The Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi pleaded that Islam becomes “the religion of all Europe”, and this was announced in front of 500 young women gathered in Rome where he does an official visit, reported Monday the Italian medias.
This meeting held in Rome, the heart of papacy, has been perceived as nothing less than intentional “provocation”. It showed “lack of respect towards the pope and Italy, as a country with a Catholic majority”, a spokesman of the Vatican congregation stated. Others were shocked.
I don’t deny that Kadhafi has big shortcomings, but I applaud with both hands his courage. And why qualify his statement as provocation? To preach his own religion to others is a duty for a Muslim, and a right recognized to everyone by article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which says:
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance
If rebuke is possible, it is to the Pope and the Western leaders who don’t have the courage of Kadhafi to preach Christianity to Muslims who are in the West and during their visits in the Muslim countries.
Taking the example of Kadhafi, I published on this blog an article, both in French and in English, explaining why I don’t become a Muslim. I propose reasons for which I invite Muslims worldwide to leave Islam. Now, it is your turn to distribute this article and share it with all Muslims in Switzerland and elsewhere:
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