Especially because of the continuous and increased outpouring of violence, hatred, bigotry and cruelty coming out of the Moslem world and committed by religious Moslems in the name of Islam while citing passages from Islam’s sacred texts, many people want to believe that none of this barbarism has anything to do with Islam, the religion.

This is exactly what they heard at the Islamic forum in Fountain Hills this past week.

The panel of Moslems on stage was led by Imam Hlayhel, who is past director of The Council on American Islamic Relations, which is a terrorist-linked, Islamist group derived from the terrorist Hamas which, itself, is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The audience never was told this, of course. Nor were they told of the many passages in Islam’s holy book, The Koran, which command Moslems to hate non-Moslems and make war against them until Islam triumphs in the world.

Surely, no one in the audience had ever taken the trouble to read the Koran; yet, without having read the Koran, there is no way to judge whether the Moslem spokesmen were telling the truth about Islam.

The audience heard what they so yearned to hear, and they applauded accordingly. But, what they heard was not the truth.