{"id":3414,"date":"2014-06-28T02:39:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T06:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2014-06-28T02:39:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T06:39:49","slug":"czech-president-refuses-to-apologize-to-muslims-for-quoting-prophet-mohammad-accurately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2014\/06\/28\/czech-president-refuses-to-apologize-to-muslims-for-quoting-prophet-mohammad-accurately\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech President Refuses to Apologize to Muslims for Quoting Prophet Mohammad-ACCURATELY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3416\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2014\/06\/madani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3416\" alt=\"Be sure to have his permission before your quote Mohammad\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2014\/06\/madani.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Need his permission before you quote Mohammad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It baffles me to no end when religionists get upset \u00a0for their own scriptures by \u00a0their critics, and\u00a0demand &#8220;apologies&#8221;-<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/07\/31\/the-predictors-of-homophobia-are-identified-and-the-strongest-of-them-all-is\/\">without pointing out any errors in the quote<\/a>! If the text has been misquoted, or &#8220;taken out of context&#8221; as we are told, then why won&#8217;t they offer a clarification? And if it is <em>not<\/em>, doesn&#8217;t that suggest that the problem is the text itself?<\/p>\n<p>Quotes like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2014\/06\/13\/czech-president-zeman-refuses-to-apologize-for-quote-from-koran-calling-for-muslims-to-kill-jews\/\">this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was a hideous assassination in the flower of Europe in the heart of European Union in a Jewish museum in Brussels. I will not let myself being calmed down by the declaration that there are only tiny fringe groups behind it. On the contrary, I am convinced that this xenophobia, and let\u2019s call it racism or antisemitism, emerges from the very essence of the ideology these groups subscribe to.<\/p>\n<p>So let me quote one of their sacred texts to support this statement: \u2018A tree says, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. A stone says, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The words are from the Czech president\u00a0Milo\u0161 Zeman, and the quote is right out of the horse&#8217;s mouth: a hadith, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/indepth\/analysis\/islams-jew-hating-hadith-in-context\/2013\/04\/17\/\">saying of Prophet Mohammad<\/a>. And sure enough, the roots of <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2014\/05\/15\/global-data-on-antisemitism-are-out-guess-where-it-is-the-worst\/\">Islamic antisemitism<\/a> go way beyond a single hadith: for instance, there are numerous examples of the word &#8220;Jews&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticsannotatedbible.com\/quran\/int\/long.html\">this page<\/a> that lists hateful verses in the Koran. Or watch this video, which shows Islamic commentator keep going back to the scripture to justify their hatred against Jews.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Muslim Antisemitism Compilation (1\/2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uu6Ond1ESq8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But this is Islam, and hence the apology demand doesn&#8217;t come from a loony fundamentalist group, but rather (unless this one counts) the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), the notorious umbrella organization covering ALL Muslim majority countries with a <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/10\/04\/the-islamists-shameless-good-cop-bad-cop-game-blaming-riots-on-freedom-of-expression\/\">reputation<\/a> for trying to stifle freedom of expression beyond the borders of its member states.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iyad Ameen Madani [picture above],\u00a0Secretary General of the\u00a0Organization of Islamic Cooperation, issued a statement condemning Zeman\u2019s speech, saying, \u201cIt is only appropriate that President Mil\u014ds Zeman apologizes to the millions of Muslims worldwide for his deeply offensive and hateful anti Islam statements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the OIC\u2019s statement, it said, \u201cThe Secretary General reiterated that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance and that terrorism should not be equated to any race or religion; a stance upheld by all major UN texts on the subject of countering terrorism. He added that the OIC countries share a profound respect for all religions and condemn any message of hatred and intolerance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would interesting if OIC officials were ever asked, since Islam is such a &#8220;peaceful&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2014\/05\/29\/the-politically-correct-way-to-demand-political-correctness\/\">dynamic<\/a> religion with millions of followers, how come there has never been a systemic movement among them to distance themselves from this overwhelming scriptural antisemitism, as happened, for instance, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Vatican_Council\">Second Vatican Council<\/a>? Or maybe such questions simply never come up due to <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2014\/04\/29\/the-scourge-of-islamophobophobia\/\">Islamophobophobia<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Zeman is not caving.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Czech media reported spokesman\u00a0Ji\u0159\u00ed Ov\u010d\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s statement saying that Zeman would not be apologizing for his statements in which he linked Islamic ideology with violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Zeman definitely does not intend to apologize,\u201d the spokesman said. \u201cFor the president would consider it blasphemy to apologize for the quotation of a sacred Islamic text.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which I am sure will surprise the OIC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blogger Gates of Vienna,\u00a0who flagged the spokesman\u2019s statement on Thursday, said \u201cAs far as I am aware, Milo\u0161 Zeman is the first Western head of state ever to tell the OIC to go jump in a lake. So this is an historic occasion.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About freaking time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It baffles me to no end when religionists get upset \u00a0for their own scriptures by \u00a0their critics, and\u00a0demand &#8220;apologies&#8221;-without&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}