The most shocking and disturbing Mr. Peter Robinson was your blind uninformed and ill-advised support and defense of this Pastor’s indefensible hate crime speech. Perhaps in attending his church you’ve been exposed, or indoctrinated, by so much hate speech from this extremist evangelistic Pastor that his words seemed normal in your failed judgment.
“O! Mankind. Behold, We have created you all out of a male and a female, and have made you into nations and tribes, so that you might come to know one another (not despise one another). Verily, the noblest of you in the sight of God is the one who is most righteous. Behold, God is all-knowing, all-aware.” (Qur’an: 48:13)
“Say (O Muhammad): “We believe in God, and what has been revealed (Qur’an) to us, and that which was bestowed upon Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and ,their descendants, and that which was revealed to Moses (Torah) and Jesus (Gospel); and that which has been revealed to all the [other] prophets from their Lord: we make no distinction between any of them. And it is unto Him that we surrender ourselves.” (Qur’an: 2:136)
“And the Angels said, “O Mary, God has chosen you and purified you, and He has chosen you above all the women of the worlds.” (Qur’an 3:42)
(Author’s Note: May I express my deepest gratitude, admiration, and respect to the courageous and principled stand of the Honorable Anna Lo, the Honorable Martin McGuinness, and the Honorable British MP George Galloway, and to all the citizens of Northern Ireland who courageously condemned this sad bigoted chapter in their history.)
June 4, 2014
The Honorable First Minister Mr. Peter Robinson;
Belfast, Ireland
Dear Mr. Robinson;
It’s unfathomable that amongst the long suffering citizens of Northern Ireland would arise a racist ignorant and bigoted Un-Christ like Pastor, James McConnell, who finally found an opportunity to spew his inherent hate of Islam.
However, most shocking and disturbing Mr. Robinson was your blind uninformed and ill-advised support and defense of this Pastor’s indefensible hate crime speech. Perhaps in attending his church you’ve been exposed, or indoctrinated, by so much hate speech from this extremist evangelistic Pastor that his words seemed normal in your failed judgment.
Sir; your timid private apology to representatives of the Muslim community falls way too short of what is required of him as the leader of all of Northern Ireland’s citizens; the acceptable and unacceptable Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and all other faiths.
The only honorable thing Mr. Robinson is to publicly apologize not only to the Muslim community but to all of the citizens of Northern Ireland and promise a more accepting, tolerant, and inclusive approach to all such citizens.
If you don’t apologize than the only honorable thing left to do is resign and allow the good citizens of Northern Ireland to elect a more compassionate, respectful, and inclusive Prime Minister. The citizens of North Ireland deserve a non bigoted leader.
Pastor James McConnell should be prosecuted for his hate crime without any delay or regard to his position, faith, or lying spin. If the congregation of his church is truly Christian then they should fire him immediately.
“Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh
A Muslim’s response to both Mr. Robinson and Mr. McConnell’s hateful and racist rants.
“Islam is heathen, Islam is Satanic, Islam is a doctrine spawned in Hell.”
– Pastor James McConnell
Mr. Robinson, my first reaction when I read these words uttered by the bigoted fundamentalist Pastor of Hate, James McConnell, was to recall the infamous speech by Pope Urban II at the Council of Claremont calling for a Holy War and Crusade against the “infidels”, the Muslims in the Holy Land.
“O what a disgrace if such a despised and base race (Muslim Arabs), which worships demons”
Is Pastor McConnell calling for a crusade against the Muslims in Northern Ireland, another “Troubles” situation?
What on earth would possess you to even consider such racism as acceptable, as free speech, and as a Christian’s right to denounce “false doctrines”; and that you would only tolerate Muslims in servitude but not as devout Muslims with their belief in Shariah, the Islamic Code of Conduct’s teachings.
However I am comforted by the fact that you, Pastor McConnell, I, and the entire Gentile world were only created to serve Jews and Israel according to the Babylonian Talmud and statements by the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
May I recommend you view Youtube videos of Israelis and Jewish Americans on television attacking and mocking Jesus and Mary in the most atrocious terms. In the U.S. search for the comedians Sarah Silverman and Larry David insulting Jesus.
Please compare such despicable blasphemy against Jesus and Mary peace be upon them both, to the high honor and reverence they are held in the Qur’an. In fact, Chapter 19 of the Qur’an is named “Mary”.
As for Pastor McConnell’s right to Free Speech:
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Soren Kierkagaard
Sir, free speech is in the eye, hand, political and media power of the beholder. In the west one can curse the divine, denounce any ideology, religion, politician, institution etc. but free speech is restricted by the Eleventh Commandment:
“Thou shall not think, speak, or write any ill about Jews or Israel“; but all of you already know that, lest you be branded with the new Scarlet Letter “A” for “Anti-Semitism”
The Pastor’s concern for the plight of the innocent Sudanese woman who received the death penalty for her “apostasy” is justified given that there is no punishment at all for apostasy mentioned in the Qur’an. (Thank God she’ll be freed).The Qur’an specifically guarantees that mankind has the free will and freedom of religion to choose his/her faith. There are several verses in the Qur’an that address freedom of religion.
The foundation principle of freedom of religion is in this verse:
“There shall be no compulsion in matters of faith”. (Qur’an 2:256^
Hypocritically, neither Pastor McConnell nor you have ever uttered a word concerning the suffering and extreme persecution, abuse, beatings, spitting of pastors and priests, and the desecration and vandalism of churches endured by the Palestinian Christians under Israel’s brutal, illegal, and oppressive occupation.
Perhaps we can expect you and the Pastor now to raise this issue with the same public gusto you bashed Islam.
According to you Pastor McConnell has the right to denounce “false doctrines”.
Presumably that would include such false doctrines as Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, other unacceptable Christians and other faiths.
By what right or criteria does anyone have the right to denounce other faiths? Isn’t such judgment reserved for God, and God alone?
A hallmark of any educated person is that he/she base their judgment and conclusions on evidence. What evidence from the Qur’an or the Prophet’s teachings were studies to come to such racism conclusions? Ignorance and pure racism are not acceptable as educational or scientific evidence.
Tragically in the west the judgment and understanding of Islam the faith is based on the ignorant murderous terrorist actions, executions, bombings, kidnappings, rubbings, singling women for illegal punishments, committed by Muslims who are illiterate thus ignorant of Islam’s true teachings and principles. Every single one of these acts is strictly prohibited in Islam whether against Muslims or Non-Muslims.
How would Christianity fair if one attributes the long history of Christian wars and civil wars, of mass terrorism and conversions by the sword (Charlemagne, the Crusaders, Inquisition, and widespread colonialism of the entire southern hemisphere), the foreign invasions, occupations, holocausts, slavery, and theft of resources to further the opulence of Europeans. Was the Balfour Declaration that allowed the theft of Palestine by European Jews a Christian act?
May I suggest you read this most comprehensive of studies on Islamophobia conducted by the American Center for Progress titled, “Fear Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.” You will discover who is behind this racist indoctrination and who’s funding it. Hint: 5 Jewish American Zionists are the main leaders of such hatemongering in America.
http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2011/08/pdf/islamophobia.pdf
I pray that you Mr. Robinson and Pastor McConnell will see the error of your ways and know that what you said and did does violate the law against hate crime, but more importantly is in direct disobedience of Christ’s teachings.
“Love your neighbor as yourself, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, turn the other cheek, and judge not lest ye be judged; “You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye”; “Let him without sin cast the first stone”.