They have to keep telling us, because this is so obviously false, it can only be put across by constant repetition. If the “terror” that is mentioned in Qur’an 3:151, 8:12, and 8:60 is something other than the terror that is caused by terrorism, where exactly in Islamic scripture or tradition is this distinction found, […]
Turkish Religious Affairs top dog: Islamic State causes as much damage as “Islamophobic” Muhammad cartoons
Let’s see. The Islamic State has murdered thousands upon thousands of people. Cartoons of Muhammad don’t kill anyone. Some Muslims decide to commit murder because of Muhammad cartoons, but if they decided to exercise some self-control and try to understand the lineaments of a free and pluralistic society, no one would get hurt at all […]
Turkey’s religion chief: “Islam never orders a jihad which approves of bloodshed”
“All the Islamic institutions agree that Daesh is a non-Muslim group,” says Görmez, but that just yet again begs the question: why does this “non-Muslim group” have such appeal among Muslims that thousands of them from all over the world have traveled to Syria, Iraq and Libya to join it? And if Islam never orders […]
Qur’an-shaped cake has Turks irked, say bakers should have shirked
Don’t smirk. Here come Görmez’s clerks. For these students, trouble lurks. “There is no fun in Islam.” — Ayatollah Khomeini “Turkey fumes over Quran-shaped cake,” by Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel, April 21, 2015: Turkish religious authorities have opened an investigation against Anatolian students for baking a cake in the shape of the Quran, […]