The Peaceful Religion

Several months ago the Times ran an article in which 3 or 4 Muslims explained their peaceful religion's tolerance for other religions and freedom of speech. The article was a white wash job and disingenuous at best.

"We are calling for the assassination of cartoonist Lars Vilks who dared insult our Prophet, peace be upon him, and we announce a reward during this generous month of Ramadan of $100,000 for the one who kills this criminal," the transcript on the Web site said.

The al-Qaida leader upped the reward for Vilks' death to $150,000 if he was "slaughtered like a lamb" and offered $50,000 for the killing of the editor of Nerikes Allehanda, the Swedish paper that printed Vilks' cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body on Aug. 19.

And to those of you knuckleheads who claim: "this type of talk was brought on by Amerikan actions in Iraq and Afghanistan", that is BS.

The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a “Civilization-Jihadist” process with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all religions.

It's from a memo labeled "Strategy Goal" for North American operations, and it's from 1991.