Got Islam, Got Problems
Peter Smith, Quadrant, Apr 19 2026
My aversion to Islam has nothing to do with it being wrong. All religions with a deity or deities outside of Christianity (and Judaism to the extent its scripture is the foundation of Christianity) are to me without exception wrong, and those without a deity irrelevant. For the most part, as a follower of what I believe to be the only true and complete religion, I simply ignore the rest.
So, if my aversion to Islam is not based on it being wrong, or even that it has plagiarised, corrupted, and ridiculously distorted part of Christian and Jewish sources in order to build its hateful and phony scripture, on what is it based? It is based purely on its scriptural prescriptions which are directed to doing me, and my kind, harm; and on the deadly implementation of those prescriptions by its acolytes.
Over 49,000 deadly Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11 speak to this harm, as does the barbaric treatment of Christianity and Christians in the Islamic world, as does the arrogance displayed in the Western world once Muslim populations reach numbers enough to influence elections. And its gatherings into “communities” around mosques means those numbers are not that high in the scheme of things.
A little over 3% of the population in Australia is enough to fuel endless pro-Palestinian marches, to unashamedly make life uncomfortable for the Prime Minister when visiting an Islamicised part of Sydney, and to even putting Australia at one with the anti-Israel baying mob at the UN. Imagine the future, not if, but when the percentage becomes six. You don’t have to, just look at the UK and 3,000 (all male!) bums in the air in Trafalgar Square.
Why back on February 7, 2008, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, the sopping-wet Rowan Williams, envisaged the parallel application of sharia law in the UK ( see Civil and Religious Law in England: a Religious Perspective). He was prescient. According to the Daily Mail [paywalled] up to 85 sharia courts operate in the UK. And counting, I would say.
Islam was built as a rallying cry for Arab conquests. It spreads darkness, hatred, terrorism, discrimination, and impoverishment wherever it holds sway. It is, as Churchill put it back in the day, the most retrograde force in the world; even accounting, I would add, for the dreadful legacy of communism in the 20th century:
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step, and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it (Islam) has vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome. — The River War, 1899