removed in Gambia, who spoke to him about his kidnapped ancestor –the same story that was told to him by his grandmother!

When Columbus arrived at the “Moro” (1) Coast of Cuba and saw a minaret he exclaimed, “My God, there are mosques even in China!”

Yes, there were mosques there built in the Andalusian style, with the motto [of Muslim Granada] “There is no victor but God,” written above their prayer niches. The Muslims were the first victims of ethnic cleansing on both sides of the Atlantic: on the eastern side they were hunted down and enslaved, and on the western side Muslim natives were exterminated as part of the campaign of extermination of the native people.

Today, two-billion people of different skin-colors but who share a common faith, believe that America still strives to enslave them –but with more advanced means and slogans, and that their grandchildren will someday will remember that and perhaps have revenge.

There are some in Afghanistan who hope that even sooner Mullah Muhammad Umar will return, and that George Bush will in a few years be nothing- and the entire matter is up to God alone.

What about the Jews?

Violence against and extermination of the adversary has been a necessary token of many people since Cain killed Abel, but in all of history there has never been a less violent civilization than Islam, which, because of the Qur’an, believes that justice is an absolute value, unaffected by difference of faith, color, race, or any of the other bases which man uses to discriminate, and that God has granted every human being a safe refuge which none can deny him in this world.

The Muslim is protected by his faith, the non-Muslim is protected by his covenant with the Muslims, those under truce are protected by treaty, and those at war are protected by the conditions of legitimate war including the conditions of just cause and mercy, which caused those lands which were conquered by the Muslims to consider the Islamic conquest to be a delivery from darkness into light, and from servitude to freedom, and willingly and eagerly embraced the faith of the conquerors, learned their language, and merged with them as much as they could because of what they had learned of the merits of Islam.

Because of this, the Islamic countries remained a refuge for persecuted peoples throughout the world, if the scholars and thinkers, and millions who were burned at the stake by European civilization (represented both by the Church and politically motivated violence) been able to flee to the nearest Muslim country, they would have found safety there (as thousands of Jews did).

Let us take the clearest example of this: the Jews who are the greatest in hostility towards Muslims as divine revelation tells us, and as history and reality bear witness. Let us briefly examine the treatment of the Jews in Islam, and their treatment in Europe and America:

In Islam they were given such care as they never experienced in any country, by reason of their being “People of the Book.” The Prophet –God bless him and grant him peace- who was the most just and merciful of men, responded to their ignorant behavior with kindness, and to their intrigues with justice, and as much as possible, he forgave and accepted the apologies of those who did wrong to him, despite the fact that he endured a great deal of persecution and betrayal at their hands, such as their murder plots against