Islam, the Religion of love and tolerance

I have just looked at a picture on the Web, of the bodies of young girls who had been beheaded in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi. In October of 2005, four Christian high school girls were attacked with machetes and three were beheaded. In that part of the world, conflicts between Christians and Muslims are common. Indonesian Muslims murdered the girls. Apparently the killings were carried out as revenge killings. But the killings were also carried out as Ramadan trophies. Beheading the Christians qualified as an act of Muslim charity. The plot was contrived after the perpetrators had been in contact with Philippine Jihadists. What kind of mad men carry out beheadings as acts of Muslim charity or for Ramadan trophies?

Meanwhile, about the same time in Europe, Muslims began rioting over the Danish Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. And in Great Britain, Burger King had withdrawn an ice cream product, because the swirl design on the lid looked like the word “Allah” in Arabic. Also there has been an on going ban on pigs in Great Britain, toy pigs, calendars of cutely little pigs or a tissue box displaying Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. Earlier in 2003, a Nursery School in Batley, West Yorkshire, banned stories pertaining to pigs. And finally, earlier this year, the story of the three little pigs was cause for concern in Great Britain’s Muslim community.