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Wednesday, March 15, is the United Nations’ “International Day to Combat Islamophobia,” and while my family is planning just a quiet celebration at home, at the UN they’re going all-out with the festivities. Secretary-General António Guterres kicked things off in style with a fawning address in which he lauded the multifaceted beauty of Islam that has so richly nourished the human spirit for fourteen centuries now. When is the UN day to combat dislike of Christianity? Of Judaism? Of Hinduism or Buddhism? Don’t ask questions like that, you Islamophobe.
Guterres noted that “we are just days away from the beginning of Ramadan.” The Islamic month of fasting all day and feasting all night, during which believers redouble their efforts to conform their lives to the will of Allah, starts on Wednesday of next week. Guterres then dived headlong into the realm of fantasy and wishful thinking, saying, “For well over a millennium, Islam’s message of peace, compassion and grace has inspired people the world over. The very word Islam derives from the same root word — salam/peace.”
Well, yes. The word “Islam” does derive from the same root word as the word for “peace,” but Islam doesn’t mean “peace,” as is often claimed; it means “submission,” and while some might argue that the fullest peace comes from submission to God, that is not all that is meant in Islam. Islam means the submission of the Muslim (the “submitter”) to Allah, but also the submission of non-Muslims to Muslims, and the submission of women to men. In Islam, submission is the ordering principle of virtually every relationship.
The imperative to compel unbelievers to submit to believers, and to do so by force of arms, is made abundantly clear in numerous passages in the Qur’an (see 2:190-193, 4:89, 8:39, 9:5, 9:29, 9:73, 9:123, and 47:4, to name just a few). It is also a constant of Islamic history, as The History of Jihad demonstrates in detail. Ever since Islam began, the warriors of Allah have waged war against unbelievers of all religions and no religion at all, and have conquered and Islamized numerous lands in the process. In fourteen centuries of spreading what Guterres calls “Islam’s message of peace,” there has never been a century that was untouched by Islam’s war against non-Muslims, nor any Islamic sect or school of jurisprudence that ever renounced the imperative of jihad against unbelievers.
Guterres noted that “we are just days away from the beginning of Ramadan.” The Islamic month of fasting all day and feasting all night, during which believers redouble their efforts to conform their lives to the will of Allah, starts on Wednesday of next week. Guterres then dived headlong into the realm of fantasy and wishful thinking, saying, “For well over a millennium, Islam’s message of peace, compassion and grace has inspired people the world over. The very word Islam derives from the same root word — salam/peace.”
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SKA says
Since his nation of origin, Portugal, drove out its Islamic invaders about 1,100 years ago Guterres has no fresh memories of the harm Portugal’s people suffered under the Moors. Islamist organizations’ world maps still show Portugal as part of the Arab invaders’ country of Al Andalus!3
commonsense says
+1
Michael Dar says
He is obviously not a historian!
sukabumi jojo says
Gutteres must either be ignorant, or be lying. In both possibilities he should be removed from office a.s.a.p..
VictorMc says
Yessir, 100% with you he is a very sick man.
How do these people get these jobs? The usual political bribery I assume.
maria says
He is a liar and he must resign and indicted for support of the enemies.
Fred Nothers says
https://youtu.be/Mch84P3Qkao
Jim says
If the message of Islam for a thousand years is peace, what was 9/11? Where is the Byzantine empire, and where is the city of Constantinople, now that they have had the benefits of Muslim peace for a thousand years? The Portuguese are intelligent people, why is this man so woke?
commonsense says
+1
VictorMc says
I think it’s called bribery and political fixes.
Yes, having been to Portugal many times they are delightful people. Where do they find these criminals like Guterres?
GreekEmpress says
If Islam was so peaceful, my Greek/Armenian ancestors would still be in Anatolia.
Aussie Infidel says
Greek Empress, You must be misled. There was no genocide of the Atmenians! Just ask the Turks.
Aussie Infidel says
Excuse my dislexic fingers – should be ‘Armenians’.
VictorMc says
Aussie Infidel,/Greek Empress you have to ignore these keyboard warriors.
It was immediately obvious what you meant to anybody with an ounce of intelligence.
gravenimage says
So true, GreekEmpress. The same is true for Robert Spencer.
Peacelover says
I wonder if there are Any teachers in the U.S. or in Any schools in Any countries teaching the Truth about that so-called ‘religion’ and it’s history,past and present?
SKA says
I did when I covered Islamic Terrorism in my Terrorism and Political Violence course in university. Before I was cancelled and purged, that is.
gravenimage says
SKA, can I ask what college this was?
SKA says
Dear Gravenimage:
Because of possible litigation I prefer to discuss this privately.
SKA
࿗Infidel࿘ says
As I noted in the next ‘This Week in Jihad’ thread, the only way to make the UN relevant at all would be to weight the #votes every country gets in proportion to several criteria – its population, GDP, military power and so on. So that the US, for instance, would have a lot more votes than, say, Bangladesh
Beyond that, the only thing that such a body should do is resolve disputes b/w countries. Do not try to be a World Government, like the WEF or the UN
Jayell1 says
‘’For Well Over a Millennium, Islam’s Message of Peace Has Inspired People’…….
‘Inspired people to WHAT, exactly? Hardly anything at to impress the international Nobel Prize people over the years , apparently, and certainly not much to inspire enthusiastic loyalty amongst enough of their thinking disciples if they have to threaten to murder them if they try to leave. And do we get much of a message of ‘peace’ from all those stories of rampaging armies, murder, abuse and mutilation in their ‘Holy Book’? Unless, of course, all those amputations were for genuine surgical reasons and the decapitations were a cure for headaches (shame they never got round to inventing aspirin – but then they never got round to inventing much, did they?). And, of course, there was nothing a bit unbalanced about that ‘Prophet’ of theirs (whoever he was) whose ‘God’ could magically change His mind in accordance with every epileptic whim the ‘Prophet’ had. And there are fairies at the bottom of my garden, and the moon is a giant ball of Edam cheese, which their ‘Prophet’ might have had the decency to verify for us by bringing back a piece for everyone after he took his horse for a day out there.
Serious question. Can we leave the UN? They seem to have a screw loose somewhere.
VictorMc says
Oh, the subject has been extended as usual.
The garbage at the UN building on 2nd. is ENTIRELY the fault of America.
It’s on their soil they should shackle the building and close it down completely NOW. Sell it of for apartments.
Beware of ANYTHING which begins with the letters UN assume them to be criminals.
JimJFox says
+100% Relocate to Pakistan where it would be right at home.
Greg says
I wonder how much he was paid for that lie?
john says
He was misquotted, or he “mis-spoke”, he intended to say ” ‘For Well Over a Millennium, Islam’s Message of Peace Has despaired People’
Check Burry says
Try “Beheaded people”
Try “Drove from their job” for example as a teacher. A cartoonist,. A peaceful human.
gary fouse says
That’s like saying Hitler was a Righteous Gentile.
JimJFox says
So depressing! Far too many imbeciles in this world.
OLD GUY says
Message of PEACE from ISLAM, you got to be s—-ing me.
E T says
He is a commie, Billy Gates approved him.
Kevin Blizzard says
Il faut être clair, dans l’Histoire de l’humanité partout où l’islam s’est installé ça c’est toujours très mal terminé !
gravenimage says
C’est malheureusement tellement vrai.
Trouble says
More misinformation. Or clearly lying, did he receive an Oscar this year?
Warnings about misinformation were vented not that long ago in that very building from the runners up. Absolutely shameless and disgraceful of an Organization that started perhaps with good intentions.