Robert Kilroy-Silk Quotes
Moslems everywhere behave with equal savagery. They behead criminals, stone to death female — only female — adulteresses, throw acid in the faces of women who refuse to wear the chador, mutilate the genitals of young girls and ritually abuse animals..
Robert Kilroy-Silk, British Politician & Member of the European Parliament, Daily Express, January 15, 1996
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In much of the Islamic world if a woman commits adultery or becomes pregnant out of wedlock, she will often be killed by her own father or brothers who perceive that this is the only way to maintain the honor of the family. The primitive custom really becomes gross when a woman who is the victim of rape, ends up being killed by her own male family members. In some Muslim countries honor killings are against the law but that prohibition is rarely legally enforced.
She was born a Muslim herself and her life has been threatened by other, Muslims who are fundamentalists who are living proof or her point.
Islam is no more monolithic than any of the other major religions. This view is not held by most Muslim Coutnries or Islamic leaders throughout the world. It is held by a significant minority however.
His call for the Pope’s assassination in a public meeting produced counter-protests all over England. Choudary had earlier threatened British Jews. See {615445}.
The burqa wearing practice was outlawed by French Law.
The Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorist organization, Boka Haram, argues to install Sharia—Islamic religious law. However they also object to any children getting any education in a Western style school as opposed to an Islamic School. They had killed hundreds of children and teachers in public and private schools. The kidnaped the girls to provide them as wives for the fighters of the organization.
The imam was deported from France for making this statement as it was viewed as inciting violence against women.
In September of 2006 Pope Benedict XVI, quoted this statement in a lecture to theological students. There was much distress and protest among Muslim leaders.
Most Americans and Europeans and their governments feel that Muslim leaders and organizations have not done very much in terms of “drawing the line” and publicly condemning terrorism. However many of the critics did not understand the intimidation that exists in most Islamic communities where the fascist fundamentalists target any Muslim public critics as heretics and apostates themselves. Many have been killed or injured in assassination attempts.
In September of 2005 a Danish Newspaper published some political cartoons showing the hypocrisy of some Muslims who use Islam to justify murder of innocents and terrorism. Months later, in January of 2006 many in the Middle East protested vehemently and Muslim riots broke out because the Prophet Muhammad's visage was depicted against Islamic tradition. Many Muslim nations started a boycott against Denmark. Many Muslim leaders claimed that insulting religion was an “abuse” of freedom of speech including those from nations which regularly publish material that is virulent against Christians and Jews.
Islam and Sharia do NOT require women to wear burkas or headscarves. The religious requirement is for women to dress modestly. The scarves and burkas are cultural customs which differ from place to place. However, in many places, the customs are so ingrained along with islam that many Muslims believe these forms of dress are required by their religion.
The writer was born and brought up a Muslim and because he criticizes Islam, he has had a death fatwa issued against him much like Salman Rushdie. His prediction was one of the earliest warnings
Historically, this is an amazing quotation. It is typical of analyses of Islam in the 21st century when America and most of the non-Muslim world was having great difficulties with Islamic militancy. But this was written at the end of the 19th century, in 1899. Churchill had a grasp of much that it would take other politicians a century to understand. This book was relatively unknown to all but a few historians, military men, and political scholars. (There was a shortened version published in 1902 which did not include this passage and that is the version that Project Gutenberg posted on the Internet. So do not assume that the quotation is wrong if you cannot find it in the version you are reading on the Internet. You need the 1899 longer and more detailed version.
In some cultures of the world women are considered to be under the control of or even the property of men. As such they are allowed to “discipline” the women. However there are a few religious fundamentalists in America who believe that God has ordained the man as head of the household and they oppose prohibiting husbands from “chastising” their wives. In some nations, especially in Islamic cultures, families are allowed to even murder a woman relative if she “brings dishonor upon the family. In many cultures, including some in the US, rape is not seen as a felonious assault, but as a natural thing for males to do.
Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk is an English former politician and broadcaster. After a decade as a university lecturer, he served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1986. He left the House of Commons in 1986 in order to present a new daytime talk show, Kilroy, which ran until 2004. He returned to politics serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2009 and had a profound role in the mainstreaming of Eurosceptic politics in the UK and has been dubbed 'The Godfather of Brexit'.
