HOW MUSLIMS UNDERSTAND THE VERSES WHICH ISLAMOPHOBES TAKE OUT OF CONTEXT
by GF Haddad
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” (Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels)
Geert Wilders in his 15-minute yet tedious “Fitna: the Movie” has used a number of Quranic verses with the aim of attempting to convince uninformed people about the supposedly violent nature of Quranic teachings.
Like the medieval Islamophobes of the European Dark Ages, it is Wilders himself who does violence to the texts by taking them deliberately out of context. He fails to establish even a fictional relationship between the Quranic verses he cuts and the terror news stories he pastes them to.
The following is an abridged guide to the correct meaning of these Qur’anic verses which Islamophobes love to hate and which they have been misquoting and taking out of context to incite hatred of Islam … read more
