Do as I say, not as I do

We muslims are a supremely hypocritical people. We are ready to condemn any and all for real or perceived slights against us or our religion. But on the other hand, we ourselves are not ready to respect neither other religions, not their adherents. A simple case in point, the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM, or Army of Muhammad) is a militant Islamic organization in Pakistan. They have declared that "France is hostile to Islam" and that France promulgates texts that are "threatening the belief of the muslims of France".

Now, would someone please ask these dumb fucks of the JeM whether Pakistan allows as much religious freedom as France? Islamiyat (the study of the Islamic religion) is a compulsory subject in Pakistani schools, isn't that a promulgation of a system that threatens or diminishes the faith of christians in Pakistan? In Saudi Arabia, that paradise of Islam, it is forbidden by law to try to convert a muslim! Yet muslim tableeghi jamaat (missionaries) go everywhere in the western world trying to convert people to their faith. Would the JeM like it if christian missionaries arrived in Pakistan and started asking people to attend church? I already know what the answer is, those intolerant motherfuckers would probably go into incoherent fits and start foaming at the mouths.

Their rather lame excuse is that Islam is the religion, the true religion, therefore preaching it is our right and duty. Will someone ask them if they believe that followers of other religions don't think exactly the same way about their own beliefs? Does a christian missionary have any less faith in the divinity of his own religion than an Islamic cleric?

Unless and until we as muslims cannot begin to be tolerant of other religions and adherents of those religions, we have no right whatsoever of criticizing others of being intolerant towards us. As long as our governments do not relax their draconian grip on the spiritual lives of its citizens (whether muslim or otherwise), we have no right to criticize other countries and governments for real or perceived hurdles in the practice of Islam in those countries.