Whilst your child is being deceived at school, the adult
population in the West is deceived by the lies of politicians
(lies supported by their allies in the media). Meanwhile, in
homes and madrassas, in mosques and Islamic
organisations, Muslims in the West are told the truth about
Islam. One of the first things that Barack Obama did on
becoming President of the United States was to visit the
world’s foremost Islamic university, to tell the world that in
the Middle Ages, when Spain was ruled by Muslim
invaders, it was a place of peace and tolerance.
Obama hit many of the right notes. He
conveyed to his audience that he is familiar
with the vast and glorious history of Islam,
such as the long periods of religious tolerance
in Andalusia, where Muslims, Jews, and
Christians lived together in peace under
Islamic rule.^1The above quotation is taken from an article in the “Religion
and Ethics Newsweekly” of the PBS website (PBS is the
American equivalent of the BBC). The article cites
numerous professors of Islam (some Muslim, some non-
Muslim). If those experts have any criticism of Obama’s
speech, it is that he was not positive enough about the
greatness of Islam. However, this idea that there was peace
and religious tolerance under Islam is a lie. The lie is so
gross that those politicians who put it forward might as
well say that there was peace and tolerance in Nazi
Germany. This lie about Islamic tolerance is easily