By Jan Willem van der Hoeven   October 3, 2006
You want an apology? I and many, many with me are waiting for an apology, finally, from you!
You want Pope Benedict to apologize for having quoted a Byzantine Emperor for saying there is something inherently evil in the teachings of ISLAM in regard to Jihad and Violence. You feel hurt and incensed; that these words are an attack upon your faith and prophet. But what about you again and again attacking the West and Israel, calling the U.S. the big Satan and Israel, small Satan, daring to call -- and openly basing yourself on the teachings of the Quran -- Jews and Christians pigs and monkeys!
And you want the West to apologize for a Danish cartoon or a quote from the Pope when we have to suffer, not only your violent words but, what is far more serious, your violent acts of war and terror. It is not enough that Mohammed in his comparatively short lifetime waged more than forty wars -- sanctified Jihad and violence -- and butchered thousands of Christians and Christian communities and Jews in order to spread the teachings of ISLAM.
Do you now have to show the world, by burning churches and by murdering Christians -- from the Philistines to the hundreds of thousands of Sudanese, from Indonesia to Pakistan -- that you are not a peaceful religion that believes in a merciful God? Not to speak of all the scorn, hatred and indiscriminate killings you heap upon God's Own people, the Jews, now back in the land that our God, the only true God, promised them as an everlasting possession.
And you make fun of this, our sincerely held belief, believed by millions of Jews and Christians -- calling us pigs and monkeys -- but giving yourself the right to burn synagogues, as you did in Gush Katif, and churches from Nablus to Nigeria, because you say we offended your religious sensitivities.
It is to us that you owe an apology -- and we should finally hear that you are sorry to have blasphemed our faiths, caused untold sufferings, rivers of tears through your Allah-inspired acts of inhumane terror, from Munich to the towers in New York, from the Metro in Madrid to the Tube in London, from the thousands Christians in Sudan to the thousands of Jews in Israel, from the children in Ma'alot to the murdered children in Breslan, Chechnya, from the synagogues in Istanbul to the synagogues in Paris.
We want an apology. You claim ISLAM is really a peaceful religion and that Allah is all-merciful. Then where is that peace and that mercy in the words I just heard from Ibrahim Mudeiris, one of the Imams of the Palestinian Authority who was caught in a recording and translated by Palestinian Media Watch?
"Israel is a cancer spreading through the body of the Islamic nation," he raged. "And ... the Jews are a virus resembling AIDS, from which the entire world suffers."
"You will find that the Jews were behind all the civil strife in this world. The Jews are behind the suffering of the nations.... It was the Jews who provoked Nazism to wage war against the entire world....
"We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again. The day will come when we will rule America. The day will come when we will rule Britain and the entire world -- except for the Jews. The Jews will not enjoy a life of tranquility under our rule, because they are treacherous by nature, as they have been throughout history.
The day will come when everything will be relieved of the Jews -- even the stones and trees which were harmed by them. Listen to the Prophet Muhammad, who tells you about the evil end that awaits Jews. The stones and trees will want the Muslims to finish off every Jew."
And what about the words of Hamed Al-Tamimi, the director of the so-called Palestinian Authority's Inter Religion Dialogue Department, who recently unleashed a vicious attack on Christian Zionists for "carrying out their criminal activities against the Palestinian issue and the Palestinian people."
"The Zionist-Christian motivation, in addition to imperialist motivation, was behind the cursed Balfour Declaration -- Balfour and Prime Minister Lloyd George were Christian Zionists -- and the truth is we should not deny [that] these Crusader motivations stand [today] behind the British and American policy in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Arab and Muslim countries."
"They [Christian Zionists] are a group who adopted Satan as God who drives their crazy nature. They have praised depravity and cursed virtue, they have turned the moral scale upside down and have reached [a point] in which forgery, deception, and lying, have turned into descriptions of world policy, which is led by the Zionism on both its branches -- the Jewish and the Christian."
And you still want an apology from us? We have long been waiting for yours!
Original Source