“Uncontrollable” Muslim Violence: The Latest Excuse

...The burning of the Koran by a couple of small time pastors, while certainly a crude and reprehensible act, was not the ultimate cause of the killing by Islamists of UN staff in Afghanistan or Christians praying in a church in Pakistan. Responsible Muslims, such as presumably Ambassador Haroon himself, have failed to lead efforts to reform their own religion and to marginalize the clerics and other Islamists who use the Koran and other Islamic teachings to incite hatred and violence against ‘non-believers.’

Islamists don’t need an excuse to murder those they consider to be ‘infidels’ or ‘non-believers.’ It is in the DNA of Islamic ideology. In fact, Muslims also kill each other, as part of their own sectarian battles. When asked by a UN correspondent about the uptick in Sunni-Shiite violence, Ambassador Haroon said simply that “this is a very important point that should be raised and discussed.”

Ambassador Haroon’s suave presentation to the UN press corps, the day before the tragic killing of UN staff members in Afghanistan, called for “interfaith harmony,” which he said “must be about all religions.” But he refused to acknowledge the intolerant, violence-prone strains in Islam which have caused disharmony around the world. Ambassador Haroon claimed that the Koran “advocates peace among all peoples and religions,” while brushing over the fact that the Koran has been used as the direct source material by Islamic clerics and jihadists to justify violence, intolerance and misogyny in the name of Islam. And this is not new in our times, attributable to recent acts of hatred in the West such as the burning of the Koran in the Florida church, as Ambassador Haroon implied.

See also: Koran-Burning Pastor Favors First Amendment Over Greatest Commandment