Prove It

This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. It talks about how Islam claims to be a religion of peace yet many clerics advocate stoning people for adultery and continue teaching their followers that Jews are pigs and monkeys. Also they believe that Islam should be spread by the sword. Mr. Hamid has some good suggestions for Islamic leaders.

So, Islamic scholars and clerics, it is up to you to produce a Shariah book that will be accepted in the Islamic world and that teaches that Jews are not pigs and monkeys, that declaring war to spread Islam is unacceptable, and that killing apostates is a crime. Such a book would prove that Islam is a religion of peace.

Mr. Hamid, a former member of an Egyptian Islamist terrorist group, is an Islamic reformer and senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.

Read it here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123655519762565889.html