2012-09-12 04:32:21 UTC
“The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.”
“Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.”
We can probably anticipate democrats shrieking “RACISM!” if we discuss why we don’t like Islam, including:
-2/08 United Nations Report (un.org/en/women/endviolence): Mainly in Muslims nations, over 130 million girls and women alive today have undergone FGM (Female Genital Mutilation); each year 2 million girls are subjected to FGM.
-12/5/10 LA Times: A new Pew Research Center poll shows that majorities in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Nigeria would favor changing the current laws to allow stoning as a punishment for adultery, hand amputation for theft and death for those who convert from Islam to another religion.
-The Freedom House rates the degree of freedom in all regions of the world. Its 2011 report rated the Middle East and North Africa 78% not free.
-3/23/12 http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/22/202385.html:
“At least 943 women were killed in the name of honor, of which 93 were minors,” wrote the Pakistani Human Rights Commission in its annual report.
Some victims were raped or gang raped before being killed, the Commission said. Most of the women were killed by their brothers and husbands.
-It’s a tedious process but well worth the time in order to learn the truth: Google search “civil wars in the world” then research each individual civil war and you will find that 90% of them involve one combatant-religion, Islam: in China, Russia, Bosnia, Cyprus, Macedonia, Israel, Pakistan, India, Indonesia-Ambon & Halmarhera, Côte d'Ivoire, Kashmir, Kosovo, Bosnia, Kurdistan, Kirghizia, Nigeria, Philippines, Somalia, Turkey, Chechnya, Sudan, Yemen, Thailand, Uganda, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh and East Timor.
-8/20/10 AsiaNews, Kashmir: Extremist Muslims are demanding Sikhs convert or leave.
-8/23/10 Reuters: Since 2004 Muslim extremists have killed 4,000 Buddhists in southern Thailand, which they are claiming as Muslim homelands.
-10/4/11 AFP news, Philippines: The government had previously warned that Umbrakato posed a serious threat to efforts aimed at ending a Muslim insurgency that has left an estimated 150,000 people dead over more than four decades.
-1/30/09 Timesonline UK: Muslim population growth between 2004 and 2008 was ten times greater than the rest of society.
-2/09 The Finnish Ministry of Defense published a position paper saying: In 1991 there were 300 mosques in Russia. Today there are 8,000, financed by Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
-8/8/09 Daily Telegraph, London: Europe's Muslim population has more than doubled in the past 30 years and will have doubled again by 2015.
-10/28/10, Daily Mail: Mohamed or derivatives of that name is now the number one name in all of England.
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