‘Just read the Qur’an’

Re: Islamist, Not Islamic, letter to the editor, July 21. Letter writer Fasih Malik asks, “How could anyone associate this terrorist (Abdulazeez) with the same religion that is practised by more than 1.6 billion people?” Answer: “easily.” Just read the Qur’an, and the Hadiths and you will be informed and not deceived.

“Fight for Allah’s cause ( jihad).” (Q2:24) “Fight them (the kufars, the non-Muslims) until … the religion of Allah reigns absolute.” (Q2:193). Malik mentions that Muhammad teaches loyalty for one’s country. The Islamist is taught that his primary loyalty is for Allah’s cause ( jihad) and Shariah law. This by far supersedes his loyalty for democracy, liberty and free speech, with which God has blessed us and with which Islam is not at all compatible. Islam assures Paradise to Abdulazeez, Hassan, the Islamic killer of the 13 soldiers in Fort Hood, Tex., and other killers of Jews and Christians.

John Stefan Obeda, London, Ont.