tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64715695854228288822024-02-19T14:37:55.590-08:00ISLAMIC BROTHERSFighting Together to Save MankindUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-90408400102920309792008-10-22T03:41:00.000-07:002008-10-22T03:43:00.523-07:00How Muslims all over the World kiss Arab shoes<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Author: Cherson</span><br /><br />Do you know that Algeria was not originally Arabic? If you ask the average Westerner or even an average Muslim, they would most probably answer that it has always been Arabic. But Algeria is a Berber country historically. So too is Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Niger and Mauritania. The Berber peoples were dispossessed of their lands and forced to convert to Islam.<br /><br />Iran is not Arabic, either. It’s former Persia. Who wants to know: King Cyrus the Great was Persian. As well as Darius I. And Persia’s contribution to the world civilization was times bigger than the contribution of Arabs.<br /><br />Pakistan is just a part of India with Muslim majority; it is not Arabic, either.<br /><br />Indonesia is whatever you want, except being Arabic.<br /><br />Kosovo is NOT Arabic, and the republics of Central Asia, like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan are not Arabic.<br /><br />So, the majority of Islamic world is NOT ARABIC.<br /><br />But, for some “strange “reasons, ALL THE PROBLEMS OF ISLAMIC WORLD TURN OUT TO BE THOSE WHICH SERVE THE INTERESTS OF ARABS.<br /><br />In Kosovo the civil war was raging for almost 4 years. I do not like Islam, but let’s be objective; most of the victims in this war were Muslims. At last, Kosovo got the independence. What Islamic countries recognized it? Only Turkey, Afghanistan and Malaysia recognized it.<br /><br />And Arab countries? They, of course, rushed to support the newly formed country with Islamic majority and were, no doubt, among the first to recognize it?<br /><br />No. Not a single Arab country recognized the independence of Kosovo.<br /><br />What are the main themes of the international crises in the world news? Look at the headlines; they ALL concern Arabs in some way.<br /><br />At many European and American universities you can see posters and graffiti like “Free Palestine!” and “End the Israeli Occupation!” Students from Islamic countries (supported by some leftist groups) marched against the Israeli war against Hezbollah. But why does no one ever march for Darfur? Or the African students are more preoccupied about how the enraged Israeli farmers shot a couple of belonging to Arabs cows – than about how their mothers and sisters are being raped and killed by Muslims in Darfur?<br /><br />When North Korea threatened South Korea with war, why did no one march in support of South Korea or spray graffiti to say “Free North Korea!”? Or the students of Indonesia and Malaysia are more worried by the fact that Israel and Palestine Authority are not good neighbors - than by the fact that nuclear totalitarian and aggressive North Korea is so close to them?<br /><br />Looks like as if Muslims all over the world were more interested in fighting the Arabs’ struggles than they are in fighting their own struggles in their own parts of the world.<br /><br />During the civil war in Sri Lanka, many Muslims were killed by both the Buddhist government and the Tamil Tigers. The Sinhalese government attempted to mobilize the Muslim population to fight against the Tamils. What was the reaction of Arab countries? To put it clear; the Arab countries DID NOT GIVE A DAMN about what happened to the Sri Lankan Muslims. And if this also happened in Lebanon or Palestine? Oh, in THIS case all Arab governments would immediately take sides and demand of Muslims all over the world to support them in the “just struggle”.<br /><br />What is Palestine to a Muslim who lives in Indonesia and often has a very vague idea about where this “Palestine” is and what it should be eaten with? Honestly, it means nothing to him. But for Arabs it’s very important that he support the “just struggle of the Palestinian people”, fighting thus for the interests of Arabs and often putting in jeopardy his OWN interests and the interests of HIS country.<br /><br />Arab world is only a part of Islamic world. It’s a subsystem within a bigger system. And what we see is how the small subsystem says to the whole system: YOU MUST WORK AND FIGHT FOR ME:<br /><br />And the System - millions of Muslims from Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Northern Africa, and Iran - says: Yes, darling, anything you want, only you feel good.<br /><br />Arabs are the Bosses in Islamic world.<br /><br />And what is the role of Islam in this Arab hegemony? Oh, it’s extremely important. Islam works day and night to the advantage of Arab governments. Islam allows Arab governments to command fifth columns in other nations to work for their goals. Muslims across the world see it as their moral duty to support Palestine and to hate Jews, when it is really the mere self-interest of the Arab nations.<br /><br />But what makes this Arab hegemony especially cynical is the fact that the Arab government elites do not even believe in Islam. The House of Saud engages in gambling and consumption of alcohol, and sends their children to Western universities. Qaddafi made several public criticisms of Islam in his early years but later reverted to the image of a “pious Muslim”, ha ha.<br /><br />This suggests that Arab governments are going to fight every inch of the way to keep Islam strong, for THEIR VITAL INTERESTS DEPEND ON IT.<br /><br />As usual, the “wit kids”-the Arabs-use the dumb masses of Muslims all over the world to serve the Arab interests.<br /><br />Maybe it’s time for Muslims from Pakistan to understand that the Arabs would never support them against India, no matter how strong the Pakistanis will support Arabs in Palestine? And maybe it’s time for Iran to recall that it used to be one of the greatest nations of the world-until Muslims arrived with Quran in one hand and sable in another?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2123">Faithfreedom.org</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-33146452054441997862008-10-16T03:52:00.000-07:002008-10-22T03:53:27.357-07:00Dogma of Halal and Haram<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">By: Jahanshah Rashidian</span><br /></div><br />If you walk at random in any Muslim district in Europe, you will certainly find somewhere, at least in one corner, an Islamic butchery with the word ”halal” written on its shop-window. For the products of meat, the word “halal” is a badge of Islamic quality.<br /><br />Muslims believe that since blood is not ritually a pure substance, slaughter is necessary to inhibit the thorough draining of all of the animal's blood.<br />Furthermore, the verse” Bismillah al Rahman Al Rahim”, in the name of Allah the Beneficent the Merciful, is necessary to render the meat halal or lawful to eat.<br /><br />The word halal refers, here, to meat killed and prepared in line with Islamic dietary laws. Jewish and Islamic religions demand that slaughter is carried out with a cut to the neck or throat, rather than the more widespread method of stunning with a bolt into the head before slaughter.<br /><br />Generally, halal means anything permissible under Islamic law, in contrast to haram, that which is forbidden. This includes behaviour, speech, dress, conduct. The term halal is also used to judge the right of sexuality after marriage, even temporarily marriage which is a Shiite tradition called “Sigheh” which is believed by some as a legalised prostitution. To rape his own female slave or even a non Muslim prisoner of war is halal—in this light, many political female prisoners of the Islamic Republic of Iran who were considered “non-Muslims”, were ”legally” raped by their Islamist torturers before being executed.<br /><br />In an extended sense, halal means fairness of business dealings or other types of transaction or activity. Therefore, it represents values that are held in high regard by Muslims. It contains standards for social norms, morals, foods and other services that meet Islamic regulations. Needless to mention, in Islamic countries, these are the only available standards for Muslims and non-Muslims alike.<br /><br />Slaughter is an old tradition of Jewish and Islamic clan society. As a matter of best practice, the killed animal is supposed to be distributed among the members of the clan right after being slaughtered so that each family can often have fresh meat to eat. Like many other traditions, this one was also accepted as a principle in Islam.<br /><br />Slaughter reminds us of an old instinct of pre-historic hominoid, to which a prey must be killed by the hunter—the instinct can be seen by a great number of beasts of prey. In another perspective, we see a characteristic disposition of this instinct beyond Islamic laws (Sharia), where beheading and amputation of the accused resemble routine rituals, where blood of the accused is figuratively considered as halal and the executer does a halal job.<br /><br />Halal blood can be also a reason for honour killing in the Islamic societies. Honour killing is committed by male family members against female family members, who are perceived to have brought dishonour upon the family. A female can be targeted by her family for a variety of reasons, including: refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, having sex outside marriage, or even being the victim of a sexual assault.<br /><br />Halal has nothing to do with prophylactic, hygienic, precautions or medical meaning. To better understand halal, we must see what its opposite term “haram” means. Haram has roots in revulsion which is an old instinct of evolution. Revulsion is a sense of loathing without any logical reason or clear explanation. As an instinct, it was a necessary reaction of early human beings when exposed to an unknown food, unknown object, or an unconventional situation.<br /><br />Object of revulsion is culturally conditioned. It means whatever is repulsive for the members of a given society do not necessarily provoke the same revulsion for others. In a historic sense, the terms like halal, haram and negis are nothing but the instinctive reflections, which were integrated into Islam.<br /><br />In many cases, Islamic commandments and rituals are not only the traditional reflections of desert dwellers of pre-Islamic Arabia, but also based on the Prophet Muhammad’s habits, his sexual preferences, his favourite things, and his dietary habits.<br /><br />Since sexuality is taboo in Islam, sexual organs, vaginal secretion and sperm are considered as “negis” (loathing and impure). Therefore, they should not be touched. Blood and any slimy substance secreted by a mucous membrane of the body have more or less a similar sense of negis. Needless to mention, all these secreted or mucous substances, regardless of their odour and colour, belong to normal function of our body.<br /><br />Not only non Muslims, ethnic groups, slaves and women, but even animals in Islam are not freed from this discrimination. Dogs and pigs are the most negis animals. Term of “negis” characterises their absolute and unchangeable impurity. Pork meat is absolutely haram and dog as a “negis” animal can never be proper pet in a Muslim house. Touching a dog, especially a dog’s saliva, requires ritually hygienic procedure to get the hand clean—if a dog eats from a dish, the dish must be washed 7 times, the first time with sand. Dog, despite all its uses in many ways, is discriminated as a negis creature.<br /><br />While Marriage of Muslim men with women of the Book (Muslims, Christians and Jews), based on Islamic rituals, can be permitted, all other varieties of marriage between Muslim women and non Muslim men are considered haram. As a patriarchal religion, Islam granted a little concession only to Muslim men. Muslim women are not allowed to marry men outside of Islam (unless they convert to Islam). No marriage is permitted between Muslims and “Mushriks” (atheists, polytheists, other belief systems which are considered by Muslims negis). The Koran says, “A believing slave woman is better than a mushrik woman”!<br /><br />As mentioned, terms like halal, haram, and negis are not more than rituals of particular conditions and environment. These terms have no logic and scientific credentials at all. They are only the legacy of per-Islamic values of the Arabian clan- society which still impose themselves on today’s society.<br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2118">Faithfreedom.org</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-2183548143282055332008-10-14T03:49:00.000-07:002008-10-22T03:51:23.777-07:00What Makes A “Moderate Muslim”?<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">By Robert Spencer</span><br /></div><br />At the reliably truth-free publication known as The American Muslim last Sunday, Sheila Musaji published an article, "What exactly is required to be considered a ‘moderate' Muslim?" In it, she takes me to task for this statement: "And I wonder why Sheila Musaji has never written an article about the physical and emotional distress that peaceful Muslims suffer when their coreligionists commit violence in the name of their religion, and why she has never called upon those Muslims to stop committing acts of violence and supremacism in Islam's name."<br /><br />Musaji responds by offering a blizzard of links purporting to demonstrate that she and many other Muslims have done just that, and that I am willfully ignoring them in order to demonize Muslims. And not only that, but there's the inevitable tu quoque: "I don't see any articles by Robert Spencer condemning violence and terrorism carried out by Christians."<br /><br />Actually, Sheila Musaji apparently missed my book Religion of Peace?, in which I do that, but the issue here isn't really acts of violence committed by Muslims as opposed to acts of violence committed by Christians. Human nature is everywhere the same, and you can find people of every creed and philosophy committing acts of violence and brutality. But in Islam violence and supremacism are taught by authoritative sources, whereas in Christianity and other traditions they are not. So what is needed is not a simple tally of Bad Things Done By Religious People, followed by condemnations in number matching the tally. What is needed is a recognition by people like Sheila Musaji and other Muslims in America that there are these supremacist and often violent doctrines in Islam, and a genuine rejection of them and attempt to reform them. None of that, however, is forthcoming -- and at that point that is itself no surprise.<br /><br />And that is the problem with her exhaustive (and exhausting) list of Muslim groups condemning "terrorism," and with her own articles doing just that. Take, for example, this:<br /><br />As the Editor of The American Muslim (TAM), I issued a statement on 9/11 in which I said: "We are Americans and Muslims and proud to be both. We are as shocked and horrified by this insane act of terrorists as any other Americans. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families. We also want those responsible to be caught and brought to justice. They may happen to consider themselves Muslims (as Timothy McVey [sic] and Slobodon Milosovic may have considered themselves to be Christians) and may even have twisted the teachings of their religion to justify their actions, but terrorism is not the act of any person who understands anything about the teachings of any of the world's religions. There is no religious justification for such actions."<br /><br />Note her tu-quoque assertions about McVeigh and Milosevic, and her assertion that they may have "twisted the teachings" of Christianity -- presumably to justify the bombing of office buildings and genocide. But in fact, neither McVeigh nor Milosevic ever offered any justification for their actions that was based on the teachings of Christianity, twisted or untwisted. Neither pointed, or could have pointed, to teachings of Christianity that justify violence against unbelievers to justify their actions, because there are no such teachings of Christianity. This is in sharp contrast to Osama bin Laden and Islamic jihadists the world over, who regularly and copiously quote the Qur'an and Sunnah, as well as the teachings of authoritative Islamic jurists, to justify their actions. Compare, for instance, the writings of Sheila Musaji and Osama bin Laden, and see who quotes the Qur'an and invokes Muhammad's example more often.<br /><br />But glaringly and conspicuously absent from Musaji's own writings, as well as from all the Muslim condemnations of terrorism to which she links, is any recognition of, much less condemnation of, the fact that there is not a single traditional school of Islamic jurisprudence that does not teach that it is an obligation of the Muslim community to wage war against unbelievers and subjugate them under the rule of Islamic law.<br /><br />Here is proof:<br /><br />Shafi'i school: A Shafi'i manual of Islamic law that was certified in 1991 by the clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the leading authorities in the Islamic world, as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy, stipulates that "the caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians...until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim poll tax." It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh ‘Ali Salman, a Jordanian expert on Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war only "provided that he has first invited [Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)...while remaining in their ancestral religions." (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.8).<br /><br />Of course, there is no caliph today, and hence the oft-repeated claim that Osama et al are waging jihad illegitimately, as no state authority has authorized their jihad. But they explain their actions in terms of defensive jihad, which needs no state authority to call it, and becomes "obligatory for everyone" (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.3) if a Muslim land is attacked. The end of the defensive jihad, however, is not peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims as equals: ‘Umdat al-Salik specifies that the warfare against non-Muslims must continue until "the final descent of Jesus." After that, "nothing but Islam will be accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until Jesus' descent" (o9.8).<br /><br />Hanafi school: A Hanafi manual of Islamic law repeats the same injunctions. It insists that people must be called to embrace Islam before being fought, "because the Prophet so instructed his commanders, directing them to call the infidels to the faith." It emphasizes that jihad must not be waged for economic gain, but solely for religious reasons: from the call to Islam "the people will hence perceive that they are attacked for the sake of religion, and not for the sake of taking their property, or making slaves of their children, and on this consideration it is possible that they may be induced to agree to the call, in order to save themselves from the troubles of war."<br /><br />However, "if the infidels, upon receiving the call, neither consent to it nor agree to pay capitation tax [jizya], it is then incumbent on the Muslims to call upon God for assistance, and to make war upon them, because God is the assistant of those who serve Him, and the destroyer of His enemies, the infidels, and it is necessary to implore His aid upon every occasion; the Prophet, moreover, commands us so to do." (Al-Hidayah, II.140)<br /><br />Maliki school: Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a pioneering historian and philosopher, was also a Maliki legal theorist. In his renowned Muqaddimah, the first work of historical theory, he notes that "in the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force." In Islam, the person in charge of religious affairs is concerned with "power politics," because Islam is "under obligation to gain power over other nations."<br /><br />Hanbali school: The great medieval theorist of what is commonly known today as radical or fundamentalist Islam, Ibn Taymiyya (Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya, 1263-1328), was a Hanbali jurist. He directed that "since lawful warfare is essentially jihad and since its aim is that the religion is God's entirely and God's word is uppermost, therefore according to all Muslims, those who stand in the way of this aim must be fought."<br /><br />Of course, these are all extremely old authorities -- such that one might reasonably assume that whatever they say couldn't possibly still be the consensus of the Islamic mainstream. The laws of the United States have evolved considerably since the adoption of the Constitution, which itself has been amended. So why shouldn't this be true of Islamic law as well? Many observers assume that it must be, and that contemporary jihadists' departure from mainstream Islam must be located in its preference for the writings of ancient jurists rather than modern ones. But in this, unfortunately, they fail to reckon with the implications of the closing of the gate of ijtihad.<br /><br />Ijtihad is the process of arriving at a decision on a point of Islamic law through study of the Qur'an and Sunnah. From the beginning of Islam, the authoritative study of such sources was reserved to a select number of scholars who fulfilled certain qualifications, including a comprehensive knowledge of the Qur'an and Sunnah, as well as knowledge of the principle of analogical reasoning (qiyas) by which legal decisions are made; knowledge of the consensus (ijma) on any given question of Muhammad, his closest companions, and the scholars of the past; and more, including living a blameless life. The founders of the schools of Islamic jurisprudence are among the small number of scholars -- mujtahedin -- thus qualified to perform ijithad. But they all lived very long ago; for many centuries, independent study of the Qur'an and Sunnah has been discouraged among Muslims, who are instead expected to adhere to the rulings of one of those established schools. Since the death of Ahmed ibn Hanbal, from whom the Hanbali school takes its name, in 855 A.D., no one has been recognized by the Sunni Muslim community as a mujtahid of the first class -- that is, someone who is qualified to originate legislation of his own, based on the Qur'an and Sunnah but not upon the findings of earlier mujtahedin.<br /><br />Islamic scholar Cyril Glasse notes that "‘the door of ijtihad is closed' as of some nine hundred years, and since then the tendency of jurisprudence (fiqh) has been to produce only commentaries upon commentaries and marginalia."<br /><br />So -- will Sheila Musaji care to condemn the supremacist imperative delineated by these authoritative, traditional sources? Specifically, since she is asking me what is required to be considered a moderate Muslim, I can tell her that I believe it would be sufficient to do the following:<br /><br />1. Acknowledge the existence of and repudiate the traditional Islamic imperative, taught by all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence that Muslims recognize as orthodox, to impose Islamic law upon non-Muslims, whether by force or by stealth.<br /><br />2. Renounce any intention, now or in the future, to replace the U.S. Constitution with Islamic law.<br /><br />3. Clarify, and call upon other Muslims in America to clarify, what is meant by the words "terrorism" and innocent" in Muslim condemnations of terrorism, so that it is clear that what is being condemned is the murder of American and other non-combatants by Muslims acting in the name of Islamic jihad.<br /><br />4. Repudiate the idea that Muslims have a divine mandate to force, when possible, Jews, Christians, and other "People of the Book" to pay a special religion-based tax from which Muslims are exempt (Qur'an 9:29).<br /><br />5. Call upon Muslims in America to institute comprehensive, honest, and transparent programs in mosques and Islamic schools, teaching the virtues of the non-establishment of religion, and teaching directly against Islamic supremacism and the idea that Muslims must fight against Jews and Christians until they "feel themselves subdued" (Qur'an 9:29).<br /><br />6. Call upon Muslims in America to institute comprehensive, honest, and transparent programs in mosques and Islamic schools, teaching against honor killing, and against the idea -- which is enshrined in Islamic law -- that a parent faces no penalty for killing his or her own child (see ‘Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2).<br /><br />7. Call upon Muslims worldwide, including in Saudi Arabia, to end all institutionalized discrimination against and harassment of non-Muslims, and to allow churches and other houses of worship to be built in majority-Muslim countries with an ease comparable to that with which mosques are currently built in Western countries.<br /><br />8. Repudiate the idea that a Muslim who renounces Islam and adopts any other faith or no faith at all should be killed -- as is the teaching of Muhammad and all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence -- and call upon Muslim groups in America to teach the freedom of conscience as a God-given right in American mosques and Islamic schools.<br /><br />9. Call upon Muslims in America and worldwide to drop the traditional and authoritative Islamic prohibition of marriage between non-Muslim men and Muslim women, and to repudiate and teach against the idea of divinely sanctioned wife-beating (Qur'an 4:34).<br /><br />10. Condemn Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist organizations, and the Islamic Republic of Iran for its continuing the barbaric practice of stoning people to death. Call upon Muslim groups to teach against stoning as a punishment for adultery or anything else in American mosques and Islamic schools.<br /><br />Do those things, Ms. Musaji, and I will happily acknowledge that you are indeed a "moderate" Muslim.<br />----------------------------------<br />Robert Spencer is a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>. He is the author of seven books, eight monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the <em>New York Times</em> Bestsellers <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895260131/ref=ase_robertspencer-20/103-1603172-8127010?v=glance&s=books">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a></em> and <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596980281/sr=1-1/qid=1153855439/ref=sr_1_1/103-7948108-5943057?ie=UTF8&s=books">The Truth About Muhammad</a></em>. His next book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985569/002-8167125-3983247?ie=UTF8&tag=robertspencer-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1596985569">Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs</a></em>, is coming this November from Regnery Publishing.<br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2116">Faithfreedom.org</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-74745189629950243052008-10-13T03:44:00.000-07:002008-10-22T03:48:57.368-07:00Mohammad Shujaat on Women<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Women in Islam</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">By: Ibn Kammuna</span><br /></div><br />I stumbled upon a book written by Mohammad Shujaat. The title of the book was interesting "Social Justice in Islam" (ANMOL Publications PVT.LTD, New Delhi, 2004). The title intrigued me, only to be disappointed with the intellectual level of the author. One cannot write a lot in one short article to show the author's intellectual dishonesty and lack of a decent ability of critical analysis. In this article I will only talk about some of the things he wrote about Islam and women. Here is what he writes:<br /><br /><br />This concept of the sanctity of chastity and the protection of women can be found nowhere else except in Islam. The armies of the western powers need the daughters of their own nations to satisfy their carnal appetites even in their own countries, and if they happen to occupy another country, the fate of its womenfolk can better be imagined than described.<br /><br />But the history of the Muslims, apart from individual lapses, has been free from this crime against womanhood. It has never happened that after the conquest of a foreign country the Muslim army has gone about raping the women of the conquered people, or, in their own country, the government has arranged to provide prostitutes for them. (Page 39)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Note that his first sentence implies that only Islam protects the "sanctity and chastity and the protection" of women (I guess Mr. Shujaat doesn't know what the Pakistani army did to the women of Bangladesh during their independence war). The author has not done a survey of all cultures, past and present, to make such a claim. In fact, such a claim makes Islam guilty of viewing a woman as no more than a commodity. However, what follows, makes clear what he is comparing women's status in Islam with; it is the western culture and its view of women. Western values do not view women only as a sexual object. They are viewed as a full human being with rights and obligations, just as a man. In fact, what Mr. Shujaat mentions, makes clear that women in Islam are viewed only as sexual objects.<br /><br />The second paragraph in the above quote aims at "saving grace" with regard how Muslims treated women in the past. Women in Islam are treated as "awrat". They can bring honor or shame to the male Muslims, and that is why male chauvinist Muslims are always trying to subdue women. Also, Muslims in the past enslaved and raped women after their conquests. In fact, the prophet of Islam sanctioned such practice after each "Ghazwa" the Muslims did steal other people's belongings, kill the men, enslave women and children, and rape the women. If you don't believe me, look at this story about the holy prophet:<br /><br />Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:<br /><br />that while he was sitting with Allah's Apostle he said, "O Allah's Apostle! We get female captives as our share of booty, and we are interested in their prices, what is your opinion about coitus interruptus?" The Prophet said, "Do you really do that? It is better for you not to do it. No soul that which Allah has destined to exist, but will surely come into existence.<br /><br />Note that the above hadith shows that the early Muslims took women as slaves and raped them. However, economics ruled, and women slaves were sold. A non-pregnant slave was worth more than a pregnant slave. This why Muslim men practiced coitus interruptus. They wanted sex without a resulting pregnancy, so they can get a better price for the slave woman when they sell her. Also, it is of critical importance in the above hadith to note the prophet's value system. He did not worry about raping the women. That was not a problem for him. What was a problem is how to make sure that the men had the ultimate sexual joy out of raping those women made slave by Islam's evil "Ghazwas". Mr. Shujaat either did not know about the above hadith, or just wants to lie to people in his book to elevate Islam. If this is not enough evidence to incriminate Mr. Shujaat as a decent writer, look at the following verse from the Qur'an (33:50):<br /><br />PICKTHAL: O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war, and the daughters of thine uncle on the father's side and the daughters of thine aunts on the father's side, and the daughters of thine uncle on the mother's side and the daughters of thine aunts on the mother's side who emigrated with thee, and a believing woman if she give herself unto the Prophet and the Prophet desire to ask her in marriage - a privilege for thee only, not for the (rest of) believers - We are Aware of that which We enjoined upon them concerning their wives and those whom their right hands possess - that thou mayst be free from blame, for Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.<br /><br /><br />A true Muslim may not like the above verse because it proves that the holy prophet did practice raping women. Those women were given to him as spoils of war, by the mighty Allah. You see, the god of Muhammad did make sure that the prophet's carnal desires are fully satisfied! I am sure Mr. Shujaat has seen the above verse. It is in his holy book after all.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2115">Faithfreedom.org</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-90816404224342005382008-09-11T12:14:00.001-07:002008-09-11T12:16:01.637-07:00Hezbollah’s Terror Camps for Kids<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">P. David Hornik</span><br />FrontPageMagazine.com<br /></div><br />A new report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) looks at Hezbollah’s annual summer camps for Shiite teenagers and children in southern Lebanon.<br /><br />The kids—tens of thousands strong—come from Hezbollah’s Imam al-Mahdi Scouts movement and other youth groups. An earlier ITIC report noted that the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts received a permit from the Lebanese Education Ministry back in 1992; yet calendars distributed by the organization that were captured by the Israeli army in the summer 2006 war gave short shrift to Lebanese identity.<br /><br />The summer camps, along with the regular activities of such places, are centers for inculcating kids with Iranian radical Islamic ideology, anti-Israeli hatred, the personality cult of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the glorification of Hezbollah “martyrs” like Abbas Mussawi (Nasrallah’s predecessor, assassinated by Israel in 1992) and master terrorist Imad Mughniyah (assassinated last February with no one taking credit and Hezbollah blaming Israel).<br /><br />One youth group with a summer camp of its own, Al-Shabab, is for children under the age of 10. Last August 21 Al-Akhbar, a Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper, reported that Al-Shabab was founded in 2000 in villages near the Israeli border and that Hezbollah has a massive presence in those villages. The camp itself is in a Hezbollah compound south of the Litani River.<br /><br />According to UN Security Council Resolution 1701, on whose basis the 2006 war was ended before Israel had time to beat Hezbollah, it was precisely the area between the border and the Litani that was supposed to remain “free of any [forces] other than those of the Government of Lebanon and of UNIFIL….”<br /><br />How do the Al-Shabab kids spend their time at the camp? Along with normal fare of sports and entertainment, the Al-Akhbar reporter saw a Hezbollah operative (dubbed a “resistance officer”) walking among the kids in military uniform and gear including an M-16 rifle slung over his shoulder (see the first page of the above-linked report). The operative preached to the kids about Israel as “an absolute evil and enemy” and fired questions to them about Israel’s “ideology” and “aggression.” He then treated them to a Hezbollah-produced film, The Victory Generation.<br /><br />This opus appears to be a classic case of projection: it purports to show Israeli children training with weapons from the age of five as part of the “culture of hatred and murder they absorb, in order to send gift rockets to Lebanon [during the summer 2006 war].”<br /><br />As the ITIC notes, “by demonizing Israel and portraying it as the root of all evil, Hezbollah seeks to…motivate [children and teenagers] to take part in the violent struggle for its elimination.”<br /><br />The implications for Israel are grim but worth taking note of.<br /><br />1. The camps are stark evidence that Hezbollah’s threat to Israel goes beyond terrorism and warfare in the present and encompasses turning Lebanon, or a significant part of it, into an actively hostile country for generations to come. The Shiites, among whom Hezbollah carries out its indoctrination and cultivates its future cadres, may already constitute half the population as the generally better-educated Christian and Sunni communities emigrate in considerable numbers.<br /><br />2. Nevertheless, Lebanon as a state is fully complicitous with Hezbollah even though Hezbollah’s real allegiance—as in the small above-noted example of the captured calendars—is clearly not to Lebanon but rather to Iran and its program of global Shiite revolution. That as far back as 1992, when Hezbollah’s political and military power in Lebanon was still considerably less than today, the Lebanese Education Ministry gave approval for a youth organization like the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts is, again, a small illustration of the fact that Lebanon has been harboring Hezbollah all along and allowing it to grow.<br /><br />3. Israel now stands alone against Hezbollah and should have no further illusions that it has any allies in trying to check its power. The upshot of the international community’s supposed concern about the situation, as formalized most recently in Resolution 1701, is a situation where Hezbollah has not only fully reestablished its military presence between the Litani and the border but is free to run Hitler-Jugend-type camps there with no interference from the largely-European UNIFIL force let alone the Lebanese army.<br /><br />4. Although Israel, as a cautious, conflict-averse democracy, is not likely to initiate preemptive action against Hezbollah at least in the near future, in the case of a broader conflict with the Iranian-led axis it would be wise to use the opportunity to act decisively against Hezbollah—and, as much as necessary, Lebanon—as it failed to do in 2006.<br /><br /><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E55A8921-05A8-4D30-9FAA-A6BC4B12D627">Frontpage Mag</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-14835433287821663302008-09-08T19:48:00.000-07:002008-09-08T19:49:52.772-07:00The Fatuous Mind of Allah<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Abul Kasem</span><br /></div><br /><br />In Islam, it is compulsory for all Muslims to believe that Allah has written every word in the Qur'an. If any Muslim denies this, he/she is a blasphemer and is subject to harsh punishment which might include beheading. Nevertheless, if anyone reads the Qur'an seriously and with an open mind he/she will be stunned at the ambiguous, contradictory and erroneous verses buried inside this Holy Scripture. Many verses in the Qur'an clearly tell us that those words cannot be the words of Allah.<br /><br />In this essay, we shall witness how silly Allah could be when He wrote the Qur'an.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Allah praises, thanks, and blesses Himself</span><br /><br />Let us consider the following hilarious situations:<br /><br />Jesus Christ blessing Jesus Christ<br />Kali Mata (a Hindu goddess) praising Kali Mata<br />Ganesh (another Hindu god) thanking Ganesh<br />Lord Buddha praising Lord Buddha<br />Nelson Mandela blessing Nelson Mandela<br />Hitler thanking Hitler<br />Radovan Kardzic praising Radovan Karadzic<br />George Bush blessing George Bush<br />Barack Obama praising Barak Obama<br />Osama bin Ladin thanking Osama bin Ladin<br />Hilary Clinton blessing Hilary Clinton<br />Mahmoud Ahmadinejad praising Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<br />Indira Gandhi blessing Indira Gandhi<br />Karl Marx thanking Karl Marx<br />Vladimir Putin praising Vladimir Putin<br />Sir Winston Churchill blessing Sir Winston Churchill<br />……..and so on.<br /><br />We might consider the above citations absurd, illogical, silly and dim witted. We might even say those who pronounce or write such passages are insane/mad, and must be relegated to mental asylums. But hang on, Allah the presumed author of the Qur’an precisely does so. Here are few verses from Sura Kahf (tr. Hilali and Khan) where Allah unabashedly praises Allah.<br /><br />18:1 All the praises and thanks be to Allah, Who has sent down to His slave (Muhammad) the Book (the Qur’an), and has not placed therein any crookedness.<br />18:2 (He has made it) Straight to give warning (to the disbelievers) of a severe punishment from Him, and to give glad tidings to the believers (in the Oneness of Allâh Islâmic Monotheism), who work righteous deeds, that they shall have a fair reward (i.e. Paradise).<br />18:3 They shall abide therein forever<br /><br />If we were to make any sense from the above verses, we may conclude:<br /><br />Muhammad or another person/entity is the author of these verses.<br /><br />Had Allah said those verses to Muhammad then Allah must had been drunk or under the influence of a strong drug.<br /><br />Allah must be the resident of a mental asylum.<br /><br />Here are a few more verses (tr. Hilali and Khan) to amuse the readers.<br /><br />25:1 Blessed be He Who sent down the criterion (of right and wrong, i.e. this Qur'ân) to His slave (Muhammad) that he may be a warner to the 'Alamîn (mankind and jinns).<br />34:1 All the praises and thanks be to Allâh, to Whom belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. His is all the praises and thanks in the Hereafter, and He is the All¬Wise, the All¬Aware.<br />35:1 All the praises and thanks be to Allâh, the (only) Originator [or the (only) Creator] of the heavens and the earth, Who made the angels messengers with wings, - two or three or four. He increases in creation what He wills. Verily, Allâh is Able to do all things.<br />37:182 And all the praise and thanks be to Allah, Lord of the ‘Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists.<br />45:36 So all the praises and thanks are to Allâh, the Lord of the heavens and the Lord of the earth, and the Lord of the 'Alamîn (mankind, jinns and all that exists).<br /><br />In the above verses, Allah is praising and blessing Allah.<br /><br />Readers should note that at the beginning of those verses Allah did not ask Muhammad to utter the Arabic word ‘kul’ (read). Thus, we may conclude that Muhammad or another entity is speaking in those verses.<br /><br />If we were to believe that Allah is the only author of the Qur'an, we must conclude that Allah’s silliness has no bound.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Allah says Insha Allah (if Allah wills)</span><br /><br />In Sura Kahf (sura 18) Allah narrated to Muhammad the story of sleepers. Previously, the Jews had enquired of Muhammad if he had any idea about a few biblical stories. Muhammad was perplexed, as he had no idea of what the Jews were talking. He requested two weeks (approximately) of reprieve to find the answer, assuring that his Allah will provide the correct response. Two weeks passed. Muhammad was still reticent. The Jews understood the depth of Allah’s intellectual competence. Then, after a long delay, Allah purportedly narrated the story as written in Sura Kahf. In verse 18:23 24. Muhammad complained to Allah for his (Allah’s) delay. Allah admonished Muhammad for not saying ‘Insha Allah’ when talking with the Jewish Rabbis.<br /><br />Here are those verses (tr. Hilali and Khan):<br /><br />18:23 And never say of anything, "I shall do such and such thing tomorrow."<br />18:24 Except (with the saying), "If Allâh will!" And remember your Lord when you forget and say: "It may be that my Lord guides me unto a nearer way of truth than this."<br /><br />In Sura al Kalam (sura 68) Allah tells the story of the people of the garden who boasted about the harvest of their garden, but forgot to mention “Insha Allah” when they intended to pick the fruits. Because of forgetting ‘Insha Allah’, when they entered their garden in the morning, they found their garden ruined.<br /><br />Let us read these verses:<br /><br />68:17 Verily, We have tried them as We tried the people of the garden, when they swore to pluck the fruits of the (garden) in the morning,<br />68:18 Without saying: Inshâ' Allâh (If Allâh will).<br />68:19 Then there passed by on the (garden) something (fire) from your Lord at night and burnt it while they were asleep.<br />68:20 So the (garden) became black by the morning, like a pitch dark night (in complete ruins).<br /><br />Amazingly, Allah Himself says “Insha Allah” in the following verses (tr. Hilali and Khan):<br /><br />48:27 Indeed Allâh shall fulfil the true vision which He showed to His Messenger [i.e. the Prophet saw a dream that he has entered Makkah along with his companions, having their (head) hair shaved and cut short] in very truth. Certainly, you shall enter Al¬Masjid¬al¬Harâm; if Allâh wills, secure, (some) having your heads shaved, and (some) having your head hair cut short, having no fear. He knew what you knew not, and He granted besides that a near victory.<br /><br />In the above verse, Allah clearly chants “Insha Allah”. If we have any doubt, we might consider the Arabic Qur’an. It is there in Arabic, the word ‘Insha Allah”. Here is the transliteration of verse 48:27:<br /><br />Laqad sadaqa Allahu rasoolahu alrru/ya bialhaqqi latadkhulunna almasjida alharama in shaa Allahu amineena muhalliqeena ruoosakum wamuqassireena la takhafoona faAAalima ma lam taAAlamoo fajaAAala min dooni thalika fathan qareeban. (Note: thebold emphasis is mine)<br /><br />To hide Allah’s inanity and silliness, Maududi writes the following comment on this verse:<br /><br /> Here, about the words insha'-Allah (if Allah so wills), which Allah Himself has used with His promise, one can raise the objection that when Allah Himself is making this promise, what is the meaning of making it conditional upon His own willing it? The answer is: Here the words insha'-Allah have not been used in the sense that if AIlah dces not will, He will not fulfil His promise, but in fact these relate to the background in which this promise was made…(commentary number 48/48).<br /><br />I could not make any head or tail from the above commentary of Maududi. Perhaps, Allah Himself will not understand either.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2053">faithfreedom</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-36688006588768189452008-09-08T19:41:00.000-07:002008-09-08T19:44:56.716-07:00My Story with the Quran<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Author: Mumin Salih</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction</span><br /><br />I was reluctant to write the story of my departure from Islam, because it lacks any of the moral elements of the kind mentioned in some of the touching testimonies published on the Internet. I cannot claim that I wasn’t aware of Mohammed’s assassinations of his adversaries, because I read about it and accepted it as a justifiable action against the enemies of Allah. Neither I can claim that I wasn’t aware of Mohammed’s pedophilic marriage to Aysha because I knew about it and accepted it as a perfectly normal practice during Mohammed’s time. Without raising an eyebrow, I also read about Mohammed’s genocide of the Jewish tribe of Bani Quryza. I had developed the concept that committing Islamic genocides against the Jews are no more disturbing to an Arab than slaughtering a herd of cattle.<br /><br />My problem with Islam was mainly about the Quran which seemed to continuously require external human boasters in the form of interpretations and reinterpretations and endless justifications for much of the Quran’s inanities. For a person with a free mind and good knowledge of the Arabic language, it is a fierce struggle with the mind to accept anything about the Quran; its language, style and contents. The Quran is only convincing for those whose knowledge in Arabic is nonexistent or poor, which is the case in the vast majority of Muslims including the Arabs. It is especially true for those who are conditioned to read it year after year with only one thing in their minds- to earn hasanat that helps them to avoid hell fire. For decades, I belonged to the second group, but although my starting point was the false assumption that the Quran is absolutely correct, as all Muslims do, I found it increasingly harder to accept all that collection of nonsense as my knowledge of Arabic developed over the years.<br /><br />I am afraid that in my case, the language and logical absurdities of the Quran sent a louder alarm than the cruelties of Mohammed. I rejected the Quran because I expected from Allah a much better book!<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Muslim Child</span><br /><br />I was brought up in a small village in southern Syria in the early 1950s. My parents were ordinary farmers with simple education. Like the rest of the villagers, they performed the prayers and observed Ramadan fasting, which were more of a social and cultural duties. Like the rest of the children in the village, I was taught to recite some of the Quranic verses by heart well before the school age. It is still customary for the Middle Eastern parents to teach their young children to recite at least the first sura of the Quran, known as alfatiha. Some parents begin to work on this from the moment their children start to talk!<br /><br />That was my first encounter with Quran but by no means the only one; the Quran was always around me whatever I did and wherever I went. In the background, there was always that voice of the Quari who reads the Quran in a distinguished tajweed style that spreads an atmosphere of gravity and fear. Such recitations seemed to go forever; they came from the mosque’s loud speakers as well as from the radio and other audio devices. No ceremony or gathering or activity could start, or finish, without reciting some verses from the Quran. It is not only that I could hear the Quran all the time, but also I could see it all the time. Wherever I turned my eyes I could see some verses of the Quran written in special calligraphy and framed on the walls of every house or every shop, even means of transport were decorated with Quranic verses.<br /><br />I attended the village’s only school, which was an ordinary government school that had no particular emphasis on religious education. In the beginning of every school year, children were handed the relevant books for that particular year. Those books kept changing year after year except for one book-the Quran, which we called mushaf. The Quran was a truly intimidating book to any child; it was so intimidating to me that I couldn’t even express my feelings towards it. Children dare not say anything negative about the Quran. I even didn’t dare to allow any negative thoughts about it to surface in my mind for the fear of extreme punishment from Allah. I was taught to respect the book and do the Islamic washing ritual before even touching it, and never to hold it with my left hand. I was told to kiss the book immediately after I hold it and touch it with my forehead as a sign of respect. I was also taught of the special ritual of how to finish reading from the book. I mustn’t stop reading before finishing the verse; even if it was a long one. After finishing the recitation I had to say in Arabic sadka allahu alazeem meaning ‘Allah told the truth’. Then I was allowed to close the book respectfully and place it on top of the other books. I wasn’t allowed to place any book on top of the Quran.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Quran- a difficult book to read</span><br /><br />It didn’t escape my notice that the Quran was not a reader friendly book and certainly not a child friendly one, but I attributed that to the greatness of the book! It had no pictures at all and no titles or paragraphs and not even spaces between its verses or chapters; just a continuous writing from the beginning to the end. Its verses cannot be considered full sentences or paragraphs; they are just collections of words. A sentence may start in a verse and end in another one! If you take away the numbering of the verses, the whole Quran would look like one very long paragraph!<br /><br />As I progressed in school, I became more talented in reading in Arabic, but I always had problems in reading the Quran. My consolation was that I was not alone; all the other children had the same problem. The only chapters I read easily were the ones I already know by heart or the ones I read before many times. Reading a new chapter was always a struggle, but, at the time, I never worked out why.<br /><br />Even today, I still believe the Quran is not a particularly easy book to read for a first timer. I do not think it is possible for a person to read a page from the Quran for the first time without making many mistakes. The only way to read a chapter from the Quran without making mistakes is actually to read it many times before hand to become familiar with that chapter. Once you become familiar with a chapter, reading it becomes more of a reminder of what you already know (or nearly know ) by heart,.<br /><br />The Muslim scholars have deliberately made the Quran a very difficult book to read. The Quran is deliberately scribed in a way that violates all the writing protocols of the Arabic language. The Muslim scholars are keen on this bizarre practice to ensure that the Quarn is well wrapped in a thick and dark coat of mystic ambiguity, which is the Quran’s fiercest defense.<br /><br />How can anybody read a book where the standard punctuation marks are not used at all? To confuse the reader even more, the Quran contains what appear to be scriptural errors in every verse. These deliberate violations to the Arabic writing protocols are peculiar to the Quran. As an example the word salat (prayer) is deliberately written like salowat and the word zakat is written like zakowat. Then every letter in every word is surrounded by coded pronunciation marks that are special to the Quran, to describe how that particular letter, in that particular position, should be pronounced. To add to the confusion, those pronunciation marks often look like smaller versions of the normal Arabic letters. Just in case all the above is not enough to confuse the reader, they add to every word the tajweed marks because every letter in the Quran has to be pronounced in a special way, according to its position in the word and sentence, to give a special sound effect, called tajweed, which is the Quran’s musical note, as we may put it.<br /><br />The Quran- a difficult text to hear or understand<br /><br />Hearing and understanding the Quran were other tortures that my Islamic mind had to put up with. I could listen to the radio for ten minutes and all the Quari has done was to read only few verses that he repeated many times with many pauses in between, which only helps to distract the listener. Reading the interpretations or tafseer books is a true torture. Some tafseer books, especially the modern ones, are massive in volumes and interpreting one word can take many pages.<br /><br />Such excessive writings intimidate the ordinary readers, which explains why not many people bother to read them, but also follows an imbedded psychological definition for intellectuality as perceived by many Arabs. There is a common misconception among many Arabs that a highly intellectual person is expected to produce highly complex writings. Many Arabs think it is all right if ordinary people cannot understand the complex and lengthy writings of the highly intelligent authors. Many Arabs may become impressed and speak highly of a scholar who writes many pages, or speak for hours explaining one word in the Quran, even though they did not understand a word of it! Simplicity, as some Arabs understand it, is only for the simple people.<br /><br />Al Mutanabbi (915-965) , one of the most talented Arab poets, reflected on such unusual misconception in one of his poems. He described his intelligence by claiming that he says what he wants to say then sleeps well, but the rest of the world spends the night trying to understand it! Almutanabbi said what some Arabs wanted to hear, and reflected a common cultural misconception. To be fair to the man, all his poetry is clear and powerful, but he reminds us with another author who prides himself that he alone can understand what he writes.<br />“Q.3: 7. …but none knows its meanings except Allâh….”<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Quran and black magic</span><br /><br />The above intensive and continuous brainwashing process that starts from the moment a child is born to a Muslim family, results in a state where Muslims are unable to consider the Quran in an objective way. The Muslims’ minds are never free when it comes to anything to do with the Quran. The fact is that the Quran never looked to Muslims as normal, never sounded as normal and was never understood as normal.<br /><br />Muslims have been conditioned to think of the Quran in a mystical environment, which reminds me with the way the magicians set the scene to perform their tricks. The stage magicians do not do anything supernatural, but they make the audience believe the do. They dress in dark colours and choose a dark background; they distract their audience’s attention by using sound effects and by saying irrelevant words or making irrelevant movements.<br /><br />Nowadays, black magic is a thriving business in the Middle East, as it had always been. Black magicians perform their tricks by saying some very strange words that do not make any sense. Such strange sayings have no meaning, even to the black magicians who compose them, but it is that ambiguity that serves to stun the confused client. Mohammed has used a lot of these abracadabra-like words in the Quran and the trick seems to work on Muslims! Many chapters in the Quran begin with a random arrangement of letters, sometimes even one letter! Indeed, some entire verses are composed of only few randomly arranged letters!<br /><br />If any person with sanity receives a ‘clear’ message that reads H. M. h/she would reject it but Muslims accept it and consider it a miracle! As a matter of fact, the above two letters make the first verse of some suras in the Quran like sura 44. The interpretation books refer to this verse as a miracle! Muslim scholars say that nobody knows the meaning of the verse except Allah, which raises the question of why send a message that cannot be understood by the receiver? The irony is that the very next verse in sura 44 (i e 44:2) says “the clear book”! Muslims have been reading such verses for centuries without making any sense of them, their only response is to say with amazement: subhan allah!<br /><br />The use of strange words does not stop at using random letters; the Quran did actually incorporate strange or foreign words in a similar fashion to the practice of the black magicians. If we refer to the interpretations books to find the meanings for words like ababil(105: 3), sijjeel (105: 4), ghesleen( 69: 36) and dozens others we find that they do not agree to a clear meaning, which indicates that such words had no clear meanings to the early Arabs. Mohammed probably used them just to make an impression. The Arab black magicians are known to use foreign or distorted words or even coin new ones that have no meaning at all other than making an impression in the minds of their stupid audience.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A high school lesson</span><br /><br />I still vividly remember how one day in the high school, after the teacher spent a long time explaining the wonderful eloquence of the Quran, one of the pupils asked a question about one of the verses discussed that day, which was verse 49: 9<br />" وإنْ طائفتان من المؤمنين اقتتلوا"<br />49: 9. And if two parties or groups among the believers fall to fighting, then ….<br />In the above verse, the Quran uses the word iktatalu (translated above as fall to fighting) in a place where it should be iktatala. The question was why? I didn’t think the pupil meant to be critical or had any other intentions more than asking a simple grammar question. The question surprised me, but surprised the teacher more. The teacher told the pupil off and warned him that he should be careful and respectful when it comes to discussing the Quran. It was obvious to me that the teacher noticed the above error for the first time; he struggled to find an answer and to demonstrate the non-existent eloquence of the verse. He concluded that the early Arabs were amazed by the Quran, so who are we to disagree.<br /><br />Verse 49: 9 have an obvious grammatical error that cannot be denied or explained. Muslim scholars go round and round, they twist the rules and change the meanings and go to any length to tell us that the mistake is not only correct, but also is a miracle! This is the verse that was the subject of the question: The Quran has many other grammatical errors, but the one that comes to my mind is in verse 22:19 because it is very similar error to the one above:<br /><br />" هذان خصمان اختصموا"<br />22: 19. These two opponents dispute with each other ...<br />In the above verse, the Quran wrongly uses the word ikhtasamu (translated above as dispute with each other) in a place where it should be ikhtasama<br /><br />It didn’t matter to me, that day, how the teacher explained the error, I only wanted to know that there is an explanation. I satisfied myself with the usual Islamic response that is designed to deter the mind from thinking too much about these things, which I still hear from Muslims nowadays. If you bring up the issue to Muslims, you hear their classic response “Do you think all those great Arabs of the past did not notice this? Do you think you are the genius of your time? Are you sure you understand the verse well?”<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A liberal Muslim</span><br /><br />As a university student I was a fairly open minded Muslim, as I preferred to describe myself. The only prayers I used to perform were the Friday prayers but that was an acceptable average for university students those days. By the time I started my university education I had already discovered many areas in Islam that I didn’t feel comfortable with. My response was to reject most of the ahadith and commit myself only to the Quran. I considered myself to be a true logical Muslim who is truly convinced of Islam and not just inherited it, a claim that I regularly hear from Muslims nowadays.<br /><br />Deep in my mind, I realized that Mohammed’s sira (life story) and his ahadith were too embarrassing to accept or justify. Therefore, to maintain my allegiance to Islam I had to reject them, or most of them, and build my own beliefs around the Quran. This may look bizarre because the Quran is just as bad as ahadith. The reality was that the Quran is an easy ride for a person with good command of Arabic. Its ambiguity and contradictions cater for all tastes, you just say what you want and you can find some words in the Quran that you can use to justify your case. I simply picked what I wanted and explained as I wanted and then turned a blind eye to the rest. That was the reality of my feelings that I managed to suppress all my Islamic years because my Islamic mind couldn’t face it.<br /><br />I practiced Islam in a very liberal way, I neglected many of my Islamic duties, sometimes sinned and justified all that from carefully selected verses from the Quran. I decorated the wall of my room with a calligraphy poster of a Quranic verse, which I selected carefully and kept for years. It was verse 39: 53, which used to be one of my favorites because it is one of the few verses that project Allah as a kind and forgiving god.<br /><br />39: 53. Say: ‘O my slaves who have transgressed against themselves despair not of the Mercy of Allâh…’<br /><br />I had a reputation among my friends to be a fan of the classic Arabic and to have special sensitivity to language mistakes in formal writings or readings. I must have read the above verse thousands of times without ever noticing its obvious error! The verse contains an outrageous language and logical mistake.<br /><br />Allah is supposed to be talking to Mohammed and asking him to tell Muslims (Allah’s slaves) not to despair, but the existing wording implies that Muslims are Mohammed’s slaves! The above verse should start like this: ‘Say: O Allah’s slaves….’<br /><br /><br />I still find difficult to explain how I read the above verse days and nights for many years without ever noticing such an evident mistake, which I only noticed when I read the Quran with a critical mind some years later. But I am not alone; in fact I never came across an Arab Muslim who noticed the error, although they all would try hard to justify it. It is sad that Muslims are never free when it comes to anything to do with the Quran. Muslims are continuously subjected to an intensive indoctrination process that leaves them with impaired senses and dysfunctional minds. Muslims, under the influence of Islam, are incapable of reading the Quran in an objective way.<br /><br />I was amazed by the number of blunders, of all kinds, that started to appear as I started to read the Quran in an objective way. Removing the divine halo that surrounds the Quran reveals a very different book that doesn’t require any interoperations to understand because all its mysteries are solved by one word- nonsense.<br /><br /><br />The above verse is not a one off error; actually the Quran is full with them. It is a common practice in the Quran for Allah to suddenly move from the third person to the first person or vice versa with no reason at all. In verse 6:99, such a poor usage of language implies that Allah talks about a different god who sends down rain from the sky while He is responsible for the vegetations:<br /><br />6:99. It is HE who sends down water from the sky, and with it WE bring forth vegetation of all kinds…<br /><br /><br />But my favorite example of the Quran’s lack of clarity is verse 6: 151, which is a list of the forbidden things that Muslims must avoid. The verse, in theory, should be one of the easiest verses to compose; it is just a matter of listing things one after the other, which the Quran failed miserably to do:<br /><br /><br />6: 151. Say: "Come, I will recite what your Lord has prohibited you from: Join not anything in worship with Him; be good and dutiful to your parents; kill not your children because of poverty - We provide sustenance for you and for them; come not near to Al-Fawâhish whether committed openly or secretly, and kill not anyone whom Allâh has forbidden, except for a just cause….<br /><br />The above verse lists the forbidden things that all Muslims must avoid. The verse lists being good and dutiful to parents as one of those sins. Muslim scholars say that ‘being good to parents’ is not part of the list and we also sincerely hope it not. But why did Allah insert it in that position of the verse then rely on human commonsense to figure out that it is not part of that list? Is there a good writing style in the above verse? Would such writing be acceptable from any writer, past or present?<br /><br />And my story with the Quran continues..<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2063">faithfreedom.org</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-68172171339587964502008-08-11T10:53:00.000-07:002008-08-11T10:54:27.885-07:00A Non-Arab Muslim’s PrayerSher Khan<br /><br />The god of Islam has more than 100 names, but Muslims try to confine the number to 99 because Mohammed, the boyfriend of Allah, mentioned in a Hadith that Allah has 99 names. Muslims should not be offended for calling him the boyfriend of Allah because Mohammed himself claimed to be a friend of Allah - adding an additional word “boy” would only strengthen their relationship.<br /><br />Muslims love to pray to their god, Allah. The prayer, although not in a set order, covers a variety of issues, from begging for god’s mercy to wishing for health, wealth and their personal property, which includes the women. They further include deceased family members for not being punished by the god. The prayer further relates to relatives, friends and many other earthly matters. Of course, afterlife is an important issue in all prayers. Finally, their prayer goes international.<br /><br />Although none of their prayers, with a rare co-incidence, become fruitful, they never cease to pray.<br /><br />For a pious Muslim, it is important to remember all of Allah’s names and use them in their prayers as much as they could. Each name of Allah, however, starts with “Ya”. The word “Ya” is not an abbreviation of Yahoo.com, nor it is a shortcut of Yankees. It actually means “Hello” or “Hi”.<br /><br />Here is how it goes…..<br /><br />Ya Allah (Generic name of the Islamic god) – The small piece of land that I own is not fertile anymore; in fact, my wives are more prolific than the land.<br /><br />Ya Al-Musawwir (The Fashioner) - You have fashioned the earth, the sun and the moon. You have added trees for your believers and mountains as pillars of the earth. Can you please make the land more fertile and produce loads of crops this year?<br /><br />Ya Al-Wahhaab (Generous) - My goats are not giving enough milk. Please be generous and make them more productive.<br /><br />Ya Khaaliq (The Creator) – One of my cows is not getting pregnant. I walked miles and took her to many bulls but she has not conceived yet. You are the creator - you can easily make her pregnant. Ya Allah, I am not asking you to do it by yourself. (Astagfarullah!) All I am asking is that you raise your magic wand and make my cow pregnant.<br /><br />Ya Bari (The Maker) – I have been begging for years and you still have not given me a son. What have I done wrong, Ya Allah? My wives have produced half a dozen daughters but no son. Why can’t you give me a son?<br /><br />Ya Razzaaq (The Sustainer, The Provider) – I am getting sick and tired of dealing with the same three wives and I direly need a new wife. My next door neighbor’s daughter is only 10 years old and she is 40 years younger than me. My neighbor threatened to call the police if I ever ask him to marry his daughter. What a shame! What’s happening to this world? Our prophet and your friend Mohammed married Aysha when she was six years old, but the people of the modern age don’t follow the sunnah and the path of our great prophet. Ya Allah, can you please change my neighbor’s mind and provide me his young daughter in marriage?<br /><br />Ya Samee (The All-Hearing, The Hearer) - You can see everything and you know everything. Don’t you see my third wife, who is still very young, always has a defiant attitude? Your friend Mohammed has set the guideline for all Muslim women. According to the sunnah, the prophet’s guideline, a Muslim woman should shave her pubic hair and never pluck her eyebrows. Ya Allah, my wife does exactly the opposite. She plucks her eyebrows and does not shave her pubic hair. Can you please change her mind and follow the prophet’s rule?<br /><br />Ya Khaafid (The Subjugator) - You can do whatever you wish, yet the people of these days are straying away from your religion. Can you believe I am not allowed to beat my wives? Despite your clear injunction in the Quran, my wives threaten to call the police if I beat them. Ya Allah, damn our government for not following your rule; destroy those people who solicit for the so-called women’s rights.<br /><br />Ya Ghaffaar (The Great Forgiver) - Nothing may remain hidden from you. You know I have a small job where accepting a bribe is the only way. I often accept bribes to support my family. Please forgive my sin. I promise to perform Haj to wash away all the wrongdoings I did.<br /><br />Ya Ar-Rahman (The Compassionate) - All Muslims are your slaves and you have ample mercy for them. When we, the Muslims, will die, we will be punished temporarily but all of us will go to heaven regardless of our sin. Will you please shorten our sufferings and send us to the heaven as soon as we die?<br /><br />Ya Ar-Raheem (The Merciful) – Don’t forget my father, grandfather and all of my relatives who already have died. Please don’t squeeze the grave and break their bones, but send them to heaven as quickly as possible. [Note: at this point, most Muslims shed a few tears, be it emotionally or forcefully!]<br /><br />Ya Al-Ghafoor (the All-forgiving) – Our great prophet spent most of his life pleasing your honor. He used all of the one-fifth booty he received to spread Islam. He even slaughtered some captives immediately, so that they could meet you in the heaven and you could get the pleasure to enjoy them. However, in case Mohammed (PBUH), the profit of Islam, failed to kill enough people that you wished to kill, please forgive him and take him to the heaven.<br /><br />Ya Al-Haseeb (The Reckoned) - My stomach pain is becoming unbearable day by day. I have recited many verses of the Quran, as the great prophet did, and I blow on my stomach. I am wearing a small aluminum container from my neck that has a small piece of paper with a Quranic verse written on it. None of these actions helped to subside the pain. Why don’t your Quranic verses work anymore as they did in the era of the prophet? Now I have to find a doctor for this problem.<br /><br />Ya Al-Malik (The King) - You are the king of this world and all countries are under your rule. Yet we, the Muslims, have to go to Kafir countries for a living. When my brother went to the Middle East for a job, the pious Muslims of the country treated him like a slave. He did not receive citizenship; in fact, Middle East countries never give citizenship to the Muslims from the other countries. Your friend Mohammed proudly claimed that it was the Arabs who had the honor to embrace Islam first, which gives the Arabs the upper hand. Ya Allah, can you make an addendum and change this situation?<br /><br />Ya Al-Badi (The Incomparable) - After receiving a humiliating experience from the Middle East, my brother went to the U.S., the greatest satan in the world. Surprisingly, he was awarded with citizenship and found a job in a grocery store where he had to sell liquor. My brother is a pious Muslim and has never missed a prayer. He felt uncomfortable selling the liquor, so he moved to Las Vegas, the sin city of the world, where he drives a cab. Ya Allah, you see everything and you know all. My brother still does not miss a prayer but in his last letter he expressed his pain and anger.<br /><br />Ya Al-Mutakabbir (The Majestic) – My brother makes decent money but he is having a serious problem with his company. The cab he drives has a sign on the roof that advertises about a “Ranch”. Ya Allah, when my brother explained what a Ranch meant, I was shocked. I did not know a Ranch is nothing but a brothel. We, the Muslims, have the right to rape any infidel women who are captured in a war, but we should not visit a brothel. My brother not only carries the sign on top of his cab, but he also takes passengers to the Ranch frequently. Ya Allah, forgive his unintentional sin.<br /><br />Ya Al-Aleem (The All-knowing) - You have seen how my brother reacted when the hero of Islam, Brother Osama Bin Laden, orchestrated the landing of the kafir’s plane in a kafir’s building? My brother did not go to work that day and prayed extra Rakas (sessions) of prayers all day. If you consider the happiness he shown on the vary day, you surely will forgive all of his sins.<br /><br />Ya Al-Waliyy (The Supporter) - It is time you support your religion and give enough strength to brother Osama. Make him more powerful and give him enough ammunition to destroy America, the greatest evil on the earth. Don’t you see the pain of Palestinians, the sufferings of Iraqi people, the anger of oppressed Muslims in Kashmir, China, Russia, Australia, Europe, and literally everywhere in the world? Ya Allah, support the Muslims, not the kafirs, who are becoming stronger every day, economically and militarily.<br /><br />Ya Al-Muthil (One who can humiliate) Muntaqim (The Avenger) - Ya Allah, your boyfriend Mohammed hated the Jews the most and we the followers still wish for their destruction. But, whenever I look at the prosperity of Jews, it shocks me. I just could not figure out how the Jews, your greatest enemy, are flourishing when the poor Palestinians are suffering. Ya Allah, you must act promptly and take revenge against those Jews and humiliate them.<br /><br />Ya Al-Muhaimin (The Protector) - You are the protector and the guardian of faith. Yet people today are making malicious comments, drawing cartoons and producing films of you and your friend Mohammed. Infidels and a bunch of apostates are calling you all kind of names, but you are not taking any action against them. How can we make our faith stronger, if you don’t protect your religion?<br /><br />Ameen!<br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1949"><br />faithfreedom.org</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-88479803802475756542008-08-11T10:35:00.000-07:002008-08-11T10:37:20.066-07:00Sex and sexuality in PakistanBy: Amar Khan<br /><br />This article is dedicated to Muslims living in the west.<br /><br /><br />Writing something about the society of Pakistan, I categorized the Pakistani people into:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">* Elite class</span><br /><br />This class includes government machinery, industrialists, Ministers and armed personals.<br /><br />These guys haven't any thing to do with Islam. They usually eat, drink and remain happy.<br /><br />There is no different between this class and westerners socially. They live in Pakistan but adopt customs of the west. So all the "evil" that are common in the west are also found in this class of Pakistanis.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">* Mediocre class</span><br /><br />This class includes mostly religious people because they always have need of God to remove their problems and for improving their life standard. About 2% of the people who say Islamic prayers fall into this category.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">* Poor class</span><br /><br />This class includes people who don't know about Islam and Mohammed. Their day starts in a quest for filling their bellies and ends with searching for a place to sleep. These people mostly are students of Islamic Madrassa. Most of the Taliban were among them. They are illiterate and can not even recite Islamic prayers.<br /><br />I noticed that Muslims living in infidel countries, enjoying equal rights and facilities, looks at Islam differently than Muslims living in Islamic countries. This is because they thought that whether Islam has something that changes society and social life of people. But sadly, Islam destroys family systems, allows polygamy and supports dictatorship.<br /><br />Many Muslims in the west thinks that in Islamic countries wine, gays, pre martial sex, abortion, porn, lesbians doesn't exist. But in reality, I will say these things are more common in Pakistan than in the West. I haven't seen the West yet but I know about Pakistan well. I toured a lot and having friends in different provinces I know a lot about this.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wine:</span><br /><br />It is very common and easily accessible. I can have a bottle while writing this article just pressing some numbers at my cell phone. For the elite class, wine is like mineral water supplied to their homes. About all the hotels have a special supply of champagne. For the middle class, being drunk seems a "sin" and people use it usually during celebrations and festivals. As shown in Indian films, it is common in parties. Wine of every type is available in Pakistan. Even villagers produce their indigenous wine to suffice the need of local people.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pre martial sex:</span><br /><br />Quest of fulfilling sexual desires starts quickly after the age of puberty reaches.<br /><br />I think it is natural because same behavior is found in animals. But I am not here to write whether pre martial sex is good or bad, but I will only describe how it exists in Pakistan.<br /><br />Due to honor killings, girls are basically bound to abstinence that is; the existence of pre martial sex in girls is comparatively a smaller ratio than the sodomy among boys.<br /><br />Sodomy is very common in Pakistan. It is more common in areas of NWFP where Islamization is stronger then other provinces. Actually, every one needs to be sexually satisfied by wet dreams, masturbation or pre martial sex. But in Islam masturbation can cause pregnancy of fingers therefore only way left is pre martial sex with any girl, boy or animal. Girls are bound due to honor killing and other Islamic rulings so the only way left for any Muslim youngster to satisfy himself sexually is sodomy. In Pakistan, people feel ashamed to masturbate or tell about it. On the other hand, they feel proud of telling about their sodomy. I think I am writing very openly but it is a fact. Despite all these activities whore business is still flourishing. For whores, every hour is rush hour. And due to new technological advancements you can call a "call girl" to your apartment via cell phone. These cell numbers are very common due to advertisement.<br /><br />The most common term in Pakistan is "heera mandi" (sex market). Every Pakistani reading this knows very well about it. This market is flourishing in every town and village of country. Police and other law enforcement agencies take their "share" in this business.<br /><br />Last week, friends of mine were talking that how much % of people exist who don't have sex before marriage. We asked this question to 100 boys from different regions of Pakistan in our university, being frank with us, reply was maximum between 3-5%. In clear words, among the Muslims of Pakistan only 7% can fight their lust and don't commit "zinah". You may think that I am exaggerating but it is fact. If you are Pakistani then ask yourself and ponder over all around you.<br /><br />Being a boy, I can not ask any girl about this. Because, I don't want to be involved in an honor killing. Honor killing is very common and is very boast able thing in Pakistan. Every day I read in local newspapers about honor killings. But the interesting thing is that those who honorary killed any girl are always indulged in pre martial sex. This is the double standard.<br /><br />It is a man's monopoly in Pakistan. Muslims want to have all kinds of relations with any other girls but when they conclude that any of their women are doing such a "sin" then only one cure is for her .That is being honorary killed.<br /><br />While having this sex rate in Pakistani, even I used to boast that western people are shameless and there are no moral values. But, now, I think it is the same everywhere. I wrote this because many Muslims living in western countries think that Islamic lands are pure and such kind of "evils" don't exist here.<br /><br />So dear Muslim reader don't think that Islamic countries are free from these "evils". And never think that Islamic societies are morally better than other societies.<br /><br />So if you are looking for any son in law or daughter in law from Pakistan just remember that no one guarantees his/her chastity.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2022">faithfreedom</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-21333849941372051602008-07-22T23:44:00.000-07:002008-07-22T23:46:23.603-07:00Official Website of the Prophet Mohammed<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.prophetmohammed.co.uk/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.laughingatislam.com/2008/fpimages/mohammed-flag.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I found a resourceful website It is<br /><a href="http://www.prophetmohammed.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Official Website of the Prophet Mohammed</a><br /><br />Many thanks to the author of this nice and attractive site.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-81217481580554680582008-07-22T23:39:00.000-07:002008-12-08T17:34:10.784-08:00Mohammed image<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtf0sB8uSZyi_h68bh5WrbBDxC9cRdONup-M4ic4oWvdEFLCroRag6mW7MSjNtpXbe-sM07xQ8WRPS5HIsrhFVmWTrLb-bTf3D69e1_2CTfd_I0kB9bdPJoijboAnYXwZRwgvGPvJ88aZ-/s1600-h/mo-aisha.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtf0sB8uSZyi_h68bh5WrbBDxC9cRdONup-M4ic4oWvdEFLCroRag6mW7MSjNtpXbe-sM07xQ8WRPS5HIsrhFVmWTrLb-bTf3D69e1_2CTfd_I0kB9bdPJoijboAnYXwZRwgvGPvJ88aZ-/s320/mo-aisha.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226096115968431426" border="0" /></a><br />Visit <a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/">Mohammed Image Archive</a> to get mohammed image.<br />Other Subdirectories of this site are:<br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/islamic_mo_full/">Islamic Depictions of Mohammed in Full</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/islamic_mo_face_hidden/">Islamic Depictions of Mohammed with Face Hidden</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/euro_medi_ren/">European Medieval and Renaissance Images</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/misc_mo/">Miscellaneous Mohammed Images</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/dantes_inferno/">Dante's Inferno</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/book_illos/">Book Illustrations</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/book_covers/">Book Covers</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/modern_satires/">Satirical Modern Cartoons</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/jyllands-posten_cartoons/">The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/recent/">Recent Responses to the Controversy</a></li><li><a href="http://www.challenging-islam.org/mohammed_image_archive/extreme_mohammed/">Extreme Mohammed</a></li></ol>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-58379156612192829192008-07-19T07:03:00.000-07:002008-07-19T07:05:55.037-07:00Muslims: Where Are the Proofs?<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Muslims: Where Are the Proofs?<br />Author: Cherson<br /></div><br />Islam is the only true religion, you say.<br /><br />And where are the proofs?<br /><br />If you are the followers of the only true religion, then your God must help you.<br /><br />Look at the Jews; in spite of all the misfortunes, they managed to build the state you can only be envious of. It does not matter, if they got help form someone or not - YOU the Muslims get a lot more help than Israel, but still live many times worse. What matters is that they COULD build the prosperous state in just 60 years-and you, in 600, COULD NOT. Besides, they, with around 5 million people living in the country the size of New Jersey and without any oil or any natural resources whatsoever, beat you in all the wars you started. It does not matter, if America helped them or not; America helped Israel, and the USSR gave much more help to you. What matters is that they beat you.<br /><br />When a tiny country without any natural resources beat the block of countries which exceeds it 40 times in population, 100 times in territory and I do not even know how many times in natural resources - I call this a Miracle.<br /><br />If this happens 2 times in a row, it means that the God Almighty pays special attention to this tiny country.<br /><br />And if it happens 5 times in a row, I have no explanation except that this tiny people are, indeed, elected by God.<br /><br />So, the God Of Israel Helps His People.<br /><br />Look at the Christians. They ALSO live better than you, and they are stronger than you, in spite of the two bloodiest wars in just the last 70 years. So, their God helps them, too.<br /><br />And what about YOUR God? Your Allah? Judging by how you the Muslims live today (in Egypt, one of the most advanced and “prosperous” among the Islamic countries, 43% of the population live on, or better to say, starve on 1.5 dollars a day), it looks like your God has not helped you too much.<br /><br />You live on the verge of hunger, importing from 35% to 55% of the food you consume - with that the climatic conditions in the Arab countries are much better than, let’s say, in Israel, which is, nonetheless, one of the world EXPORTERS of food.<br /><br />On the site of The Arab League you can find the list of the Muslims (mainly Arabs) whose contribution influenced the development of world civilization. The list is very impressive, but there is one feature the Arabs prefer not to talk about: it ends by the XIII century.<br /><br />Muslims, you spend on R&D (researches and development) only 0.4% of your rachitic GDP while Cuba, not a technological giant, spends 1.26% and Japan spends 2.9% of its enormous GDP on the scientific researches.<br /><br />I repeat: ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, and not on the investigations on the nature of Jiins and Hoors!<br /><br />According to UNESCO, 27% of Arab males and 49% of females (58 million of people, in total) are illiterate. Have you decided to copy your illiterate prophet in this, too, Muslims? If so, you should not have to weep that scientifically and technologically, you are at the level of Tropical Africa; you are where you have to be!<br /><br />But looks like you want to go further than your prophet! An average Arab studies 3.4 years (less-only in Tropical Africa). In Saudi Arabia, the richest of all the Arab countries, more than 25% of University graduates are the specialists in theology, and quite seriously investigate such a “serious” problem as the nature of hermaphrodites and what part of heritage the hermaphrodites have to get: the one of a woman-or the one of a man.<br /><br />Militarily, you are nothing. And without the American and European arms, you are even less than nothing. If it were not for the American and European arms, you would now have the weapons your forefathers used at Hittin and Poitier: sables and arches.<br /><br />I shall not humiliate you, Muslims, by comparing you to the USA or Japan (Japanese religiously are Pagans, by the way); near them you would look like an ant in the shadow of the elephant. It would be enough to say that the total GDP of the entire Arab world is somewhere close to $504-552 billion, which is roughly 1.8 to 2 times the gross state product of the State of Massachusetts.<br /><br />Let’s compare your achievements with the achievements of some small country.<br /><br />Israel, for example:<br /><br />Jews, 5 million people living on a piece of land a bit more than a football camp, managed to develop the tank which is considered among the best tanks in the world.<br /><br />Where are YOUR tanks, Muslims? Your most modern variant of the battle field tank was that famous camel that Aisha was sitting on during The Battle of the Camel. After that-nothing you have done nothing.<br /><br />Israelis military plane, the “Levi”, was initially built more than 30 years ago and is still serving in the armies of some Latin American countries.<br /><br />Where are YOUR planes, Muslims? The last Islamic flying apparatus I heard of was AlBuraq.<br /><br />Israel is one of the world’s pharmaceutical leaders. Millions of people in the world are saved annually thanks to Israelis pharmaceutical achievements.<br /><br />What are YOUR pharmaceutical achievements, Muslims? The famous advice by your “prophet” to drink camel urine as the All Cure medicine? Narrated Abu Qilaba: "Anas said, "Some people of 'Ukl or 'Uraina tribe came to Medina and its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine)… (Sahih Bukhari, Ablutions (Wudu'), Volume 1, Book 4, Number 234)<br /><br />In high-tech, to compare you – and Israel …It’s not even amusing.<br /><br />But maybe your Allah provided you with the level of life so high that and these “long-nosed sons of apes and monkeys” will tomorrow die of envy?<br /><br />No, they will not die. An average Israeli earns 1200-1400 dollars a month. And an average Arab? 150 - 200 dollars. http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/may03/middleEast5.asp<br /><br />Of course, you can go on calling them “apes”, ”monkeys”, ”long-nosed thieves” …Maybe it will make you feel better. But for sure, it will not make you LIVE better.<br /><br />What are the proofs that your religion is the only true, then?<br /><br />Moreover, Muslims, there is a very strict dependence: the more you pray-the worse you live, and less is the role you play in the world. For the last 600 years, you could not have even approached the Glory of Umayyads or Abbasids dynasties.<br /><br />But, hey, wait a moment! There WAS a moment of Glory of Islam, and Muslims have demonstrated to the world that they CAN create things to be remembered and admired by the future generations!<br /><br />The Islamic Golden Age, 8-12 centuries. You just look at the names!<br /><br />Omar Khayam (1048-1122),<br /><br />Al-Zahrawi (936-1013),<br /><br />Al-Khowarizmi (780-850);<br /><br />Al-Biruni (973-1050),<br /><br />Al-Kindi (801-873),<br /><br />Al-Battani (850-929 CE),<br /><br />Ibn-Sina (973-1037),<br /><br />Abdallah al-Ma'arri (973-1057),<br /><br />Omar Khayam (1048-1122),<br /><br />Ibn-Rushd (1128-1198) and<br /><br />Jalaluddin Rumi (Birth 1207)<br /><br />However, there is something very interesting about that period of the Islamic Golden Age - from the time preceding and following that period. The Golden Age of Islam strangely coincides in time with the birth and development of the Islamic doctrine called Mutazili, originated during the period of 'Abbasid Caliphate' (749-847 AD).<br /><br />I call it “Islamic doctrine”, but, as a matter of fact, Mutazili means “the deserter of Islam”! This theological doctrine originated in the 8th century in al-Basrah, Iraq, when Wasil Ibn´Atta after a theological discussion left to the people the teaching lessons of al-Hassan al-Basri. Thus, Ibn´Atta and his followers were labelled by these opponents "Mutazili" which means "deserter of Islam". The Mutazili theology expanded on the logic and rationalism of Greek philosophy, seeking to combine them with Islam, and show that they were inherently compatible.<br /><br />And do you know what questions were raised and openly debated by Muslims theologians and scholars at THAT time? For example, they calmly discussed, whether the Quran was created or if it was eternal. And do you know the conclusion of the discussion? The Mu'tazila scholars decided that the Quran had been created by Muhammad that it was not the Word of God.<br /><br />And nobody cut their heads, hands, feet and other important and not so important parts off their bodies.<br /><br />Among other questions openly, and without fear, discussed by the Islamic scholars at that time was whether or not evil was created by God, the issue of Predestination vs. Free Will, whether God's attributes in the Qur'an were to be interpreted allegorically or literally, and whether sinning believers would have eternal punishment in Hell.<br /><br />You may have thought that the Islamic leaders of that time ran around with swords in hand to cut off the heads of the “heretics”?<br /><br />Nothing of the kind. The doctrine that the Quran was not the Word of God but was created by Muhammad, which amounts to absolute heresy as per Classical Islam, was promoted by the, then Abbasid Caliph Haroon al-Rasheed (763-809), and was made the official court belief by his son, the great Caliph al-Mamun. Caliph al-Mamun even instituted inquisition-style persecution, called Mihna in Arabic meaning Ordeal (833-848), for those who would not accept the Mutazili ideology instead of Quranic Islam.<br /><br />You just imagine: until the 12th century the Muslims quite tolerantly accepted the idea that the Quran had been created by Muhammad, and did not run like a horde of amoc-driven hashish-smokers, to kill anyone who would dare to say this.<br /><br />And the Caliphate of Haroon AlRasheed and his son The Great Caliph al-Mamun are still remembered by the people for its freedom of thought and for that unbelievable push it gave to the sciences, literature, arts, technologies.<br /><br />But then… Mu'tazila belief system had a weak point; it was actively promoted by the Islamic Caliphs and was popular amongst the educated and intellectual elites – but did not reach the common mass. The dogmatic pro-Quran Muslims (today we should call them fundamentalists or Islamofascists) used this weak point in Mu’tazila. The dogmatic Quranic or Sunni Islam slowly started to dominate the Muslim thoughts and later Imam al-Ghazalli (d. 1111), the famous Ahadith-collector, provoked riots by challenging the rational thinking of Mu'tazila belief since it could not prove the reality of Allah. Famous intellectuals, such as Ibn-Sina, Ibn-Rusd, al-Ma'arri and Omar Khayam were called heretics or apostates by the Islamic zealots, such as Imam Ghazali. Subsequently, Mutazili started losing ground to the assaults of the Fundamentalist Muslims and finally lost patronage of the rulers and high officials. By the 13th Century, Mutazili was dead - and with that ended the so-called Golden Age of Islam.<br /><br />And since then - a lot of “AllahHuAkbar”, a lot of prostrating, exaggerated attention to the formal side of Islam, suicide belts, burkhas ,veils - on one side, and poverty, misery, hunger, backwardness - on the other.<br /><br />Fundamentalist Sunni Islam put an end to the development of Islamic World – and led it to stagnation, poverty and backwardness.<br /><br />Now, at least, I hope Muslims know who they have to hate.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1986">faithfreedom</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-31510018375114776242008-07-19T07:00:00.000-07:002008-07-19T07:01:47.135-07:00WAS MOHAMMED A PEDOPHILE?<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WAS MOHAMMED A PEDOPHILE?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Author: R. Frank</span><br /></div><br />Yes. Mohammed was undoubtedly a pedophile.<br /><br />One of the most disturbing things about Islam is that it does not categorically condemn pedophilia. Indeed, it cannot, for to do so would draw attention to the pedophilia of Mohammed, the founder of Islam. Mormonism has the same problem with its founder, Joseph Smith. Mormons cannot categorically condemn pedophilia either without denouncing Smith as a false prophet. Smith took 30 wives, one a 14-year-old. He planned unsuccessfully to marry a 12-year-old. Mohammed had planned to marry a baby, but died as a result of an attempted poisoning before he could do so. The two men were false prophets, they created their own alleged revelations and they were pedophiles. History does repeat itself.<br /><br />Pedophilia is the sexual exploitation of children. The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders says that pedophilia is "an abnormal interest in children…a disorder that is characterized by recurrent intense sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies generally involving…children, or other nonconsenting persons. Pedophilia is also a psychosexual disorder in which the fantasy or actual act of engaging in sexual activity with prepubertal children is the preferred or exclusive means of achieving sexual excitement and gratification…Pedophilia is defined by mental health professionals as a mental disorder, but the American legal system defines acting on a pedophilic urge as a criminal act."<br /><br />Please note the words: "the preferred…means of achieving sexual excitement and gratification." From the age of 54 until 64, Mohammed preferred the very young Aisha to the rest of his large harem and sex slaves. He had fantasies about Aisha before asking for her hand. He passed these fantasies off as "revelations" from the Supreme Being.<br /><br />The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders: "Some researchers attribute pedophilia to arrested emotional development; that is, the pedophile is attracted to children because he or she has never matured psychologically. Some regard pedophilia as the result of a distorted need to dominate a sexual partner. Since children are smaller and usually weaker than adults, they may be regarded as non-threatening potential partners. This drive for domination is sometimes thought to explain why most pedophiles are males."<br /><br />Mohammed's emphasis on controlling or dominating others and his use of savage, irresistible force to make them "submit" to his will is consistent with the narcissistic urges of a pedophile who enjoys the domination and submission of a small, vulnerable person.<br /><br />James Hord, a psychologist in Panama City, Florida, who specializes in treating sexually abused children, agrees that pedophiles "need to feel they have power and control in a relationship, which is easy with children."<br /><br />Pedophilia is an abuse of power.<br /><br />The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders: "Some pedophiles offer rationalizations or excuses that enable them to avoid assuming responsibility for their actions."<br /><br />Mohammed rationalized and excused every urge to dominate and control others, even to commit the sin of pedophilia, by using Allah as his alter ego, offering him a perfect justification for his other brutalities as well. The compliant source of his revelations gave Mohammed whatever justification he needed for unethical behavior.<br /><br />The American Psychiatric Association says: "An adult who engages in sexual activity with a child is performing a criminal and immoral act that never can be considered normal or socially acceptable behavior."<br /><br />Dutch psychologist Gerard van den Aardweg points out that "non-coerced" sex is a misnomer because there is always an element of coercion -- involving a misuse of adult authority, [my italics] and a misuse of the child's need for affection. If a researcher sees no harm, "it may be because he is using the wrong glasses...not because there is nothing to see."<br /><br />Dr. David Finkelhor, a leading U.S. researcher in the field of child sexual abuse, describes some of the consequences of childhood seduction: confusion about sexual identity and sexual norms; inability to differentiate sex from love; confusion between care-getting and care-giving, with lowered respect for adult authority; guilt, shame, anxiety, lowered self-esteem, depression, vulnerability to drug and alcohol abuse, and impaired ability to judge the trustworthiness of others.<br /><br />"Ultimately," says Dr. Finkelhor, "I do continue to believe that the prohibition on adult-child sexual contact is primarily a moral issue. While empirical findings have some relevance, they are not [to be] the final arbiter."<br /><br />Fallacious Arguments from Islamists:<br /><br />Arguing that Mohammed reflected the practices of his time is to admit that Mohammed was not inspired by God and was a false prophet. He did not raise the bar of morality to adult monogamy, but behaved the same as pagans. Moreover, by making marriage alliances, he revealed his true motive was his personal political power, rather than the religious or moral betterment of society. Far from showing Mohammed as a moral leader, this argument shows the reverse: that Mohammed was morally a pagan and a scheming politician. True revelation would have categorically denounced pedophilia as evil.<br /><br />Islamists further use the "Fallacy of the Circular Argument" or "Begging the Question" to answer this question. They begin by stating "Mohammed was a moral example given by God, so he could not be pedophile." They are merely "begging" us to believe that Mohammed's character was excellent in spite of evidence to the contrary. Since no moral person could be a pedophile, they conclude Mohammed was not a pedophile. This is the basic Islamic argument, but this reasoning is circular and fallacious. There were many people in Mohammed's day who considered him immoral. The Hadiths record that he had most of them exterminated. The use of violence to persuade others to "submit" is not a moral argument, but another logical fallacy. The Fallacy of the Appeal to Force in place of a reasoned argument is the most prevalent argument in the Hadiths and Koran.<br /><br />Conclusions:<br /><br />Obviously, we all cringe when we think of pedophilia and acknowledge that it is a shameful act of immorality, whether committed by Mohammed, Joseph Smith, a priest or others. The main conclusions of this article are<br /><br />1) Mohammed was a pedophile because he preferred his child bride to the others and planned to marry a baby<br /><br />2) not everyone at the time approved of his marriage to Aisha,<br /><br />3) Mohammed's pedophilia and multiple marriages caused huge scandals in his small community that required special revelations to restore confidence in him; these are recorded at length in the Koran,<br /><br />4) a true prophet would have been inspired by the Supreme Being to denounce the evil of pedophilia, rather than commit it,<br /><br />5) pedophilia is backward, uncivilized and barbaric and destroys the life of a woman,<br /><br />6) Muslims cannot condemn pedophilia even if they would like to, for they would have to abandon Islam. Muslims tacitly approve of pedophilia, even if they are embarrassed to say so. So mesmerized are Muslims by the example of Mohammed's pedophilia that they are unable to categorically denounce pedophilia or feel shame. It is prevalent in many Muslim countries disguised as child marriage. The UN is today trying to stop the evil of child marriage among the backward Islamic regions of Asia and Africa. The future of some 300 million young girls depends on it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1974">Faithfreedom.org</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-10460477615354027282008-07-19T06:58:00.000-07:002008-07-19T07:00:09.502-07:00Non-Muslims: Worse than Animals<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Non-Muslims: Worse than Animals </span> <br /></div>By Jamie Glazov<br /><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=CBA566EA-A36C-470D-9DD6-88D752FA5A4B">FrontPageMagazine.com</a> | Friday, July 04, 2008<br /><br />Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Abul Kasem, an ex-Muslim who is the author of hundreds of articles and several books on Islam including, Women in Islam. He was a contributor to the book Leaving Islam – Apostates Speak Out as well as to Beyond Jihad: Critical Views From Inside Islam. He writes from Sydney, Australia and can be reached at nirribilli@gmail.com.<br /><br />FP: Abul Kasem, welcome to Frontpage Interview.<br /><br />Kasem: Thank you.<br /><br />FP: We are here today to discuss how Islam views non-Muslims. What is the best way to start this discussion?<br /><br />Kasem: Those who have not read the Qur’an in detail have very little idea about the unremitting hatred Allah has for the non-Muslims. One striking aspect of Islam’s unbound rage and hatred for the unbelievers is that Allah is obsessed with tagging the unbelievers with animals—various types, such as dogs, camels, cows, pigs, apes, goat and so on.<br /><br />FP: Can you share some verses from the Qur’an, ahadith, and other important sources in Islam on this theme?<br /><br />Kasem: Sure. Allah sees unbelievers as worse than animals. Let us start with verse 8:55 of the Qur’an. In essence this verse says: the unbelievers are the worst beasts (or worst animals) in the eyes of Allah.<br /><br />According to ibn Abbas and Jalalyn, the most eminent exegetes of the Qur’an, Allah revealed this verse regarding the B. Qurayzah Jews. These Jews had unconditionally surrendered to Muhammad’s invading army. Earlier, Muhammad had asked these hapless Jews, comprising of women children and adult males, to convert to Islam if they wanted to be reprieved from the genocide that was pronounced on them by the judge appointed by Muhammad. But these Jews steadfastly refused to embrace Islam, preferring death instead. So, when they turned down Muhammad’s offer of ‘mercy’, around 700 to 900 of the adult males were beheaded right in front of Muhammad. Muhammad’s companions participated in this orgy of beheadings. This was similar to the scene of an abattoir where animals are driven to be slaughtered by Islamic swords and knives.<br /><br />Commenting on this frenzy of slaughter of these Jews, ibn Kathir, another eminent tafsir writer, writes that the unbelievers who do not embrace Islam and break treaties are the worst moving creatures on earth; Muslims should punish them harshly and inflict heavy casualties among them.<br /><br />In Qur’an 25:44, Allah says that unbelievers are worse than cattle and animals.<br /><br />Ibn Kathir provides the reason why non-Muslims are worse than animals and grazing cattle: cattle only do what they were created to do, but these people were created to worship Allah alone without associating partners with Him, but they worship others with Him, even though evidence has been established against them and Messengers have been sent to them.<br /><br />Allah hurls further insults to the Jews and Christians if they do not accept the Qur’an. Allah says in Qur’an 4:47 that the Qur’an confirms the books sent before it; the people of the book are cursed if they do not believe in the Qur’an. Because of this calumny Allah may efface their faces. According to ibn Kathir effacing means turning them blind; turn their faces backward means to put their faces on their backs and make them walk backwards, and curse them means to turn them into animals.<br /><br />Allah says in Qur’an 6:122 that He raises the believers from the dead and provides them with light to enable them to move among the disbelievers; but the unbelievers move in total darkness.<br /><br />Commenting on this verse Maulana Abul Ala Maududi, a modern exegete of the Qur’an writes (Tafheem ul Quran commentary number 6/88):<br /><br />'Death' signifies here the state of ignorance and lack of consciousness, whereas 'life' denotes the state of knowledge and true cognition, the state of awareness of Reality. He, who cannot distinguish between right and wrong and does not know the Straight Way for human life, may be alive on the biological plane, but his essential humanity is not. He may be a living animal but is certainly not a living human being. A living human being is one who can distinguish right from wrong, good from evil, honesty from dishonesty.<br /><br />Readers should note that ‘Straight Way’ means Islam. The gist of Maududi’s comment is that a human being who does not accept Islam is a living animal.<br /><br />FP: So what should happen to these lowest of animals according to Islam?<br /><br />Kasem: Islam decrees that they be slaughtered Islamically, just in the manner as animals are killed, that is, by beheading.<br /><br />In Sunaan ibn Majah (hadis number 4.3126) we read that the blood of animals is very dear to Allah, and therefore, one must slaughter animals to please Allah (hadis number 4.3167). Since non-Muslims are animals it is evident that Allah has a great penchant for the blood of infidels.<br /><br />FP: What are some of the most disturbing verses in terms of all of this?<br /><br />Kasem: Qur’an 7:176-177 will profoundly disturb many non-Muslims. In verse 7:176 Allah says those who reject faith are like panting dogs; preaching to them is a waste of time. Maulana Maududi writes (commentary number 7/139):<br /><br />…This is followed by a statement in which God likens the person in question to a dog. A dog's protruding tongue and the unceasing flow of saliva from his mouth symbolize unquenchable greed and avarice. The reason for likening the human character described above to a dog is because of his excessive worldliness… This metaphor of the dog highlights the fate of the worldly man who breaks loose from his faith and knowledge, who entrusts his reins to blind lust and who ends up as one wholly devoted to gratifying his own appetite.<br /><br />What Maududi is says is quite clear: those who do not accept Islam are greedy dogs.<br /><br />Further, in verse 7:177 Allah says: Those who reject the Qur’an, wrong themselves; they are evil. According to ibn Abbas, their example is that of a dog.<br /><br />FP: After killing unbelievers, what does one do with their corpses?<br /><br />Kasem: Unbelievers’ corpses are to be fed to dogs.<br /><br />Since Allah likens the non-Muslims to dogs, it is just fair that their corpses be fed to the dogs. Thus in Ash Shifa (Ash –Shifa of Qadi ‘Iyad. Translated by Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley. Madinah Press, P.O. Box 5531. Inverness, IV5 7YA, Scotland, U.K. 2004. ISBN: 1 874216262. p.411) we read:<br /><br />If a Jew or a Christian reviles Muhammad he is beheaded.<br /><br />In an An Nawadir (footnote 1: A book by Ibn Abi Zayd, author of the Risala) from the version of Sahnum from Malik, we find that any Jew or Christian who reviles the Prophet in any other than normal way by which the Jews and Christians reject him is beheaded unless he becomes a Muslim.<br /><br />If a Christian reviles Muhammad kill him and let the dog eat his corpse.<br /><br />Abu’l Mus’ab said, “A Christian was brought to me who said, “By the One who chose ‘isa over Muhammad/.’ There was a dispute about him before me. So I beat him until I killed him, or he lived for a day and a night. I commanded someone to drag him by the feet and throw him into a dung heap and the dogs ate him.”<br /><br />In case readers have doubt about the ‘purity’ of Ash Shifa, this is what is written at the back of this famous Islamic book:<br /><br />Kitab Ash-Shifa bi tar’rif huquq al Mustafa (Healing by the recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One), of Qadi ‘Iyad (d. 544H/1149CE) is perhaps the most frequently used and commented upon handbook in which the Prophet’s life, his qualities and his miracles are described in every detail. Generally known by its short title, Ash Shifa, this work was so highly admired throughout the Muslim world that it soon acquired a sanctity of its own for it is said: “If Ash Shifa is found in a house, this house will not suffer any harm…when a sick person reads it or it is recited to him, Allah s.w.t. will restore his health.”<br /><br />Ash Shifa gathers together all that is necessary to acquaint the reader with the true stature of the Prophet, peace and blessing be upon him, with the esteem and respect which is due to him, and with the verdict regarding anyone who does not fulfill what his stature demand or who attempts to denigrate his supreme status—even by as much as a nail pairing.<br /><br />Therefore, we should have no doubt that in Islam a non-Muslim’s corpse is worth dog food.<br /><br />FP: I imagine that the Jews have a special category in all of these descriptions.<br /><br />Kasem: Of course. Jews are apes and swine<br /><br />Thanks to the power of the Internet, today the world has become aware of the extreme hatred that Islam possesses for the Jews. Islam views the Jews as monkeys and pigs—perhaps the two most despicable animals in the eyes of Allah.<br /><br />In Qur’an 2:65 Allah say that because the Jews broke the Sabbath He transformed the them into apes and swine. Many Islamists living in the West often attempt to soften this extreme insult by saying that this transformation is just figurative, and it is not to be taken seriously.<br /><br />This is what ibn Kathir writes about the transformation of Jews into monkeys and pigs:<br /><br />They began using deceitful means to avoid honoring the Sabbath by placing nets, ropes and artificial pools of water for the purpose of fishing before the Sabbath. When the fish came in abundance on Saturday as usual, they were caught in the ropes and nets for the rest of Saturday. During the night, the Jews collected the fish after the Sabbath ended. When they did that, Allah changed them from humans into monkeys, the animals having the form closest to humans; the young people turned into howling monkeys with tails while the older prople were turned into swines. They lived on earth only for three days. They did not eat, drink or had offspring.<br /><br />Ibn Abbas writes that this happened during the time of Prophet David.<br /><br />This is what Maulana Maududi (commentary number 2/83) writes about the Jews:<br /><br />But both the words and the manner in which this incident is recounted in the Qur’an seem to suggest that what took place was a physical transformation of certain persons into apes rather than just a moral metamorphosis. What seems plausible to me is that while their minds were allowed to remain intact, their bodies were changed into those of apes.<br /><br />Maududi has harsher words for the Jews when commenting on verse 5:60 in which Allah says that He transformed some unbelievers into monkeys and pigs. Maududi writes:<br /><br />This alludes to the Jews whose history shows that they were subjected, over and over again, to the wrath and scourge of God. When they desecrated the law of the Sabbath the faces of many of them were distorted, and subsequently their degeneration reached such a low point that they took to worshipping Satan quite openly. The purpose of saying all this is to draw attention to their criminal boldness while they had sunk to the lowest level of evil, transgression and moral decadence; they vigorously opposed all those who, thanks to their faith, lived a truly pious and righteous life.<br /><br />Verses 5:78, 7:166, and 5:27 of the Qur’an repeat the same theme explained above.<br /><br />In connection with verse 5:27 ibn Kathir writes that the Jews and their ilk are the brothers of monkeys and swine.<br /><br />We might wonder from where ibn Kathir and other stalwarts of Islam had their exegeses. The truth is: Muhammad himself had described the Jews as the brothers of monkeys and pigs. Here is the proof (this incidence refers to Muhammad’s attack on B. Qurayzah Jews):<br /><br />‘When the Messenger of God had approached their fortresses, he said: “You brothers of apes! Has God shamed you and sent down his retribution on you?” they said, “Abu al-Qasim, you have never been one to act impetuously.”’ (The History of al Tabari, vol.viii, p.28).<br /><br />Thus, according to Islam, the Jews are still considered as apes. It is a decree by Allah, and Muhammad had confirmed this in the operation for B. Qurayzah. Ibn Sa’d (Ibn Sa’d, Kitab Tabaqat al Kabir, tr. S. Moinul Haq. vol.ii, p.95) writes: Muhammad said, “O brothers of monkeys and pigs! Fear me, fear me.”<br /><br />FP: What other animals are non-believers compared to?<br /><br />Kasem: Cattle herd.<br /><br />The pagans of Mecca were ardent followers of their traditional religious beliefs and customs. Despite Muhammad’s desperate attempt to lure them to his new creed, very few Meccans had shown any interest in his call. Frustrated Muhammad started to denigrate their religion, insulted their deities and used vulgar languages to mock at their rituals and customs. In verse 2:171 Allah said that to follow blindly forefathers religion is parroting; they (the unbelievers) are like a goat-herd; deaf, dumb and blind.<br /><br />Maududi (commentary number 2/169) explains this verse in this manner:<br /><br />This parable has two aspects. On the one hand, it suggests that these people are like herds of irrational animals, dumb cattle that always follow their herdsmen, moving on as they hear their calls without understanding what they mean. On the other hand, it also suggests that when the Truth is preached to them they show such insensitivity to it that one may as well be addressing animals that merely comprehend sounds but are incapable of understanding their meaning. The expression lends itself to both interpretations.<br /><br />In verse 7:179 Allah says that non-Muslim jinns and humans are worse than cattle. According to Jalalyn: Because [at least] they [cattle] seek what is beneficial to them and stay away from what is harmful to them: these individuals, on the other hand, are proceeding towards the Fire, out of [sheer] obstinacy.<br /><br />Even on the resurrection day the unbelievers will be driven to hell like thirsty cattle hastened to water (19:86).<br /><br />FP: What else are unbelievers?<br /><br />Kasem: Deaf, dumb, and blind.<br /><br />Because non-Muslims are worse than animals and cattle, it naturally follows that their intelligence, knowledge, aptitude and talent are also similar to animals. Thus, Allah says that the unbelievers are deaf, dumb (stupid), and blind. In connection with verse 6:36 ibn Kathir writes that being deaf and blind is the state of the disbelievers.<br /><br />Here are a few verses where Allah affirms this:<br /><br />Unbelievers are deaf, dumb and blind (also see 6:39, 2:171, 7:179, 8:23, 24:40, 22:46, 46:26, 43:36 37)...2:18<br /><br />Allah intentionally puts veil on the hearts of some of those who listen to Muhammad. He also puts deafness in their ears because they claim that the Qur’an is the narration of old tales…6:25<br /><br />Those who deny Allah’s revelation to Muhammad (Qur’an) are deaf and dumb, groping in darkness…6:39<br /><br />The worst of beasts in the sight of Allah are the deaf and dumb who do not understand Islam (this verse refers to the hypocrites—both the unbelievers and the hypocrites are the same; they are deaf and dumb—ibn Kathir)...8:22<br /><br />Unbelievers are deaf and dumb; Muhammad cannot make a deaf listen or understand…10:42<br /><br />Muhammad’s warning is from a divine inspiration, but the unbelievers are deaf so that they do not heed Muhammad's warning…21:45<br /><br />The unbelievers are dead, deaf, and dumb (stupid); Muhammad could never make them understand…27:80<br /><br />It is useless to preach to the deaf and the dead…30:52<br /><br />Dead and deaf cannot be made to hear...Sahih Bukhari, 2.23.453<br /><br />FP: Well, suffice it to say that, according to Islam, Muslims and non-Muslims can never be equal. Perhaps it's no surprise that multiculturalism, in terms of our understanding of it, does not thrive under Islam.<br /><br />Kasem: Indeed. This is the logical conclusion—animals (non Muslims) and humans (Muslims) can never be equal. Here are a few verses where Allah has created a permanent separation between Muslims and non-Muslims:<br /><br />Believers (Muslims) and non believers are not equal…6:50<br /><br />People on whom Allah has promised His blessing cannot be on par with people who enjoy material comfort (Believers and non Believers are not equal—Jalalyn)…28:61<br /><br />There cannot be equal treatment between the believers and the unbelievers (Muslims and<br /><br />non Muslims are not equal—ibn Kathir.)…38:28<br /><br />Believers are not equal with unbelievers…39:9<br /><br />Allah discriminates between the believers and the non believers. (Allah the Exalted states here that the believers and the disbelievers are never equal—ibn Kathir)…45:21<br /><br />Unbelievers are blind; they cannot be equal to those who follow Islam, the straight path…67:22<br /><br />Allah cannot treat equally the submitters (believers) and the rebels (unbelievers)…68:35<br /><br />FP: So the conclusion to our discussion?<br /><br />Kasem: Islam has very little respect for humanity, as we understand it. In the first place, it does not consider non-Muslims as human beings. Therefore, it is useless to talk with Islam about human rights, equality in the eye of law, religious freedom, and freedom of expression, democratic rights, people’s government, universal suffrage, and any universal declaration of human rights.<br /><br />That is why it is impossible to negotiate or compromise with Islam or to secure permanent peace (like Israelis and Palestinians or Kashmir and India). Anyone having the slightest humanism, conscience, and compassion should be appalled at the Islamic theology I have presented here today. It is time that the entire humanity realizes the futility of engaging in inter-faith dialogue with Islam. As long as the unbelievers are treated as animals in Islam, it is not possible to have equal rights is Islamic societies.<br /><br /><br />We need the world to realize this truth and to unite together. Truly, the world is permanently divided into two warring camps: the world of humans (Islam) and the world of ‘animals’ (non-Islam). Without wasting time in endless dialogues, let us accept this reality and do what we must do to defend our freedom and civilization.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-17017815504137802432008-07-19T06:55:00.000-07:002008-12-08T17:34:11.401-08:00Muslim Mindset: 'The hatred is in Muhammad himself'<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikucJVZMqkDAys9Xh5oNvfobNKEgLf_sRmqjiYasNKuShia4WJjE29Jx-MURB-Lm1CZ2-SvC5V24wYz76aiU9AmI0qibWl3wUiePzUx4YspX_w6vgGQaK87zTf1tYlwHhuW16uoeYrvt2-/s1600-h/jplogo.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikucJVZMqkDAys9Xh5oNvfobNKEgLf_sRmqjiYasNKuShia4WJjE29Jx-MURB-Lm1CZ2-SvC5V24wYz76aiU9AmI0qibWl3wUiePzUx4YspX_w6vgGQaK87zTf1tYlwHhuW16uoeYrvt2-/s320/jplogo.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224723881228505106" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Muslim Mindset: 'The hatred is in Muhammad himself'</span></div><div class="grey smallTxt140" style="margin: 15px 0pt; text-align: justify;">Jun. 19, 2008<br />Sam Ser , THE JERUSALEM POST </div><p style="text-align: justify;">To Westerners and moderate Muslims shocked by the radical form of Islam now topping nightly newscasts, the efforts of liberal-minded Muslims like Tawfik Hamid, Italian Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi and a handful of others may seem like the perfect solution. Not so for Ali Sina, who has a different suggestion: destroy Islam. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sina, who runs Faith Freedom International - an Internet forum dedicated to debunking Islam - calls himself "probably the biggest anti-Islam person alive." The publication of his latest book, <i>Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allah's Prophet</i>, will likely cement that position. In it, Sina suggests that Islam's central figure suffered from a series of mental disorders, including narcissistic personality disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy and obsessive compulsive disorder. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"These disorders," he says via telephone, "can explain the phenomenon known as Islam... which is nothing but one man's insanity." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sina grew up a non-practicing Muslim. Raised in Iran, educated in Pakistan and Italy and now living in Canada, he began jousting with believers in the 1990s. What bothered him, he tells <i>The Jerusalem Post</i>, was not the penchant for jihad and intolerance that certain fanatical Muslims displayed, but the foundation for such ills in the Koran and core Islamic texts. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">(Through the Faith Freedom Web site, Sina lists canonical references to Muhammad's actions and offers $50,000 to anyone who can disprove Sina's charge that Islam's prophet was "a narcissist, a misogynist, a rapist, a pedophile, a lecher, a torturer, a mass murderer, a cult leader, an assassin, a terrorist, a mad man and a looter." Respondents relentlessly attack Sina's motives, but none has won the prize.) </p><p style="text-align: justify;">With violent conquest and contempt for non-believers central to the tenets of the faith, Sina argues, attempts to forge a moderate form of Islam are doomed. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The idea that Islam can be reformed is a fallacy," he scoffs. "It's like saying we can reform Nazism and it will be a wonderful party." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">No, says Sina, "The only way to reform Islam is to throw away the Koran; 90 percent of it should be thrown away. You also have to throw away the history of Islam, and you have to completely disregard the Sira" - the Arabic term used for the various traditional Muslim biographies of Muhammad, from which most historical information about his life and the early period of Islam is derived. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">For this reason, Sina says, Western suggestions that extremism in Islam can be eradicated if certain imams are quieted, or if Muslims are encouraged to embrace the universalist elements of their faith - but without addressing the extremism inherent in the religion's texts - are based on a mistaken comparison of Islam to Christianity. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"In the West, people ask whether Islam can undergo a reformation like the one that Christianity underwent. That's a poor parallel," he says. "In Christianity, it wasn't the religion that needed to be reformed, but the church; what Jesus preached was good." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand, Sina continues, "In Islam, it's not the community that is bad, but the religion. Islam has nothing like 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.' Islam is full of hatred, and the hatred is in Muhammad himself. I argue in my book that Muhammad was insane - and that Muslims, by emulating him and by emulating his ways, his insanity is bequeathed to them." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">BY NOW, CRITICS of Islam are fairly common in the West. And there are more than a few former Muslims who have rejected Islam in favor of Christianity, citing the difference between their former religion's overwhelming focus on hatred and their newfound faith's central teaching of love and forgiveness. But, like Wafa Sultan, Ibn Warraq, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the handful of other apostate Muslims demanding that Muslims reject the negative aspects of their religion, Sina's critiques are especially problematic. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"People have to dismiss me some way, they have to put me down in one way or another. I'm a Jew, I'm a Christian, I'm a Hindu. I'm whatever people want to say in order to discredit me," says Sina, who closely guards his true identity because of the death threats he receives. "But they can't ignore my questions." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sina has little patience for those who believe they can temper Islam with reason and mutual respect, or for those who remain cowed by the masses of Muslim devotees around the world. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Islam is the biggest hoax, the biggest lie," he says. "Yes, a billion people believe it. But truth is truth. People will eventually see it. Believe me, there is no other answer. We will pay a great price until we realize that this is the solution - to undermine Islam itself, to show Muslims that this religion is not from God, that Muhammad was a charlatan and a liar." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sina knows that his blunt, outspoken approach can be "problematic." But he is confident nonetheless that the force of his arguments will ultimately prevail. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"I am sure that, with time, I will convince millions and millions of Muslims, and the foundations of Islam will collapse," he says. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Already, he continues, Faith Freedom has attracted an impressive amount of attention. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"In Iran, my site is banned. In many parts of Pakistan, it is banned. The list goes on," he says. "Despite this, I have over 10 million readers in just over two and a half years. And I have received letters from Muslims from all over the world. Muslims everywhere are paying attention. I believe that Muslims everywhere are realizing that something is amiss. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"If I didn't have so much success in convincing people, then I would not be so confident. But I see that truth works. So many people who are now writing for me and putting things up on Youtube; seven or eight years ago, we were having fierce debates. Now, they are my greatest allies. There are many people who have seen the light after reading FFI and many of them are now working on my side, trying to help others to see the truth. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"This is the way to fight evil. I do not want to kill the enemy. I want to win them as friends and allies. That is the real victory. In this way, we win because we eliminate our enemy, and our enemy wins by eliminating his ignorance and hate. That is why I believe in my cause. That is why I think I am an instrument of peace."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1213794275742&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">Jerusalem post</a><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-55774450326300674592008-07-15T22:48:00.000-07:002008-12-08T17:34:11.544-08:00Iran Zilla<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8efkzeAv88y3K1-ZafFP27wLtwSIZLWbj8AXMhjHpt1eGUwl-_piTdzL66XtYS3t8CGpRZGnFQEqDB86zSIAwXijrqsWxu42cgSr10u3UXp9aaRSuGDwphdVYNAy8aM1g-phPaUP_K3-7/s1600-h/iranzilla3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8efkzeAv88y3K1-ZafFP27wLtwSIZLWbj8AXMhjHpt1eGUwl-_piTdzL66XtYS3t8CGpRZGnFQEqDB86zSIAwXijrqsWxu42cgSr10u3UXp9aaRSuGDwphdVYNAy8aM1g-phPaUP_K3-7/s400/iranzilla3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223485137886921458" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;">Iran's real face= Iranzilla</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-22017008188081922232008-07-09T10:57:00.001-07:002008-07-09T10:58:18.922-07:00Women: Islam’s Domestic Animals<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">By Jamie Glazov</span><br /><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=804B2107-EDF4-4379-9A2C-176CF7772397">FrontPageMagazine.com</a><br /></div><br />Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Abul Kasem, an ex-Muslim who is the author of hundreds of articles and several books on Islam including, Women in Islam. He was a contributor to the book Leaving Islam – Apostates Speak Out as well as to Beyond Jihad: Critical Views From Inside Islam.<br /><br />FP: Abul Kasem, welcome to Frontpage Interview.<br /><br />Kasem: Thank you Jamie. I am glad to be back.<br /><br />FP: We’re here today to discuss how women are considered to be domestic animals in Islam and are to be treated as such.<br /><br />Let’s begin with the origins of this value system in connection to women in Islam.<br /><br />Muhammad’s last instruction to Muslim men was to beat women and treat them as domestic animals, correct? Can you tell us about this last instruction and its context?<br /><br />Kasem: Sure Jamie. In AH 10 (Islamic calender), that is, in 632CE Muhammad made his formal pilgrimage to Mecca. This was the only, the first and the last Haj Muhammad had<br /><br />done. Having taught his followers the rituals of haj, and having performed them himself, in the valley of Arafat, Muhammad addressed them in an impassioned speech. This was his last speech, and accordingly, in the Islamic annals it is recorded as the farewell (Hajjtul wida) speech. Sourcing a long chain of narrators, Tabari, the most eminent Islamic historian writes (the full text):<br /><br />Ibn Humayd—Salamah—Ibn Ishaq—‘Abdallah b. Abi Najih:<br /><br />Then the Messenger of God proceeded to perform his pilgrimage, showing the people its rites and teaching them its customs. Then he addressed them in a speech and elucidated [certain things]. After he had praised and glorified God, he said, “O people, listen to my words. I do not know whether I shall ever meet you again in this place after this year. O people, your blood and your property are sacrosanct until you meet your Lord, just as this day and this month of yours are sacred. Surely you will meet your Lord and he will question you about your deeds. I have [already] made this known. ‘Let he who has a pledge return it to the one who entrusted him with it;’ all usury is abolished, but your capital belongs to you. Wrong not and you shall not be wronged.’ God has decreed that there will be no usury, and the usury of ‘Abbas b. ‘Abd al-Muttalib is abolished, all of it. All blood shed in pre-Islamic days is to be left unavanged. The first such claim I revoke is that of Ibn Rabi’ah b. al-Harith b. ‘Abd al-Muttalib, who was nursed among the Banu Layth and was slain by the Banu Hudhayl. His is the first blood shed in the pre-Islamic days with which I shall set an example. O people, indeed Satan despairs of ever being worshipped in this land of yours. He will be pleased, however, if he is obeyed in a thing other than that, in matters you minimize. So beware of him in your religion. O the unbelievers, O people, ‘Intercalating a month is an increase of unbelief whereby the unbelievers go astray; one year they make it profane, and hallow it another, [in order] to agree with the number that God has hallowed, and so profane what God has hallowed, and hallow what God has made profane.’ Time has completed its cycle [and is] as it was when the day that God created the heaven and the earth. ‘The number of the months with God is twelve: [they were] in the Book of God on the day He created the heavens and the earth. Four of them are sacred, the three consecutive [months] and the Rajab, [which is called the month of] Mudar, which is between Jumada (II) and Sha’ban.”<br /><br />“Now then, O people, you have a right over your wives and they have a right over you. You have [the right] that they should not cause anyone of whom you dislike to tread your beds, and that they should not commit any open indecency (fahishah). If they do, then God permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain from [evil], they have the right to their food and clothing in accordance with custom (bi’l-maruf). Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals (‘awan) with you and do not possess anything for themselves. You have taken them only as a trust from God, and you have made the enjoyment of their persons lawful by the word of God, so understand and listen to my words, O people. I have conveyed the Message, and have left you with something which, if you hold fast to it, you will never go astray: that is, the Book of God and the sunnah of His Prophet. Listen to my words, O people, for I have conveyed the message and understand [it]. Know for certain that every Muslim is a brother of another Muslim, and that all Muslims are brethren. It is not lawful for a person [to take] from his brother except that which he has given him willingly, so do not wrong yourselves. O God, have I not conveyed the message?” It was reported [to me] that the people said, “O God, yes.” And the Messenger of God said, “O God, bear witness.”<br /><br />Reference:<br />Al-Tabari, Abu Ja’far Muhammad b. Jarir. The History of al-Tabari. Vol.IX: The Last Years of the Prophet. Translated and annotated by Ismail K. Poonawala. State University of NewYork Press, Albany, 1990. (Pages 112-114. Bold emphasis is mine)<br /><br />FP: Well I don’t really see how there can be any confusion over interpretation here, it appears pretty clear.<br /><br />Kasem: Well yes, in the few words above, the most hallowed speech by Muhammad, he had clearly described women as domestic animals, and instructed their husbands to beat them if they suspect that their wives’ behavior are not to their satisfaction. Please note that those were Muhammad’s last decrees to Muslim husbands. Every Muslim husband is duty bound by those instructions of Muhammad.<br /><br />FP: What have Muslim scholars said about these words?<br /><br />Kasem: Let’s tale a look at what ibn Ishaq, the most authentic biographer of Muhammad, wrote about Muhammad’s last words on women during his farewell speech:<br /><br />You have rights over your wives and they have rights over you. You have the right that they should not defile your bed and that they should not behave with open unseemliness. If they do, God allows you to put them in separate rooms and to beat them but not with severity. If they refrain from these things they have the right to their food and clothing with kindness. Lay injunctions on women kindly, for they are prisoners with you having no control- of their persons. You have taken them only as a trust from God, and you have the enjoyment of their persons by the words of God, so understand (T. and listen to) my words, O men, for I have told you. I have left with you something which if you will hold fast to it you will never fall into error—a plain indication, the book of God and the practice of His prophet, so give good heed to what I say.<br /><br />Know that every Muslim is a Muslim's brother, and that the Muslims are brethren. It is only lawful to take from a brother what he gives you willingly, so wrong not yourselves. O God, have I not told you?<br /><br />Reference: Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad b. Yasr, Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated in English by A. Guillaume. First published by Oxford University Press, London in 1955. Fifteenth reprint by Oxford University Press, Karachi, Pakistan, 2001. (p.651. Bold emphasis is mine.)<br /><br />FP: So what are we to gather from all of this?<br /><br />Kasem: What we are to gather is that there is not much difference between Tabari’s version and Ibn Ishaq’s. In Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad considered women to be prisoners in the hands of men, quite similar to domestic animals who are prisoners in the hands of their owners.<br /><br />Those words of Muhammad should not surprise us. In a few ahadith we note that Muhammad likened women to dogs, camels, asses…and so on, all domestic animals.<br /><br />FP: Some examples?<br /><br />Kasem: Here are a few sample ahadith:<br /><br />Aisha complained that Muhammad’s followers made women like dogs and asses…Sahih Muslim, 4.1039<br /><br />If there is a bad luck in anything then it is horse, the abode and the woman… Sahih Muslim, 26.5528, 5529<br /><br />A prayer is annulled by a passing woman, a dog and a monkey...Sahih Bukhari, 1.9.490, 493,498<br /><br />Women, houses and horses are evil omens...Sahih Bukhari, 7.62.30, 31, 32<br /><br />An ass, a woman and a black dog annuls a prayer…Sunaan Nasai, 1.753<br /><br />A menstruating woman and a dog cuts off a prayer...Sunaan Abu Dawud, 2.0703<br /><br />Either a dog, an ass, a pig, a Jew, a Magian and a woman cuts off a prayer...Sunaan Abu Dawud, 2.0704<br /><br />Women, slaves and camels are the same; must seek Allah's refuge from all these...Sunaan Abu Dawud, 11.2155<br /><br />A house, a horse and a woman is an evil omen; a mat in a house is better than a barren woman…Sunaan Abu Dawud, 3.29.3911<br /><br />A black dog is satan; a black dog or a donkey or a woman cancels a prayer…Sunaan ibn Majah, 2.952<br /><br />Beat your wives if they commit sinful acts; women are captives of their husbands…Sunaan ibn Majah, 3.1851<br /><br />A woman is a property; a righteous woman is the best property…Sunaan ibn Majah, 3.1855 (Please note: a pregnant camel during Muhammad’s time was the best property)<br /><br />Seek refuge from a woman, a servant and cattle—they are evils…Sunaan ibn Majah , 3.1918<br /><br />Muhammad’s final sermon—beat women…Sunaan ibn Majah , 4.3074<br /><br />Women are your prisoners, treat them well, if necessary beat them but not severely…Tirmidhi, 104<br /><br />FP: I think it becomes clear what the roots are to the violent oppression of women in Islam. We welcome readers to watch our film on this depressing phenomenon.<br /><br />Abul Kasem, thank you for joining us today and for revealing to us some of the historical roots to Islamic gender apartheid.<br /><br />Kasem: Thank you Jamie.<br /><br />Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's managing editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He edited and wrote the introduction to David Horowitz’s Left Illusions. He is also the co-editor (with David Horowitz) of The Hate America Left and the author of Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev’s Soviet Union (McGill-Queens University Press, 2002) and 15 Tips on How to be a Good Leftist. To see his previous symposiums, interviews and articles Click Here. Email him at jglazov@rogers.com.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-6526177114968745922008-07-09T10:53:00.000-07:002008-07-09T10:56:09.425-07:00You Know The Answers<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <!-- To change picture from left to right, change "TopicImgLeft" to "TopicImgRight" --><span style="font-weight: bold;"> By: Cherson</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="color:Blue;">The editors of Faith Freedom do not concur with extra-judicial measures to deal with any residents of our "FREE" countries, after we are ruled by the law. Some of the “solutions” offered below appear to be extra-judicial and appear to be reactionary.</span><br /><span style="color:Blue;"> </span><br /><span style="color:Blue;"> However, they do form a basis of what could happen if a free country is pressed to do extraordinary things to maintain their sovereignty and civil order. Historically we have seen reasonable governments do unreasonable things in times of crisis. Sometimes harsh messages must be heard to avoid the crisis itself.</span><br /><span style="color:Blue;"> </span><br /><span style="color:Blue;"> In this article Cherson is the lightning rod. </span><br /><span style="color:Blue;"> </span><br /><span style="color:Blue;"> The Editors</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>THE QUESTION: how to stop the islamization of Europe and at the same time stop the terrorist attacks by Muslims in non-Muslim countries? </b><br /><br />Our pseudo-liberal media weep in despair about the "impossibility to fight the terrorism”, because “the terrorists have no religion and nationality”, and because “we can not punish millions of innocents for the crimes committed by a small fringe of those who hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam”.<br /><br />But let’s give this task to the computer. It’s only a machine; it has no emotions and morals. We simply enter the initial data-and read the answers on the screen.<br /><br /><br /><b>Initial data: </b><br /></div><ol style="text-align: justify;"><br /><li>In Europe and USA there are immigrants from China, Russia, Africa, India … <br /><br />But more than 90% of all the terrorist attacks in Europe and USA are perpetrated by immigrants who belong to one ethnic group: ARABS.<br /><br />And the religion this ethnic group confesses is ISLAM. <br /><br />So, Arabs of Islamic faith ,who make up for less than 15% of the immigrants in Europe and USA, commit more than 90% of all the terrorist attacks. </li><br /><br /><li>In order to perpetrate such an attack, an Arab Muslim must first ENTER Europe or USA. </li><br /></ol><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />A Question: what to do to stop the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Arabs of Islamic faith against Europeans and Americans in Europe and America and to stop the islamization of Europe?<br /><br /><b>The variants any normal computer would offer are: </b><br /></div><ol style="text-align: justify;"><br /><li>The most radical variant: kill them all. Technically, this solution is quite possible. </li><br /><br /><li>Put them all in the concentration camps. This solution is also quite possible, and besides, can give a good economic effect. </li><br /><br /><li>Deportation of ALL the Arab Muslims from Europe and America, together with their families who will in the overwhelming majority of course represent their interests and share their values. Technically, this solution is also quite within reach; of course, these variants would solve the problem of Arab Islamic terrorism. But until we are driven to the last extreme, our moral values will not permit us to do this.<br />So, let’s pass to the moderate variant, i.e. </li><br /><br /><li>Deportation of all the illegal immigrants, of all those who have the criminal record, and of all those who are suspected of the terrorist activity. </li><br /></ol><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Technically, it’s very simple.<br /><br />But after this, we shall face the question: What to do with those who will be permitted to stay? In a couple of decades, they, procreating like white ants, will become the majority, and then...<br /><br />According to the laws in democratic countries, the Muslims have the chance to <b>DEMOCRATICALLY, THROUGH ELECTIONS</b>, come to power in anyone of them - and then convert such an unhappy country into the Sharia-governed rat hole. This well - known fact stimulates Muslims living in Europe and USA to try to make this chance come true.<br /><br />But there is a small nuance; <b>THROUGH ELECTIONS</b>. In order to participate in the elections, you have to be a citizen with the right to vote. The time a legal immigrant must wait to become a citizen with the right to vote fluctuates between 5 and 10 years.<br /><br />And what if we make it 30 years?<br /><br />And what if we stop granting the citizenship at all?<br /><br />The result will be that Muslims-the group of “high risk”-will not be able to come to power through elections.<br /><br />So, the solution is to deprive Muslims of the chance to come to power in non-Muslim democratic country through strictly democratic procedure of general elections. This solution is so evident that one would have to be a European politician not to see it.<br /><br />If we stop "informing" the Muslim immigrants that some Arab who only yesterday came to Berlin, Paris or London is equal to a German, French or Brit with 20 generations of ancestors living in Berlin, Paris or London and if we make it quite clear to them that they have not - and moreover, that they SHOULD NOT HAVE - the same rights as the people who for thousands of years have been living in this particular country, building it, fighting for it and defending it, if we call a spade a spade and tell them clearly that they are only tolerated here while their labour contract is valid, but do not the same rights as the native citizens of this or that European country and that any attempt to "fight for equal rights" will lead directly to deportation (like it is done in Saudi Arabia, learn from the enemy) - they will very soon start dreaming not about becoming "the bosses" in Europe, but only about some easier work and better salary, praising the kindness of the country which let them live a decent life and knowing that they can be thrown out of this country for crossing the road on the red light.<br /><br />The solution consists in reducing their "rights" to "no rights”<br /><br />They come in order to earn money and we let them in because we need the workforce. All is fair, nobody is cheating or being cheated. But we must not and are not obliged to give them the chance to root in Europe and convert it into something similar to Iran. And give them the idea that they have the “right” to kill us in our own house.<br /><br />And the rotation must be constant, again like in Saudi Arabia. 3 or 5 years limits on the labour contract and then it is “good bye”, get back to the country you came from. Who is next?<br /><br />Muslims will protest and even riot? Very well it is okay with us.<br /><br />The answer must be very simple: You don’t like it here? America and Europe are "bad", "dirty thieves", "undemocratic" and “robbers"? Then let we “bad” people invite you to go BACK HOME! THIS IS NOT YOUR COUNTRY. Either you live by OUR laws or get out. Go back to where you came from and enjoy your Islamic paradise there not here.<br /><br /><b>What must be done right now: </b><br /></div><ol style="text-align: justify;"><br /><li>Close the majority of mosques and ban the building of the new ones. </li><br /><br /><li>Close the Islamic schools in Europe. </li><br /><br /><li>Regular police registration for immigrants from Muslim countries (if someone does not know, any foreigner coming to Russia even from the most prosperous countries must check in during his/her stay there with the police. And nothing happens, you know! And Russia is the respected member of G8). </li><br /></ol><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />And what to do with the hordes of ILLEGAL immigrants who exploit European liberal laws and in a few years become legal?<br /><br />After the 3/11 terrorist attack in Madrid, in March of 2004, I published a small article where I offered to stop giving European citizenship to Muslims and thus, put a stop to their possibility to vote. I also offered to consider the illegal immigration a crime – and not an administrative fault as it was considered at that moment in practically all European countries - and treat the illegal immigrants accordingly.<br /><br />The reaction surpassed my boldest expectations; I have never received such a number of hate messages, both from Muslims and “leftists”.<br /><br />But a couple of weeks ago the European Unity accepted the law proposed by Italy according to which the illegal immigration stops to be an administrative violation and becomes a crime punished with 18 - 24 months in special centres and followed by deportation.<br /><br />And the Italian and French legislators do not even bother to conceal that this law is mainly against Muslim immigration. <br /><br />The political elite of the European countries needed 5 years to understand something which was absolutely clear to any normal European. (Hmm…Maybe we should change the political elite? This one which we have now looks a bit …well, let’s put it politely: slow). But finally, they took the initiative and made the decision. The illegal immigration has become an outlaw in the EU- at last!<br /><br />And now suppose, that after all this, Muslims commit in USA or some European country <b>THE TERRORIST ATTACK!!! </b><br /><br />Immediately, all the railway stations, airports, sea ports and borders are closed.<br /><br />All the Muslims are arrested and put into the filtering camps which they themselves build (like the Americans did with all their citizens of Japanese origin after the Pearl Harbour attack).<br /><br />The first to be interrogated are those who are on the “black list” of the police and Intelligence Services for being suspects of being involved in any terrorist or criminal activity. The information gotten from them is used to catch those who are NOT on the black lists, yet. The camps work as the filtering centres for a couple of months, and after that those who are “clean” get out, after signing the obligation to inform the police about their co-religionists. And till the end of the time, the whole community is responsible for any “tricks” perpetrated by its members.<br /><br />And those who are <b>NOT “clean” </b> go to prison or are deported.<br />And after that peace and calm, and the terrorist attack reached the wonderful effect: <b>IN THE COUNTRY WHERE MUSLIMS WHO PERPETRATED THE ATTACK THEY HAVE NO PERSPECTIVES. </b><br /><br />And what if Muslims, in response, seize hostages in some Islamic country?<br /><br />The country the hostages are from takes hostages from the most respected members of the local Islamic community with the coefficient 100:1, and sends to the terrorists the honest warning: if our people are not freed, yours will rot in jail. And if you kill our hostages, we shall kill yours, with that same coefficient: 100:1.<br /><br />And the terrorists know that by killing one hostage, they condemn to death 100 Muslims. The “misunderstanding” is possible only one single time: the first, until they understand that we are not kidding.<br /><br />I do not call for "genocide”, “dictatorship" or "Gulags”; to be honest, I do not call for anything. I just give the honest answers to the repeatedly asked question: how to stop the islamization of Europe and how to fight the Islamic terrorism.<br /><br />You know these answers as well as I do, and our only problem is that we are afraid to accept them. We also know that the “civilized” world will not take innocent people hostage or kill those innocent people as revenge for the terrorist killing hostages, but these nasty measures are the only things that the terrorist would actually understand. In other words we would be sinking to their level, which is not acceptable. But these nasty actions would give immediate results.<br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1945"><br /><span style="color:Blue;">Faith Freedom</span></a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-18260926736440173332008-07-09T10:52:00.001-07:002008-07-09T10:52:43.910-07:00NOW ZAKIR NAIK IS IN THE RAT- HOLE<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr Radhasyam Brahmachari</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /><br />When my article <i><b>THE WORLD COMMUNITY OF MUSLIMS: Shackled People enslaved by the Koran</b></i> appeared in the FFI website on December 11, 2007, a Muslim, in the nickname of <i>“a believer”</i>, commented that I was a rat and shouting from a rat-hole. <b>He asked me to come out of the rat-hole and face Dr Zakir Naik, so that I may refresh my knowledge of Islam and get myself enlightened. </b> He also said that <b>Zakir Naik is capable of tackling a billion kafirs like me. </b> I therefore decided to come out of my rat-hole and put ten questions to Zakir Naik on Islam in my article <b> “A Few Questions to Dr Zakir Naik on Islam” </b> which was posted in the FFI website on February 17, 2008. But till today, Zakir Naik has not come up to give replies to my queries. It is really amazing that a wise pundit like Zakir Naik, who can tackle billions of kafirs like me, is taking so much time to give reply to my very simple questions. This has led me to apprehend that he has no reply to offer.<br /><br />Furthermore, in two subsequent articles, <i> <b> “Allah in the Vedas: Treachery of Dr Zakir Naik” </b></i> and <i> <b> “Muhammad in the Vedas: Asinine Arguments of Dr zakir Naik” </b></i>, I have denounced his claims that the Vedas mention Allah and Muhammad. But till today, there has been no indication that he would come forward to establish that his claims were genuine and my arguments were baseless. Every intelligent reader might have understood that <span style="color:Blue;"><b>Zakir Naik will never show his face again as it is not possible for a liar to withstand the heat of truth and he has, perhaps, taken shelter in a rat-hole. I therefore ask that learned reader <i>”a believer” </i>, who advised me to face Zakir Naik, to request him to come out of his rat-hole and give replies to my questions.</b></span><br /><br />But this author is more or less confident that Zakir Naik will not be able to find replies to my questions in his glorious Koran and in other Islamic scriptures <b>as those books are stockpiles of lies, falsehood and contradictions</b>. The creed of Islam, as I have understood after studying the creed for last 30 yrs, is an extremely brittle glassware hanging from the ceiling with the help of a delicate thread called the Kalima Taib that says <span style="color:Red;"><b>“La Ilaha Illallah, Muhammadur Rasulullah”</b></span> ( Allah is the only God to be worshipped and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah). If the thread breaks, the entire creed of Islam will be broken into pieces. Or in other words, <span style="color:Blue;"><b>Islam will evaporate if the belief in Kalima Taib weakens</b></span>. One should notice that the first part of the said Kalima Taib, i.e. <b>La Ilaha Illallah</b> does not pose a serious threat to Islam, but the seond part, i.e. <b>Muhammadur Rasulullah</b>, does. <span style="color:Blue;"><b>If the belief in the Prophet-hood of Muhammad weakens, Islam would collapse within seconds. </b></span><br /><br />So Muhammad should always be projected as the greatest man on earth. He should be projected as an apostle of peace by concealing his violent and most cruel deeds like <b>massacring the Koreiza and Najir Jews</b>. Divinity must be be sought in his marrying so many wives in his declining years, <b>including his marrying Ayesha at the age of 52, when Ayesha was a child of 6</b>. And his marrying Zeinab, the wife of his adopted son Zeid. <b>Any rational comment on his life and deeds is to be declared a blasphemy and the commentator must be punished with death because </b><span style="color:Blue;"><b>the image of Muhammad is to be protected at any cost. </b></span> This is the reason why Muslims are ready to tolerate even a criticism of Allah, but not of Muhammad. To every Muslim, he should be projected <span style="color:Blue;"><b>as ideal of Muslim behaviour or usha-in-hashna</b></span>. What Muhammad said is to be followed strickly word by word and each and every Muslim should copy what he used to do without any question whatsoever.<br /><br />Muhammad used to lick his fingers after having meals, so <b>every Muslim is to do the same</b> in a likewise manner. Muhammad disliked dogs and hence it <b>not permissible for a Muslim to keep a dog as a pet</b>. Muhammad disliked playing of chess and hence <b>playing chess is forbidden for Muslims</b>. Muhammad asked his followers to keep their beards and shave their mustaches so that they could be easily identified, and hence <b>every Muslim has to keep beard and shave mustache</b>. Every Muslim around the world should <b>perform ablution before prayer exactly in the same way as Muhammad used to do 1400 years ago</b>, and so on and so forth.<br /><br />But difficulty arises if the believers try to copy all his deeds. <b>Muhammad married his daughter in law Zeinab and if all the Muslims decide to imitate that holy sunnah of their Prophet, the situation will be extremely chaotic. <span style="color:Blue;">Muhammad married 6 year-old Ayesha at 52, and if the believers proceed to follow this holy Sunnah of the Prophet today, they will be convicted, in any civilized country, of raping a child and put behind bars</span>. Muhammad married Maimuna when he was in the state of muhrim (clad in the special pilgrimage garb called <i>ihram</i>). If all the pilgrims today, who proceed to Mecca to perform Hajj pilgrimage, want to marry a wife following the holy Sunnah of the Prophet, one can imagine how chaotic it would be. Muhammad kept 12 (or 22 according to the Shias) wives and if his followers try to imitate the Prophet in this aspect, they would be victims of Allah’s wrath, as He has not permitted them to increase their number wives beyond four at a time. </b><br /><br />Though it is more or less certain that Zakir Naik would never come out of his rat-hole to give reply to my questions, I would like to place before him a few more questions on Islam.<br /><br /><b>Question No. 1</b><br /><br />In one of my earlier writings, I have shown that <b>Allah is not circumcised</b>. According to the Hadith (Muslim-2872), Allah created Adam in His own image and hence simple commonsense says that, had Allah been circumcised he would have created Adam circumcised. And as a consequence all the believers would have born with natural circumcision and they would not need to undergo artificial circumcision after birth. <b>The argument proves that Islamic God Allah is not circumcised. </b> But the question remains <b>– Was Prophet circumcised? </b><br /> <br />In fact, circumcision was a Jewish practice and Sir W Muir, in this regard says, <b> “The practice is incumbent on Muslims as a part of the Sunna</b> (custom or example of the Prophet), <b>but it is curious that we have no authentic account of Mohammad’s own circumcision.” </b> (The Life of Mahomet, Voice of India, New Delhi 1992, p- 191). When the Prophet died, attendants were prevented from making the body naked or looking at his naked dead body either, during the ritual bath before burial. To narrate the incident, Sir W Muir writes, <b> “A heavenly voice was heard ordering not to bare the Prophet’s body, for the eyes of any one that looked upon his nakedness would forthwith be destroyed.” </b> (ibid, p-191).<br /><br />So my humble question to Zakir Naik is – <b>Was the Prophet circumcised? Did any one of his wives, who only had the opportunity to see or feel Prophet’s private part, narrated any hadith in this regard? </b><br /><br /><b>Question No. 2</b><br /><br />During Meraj, the Prophet saw that all the earlier Prophets were living in heaven. So it seems that, Prophets were allowed to enter Allah’s paradise just after their death and it was not necessary for them to wait in their graves till Qiyamah. So, one may conclude that <b>Prophet Muhammad has already entered Allah’s paradise after his death and having good times there with houris and gelemans</b>. Contrastingly, scriptures also say that, <span style="color:Red;"><b>on the Day of Last Judgment (Qiyamah), the Prophet Muhammad would be the first man to enter Allah’s paradise with 70,000 followers.</b></span> So, it becomes difficult for a kafir like me to ascertain where the Prophet is now staying. <b>Has he gone to paradise, or is he lying in his grave and waiting for the Qiyamah? </b> Hope that the wisdom of Zakir Naik will be able to remove my confusion in this regard.<br /><br /><b>Question No. 3</b><br /><br />Allah sent Prophet Muhammad on this earth to establish <b>Insaaf</b> or justice that calls for equality of every individual, irrespective of his social, political or economic status, before law. Islam stands on five pillars, namely, <b>Kalima, Namaz, Roja, Zaqat and Hajj</b>. During Prophet’s life time, Allah ordained Zaqat, or spending a portion of the income of a believer for Allah’s cause by reveling several verses of the Koran, e.g. <b><span style="color:Red;"> “You shall never be truly righteous until you give in alms what you dearly cherish. The alms you give are known to Allah”</span></b>.(3,92) . “<span style="color:Red;"><b>Those who give alms, be they men or women, and those who give a generous loan to Allah, shall be repaid twofold. They shall receive a noble recompense.” </b></span> (57,18). <span style="color:Red;"><b> “Who giveth his wealth that he may grow (in goodness),and none hath with him any favour for reward, except as seeking (to fulfil) the purpose of his Lord Most High”</b></span> (92 : 18-20).<br /><br />At that time, the Muslims who migrated from Mecca to Medina, were very poor and hence Muhammad asked his followers in Medina to spend a portion of their income, called Sadqa, for helping those immigrants. Later on Allah approved Sadqa (or alms) by reveling the verse of the Holy Koran that says <span style="color:Red;"><b> “The alms (sadqa) are only for the poor and the needy, and those who collect them, and those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and to free the captive and the debtors, and for the cause of Allah (jihad), and (for) the wayfarers; a duty imposed by Allah. Allah is knower, Wise.” </b></span> (9 : 60).<br /><br />Later on, this Sadqa turned into Zaqat and Allah said, <span style="color:Red;"><b> “Whatever alms you give shall rebound to your own advantage, provided that you give them for the love of Allah. And whatever alms you give shall be paid back to you in full: you shall not be wronged. As for those needy men who, being wholly preoccupied with fighting for the cause of Allah, cannot travel in land in quest of trading ventures : the ignorant take them for men of wealth on account of their modest behaviour . But you can recognise them by their look - they never importune men for alms. Whatever alms you give are known to Allah. Those who give alms by day and by night, in private and in public, shall be rewarded by their Lord. They have nothing to fear or regret.” </b></span> (2,272-274)<br /><br />It is really strange that, Zaqat, which Allah ordained as a compulsory practice for every believer, Muhammad refused to pay it. He used to say, <span style="color:Red;"><b>there is no Zaqat for my family and the families of my kin</b></span> (Muslim: 2340). My humble question is – <b>Was this act of the Prophet justified</b>? The well known proverb says – Charity should begin at home and Muhammad, as he was the prophet to establish Insaaf, should have been the first person to offer Zaqat. <b>But his refusal to pay Zaqat was grossly unfair and by such an act he terribly violated the command of Allah. </b> I therefore ask Zakir Naik to throw light on this misconduct of the Prophet and <b>could he still be called a flawless man? </b><br /><br /><b>Question No. 4</b><br /><br />Whatever Almighty Allah ordained, He ordained that for the benefit or wellbeing of the human race or in narrower sense, for the benefit of the believers. From this viewpoint it is more than certain that <b>Allah ordained polygamy for the benefit of the believers</b>. Simple commonsense tells us that, it is better if more and more people practice a good thing (like altruism, kindness, forgiveness etc) as much as possible. And there is no doubt that on this ground Allah permitted the Prophet to keep any number of wives he pleased (Koran: 33 :50). My humble question to Zakir Naik is – Why the all knowing and all observing Allah deprived the ordinary believers from practicing that good thing (polygamy) as much as they like by <b>restricting their number of wives only to four? </b><br /><br /><b>Question No. 5</b><br /><br />In Islam, only the husband possesses the legal right to divorce his wife or wives and if he utters the Arabic word <b>Talaq</b> thrice, the divorce becomes operative at once, irrespective of time and place. It does not matter whether he pronounces Talaq on the point of rage or in an abnormal condition (like drunk). <b>Divorce becomes operative even if the husband utters the word Talaq thrice over telephone or in dream. </b> Present advancement in technology has made the process still easier. Write the word Talaq thrice on a post-card, send it to your wife and divorce will be operative. Recently, nearly a couple of weeks ago, <b>a Malaysian has divorced his two wives within 3 minutes by sending SMS</b>. Now <b>many Muslims are divorcing their wives through e-mail. </b><br /><br />In this regard, Mr M Hidayatullah, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, writes, <span style="color:Red;"><b>*As soon as the husband utters the word Talaq thrice, the divorce becomes operative and the marriage gets dissolved from that very moment” </b></span> (Principles of Mehamedan Law, Tripathy, 1980, p-324). So it is needless to say that <b>Nikah (Marriage) and Talaq (divorce) in Muslim society is like using a toilet paper and throwing it away</b>. Or more pointedly, like dogs’ marriage during their mating season. <b>In this context, it should be pointed out here that Hajrat Hasan, son of Ali and the grand son of the Prophet Muhammad, used to bring new wives through the front door and divorce same number of wives and drive them out of the house through the back door. </b> Many believe that Hasan, in this way, married more than hundred wives. And he never crossed Allah’s limit by keeping more than 4 wives at a time. <b>It is really strange that the Shia Muslims around the world observe the death anniversary of such a man on the day of Muharram. </b><br /> <br />But a hadith by Abu Daud, narrated by Ibn Umar, says, <span style="color:Red;"><b> “Talaq, though made legal, is the most detestable thing to Allah.” </b></span> Another hadith by Sagir says, <span style="color:Red;"><b>“Marry the women but divorce them not, because divorce (is so detestable to Allah that it) trembles Allah’s throne (Arsh).” </b></span><b> </b> (These two ahadith have been quoted from <b>Hadis Sharif </b> by Rafiqullah, Haraf Prakashani, Kolkata, 1979, p- 122).<br /><br />My humble question to Zakir Naik is – Why Allah, Who detests Talaq most, has made Talaq so easy?<br /><br />At present, I would like to restrain myself with these five questions alone and <b>hope that Dr Naik will come out of his rat-hole to answer my questions. </b><br /> <br /> *************************<br /> <i>Dr Radhasyam Brahmachari is Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta</i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-5695306131636711322008-07-09T10:50:00.000-07:002008-07-09T10:51:40.431-07:00Muhammad’s Hate toward Non-Muslims<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ibn Kammuna</span><br /></div><br /><br /><b><i>Author’s Note: </i> </b> this article is based on Mark Gabriel’s book <b><i>Culture Clash</i></b>. Opinions expressed are strictly mine.<br /><br />Muhammad’s hate toward non-Muslims is most clear in his Qur’an. This article discusses how Muhammad, and thus Muslims, even nowadays Muslims, view non-Muslims. I end the article with a brief summary and conclusion.<br /><br /><b>Non-Muslims are very unclean</b><br /><br />To Muslims, anyone who rejects Islam is <i>Kafir</i>. Or <i>Infidel</i>. In general, Muslims believe that a <i>Kafir</i> person is impure and untrustworthy. This is the Qur’an’s judgment about anyone who does not believe in Allah and his messenger Prophet Muhammad. Arabs of different faiths used to go to visit the sacred mosque in Mecca every year during specific times. When Muhammad became a political leader and conquered Mecca, it was time for him to take control over the non-Muslims with regard to their annual visitation to Mecca. Here is the Qur’anic Jewel:<br /><br /><span style="color:Red;">009.028<br />YUSUFALI: O ye who believe! Truly the Pagans are unclean; so let them not, after this year of theirs, approach the Sacred Mosque. And if ye fear poverty, soon will Allah enrich you, if He wills, out of His bounty, for Allah is All-knowing, All-wise. </span><br /><br /><br />سُوۡرَةُ التّوبَة009.028<br />يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ إِنَّمَا ٱلۡمُشۡرِكُونَ نَجَسٌ۬ فَلَا يَقۡرَبُواْ ٱلۡمَسۡجِدَ ٱلۡحَرَامَ بَعۡدَ عَامِهِمۡ هَـٰذَاۚ وَإِنۡ خِفۡتُمۡ عَيۡلَةً۬ فَسَوۡفَ يُغۡنِيكُمُ ٱللَّهُ مِن فَضۡلِهِۦۤ إِن شَآءَۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ حَڪِيمٌ۬<br /><br />Note that the Arabic verse has the word “Najisoon” نَجَسٌ۬ meaning very unclean. It is a word that equates the pagans with very dirty animals. It is not a nice word at all. It makes the Muslim feel he is a more than just a notch above the pagans in status. It also reduces the pagans to a lowly class of people not worthy of equality in human society. Viewing any non-Muslim as impure is established in Islam and in Muslim culture. It is consistent with the overall attitude of the Qur’an and Muhammad toward unbelievers. Even in our own day, if you are not a Muslim, you will not be allowed to go inside the great Mosque in Mecca.<br /><br /><b>Non-Muslims are Inferior to Muslims</b><br /><br />Look at the following Jewel:<br /><br /><span style="color:Red;">003.110<br />YUSUFALI: Ye are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book had faith, it were best for them: among them are some who have faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors. </span><br /><br />Muslims believe they are the best of people. They are the “chosen” ones, just like the Jewish people of old. But, alas, the Jews of old were disobedient, and so, the Muslims now believe they are the torch bearers:<br /><br /><span style="color:Red;">002.047<br />YUSUFALI: Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favour which I bestowed upon you, and that I preferred you to all other (for My Message).<br /><br />005.078<br />YUSUFALI: Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary: because they disobeyed and persisted in excesses. </span><br /><br /><b>Thou Shalt Trust Them Not Heathens</b><br /><br />Since a tender age, Muslim children are taught not to trust non-Muslims. In general, Muslims can be friends with non-Muslims, but they will never put a high degree of trust in them. Here is the evidence from the holy book:<br /><br /><span style="color:Red;">003.118<br />YUSUFALI: O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom. </span><br /><br />Please note that the holy verse above is seeding in the heart of a child born to a Muslim family a negative picture about the non-Muslim. Non-Muslims are out there to “corrupt” the Muslim. They are out there to “Ruin” the Muslim. Their mouths are full of “Hate” toward Islam and Muslims. Or, could it be that the above verse is just saturated with evil. When you read it, can’t you just see “drops” of “evil” coming down?<br /><br /><b>Christians and Jews want to take Muslims away from Islam</b><br /><br />Well, do you blame them? Islam is a religion of war. Its early history is full of battles. It is no more than humans killing other humans. Is this a religion you want be associated with? Muslims believe Christians and Jews are out there to “Get Them”. They are out there to take them away from their “precious” faith. The fact of the matter, no one envies Muslims on Islam. It is an evil religion that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. But again, I probably would! Here is the Qur’anic Jewel:<br /><br /><span style="color:Red;">002.120<br />YUSUFALI: Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with thee unless thou follow their form of religion. Say: "The Guidance of Allah,-that is the (only) Guidance." Wert thou to follow their desires after the knowledge which hath reached thee, then wouldst thou find neither Protector nor helper against Allah. </span><br /><br /><b>When it comes to the Jews; like Hitler, like Muhammad</b><br /><br />The Qur’an usually talks about Jews and Christians as one group. However, Jews are favored by Muhammad as the “most violent” of people. And, as an added blessing, polytheists don’t escape Muhammad’s wrath either. Here is the Qur’anic Jewel:<br /><br /><span style="color:Red;">SHAKIR: Certainly you will find the most violent of people in enmity for those who believe (to be) the Jews and those who are polytheists, and you will certainly find the nearest in friendship to those who believe (to be) those who say: We are Christians; this is because there are priests and monks among them and because they do not behave proudly. </span><br /><br />It is really important to understand the circumstances for Muhammad saying what he says. He wanted to kill other people, steal their possessions, and enslave their women and children. To do that, he had to resort to revelations that are barbaric and lack any decency of moral codes.<br /><br /><b>Conclusion</b><br /><br />Muslims believe that people of other faiths (or non-Faith) are out there to get them and take them away from Islam. Other people envy them on such a blessed religion as Islam. This is a lie. No one envies Muslims on a religion that had its early days as a band of thugs killing other human beings and stealing the fortunes of others. Muhammad himself beheaded many people. Is this a prophet that civil people want to be associated with? The stories of Billy the kid and Jesse James look like a walk in the park compared to the crimes perpetrated by Muhammad and his early band of killers and thieves. If you are a Muslim, don’t fool yourself. No one envies you on your religion and belief system. It is barbaric and inhuman. Don’t be fooled by billy goat bearded men who think they represent God and Muhammad on earth and go to a primitive building that does not even have chairs. They call it a mosque. To be honest, no one would want to wish “Islam” on his/her worst enemies.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1944">Faithfreedom.org</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-22362323457877486792008-07-09T10:47:00.000-07:002008-07-09T10:48:30.567-07:00A Non-Arab Muslim’s Prayer<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Author: Sher Khan</span><br /></div><br />The god of Islam has more than 100 names, but Muslims try to confine the number to 99 because Mohammed, the boyfriend of Allah, mentioned in a Hadith that Allah has 99 names. Muslims should not be offended for calling him the boyfriend of Allah because Mohammed himself claimed to be a friend of Allah - adding an additional word “boy” would only strengthen their relationship.<br /><br />Muslims love to pray to their god, Allah. The prayer, although not in a set order, covers a variety of issues, from begging for god’s mercy to wishing for health, wealth and their personal property, which includes the women. They further include deceased family members for not being punished by the god. The prayer further relates to relatives, friends and many other earthly matters. Of course, afterlife is an important issue in all prayers. Finally, their prayer goes international.<br /><br />Although none of their prayers, with a rare co-incidence, become fruitful, they never cease to pray.<br /><br />For a pious Muslim, it is important to remember all of Allah’s names and use them in their prayers as much as they could. Each name of Allah, however, starts with “Ya”. The word “Ya” is not an abbreviation of Yahoo.com, nor it is a shortcut of Yankees. It actually means “Hello” or “Hi”.<br /><br />Here is how it goes…..<br /><br /><b>Ya Allah</b> (Generic name of the Islamic god) – The small piece of land that I own is not fertile anymore; in fact, my wives are more prolific than the land.<br /><br /><b>Ya Al-Musawwir</b> (The Fashioner) - You have fashioned the earth, the sun and the moon. You have added trees for your believers and mountains as pillars of the earth. Can you please make the land more fertile and produce loads of crops this year?<br /><br /><b>Ya Al-Wahhaab</b> (Generous) - My goats are not giving enough milk. Please be generous and make them more productive. <br /><br /><b>Ya Khaaliq</b> (The Creator) – One of my cows is not getting pregnant. I walked miles and took her to many bulls but she has not conceived yet. You are the creator - you can easily make her pregnant. Ya Allah, I am not asking you to do it by yourself. (Astagfarullah!) All I am asking is that you raise your magic wand and make my cow pregnant.<br /><br /><b>Ya Bari</b> (The Maker) – I have been begging for years and you still have not given me a son. What have I done wrong, Ya Allah? My wives have produced half a dozen daughters but no son. Why can’t you give me a son?<br /><br /><b>Ya Razzaaq</b> (The Sustainer, The Provider) – I am getting sick and tired of dealing with the same three wives and I direly need a new wife. My next door neighbor’s daughter is only 10 years old and she is 40 years younger than me. My neighbor threatened to call the police if I ever ask him to marry his daughter. What a shame! What’s happening to this world? Our prophet and your friend Mohammed married Aysha when she was six years old, but the people of the modern age don’t follow the sunnah and the path of our great prophet. Ya Allah, can you please change my neighbor’s mind and provide me his young daughter in marriage?<br /><br /><b>Ya Samee</b> (The All-Hearing, The Hearer) - You can see everything and you know everything. Don’t you see my third wife, who is still very young, always has a defiant attitude? Your friend Mohammed has set the guideline for all Muslim women. According to the sunnah, the prophet’s guideline, a Muslim woman should shave her pubic hair and never pluck her eyebrows. Ya Allah, my wife does exactly the opposite. She plucks her eyebrows and does not shave her pubic hair. Can you please change her mind and follow the prophet’s rule?<br /><br /><b>Ya Khaafid</b> (The Subjugator) - You can do whatever you wish, yet the people of these days are straying away from your religion. Can you believe I am not allowed to beat my wives? Despite your clear injunction in the Quran, my wives threaten to call the police if I beat them. Ya Allah, damn our government for not following your rule; destroy those people who solicit for the so-called women’s rights.<br /><br /><b>Ya Ghaffaar</b> (The Great Forgiver) - Nothing may remain hidden from you. You know I have a small job where accepting a bribe is the only way. I often accept bribes to support my family. Please forgive my sin. I promise to perform Haj to wash away all the wrongdoings I did.<br /><br /><b>Ya Ar-Rahman</b> (The Compassionate) - All Muslims are your slaves and you have ample mercy for them. When we, the Muslims, will die, we will be punished temporarily but all of us will go to heaven regardless of our sin. Will you please shorten our sufferings and send us to the heaven as soon as we die?<br /><br /><b>Ya Ar-Raheem</b> (The Merciful) – Don’t forget my father, grandfather and all of my relatives who already have died. Please don’t squeeze the grave and break their bones, but send them to heaven as quickly as possible. [Note: at this point, most Muslims shed a few tears, be it emotionally or forcefully!]<br /><br /><b>Ya Al-Ghafoor</b> (the All-forgiving) – Our great prophet spent most of his life pleasing your honor. He used all of the one-fifth booty he received to spread Islam. He even slaughtered some captives immediately, so that they could meet you in the heaven and you could get the pleasure to enjoy them. However, in case Mohammed (PBUH), the profit of Islam, failed to kill enough people that you wished to kill, please forgive him and take him to the heaven.<br /><br /><b>Ya Al-Haseeb</b> (The Reckoned) - My stomach pain is becoming unbearable day by day. I have recited many verses of the Quran, as the great prophet did, and I blow on my stomach. I am wearing a small aluminum container from my neck that has a small piece of paper with a Quranic verse written on it. None of these actions helped to subside the pain. Why don’t your Quranic verses work anymore as they did in the era of the prophet? Now I have to find a doctor for this problem.<br /><br /><b>Ya Al-Malik</b> (The King) - You are the king of this world and all countries are under your rule. Yet we, the Muslims, have to go to Kafir countries for a living. When my brother went to the Middle East for a job, the pious Muslims of the country treated him like a slave. He did not receive citizenship; in fact, Middle East countries never give citizenship to the Muslims from the other countries. Your friend Mohammed proudly claimed that it was the Arabs who had the honor to embrace Islam first, which gives the Arabs the upper hand. Ya Allah, can you make an addendum and change this situation?<br /><br /><b>Ya Al-Badi</b> (The Incomparable) - After receiving a humiliating experience from the Middle East, my brother went to the U.S., the greatest satan in the world. Surprisingly, he was awarded with citizenship and found a job in a grocery store where he had to sell liquor. My brother is a pious Muslim and has never missed a prayer. He felt uncomfortable selling the liquor, so he moved to Las Vegas, the sin city of the world, where he drives a cab. Ya Allah, you see everything and you know all. My brother still does not miss a prayer but in his last letter he expressed his pain and anger.<br /><br /><b>Ya Al-Mutakabbir</b> (The Majestic) – My brother makes decent money but he is having a serious problem with his company. The cab he drives has a sign on the roof that advertises about a “Ranch”. Ya Allah, when my brother explained what a Ranch meant, I was shocked. I did not know a Ranch is nothing but a brothel. We, the Muslims, have the right to rape any infidel women who are captured in a war, but we should not visit a brothel. My brother not only carries the sign on top of his cab, but he also takes passengers to the Ranch frequently. Ya Allah, forgive his unintentional sin.<br /><br /><b>Ya Al-Aleem</b> (The All-knowing) - You have seen how my brother reacted when the hero of Islam, Brother Osama Bin Laden, orchestrated the landing of the kafir’s plane in a kafir’s building? My brother did not go to work that day and prayed extra Rakas (sessions) of prayers all day. If you consider the happiness he shown on the vary day, you surely will forgive all of his sins.<br /><br /><b>Ya Al-Waliyy</b> (The Supporter) - It is time you support your religion and give enough strength to brother Osama. Make him more powerful and give him enough ammunition to destroy America, the greatest evil on the earth. Don’t you see the pain of Palestinians, the sufferings of Iraqi people, the anger of oppressed Muslims in Kashmir, China, Russia, Australia, Europe, and literally everywhere in the world? Ya Allah, support the Muslims, not the kafirs, who are becoming stronger every day, economically and militarily.<br /><br /><b>Ya Al-Muthil</b> (One who can humiliate) Muntaqim (The Avenger) - Ya Allah, your boyfriend Mohammed hated the Jews the most and we the followers still wish for their destruction. But, whenever I look at the prosperity of Jews, it shocks me. I just could not figure out how the Jews, your greatest enemy, are flourishing when the poor Palestinians are suffering. Ya Allah, you must act promptly and take revenge against those Jews and humiliate them.<br /><br /><b>Ya Al-Muhaimin</b> (The Protector) - You are the protector and the guardian of faith. Yet people today are making malicious comments, drawing cartoons and producing films of you and your friend Mohammed. Infidels and a bunch of apostates are calling you all kind of names, but you are not taking any action against them. How can we make our faith stronger, if you don’t protect your religion?<br /><br />Ameen!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1949">Faithfreedom.org</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-24151881065019178152008-07-09T10:44:00.000-07:002008-07-09T10:46:58.713-07:00The “Oppression” of Islam<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">By Jamie Glazov</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=B00B58F4-8F19-4C46-9F60-E874543A21E3">FrontPageMagazine.com</a><br /></div><br />Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Abul Kasem, an ex-Muslim who is the author of hundreds of articles and several books on Islam including, Women in Islam. He was a contributor to the book Leaving Islam – Apostates Speak Out as well as to Beyond Jihad: Critical Views From Inside Islam. He writes from Sydney, Australia and can be reached at nirribilli@gmail.com.<br /><br />FP: Abul Kasem, welcome to Frontpage Interview.<br /><br />Kasem: Thank you Jamie.<br /><br />FP: We’re here today to discuss how many Muslims consider themselves to be victims of oppression vis-à-vis the West. Let’s begin our conversation with this question: What is the Islamic definition of oppression?<br /><br />FP: Ask any Islamist this question and he will certainly provide answers such as: Kashmir, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Bosnia….and so on. Think carefully, how true these statements are. In fact, if one takes the trouble to read the blood-soaked history of Islam, one could not help wondering why this label of oppression not be imposed on Islam itself? The unprovoked, savage invasions by the Bedouin Arabs, to subjugate, at the point of swords, the people of Iraq, Persia, Syria, Egypt, Asia Minor, Armenia, Cyprus, Sicily, Crete, Spain, Afriqiya (north Tunisia), India to their fascistic/Arab imperialism (peddled as Islam) demonstrate a naked truth—that it was Islam that started this oppression.<br /><br />Therefore, the charge that the Islamic mayhem in the current world is due to what is happening (read oppression) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Chechnya are just sham pretensions by the Islamists, the ideological gurus of the Islamist terrorists and the suicide bombers. India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Jordan, Turkey and France have none of their soldiers fighting in Iraq, yet these countries are not immune from the Islamist terrorists’ attack. Did you ever wonder why? Not being satisfied with the campaign of unremitting terror in the infidel territories, the Islamist terrorists even have to terrorize the innocent people of Islamic Paradises.<br /><br />FP: So what is the psychology behind the Muslim belief that Islam is being oppressed?<br /><br />Kasem: This fact is: Islam is grossly offended/oppressed by any un-Islamic moves of the infidels/not-so-good Muslims (like the Islamic Paradises I just listed). This is simply because these Islamists audaciously believe that Islam is the only religion into which each and every person on this planet must be subjected to by hook or by crook—using terror, force and slaughter, if need be. They have the Qur’an solidly backing them up. This is the major theme of the Qur’an. This belief, for instance, was eloquently supported by the cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika in an interview with ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in November 2005. The spiritual leader of the Victorian terror cell, Benbrika made the following statement: “I am telling you that my religion doesn’t tolerate other religion. It doesn’t tolerate. The only one law which needs to be spread, it can be here or anywhere else has to be Islam.”<br /><br />FP: Provide us some verses from the Qur’an that support what this imam said.<br /><br />Kasem: Sure, and feel free to click here to verify the documentation for these verses.<br /><br />The only religion is the religion of Allah, Islam…16:52<br /><br />Muslims (Islam) are the best of righteous people...3:110<br /><br />Allah has perfected Islam and it is the only religion for mankind (last verse revealed, and so, the final word of Allah disclosed to Muhammad)...5:3<br /><br />Islam is the perfect religion; it will dominate all other religions...9:33<br /><br />Can't worship anything other than Allah; Islam is the only right religion (the purpose of an Islamic state)...12:40<br /><br />There is only one God (Allah) and all should bow to Islam...21:108<br /><br />Allah proclaims Islam (the religion of truth) over all other religions…48:28<br /><br />Allah has sent Muhammad to proclaim the 'Religion of Truth’ (Islam) over all religions...61:9<br /><br />FP: So tell us what happens to those people who, despite the call to convert to Islam, do not follow suit?<br /><br />Kasem: In the language of the Qur’an, they are worse than animals, believe it or not. Here is how the Holy Qur’an grades the Kafirs (infidels).<br /><br />The worst of beasts in the sight of Allah are the deaf and dumb (unbelievers) who do not understand Islam...8:22<br /><br />FP: And what must be done to the worst of beasts?<br /><br />Kasem: The sword must be used on those who refuse to convert to Islam or deviate from Islam. The Islamists, of course, emphasize that: ‘Islam means peace’, ‘there is no compulsion in religion’, ‘killing one person is killing the entire mankind’, and so on. Because of such deliberate misleading propaganda by the cunning, crafty and sly Islamists and their bogies of western apologists of Islam, one might find it hard to believe easily that there could be anything in the Qur’an but unbound ‘peace’, incessant ‘love’ and boundless ‘mercy’ for the infidels. Sadly, to the disappointment of these gullible unbelievers, the Qur’an, in many verses, categorically exhorts the true believers to use force preemptively to convert the unbelievers to Islam. Here is a sample verse:<br /><br />Allah sent down iron as a material for war and for other benefits; whoever deviates from Islam is to be brought back with iron (i.e. with force, meaning use iron (sword) to force people to Allah’s religion)...57:25<br /><br />And when all efforts to persuade the Kafirs to convert to Islam have failed, or when the unbelievers resort to rejecting Islam openly, Islam stipulates that they be crucified or maimed. Read this verse from Allah:<br /><br />Punishment for waging war against Allah (i.e. the unbelievers who reject Islam) and His messenger is execution (beheading) or crucifixion or cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides or exile from the land...5:33<br /><br />FP: What do you say to those who argue that these verses are applicable only in war situations, when Islam and its founder, Muhammad (or Muslims) are/were attacked in a physical fight?<br /><br />Kasem: Perish this thought, if you want to learn about ‘real Islam’. The words, ‘waging war’, in the above verse has very little to do with real combat (like Iraq, Afghanistan). Any action, activity, remark, gesture, words, sound, utterance, look, manner, habit, conduct, style and so on, which are not in conformity with pure Islamic percepts are considered as blasphemous or ‘waging war’.<br /><br />Thus, even the slightest criticism of Islam, Muhammad, Qur’an or Sharia, verbally or in writing, might be treated as gross violations of Islamic tenets. These acts are absolutely blasphemous, and are punishable by death (by beheading, the Islamic method of slaughter).<br /><br />The conclusive proof of this dreadful provision is the appalling blasphemy laws enacted by most of the Islamic Paradises. This is the meaning of freedom of thought in Islam—the freedom to mete out capital punishment to those who dare to mildly criticize Islam, in any manner whatsoever. If anyone still has any suspicion about this, let them consult the blasphemy law of any Islamic states, which complies one-hundred-percent with the Qur’anic verse I quoted.<br /><br />FP: Share with us some activities, manners, social customs, traditions and the daily way of life, which non-Muslims take for granted, but which are extremely un-Islamic<br /><br />and that according to Islamic morals, customs and laws are offensive activities/practices that can be construed as oppressive to Islam. They therefore become legitimate targets for eradication -- or they must be swiftly replaced by Islamic practices or Islamic purification.<br /><br />Kasem: Sure, I can give you many examples. And before I do, it is important to stress the following: the very small number of Islamists currently occupying (the Islamists think that Allah has sent them to infidel lands to conquer it) the infidel lands (camouflaged as economic migrants or political asylum seekers or refugees) will fight tooth-and-nail, legally or politically, covertly or overtly to remove such un-Islamic practices from the infidel lands which they have occupied (migrated for Islamic occupation). They would, whenever possible, incessantly lobby the simple and fair-minded Kafir politicians to enact Islamic laws as a replacement for those infidel customs, traditions and values. In their language, this process of Islamisation by stealth is called ‘elimination of vices and promotion of virtues’—a secret method of inuring the infidels into Islamic imperialism.<br /><br />So here is how Islam is oppressed by the unbelievers:<br /><br />* The infidels do not submit to Allah despite repeated warnings to them. This is the highest form rebellion by the Kafirs and undoubtedly, is an extreme form of oppression to Islam.<br /><br />* The infidel women go to swim in the beaches wearing bikini. Allah is greatly offended by such outrageous conduct of Islamically impure infidel women.<br /><br />* The Kafir nations vehemently condemn Islamic stoning in Islamic Paradises. Islamic penal code is written by Allah, how could the infidels condemn such a divine, merciful penal system? Allah is surely angry with the infidels.<br /><br />* The Kafirs’ law court incarcerates Islamic rapists, but, who, according to Islam, has the inalienable right to have unlimited sex with infidel women, no question asked. As per Islam, these infidel women (Islamically, all western women, who do not dress/conduct themselves as per Islamic/Bedouin custom are harlots, sluts and prostitutes and all infidels are incestuous, believe it or not) are Islamic captives.<br /><br />* To protect its innocent citizens from the genocide of the Islamist terrorists, the Kafirs pass anti-terror laws, but the Islamists believe it is their basic Islamic right to terrorize the infidels. The anti-terror law is oppression to Islam, as this law violates the Qur’anic injunction of casting terror in the hearts of the unbelievers.<br /><br />* An infidel woman gives birth out-of-wedlock and she is treated fairly by the social security system of the harami (repugnant) Kafir. This oppresses Islam, as this woman must be stoned to death, as per pure, unadulterated Islam. The infidels are not respecting the sanctity of Islam.<br /><br />* An infidel woman goes out of her house without hijab. This is oppression to Islam, as this violates the Qur’nic injunction that women must stay at home at all time and serve their husbands. In case she has to be out, she must seek her husband’s permission and must be ‘covered’, from head to toe.’<br /><br />* Violating the Qur’an and Hadis, Kafir men and women patronize pubs and drink wine and liqueur. Islamic punishment of forty lashes is not meted out for such naked un-Islamic indulgence. To further anger the Muslims, during Ramadan, the Kafirs heartily eat and jubilantly drink publicly, in open view of the Muslims. This, of course is an unpardonable Islamic offence, as the infidels show no sensitivity/respect for the best religion on earth.<br /><br />* An unmarried Kafir woman engages in de-facto relationship with a man. This offends the migrant Muslims, but despite much harangue from the Islamist moralists, the Kafirs refuse to change their law of personal freedom. This (the unbridled mixing of opposite sexes), is certainly a gross oppression to Islamic faith.<br /><br />* The infidel’s local council prohibits the use of loud speakers to broadcast the melodious tune of Azan (the Islamic prayer call). This is the violation of Islamic right of noise pollution, and, therefore is a gross tyranny upon Islam.<br /><br />* Harami Kafirs enact law banning hijab in public schools. This angers the Islamists, as it amounts to flagrantly violating the Qur’an, and hence is oppressive to Islam.<br /><br />* The Kafirs refuse to pay jizyah (special privileges to the Arab Bedouins/Muslims). In modern times, this jizya is in the form of special privileges to the Muslims (for example, Bumiputra/Malay/Muslim policy in Malaysia, reservation of places for the Muslims in Kafirs’ Universities, special concession on employment policies, affirmative policies exclusively designed for the incompetent Muslims…and so on). Non-payment of jizya tax is a gross violation of the holy Qur’an and is oppression to Islam.<br /><br />* When, for security reasons and to apprehend the suspected terrorists of peaceful Islam, America, the Great Satan, requires all visitors to the United States to be photographed, fingerprinted and biometrically registered, it offends real Islam.<br /><br />* When the infidels and in-name-only Muslims patronize a theatre to enjoy a stage drama, Islam is gravely hurt, as this vilely violates the basic tenets of the Qur’an—no idol worshipping. Ditto for patronizing cinema houses. Acting in a drama/and or watching this performance is abhorrently un-Islamic. In Bangladesh, bombs are thrown in such premises, as visiting stage drama and enjoying a movie is oppressive to Islam.<br /><br />* When you quote those murderous verses from the Holy Qur’an it oppresses Islam. Embarrassing Allah /Islamists is a great offence.<br /><br />* When you quote those anti-feminist and misogynist hadis from Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim and Sunaan Abu Dawud, Allah gets slighted.<br /><br />* When you expose that Islam allows unlimited sex with maid-servants (sex-slaves) and infidel women. These provisions are Qur’anic, so they are above any discussion.<br /><br />* When the police embarks on a clean-up operation in an Islamic enclave in a Kafirland. This action violates the incontrovertible rights of the Islamist terrorists to frighten the infidels—an absolute Islamic right enshrined by Allah in the Qur’an.<br /><br />* When the Kafir government disallows Sharia law to be enforced for the Muslims living in a Kafirland. Allah’s law supercedes all man-made laws, how could the abhorrent infidels annoy Allah?<br /><br />·* When, through earthquake and Tsunami, Allah tests His believers in Islamic Paradises and the Kafir’s aid is delayed due to the poor/non-existence of logistical supports in those Islamic Paradises. Infidels must attend immediately to the Muslims’ plight—this is also a form of jizya on the unbelievers.<br /><br />* When you disclose that the prophet of Islam, Muhammad (pbuh), had between nine to twenty official wives and at least one sex-slave. Allah is angry when you discuss Muhammad’s intimate private life—a violation of Islamic privacy.<br /><br />* When the harami freethinkers disclose that the 52-year-old Prophet (pbuh) of mercy married a six-year-old girl and had sex with her when she turned nine. See above for the reason.<br /><br />* When the ‘Islam bashers’ reveal that Hazrat Omar (Allah’s mercy be upon him) married a four-year-old baby-girl when he was around 54-55 years old. See above for reason.<br /><br />* When the devilish Islamphobes divulge that Hazrat Ali (Allah’s mercy be upon him) used to have sex with captive women, routinely, even when he was married to Fatima, Muhammad’s dearest daughter. Those who embarrass the Khulafa Rashedin (the rightly guided caliphs) embarrass Allah. Allah will not forgive them<br /><br />* When the infidels learn from the writing of the Muslim apostates that Muslims must not be friendly with the Jews and the Christians and the unbelievers. When the Qur’an has decreed certain matters, it is a great offence to discuss about them.<br /><br />* The Kafirs in Kafirland, instead of adopting the Islamic values of the myopic Muslim community in their midst, urge the Islamists to respect multiculturalism. This is an affront to Islam. According to Islam, these Kafirs (read animals) must adopt pristine Islamic values, and not the other way round.<br /><br />* The Kafirs do not learn Arabic, the language of Allah/Islam, but instead, urge the Islamist immigrants to learn the language of their adopted country and try to integrate. Allah is offended when the Kafirs do not learn the language (Arabic) of His Scripture.<br /><br />* The western/infidel civilization refuses to adopt Bedouin/Arab culture. Instead, sticks to their own decadent, petrified, immoral, corrupt, lascivious way of life. Islam is oppressed when the Muslims, the best creation of Allah have to witness, with their open eyes, such blatant depravity and transgression. After all, Islam came to purify the world, but the infidels steadfastly refuse to comply. This is oppression to Islam<br /><br />* Peaceful Islam is not allowed to preach hateful sermons by the clerics living in infidel territories. This is a gross of violation Islamic human rights, of freedom to preach hatred for the infidels, since this right has been fully enshrined in the Qur’an, the constitution of Allah.<br /><br />* Kafirs deport/cancel visa of firebrand clerics who exhort, in Friday congregations, jihad and murder of the infidels. Read above why Islam is oppressed for such an action of the Kafir.<br /><br />* Billboards near Allah’s house (mosques) in Kafirlands brazenly display women’s underwear, bras and lingerie in provocative manner, arousing the sexual passion in the devotees of Allah. This is oppressive to Islam, as Allah does not like to have a look at women’s undergarments and their half-clad body. Allah only looks at hijabi/Burka-clad Muslimahs.<br /><br />* Islamists living in Haram land pass by a fitness centre and observe infidel women (and men) performing physical exercise wearing sportswear. Offended, the Islamists complain to the local council and advise the authority that during physical fitness chore the women must wear Burka and jilbab, their shiny and sexy thighs and polished legs must be covered inside baggy Islamic trousers, otherwise, the doors and windows of the gym must be covered with black ‘hijab.’ The local council turns down the Muslim request. This is oppressive to Islam.<br /><br />* The Islamists in Kfirlands go to the local swimming pool and observe men and women practicing swimming together. This is grossly un-Islamic and is oppressive to the Muslims. They ask the local council to open separate swimming pools exclusively for Muslim women and having no access to male visitors. The council turns down their request, which offends the Islamists.<br /><br />* In Olympic events, women are allowed to compete, in the presence of mixed spectators, in gymnastics, track and field, swimming, beach volleyball, high jump (despicable, because of the possibility of viewing the women’s pudenda), long jump, pole vault…etc., Allah is offended with such display of female flesh in such provocative/erotic manner. The Islamists write lengthy articles and lobby their politicians to ban women from participating in such events. In Islamic Paradises they successfully force the government to ban the telecasting of such ‘pornographic’ events of the International Olympic.<br /><br />* The infidels enact laws to prevent polygamy; Muslims could no longer acquire four wives at any time. This surely is a gross violation of Islamic rights of Muslim men to acquire four wives at any time, guaranteed by the Qur’an.<br /><br />* Imams extolling the goodness in beating wives to discipline them are deported from infidel lands. This is a great torment to Islam, as it openly violates the Qur’anic verse which calls to beat women to control them,<br /><br />* During Christmas gala, party, the Kafir invites his Muslim neighbor and unwittingly serves haram food and wine. The display of haram food and alcoholic drinks to the Muslims is, of course, very offensive. The infidels must not eat and drink haram stuff in the presence of Muslims—it is very odious, Allah becomes angry.<br /><br />If you have time to spend, I am certain you could find many other actions and traditions of the infidels which are revoltingly offensive to the Muslims, and, therefore, oppressive to Islam. Many of these examples I cite were from my own experience—from the real world. So be prepared to witness many such examples in your land as well.<br /><br />Keep in mind: the Islamists are prepared to go to any extent to launch their agenda of globalization of Islamic imperialism, which is basically Arab/Bedouin imperialism.<br /><br />FP: Explain why we should consider Islam as Arab/Bedouin imperialism.<br /><br />Kasem: The ultimate goal of the Islamists is the creation of a Pan Islamic world, which must be ruled by a caliph (the Islamists call it the Khilafat movement) who will be responsible to enforce Islamic laws (Sharia) globally. So, what are the requirements to be a caliph?—you might ask. According to Islamic law, (ref: Reliance of the Traveler, published by Amana Publications, Bettsville, Maryland, 1999, pp.640-642, law number o25.3) the mandatory qualifications of an Islamic caliph are:<br /><br />1. must be a Muslim<br /><br />2. must be a male<br /><br />3. must be from the Quraysh tribe of the Arabs<br /><br />4. must be a freeman (i.e., not a slave)<br /><br />5. must be of sound mind.<br /><br />This provision of Islamic law means that the world—the Pan Islamic world must be ruled by an Arab (from the Quraysh stock, probably from Saudi Arabia or Jordan) and no one else.<br /><br />This also means that George Bush, Tony Blair, Jacque Chirac, Vladimir Putin, the Chinese Prime Minister, the Japanese Prime Minister….the most powerful infidel leaders in the world and the no-so-powerful infidel leaders must convert to Islam, declare complete allegiance to the new Arab/Quraysh caliph and become this Arab caliph’s governors. If they do not comply with such Islamic demand then they must be removed by terror, intimidation and force.<br /><br />I hope by this time you clearly comprehend why the Islamist terrorists do what they do around the globe. The Islamists are absolutely serious in their goal—the Islamic caliphate, and to assist them there is no shortage of Arab charity money to finance their strategy and operations. This is the reason why the Islamists, the Islamist terrorists, the Jihadists and the Islamist apologists have no shortage of funds—the Arab/oil money is aplenty to finance the establishment of a super Arab (Islamic) kingdom. This is what I mean by Arab Imperialism when I say that “Islam is Arab/Bedouin imperialism.”<br /><br />FP: And so the conflict will not just go away?<br /><br />Kasem: Terrified, threatened and in panic, the unbelievers might want to know when this Islamic madness might end. I am afraid there is bad news for them. The war against the infidel world is a perpetual war. Islam divides the entire world/humanity into two—the world of Islam (Dar al-Islam) and the world of warfare (Dar al-Harb). These two worlds are in permanent confrontation, until Islam replaces the current civilization with its own version, the Islamic Caliphate. This is what Samuel Huntington had ominously postulated in his classic work, The Clash of Civilizations. This inevitable clash is now on us, make no mistake on this.<br /><br />FP: Can you provide some Qur’anic verses that clearly divide the civilization into two categories: Islamic and un-Islamic, and declare perpetual war against the infidels?<br /><br />Kasem: Sure. Here are two:<br /><br />Believers fight for Allah, unbelievers fight for evil, so fight against the friends of Satan (this verse literally divides the into two camps—the world of Islam and the world of unbelief or Kufr; i.e., Dar-al-Islam and Dar-al-Harb) …4:76<br /><br />Those who resist Allah and Muhammad will be humiliated (i.e. Islam, for ever, is at war with the infidels)...58:20<br /><br />FP: So what are our conclusions?<br /><br />Kasem: As exemplified from the most authentic source of Islam (Qur’an), Islam truly is intolerant to any idea/faith which does not endorse it as the only religion for mankind. Any action/deed which is against the Qur’an is certainly oppressive to Islam. Once we understand this fascistic and imperialistic nature of Islam, the fight against the Islamist terrorism becomes quite simple and straightforward. It (the Islamic terrorism) is not at all a political war—it is an ideological war, truly, the collision of culture and civilization. But, in contrast to the battle among various civilizations, as hypothesized by Samuel Huntington, this clash is between two worlds—the word of Islam and the world of Kufr or unbelief. Let the PC politicians pay heed to what the cleric I cited earlier said. He is 100% Muslim and 0% politician/hypocrite.<br /><br />The current world is about to be divided into two camps—the camp of Islam and the camp of infidels, without any third-world between them. Thus, having almost been polarized, a final showdown is gradually shaping up between these two camps. It is just a matter of time when this showdown will result in a massive loss of human lives—both Muslims and non-Muslims, unless correct steps are taken to diffuse this cataclysmic time-bomb.<br /><br />FP: Abul Kasem, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.<br /><br />Kasem: Thank you.<br />Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's managing editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He edited and wrote the introduction to David Horowitz’s Left Illusions. He is also the co-editor (with David Horowitz) of The Hate America Left and the author of Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev’s Soviet Union (McGill-Queens University Press, 2002) and 15 Tips on How to be a Good Leftist. To see his previous symposiums, interviews and articles Click Here. Email him at jglazov@rogers.com.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-68712696519743327482008-07-09T10:42:00.000-07:002008-07-09T10:44:03.141-07:00"Fundamentalism the Highest Stage of Islam?"<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">By Jacob Thomas</span><br /></div><br />The Internet has been a tremendous help to Arab intellectuals who are seeking to reform or critique their culture. It allows them that necessary freedom which is not available in other types of media, such as the newspapers, magazines, radio, and television; as these remain under the control or supervision of their authoritarian or dictatorial governments.<br /><br />On 25 June, 2008, I was very impressed by a bold and thought-provoking article that was posted on www.kwtanweer.com and written by an Algerian who dared to ask: "Is Fundamentalism the Highest Stage of Islam?" (Al-Usooliyya: Hal Heya Marhalat al-Islam al-‘Ulya?) This op-ed piece was a cry from the heart of an intellectual who has witnessed, for the last two decades, brutal and terrible acts of killings perpetrated by an Islamist group known as FIS (Front Islamique du Salut) i.e., Islamic Salvation Front! Between 1992 and 1999, 150,000 Algerians died as a result of the civil war that began, when the government annulled the results of the elections that would have brought FIS to power.<br /><br />And to bring this information up-to-date, according to The Guardian, of 11 December, 2007: "This year has been one of Algeria's most violent since its decade-long civil war wound up five years ago. There have been five bomb blasts with a combined death toll of over 100." I may add that to date, 2008 has not been any less violent than the previous year.<br /><br />I would like to quote from the Tanweer article, followed by my analysis, and comments.<br /><br />"Both Arab and non-Arab commentators regard Fundamentalism as a "crisis within Islam;" however, I consider Fundamentalism as an "Islamic crisis." By this I mean that Fundamentalism is neither a distortion nor a perversion of Islam, as the reformers claim; but it originates from the very core of Islam, (in the Arabic original: takhruju min sulbihi.) Thus, Fundamentalism is not a simple malady that has infected a specific group within Islam. Being an incurable disease, it's rather naïve to imagine that it can be treated in a simple manner.<br /><br />"When we understand the true nature of Fundamentalism, it becomes rather difficult not to regard it as the highest stage of Islam. Therefore, any attempt to draw a line separating a Fundamentalist from a non-Fundamentalist Muslim becomes extremely complicated. After all, to be a Muslim, has always implied a firm belief that Islam possesses the final and total answer to mankind's needs and aspirations. So in that sense, every Muslim is, without exception, a Fundamentalist.<br /><br />"To gloss over this fact does not help Muslims to liberate themselves from the shackles of their traditions. Some naïve writers claim that Fundamentalism is a new phenomenon, and give the exact time and place of its birth. I won't bother to discuss such repetitive claims. Fundamentalism is as old as the Arab-Muslim society itself; it must not be considered as a new or passing phenomenon; on the contrary it has its roots in the very structure of Islamic culture. Its existence and activity surface whenever it attempts to assume the reins of power. Fundamentalists have been known to influence, directly or indirectly, the decisions of the governments in most Arab countries. This may be observed in the fact that religious organizations happen to be the richest and most powerful in society, as in case of the ministries of Islamic Affairs, Da'wa (Religious Propaganda,) and Islamic Publications. What becomes disturbing to the governments is the attempt of Fundamentalists to assume power directly. The Algerian Regime, for example, has funded, over the last twenty years, a world forum for Fundamentalism known as "Multaqa al-Fikr al-Islami" (The Gathering of Islamic Thought.) And now, in spite of a bloody decade, the regime continues to grant considerable amounts of monetary aid to religious rather than to social organizations! As the Arabic proverb puts it: "Dawooni billati heya al-Daa'u" i.e. "Treat my illness with a medicine extracted from the sickness itself!"<br /><br />"As they face this aggressive Fundamentalist danger, many Algerians have been asking: ‘What have we done to bring about or merit this situation?' A more accurate question should be: ‘Have we ever refrained from doing the very thing that favored the rise of the Fundamentalists' cause?' Haven't we forsaken reason, and promoted tradition? Don't we deserve this worn-out Fundamentalism? Since the early 1980s, Arab societies have been going through a violent stage of Islamization; and as a result, catastrophe has befallen us. So, the question that should be asked nowadays is not: "Who is a Fundamentalist?" Rather, "Who has not yet become a Fundamentalist?" Before it became a movement to take over governments, Fundamentalism has been a mentality; and its disastrous impact upon the people's daily life has been very evident.<br /><br />"Every young Muslim who has not caught this contagious disease should write his autobiography under this title: "Memoirs of one who has escaped the Flames of Fundamentalism." Actually, what deserves our admiration and surprise is to find one Arab Muslim who has managed to free himself from that web of fanaticism that has surrounded him from the cradle to the grave.<br /><br />"As to the majority of the young men and women who have been afflicted with the virus of Islamization, they must seek to forget what they have learned in order to gradually return to a normal state of mind. This won't take place without a total pedagogical effort, accompanied by a complete reorganization of the educational system, and followed by a campaign for cultural immunization against this serious plague. Short of achieving this ideological security, Fundamentalism would remain as dormant amber, waiting for an adventurer to rekindle it, at a propitious time."<br /><br />Analysis<br /><br />The author defends his thesis that Islamic Fundamentalism is not an extraneous movement in Islam; rather it is imbedded in the faith. To put it in his own words, "Fundamentalism is not a ‘crisis within Islam;' it is an ‘Islamic crisis.'"<br /><br />Therefore, Fundamentalism is the "Highest Stage in Islam." Logically, Islam ends up as an exclusivist and aggressive worldview.<br /><br />Comments<br /><br />As we attempt to understand this rather difficult essay, we should bear in mind that the writer was expressing himself from within the context of a land that has been ravaged by the shocking crimes of the Algerian Islamists against their own people. In reflecting upon his experiences since the early 1990s, and drawing on Arabic and French sources, he brings to his reflections insights that are seldom expressed or heard in the Arab world.<br /><br />So unlike many Arab and Muslim intellectuals, and some Western "experts" on Islam, who claim that Islamic Fundamentalism is a distortion of the true faith, the author stated categorically that this phenomenon has always been part and parcel of Islam. He put it this way: "By this I mean that Fundamentalism is neither a distortion nor a perversion of Islam, as the reformers claim; but it originates from the very core of Islam."<br /><br />Expanding on this thesis, he maintained that, in a certain sense, every Muslim who takes the sources of his faith seriously is a Fundamentalist. This is a far-reaching conclusion. He defended it by drawing our attention to the claims of Islam as being Allah's last and complete message for mankind. All other faiths and religions are outdated, and must give place to this perfect worldview.<br /><br />As for his fellow-Algerians who wonder how they had reached this tragic state of affairs, he reminded them that, by substituting tradition for rational thinking, they have brought this unbelievable tragedy upon themselves. With respect to Muslims in general, the question should not be, "Who is a Fundamentalist?" Rather, "Who has not yet become a Fundamentalist?"<br /><br /><br /><br />His final and most powerful indictment of the Islamic tradition is stated in these words:<br /><br />"Actually, what should deserve our admiration and surprise is to find one Arab Muslim who has managed to free himself from that web of fanaticism that has surrounded him from the cradle to the grave."<br /><br />Having liberated himself from that "web of fanaticism that has surrounded him from the cradle" the writer ended his article by offering his prescription that is capable of curing the young men and women of Algeria, (and of the entire Muslim world) from the virus of Fundamentalism.<br /><br />Great as that prescription may sound, I doubt that it can be "filled" anywhere within Daru'l Islam. I don't doubt his sincerity. However, where in the Muslim world can we find a government or institution that is ready or capable of initiating "a total pedagogical effort, accompanied by a complete reorganization of the educational system, and followed by a campaign for cultural immunization against this serious plague?"<br /><br />Unfortunately for him, as well as for Muslims throughout the world, this prescription will never be realized; short of a total re-interpretation of Islam, by separating its purely religious elements from its political agenda. What resemblance would that kind of "Islam" have with what Muhammad developed between 610 and 632 A.D.? The "modest proposal" advanced by this idealistic writer remains a utopian dream. Islam reformed, according to his prescription, is Islam no more!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1967">Faithffreedom.org</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-66151119757430953112008-07-09T10:38:00.000-07:002008-07-09T10:41:40.578-07:00Sharia Showdown on Wall Street<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">By Paul Sperry</span><br /><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D0A52215-262C-4438-A3CD-8073D0DE26CB">FrontPageMagazine.com</a> | Wednesday, July 09, 2008<br /></div><br />Sheik Muhammad Taqi Usmani has been a rock star of the Islamic finance world, sitting on the sharia supervisory boards of no fewer than a dozen Islamic banks and financial institutions worldwide.<br /><br />For nearly a decade, the mufti also has advised the Dow Jones Islamic Market Index, which licenses more than 25 stock funds that comply with Islamic laws forbidding certain Western-style investments. The venerable Dow Jones & Co. first retained him in 1999.<br /><br />Usmani's name is now missing from the Dow Jones website, where it had previously been prominently displayed. His bio and photo suddenly vanished without explanation.<br /><br />Meanwhile, all references to Dow Jones disappeared from the website of the North American Islamic Trust, or NAIT, which runs a sharia-compliant mutual fund out of Burr Ridge, Ill.<br /><br />For years the fund had been called the Dow Jones Islamic Fund. Dow had lent NAIT its good name under a licensing agreement.<br /><br />But recently the trust felt compelled to rename its lead portfolio the "Iman Fund," and amend several pages in its prospectus to remove all references to Dow Jones, as well as Usmani. Again, no explanation was offered.<br /><br />What's behind the mystery? It's all been very hush-hush, but according to a high-level document I've obtained, along with interviews with company insiders, Dow Jones recently terminated NAIT's license and dumped Usmani to protect its brand. The company, now under new management, no longer wants to be associated with either of them, especially after they received a spate of bad publicity this year.<br /><br />Articles published on this webzine -- as well as in the National Review, Investor's Business Daily and the Washington Times, among other media -- have called attention to Usmani's fatwahs demanding that Muslims living in the West conduct or support violent jihad against infidels at every opportunity.<br /><br />"Killing is to continue until the unbelievers pay jizyah (subjugation tax) after they are humbled or overpowered," the radical Pakistani cleric wrote in his book, "Islam and Modernism," which in 2006 was translated from his native Urdu into English.<br /><br />Usmani advocates spreading sharia law in America and the West -- the barbaric legal code that not only justifies holy war, but the stonings, floggings, amputations and even beheadings for petty crimes seen in Muslim nations such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Sudan.<br /><br />The aim of Muslims, he wrote, is to "take out people from the rule of people and put them under the rule of Allah."<br /><br />More, Usmani has run a Pakistani madrassa that's trained thousands of Taliban, according to the Washington-based Center for Security Policy.<br /><br />Usmani is no longer employed by Dow Jones, which says it only recently learned of such "allegations."<br /><br />NAIT, which until a few months ago managed a $40 million Dow Jones portfolio, also has come under fire.<br /><br />Allegedly, the trust is a Saudi-tied front for the pro-jihad Muslim Brotherhood that holds title to some of the most radical mosques in America.<br /><br />The Justice Department last year named NAIT an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror money-laundering scheme to funnel more than $12 million to Hamas suicide bombers and their families under the guise of charity.<br /><br />Dow has since revoked NAIT's license.<br /><br />The moves against Usmani and NAIT were made quietly, without any media announcements, by Dow Jones' front office in South Brunswick, N.J.<br /><br />After NAIT's links to terrorism were brought to its attention by the media, "Dow Jones terminated its license agreement with the NAIT subsidiary and required it to remove all reference to Dow Jones from its website and fund-related offering materials," Dow Jones Indexes President Michael Petronella confirmed, following the mysterious disappearance of such references from NAIT's website.<br /><br />Explaining Usmani's departure, he cited "certain allegations related to Mr. Usmani who was, at the time, a member of the DJIM Index Sharia Advisory Board."<br /><br />"Mr. Usmani has since resigned from our board," he asserted.<br /><br />Petronella explained the changes in a May 29 letter to officials with the Center for Security Policy, a leading watchdog against the spread of Islamofascism in the West.<br /><br />CSP president Frank Gaffney and the group's top lawyer had fired off a legal memo to Dow charging it with "covering up" material facts from the investing public about the sharia-compliant funds it licenses -- namely, that sharia advisers like Usmani "embrace the law of violent jihad that seeks America's destruction." Petronella responded that Dow Jones had already taken corrective action based on earlier media reports.<br /><br />Indeed, sharia-compliant funds offer little transparency. They disclose neither the radical ties of the scholars who are advising and running them, nor the subversive tenets that dictate the structuring of the investments.<br /><br />The prospectuses merely state the investments are "ethical" or "socially acceptable," when in fact they're grounded in a religious doctrine that threatens America and the West.<br /><br />Lost in Wall Street's scramble to grab management and other fees from these Islamic-compliant funds, which are growing fast thanks to Arab petrodollars, is that the funds must "purify" their returns by transferring at least 3% into Islamic charities, many of which funnel funds to terrorists.<br /><br />So, the American financial community may unwittingly be helping our sworn enemy.<br /><br />Dow Jones' dumping of one of its top sharia advisers and licensees is a welcome setback to the burgeoning sharia-finance industry in America, which forbids investments in key businesses that drive our economy, including financial services, entertainment and aerospace-defense, as well as alcohol, tobacco and pork-related products.<br /><br />It's also a serious blow to the credibility of one of the world's leading sharia-finance authorities, as well as that of America's largest mosque landlord.<br /><br />But the case merely points up the unknown risks associated with Islamic finance.<br /><br />What other sharia advisers are closet jihadists lusting after the blood of infidels? What other Islamic investment funds may be steering money to terrorists with the imprimatur of one of Wall Street's most respected institutions?<br /><br /><ul><li>Paul Sperry is a Hoover Institution media fellow and author of Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington. He can be conacted at Sperry@SperryFiles.com. </li></ul></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471569585422828882.post-50135921230665400892008-06-28T02:35:00.000-07:002008-06-28T02:37:14.934-07:00Iran: Islamic terrorism's beginning – and end<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Iran: Islamic terrorism's beginning – and end<br /><br />By Ali Sina<br /><a style="font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67975">© 2008 </a><br /></div><br />Political mistakes can be costly, but when they are made by the president of the United States of America, they can be deadly.<br /><br />When in 1979 the unrest in Iran escalated, President Carter's national secretary adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, advised him to encourage the shah to crack down on the revolution. The more cautious State Department suggested that Carter reach out to democratic opposition elements in order to smooth the transition to a new government. Carter did neither, and the worst possible outcome ensued.<br /><br />Muslim youths from all over the world were dazzled by the unexpected success of the Islamic revolution. Nothing is more roborant to Islamists than victory. Victory gives them the confirmation that they are right. It is an elixir that invigorates them. Thus, after centuries of lying in its grave, jihad was resurrected.<br /><br />Who would have thought Carter's lack of political acumen would cause the carnage of 9/11, so many wars and the death of millions of people across the world? Carter is history, but history is the best teacher.<br /><br />America is about to elect a new president. Barak Hussein Obama, an unknown political figure, has emerged as the candidate of the Democrats with a good chance of winning the presidency. He has mesmerized a great number of people. Is he the right man to lead the world's most powerful country? Does he have enough political savvy for the job?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What to do with a nuclear Iran?</span><br /><br />Obama linked his rival McCain to the outgoing president and said the Bush/McCain record on protecting this country has benefited Iran.<br /><br />So, what would he do if he were elected? He has announced that, if elected, he wouldn't ask Iran to comply with U.N. resolutions as a precondition for direct talks.<br /><br />"Preconditions, as it applies to a country like Iran, for example, was a term of art," "Obama said. "Because this administration has been very clear that it will not have direct negotiations with Iran until Iran has met preconditions that are essentially what Iran views, and many other observers would view, as the subject of the negotiations; for example, their nuclear program."<br /><br />What Obama seems not to know is that the preconditions are not whimsical excuses of Bush to avoid talks with Iran. They are unanimous resolutions of the U.N. Security Council, agreed upon after the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran was in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Obama will have to ignore the recommendation of IAEA and defy the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council to meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions.<br /><br />What would be the reaction of the Chinese, the Russians and America's European allies who voted for these resolutions in the Council? What message would this send to all other banana republics that may want to break international law? Wouldn't it undermine the credibility of the Security Council? Wouldn't it be a mockery of international diplomacy?<br /><br />Why does Obama think the preconditions are unfair and unnecessary? The resolution basically says that Iran should stop cheating. Does Obama think it is OK for Iran to cheat and to lie while the talks are proceeding?<br /><br />Let us say Obama thumbs his nose at the IAEA and the Security Council and meets Ahmadinejad without precondition. Wouldn't this make the delinquent Iran stronger?<br /><br />Obama's statement that he would waive the preconditions to talk with Iran could not have come at a more propitious time for the beleaguered president of the Islamic Republic. Ahmadinejad, who was under attack by his internal opponents for endangering Iran with his irresponsible rhetoric about "wiping Israel off the map" and his reckless pursuit of his nuclear ambition suddenly got a shot in the arm by Obama who conceded that Iran does not have to listen to the highest international authority.<br /><br />This is not just a victory for Ahmadinejad and the hardliners, but also a setback for the Iranian opposition and the democratic movement in that country. More strength for the hardliners translates into more instability in the region and more support for terrorism.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clarity saves lives</span><br /><br />In an interview with ABC television, Sen. Hillary Clinton was asked what she would do as president if the Islamic Republic were to launch a nuclear strike on Israel. "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton said unequivocally. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."<br /><br />This is tough talk, but it sends a clear message. What was Obama's reaction? He took issue with that and said, "Using words like obliterate doesn't actually produce good results. And so I'm not interested in saber rattling."<br /><br />The truth is it is ambiguity that doesn't produce good result. Clinton was clear. Clarity acts as a deterrent. When in 1990 April Glaspie, the American ambassador to Iraq, saw the massing of Iraqi troops near the border of Kuwait, she said, "We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts." This led Saddam into believing he had received a diplomatic green light from the United States to invade Kuwait. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed as the result. If Glaspie had warned Saddam unequivocally of the consequences, many lives would have been saved. Clarity saves lives. Obama's lack of clarity vis-à-vis Iran can spell disaster for millions.<br /><br />What are the legitimate grievances of Iran that Americans need to hearken? Ahmadinejad has made his wishes clear. He wants to build the nuclear bomb, and he wants to wipe Israel off the map. How much of these are negotiable? He is convinced that it is through destroying Israel that the hidden Imam Mahdi will make his appearance. He sees himself as the hand of God. This man is motivated by faith, not by reason. How do you negotiate with such a person?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">On regime change in Iran</span><br /><br />Obama said that if he is elected he would engage in "aggressive personal diplomacy" and offer Iran economic inducements and a promise not to seek "regime change" if Iran stopped meddling in Iraq and cooperated on terrorism and nuclear issues.<br /><br />Of course, Iran has never shunned from talks. The mullahs love to talk. The phrase "dialogue between civilizations" was coined by Ahmadinejad's predecessor, Khatami. They openly boasted on their national television that these talks let them buy time to continue their nuclear projects.<br /><br />Furthermore, the mullahs have never openly acknowledged meddling in Iraq, cooperating with terrorists, or wanting to build atomic bomb. They can give all the promises to make you happy and continue doing what they are doing, while they will get securities and economical incentives Obama will throw at them. Who can guarantee that they will abide by any treaty when they are already in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a signatory?<br /><br />Today, 90 percent of Iranians oppose the Islamic regime. They want change. The least they need to regain their freedom is moral support. When Obama reassures that the U.S. will not support regime change, he is dashing the hopes of the majority of Iranians. The stability of the region depends on promoting democracy in Iran.<br /><br />The Islamic Republic of Iran is the main supporter and financier of many terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah. It is the instigator of troubles in Iraq. The mullahs perceive democracy in Iraq as a threat to their own survival. The best solution for the crisis in the Middle East is regime change in Iran and not promises of its protection.<br /><br />Islamic terrorism began in Iran and it must end in Iran.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0