Seeing Behind the Façade of Islam

From Gates of Vienna, an interesting bit of insight from a European who made the trip to Islam and back. Thank you Russkiy for all the work translating this video and article.

Gates of Vienna:

Our Russian correspondent Russkiy, who is fluent in Arabic, has translated a portion of an Al Haya TV program in which a young German is interviewed. The German man converted to Islam as a youth, and then became dissatisfied with Islam, returning to Christianity. The interviewer draws him out on his reasons for leaving Islam.

Russkiy has written an explanatory article to help the reader understand the background of the video.

Seeing Behind the Façade of Islam
by Russkiy

Not unlike thousands of other people concerned with the issue of Islamisation, I became interested in the subject matter following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I read the Koran and other Islamic texts and could not help but notice such verses as these:

• Ye who believe! take not the Jews and Christians for your patrons : they are patrons of each other; but whoso amongst you takes them for patrons, verily, he is of them, and, verily, God guides not an unjust people.
• Kill them wherever ye find them, and drive them out from whence they drive you out; for sedition is worse than slaughter; but fight them not by the Sacred Mosque until they fight you there; then kill them, for such is the recompense of those that misbelieve.

I actually had many Muslim friends at that time, so when I read such verses the first thing I thought about was whether my Muslim friends believe in these things, and whether the friendship we shared was false, as the topmost verse quoted above clearly commands Muslims not to befriend non-Muslims.

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