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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

Radicalism is the name of a loveless system
diametrically opposed to the Koran

The dark and bloodthirsty system that some people ascribe to Islam
is actually fundamentalism, not Islam at all. This means espousing radi-
calism under the guise of religion. A fundamentalist - a radical in other
words - is loveless, dark of soul, bigoted and lacking in understanding.
He is opposed to all forms of beauty, aesthetics, art and science. He is

opposed to life, and absolutely opposed to joy and happiness.
Someone with a fundamentalist mindset will regard all objects
of beauty with hatred. He will hate flowers, and children, cats and dogs
and rabbits. His soul is empty; there is nothing about love in their souls.
They do not value other people, nor any other living thing. The concepts
of consideration, love and compassion are entirely foreign to them.
As a result of all this, a fundamentalist will also hate women. The
hatred of women that some people seek to ascribe to Islam is in fact a
characteristic of fundamentalist radicals, not of Islam, which actually
attaches the greatest value to women, and which praises and exalts
them. (This will later be discussed in greater detail.)
In the same way that someone with a fundamentalist mindset
loves nobody, nobody loves him, either. Everyone is made uncom-
fortable by the presence, lifestyle and ideas of a fundamentalist. Fun-
damentalists even detest other fundamentalists. They are never at
once in friendship and ease; this, of course, stems from their living at
a great distance from the Koran.
It needs to be reiterated as a matter of great importance that a funda-

mentalist - a radical in other words - can be found in every faith or section
of society. People who seek to turn people away from the essence of their
faiths and to replace the joy and fervor resulting from faith in God with a
dark and bloodthirsty spirit can be found in Christian and Jewish commu-
nities, as well as Muslim ones. However, the subject under discussion here

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