“If we want to make Islam less hated, we need to find out what wrong we have done, although we would like to say we have done no wrong.” “Islam teaches its followers not to indulge in violence but ‘we are not following those teachings’, he said.”
Yeah, it’s a real head-scratcher. If anyone has any dislike for or suspicion of Islam, it’s because of Nidal Malik Hasan, Salman Abedi, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and innumerable other jihad mass murderers and jihad terror masterminds. The entire “Islamophobia” enterprise is a massive bait-and-switch, designed to shift attention away from actual jihad killers, and shift blame for their deeds onto the small group of counterterror analysts and human rights activists who are actually trying to call attention to what they are doing.
“Islam teaches its followers not to indulge in violence…”
“Kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5)
“Dr M calls on Muslims to look within themselves for causes of Islamophobia,” by Minderjeet Kaur, FMT News, March 24, 2019:
PETALING JAYA: With Islamophobia still prevalent, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called on Muslims to not only look at the attitudes of their critics but to ask themselves if they could be contributing to such perception.
“Have we done anything to deserve that kind of name?
“If we want to make Islam less hated, we need to find out what wrong we have done, although we would like to say we have done no wrong,” he said in an interview with PTV World in Pakistan.
Mahathir, who was on a three-day official visit to Pakistan from Thursday, said Muslims should try to eliminate their wrongdoing and support their good behaviour with publicity.
“We need people who talk sense and who can tell (others) what Islam is all about,” he said when asked by host Omar Khalid Butt on ways to counter Islamophobia, adding that Islam teaches Muslims not to fight nor to kill each other.
“Islam teaches its followers not to indulge in violence but “we are not following those teachings”, he said.
Mahathir also said Muslims should explain the religion to their audience through the internet.
“Muslims should be able to tell their side of their story so that it is not dominated by only foreign countries that do not like us.”…