It's also on page 318 of the eighth edition. Full text in pdf:

http://www.camlicayurdu.net/huzurpinari/dlbookg.php?dosya=12-IslamAndChristianity.pdf

"After reading this book, you will also realize what a lofty, sacred, logical, and perfect
religion Islam is, and you will attach all your heart and soul to it in order to attain salvation and repose in this world and in the
hereafter."

Posted by: Concerned Citizen at December 30, 2007 2:17 PM

Interesting quote, Concerned.
Yes, Islam, may it rest in peace. It sure doesn't let the rest of us.

Posted by: jewdog at December 30, 2007 2:20 PM

Oh snap.

Posted by: GrennBeck at December 30, 2007 2:39 PM

Everyone knows that the Turkish aren't real Muslims, but imposters of the true religion. Their portrayal of Islam in such a degrading manner will attract the wrath of Allah upon their heads.

Posted by: ahmed at December 30, 2007 3:18 PM

I recognize some of the arguments advanced in this publication as being the ones I heard when I lived and worked in Turkey. But I didn't get a copy of this book - must have been absent from work that day. But it's a good thing I didn't realize that what I was being told by Muslim acquaintances was part of an oft-repeated systematic assault on Christianity and Judaism -- and none too polite either. I can hardly believe that the government would be issuing this to visiting foreigners.It's full of anti-Semitism and disparaging remarks about other religions. Can you imagine the outcry if the Canadian government issued to visiting Muslims a book containing a chapter entitled "Some of the Errors in the Qur'an"?

Hakikat Kitabevi means roughly "The True Bookstore."

Posted by: Jen at December 30, 2007 3:27 PM

"Jihad: war against non-Muslims to convert them to Islam"

Yet in the end the true fastest growing faith is still by far to be Christianity.

Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at December 30, 2007 3:32 PM

This is not a wholly positive development. We may be pleased that the beast is finally showing its teeth, to the education of the wishful-thinkers among us, but that the Islamists are growing confident enough to do so should cause us to ask if they have good reason. And if they do, what then?

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at December 30, 2007 3:48 PM

And yet gullible Westerners still pretend that Jihad is an 'inner spiritual struggle'.

Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at December 30, 2007 4:15 PM

Farfour Fibrahim will not contact the author(s) of this book and correct them, because Farfour Fibrahim believes in the same things. The diference is that Farfour wants to use the Western law against the West.

Posted by: Crusader at December 30, 2007 4:30 PM

A passage from "Islam and Christianity", 8th ed., from the chapter entitled, "Islam Is Not A Religion Of Savagery", pages 223-224. This chapter is a massive steaming pile of anti-Christian and anti-Jewish tu quoque, jaw dropping dissimulation, whitewashes, and mini-hagiographies, yet does not address the seminal question: What then is the source of the cruelties and barbarities perpetrated in the name of Islam?

I chose this passage, because it seems so odd that the Turkish government would support printing and officially distributing this drivel given its anti-Kemalist agenda.

"In the time of the Party of Union, even the legislators, beys and pashas became enemies of
Islam. They passed laws destructive of Islam. Adherence to one’s religion and belief was represented as a misdemeanour. Numbers
of Muslims were hanged and butchered. Pious acts such as promulgating Islam’s commandments and avoiding Islam’s prohibitions were stigmatized as separatism. Those who performed
emr-i-ma’rûf, i.e. who taught the true essence of Islam, were called enemies of the regime. Al-hamd-u-lillah (may praise and gratitude be to Allah)! The Christian aggressions have come to an end. The Islamic sun is shining again in our blessed country, (Turkey). The enemy’s lies and treacheries have come to light. True religious teachings are being written freely. Today every Muslim has to show gratitude for this freedom and do his best to learn the true essence of our sacred religion for whose sake our ancestors sacrificed their lives. If we do not teach our religion to our children and discipline them to adapt themselves to the Sharî’at (way of life prescribed by Islam), the enemies lying in wait and the idiots bought by them will resume their aggressions and begin to deceive our children. All the peoples of Europe and America believe in rising after death, in the
existence of Paradise and Hell. Every week they fill their churches and synagogues. Their school curricula contains compulsory religious lessons. If a person says that Europeans and Americans
are wise, modern and civilized and boastingly imitates them in lying, drinking, indecency and fornication, on the one hand, and does not
believe as they do, on the other, is not he a liar? We Muslims say that Christians are ignorant, idiotic, and regressive. For they divinize Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ and his blessed mother. They idolize him, worship him, and thus become polytheists. Among them there are
people who work compatibly with the Sharî’at of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ in their worldly affairs. These people attain the
blessings of Allâhu ta’âlâ, living in comfort and peace. However, because they do not believe in that exalted Prophet and in his Sharî’at, they shall suffer the eternal fire of Hell.

Feel the love

Posted by: Concerned Citizen at December 30, 2007 5:04 PM

The Turks must have really tried hard (inner struggle) to revert those 1.5 million missing Armenians.

Aren't there also some 330.000 Greek Christians who somehow misunderstood the RoP and went missing...?

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at December 30, 2007 5:09 PM

Oh they are so peaceful, see the love:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_Tower

Posted by: LazarOfSerbia at December 30, 2007 6:11 PM

Robert - I have $100 that says Hooper has a dartboard in his basement with your picture on it. You must drive him up a wall.

Posted by: BunrattyBill at December 30, 2007 7:32 PM

Images, like dogs, are haram, BunrattyBill--rather, Ibby empties an ammo clip into a stuffed effigy wearing a "JihadWatch" cap and T-shirt!

Posted by: John C at December 30, 2007 8:29 PM

Does this definition pop up?

Mohammad: murderous paranoid pedophile warlord.

Posted by: profitsbeard at December 30, 2007 11:29 PM

HEY CONCERNED CITIZEN (first blog)

Sure hope you were being sarcastic!!!!! I can't take much of that kind of humor!

Posted by: youngtimer at December 31, 2007 12:20 PM

The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, recently reissued and approved by the highest religious authorities in Sunni Islam says:

"Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying warfare to establish the religion. ... The scriptural basis for jihad ... is such Koranic verses as:
"Fighting is prescribed for you" (2:216);
"Slay them wherever you find them" (4:89);
"Fight the idolators utterly" (9:36);
and such hadiths as... that the Prophet said: "I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah ..." and ... "To go forth in the morning or evening to fight in the path of Allah is better than the whole world and everything in it."
All this and more is found on page 599 and subsequent pages of Reliance of the Traveler: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law.

Posted by: Montedoro at December 31, 2007 12:29 PM

On the eve of the New Year (here in the US, congrats to those who have already gone there) I would like to wish all fellow JW/DW posters and especially to the hardworking staff of Jihad Watch a very happy and prosperous New Year.

If you are of a mind to read something that will put a lot of things in perspective before starting on a new year, Daniel Pipes has a list of quotations that caught his eye over the years.
It makes very interesting reading. Some of them, while meant seriously just might have you laughing.
Especially "You're in America Toots"

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/235

Happy New Year
Aunt Bea

Posted by: Aunt Bea at December 31, 2007 1:43 PM