The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and theCrusades)world is compelled to coin a new term to take account of increasingly.
widesprea d bigotry, that is a sad and troublin g develop ment. Such is the
case.with lsla mopho bia. ' The word seem s to have emer ged in the late
1980s andearly 1190s.Today, the weight of history and the fallout of recent
developments have left many Muslims around the world feelingagg rav ate d
and mis und ers too d, con cer ned abo ut the ero sio n of the ir rights and
even fearing for their physical safety."
The UN's focus, not unexpectedly, stayed mostlyon the aggrieved
misunderstood Muslims, with no questions raised about the Islamic roots
of jiha d terr oris m. Nor was ther e any discu ssio n of the inco mpati bili ty
ofIslam with unive rsall y accep ted ideas of human right s, as embodi ed
inthe UN's own 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights,The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Islamic responses
We have alr ead y see n tha t Iran 's She ikh Tab ande h publ ish ed an
Isla miccritique of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Islamic
worldhas seen fit to formulate two major responses to this document; the
198? Universal Islamic Declarationof Human Rightsand the 1990 Cairo
declarati on on Human Rights in Islam. Article 18 of the Univers al
Declar ation of Human Rights, which we owe to the courageous Charles
Malik ofLeba non, stat es: "Eve ryon e has the righ t to free dom of
tho ught , conscience and religion; thisrightincludes freedom to change his
religion"Youwill find no analogous guarantee of the freedom to changing
religion in either of the Islamic declarations; indeed, as we have seen that
traditional Islamiclawmandates the death penalty for those who leave
Islam.What's more, the Cairo declarat ion states: "Everyone shall have the
rightto advocate what is right, and propagate what is good, and warn
against,whatis wrong and evil according to the norms of Islamic Shari'ah.