Mick Hartley

Some choice quotes from a lecture, via MEMRI, of Egyptian-German scholar and Muslim apostate Hamed Abdel-Samad, speaking in Rome:

Islam has managed to turn hatred into a religious duty. It has managed to turn war into a holy duty, a religious rite…

So the story is not about hatred and wars; it is about turning this ugly thing into a virtue – turning hatred into a virtue and war into a religious precept.

Islam is currently the only religion in which the term "non-believer" is used not to describe one's ideology, but instead is used to condemn a person to death.

Political Islam continues to spread and prosper because Muslims claim that it is theoretically sound, and that the mistake lies in its implementation. This is the belief that this theory comes directly from Allah, and tge only problem is that human beings do not implement it properly. I have never encountered a theory that is as ill-implemented as this one. 

The Islamists always try and present Islam and the Muslims as if they were a single entity. Sadly European politician make the same mistake. They think that the optimal way to assimilate Muslims in Western society is through Islamic organisations and through Islamic education at mosques. No! The solution is to separate the human from the ideology….

It's eight minutes, but worth watching. 

Here's a shorter piece from the same man, Hamed Abdel-Samad - an excerpt from a German TV discussion this September. He responds to a Muslim woman who, we presume, has been explaining that Islamism in general, and ISIS in particular, have absolutely nothing to do with Islam. He's very good: