Logic and rationale are not arrogance

MR YAGYAH Adams,

After reading your latest rambling, historical drivel, the last thing I or anyone else needs is to be guided by you.

Your letter is an embarrassment. You make the most blatantly false historical claims, based on a movie starring Kevin Costner.

If that’s not enough, you then state that secular countries are prosperous and peaceful because they raped and stole from elsewhere.

Typical of a religious view, you simply ignore the facts.

How can you claim that Islamic State was a front to rob countries of their oil, gold and antiquities? Have you even bothered to read the manifesto of these lunatics? Their ideology is well documented. It wants to establish an Islamic State, in strict accordance with Sharia law, where it will await the army of “Rome”, whose defeat at Dabiq will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse.

In the words of IS spokesman Adnani: “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses and enslave your women.”

And how, I must ask, can a logical and rational approach be construed as arrogance?

You are always so quick to proclaim the existence of a Creator and his divine creation, yet you offer nothing to support this claim.

The fact is, Mr Adams, not only is their no evidence for divine creation, there is the most profound and irrefutable scientific evidence for evolution – which completely contradicts such claims.

As the Saudi writer Turki al-Hamad wrote: “We Arabs have forsaken the future for the sake of myth. We live in the world of the supernatural, not in the real world which we have completely neglected.”

Your vitriolic response to my letter is reflective of your intolerance of those who do not share your absurd beliefs.

Let me conclude with a quote from the Syrian writer Nabil Fayyed.

“The more fragile an idea is, the more terrifying are its defenders.” GARY JAMES | Llandudno