I hope you join Mrs May and me in wishing all Muslims who haven’t yet strapped explosives to their bodies a peaceful celebration of their peaceful festival.
And anyway, no matter how many Muslims strap explosives to their bodies and then detonate them in the middle of crowds, nothing will shake my – and Mrs May’s – belief in the peaceful nature of Islam.
In case you haven’t yet been forced to take compulsory lessons in basic Islam, I don’t mind enlightening you that Ramadan celebrates the peaceful revelations God (aka Allah) vouchsafed to the peaceful prophet Mohammed, who had hitherto been robbing caravans – all very peacefully of course.
In particular, all peaceful Muslims celebrate such peaceful revelations as these, all 300-odd of them:
‘Slay them [unbelievers] wherever ye find them…’ (2:91)
‘We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.’ (3:151)
‘Take them [unbelievers] and kill them wherever ye find them. Against such We have given you clear warrant.’ (4:91)
‘The unbelievers are an open enemy to you.’ (4:101)
‘As for thief, both male and female, cut off their hands.’ (5:38)
‘Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends…’ (5:51)
‘Slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them captive, and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush’ (9:5)
‘Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.’ (4:74)
‘…If they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them…’ (4:89)
Such peaceful verses are indeed worth celebrating, unless you happen to be a Christian, a Jew, an unbeliever, a renegade or in general not a Muslim.
If you do belong to any of these objectionable groups, you don’t have to celebrate Ramadan. But you do have to shut up if you find that Allah’s revelations to the Prophet weren’t entirely peaceful.
Citing facts or scriptural details is completely useless, I hope you realise this. There are things that soar infinitely higher than facts, such as the theologised belief in multi-culti rectitude.
Mrs May realises this, and more power to her elbow. We need people at the helm who forgo parochial interests, such as the thousands of years of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, and extend warm greetings to those who crave our death.
After all, didn’t Jesus himself say “That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also”? Of course he did.
Translating this commandment into the language of our progressive politics, it means that we a) admit all Muslims who wish to come here, for whatever purpose, including blowing us up, b) recognise that their culture is different from ours, and possibly better than it, c) guarantee that no matter how many Englishmen are blown to kingdom come to the sound of ‘Allahu Akbar!’, we shall draw no connection with the religion of peace and, most important, d) join Mrs May in wishing all Muslims, from moderate to jihadist, a peaceful Ramadan.
So here’s to you, my Muslim friends… oops, you don’t drink, do you? Never mind. Just try not to detonate any nail bombs for a while, if you possibly can restrain yourselves. I know it’s hard, but…
“After all, didn’t Jesus himself say ‘That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also’? Of course he did.”
Within the context of the period 2,000 years ago does not mean pacifism. Means show contempt. You are such a beast to slap me. Show the whole world what sort of beast you are by slapping me again.
Watch out where you are seen eating, and who is watching! A man in Germany, was murdered in broad daylight for violating a minor tenet of sharia law on the streets of Oldenburg. He was seen eating an ice cream. So, there is an instant death penalty for violating a sharia norm, regardless of German law.