"God is Great", "There is no Deity but Allah", "Death to Israel", and "Death to America" were among the slogans chanted by the masses in unison as they gathered in the Desert of Arafat, 20 km (12 miles) from Mecca, for a day of prayer and meditation, the Islamic republic news agency reported.
One cannot even imagine Christian pilgrims to Bethlehem at Christmas shouting "Death to Saudi Arabia" and "Death to Iran." If such bizarre behavior occurred, Western media would rightly condemn such behavior. Yet Fars proudly proclaims such disgusting conduct as though it brought honour to Islam rather than further exemplifying the barbarism inherent in the religion.
Two points must be remembered. First, the Hajj is not some political demonstration on the streets of Tehran, but a pillar of the Islamic religion. Second, the slogans were not the words of a small minority of haters, but "slogans chanted by the masses in unison." To inject such hatred against other people in a central act of the Islamic religion raises serious questions as to the very nature of Islam itself.
Does the nature of the religion lead to such hatred? This conduct as reported by Fars suggests that hatred of other faiths and the unending attacks on non-Muslims may result from the Islamic religion itself, rather than being aberrant behavior by a minority of Muslims.
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