You owe us an apology

 

We kill your soldiers as savagely

And cunningly as we can

But don't forget the appalling tale

That they abused a Koran

 

See?

It wasn't true, but c'est la vie

You owe us an apology

 

Small things can provoke us greatly

A speech, a novel, a cartoon

If we've held no riots lately

Rest assured

We'll stage some soon

 

We're always ready to list your sins

And promises you've not kept

So even when we're the ones at fault

You might as well just accept

 

That

You owe us an apology

You owe us an apology

No matter if you disagree

You owe us an apology

 

For living un-Islamically

You owe us an apology

 

Today and all eternity

You owe us an apology

 

 

Copyright © 2006

 

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centuries of attack: "Before the Sira had been fixed, before the Hadith had been written down, and collected, and winnowed, there were centuries of conquest – a conquest based only on what is contained in the Qur’an"—Hugh Fitzgerald; "In 624, Mohammed led a raid for booty and plunder against a Meccan caravan, killing 70 Meccans for mere material gain. Between 630 A.D. and the death of Mohammed in 632 A.D., Muslims -- on at least one occasion led by Mohammed -- had conquered the bulk of western Arabia and southern Palestine through approximately a dozen separate invasions and bloody conquests. These conquests were in large part 'Holy wars,' putting the lie to another statement in the U.S. News article that proclaimed the Crusades 'The First Holy War,' as if the Christians had invented the concept of a holy war. After Mohammed's death in 632, the new Muslim caliph, Abu Bakr, launched Islam into almost 1,500 years of continual imperialist, colonialist, bloody conquest and subjugation of others through invasion and war, a role Islam continues to this very day"—Richard C. Csaplar, Jr.

 

the nerve to strike back: "And that is how the First Crusade came about: it was a response to the Byzantine Emperor’s call for help"—Robert Spencer
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tale: "One day after retracting a story that said U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran (search), a top Newsweek editor acknowledged the magazine made 'serious mistakes' but suggested to FOX News that no one would be fired over the incident"—FOXNews.com

 

speech: "About 1,000 Muslim clerics and religious scholars meeting Thursday in eastern Pakistan demanded the removal of Pope Benedict XVI for making what they called 'insulting remarks' against Islam"—AP

 

novel: "Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Guards have declared the death sentence on British author Salman Rushdie is still valid - 16 years after it was issued. The military organisation, loyal to Iran's supreme leader, said the order was 'irrevocable', on the eve of the anniversary of the 1989 fatwa. The order was issued after publication of Mr Rushdie's novel 'The Satanic Verses', condemned as blasphemous" —BBC.co.uk

 

cartoon: "Thousands of protesters packed the streets of Beirut on Sunday, some clashing with security forces and setting the Danish Consulate on fire in anger over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed"—CNN.com

 

when we're the ones at fault: "A group of Muslim imams is seeking an out-of-court settlement with US Airways, saying they should not have been removed from a Minnesota-to-Phoenix flight last month and were not behaving suspiciously"—WashingtonTimes.com; "The six imams refused to sit on their assigned seats, moving around the cabin and arranging themselves in a pattern reminiscent of the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackings. Three asked flight attendants for heavy seat belt extenders, but then didn’t use them to buckle up. Witnesses overheard them talking about al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden"—Examiner.com