Sir,

I want to react quite sharply to the newspaper article titledd:  ‘WE COME IN PEACE – SIET’ published by the Times of Swaziland, dated November 24, 2015 – Page 7. In the article, the Swaziland Islamic Education Trust (SIET), through their mouthpiece, a certain Mr Saeed Matsebula, sought to dispel fears with regard to Islam being seen by many as a religion of war, strife, anger and rampant violence throughout the world.
In the article, SIET unequivocally denied that Islam is really a religion of war and violence. According to them, Islam is a religion of peace and good neighbourliness. This is not true.
Islam not only condones violence; it commands it. A tree is known by its fruit. The fruit of Islam is 1 400 years of violence and bloodshed around the world.

The Quran teaches: “Fight and slay the Pagans wherever you find them and seize them, beleaguer them, lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)” – SURAH 9:5. SURAH 5:33 also says, “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, strive with might and main for the mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet, or exile from the land: that is the disgrace in this world and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter”.
I do not have time to enumerate the uncountable episodes of violence that have been staged by Islamic extremists throughout the world, in the name of obeying their god, whom they call Allah. The highest honour in Islam is to die a martyr killing Christians and Jews whom they call infidels. The one who does this awakes in an Islamic heaven surrounded by 70 virgins.
Muhammad the founder of Islam, who was a polygamist with thirteen wives, slaughtered thousands of people in establishing Islam and spreading Islam.
He told his followers: “He who relinquishes his faith, kill him. I have been ordered by Allah to fight with people till they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger.”
Muhammad’s life can be divided into two parts: the years of tolerance in Mecca and the years of aggression in Medina.
The Quran is basically about those two parts, which is why at times the Quran seems to indicate that Islam teaches its followers to live at peace with their enemies. When Muhammad began to preach his religion to the people, he believed that a peaceful religion was a good scheme for attracting people to the teachings of Islam. When he realised that his attempts to win people to his religion by peaceful means were unsuccessful, he then resorted to violence and jihad (holy war), winning people to his religion by the sword.
This is what is happening today in the Republic of Nigeria, where Islamic fanatics dubbed ‘Boko Haram’ are recruiting people to Islam by waging an unending war, abducting innocent girls into forests where they are not only raped and shamefully reduced to zero, but are forcefully kept there, so as to be indoctrinated with the teachings of Islam.
The god of Islam is totally different from the God we know. They call their god ‘Allah’. The name Allah came from an Arabic word that had to do with the worship of the moon god in pre-Islamic Arabia. In Islam, Allah is unknowable. He is so exalted that no man can ever personally know him. The Quran tells us that the god of Islam works with Satan and demons to lead people astray in order to populate hell which he created (Surah 6:39, 126; 32:13; 43:36-37).
The basic teaching of the Quran, which is  being distributed free of charge in the country, is that Allah told Muhammad to kill and maim anyone who did not believe in Allah or in Muhammad his prophet. Islam follows a theology of triumphalism – the dominance of one’s nation, ideology or religious creed over another. To a Muslim, it is Allah’s will for Islam to rule the world.
This word ‘Islam’ does not mean peace. It means submission. Their key objective is for everyone to submit to them. That is why the Islamic prayer tower is the highest point in every city. It must have a position of physical supremacy.
In conclusion, I wish to state that we are very blessed as a country in that God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, appeared in a vision to our King Somhlolo and showed him two things: money and the Bible. God advised our king that as a nation we should choose the Bible and only the Bible not the Quran or whatsoever.
Swaziland, because of her sheer vulnerability, which is stemming from the fact that she is a ‘poor’ country and as such she is finding herself in a position of being a professional beggar, now finds herself in a very difficult position: either to obey the God of Abraham, Isaac or Jacob, or trade that belief with following Islam because the owners of Islam are the Haves (they own oil) and we are the Have-nots.
They come in peace, ‘yes’, but it is only for a short season. They are still establishing themselves. Once that is over, Swaziland will realise that peace and Islam are two things that are mutually exclusive. And at that time, it will be very late to make any reversal. It will only be a hopeless situation like what is happening in Nigeria and Somali, to mention a few countries.
It is so difficult for them to deal decisively with Boko Haram and Al Shabaab, organisations which began as peaceful entities under the banner of Islam but are now a cancer, not only to these countries but to the world as a whole.
Show me a peaceful member of Islam then I will show you a hypocrite of Islam.

Zanethemba Nxumalo
Mbabane

http://www.times.co.sz/letters/105734-islam-is-never-a-religion-of-peace.html