The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades

Chapter4

ISL AM: R E L I G I O NO F I N T O LE RA N CEMuslim spokesmen in

the United States have worked hard to present a vision ofIslamasbenign,

open, and accepting—worlds away from the fanatical intransigence of

Osama binLaden and his ilk, PC watc hdogs , both Musl im and non-

Musl im, havevirtuallyruledoutanydissentfrom theideathat Islamis

peaceful,

benign, and tolerant to a degree that will present no problem
whatsoever -Weste rn socie ties. They; depic t Islam as akin to
Judai sm and Chris tiani ty and, like them , lia ble to be "hij acke d"
(thr ough , no faul t of its own) by "ext remi sts. " Most Ameri cans
toda y acce pt thisasaxio mati c. andmanywould consider rejecting
it an act of "racism," despite the factthat Islam is not a race and
most Muslims in the world todayarenot
members of the ethnic group with which they are most often
identified,, Arabs.
But there's just one problem with the common view;it isn't true.
We'vealre ady see n how thor ough ly Isla m is a reli gion of war; it is
also , profoundly, a religion of intolerance.

PC Myth: Islam is a tolerant faith

Jews and Christians, goes the PC line, lived in harmony with Muslims
during the era of the great Islamic empires of the past. When jihad
terrorists

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Guess what?

*Islamic law

mandates second-

class statusfor

Jews, Christians,and

othernon-Muslimsin

Islamicsocieties,

* T h e s el a w s

h a v enever been

abrogatedor

revised by any

Islamicauthority,

The idea that Jews

faredbetter in

Islamiclands than

in Christian Europe

is False