Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
Coren: “..silence of the moderate Muslims which makes them a partner in the crimes of the extremists.”
[I would ask, what is moderate about pagan fascist Islam ?]
“..alleged Muslim moderates alike have encouraged or allowed a persecution of millions of people that surely one day will be looked back upon with international shame.”
Islam's war on Christians. 1400 years and counting. Islam is a cult, dedicated to Muhammad and his family idol Al-ilah which means the Lord of Mecca and which references Baal. Islam is in part a cult whose impetus is to eradicate all Jews and Christians. The Koran – Mein Koran or Muhammad's Struggle – and Mein Hadith, make this clear. Coren's book is only stating the obvious, but considering the multitude of multi-cult loving nitwits in Western society, perhaps restating ad nauseum, what should now be common knowledge is both necessary and mandatory.
“..discrimination against Christians or any other non-Muslims is in fact integral to orthodox Muslim teaching, and the more profound issue to the serious-minded is not the existence of sectarianism but its extent.”
As Coren states, the various great and good within Christianity who want to have a 'dialogue' with Moslems are the worst form of worms and witless morons. Islam desires the destruction of Christianity. It has no interest in pious, inter-faith 'reason' and 'accord'. Islam is supremacist, fascist, Jihadist and quite intolerant.
“there is no commitment on the part of Islam to reshape its relationship with Christianity. A fundamental difference between the two faiths, and an obstacle to peace between the house of Islam and Christianity, is the differing manners in which each religion perceives its place in greater or secular society.”
“Jihadists see their holy war as a long struggle and the aim is less victory in Nigeria than the establishment of a totally Muslim Africa. As a result, there have been brutal attacks in Somalia, Sudan, and elsewhere...”
Sex slavery, violence, hate, pulling down churches, slaughtering and beheading Christians and putting their heads on pikes....such acts inform the cult of Muhammad. It is a worldwide phenomenon.
“Boko Haram [Nigeria]has been kidnapping little girls who are Christians, trying to turn them into sex slaves, trying to convert them by force. Their strategy is to marry the girls and kill the men...”
“...terror campaign is known as the Islamist Insurgency in Nigeria or the Sharia Conflict and has its origins in the fact that while Nigeria’s constitution is secular and there is supposed to be a separation of church and state or mosque and state, twelve individual states were allowed to apply sharia law between 1999 and 2012. Nine state have full sharia law – Zamfara, Kano, Sokoto, Katsina, Bauchi, Borno, Jigawa, Kebbi, and Yobe”
“An anti-Christian war by Islamists intent on bringing all of Indonesia under sharia law is going strong, and it’s estimated that more than 30,000 Christians have been killed and perhaps half a million forced from their homes. The government is having some success with its antiterror and anti-Islamist campaign but the situation is still unstable and dangerous. During the worst of the jihadist terror there were forced circumcisions, rapes, beheadings, and torture..”
“Syrian Christians have been killed, Syrian churches have been destroyed, Syrian Christian culture has been effectively ruined. Although estimates are difficult to establish, it seems that at least eighty-five churches have been burned to the ground, vandalized beyond use, or bombed into rubble by Islamic militias. Entire towns, such as the town of Ma’loula, have been raided.”
And on and on it goes. Toss in ISIS in Iraq and Syria and a pattern reveals itself. Islamic Jihad. Coren outlines just a fraction of the Moslem Jihad against Christianity in Africa, the Near East, Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia. Just a small percentage. It makes depressing reading. Yet the average person will hear and see none of it within the MSM coverage they assume to be 'news'. And of course the idiots in the multi-culti will drone on that 'most' Moslems are 'peaceful' and that Islam is 'tolerant'. So too were most Nazis and Communists one supposes and of course Hitlerism and Stalinism were just 'extremist' forms of benign theologies.