6 October 2014 A.D. John Wesley: Quotations on Islam from Notable Non-Muslims
For 88 more quotes from other leaders
regarding Jihado-Islamo-Sharia-Fascism, see:
http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2014/08/25-august-2014-ad-quotations-on-islam_25.html
We bring one of 89 quotes: this is from John Wesley.
John Wesley
John Wesley (1703 – 1791), was the founder of the English Methodist
movement.
“Let
us now calmly and impartially consider what manner of men the Mahometans in
general are.
“6.
An ingenious writer, who a few years ago published a pompous translation of the
Koran, takes great pains to give us a very favourable opinion both of Mahomet
and his followers. But he cannot wash the Ethiop white. After all, men who have
but a moderate share of reason, cannot but observe in his Koran, even as
polished by Mr. Sale, the most gross and impious absurdities. To cite
particulars is not now my business. It may suffice to observe in general, that
human understanding must be debased to an inconceivable degree, in those who
can swallow such absurdities as divinely revealed. And yet we know the
Mahometans not only condemn all who cannot swallow them to everlasting fire;
not only appropriate to themselves the title of Mussulman or True Believers:
but even anathematise with the utmost bitterness, and adjudge to eternal
destruction, all their brethren of the sect of Mi, all who contend for a
figurative interpretation of them.
“That
these men then have no knowledge or love of God is undeniably manifest, not
only from their gross, horrible notions of him, but from their not loving their
brethren. But they have not always so weighty a cause to hate and murder one
another, as difference of opinion. Mahometans will butcher each other by thousands, without so plausible a
plea as this. Why is it that such numbers of Turks and Persians have stabbed
one another in cool blood ? Truly, because they differ in the manner of
dressing their head. The Ottoman vehemently maintains, (for he has
unquestionable tradition on his side) that a Mussulman should wear a round
turban. Whereas the Persian insists upon his liberty of conscience, and will
wear it picked before. So, for this wonderful reason, when a more plausible one
is wanting, they beat out each other's brains from generation to generation.
“It
is not therefore strange, that ever since the religion of Mahomet appeared in
the world, the espousers of it, particularly those under the Turkish emperor, have
been as wolves and tigers to all other nations ; rending and tearing all
that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth:
that numberless cities are rased from the foundation, and only their name
remaining : that many countries which were once as the garden of God, are.
now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations
are vanished away from the earth ! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the
revenge, of these destroyers of humankind![73]”
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