists (on no evidence whatsoever other than wishful feelings) that people who obey the unambiguous and comprehensive, murderous instructions of Mahomet are somehow not real followers of Mahomet.
UPDATE V (18 November): Adam Hills now asserts (based on nothing other than foolish hopes or mischievous duplicity) that the “vast, vast, vast majority of Muslims—around 99.997 per cent—disapprove of [ISIS].”
