IftikarGreetings.How can you say that "Interpreters are useless creatures"!!!!A rediculous statement indeed.In the London Borough of Hounslow the flow of incomers over the past 60 years years that I've lived there ..has produced an intersting situation where they say over 150 languages are spoken! Do we have to have 150 properly qualified doctors for each one?Anyway..I've just found this POINT OF VIEW on the internet(Faith freedom .com) and wondered if you would care to comment on some of the pertinant points made. Is he wrong in what he says about Islamic intolerance of others?NOTE: I'm still on a learning curve000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000PAKISTANI MUSLIMS IN THE UKThe situation of those Muslims in the west who cannot or do not want to integrate with the rest of the population is a problem that should not escape our attention. Though most of the immigrants from the Islamic countries, after arriving to the Western countries, learn new ways of life and become pillars of the community contributing to the society intellectually, economically and culturally, a number of them who want to maintain their religious identity become real problems.The case of the Pakistani Muslims in UK, e.g. deserve our close attention. What is happening in England could happen in all those countries where the number of Muslim immigrants is on the rise.A report published in Friday Times of Lahore shows: * Thanks to the intolerant teachings of Quran, like calling the non-Muslims najis (impure) and inferior, the Muslims are less likely to integrate with the people of other religions and befriend them. * Because of their namaz rituals they are less likely to find employment. The time they expend saying their prayers (5 times a day) is a loss to the employers. * Therefore the index of unemployment amongst the Muslims is higher and as the consequence they are poorer than the rest of population. * Generally speaking the majority of the educated Muslims are no more believers. Those who still believe are of lower education, which also translates in lower social status. * Because they are less educated they tend to procreate faster than the average population. All that is contributing to the emergence of an alienated minority that is dispossessed, hungry and resentful. This minority is also motivated by a doctrine that not only condones but also encourages and glorifies violence as an act of devotion in the form of Jihad or holy war. This is in my opinion the recipe for disaster.Islam is a religion that does not allow the integration of its members with others (Q.9:23). Letting Islam to grow unchecked and supporting its advancement by funds that should be allocated to promote multiculturalism and foster our national unity is a colossal and irreversible error that cannot be over-emphasized.Canada is a Multicultural society that is proud of its mosaic. It respects people of all races, religions and cultures. It is precisely this variety that enriches our cultural heritage and makes Canada the best country in the world to live in. But we have to bear in mind that when we deal with Muslims we are not dealing with another ethnic group but with a group of people that knowingly or unknowingly subscribe to a doctrine that promotes disunity, hate and violence. The growth of Islam in any country is a threat to its peace and security. This could be India, Indonesia, Philippines or even UK, Canada and United States. Speaking against Islam and its inhumane teachings surely will excite the Muslims and make them hysterical. But this is something we have to face one day or another. It is better to talk about it now that Muslims are not so powerful in this country than later when they are a force that would easily silence us by terror. It is important that we start a national dialogue and question the compatibility of the teachings of Quran with Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. How is it possible for a Muslim to believe in the hate teachings of Islam and pay his unconditional allegiance to the Charter of Rights? Where Canadian Muslims are standing on this issue? Most of the Muslims have not read the Quran and have no idea of the amount of hate and violence that is preached in that book. If these people become familiar with the real content of Quran, after passing through the usual stage of denial, they will eventually leave Islam. But if we want to avoid social strives we have to start this debate soon and explore Islam now. Muslims are coming in big numbers and they are procreating faster than any other group. If we hide our heads under the sands, this problem is only going to aggravate. Soon the day will come when Muslims will be a great force, but it will be a force that will want to destroy our freedom and our national unity. We just cannot afford the luxury to sit back and let Islamic fundamentalism grow in our own backyard. Islam and Islamic fundamentalism are the same thing. Islam is a fundamentalist religion. Muhammad was a fundamentalist man. The bombings, assassinations, and terrorism are not the work of few extremist radical Muslims but they are what Islam teaches and preaches. How can we sit quiet and even support a doctrine that advocates so much hate and violence? What would we do with the skinheads and the neo-nazis? The difference of Muslims and the skinheads is in the fact that the majority of Muslims believe that Islam is a peaceful religion that helps them in their spiritual quest, while the neo-nazis are not under such delusions. Apart from that Islam and Nazism have a lot in common. Nazism believes in racial supremacy, Islam in religious supremacy. Nazism believes in violence to promote its cause, Islam believes in Jihad. Nazism tends to achieve the unity of its followers by instigating the hatred of others. The teachings of Quran do teach the same. We are not going to sit quiet and let nazism ruin the minds of our kids, how can we fund the Islamists to promote their hate religion of hate? The fact that most of the Muslims are not aware of the brutal teachings of Islam and therefore live decently, hurting no one and being reliable citizens does not make Islam a tolerant doctrine or one to tolerate. We have to act responsibly today or tomorrow will be too late. Ali SinaMay 2001OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOend
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