Children across the Netherlands are learning to hate gays as Islamic primary schools operating across the country distribute anti-gay literature which teaches students that Allah destroyed an entire people because of their homosexuality. Reported by the Voice of Europe.
Is this hate speech?
Those islaamic teachings? Sure they are.
This is a perfect example of the often-overlooked significant contrasts between Islaam and Christianity these days.
Christianity
has very similar, and arguably literally the same points of doctrine in its tradition... but it
allows itself to learn better, and for the most part it indeed learned better. European Christians are religiously mature enough to not fall prey to the poison that would otherwise fester from their doctrine.
Islaam literally forbids itself from learning sanity in a comparable fashion... and it shows. It also forbids trusting non-Muslims, although it is anyone's guess on how deeply that teaching takes root where there are mixed communities.
But of course, it is well documented that Muslims just don't mix very much at all, mostly because they refuse to even attempt to.
For all of its faults, Christianity has an enormously better track record in that regard.
Nor is it much of a secret that for the most part Muslim communities adopt the strategy (conscious or otherwise) of emphasizing that people should be left to their own devices and beliefs when the Muslim numbers are low. But as soon as the numbers rise (and Muslims are well known for their remarkable demographic growth) they start to expect political privilege and exception (as clearly demanded by the Qur'an, one should note).
Unfortunately, there is no way to appease such expectations without submitting to them. Islaam
must be confronted in no unclear terms, although I can hardly trust the discernment nor the wisdom (such as it is) of the Right to materialize such a much necessary endeavor. It falls to the center and the left to accept and actualize the need of telling Muslims that they will not be allowed to destroy democracy no matter how sincerely they believe that God wants them to, nor how many voters they end up producing.