"We were brought up to hate--and we do"

Thanks to Paul Saunders for this...

"We were brought up to hate--and we do" in the 2/12/06 The Daily Telegraph
by Nonie Darwish, a Muslim woman. She totally rejects the culture
of hate that is bred into Muslim children across the Middle East and
morally attacks the militant Islamic leaders.

Article web address:

http://tinyurl.com/expgw

Nonie Darwish tells of being indoctrinated with hate in the Egyptian
schools she attended and her eventual rejection of this indoctrination
in hate. She and her siblings were asked personally by Gamel Abdul
Nasser to kill Israelis and become martyrs like their father.

Just a few excerpts of the large amount of facts exposed in her
article: "Peace was never an option, as it was considered a sign of
defeat and weakness." Mosque loudspeakers in Cairo blared, "They
said: 'May God destroy the infidels and the Jews, the enemies of
God. We are not to befriend them or make treaties with them.' We
heard worshippers respond 'Amen'. " "...That was when I first
realised that something was very wrong in the way my religion was
taught and practised. "

She then exposes many examples of evil and hypocrisy committed
by militant Islamists in the fight against Western Civilization and
finally ends with a desperate plea for honesty and respect for
innocent lives with no deliberate deception on the meaning of the
word "innocent" that other Muslims have used,

"It's time for Arabs and Muslims to stand up for their families. We
must stop allowing our leaders to use the West and Israel as an
excuse to distract from their own failed leadership and their
citizens' lack of freedoms. It's time to stop allowing Arab leaders to
complain about cartoons while turning a blind eye to people who
defame Islam by holding Korans in one hand while murdering
innocent people with the other."

"Unless we recognise that the culture of hate is the true root of the
riots surrounding this cartoon controversy, this violent overreaction
will only be the start of a clash of civilisations that the world cannot
bear."