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The future belongs to Islam
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What the
Islamic apologists say
The future belongs
to Islam
The
Muslim world has youth, numbers and global ambitions. The West is
growing old and enfeebled, and lacks the will to rebuff those who
would supplant it. It's the end of the world as we've known it. An
excerpt from 'America Alone'.
MARK
STEYN | Oct 20, 2006
http://www.macleans.ca/culture/entertainment/article.jsp?content=20061023_134898_134898
Sept. 11, 2001,
was not "the day everything changed," but the day that revealed how much
had already changed.
The larger
forces at play in the developed world that have left Europe too
enfeebled to resist its remorseless transformation into Eurabia
and that call into question the future of much of the rest of the world.
The key factors are: demographic decline; the
unsustainability of the social democratic state; and civilizational
exhaustion.
1) Let's start
with demography, because everything does:
If your school
has 200 guys and you're playing a school with 2,000 pupils, it doesn't
mean your baseball team is definitely going to lose but it certainly
gives the other fellows a big starting advantage. Likewise, if you want
to launch a revolution, it's not very likely if you've only got seven
revolutionaries. And they're all over 80. But, if you've got two million
and seven revolutionaries and they're all under 30 you're in business.
Likewise, the
salient feature of Europe, Canada, Japan and Russia is that they're
running out of babies. What's happening in the developed world is one of
the fastest demographic evolutions in history: most of us have seen a
gazillion heartwarming ethnic comedies -- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
and its ilk -- in which some uptight WASPy type starts dating a gal from
a vast loving fecund Mediterranean family, so abundantly endowed with
sisters and cousins and uncles that you can barely get in the room. It
is, in fact, the inversion of the truth. Greece has a fertility
rate hovering just below 1.3 births per couple, which is what
demographers call the point of "lowest-low" fertility from which no
human society has ever recovered. And Greece's fertility is the
healthiest in Mediterranean Europe: Italy has a fertility rate of
1.2, Spain 1.1. Insofar as any citizens of the developed world
have "big" families these days, it's the anglo democracies: America's
fertility rate is 2.1, New Zealand a little below. (Romania
?? … Robert pls fill in 1.3… )Hollywood should be making
My Big Fat Uptight Protestant Wedding in which some sad Greek
only child marries into a big heartwarming New Zealand family where the
spouse actually has a sibling.
As I say, this
isn't a projection: it's happening now. There's no need to
extrapolate, and if you do it gets a little freaky, but, just for fun,
here goes: by 2050, 60 per cent of Italians will have no brothers, no
sisters, no cousins, no aunts, no uncles. The big Italian family, with
papa pouring the vino and mama spooning out the pasta down an endless
table of grandparents and nieces and nephews, will be gone, no more,
dead as the dinosaurs.
Experts talk
about root causes. But demography is the most basic root of all.
A people that won't multiply can't go forth or go anywhere. Those who do
will shape the age we live in.
2) Demographic
decline and the unsustainability of the social democratic state
are closely related. In America, politicians upset about the federal
deficit like to complain that we're piling up debts our children and
grandchildren will have to pay off. But in Europe the unaffordable
entitlements are in even worse shape: there are no kids or grandkids to
stick it to.
You might
formulate it like this:
Age + Welfare =
Disaster for you;
Youth + Will =
Disaster for whoever gets in your way.
By "will," I mean
the metaphorical spine of a culture. Africa, to take another example,
also has plenty of young people, but it's riddled with AIDS and, for the
most part, Africans don't think of themselves as Africans: as we saw in
Rwanda, their primary identity is tribal, and most tribes have no global
ambitions. Islam, however, has serious global ambitions, and it forms
the primal, core identity of most of its adherents -- in the Middle
East, South Asia and elsewhere.
Islam
has youth and will, Europe has age and welfare.
We are
witnessing the end of the late 20th- century progressive welfare
democracy. Its fiscal bankruptcy is merely a symptom of a more
fundamental bankruptcy: its insufficiency as an animating principle for
society. The children and grandchildren of those fascists and
republicans who waged a bitter civil war for the future of Spain now
shrug when a bunch of foreigners blow up their capital. Too sedated even
to sue for terms, they capitulate instantly. Over on the other side of
the equation, the modern multicultural state is too watery a concept to
bind huge numbers of immigrants to the land of their nominal
citizenship. So they look elsewhere and find the jihad. The Western
Muslim's pan-Islamic identity is merely the first great cause in a world
where globalized pathologies are taking the place of old-school
nationalism.
For states in
demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question
is a simple one: can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow
old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by
people with a very different world view.
3) Which brings
us to the third factor -- the enervated state of the Western
world, the sense of civilizational exhaustion, of nations too
mired in cultural relativism to understand what's at stake. As it
happens, that third point is closely related to the first two. There is
a correlation between the structural weaknesses of the social democratic
state and the rise of a globalized Islam. The state has gradually
annexed all the responsibilities of adulthood -- health care, child
care, care of the elderly -- to the point where it's effectively severed
its citizens from humanity's primal instincts, not least the survival
instinct. In the American context, the federal "deficit" isn't the
problem; it's the government programs that cause the deficit. These
programs would still be wrong even if Bill Gates wrote a cheque to cover
them each month. They corrode the citizen's sense of self-reliance to a
potentially fatal degree. Big government is a national security threat:
it increases your vulnerability to threats like Islamism, and makes it
less likely you'll be able to summon the will to rebuff it.
There were two
forces at play in the late 20th century: in the Eastern bloc, the
collapse of Communism; in the West, the collapse of confidence.
One of the most obvious refutations of Francis Fukuyama's famous thesis
The End Of History -- written at the victory of liberal pluralist
democracy over Soviet Communism -- is that the victors didn't see it
as such. Americans -- or at least non-Democrat-voting Americans --
may talk about "winning" the Cold War but the French and the Belgians
and Germans and Canadians don't. Very few British do. These are all
formal NATO allies -- they were, technically, on the winning side
against a horrible tyranny few would wish to live under themselves. In
Europe, there was an initial moment of euphoria: it was hard not be
moved by the crowds sweeping through the Berlin Wall, especially as so
many of them were hot-looking Red babes eager to enjoy a Carlsberg or
Stella Artois with even the nerdiest running dog of imperialism. But,
when the moment faded, pace Fukuyama, there was no sense on the
Continent that our Big Idea had beaten their Big Idea. With the best
will in the world, it's hard to credit the citizens of France or Italy
as having made any serious contribution to the defeat of Communism. Au
contraire, millions of them voted for it (!), year in, year out. And,
with the end of the Soviet existential threat, the enervation of the
West only accelerated.
And another
difference: technology. In the old days, the Indians had bows and
arrows and the cavalry had rifles. In today's Indian territory,
countries that can't feed their own people have nuclear weapons !!!
The enemies we
face in the future will look a lot like al-Qaeda: transnational,
globalized, locally franchised, extensively outsourced -- but tied
together through a powerful identity that leaps frontiers and continents.
They won't be nation-states and they'll have no interest in becoming
nation-states, though they might use the husks thereof, as they did in
Afghanistan and then Somalia. The jihad may be the first, but other
transnational deformities will embrace similar techniques. Sept. 10
institutions like the UN and the EU will be unlikely to provide
effective responses.
We can argue
about what consequences these demographic trends will have, but to say
blithely they have none is ridiculous. The basic demography explains,
for example, the critical difference between the "war on terror" for
Americans and Europeans: in the U.S., the war is something to be fought
in the treacherous sands of the Sunni Triangle and the caves of the
Hindu Kush; you go to faraway places and kill foreigners. But, in
Europe, it's a civil war. Neville Chamberlain dismissed
Czechoslovakia as "a faraway country of which we know little." This time
round, for much of western Europe it turned out
the faraway country of which they knew little was their
own.
Four years into
the "war on terror," the Bush administration began promoting a new
formulation: "the long war." Not a good sign. In a short war, put your
money on tanks and bombs. In a long war, the better bet is will and
manpower. The longer the long war gets, the harder it will be,
because it's a race against time, against lengthening demographic,
economic and geopolitical odds. By "demographic," I mean the Muslim
world's high birth rate, which by mid-century will give tiny Yemen a
higher population than vast empty Russia. By "economic," I mean the
perfect storm the Europeans will face within this decade, because their
lavish welfare states are unsustainable on their post-Christian birth
rates. By "geopolitical," I mean that, if you think the United Nations
and other international organizations are antipathetic to America now,
wait a few years and see what kind of support you get from
a semi-Islamified Europe.
Almost every
geopolitical challenge in the years ahead has its roots in demography,
but not every demographic crisis will play out the same way. That's what
makes doing anything about it even more problematic -- because different
countries' reactions to their own particular domestic circumstances are
likely to play out in destabilizing ways on the international scene. In
Japan, the demographic crisis exists virtually in laboratory conditions
-- no complicating factors; in Russia, it will be determined by the
country's relationship with a cramped neighbour -- China; and in Europe,
the new owners are already in place -- like a tenant with a
right-to-buy agreement. The only question is how bloody the
transfer of real estate will be.
On the Continent
and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and
being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic. Time for
the obligatory "of courses": of course, not all Muslims
are terrorists -- though enough are hot for jihad to provide an
impressive support network of mosques from Vienna to Stockholm to
Toronto to Seattle. Of course, not all Muslims support terrorists
-- though enough of them share their basic objectives (the wish to live
under Islamic law in Europe and North America – 40% of Muslims in UK
want Syariah law !!) to function wittingly or otherwise as the "good
cop" end of an Islamic good cop/bad cop routine. But, at the very
minimum, this fast-moving demographic transformation provides a huge
comfort zone for the jihad to move around in. And in a more profound
way it rationalizes what would otherwise be the nuttiness of the
terrorists' demands. An IRA (anti-UK) man blows up a pub in defiance of
democratic reality -- because he knows that at his minority party
will loose at the ballot box. When a European jihadist blows something
up, that's not in defiance of democratic reality but merely a portent of
democratic reality to come. He's jumping the gun, but in every respect
things are moving his way.
You may vaguely
remember seeing some flaming cars on the evening news toward the end of
2005. Something going on in France, apparently. Something to do with --
what's the word? -- "youths." When I pointed out the media's strange
reluctance to use the M-word vis-à-vis the rioting "youths," I
received a ton of emails arguing there's no Islamist component, they're
not the madrasa crowd, they may be Muslim but they're secular and
Westernized and into drugs and rap and meaningless sex with no emotional
commitment, and rioting and looting and torching and trashing, just like
any normal healthy Western teenagers. These guys have economic concerns,
it's the lack of jobs, it's conditions peculiar to France, etc. As one
correspondent wrote, "You right-wing shit-for-brains think everything's
about jihad."
Actually, I don't
think everything's about jihad. But I do think, as I said, that a good
90 per cent of everything's about demography. Take that media
characterization of those French rioters: "youths." What's the salient
point about youths? They're youthful. Very few octogenarians want to go
torching Renaults every night. It's not easy lobbing a Molotov cocktail
into a police station and then hobbling back with your walker across the
street before the searing heat of the explosion melts your hip
replacement. Civil disobedience is a young man's game.
In June 2006, a
54-year-old Flemish train conductor called Guido Demoor got on the
Number 23 bus in Antwerp to go to work. Six -- what's that word again?
-- "youths" boarded the bus and commenced intimidating the other riders.
There were some 40 passengers aboard. But the "youths" were youthful and
the other passengers less so. Nonetheless, Mr. Demoor asked the lads to
cut it out and so they turned on him, thumping and kicking him. Of those
40 other passengers, none intervened to help the man under attack.
Instead, at the next stop, 30 of the 40 scrammed, leaving Mr. Demoor to
be beaten to death. Three "youths" were arrested, and proved to be --
quelle surprise! -- of Moroccan origin. The ringleader escaped and,
despite police assurances of complete confidentiality, of those 40
passengers only four came forward to speak to investigators. "You see
what happens if you intervene," a fellow rail worker told the Belgian
newspaper De Morgen. "If Guido had not opened his mouth he would still
be alive."
No, he wouldn't.
He would be as dead as those 40 passengers are, as the Belgian state is,
keeping his head down, trying not to make eye contact, cowering behind
his newspaper in the corner seat and hoping just to be left alone. What
future in "their" country do Mr. Demoor's two children have? My mother
and grandparents came from Sint-Niklaas, a town I remember well from
many childhood visits. When we stayed with great-aunts and other
relatives, the upstairs floors of the row houses had no bathrooms, just
chamber pots. My sister and I were left to mooch around cobbled streets
with our little cousin for hours on end, wandering aimlessly past
smoke-wreathed bars and cafes, occasionally buying frites with
mayonnaise. With hindsight it seemed as parochially Flemish as could be
imagined. Not anymore. The week before Mr. Demoor was murdered in plain
sight, bus drivers in Sint-Niklaas walked off the job to protest the
thuggery of the -- here it comes again -- "youths." In little more than
a generation, a town has been transformed.
Of the ethnic
Belgian population, some 17 per cent are under 18 years old. Of the
country's Turkish and Moroccan population, 35 per cent are under 18
years old. The "youths" get ever more numerous, the non-youths get
older. To avoid the ruthless arithmetic posited by Benjamin Franklin, it
is necessary for those "youths" to feel more Belgian. Is that likely?
Colonel Gadhafi doesn't think so:
There are signs
that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe -- without swords, without
guns, without conquests. The fifty million Muslims of Europe will turn
it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.
On Sept. 11,
2001, the American mainland was attacked for the first time since the
War of 1812. The perpetrators were foreign -- Saudis and Egyptians.
Since 9/11, Europe has seen the London Tube bombings, the French riots,
Dutch murders of nationalist politicians. The perpetrators are their own
citizens -- British subjects, citoyens de la République française. In
Linz, Austria, Muslims are demanding that all female teachers, believers
or infidels, wear head scarves in class. The Muslim Council of Britain
wants Holocaust Day abolished because it focuses "only" on the Nazis'
(alleged) Holocaust of the Jews and not the Israelis' ongoing Holocaust
of the Palestinians.
How does the
state react? In Seville, King Ferdinand III is no longer patron saint of
the annual fiesta because his splendid record in fighting for Spanish
independence from the Moors was felt to be insensitive to Muslims. In
London, a judge agreed to the removal of Jews and Hindus from a trial
jury because the Muslim defendant's counsel argued he couldn't get a
fair verdict from them. The Church of England is considering removing
St. George as the country's patron saint on the grounds that, according
to various Anglican clergy, he's too "militaristic" and "offensive to
Muslims." They wish to replace him with St. Alban, and replace St.
George's cross on the revamped Union Flag, which would instead show St.
Alban's cross as a thin yellow streak.
In a few years,
as millions of Muslim teenagers are entering their voting booths, some
European countries will not be living formally under sharia, but -- as
much as parts of Nigeria, they will have reached an accommodation with
their radicalized Islamic compatriots, who like many intolerant types
are expert at exploiting the "tolerance" of pluralist societies. In
other Continental countries, things are likely to play out in more
traditional fashion, though without a significantly different ending.
Wherever one's sympathies lie on Islam's multiple battle fronts the fact
is the jihad has held out a long time against very tough enemies. If
you're not shy about taking on the Israelis and Russians, why wouldn't
you fancy your chances against the Belgians and Spaniards?
"We're the ones
who will change you," the Norwegian imam Mullah Krekar told the Oslo
newspaper Dagbladet in 2006. "Just look at the development within
Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every
Western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every
Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children." As
he summed it up: "Our way of thinking will prove more powerful than
yours."
List of articles
What the
Islamic apologists say
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What the
Islamic apologists say
(the peaceful
Meccan Verses, when Mohamad was still weak and needed to attract
sympathy) |
What
they DON’T say
(the later violent Medinan Verses, when
Mohamad had military power. These verses abrogate the earlier
peaceful Meccan Verses) |
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DEFINITION of ISLAM |
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PEACE
Islam
instructs people on how they may live together in peace and
harmony regardless of race, class and beliefs.
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Islamic concept of “peace”= peace comes through SUBMISSION to
Allah, as conveyed by the prophet Mohamad. ”Peace” only exists
in Darul Islam (House of Islam), not in Darul Harb (House of
War, ie land of non-Muslims).
People of the Book (the Ahlul Kitab: Jews, Christians)
have to be fought against until they are subdued or until there
is no more” tumult or oppression”. Q2:190-193, Q9:5.
“Tumult and oppression” = resistance to the advance of Islam.
Justice and peace can only prevail when Islam becomes dominant
and other religions are subdued and their followers are reduced
to tributaries to the coffers of the Islamic state. They must
“pay the poll tax/Jizya with willing submission, and feel
themselves subdued”.
Q9:29: Fight those among the People of the Book
… till they pay the poll tax out of hand and
submissively.
Islam = religion of FEAR, not peace.
(Note; “Q” is short for Quran. Q2:190 means the Quran, surah/chapter
2: ayat/article 190)
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EQUALITY !
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Q4:141: and Allah will not give the infidels
the upper hand over believers.
Q
9:23: O ye who believe! Take not for protectors your
fathers and your brothers if they love infidelity above Faith:
if any of you do so, they do wrong.
These
rules instruct the Muslims not to take the infidels as their
awlia (protectors, custodians, rulers) and imply that Muslims
should not accept the rule and the governance of non-Muslims.
In S
Arabia’s sharia law, if a person is killed, blood money for
compensation is :
100,000 riyals if victim is Muslim man
50.000 riyals if victim is Muslim woman
50.000 riyals if victim is Christian man
25,000 riyals if a Christian woman
6,666 riyals if a Hindu man
3,333 riyals if a Hindu woman
(Wall
Street Journal, Apr 2002)
In
muslim countries; proseletyzing other religions to Muslims
forbidden, apostacy is a capital offence, churches not
tolerated, discrimination towards non-Muslims exist in
political, social & economic sphere: non-muslim leader not
tolerated (exception: Lebanon), it is not permissible to confer
authority on a Christian over a muslim.
Choices for unbelievers are: accept Islam, pay the jizya/poll
tax or war/death.
(see
Q9:29 Fight those among the People of the Book
… till they pay the poll tax out of hand and
submissively)
Peaceful coexistence as equals in a pluralistic society isn’t
one of the choices. |
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Not a
political, but spiritual force, because Mohamad is God’s
messenger and not political figure (according to a liberal Islam
group/ISLIB, Indonesia) |
“Islam is not a religion in the common, distorted meaning of
the word, confining its scope only to the private life of man.
By saying that it is a complete way of life, we mean that it
caters for all the fields of human existence. In fact, Islam
provides guidance for all walks of life – individual and social,
material and moral, economic and political, legal and
cultural, national and international.” (Islamonline.net)
Q57:25:
We
verily sent Our messengers with clear proofs and revealed with
them the scripture and the balance [i.e. the authority to
establish justice], that mankind may observe justice and the
right measure…
Q12:40:
The command is for none but Allah; He has commanded that you
obey none but Him; that is the right path.
Q22:41:
[Muslims are] those who if We give them power in the land,
establish [the system of] salat (prayers and worship) and zakat
(poor due) and enjoin virtue and forbid vice and evil."
Islam is politics. Islam’s only objective is to reclaim the
Earth for Allah and establish the rule of Sharia. You take away
that objective and Islam as a whole becomes meaningless. It
simply loses its raison d'être. While Christ wanted to conquer
the hearts of the people, Mohamad could care less about people's
hearts. He was interested in conquering cities and establishing
the dominion of Islam in the name of God. (answeringislam.org) |
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Place
great importance on TRUTH
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*Hadis
Bukhari : Lying (“TAQQIYA” the doctrine of religious
deception) is permitted in battle, to bring reconciliation
amongst husbands and wives, to persuade a woman, to save one’s
life, to effect peace, on occasion of journey. Also, Muslims can
break covenants with enemies. (See: Reliance of the Traveller,
Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law by Noah Ha Mam Keller)
*”Hadis” means: the biography of Muhamad written by his closest
companions and is regarded as the second source of Islamic law,
after the Quran. See page 23, mor on the Hadis.
Q3:28
Let not the believers take for friends unbelievers …
unless you guard against
them fully …
This
is called “KITMAN” (mental preservation):
telling the truth but not the whole truth with an intention to
mislead. |
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Muslims are moderate, decent, peace-loving. |
Not
because the teachings of Jihad have been reformed or rejected,
but because they have simply been ignored. History taught us
that they can be remembered anytime.
Also,
most Muslims have never read the Quran in their own language,
The Quran is recited in Arabic without knowing the meaning. The
moderate Muslims’ theological foundation is weak.
Ibn
Warraq (ex Muslim, in his book Why I am not a Muslim) :
“There are moderate Muslims, but Islam itself
is not moderate.” |
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Civilisation rich in arts & culture |
Mohamad forbade musical instruments: On the day of
resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of
whoever listens to a songstress. Songs makes hypocrisy grow in
the heart as water does herbage … Umdat al Salik r40.1
He
forbade the depiction of living beings : Angels do not enter
a house where there are pictures of dogs or images of living
creatures. Bukhari 4:59:3225 |
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Islamic literature, Sufi poet Jalaludin Rumi (1207-1273) and the
1001 Nights, Abu Nawas (762-814) heterodox views on
homosexuality, al Mutanabi (915-965), Abu al Qasim Mansur
Firdowsi (935-1020), set the history of Persia to verse (using
Christian and Zoroastrian chronicles |
No
known for their Islamic character, but LACK OF IT. They were
Islamic heretics. |
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Islamic science |
It
came from non-Muslims serving Muslim masters. |
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Western Civilisation owe much to Islamic Civilisation
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…to
be continued in separate paper |
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Reformation/Ijtihad (rational thinking) possible
IJTIHAD (free enquiry into the Quran and Islamic tradition in
order to discover Allah’s ruling), and not JIHAD
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BUT Q5: 3 says : This day I
have perfected your religion for you, completed my favor
upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.
Thus
: Reform is not possible because the Quran is deemed to be
the ultimate perfection (ie reformation) of all holy books
Possibility of Ijtihad ? See
Ulei pentru masaj
The
Gates of Ijtihad has been closed for centuries. Calls
have been largely unheeded by the most influential and important
authorities. Quran is absolute, eternally valid and perfect word
of Allah. Changing meaning is blasphemy. The Quran is the
uncreated word of Allah, the original copy is kept in Heaven. |
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JIHAD/VIOLENCE IN THE QURAN |
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Jihad
literally means struggle, ie spiritual struggle. The only excuse
for a physical jihad is in case of self defense, recent revival
of the late 20th century
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There
are 149 jihad verses in the Quran. Jihad = obligation to
wage holy war on “unbelievers”. Ultimate objective:
Islamisation of the world.
Jihad
practised during early days of Islam, through the sword of
Mohamad, not recent phenomena. If not Palestine problem, Muslims
will find other excuse.
This
is what Allah purported to have said to His prophet:
Q9:73: Prophet, fight (jahidi=verb for jihad) the
unbelievers and the hypocrites and be stern with them, Hell
shall be their home.
Jihad
is the 6th pillar of Islam. Paradise is guaranteed
for those who suffer exile and strive with might in Allah’s
cause (jihad fi sabil Allah) and those who “slay and
are slain” Q9:111. All 4 principal schools of Sunni Muslim
jurisprudence (Maliki, Hanafi, Hambali & Shafi’i) agree.
The
peaceful earlier (Meccan) verses have been abrogated by
the later & more violent (Medinan) verses. The Islamic doctrine
of abrogation (naskh) : Allah can change or cancel what
he tells Muslims; None of Our Revelation do We abrogate or
case to be forgotten, but We substitute something better of
similar…Q2:106.
Ibn
Kathir (1301-1372) declared the most famous sword verse
Q9:5, to have abrogated no fewer than 124 peaceful
verses.
In
"Islam: Muhammad and His Religion", page 66, the great Islamic
scholar Arthur Jeffery wrote: "The Qur’an is unique among sacred
scriptures in teaching a doctrine of abrogation according to
which later pronouncements of the Prophet abrogate, i.e.:
declare null and void, his earlier pronouncements. The
importance of knowing which verses abrogate others has given
rise to the Qur’anic science known as "Nasikh wa Mansukh",
i.e.: "the Abrogators and the Abrogated". |
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Q
2:189-190; Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight
against you, but begin not hostilities. Allah loveth noth
the aggressor … fight not until they attack you, but if they
attack you then slay them. |
What
and who constitutes the beginning of hostilities ? Remember the
Jewish poet, Ka’b bib Al-Ashraf, who according to Ibn Ishaq (Mohamad’s
1st biographer) “composed verses of insulting
nature about Muslim women”. Mohamad asked his followers to
kill him. Ashraf was 80 yrs old. Bukhari 5:64:4037. |
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Q
2:191: But if they desist, Allah is truly forgiving
… |
BUT ONLY when …Q2:192 … the
religion becomes that of Allah. |
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Q
5:32 : … whoever kills a soul killed the whole of
mankind, whoever saves a life is like one who saves the lives of
whole mankind.
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BUT WHOLE VERSE READS: …we
decreed for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a
soul, not in retaliation for a soul or corruption in the land,
is like one who has killed the whole of mankind; and whoever
saves a life is like one who saves the lives of all mankind. …
Order not to kill was meant for the JEWS !
Read on (Q5:33)
Indeed the punishment of those who fight Allah and His Apostle
and go around corrupting the land is to be killed, crucified,
have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides or to be
banished from the land. …
(So,
Beware Children of Israel !) |
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No
revenge
Q5:45: … a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a
nose, an ear for an ear … but whoever foregoes it charitably,
it will be an atonement for him. Whoever does not judge
according to what Allah has revealed, those are the evildoers.
Slitting throats UN-ISLAMIC |
Q2:178: retaliation is prescribed for you: a
free man for a free man, a slave for a slave, a woman for a
woman…
See
“a woman for a woman”: this surah is also used to
legitimise rape of female whose male family member has run
off/raped another woman. Problem rife in Pakistan. In Iran,
family members of a murdered victim can personally wrap the
noose around the killer’s neck.
Q2:190: Kill wherever you find them and drive them out from
wherever they drove you out.
Q2:193: A sacred month for a sacred month; and retaliation
is allowed when sacred things are violated. Those whoever
commits aggression against you, retaliate against him in
the same way.
Q47:4: So when you meet the unbelievers, strike their
necks till you have bloodied them … |
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BIBLE EQUALLY VIOLENT ? |
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BIBLE
equally violent: Luke 19:26-27: These enemies of mine, bring
them here and slay them in my presence…
Matthew 10:34-35: I have come not to bring peace but a sword.
Man against father …
Deut 7: 1-2 … you shall utterly destroy them …
Deut
20:10-17 … you shall not leave alive anything that breathes
Numbers 31:17-18 : … kill every male among the little ones and
kill every woman… |
These
are the words of a king in a parable, not Jesus’ instructions
to His followers.
It is
meant allegorical, metaphorical. An intra-familial “jihad”, not
the equivalent of the Quran’s jihad verses.
Verses apply to Hittite, Girgashite, Amorite, Canannite,
Perizzite, Hivite or Jebusite, these passages do not apply to
all people, all the time. The Old Testament records
God’s
commands to the Israelites to make war against a particular
people.
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TREATMENT OF
NON-MUSLIMS (JEWS & CHRISTIANS) |
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We
worship the same God
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NO !
Allah in the Quran is different from God the Father in the
Bible.
Allah
has 99 names, none of those names is Father. Allah is not a god
of Love, he does not love sinners.
Q
3:55 (no supporters), 4:107 (…Allah does not like the
treacherous or sinful). |
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Allah
the Most Merciful
As
People of the Book, Jews & Christians are given
special privileged status in Islam because they believe in
God and the Last Day Q2:62
Q5:75: …you shall find the closest in affection to the
believers those who say: “We are Christians”. For
among them are priests and monks, and they are not arrogant. |
Allah’s mercy is preserved for Muslims only.
Q
8:55 The worst beasts in the sight of Allah are
those who disbelieve, because they will never believe
Q98:6 The unbelievers among the People of the Book and the
idolaters, shall be in the Fire of Hell, … Those are the
worst/vilest of creatures.
Muslim creed: Q1:1 (the Al Fatiha, according to Hilali&Khan
translation), repeated 17 times a day, divided in their 5
prayer times;
Praise be to Allah … lead us to the right path, the path of
those You have favoured, not those who have incurred your
wrath (the Jews) or those who have gone astray (the Christians).
“Ihdina as-Sirata’l Mustaqeem, Sirata’l al-Latheen an‘Amta
‘Aleyhem, Ghayra’l Maghdoobi ‘Aleyhem, wala’Dalleen.”
http://word.nipl.net/x/quiki/quran/hilali_khan/1.al-fatihah.the_opening.html
The
Qur'an calls those who have gone astray from religion as those
who cannot think, 'la ya'quilun', those who cannot use
their intelligence correctly.
Yet Jews & Christians are accused
of having corrupted their scriptures:
Q2:78: Woe unto those who write the Book with their hands,
then say it is from Allah in order to sell it for a small price.
Q5:14: And with some of those who say “We are Christians”,
We made a covenant; but they forgot …; so We stirred
up enmity and hatred among them till
the Day of Resurrection…. (Allah stirred up enmity ?)
Q2:119: Neither the Jews nor the Christians will be pleased
with you until you follow their religion… and were you to
follow their desires … you will have no guardian or helper [to
save you] from Allah. |
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We
call you KAFIR (unbeliever) only to distinguish you from
believers. No intent to insult. |
Q2:104: Neither the unbelievers among the People of the book
nor the polytheists wish to see any good sent down to you
…(See more on Jews & Christians) |
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Q2:258 : There is no submission in religion
Q18:29: …Whosoever will, let them believe and whosoever will,
let him disbelieve.
Q13:40: your duty is to deliver the message, and it is for Us
to do the reckoning. |
Q3:84: Whoever seeks a
religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted from
him and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.
Q2:259:
As for those who disbelief, their supporters are the devils
…
Q3:101:…do
not die except as Muslims
…
Q9:23: …do not take your fathers and brothers as friends,
if they prefer disbelief. Those who take them as friends are the
wrongdoers.
Q16:104: Those who do not believe in Allah’s
revelation shall not be guided by Allah, and a very painful
punishment awaits them.
See
below different treatment accorded to disbelievers (Kafirs)
See
Treatment of ex-Muslims below
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Marriage to non-Muslim women ? Muslim men free to marry anybody,
no strings attached.
Quran
says that women marrying Muslims do not need to convert to
Islam. |
Q2:220: Do not marry unbelieving women
(polytheists) until they believe. A believing slave-girl is
certainly better than an unbelieving woman. And do not give your
women in marriage to polytheists until they believe. A believing
slave is certainly better than a polytheist.
(not
sure whether this applies to marriage to monotheists)
See
above. In practice: their children will have to follow their
Muslim father ! |
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Jews/Christians (people of the Book) are best friends. We
respect them : Q2:46, Q2:62, Q3:33, Q5:44
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Q5:51: do not take the Jews and the Christians as friends;
some of them are friends of each other. Whoever of you takes
them as friends is surely one of them.
Q3:118:
Take not as your Bitanah (supporters) those outside your
religion since they will not fail to do their best to corrupt
you. They desire to harm you severely. Hatred has already
appeared from their mouths, but what their breasts conceal is
far worse. Indeed, we have made plain to you the ayat if you
understand." [3:118] |
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We
respect the Jews :
Q2:62: The believers, the Jews, the Christians …-whoever
believes in Allah and the Last Day and does what is good, shall
receive their reward from the Lord.
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Q5:60/65, 2:65, 7:166 Allah is so disgusted by Jews
that He transformed them into apes and pigs.
Q3:71: Jews=falsehood
Q4:46: Jews cursed by Allah
Q
3:99: O believers, if you obey a group of those who
have received the Book, they will turn you, after you have
believed, unto unbelievers.
Q3:109: …People of the Book … some of them are believers, but
most of them are sinners.
Q3:115: As for the unbelievers, neither their riches nor
their children will avail them anything against Allah. Those
are the people of Hell, abiding therein forever.
Q3:117 : … do not take as close friends other than your own
people, they will spare no effort to corrupt you…
Q3:118: …you love them, but they do not love you…
Q3:119: If you are visited with good fortune, it vexes them;
and if you are visited by some misfortune, they rejoice at it …
Q9:123 & Q66:9: …fight those unbelievers who are near you and
let them see how harsh you can be …
Q9:29:
Fight those among the People of the Book … till
they pay the poll tax out of hand and submissively.
Q9:73-74:
O Prophet, fight the unbelievers and the
hypocrites and be stern with them. Their abode is Hell…
Also
in the Hadis : no muslim should be killed in QISAS (equality in
punishment) for the killing of a disbeliever. Bukhari 1.3.111 |
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HISTORY of Jews in Muslim countries not all bad, better than in
Christian countries. Tolerance shown by Ottomans towards people
of different religion was social model. |
Jews
& Christians were called dhimmis then and now.
They may live but not as equals.
850 &
854 decree of Caliph al-Mutawakil: Jews & Christians shld affix
wooden images of devils to their houses, level their graves even
with the ground, wear yellow outer garments ….
When
the Turks took Constantinople, 1453, churches were emptied of
their idols, cleansed for the idolatrous impurities defacement
of their images and erection of Islamic prayer and niches.
Ibn
Khaldun (14th century) Christians shld choose between
Islam, *Jizyah or death.
Fact
: Jews only prospered in Christian countries, not in muslim
countries. Discrimination exists but various popes have decreed
against discrimination.
Pope
Gregory I, 598 & Pope Gregory X, 1272.
Q9:29: Fight those among the People of the
Book … till they pay the poll tax of hand … (this is
the *Jizyah, an extortionate tax for non-Muslims, practised
since the time of Mohamad) |
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Historically, the Hindus have always been Islamophobists. |
Q9:28: the polytheists are truly unclean; so let them
not come near the Sacred Mosque
Q9:36: …but fight the polytheists all together just as they
fight you all together …
See
history of Muslim invasion of India.
Example : the name Pakistan (Pak) means “clean” country, to
distinguish it from unclean/najis/musyrik polytheist India. |
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TREATMENT OF EX MUSLIMS (APOSTATES/MURTADS)
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Freedom for people to leave religion
Your
religion onto yours and mine unto mine ! Q2:258:There is
no compulsion in religion …
“La Ikraha fi’l-Deen,” i.e. the No Compulsion clause |
Once
a person becomes muslim, he cannot recant. After Muhamad died,
the tribes which have been forced to embrace Islam, rebelled.
But the 1st caliph (Abu Bakr0 forced them back into
Islam thru a 2 year war; The Wars of Al-Riddah (the wars
against apostates).
BUT
Q2:259: As for those who disbelieve (in Allah), their
supporters are the Devils …
Q5:54: O believers, whoever of you renounces his religion,
Allah will certainly bring forth a people whom He loves …who are
mighty towards the unbelievers …
Q3:85: How will Allah guide a people who disbelieved after
they believed …
Q3:86: Their reward shall be that of the curse of Allah
….
Q3:89: Surely those who disbelieve after believing, and then
grow in disbelief, their repentance shall not be accepted…
Q3:90
As for those who disbelieve and die as unbelievers, the
earth’s fill of gold will not be accepted |
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Mohamad forgiving of apostates
Q3:87: Except for those who repent afterwards and mend their
ways Allah is forgiving and merciful.
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Q4:89: They wish that you
disbelieve, as they have disbelieved… do not take any companions
from them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah. Then
should they turn back, seize them, and kill them,
wherever you find them; and do not take from them any companion
or supporter.
Q9:73-74:
O Prophet, fight the unbelievers and the hypocrites
and be stern with them. Their abode is Hell…
Whether thou ask for their forgiveness, or not, (their sin is
unforgivable): If thou ask seventy times for their forgiveness,
Allah will not forgive them: Because they have rejected Allah
and His Apostle. Q9:80
According
to the Hadis: A male apostate has to come back to Islam after 3
days otherwise his family has to disown him, wife to divorce
him, property confiscated, children taken away. Not allowed to
remarry. He should be taken to court and sentenced to death. A
female apostate is not allowed to get married, must spend time
in meditation in order to return to Islam, if not she will be
beaten, jailed until she dies. Other schools of Sharia demand
her death.
Sahih Bukhari 4.260: It is
reported by ‘Abaas that the messenger of Allah said
“WHOSOEVER CHANGES HIS
RELIGION, KILL HIM.” |
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TREATMENT OF WOMEN |
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One
of longest chapters in Quran is entitled “The Women” (176
verses). |
NO,
it is entitled : “The Cow” (286 verses). |
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Islam
gives women respect.
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Your women are a tilth for you to cultivate so go to your tilth
as ye will (Q2:223)
Aisha:
O
womenfolk, if you knew the rights that your husbands have over
you, you would wipe the dust from your husband’s feet with your
face. Confirm the Hadis !
Aisha said: I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the
believing women. Bukhari
7:77:5825 |
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Women
after Islam have right to own and dispose of property without
having permission.
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Before meeting Mohamad, ie before dawn of Islam, Khadija was a
successful business woman, employed men and owned lots of
property.
See
also below, more on Hadis on women forbidden to spend any money
without permission of husband, incl. giving food to the needy or
feast to friends.
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After
Islam, women can work outside home.
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NO !
Women cannot be with a man in a room alone, let cannot travel
without a male kin (mahram). This rule is disregarded in many
muslim countries but the rule itself has not been abrograted. |
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Can
marry whom they wish.
Women
have right to divorce. |
As
long as married to Muslim or convert.
Decision of divorce depends on husband. Say talaq “I divorce
you” 3X. Now you can
do it
thru text message (2004 decision of Shariah court in Malaysia).
BUT
in Q 2:227 : Divorce may be pronounced TWICE …
Practice of Khole: when woman agree to forgo alimony and to
repay their husbands and dowry in exchange of having right to
divorce (Hadis Abu daud 12.2220).
Divorce: the Shariah favours men/husbands. |
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Can
remarry divorced wife
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Only
after she has remarried and divorced her subsequent husband.
Q2:229: If he divorces her, she shall not be lawful to him
again until she has married another husband. If the latter
divorces her, then it is no offence if they go back … |
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Sexual satisfaction for women.
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Practice of female genital mutilation rife (in more traditional
families).
If a
woman refuses to come to bed when called by husband, or deserts
her husband’s bed, she becomes target of curses of angels till
morning. Bukhari 4.54.450 |
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Women
NOT REQUIRED to contribute a penny to household.
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A
good thing? Source of inequality. Wives not seen as partners but
as employee, to provide a service for him. |
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The
rights granted to women by Islam more than 14 centuries ago are
the very rights granted to women by UN in 1948.
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Quran
& Hadis do not mention anything whatsoever re women’s
democratical right/independence. Instead prohibited women to be
elected as leaders.
“When the prophet heard the news that the people of Persia had
made the daughter of Khosrau their Queen, he said, “never
will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler.”
Sahih Muslim, 9.88.219.
Women have no equality before the law:
Inheritance : a woman get ½ of what male family member gets,
a mother gets less what son gets. Q4:11. In general,
women cannot make any decision without permission from
father/husband. |
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Islamic countries have women as presidents. See Indonesia,
Pakistan, Bangladesh.
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This
is DESPITE, NOT BECAUSE of Islam
Remember that Megawati, when first chosen as president, was
rejected by muslim lobby in parliament, due to this Hadis. Only
after their chosen president (muslim leader) was proven to be
totally incompetent, was she able to gain power. |
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WOMEN
= EQUAL TO MEN
Q33:35: Men and women who have submitted … A has prepared
forgiveness and great reward.
See:
Q2:228: And women shall have rights similar to the
rights according to what is equitable. |
Lots
of verses praising women, but not giving them rights equal
to men (except for cutting off hands of thieves is the same
whether male or female).
But
verse does not mention equal reward.
But
Q2:228 goes on to say: … but men are one degree above
them.
Q30:21: He created for you (masculine) spouses that
you may repose in them (feminine). |
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Q4:19: consort with them in kindness, for if you hate
them it may happen that you hate a thing wherein A has placed
much good.
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Q4:34: Men are in charge of
women (stand superior to women), because Allah had
made some of them excel the others, and because they spend some
of their wealth. Hence righteous women are obedient … admonish
them … BEAT THEM…
Q2:223: Your women are a tillage for you, so get to
your tillage whenever you like.
Used
to permit rape. |
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Equality in law
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Q2:286: in shariah court, the witness of one woman = ½ of one
man.
Q24:13: to proof a case of adultery, fornication or rape,
accusers have to produce FOUR adult male witnesses. (This verse
was so that Mohamad can free Aisha from presumed infidelity.)
In
practice, woman/victim had to produce witnesses, otherwise she
will be sentenced to death by stoning. See 2002 case of Amina
Lawal in Nigeria. Her sentence was stopped due to international
pressure, but after weaning her baby for 2 years she can still
be sentenced to death. Bukhari 3:52:2661
Q4:11-12:
Allah directs you as regards your children’s inheritance;
to the male, a portion to that of two males.
Q53:19-22:
What ? …for you the male sex and for Him the female ?
Behold, such a division would me most unfair. |
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Q4:3
is used to back case for MONOgamy in Islam. Because no man can
be equal to his wives. Remains to be seen whether this theory is
acceptable in Islamic world itself.
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Q4:3:
man can marry two –four women ( if you can treat them all
fairly).
Yet, Mohamad allowed himself 11
wives and various concubines, thanks to Allah in Q33:50: We
have made lawful unto thee thy wives … whom thy right hand
possessed, women … a privilege for thee only, not for
believers.
Q33:50 : if woman becomes captive in a war, her Muslim master
is allowed to rape her. “O Prophet, We have made lawful for
you, your wives … what your right hand owns out of the spoils
of war that Allah gave you …”
See
also Bukhari 7.63.137 on coitus interuptus by Muslim warriors
upon captured women. Moh did not object when men did not perform
c.i. Mohamad himself did keep harem of Jewish women captured in
war: Safiah (married after Mohamad destroyed her city & family),
Rayhana, Juwariyah.
Hadis
Muslim Book 4, no 1032:
A
man’s prayer would be cut off by the passing of an ass, a
woman and a black dog.
Abu
Said Al-Khudri 1.6.301 ; Mohamad said majority of dwellers in
hell = women. Because women are more deficient than man in
intelligence (ie witness of women= ½ man) and in religion (ie.
Women cannot pray during menses). See also Hadis Muslim &
Bukhari. |
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Any
country which mistreats women is due to tradition,
nothing to do with Islam. Saudi Arabia : tradition, not Islam,
marginalized women .
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The
Taleban (application of purest Islamic form) disagree ! So do
the Saudis, Iran, Pakistan. Islamic culture, tradition is based
on Islamic law.
Bukhari Vol 7, book 62, No 33
The Prophet said : “After me I have not yet left any affliction
more harmful to men than women. |
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SPIRITUAL EQUALITY
Q3:195: I never fail to reward any worker among you … MALE OR
FEMALE …
Q4:124 : Whoever does righteous deeds, MALE OR FEMALE, while
believing, those will enter heaven …
Q40:40 : Whoever commits a sin is requited for just that, and
whoever works righteousness, MALE OR FEMALE … will enter
paradise … |
According to Prophet, inhabitants of hell are WOMEN, due to
their ungratefulness to husbands. Sahih Muslim P1431, Bukhari
7.62.125.
No
Islamic authorities have yet abrograted this.
Women who are ungrateful to men are the denizens of hell.
A woman in many ways
is
deprived possession of own body. Even her milk belongs to her
husband. Bukhari P27
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The
Bukhari Hadis re women in hell must be wrong, since it is
against the Quran.
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These
Hadis never been abrogated by Islamic authorities. |
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Mohamad married child bride according to tradition.
Parents of child bride might feel offended if child is rejected |
Aisya
was SIX YEARS when she was betrothed to Mohamad, marriage
consummated when she was 9 and he was 53 ! Bukhari
5:63:3896
Also,
when 6 year old Aisha was betrothed to him, he was already
married to Sawda (2nd wife, he married her 3 months
after death of 1st wife Khadija).
Q65:4 re divorce: … know that
their waiting period (the IDDAH period) shall be 3 months. The
same apply to those who HAVE NOT YET MENSTRUATED. (ie. This
applies to prepubescent woman having been married and divorced
by husband !) Child marriage is legal in Islam, as shown by
Mohamad.
A
prophet should change bad tradition and not succumb to it.
Anywhere else in the world, sleeping with children is called:
paedophilia. Many people, even the Greeks have a history of
paedophilia, but they do not call themselves prophets. |
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Can
dress as you like. Just guard modesty. Q24:31
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Abu
Daud Book 2:4092: Prophet said that when a women reaches age of
menstruation it does not suit her that she diplays her parts of
body except her face and hands. |
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MUHAMAD MAN OF PEACE |
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"And
surely thou hast sublime morals" (Q.68:4).
“Indeed in the Messenger of Allah you have a good example to
follow" (Q.33:21).
We
sent thee not, but as a Mercy for all creatures.
(Q.21:107).
Verily this is the word of a most honorable Messenger,
(Q.81.19)
Muhamad
:
Khataman Nabiyyeen =The last prophet
Rahmatal lil Alamin = mercy for all creatures
Wammaa arsalnaaka illaa rahmatal lil- aalameen!(21:107).” [O
Muhammad We sent you not, but as a mercy for all creature.]
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TERROR IN MUHAMAD’S OWN WORDS
Hadis
Sahih Bukhari 4.52.220;
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "I have been sent with the shortest
expressions bearing the widest meanings,
and I have been made victorious with
terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I
was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were
brought to me and put in my hand."
Bukhari:V9B87N127 "The Prophet said, 'I have been given the
keys of eloquent speech and given victory with terror.'"
Sahih
Muslim 4:1058
It
is related from Jabir that, 'The Apostle of God said, 'I have
been given five (qualities) which were not given to any before
me. I have been given victory thru
fear (inspired by me) at a
distance of a month's journey; and the word has been made a pure
place of prayer for me ...: and plunder has been made lawful
for me, and it was not made lawful for anyone before
me; and I have been given intercession; and (formerly) a prophet
was sent especially to his own nation, but I have been sent
to all men generally."
Bukhari
4.1066:
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon
him) said: I have been helped by
terror (in the heart of the
enemy); I have been given words which are concise but
comprehensive in meaning; and while I was asleep I was brought
the keys of the treasures of the earth which were placed in my
hand.
Bukhari
4.53.351:
Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah:
Allah's Apostle said, "Booty has
been made legal for me."
Ishaq:288 "When the Koran
passage concerning this matter was revealed, and Allah relieved
Muslims from their fear and anxiety, Muhammad took possession of
the caravan and prisoners. The Quraysh sent him a ransom and the
Prophet released the prisoners on payment. When the Koran
authorization came down to Muhammad, Abd Allah and his
Companions were relieved and they became anxious for an
additional reward. They said, 'Will this raid be counted as part
of the reward promised to Muslim combatants?' So Allah sent down
this Koran: 'Those who believe and have fought in Allah's Cause
may receive Allah's mercy.' Allah made the booty permissible. He
divided the loot, awarding four-fifths to the men He had allowed
to take it. He gave one-fifth to His Apostle."
Ishaq:288 "Allah divided
the booty stolen from the first caravan after he made spoils
permissible. He gave four-fifths to those He had allowed to take
it and one-fifth to His Apostle."
Tabari
IX:42 "We have been dealt a situation from which there is no
escape. You have seen what Muhammad has done. Arabs have
submitted to him and we do not have the strength to fight. You
know that no herd is safe from him. And no one even dares go
outside for fear of being terrorized."
Tabari IX:69 "He who believes in Allah and His Messenger has
protected his life and possessions from us. As for those who
disbelieve, we will fight them forever in the Cause of Allah.
Killing them is a small matter to us."
Mohamad
was :
Warlord & caravan looter, broke
peace treaties, killed his enemies mercilessly and sold their
wives and children into slavery, raped wives of fallen
leaders on the same day their husbands/fathers were killed and
called it marriage (Safiya binti Husay & Juwariya binti Mustaliq).
Ordered murders; He personally
issued killing orders against critics incl. poetess (Asma bt
Marwan) who was killed in the night whilst tending her baby and
a 90 year old critic (Abu
Afak)
while he was asleep (Ibn
Sa’d. vol.ii, p.31)
Mysoginist,
hated
women and allowed them to be beaten (Q
4:34), stoned
(Sunaan
Abu Dawud 38.4426),
considered them deficient in
intelligence & religion(Shahih Muslim
1.0142), not fit to become leaders, dwellers of hell
(Shahih Bukhari 1.6.301, deprived
them of their economic and social rights
(The History by al-Tabari. Vol.IX: The Last Years of the
Prophet, pages 112-114).
Paedophile,
He
was 52/53 years old when he married his 6 year old youngest
wife, Aisha (9 years old when when marriage was consummated). (Sahih
Bukhari 7.88),
Irrational,
superstitious,
Hated
dogs, especially black dogs, he thought they were Satan.
Believed that money from sale of a dog is equal to prostitution,
witchcraft. Dogs cut off prayer. He also said : Angels do not
enter a house wherein there is a dog or a picture of a living
creature (a human being or an animal). Instructed massacre of
dogs.
(http://answering-islam.org.uk/Silas/dogs.htm)
Hated bells because he thinks they are the musical
instrument of Satan.
Fake prophet,
Due
to inconsistencies in the Quran, list of his crimes in the Hadis,
he won battles due to brutality, never produced miracle or
healing, did not know when he was going to die (Moses & Jesus
predicted their own death), after death his followers were
killing each other (Sunni vs Shiah vs Ahmadis), caused misery to
Muslims (and non-Muslims) 1400 years on.
Intolerant towards other religions
On
the authority of Ubaydullah b. Abdullah b. Utba b. Masud tells
us the following: “The only dispositions that the Apostle made
at his death were three: … that two religions should not be
allowed to remain in the Peninsula of the Arabs”
(Sirat
Rasulallah, p. 523).
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/MohammadAsghar51006.htm
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Killed only in self defense |
http://www.answeringislam.org/Muhammad/Jews/BQurayza/index.html
http://americanjihad.blogspot.com/2006/02/islam-means-terror.html
Bukhari:V5B59N512 "The Prophet offered the
Fajr Prayer [Prayer of Fear] near Khaybar when it was still
dark. He said, 'Allahu-Akbar!' Khaybar is destroyed, for
whenever we approach a hostile nation to fight, then evil will
be the morning for those who have been warned.' Then the
inhabitants came out running on their roads. The Prophet had
their men killed; their children and woman were taken as
captives."
Ishaq:517 "Khaybar was stormed by the
Apostle's squadron, fully armed, powerful and strong. It brought
certain humiliation with Muslim men in its midst. We attacked
and they met their doom. Muhammad conquered the Jews in fighting
that day as they opened their eyes to our dust."
Tabari VIII:129 "After the Messenger had
finished with the Khaybar Jews, Allah cast terror into the
hearts of the Jews in Fadak when they received news of what
Allah had brought upon Khaybar. Fadak became the exclusive
property of Allah's Messenger."
Ishaq:588 "When the Apostle descends on your
land none of your people will be left when he leaves."
Ishaq:327 "Allah said, 'A prophet must
slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is
driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this
world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah
desires killing them to manifest the religion.'"
Tabari VIII:133 "The raiding party went to
Tha'labah. One of Muhammad's slaves, said, 'Prophet, I know
where Tha'labah can be taken by surprise.' So Muhammad sent him
with 130 men. They raided the town and drove off camels and
sheep, bringing them back to Medina."
Tabari VIII:138 "Muhammad carried arms,
helmets, and spears. He led a hundred horses, appointing Bahir
to be in charge of the weapons and Maslamah to be in charge of
the horses. When the Quraysh received word of this, it
frightened them."
Bukhari:V4B52N256 "The Prophet passed by and
was asked whether it was permissible to attack infidels at night
with the probability of exposing their women and children to
danger. The Prophet replied, 'Their women and children are from
them.'"
Ishaq:576 "Allah and His servant overwhelmed
every coward. Allah honored us and made our religion victorious.
We were glorified and destroyed them all. Allah humiliated them
in the worship of Satan. By what our Apostle recites from the
Book and by our swift horses, I liked the punishment the
infidels received. Killing them was sweeter than drink. We
galloped among them panting for the spoil. With our loud-voiced
army, the Apostle's squadron advanced into the fray."
Ishaq:580 "Our strong warriors obey his
orders to the letter. By us Allah's religion is undeniably
strong. You would think when our horses gallop with bits in
their mouths that the sounds of demons are among them. The day
we trod down the unbelievers there was no deviation or turning
from the Apostle's order. During the battle the people heard our
exhortations to fight and the smashing of skulls by swords that
sent heads flying. We severed necks with a warrior's blow. Often
we have left the slain cut to pieces and a widow crying alas
over her mutilated husband. 'Tis Allah, not man we seek to
please."
Bukhari:V5B59N516 "When Allah's Apostle
fought or raided people we raised our voices saying, 'Allahu-Akbar!
Allahu-Akbar! None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.'"
Tabari VII:20/Ishaq:288 "The Quraysh said,
'Muhammad and his Companions have violated the sacred month,
shed blood, seized property, and taken men captive.' The
polytheists spread lying slander concerning him, saying,
'Muhammad claims that he is following obedience to Allah, yet he
is the first to violate the holy month and to kill our people. |
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Showed boundless Mercy |
Mercy to Muslims only.
Especially after having killed non-Muslims (committed physical
Jihad). 72 virgins await them.
His last words after
having been poisoned by a Jewess for killing her family :
From Ibn Sa'd page 322:
When the last moment
of the prophet was near … and said: "Allah's damnation be on
the Jews and the Christians who made the graves of their
prophets objects of worship." |
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Nothing has changed in
Quran, direct word of Allah.
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History proofs
otherwise.
Quran was written 230
years after death of Mohamad. Compare with Bible: Mark wrote his
share of Gospel 11 years after the death of Jesus Christ.
Khalifah Umar has
Qurans burnt and declared his version as the true version.
No historical evidence
of 7th century Qurans.
Muslims provide no
clarification when and which bit of Biblical scripture has been
corrupted. See 4th Codex Sinaiticus in British
Library, taken to be source of all subsequent Biblical
translations: the Bible has not been changed for 1900 years. |
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TERROR IN ALLAH’S WORDS |
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Q 7:3 "Little do you
remember My warning. How many towns have We destroyed as a raid
by night? Our punishment took them suddenly while they slept for
their afternoon rest. Our terror came to them; Our punishment
overtook them."
Q 8:12 "I shall
terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate
them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle."
Q 8:57 "If you gain
mastery over them in battle, inflict such a defeat as would
terrorize them, so that they would learn a lesson and be
warned."
Q 8:67 "It is not
fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a
great slaughtered in the land."
Q 33:26 "Allah made
the Jews leave their homes by terrorizing them so that you
killed some and made many captive. And He made you inherit their
lands, their homes, and their wealth. He gave you a country you
had not traversed before."
Q 59:2 "It was Allah
who drove the [Jewish] People of the Book from their homes and
into exile. They refused to believe and imagined that their
strongholds would protect them against Allah. But Allah came at
them from where they did not suspect, and filled their hearts
with terror. Their homes were destroyed. So learn a lesson, O
men who have eyes. This is My warning...they shall taste the
torment of Fire."
Q 33:60 "Truly, if
the Hypocrites stir up sedition, if the agitators in the City do
not desist, We shall urge you to go against them and set you
over them. Then they will not be able to stay as your neighbors
for any length of time. They shall have a curse on them.
Whenever they are found, they shall be seized and slain without
mercy-a fierce slaughter-murdered, a horrible murdering." |
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The HADIS (Hadith/ahadith) |
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Lots of Hadis very
problematic. It does not have the authority of the Qur'an and
was made up long after Mohamad died.
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True, many Hadis are
inauthentic and that there is a whole theological science in
Islam whereby Muslims judge various Hadis to be authentic or
not, BUT the authority of the Hadis is generally accepted by
Muslims. Since they contain the the words and deeds of
Muhammad, the authority of the Hadis is founded on the Qur’an
itself: the Qur’an repeatedly exhorts believers to imitate
Muhammad, since he is “is neither astray nor being misled”
Q53:2.
Q 4:59: Muslims are to
“obey Allah, and obey the Messenger”
Q 33:21: For “verily in
the messenger of Allah ye have a good example (uswa hasana) for
him who looketh unto Allah and the Last Day”. Those who disobey
Mohamad are headed for hell:
Q 4:115: “And whoso
opposeth the messenger after the guidance (of Allah) hath been
manifested unto him, and followeth other than the believer's
way, We appoint for him that unto which he himself hath turned,
and expose him unto hell - a hapless journey's end!” Muhammad is
in Islamic theology al-insan al-kamil: the Perfect Man.
The
New Encyclopedia of Islam says
that the Hadis are “the basis, second only to the Koran, for
Islamic law (shari’ah).” Islamic apologist Sayyed Hossein Nasr
has called the Hadis a “basic aspect of the whole structure of
Islam” and blamed the questioning of its authority on that
ever-handy bogeyman, “Western Orientalists.” Another Islamic
apologist popular in the West, Akbar S. Ahmed, explains that “so
great is the respect and affection the Prophet commands that his
very sayings, Hadis, are the source of wisdom and social
practice in the Muslim world.” |
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Quran is clear, easy to
understand & truthful
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Yet, so many
interpretations are derived from it. Many cannot make out head
nor tail. |
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