Why Jihad Watch?

Because non-Muslims in the West, as well as in India, China, Russia, and the world over, are facing a concerted effort by Islamic jihadists, the motives and goals of whom are largely ignored by the Western media, to destroy their societies and bring them forcibly into the Islamic world -- and to commit violence to that end even while their overall goal remains out of reach. That effort goes under the general rubric of jihad.

Jihad (Arabic for "struggle") is a central duty of every Muslim. Modern Muslim theologians have spoken of many things as jihads: the struggle within the soul, defending the faith from critics, supporting its growth and defense financially, even migrating to non-Muslim lands for the purpose of spreading Islam. But violent jihad is a constant of Islamic history. Many passages of the Qur'an and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad are used by jihad warriors today to justify their actions and gain new recruits. No major Muslim group has ever repudiated the doctrines of armed jihad. The theology of jihad, which denies unbelievers equality of human rights and dignity, is available today for anyone with the will and means to bring it to life.

Jihad Watch is dedicated to bringing public attention to the role that jihad theology and ideology plays in the modern world, and to correcting popular misconceptions about the role of jihad and religion in modern-day conflicts. We hope to alert people of good will to the true nature of the present global conflict.

JIHAD IS A CENTRAL DUTY of every Muslim. Modern Muslim theologians have spoken of many things as jihads: the struggle within the soul, defending the faith from critics, supporting its growth and defense financially, even migrating to non-Muslim lands for the purpose of spreading Islam. But in Islamic history and doctrine violent jihad is founded on numerous verses of the Qur'an -- most notably, one known in Islamic theology as the "Verse of the Sword": "Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is forgiving, merciful" (Sura 9:5). Establishing "regular worship" and paying the "poor-due" (zakat) means essentially that they will become Muslim, as these are two of the central responsibilities of every Muslim. Sahih Bukhari, which Muslims regard as the most trustworthy of all the many collections of traditions of Muhammad, records this statement of the Prophet: "Allah assigns for a person who participates in (holy battles) in Allah's Cause and nothing causes him to do so except belief in Allah and in His Messengers, that he will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise (if he is killed in the battle as a martyr)."

Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a pioneering historian and philosopher, was also a 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."

Violent jihad is a constant of Islamic history. The passages quoted above and many others like them form a major element of the motivation of jihad warriors worldwide today. No major Muslim group has ever repudiated the doctrines of armed jihad. The theology of jihad, with all its assumptions about unbelievers‚ lack of human rights and dignity, is available today as a justification for anyone with the will and the means to bring it to life.

Jihad Watch is dedicated to bringing public attention to the role that jihad theology and ideology play in the modern world and to correcting popular misconceptions about the role of jihad and religion in modern-day conflicts. By shedding as much light as possible on these matters, we hope to alert people of good will to the true nature of the present global conflict.

Jihad Watch also includes Dhimmi Watch, formerly a separate page on this site, tracking dhimmitude. Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, "protected people," are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued" (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, are part of the legal superstructure that global jihadists are laboring to restore everywhere in the Islamic world, and wish ultimately to impose on the entire human race.

If dhimmis complained about their inferior status, institutionalized humiliation, or poverty, their masters voided their contract and regarded them as enemies of Islam, fair game as objects of violence. Consequently, dhimmis were generally cowed into silence and worse. It was almost unheard-of to find dhimmis speaking out against their oppressors; to do so would have been suicide. For centuries dhimmi communities in the Islamic world learned to live in peace with their Muslim overlords by acquiescing to their subservience. Some even actively identified with the dominant class, and became strenuous advocates for it.

Spearheaded by dhimmi academics and self-serving advocacy groups, that same attitude of chastened subservience has entered into Western academic study of Islam, and from there into journalism, school textbooks, and the popular discourse. One must not point out the depredations of jihad and dhimmitude; to do so would offend the multiculturalist ethos that prevails everywhere today. To do so would endanger chances for peace and rapprochement between civilizations all too ready to clash.

But in this era of global terrorism it must be said: this silence, this distortion, has become deadly. Before 9/11 it was easy to ignore and whitewash dhimmitude, but the atrocities changed the situation forever. In jihads throughout history, untold millions have died. Tens of millions have been uprooted from their homes. Tens of millions have been stripped of their cultural identity. To continue to gloss over the destruction wrought by jihad ideology and its attendant evil of dhimmitude is today to play into the hands of jihadists, who have repeatedly vowed to dhimmify the West and destroy any recalcitrant elements. While jihadist groups, even with their global diffusion, are not strong enough to realize this goal by themselves, they have a potent and destructive ally, a genuine fifth column, in the dhimmi academics and dhimmi journalists they have recruited in the West. They have succeeded in confusing millions in the West into mistaking honesty and truthfulness for bigotry, and self-defense for oppression.

Before it's too late for Western Europe and the United States, which gave birth to the traditions of freedom and equality of rights for all that shine today as lights in the entire world, this must be stopped. Therefore Jihad Watch seeks to bring public attention to:

• The plight of the dhimmis, an immense but almost completely ignored ongoing scandal that continues in Muslim countries today;
• The plight of women under Sharia provisions, similar to conditions imposed on dhimmis, in the denial of equal rights and dignity;
• Slavery in Islamic lands, which continues today, justified by Sharia-'s dhimmi codes;
• The integral role of jihad and dhimmitude ideology in global terrorism today;
• The license that academic and journalistic whitewashes of dhimmitude gives to radical jihadist enemies of human rights for all.

Jihad Watch fights to ensure that deeds done in the darkness for so long will not continue to be done. The light of world attention is anathema to the proponents of jihad and dhimmitude: we have seen in recent years that women sentenced to stoning for adultery, often victims of rape unjustly accused thanks to Sharia laws disallowing rape victims' testimony, were freed following international outcry. Jihad Watch seeks to provoke similar, continuous and increasing outcry wherever and whenever the Sharia's institutionalized injustices threaten dhimmis and women.

May the truth prevail.

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Top Modern Islamic Lies

Islam was born with lies to its followers and infidels. Now as Islam comes under increasing scrutiny, especially facililated by modern technologies, Islamists invent new lies to circumvent those criticisms of Islam. A list of those modern Islamist lies are enumerated in this essay.

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Many Muslims often take pride in Islam that it teaches them to speak the truth. However Islamists have been always lying and misinterpreting issues to brainwash Muslims and to fool the western kaffirs (non-Muslims). Because of faith in Islam, Muslims do not ever challenge what Islamists preach. General Muslims discuss the lies among themselves and believe the lies are true. The world has significantly changed after kaffir Bill Gates introduced the Windows operating system for computers. After that the Internet plays an integral part in everybody’s life. The Jewish kaffir established (worst enemy of Islam) Facebook has become the most popular webpage in the word.

The method of lying by Islamists also changed with respect to the computer age. Many Islamists are tech savvies who run websites, send Islamic emails to Muslims, and create Islamic pages on Facebook. The most interesting part is that these Islamists and some fanatic Muslims spread hate for kaffirs, especially for Jews, on the Internet and right on Jewish Facebook. How funny this can be? This is beyond ridiculous!

Lies have been always part of Islamic discussions and preaching. The techniques of lies have been upgraded due to Muslim migration to the west and the modern age of the internet. General Muslims and kaffirs have been always fed with traditional lies since the birth of Islam. The following are the most common modern lies with which most Muslims and many kaffirs are already familiar.

1. Modern Science Comes from the Quran: Scientists (obviously mostly pure kaffirs) spend their lives researching stuff and finally come up to a new invention. Islamists claim that the formula of modern science is originally told in Quran. But where in the Quran can the formula be seen? If Quran is a book of science, then why aren’t the madrassa (Islamic school) students becoming scientists or inventors for any good useful stuff? Don’t they study and know Quran a lot more than regular Muslims and kaffirs do? But instead of being scientists, why do many madrassa students become terrorists and extremists?
2. Quran Is the Best Book ever written: Really? In what sense? How many Muslims do read the Quran and understand the meaning of all its verses? Even many Arabic Muslims just read it for their faith, but do not analyse the actual meaning of the Quranic verses. Quran is claimed to be the exact words of God and humans are incapable of writing such a book, but over 90% of human beings have not read it (properly- Muslims) and do not even know about it.
   
   What part of Quran is better than other books? How can human beings be benefited from this book when not from other books? In reality Quran has no chronology, has mathematical and scientific errors, asks Muslims to hate kaffirs, to kill kaffirs, to beat wives, to kill someone who comments on Islam critically, to kill Muslims if they leave Islam, to cut hands of thieves, and so on. Sunnis and Shias are killing each other every week, despite having faith in the same book, the Quran. Yes, the Quran is, indeed, a great book on earth!
3. 9/11 Was Masterminded by Bush and Jews: Most Muslims living in North America still believe Muslims could never be involved in 9/11. They often discuss this issue among themselves. Assuming this Muslim claim is right that Jews and Bush planned the 9/11 attacks. Then why were the pure Muslims (Arabian Muslims) so happy with the attacks that killed over 3,000 people in a few hours? Why was the Palestinian woman dancing and praising the attackers? What did their happiness have to do with the Jewish and Bush conspiracy? Don’t all those pure and semi pure Arabic Muslims hate Jews and America? If 9/11 was a plan by Jews and Bush, then why would they and other Muslims be so happy?
4. Saudi Arabia Iran and Former Talibani Afghanistan Are Not Real Muslim Countries: Who are then real Muslim countries that at least try to practise Islam to the full? The main reasons to make this bogus claim are these countries chop hands, behead, stone to death, and flog the accusers. Such practices are considered inhuman and moderate Muslims are ashamed of these Islamic practices. Maybe these so called Muslims should go to Saudi Arabia to teach and show Saudis that this country is not following Allah’s book and Sunnah. The rest follows the next lie.
5. Western Countries Steal the Value of Islam: Modern Islamists say, “nowhere in the Islamic countries Islam is fully practised as per Allah and Muhammad. This is why Islamic countries are so miserable.” At the same time, the same Islamists quickly brainwash Muslims and kaffirs stating that western countries follow more values of Islam, which gives more freedom and equal rights. Is this really true? The value of western countries is based on Christianity, Judaism and humanism. This is why people from all over the world choose the west (particularly USA and Canada) to live freely and equally as one.
   
   Islamists quickly discovers that western kaffirs stole Islamic ideas to build the value of the west. Western kaffirs do not know a single word of Islam but stole the value of Islam. How funny is this? What about the Muslims in Saudi and other Islamic countries? Don’t they understand Islam and its value to build their own countries like the west to let all human beings live as one?
6. Westerns Are Rapidly Converting to Islam: If western kaffirs are heavily converting to Islam every day, would not the western countries become Islamic states soon? Any sign yet? Where are those new converted western Muslims? They can never be seen in mosques or any Islamic programs. Most of the converted Muslims are black and some white trash people, who have no value in society. They declare bankruptcy and mainly live on government money. How many police officers, government officials, night club DJs, celebrities or professors converted to Islam? And where are they?
7. Islam Treats Women Equally and Gives Even More Rights: What kind of stupid claim can this be? Women in Islamic countries are more depressed and have very limited rights than any other places on earth. They cannot drive, walk alone, work freely, divorce (unless the husband is mad) and do many more. This situation can be fairly noticed where Islam is practiced to the full in countries like Saudi Arabia. If Islam gives full rights to women, then why women only in Islamic countries have less rights?
8. Jews Control Media and Play a Role in US/Canadian and World Politics: The moderate Islamists and Muslims say Jews lie and exaggerate Muslim terrorist attacks and never report crimes by Jews. Do these Muslims want to blame the Jews for the crimes Muslims commit? Today’s 99.9% terrorist attacks are solely performed by Muslims. Can anyone deny that? In reality Jews are involved in very less crimes in comparison to Muslims, Hindus, or any other kaffirs. Can anyone show a mega list of Jews who rape women, kill people and deal drugs on a regular basis like people from other religions and ethnicities?
   
   When there is an attack in Israel and Palestine, the same news can be found on BBC, CNN, the Islamic Al Jajira and other media. If Jews play an integral part in US/Canadian politics, what’s so bad about it? Muslims are welcome to play a part but they do not do, as the western politics is made by kaffirs, the enemy of Islam.
   
   Assuming all major government sectors are solely controlled by Jews (according to Muslims). Aren’t Muslims in these Jewish USA and Canada living much better than they would live in miserable Islamic countries? Aren’t these Jews giving equal rights and benefits to the Muslims? Can Muslims get such equal rights and benefits in any Islamic countries? Aren’t these Jews helping poor countries constantly and run to them with food after any natural disasters? Does any Islamic country do this? Who are then better, Jews or Muslims?
9. Fasting Gives Human a Meal Balance: A specialist doctor one day was saying on TV in Bangladesh in an Islamic show how important fasting is to human life. He said “Fasting is just the change of our daily food routine, which helps rebuild our body. Human needs such a change once in a year, and this is how Allah creates us”. The main point talking about fasting is to state how Islam is good that asks human for fasting. In many Muslim countries, iftar occurs at about 6 pm. During fasting Muslims skip breakfast and lunch. Iftar works as early dinner. Many people eat Sheree (pre-dawn meal) right before fajr prayer at about 4 am.
   
   Maybe such a temporary change in human bodies is good and the doctor’s claim is true. But is this true for only people living Islamic countries? What will happen to the people in northern and southern parts of the world where sometimes sunlight is longer? Can these people live without food for 22 or more hours a day for fasting? Is it healthy? What does Islam say about this? If fasting is good for us, it has to be universal, and detail explanation should have been written in Quran and/or Hadiths. Where is that explanation?
10. Islam Gives the Best Code of Life: If this is true, then what best code of life can we see among Muslims and Islamic countries? Why do kaffirs (primarily East Asian and western) live longer and healthier than average Muslims? The rest follows the next lie.
11. Islam is a Religion of Peace: The most favourite dialogue by moderate Muslims and Islam charlatans like Zakir Naik. If Islam brings peace, then why so many terrorists are Muslims, why Muslims are killing each other? Why are Muslims (by Quran and Hadith) always aggressive? Why honour killing is practised a lot among Muslims?
    
    One important question: every few days, dozens of people in Pakistan (mainly), Iraq, and Afghanistan are dying in suicide bomb attacks, which are perpetrated by the same Muslims (mainly Sunnis). If all Pakistani Muslims happened to be or convert to Christianity, Hinduism or become infidels (pure kaffirs) overnight, would there be any suicide bombings next day or would Pakistan lose its innocent people anymore?
12. Mullahs Do Not Follow the Real Path of Islam: Moderate Muslims hate Mullahs and they are able to brainwash the western ignorant kaffirs that Mullahs are not well educated and do not fully understand Islam. Is this true? Do these so called moderate Muslims ever read Quran and Hadith? When a Muslim spends all his life studying Islam (Quran, Hadith and Sira), should not he know Islam better than those Muslims who have never understood the meaning of a single world in Quran and Hadith?

As a matter of fact, the above modern lies can be heard from many Muslims and Islamists. Muslims will never know the truth unless someone challenges the above lies. Islamists will keep telling lies to Muslims and kaffirs. But it will stop one day when Muslims are aware of the lies and given opportunities to comment on those lies. Islamists do not like Youtube and Facebook on which anyone can post comments whatever he wants. Islamists want no comments against Islam and their lies. When Muslims are allowed to freely practise Islam in the west and preach it on the Internet, they have to be ready to freely hear comments on Islam and their claims at the same time.

Masochism: Another Psychopathology of Islam

As we have heard, read and seen numberless ridiculous and absurdities about Islam, which has rarely, if at all, been found in any other religion, society and culture in history than in Islam.

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As the actions and truth of Prophet Muhammad have been exposed in good detail during recent years and decades, made possible mainly due to the development of electronic media, which would never have been possible otherwise, many Muslims are leaving Islam in ever increasing number both in Muslim and Non-Muslim states. But the huge majority of Muslims, who are otherwise sincere humans, still remain within the clutch of Islam, to whom the true history of Islam and its prophet hasn’t reached yet so as to free them from Islam's shackle.

Islam is the only religion, whose followers split into two different sects — Sunnis and Shiites —right after the death of its founder and started internecine and bloody fights against each. No any religion, divine or spiritual practices gives us proof or record that their religion has been deteriorated right after the death of their founders.

Shiites are the second largest sect in Islam after the Sunnis. In Iran, Shiites comprise 95% of the population; in Iraq, Shiites are estimated to comprise 70 to 80% of population; in Pakistan, estimated 30% of the population are Shiites.

Islam is not only a ridiculous and corrupt religion, it also produces masochists among its followers, another eternal psychopathic component left by Islam amongst its followers, the Shiites.

In Pakistan, Shiites are the second-largest sect after the Sunnis. Shiites generally beat themselves on the 9^th and 10^th of Muharram (Islamic Month) so as to express their mourning for the murder of Imam Hussain, son of Ali, the fourth caliph of Islam. According to their own story, Hussain was murdered treacherously by Yazeed, the son of Amir Muaweeya, who, some sources say, was a companion and assistant of Muhammad in collecting the Quran.

In Pakistan, Shia Muslims beat themselves up in different ways: Some use their hands to beat their own chests; the teenagers and youths beat themselves with chains and knives, which causes blooding, especially from the back. This kind of horrid actions is seen amongst no other people in the world but in Shiite Islam. How many more absurdities and stupidities will we see in Islam?

A bloody conflict broke out between Shiite and Sunni Muslims soon after the death of their prophet and has continued ever since. Shiites abuse the first three caliphs of Islam, Abu Bakar, Umar and Uthman respectively; in response, Sunni Muslims attribute Shiites as non-Muslims. This conflict resulted from a stupid mistake made by their prophet, who did not elect a suitable successor in his lifetime. Due to this little lapse on the part of Muhammad, his followers started fighting and kill each other. Finally, one group, who were in favour of Ali, to become the first caliph of Islam, started beating themselves up to unknown period of time.

Masochism is a condition when people get satisfaction in getting physical hurt, inflicted by himself/herself or by others. It is considered serious mental illness that requires a proper cure, and that cure is freedom from Islam.

Muhammad: A Curse for Humanity

The likely untold truth about Muhammad's childhood and the curse he brought upon humanity....

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Islamic historians claim that Muhammad was born to a rich family; his grandfather Abdul Muttalib was head of his tribe and guardian of the temple of Kaba. Now the question is:

Why was Muhammad completely illiterate?

Why did his mother Amina or his grandfather Abdul Muttalib never send him to school for an education?

At Muhammad's time, many people in Arabia, particularly at his birthplace Mecca, were educated; the best poets of the world were Arab. Although their civilization was embryonic, the Arabs had eagerness for learning, particularly Arabic, Persian and other Middle Eastern languages. Women had freedom, respect and even power in society; even some tribes were headed by women, as there were also prostitutes and tawaifs (woman who danced to entertain). Arabian hospitality was well-known all around the world. Elders were respected in every family. Hindus, Christians, and Jews were living together in peace.

Yet Muhammad, grandson of a well-educated and respected head of a tribe, was completely uneducated! Why? Different Islamic historians write different stories about Muhammad’s childhood, and all of them write to hide the truth.

The truth about Muhammad’s early age is not written anywhere. The things I am about to tell you, unknown to the world, probably were roughly the truth about Muhammad's childhood. It is true that Muhammad was born in a rich family; but in his childhood, he was considered a bad luck.

Muhammad’s father died when he was still in his mother’s womb, and after this misfortune Amina lost her love for the child she was carrying in her womb. She considered it to be the indication of bad luck. She feared many more mishaps would befall her after she gave birth to the ill-fated baby. In the middle of July 571 CE, Amina gave birth to a baby boy, and she named him Kuthan, but his grandfather Abdul Muttalib changed the baby’s name to Muhammad after a few years.

Amina never breastfed Muhammad, and she always ignored him, even when, she knew, he was crying because of hunger. Amina had a slave-girl named Barakat and Barakat had a friend named Haleema, who had also given birth to a baby boy a week earlier than Amina. Amina hired Haleema to look after Muhammad as her own son. Even Haleema knew about the ill-fate of Muhammad. She refused at first, but when Amina offered her a good sum of money, she accepted.

Haleema looked after Muhammad and breastfed him. When Muhammad was only six years old his Mother died, and Haleema left him under the care of his grandfather, Abdul Muttalib. Abdul Muttalib was a very noble, God-fearing and kind-hearted man; he enrolled Muhammad in school of the tribe where children from rich families went to study.

The whole tribe considered Muhammad to be ill-fated, but no one talked openly because of Abdul Muttalib. Muhammad was not liked by anyone; no parents wanted Muhammad around their kids. Muhammad was only eight years old when Abdul Muttalib died. Abdul Muttalib had ten sons, but none of them accept Abu Talib, also a very noble and kind-hearted man, was ready to look after Muhammad, because they all considered him accursed. Despite taking the responsibility of looking after Muhammad, he still kept him away from his house and gave him place to live outside away from family. And he was never sent to school again.

In history, what you read about Muhammad is written mostly by his Muslim followers, so it's not necessarily true. All around the world people hate Hitler, but if you read his history written by one of his followers, I am sure the picture would be different. We read American history written mostly by white Americans, but if you read American history written by a Native American, you will find Americans and Nazis to be close to each other. If you read books about George Bush written by one of his supporters, I am sure it will be different to the one written by any Iraqi sufferer whose family was killed by the American army.

Muhammad made an army and fought with non-Muslims, and he killed many non-Muslims, and until now his true followers are fighting and killing non-Muslims; that is the truth about Muhammad. Muslims and non-Muslims both accept it. Muhammad spent the critical years of his prophetic life in warring against non-Muslims. And if there was a history written about him by one of those non-Muslims whose tribes he attacked, you will see a different picture of Muhammad. This world is a market, and all are selling their different views about history. One has to use his/her reason and wisdom to choose what might be true, what mightn't.

Muhammad made a new religion because he wanted power; he wanted to rule over the people. For the first three years of his prophethood, he secured his words with caution amd made people follow him. And when he had attracted a good number of people to his cult, he formed an armed gang to fight those who were against him as well as to plunder and loot. But if there's a God, He would never approve of His chosen men to create an army to fight against his own creation, for his religion or whatsoever. If at all, men of God would walk from city to city, from village to village, from door to door, to give the message of peace. If you compare Muhammad with Guru Nanak or Buddha, you will find the truth. Nanak walked from one place to another, and spread the words of God with wisdom; he never made an army. When Muslims were in power, they horribly brutalized the Hindus, Sikh and other non-Muslims of India. In this age, you see that Muslims are living freely in Hindustan. This is because the Sikh and Hindu religion never preach to their followers to fight with Muslims or people of any other faith. On the other hand, where Muhammad was born, it has been completely cleansed of the infidels.

In Saudi Arabia, those non-Muslims allowed to come in to work (because without them Saudi Arab would become dysfunctional), they live as second-class citizens; they are not allowed to worship their God, not even allowed to carry the holy book or religious symbol. Muhammad’s followers believe that only Muslims obey ‘The God’; but, in truth, ‘Muslim’ stands for the ‘one who rejects God and follows Muhammad’s commands’. Muslim means the slave of Muhammad.

God never asks any human to fight for Him. God is all powerful. God never created mankind to fight with each other. Humans even sacrifice their own life to save others, but Muhammad’s ideology turned the God's best creation into cruel beings. Muslims blow themselves up not to save, but to kill others; because they think, Islamic Allah will reward them with a ticket to paradise for doing this.

Muhammad and his Islamic Allah divided mankind to fight and kill each other. Muhammad used the name of God to misled mankind. Muhammad said to his followers: Whoever will fight and die in the battlefield, Islamic Allah will give him 72 virgins in Heaven. I would like to ask Muslims: What reward your women will get for fighting for their Islamic Allah? Muhammad lures men to fight for him with his enemies. Muhammad brainwashed people, and made them fight for him, and until now his true followers are fighting with non-Muslims. It's the same as tactic which Hitler used to brainwash Germans, and turned them into cruel Nazis.

If at all, Men of God come to bring peace upon mankind, but the war, started by Muhammad, is still happening. Muslims continue to hate non-Muslims in the same way Muhammad taught his followers in the early days of Islam. This hatred is eternal in nature; it will not end until Islam is vanished.

The Lies of Infidelophobia?

A response to an widely circulated article, The Lies of Islamophobia, which attacks the idea of Islamic hatred of infidels as irrational Western invention, when infidels outside the West have been and continue to be the worst victim of Islamic hatred and barbarism...

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There is an article being spread far and wide around the internet called "The Lies of Islamophobia" by someone named John Feffer. The article is full of falsehoods, half-truths and misapprehensions, basically accusing the West of bringing on Islamic terrorism ("blowback") and insinuating that those who are concerned with Koranically induced violence are not only "irrational" (as in "phobia") but also damaged from childhood. This article consists of anti-West propaganda that has already been refuted in a scholarly manner on countless occasions.

It's amazing that anyone with an ounce of integrity could possibly defend for one minute a violent, male-dominated cult that is responsible for the brutal murders of some 270 million people worldwide, including some 80 million Indians in their own lands. These slaughtered INDIANS were not WESTERNERS and have nothing whatsoever to do with Christian Crusades. They were murdered so that Muslim conquerors/jihadis could steal their land, women and other booty. These conquests were justified by the Koran, hadiths and Islamic history.

The words and deeds of Islamists themselves over the past 1,400 years immediately expose "The Lies of Islamophiles" such as Feffer and his ilk. And Islamic acts of violence - which are often directed against OTHER MUSLIMS - continue to demonstrate quite abundantly right in front of our eyes what Islam has been about since its inception.

The Lies of Islamophobia

The Muslims were bloodthirsty and treacherous. They conducted a sneak attack against the French army and slaughtered every single soldier, 20,000 in all. More than 1,000 years ago, in the mountain passes of Spain, the Muslim horde cut down the finest soldiers in Charlemagne’s command, including his brave nephew Roland. Then, according to the famous poem that immortalized the tragedy, Charlemagne exacted his revenge by routing the entire Muslim army....

Islamophobia is...an irrational fear of Islam. Yes, certain Muslim fundamentalists have been responsible for terrorist attacks, certain fantasists about a “global caliphate” continue to plot attacks on perceived enemies, and certain groups like Afghanistan’s Taliban and Somalia’s al-Shabaab practice medieval versions of the religion. But Islamophobes confuse these small parts with the whole and then see terrorist jihad under every Islamic pillow. They break out in a sweat at the mere picture of an imam.

Irrational fears are often rooted in our dimly remembered childhoods. Our irrational fear of Islam similarly seems to stem from events that happened in the early days of Christendom. Three myths inherited from the era of the Crusades constitute the core of Islamophobia today: Muslims are inherently violent, Muslims want to take over the world, and Muslims can’t be trusted.

The myth of Islam as a “religion of the sword” was a staple of Crusader literature and art. In fact, the atrocities committed by Muslim leaders and armies -- and there were some -- rarely rivaled the slaughters of the Crusaders, who retook Jerusalem in 1099 in a veritable bloodbath. “The heaps of the dead presented an immediate problem for the conquerors,” writes Christopher Tyerman in God’s War. “Many of the surviving Muslim population were forced to clear the streets and carry the bodies outside the walls to be burnt in great pyres, whereat they themselves were massacred.” Jerusalem’s Jews suffered a similar fate when the Crusaders burned many of them alive in their main synagogue. Four hundred years earlier, by contrast, Caliph ‘Umar put no one to the sword when he took over Jerusalem, signing a pact with the Christian patriarch Sophronius that pledged "no compulsion in religion".

This myth of the inherently violent Muslim endures. Islam “teaches violence,” televangelist Pat Robertson proclaimed in 2005. “The Koran teaches violence and most Muslims, including so-called moderate Muslims, openly believe in violence,” was the way Major General Jerry Curry (U.S. Army, ret.), who served in the Carter, Reagan, and Bush Sr. administrations, put it...

Further Reading

'Death to Islamophobes!'
Islamic Crusades Series - videos
Fourteen Centuries of War Against European Civilization
The Truth About Islam
Islam is not a race
Islam in Action
The wrong way to combat 'Islamophobia'

How I Left Islam

A pious Muslimah's testimony of leaving Islam...

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Who am I?

Im a 48-year-old Malay. Born as a muslim.... became one damn pious one too....never miss my prayers.... read my quran faithfully like a parrot....and every day save 10cents.....in my piggy bank.. with the hope that one day i will make that trip to the holy land......and fulfill my duty as a true muslim.

But something happen along the way to that journey..........before i'm told not to stop.......to just move with the flow and just follow. No question to ask...there should be no doubts.......U listen and you follow....but somehow something happen to make me to stop... and look around. Suddenly I realise those people....those Kafirs as Im being told so many times are no different than me......they are just like me another human being. Why should they be any different?

I am that pious girl....who wanted to be a good muslim so much........until one day, while sitting in the mosque, hears words that trouble her.....and she began to question those words. The more she listen, the more it make her feel so uneasy.........so eventually one faithful day, she took the courage to stand up and walk out of the mosque and never to look back. Ive never go back there anymore.....my journey has been beautiful without all the hatred.... as my model heroine Edith Cavell said before the Nazis shoot her "Humanity.....patriotism is not good enough. One must not have hatred or anger."

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This testimony appeared in the Council of ex-Muslims of Britain.

Why Islam is Fractured

Islam is fractured for a variety of reasons. A major problem with Islam is that there are as many different versions of it as there are Islamic pundits and there are legions of them.

Another reason why Islam is fractured is that it is all things to all people. Even a cursory study of the Qur’an, the immutable word of God, as Muslims see it; the Hadith, the authoritative sayings of the Prophet; and, the Sunna, the Prophet’s life conduct, presents a body of contradictory and even outright erroneous information. This body of Islamic doctrine enables a person to pick and choose the parts he likes and ignore those he doesn’t. This feature explains why some of the good as well as the most beastly people are Muslims. Amazingly enough, both types justify themselves and their behavior by selectively citing from the Qur’an, the Hadith and the Sunna.

Here is only one example of taking an Islamic teaching as you prefer it. The Qur’an admonishes the believers: Jahedoo fee sabeel-u-llah—make jihad for the cause of God. Literally translated, this phrase directs the believers to exert themselves in service to the cause of God. The catch is in the word “exert.” Some Muslims understand it as spiritual exertion. Other Muslims take it as a commandment to exert themselves by the sword. And both can be right because the rest of the Qur’an not only fails to clarify the statement, but adds further substance to each position. It is in cases like this that the pronouncements of the Islamic high divines can sway the balance in favor of one or the other. Unfortunately, not many voices of Islamic authorities are raised on the side of tolerance, peacefulness and other positive teachings and denounce the barbaric passages in Islam. The most one hears from Islamic apologists are time-worn and banal pronouncements such as “Islam is a religion of peace.”

It is a sad fact that generation after generation of Sunni Muftis—highest ranking Sunni clerics—and Ayatollahs—highest ranking Shiite clerics, over the years have indoctrinated their underling clergy as well as the masses with selective teachings that promote intolerance, exclusion and hostility toward non-Muslims—people labeled as heathens, infidels, unbelievers and apostates. Selective choice of the scripture, combined with a siege mentality endemic to the cradle of Islam, the Middle East, generates a fury of hatred that has the potential of devouring the world. If only Muslims could purge the negative aspects of its scripture and practice its positive teachings, the world would become a diverse community of humanity at peace with one another. The question is: Is that possible or are we headed for a clash of civilizations?

There are some non-violent verses in the Qur’an too. One, for instance, says: The most beloved amongst you in the sight of God is the one who is the most virtuous. Not the rich, not the powerful and not the hateful. The most virtuous is most beloved, it says. Yet, the radical Islamists have come to interpret killing and maiming the infidels as great acts of virtue, acts that would make them most beloved by God.

In an attempt to polish Islam's image, Muslim apologists usually quote verses from the Quran that were written in the early days of the Islamic movement while Mohammad lived in Mecca. Those passages make Islam appear loving and harmless because they call for love, peace and patience. Such is a deception. The apologists fail to tell gullible masses that such verses, though still in the Quran, were nullified, abrogated, rendered void by later passages that incite killing, decapitations, maiming, terrorism and religious intolerance. The latter verses were penned while Mohammad's headquarters was based in Medina.

Reforming Islam is unfortunately not a realistic possibility. About the only universal agreement that exists among Islamic authorities is that every word of the Qur’an is the word of God and is not subject to human modification, ever. The ‘Hadith’ also enjoys a similar sacrosanct standing. And of course, the faithful Muhammad’s conduct as recorded in the Sunna is the model to be emulated. Hence, one can pick and choose, but one can not discard or revise any part of the scripture. For this reason a Martin Luther type reformation has not happened and will not likely ever happen within Islam.

Islam’s detractors point out numerous absurdities in the Islamic scripture. In fairness to Islam, we can find just as many perceived absurdities in other religious scriptures. Many of the scriptures’ absurdities may, in fact, be allegories, metaphors, similes and symbols. Islamic scripture, for instance, records that Muhammad split the moon in half with his sword. Clearly, splitting the moon must be taken symbolically. Some claim that in this case “moon” stood for high ranking religious divines of the time and Muhammad destroyed them by the sword of his new faith. It was the material sword that sallied forth out of the Arabian desert and forced Islam on people far and wide.

The fact that Islam is a splintered house complicates matters greatly. The faith is divided into Sunni and Shiites sects with numerous sub-sects. The divisions and contentiousness are so profound that members of one sect consider the other Muslims as apostates worthy of death. The division goes back to the time of the Prophet himself. Shiites believe that the enemies of true faith subverted its chain of authority at Muhammad’s death.

They claim that the Prophet, while on his deathbed, asked for a parchment to dictate his will and to appoint Ali, his cousin and son-in-law, as his successor. The Shiites claim that Omar, an influential disciple and commander of the faith, declined the request saying to the Prophet: hasbena ketab-ul-llah—sufficient unto us is the book of God. Before long, division and infighting started in earnest and continues to this day. Oppression of Shiite minorities in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are only two glaring instances of this longstanding and irreconcilable intra-faith hostility. The Shiite majorities in other lands return the favor to the Sunni minorities, as is the case in Iran. The recent horrific sectarian killings in Iraq represent glaring instances of irreconcilable differences among the various claimants to the mantle of true Islam.

The Bible says, “By their fruits shall ye know them.” The fruits of Islam are there for everyone to see for himself. Islam may have given the world some choice fruits. It has assuredly given the world many poisonous fruits as well.

Some claim that Islam is inherently good, the majority of Muslims are good and only a small minority has hijacked the good faith of Muhammad by engaging in acts of intolerance, hatred and violence. The question is: why is it that the good Islam is not ruling in the world and the bad Islam is engulfing it in fire? Human nature is the culprit, in part. We humans are attracted to hate like flies are to honey. Hate is an easy sell. It is appealing and little effort is required to hate. Hate gathers up the person’s or the group’s frustrations, anxieties, fears, paranoia and many other negative emotions in one handy bundle and hurls it at a convenient target. History is replete with instances of hate energizing the masses into commitment of small and large scale atrocities.

Sell hate and people queue several blocks to buy. Sell love and you will be mostly by your lonely self. Is this a cynical view? No, it is a realistic one. It describes human’s lower and primitive nature which must be painstakingly overcome through persistent education and awakening of man’s higher nature.

Religious high authorities play a critical role in steering the masses toward or away from hate. The late Pope’s public pronouncement, for instance, absolving the Jews as the Christ killers has reduced anti-Semitism among the rank and file Christians. Fatwas—religious decrees—by Islamic Muftis and Ayatollahs carry considerable weight with their respective followers. Sadly, most decrees and adjudications of these high Islamic authorities are exclusionary and even hostile toward the out-groups. These high divines are the suppliers of opinions as well as the teachers of the rank and file clergy who take the same ideas to the masses in villages and cities. Madresehs in Pakistan, schools in Saudi Arabia and Maktabs—religious schools—in Iran, as well as numberless mosques serve as places where the disease of hate can be transmitted with considerable success to the just too willing believers.

This virulent disease of hate of “others,” is now leaving its traditional Muslim lands and infecting cities, towns and villages of the larger world. Muslims believe that the earth is Allah’s and all of it rightfully belongs to the Muslims. Non-Muslims in any land are simply usurpers and occupiers who must either convert to Islam or give way to the legitimate people—the Muslims.

In Islam’s theocracy, religious authority is conferred by an informal consensus of the peer group. One becomes an Ayatollah, for instance, by demonstrating to other ayatollahs his undeviating devotion to the dogma they hold. If one deviates from the accepted line, he is not likely to make a village mullah, much less an Ayatollah. This is a systemic problem that is not amenable to change. It is a pathological theological inbreeding.

Islam or religions in general are sources of energy. The energy can achieve magnificent things or destroy anything. It is up to us to put religion to good use, as people have done for millennia, and to avoid using it as a weapon of death and destruction—again, as people have done so for millennia.

In the Islamic theocracies, everyone pretends publicly his undeviating belief in the faith, as preached and promoted in his locality. If there are any unbelievers, doubters or atheists, they have to hide, not in closets, but in deep subterranean holes. Pressure to be religious is so great that pretending piety is an art form. Yet, much of religious ado is pro forma rituals.

Admittedly, things are hardly any better in the non-Islamic lands. People, once a week, go to a religious service, repent of their sin, pay up and go back to a life of sin for the next six days in a sinful world.

Perhaps there is a way out of the present impasse with Islam. The Islamic Republic selected President Ahmadinejad had invited President George W. Bush, albeit in a convoluted eighteen page epistle, to embrace Islam. Ahmadinejad seemed to think that Bush is the most powerful man in the world. He must have concluded that if Bush were to embrace Islam, the masses of infidels would follow his example.

Let us for a moment accept Ahmadinejad’s summon. Question: Which sect of Islam and which one of its numberless sub-sects should we join? Beside the two major branches of Sunnis and Shiite, there are dozens and dozens of sub-sects, and schools, each of which is mortally convinced they represent the only true Islam. Ahmadinejad’s own brand of Islam is alien to the majority of even the Shiites. He is reportedly a devout member of a remodeled and secretive hate-based Hojjatieh which is presently operating under the guise of the Haghani sect under the leadership of a most close-minded fanatical leader—Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi.

Further complications present themselves. Space limitation does not allow presenting all of them here. Only one should suffice for now. One of the issues Muslims, worldwide, are in general agreement on is the status of women. It places women squarely under the thumb of men. It says in the Quran: Alrejaalo qawaamoon al-alnesa—men are rulers over women. Women of non-Islamic world have valiantly worked to attain a degree of equality with men. They are not likely to barter their hard-earned rights for the privilege of becoming head-to-toe covered second class citizens, deprived of education and opportunities. We, non-Muslim men, are not going to leave our emancipated, fully participating and contributing members of our society behind and subjugate ourselves to a barbaric set of Sharia laws which were enacted by stone-age mentality.

In conclusion, Islam is not only divided, it is completely fractured and has gone long past fixing itself, much less ruling the rest of the world. It is time that Muslims, those who consider themselves good and peaceful, as well as those who want us to accept their ideology of barbarism at the point of the sword, take the fateful step and join the free and emancipated family of humanity. There is no going back. Barbarism is in our past.

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Imani is the author of the smashing book “Obama Meets Ahmadinejad”. You Must Read This Book.

How Islam Incapacitates the Muslim Mind?

All it takes is "An hour in a Muslim classroom" to realize it, and all roads leads out of Mecca...

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I am a university student in Morocco. I am an ex-Muslim, pursuing English studies at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of my city. We study a subject called “Mythologies” that deals with the ancient myths and legends of old civilizations, such as the Greek and the Roman ones. The anecdote I am about to recount happened one morning during a lesson on this subject, very recently, with Professor El M. It will shows how Muslims, even the highly educated ones, can still be unable to question their religion or hold the slightest doubts about it. Their privileged treatment of their own religion, which, at the first sight, might look like a dishonest attitude, is in fact not dishonest at all, but is purely the result of their incapacity to objectively examine their own beliefs in the same way they examines other people’s. While this article will probably look offensive to religion in general, not only Islam, it is less a criticism of religion than a demonstration, one more, of how the religious mind, here the Muslim one, can be biased to the point of intellectual blindness and apparent hypocrisy.

Pr. El M. is a highly educated woman in her late thirties. She doesn’t wear a veil; she dresses in a modern western style. When I think about it, she even has American facial features and looks, as irrelevant to the facts this last detail might be. What I want to stress here is that she has nothing to do with that dull archetypical image of the submissive veiled “good” Muslim housewife one may sometimes have in mind when imagining of a Muslim woman.

Having handed us a four-page document listing several definitions of the words “mythology” and “myth” given by various renowned authors, Pr. El M. went to explain to us how the knowledge of Mythology was not innocent among those peoples, and that those who knew used to manipulate those who knew less, exploiting their knowledge as a political tool to establish control. To make her words unquestionable to her Muslim audience, she summoned a famous Quranic verse that says “wa hal yastawi al-ladina yaalamoun wa al-ladina la yaalamoun” (Are those who know equal to those who know not? (39:09)). Making references to the Quran in such a context is, you will agree, highly risky for a Muslim, for the manipulation the Greek people might have been subject to could never equal that of the Muslim masses, but her immunity to seeing anything wrong with the Creed of Muhammad apparently makes her comfortable with “jumping” from Mythology to Quran and from Quran to Mythology.

I will skip some relatively unimportant minor details about miscellaneous remarks Professor El M. made that seem to me ironically detrimental to Religion. To her own religion! I will go directly to the core issue.

When the professor, with the contribution of the students, made her conclusions about myths and their place in the ancient world, and was about to move to something else, I raised my hand, and made a very ordinary and obvious remark about something which in three sessions, astonishingly, hadn’t been discussed yet:

“If you replace the word “mythology” or “myth” with the word “religion” in these definitions you presented us with in this document – and you can try them one by one – they all stay correct. Actually, all these definitions apply to Religion in the exact same way they apply to those imaginary tales of the Greek gods and goddesses… and it shows best in the last definition, where the author explicitly states that we – modern Men – are still concerned with Mythology and are still very influenced by it, and that some very old ways of thinking haven’t changed even in our supposedly scientific age”.

How can you, dear reader, interpret the words “supposedly scientific age”, used by that author, other than as a direct attack on Religion (superstition included, of course)?

My point was very clear, and I am sure anyone with normal critical abilities, anyone unbiased by his or her religious beliefs, anyone capable of questioning, will clearly see what I meant, as well as what that author meant. The professor, apparently, lacks those normal abilities when it comes to the Abrahamic religions. I say she lacks them because she really didn’t give me the impression of deliberately ignoring the subject, but rather looked innocently unaware of it, as will be confirmed later. Here is what she did as a response to my intervention. She turned to the other students somewhat triumphantly and said “Yes! Yes. What he is saying is very interesting, and that’s what I explained to you in the beginning: Mythology was Religion to those people, they believed it and it was sacred to them!”

Admire the unconscious mental gymnastics she had to do to come to understand my words in this way. It reminds me of a funny gesture we make, here in Morocco, to portray someone who goes looking for complicated explanations to things while the truth is simple and at hand: We make our right hand pass over our heads to touch the left ear, saying, “where’s your ear? Here it is!”

I was rather disconcerted. How could she fail to see my point? I raised my hand again and objected, as calm as ever: “This is not what I meant. What I actually meant is the opposite. Not that my remark about the definitions implies that Mythology was Religion to the ancient peoples, but that it implies that Religion is Mythology to us”. I still can’t believe that I had to clarify this point in such a simplistic manner, given the status of my interlocutor. Stories of Osiris, Dionysus or Danaë, to name only a few, should have raised her awareness concerning some religious matters to very high degrees. I have a very modest knowledge about Mythology that I collected through my readings that cannot equal hers, yet even with the little I know I can’t fail to see revelatory parallels. Whether the latter be taken seriously or not is irrelevant to the present situation. A raised awareness is a natural effect of such studies. Yet even without it, it is easy to comprehend my aim.

Now she was rather disappointed and received what I said as a surprise, as something she obviously never thought about, and presumably something which no student has ever brought to her attention in all the years she has been teaching that subject. As a professor of Mythology, you would expect her to be familiar with such conclusions. She pondered it for a while and said: “Well, this is kind of controversial…” I said: “of course it is”. And then she said a most unexpected thing, clearly at loss for a logical answer:

“Maybe the person who compiled these definitions, since that person is probably a westerner, has chosen them specifically to express his intellectual convictions about Religion, for western scholars are usually skeptical about Religion”.

She said this in a matter of fact tone, and then she digressed on how “westerners don’t respect their religion and prophets as we Muslims do” and other far related topics, as far as Russia with its Christian orthodoxy… How my remark transported her to such alien territories is as mysterious to me as Christian orthodoxy is to her, for she was utterly incapable of explaining it when asked by a student… but I digress here myself. Now here she was, using a primitive “blame it on the impious west” defense, doubting the intellectual motives of an anonymous compiler of definitions about Mythology (definitions she herself chose to print for her students), on no grounds at all, with a quasi-paranoiac inference, while she can easily look for any other definition of “myth” in books or on the Internet (I dare not suppose she hasn’t done this yet), and find that it still applies to Religion. And remember that a few moments earlier, she was happy with my contribution about those same definitions and saw it as a confirmation of her understanding of Mythology. At this point I feel that I have to remind you once again that this was a university professor of Mythology I was talking to, for I tend to forget it myself. I felt no need to point out to her that any definition of “myth” would do, for I didn’t feel I was talking to a normal person anymore, let alone a professor. I said she wore no veil, but really, the true veil Muslims wear is not on their heads, it is on their eyes. I want to make it clear that I am not denying or belittling her mastery of her domain of teaching, for I haven’t had the privilege of watching her delve into the details of Mythology yet; but her unfamiliarity with the widely alleged mythological dimension of Religion (and not the other way round as she got it from my remark), whether it be true or not, amazes me and makes me expect the worst. I kept quite for the rest of the session and calmly watched the passivity of the other students, who, far from supporting me or trying to show me wrong, were dumbly waiting for the professor to move on to more serious matters, for this was certainly of no importance to them.

Later in that same session, while professor El M. was expanding on the details of the differences between myths, legends, fables and fairy tales… and while she was talking about the language features of the myths and the legends, she said that these have a repetitive style, that “may turn out to be boring”, with a great number of descriptions and events being told over and over again, often using the exact formulas and words repeatedly, “like in the Quran” she matter-of-factly added, again completely at ease with the idea of introducing the Quran on such slippery ground. Had she only been a Jew and said “like in the Torah”, it could have accounted for Jewish humour. “In the Quran” she said, “Allah makes a lot of repetitions, in order to help us remember his words more easily”. Watch the double standards: what is boringly redundant in Greek mythological narratives is a mercy of Allah in the Quran. Perhaps the fact that the Quran keeps coming up intuitively to her mind while speaking about Mythology is not totally devoid of significance. Indeed, it is not easy to accuse her of encroaching upon other people’s field of study.

At no moment was I expecting the professor or anyone of the students to explicitly say that Islam, or Religion in general can be likened to the mythological beliefs of old times. This would be, in addition to being inaccurate, an unrealistic expectation, especially in a class where 40% of the students (65% of the girls) wear veils and rarely participate. But someone, ultimately the professor herself, could have at least pointed to the similarities between the two, and recognized that they exist. I believe that they are more than just similarities, but neutral words like “similarities” or “common grounds” would have been enough to prove the intellectual honesty, sanity, as well as the good sense of the professor and the other students, instead of arbitrarily casting doubt on those of an unknown probably respectable true scholar. I sincerely believe that any normal professor of Mythology, in any normal faculty, in any normal society, would come to class ready for the remark I made, expecting it to come by any time, having a ready-made well-oiled opinion about the question, expressing it, and checking his or her emails on mobile all the while (maybe this is a little too much), being not only used to it, but tired of it. A more admirable one would give it the lion’s share of a session, et plus si affinités.

For the last time, to make sure there is no misunderstanding, I want to repeat that I never expected the class to agree that the present religions will become sheer mythology to distant future generations; neither do I expect you, dear reader, whatever your beliefs are, to agree on this. All I wanted was to have the point discussed, even briefly, whatever the conclusion, because otherwise, it would be like trying to move on with a normal relationship with someone without first attempting to settle an old existing conflict.

A few minutes later, it was time to leave. I rushed out of the classroom without talking to anyone. I walked home, breathing in the cold fresh air of a November morning, dumbfounded to learn that such blindness (I find no other word to describe it) could be found even in such supposedly very educated people, specializing in fields as intimate with Religion as Mythology. This is only the beginning of the college year, and I will probably witness more astounding things in that same classroom, in that same subject, throughout the year, but one thing is certain, I will not let myself be involved in them, for I am convinced that with such formatted minds, it would be a total waste of time and energy to try to reason or discuss anything religious. Besides, I am not of the militant/preacher type and, in spite of my young age, hold no hopes of changing the world. This contribution I post here to share this moment I lived in that classroom is as far as I can go. And I do not even publish it out of intellectual loneliness, but only because I thought it likely to stir some smiles from the readers; sad smiles, indeed. My references to my classmates in this report may give the illusion of some animosity on my part towards them, but that is totally untrue. I keep excellent relationships with all of them. Muslims are lovely people, in their own fashion, as long as you stay away from religious discussions and never reveal that you’re an apostate. A funny thing I have noticed is that, if they think you are a Muslim just like they are, you can explicitly doubt the existence of God in front of them, or doubt the prophetic status of Muhammad, and argue against Islam without them taking offence in what you say. They’ll even laugh and find you interesting, and enjoy your company all the more. It probably has a fresh air effect on them. As long as you don’t utter the infernal words “I am not a Muslim anymore”, they never seem to assume that you really think what you say; they don’t understand the consequences of your intellectual positions; they cannot conceive the possibility of you having left Islam, and will invite you to prayer right after the debate ends, as if words and acts belonged to two totally separate planes. It reminds me of that Jewish joke perfectly adaptable to Islam. Allow me to insert it here:

Two Rabbis argued late into the night about the existence of God, and, using strong arguments from the scriptures, ended up indisputably disproving His existence. The next day, one Rabbi was surprised to see the other walking into the Shul for morning services.

“I thought we had agreed there was no God,” he said.

“Yes, what does that have to do with it?” replied the other.

I wrote a raw account of the reported events the same day I witnessed them, which makes me believe I have successfully avoided involuntarily deforming them due to memory flaws. I know that for some of you this story will be as hard to believe as a Quranic myth or a Greek legend is. One thing is sure though, it is no fairy tale.

Why They Leave Islam and Become Christians

Muslims get baffled when they hear that many Muslims are leaving Islam, the finest and only true religion of God, and embrace other faiths, Christianity for example. This article explains what makes Islam unsuitable for civilized human beings, which propels some Muslims out of Islam and to other faith...

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Here is a video, in which Lebanese-born former Muslim Kamal Saleem, now a Christian, talks about "Why I Left Islam":

Many Muslims wonder why any Muslim leaves the wonderful of Islam, the only true religion of God, to join Christianity, the religion of crusaders and killers of a large numbers of Latin Americans.

CHRISTIANS AND THEIR ROLE MODEL

Yes many Christians have done bad things but their role model Jesus did not do any of the bad things. For instance he did not do any of the following according to their scriptures and history:

• Killing and torturing innocents
• Carrying out genocides
• Having critics assassinated
• Raiding innocent communities for loot and booty
• Rounding up women, distributing them among jihadis and raping them
• Killing innocent men and sleeping with their widows the same night
• Practice pedophilia
• Practice incest
• Practice polygamy.

MUSLIMS AND THEIR ROLE MODEL

Quran 33.21: Prophet is your role model

However true Muslims act in accordance with Quran and sunna. Here are examples of what activities are halal and in accordance with hadiths and sunna.

KILLINGS, SLAUGHTERS AND GENOCIDES OF KUFFAR

Followers of Quran and sunna mass murdered Sudani Christians by burning them alive.

(Hadith (Ishaq, p. 316): “Following Badr, Muhammad sent a number of raiders with orders to capture some of the Meccans and burn them alive.”)

ORDER

QURAN

2.216: Fighting is prescribed for you

Q 9.5: Slay the infidels wherever you find them

COMPLIANCE

Q 3.152: You slew them by His permission.

Q 33.26: A part [of them] ye slew, and a part ye made captives; (900 men of Quraiza tribe, above the age of 13 were killed, women and others were made captives)

Q 8.017: It is not ye who slew them; it was Allah:

Q 8.67: It hath not been [granted] unto any prophet, that he should possess captives, until he had made a great slaughter [of the infidels] in the earth.

Hadiths:

Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 512:

Narrated Anas:
Prophet attacked Khaybar unannounced. Their men were killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives. She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet.

Bukhari vol 3, Book 46, No. 717

Prophet had suddenly attacked Bani Mustaliq without warning while they were heedless and their cattle were being watered at the places of water. Their men were killed and their women and children were taken as captives; the Prophet got Juwairiya on that day.

"Sirat e Rasulullah" by Ishaq, p. 464:

After beheading all 700-900 Quraiza men the apostle divided their property, wives and children as booty. He took Rayhana d. Amr b. Khunafa for himself.

TORTURING

ORDER:

Q 9.5: kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, torture them, and lie in wait and ambush them

Q 5.33: murder them, crucify them, or cut off a hand and foot on opposite sides...

COMPLIANCE

Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 259:

Allah's Apostle sent us in a mission and said, "If you find so-and-so and so-and-so, burn both of them with fire"

Bukhari Volume 1, Book 4, Number 234:

Narrated Abu Qilaba
He then ordered to cut their hands and feet (and it was done), and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron, They were put in 'Al-Harra' and when they asked for water, no water was given to them."

Tabari VIII, p. 122/Ishaq, p. 515:

The Prophet gave orders concerning Kinanah to Zubayr, saying, ‘Torture him until you root out and extract what he has. So Zubayr kindled a fire on Kinanah’s chest, twirling it with his firestick until Kinanah was near death. Then the Messenger gave him to Maslamah, who beheaded him.

Ishaq, p. 595: "The Apostle said, ‘Get him away from me and cut off his tongue.”

Jihadists follow sunna of the prophet by cutting out tongue of a bad Muslim/apostate. Watch the video:

Momins use any means to comply with aya 9.5. Here a Muslim suicide bomber is being prepared for a jihadi mission by filling his anus with explosives to kill and torture infidels.

BEHEADING/ASASSINATING CRITICS

ORDER

33.60 "Truly, if they (critics/ 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. (last sentence appear to be a threat from Prophet)"

COMPLIANCE

Killing of Abu Rafi

Tabari VII, p. 99: "In this year, the killing of Abu Rafi the Jew took place."

Assassination of Kab bin Ashraf

Bukhari 4.52.270: “Allah’s Messenger said, ‘Who is ready to kill Ashraf? He has said injurious things about Allah and His Apostle.’ Maslama got up saying, ‘Would you like me to kill him?’ The Prophet proclaimed, ‘Yes.’ Maslama said, ‘Then allow me to lie so that I will be able to deceive him.’ Muhammad said, ‘You may do so.’

Iran: Hanging of Muslim Apostates

Tabari VII, p. 101: “The Khazraj asked the Prophet for permission to kill Sallam Huqayq, who was in Khaybar. He granted this.”

Ishaq, p. 551: “Another victim was Huwayrith.. Huwayrith was put to death by Ali.

Ishaq, p. 551: The Messenger ordered Miqyas’ assassination”

Tabari VIII, p. 181: “The Messenger ordered six men and four women to be assassinated.

Ishaq, p. 550: “Muhammad ordered that certain men should be assassinated even if they were found behind the curtains of the Ka’aba.

23 Years; A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad", by Ali Dashti, (page 100):

Abu Afak, a man of great age (reputedly 120 years) was killed because he lampooned Mohammad. The deed was done by Salem b. 'Omayr at the behest of the Prophet, who had asked, "Who will deal with this rascal

Asma bte Marwan

Sirat Rasul Allah, Ishaq, p. 675-76:

The apostle said, "Who will rid me of Marwan's daughter?" 'Umayr b. 'Adiy al-Khatmi who was with him heard him, and that very night he went to her house and killed her. The day after Asma was killed the men of B. Khatma became Muslims because they saw the power of Islam.

Private parts of a captured woman are being inspected by a momin Muslim

SEX WITH CAPTURED WOMEN

PERMISSION:

Quran: Ayas 4.3,23.6,4.24,33.50 and 70.3 allows sex with slave girls and captured women which is adultery/rape

COMPLIANCE:

Hadiths (Ibn Ishaq, Sirat e Rasulullah, p. 766):

Safiyah was captured in the Khaibar raid and was claimed by the apostle as his share of booty... She was then seventeen. In the early dawn, the Prophet suspected some movement near the tent. It was Abu Ayyub (apparently the earlier peeping Tom was some one eles) He asked him what he was doing near his tent (Abu Ayyub had not gotten any captured woman in this raid).He replied: "I was afraid for you with this young lady. You had killed her father, her husband and many of her relatives, and till recently she was an unbeliever. I was really afraid for you on her account and was guarding you" (he didn’t have to keep an eye on them to guard them). The Prophet (either Mo bought the lie or felt pity for the horny man who had put his life on line in the raid yet was without a captured woman and spent the night looking around) prayed for Abu Ayyub al-Ansari

The History of Tabari, vol 8, p. 29-30:

From his share of captive women, prophet gave his son-in-law, Ali a slave girl, Raytah bt Hilal to enjoy her at his will. He also presented Uthman b. Affan, his son-in-law, another slave girl Zainab b. Hayan, and bestowed another girl (name unknown) to his father in-law Omar Ibn Khattab. Omar gave that girl to his son Abdullah. Most of Prophet's other elite companions received slave girls as gifts..

Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 512:

Narrated Anas:
Prophet attacked Khaybar unannounced. Their men were killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives; She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet.

Bukhari vol. 3, Book 46, No. 717

Prophet had suddenly attacked Bani Mustaliq without warning while they were heedless and their cattle were being watered at the places of water. Their men were killed and their women and children were taken as captives; the Prophet got Juwairiya on that day.

Polygamy

Permission:

Aya 33.50 allowed Prophet to have unlimited number of wives.

Compliance:

Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 6:

Narrated Anas:
"The Prophet used to go round (have sexual relations with) all his wives in one night, and he had nine wives".

Prophet of Islam had eleven permanent wives in addition to slave girls and captured women.

Pedophilia

Permission

Aya 65.4 permits marrying little girls:

And those of your women as have passed the age of monthly courses, for them the 'Iddah (prescribed period), if you have doubts (about their periods), is three months, and for those who have no courses (i.e. if they are still immature), their 'Iddah (prescribed period) is three months (Hilali-Khan)

Rasooli : “If you divorce your (child) wife before she reaches menstruation age her idda is three months”.

Compliance:

Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64

...that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years .

INCEST

Prophet slept with his adopted son Zaid’s beautiful wife Zainab Bint Jash, who was also his first cousin, a double incest. It is confirmed by Quranic aya 33.37.

Zainab was too happy to sleep with the aging and ugly father-in-law of his young and handsome husband, because she thought she was having sex with Allah’s prophet, a great honor. In a hurry to have sex with the young beauty, prophet did not perform any marriage ceremony. When she asked him about it he had to tell her that Allah had already performed their marriage ceremony in the heavens. Zainab was tickled pink to hear that. She always bragged to Prophet’s other wives that their marriage ceremony was performed by Allah in the heavens.

Bukhari,Volume 9, Book 93, Number 517:

Zainab used to boast before other wives of the Prophet and used to say, "Allah married me (to the Prophet) in the Heavens."

ROBBERY

PERMISSION:

Q 8.41: and know that whenever ye seize anything as a spoil and booty, a fifth (20%) belongs to Allah and His Apostle.

Q 59.6: Allah gave all the booty (Fai') to His Messenger (Muhammad SAW) if the unbelievers surrendered without fight.

COMPLIANCE:

"Sirat e Rasulullah", Ibn Ishaq, p. 464:

After beheading all 700-900 Quraiza men the apostle divided their property, wives and children as booty. He took Rayhana d. Amr b. Khunafa (15 year old beuty) for himself.

Prophet received 20% of all booty from his raids which included male and female slaves. Here Prophet enjoying booze received in booty served by a young male slave of an enslaved family (booze was halal until his jihadi raiders were screwing raid operations by getting drunk on the job).