Mick Hartley

It’s difficult not to notice a certain difference in approach between the Christian attitude to Islam:

A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding…

and the Islamic approach to Christianity, as expounded here by Hasan Rahimpur Azghadi of the Iranian Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution:

The expiry date of Christianity passed more than a thousand years ago. They are dragging this corpse with them. The expiry date of Christianity has passed, because of its contradictions, superstitions, and polytheism, and because it cannot resolve the theoretical and practical problems facing mankind. […]

Islam, in contrast to Christianity, is not a corpse that you have to drag – a reeking corpse, on which you have to constantly pour eau de cologne and perfume, and wash it in order to keep it clean. […]

I myself don’t believe in preserving such a religion. These Westerners must be very religious, if they have kept a corpse of a religion devoid of content, for a thousand years. Real men they are! They continue to go to church and to read the New Testament. The New Testament and the Torah are so full of strange things that if you read them to children, they would start laughing.

I must have missed the riots from offended Christians.