After my estrangement from my wife had begun, for a time we were still in contact while she had the children and I was trying to set up a home in another state. It was when she informed me that had converted and been baptised in the Mormon religion that I told her I could not tolerate her keeping the children any longer. After a few more weeks I brought them to live with me. (The whole story is a little more detailed, but perhaps not appropriate here.) Before I could pick them up, she had already brought them to several Sunday school classes at her new church. Since she eventually dropped Mormonism to become a Muslim, I often wonder if she would have tried to raise our children in that faith as well.
diablo II 2 code keyToday's editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times makes me shudder to think what the results of that would have been.
What is happening in some American mosques, including a few in the Chicago area, is deeply disturbing. In certain Islamic schools, textbooks spit vitriol against Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims: "Be disassociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion." In mosque publications, America is the "Abode of the Infidel." The idea of human and civil rights is heresy. Working women are immoral.As we recall today that we are but dust, please say a special prayer for the children who are not able to get a decent education, especially those who are treated as less than dust in their indoctrination to a faith that teaches them to hate and murder their fellow man, and to commit suicide while doing it.These views are extreme, they promote violence and they are being espoused right under our noses. We knew this was happening in France, Germany and England but we didn't know the extent of the problem here. It is not happening in all mosques or Islamic schools, by any means, but in those select ones funded by the Saudi government to disseminate the fanatic Wahhabi-style Islam that has its demagogic roots in Saudi Arabia.
The Center for Religious Freedom just issued a discomfiting report looking at the spread of hate propaganda in America by Saudi Arabia. The center collected 200 books and other publications from mosques across the country and spent the past two years analyzing them.
"The Saudi textbooks and documents spread throughout American mosques preach a Nazi-like hatred for Jews, treat the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion as historical fact, and avow that the Muslim's duty is to eliminate the state of Israel," writes Nina Shea, the Center's director. In addition, they "instill contempt for America because the United States is ruled by legislated civil law rather than by totalitarian Wahhabi-style Islamic law." Woe to Christians who should be actively hated because they stir up images of crusaders and colonists and because they are "enemies to Allah, his Prophet and believers." Woe to Muslims who advance tolerance and human rights -- they, too, are infidels. Woe to homosexuals or heterosexuals who have sex outside marriage -- it is considered "lawful" to kill them.
But by the grace of God, those are not my children.
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