The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the
Crusades)opinion, cannot enforcea penalty for apostasy any more or
less than what our Allah and his messen ger have decre ed.
The ones who wil l make the deci sio n abou t his apos tas y
are: our Book, the Surma, the agreement of the prophets and
their legislation given by Allah."PC Myth:Islam values pre-Islamic
cultures in M u s l i m c o u n t r i e s
Isla m does n't jus t deni grat e and deva lue non-Musl ims, but also lead s
Muslims to denigrate and devalue the pre-Islamic cultures of their own
coun tri es. "In 637 A.D. ," not es the Nobe l Pri ze–win nin g author V. S.
Naipau l, "just five years after the death of the Prophet , the Arabs began
to overrun Persia, and all Persia'sgreatpast, the past before Islam, was
declared a time of blackness."'"
There was nothing unusual in that. It isa scene that has been repeated
throug hout the histor y of Islam. Islamic theolo gy so devalu es non-
believers that there is no room in Islamic culture for any generosity toward
their achievements. Muslims call the age before any country adoptedIslam
thetim e of ja hil iyy a or ignor anc e. Nai pau l exp lai ns tha t "th e tim e
bef ore Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology.
History hasto serve theol ogy." An exam ple of this is how Paki stani s
deni grate d thefamous archaeological site at Mohenjo Daro, seeing its
value onlyasa chance to preach Islam:
A feat ured lett er in Dawn offer ed its own idea s for the site ,
Verses from the Koran, the writer said, should be engraved and
set up in Mohe njo-Daro in "ap pro pri ate pla ces ": "Sa y (un to
them, 0 Mohammed):Travel in the land and see the nature of the sequel for the guilty