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prevailed. Likewise today, "peace" to a Moslem means only one thing -- a total capitulation of all
humanity to Islam.

Violence and militarism did not end with Moslem conquests. Islamic factions, each claim-
ing to represent the "one true faith", have been at each other's throats for centuries. As the scholar
David Pryce-Jones masterfully demonstrated in The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the
Arabs, conspiracy, intrigue, and assassination have been the rule rather than the exception in the Is-
lamic world."

ISLAMIC "TOLERATION"

"It is one function of Islamic law," says Moslem proponents "to protect the privileged status
of minorities, and this is why non-Moslem places of worship have flourished all over the Islamic
world." Here we leave the realm of exaggeration and distortion and enter the realm of outright pris-
tine lies.

For the most part, churches and synagogues have been destroyed, vandalized, or completely
outlawed. In Saudi Arabia, it is illegal to open or maintain a church. In "moderate" countries such as
Egypt, Christians have not been able to get permission to repair their churches or build new ones for
decades.

Saudi Arabia is not the only Moslem country which has obliterated every trace of Judaism
and Christianity and outlawed all non-Moslem religious practices, even among foreigners who live
there and bring that country their wealth. In particular, however, Saudi Arabia has done all this with
little or no outcry from the West.

Moreover, there exists not a single case in the entire Islamic world in which non-Moslems
have been given equal civil rights and/or freedom of worship. While the Moslems freely evangelize
in America and enjoy the Western tradition of civil rights, such activities are forbidden under Islam,
which considers apostasy a capital crime.

In Islam, Christians and Jews are Dhimmi -- second-class citizens -- and are subject to dis-
criminatory laws, double standards, repressive taxation, and humiliating public ceremonies of sub-
mission. Impressive and conclusive documentation for these realities exist aplenty and are
available to all who care to find them.

To the Moslems claim that "many examples of Moslem tolerance toward other faiths" there
is only one example given: Omar's conquest of Jerusalem in 634, not an event that is fresh in the
minds of many. The claim is that Omar declared freedom of worship to all, a statement which must
be accepted on faith alone, since there is no proof of it in writing and anyway it has at no time been
followed in practice by Omar or any of his successors.

WOMEN IN ISLAM

The Islamic spokesmen claim that a Moslem woman is "an individual in her own right" --
hardly a great concession. In any case, the Moslem's claim is certainly not confirmed in the writings

The Berean Voice September-October 2002