Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:54 PM
Don't believe anything a Muslim tells you
or that you HEAR from a tear-jerked liberal about HOW WONDERFUL Muslims are.
Don't be fooled--They ALL want you to be Islamic or dead---sooner or later
. ALL AMERICANS NEED TO READ THIS
AND KEEP IT GOING
What does the Quran really teach? Have we read the Quran? Do we know what
kind of teachings are there? Let us go through some of them and take a
closer look at what Allah says.
What Quran Teaches:
Quran tells us to: "
not to make friends with Jews and Christians"
(
5:51),
fight them
"until they pay the Jizya (a penalty tax for the
non-Muslims living under Islamic rules) with willing submission, and feel
themselves subdued" (
9:29).
KILL the
disbelievers wherever we find them" (
2:191),
"
MURDER them and treat them
harshly" (
9:123),
"fight and slay the Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in
wait for them in every stratagem" (
9:5).
Quran says that all those who disbelieve in Islam
GO
TO HELL (
5:10),
they are najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (
9:28),
and orders us to fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam
is left (
2:193).
It prohibits a Muslim to befriend a non-believer even if that non-believer
is the father or the brother of that Muslim (
9:23),
(
3:28).
It says that the "
non-believers will go to hell and will drink boiling
water" (
14:17).
It asks the Muslims to "
SLAY
or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be
expelled from the land with disgrace and that they shall have great
punishment in the world hereafter" (
5:34).
And tells us that "
for them (the unbelievers) garments of fire
shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads BOILING
WATER whereby whatever is in their bowels and skin shall
be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods" (
22:19-22)
and that they not only will have "
disgrace in this life, on the Day of
Judgment He shall make them taste the Penalty of burning (Fire)" (
22:9).
Quran says that "
those who invoke a god other than Allah not only
should meet punishment in this world but the Penalty on the Day of Judgment
will be doubled to them, and they will dwell therein in ignominy" (
25:68).
For those who
"believe not in Allah and His Messenger, He has
prepared, for those who reject Allah, a Blazing Fire!" (
48:13).
As for him who does not believe in Islam the Prophet says that after he dies
it will be announced with a
"stern command": "
Seize
ye him, and bind ye him, And BURN YE HIM
in the Blazing Fire. Further, make him march in a chain,
whereof the length is seventy cubits! This was he that would not believe in
Allah Most High. And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent! So no
friend hath he here this Day. Nor hath he any food except the corruption
from the washing of wounds, Which none do eat but those in sin."
(
69:30-37)
The holy Prophet prescribes fighting for us and tells us that
"it is
good for us even if we dislike it" (
2:216).
Then he advises us to "
STRIKE OFF THE
HEADS of the disbelievers"; and after making a "
wide SLAUGHTER
among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives" (
47:4).
Our God has promised to
"instill terror into the hearts of the
unbelievers" and has ordered us to "
SMITE
above their necks and smite all their finger-tips OFF
them" (
8:12).
and "
to strike terror into (the hearts of the enemies" (
8:60).
He has made the
JIHAD MANDATORY and
warns us that "
Unless we go forth, (for Jihad) He will punish us with
a grievous penalty, and put others in our place" (
9:39).
Allah speaks to our Holy Prophet and says "
O Prophet! strive hard
against the unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be stern against them.
Their abode is Hell,- an evil refuge indeed" (
9:73).
He promises us that in the fight for His cause whether we slay or are slain
we return to the garden of Paradise (
9:111).
In Paradise he will "
wed us with Houris (celestial virgins) pure
beautiful ones" (
56:54),
and unite us with large-eyed beautiful ones while we recline on our thrones
set in lines (
56:20).
There we are promised to eat and drink pleasantly for what we did (56:19).
And have sex with
"boys like hidden pearls" (
56:24)
and
"youth never altering in age like scattered pearls" (
76:19)
As you see, Allah has promised all sorts of rewards, gluttony and unlimited
sex to Muslim men who kill the unbelievers in his name, not forgetting even
those with pedophilic inclinations. We will be admitted to Paradise where we
shall find "
goodly things, beautiful ones, pure ones confined to the
pavilions that man has not touched them before nor jinni" (
56:67-71).
In the West we enjoy freedom of belief but we are not supposed to give such
freedom to anyone else because it is written "
If anyone desires a
religion other than Islam (submission to Allah), never will it be accepted
of him; and in the Hereafter He will be in the ranks of those who have lost
(all spiritual good) (
3:85).
As for women, the book of Allah says that they are inferior to men and their
husbands have the right to scourge them if they are found disobedient (
4:34).
It advises men to
take a green branch and BEAT
THEIR WIVES, because a green branch is more flexible and
HURTS
MORE. (
38:44).
It teaches that
WOMEN WILL GO TO HELL if
they are disobedient to their husbands (66:10). It maintains that men have
an advantage over the women (
2:228).
It not only denies the women's equal rights, it decrees that their witness
is not admissible in the courts of law (
2:282).
This means that a woman who is raped
CANNOT
ACCUSE HER RAPIST unless she can produce a
MALE
WITNESS. Our Holy Prophet allows us to marry up to four
wives and he licensed us to sleep with our slave maids
AND
as many 'captive' women as we may have (4:3)
EVEN
if those women are already married. He himself did just that.
[A word of warning for those who may find their version of Quran is
translated differently from those appearing in this article: Almost all the
translators of Quran have deliberately tried to
SOFTEN
the harsh verses of Quran. Yusufali especially goes out of his way to twists
the meaning of the words and hide the harshness of Quran. For example he
translates the verse (
38:44)
that says "take a green branch and beat your wife" as "take a little green
grass and strike therewith". Or when he translates the verse (
4:34)
that says "beat your wife" he cannot help it but to add the word (lightly)
in parenthesis.]
Dear fellow Muslim: Is this the Islam you believe in? Is this your Most
Merciful, Most Compassionate Allah whom you worship daily? Could God incite
us to kill other peoples? Please understand that there is no terrorist gene
but there could be a terrorist mindset. That mindset finds its most fertile
ground in the tenets of Islam. Denying it and presenting Islam as a religion
of peace similar to Buddhism to the lay public is suppression of truth. The
history of Islam between 7th and 14th century is riddled with violence,
fratricide and wars of aggression, starting right from the death of the
Prophet and during the so-called 'pure' or orthodox caliphate. And Muhammad
himself hoisted the standard of killing, looting, massacres and bloodshed.
How can we deny the entire history? The behavior of our Holy Prophet as
recorded in authentic Islamic sources is quite questionable from a modern
viewpoint. The Prophet was a charismatic man but he had few virtues.
Imitating him in all aspects of life (following Sunnah) is firstly
impossible and secondly dangerous in the 21st century. Why are we so
helplessly in denial on this simple issue?
When the Prophet was in Mecca and he was still not powerful enough he called
for tolerance. He said "T
o you be your religion, and to me my religion"
(
109:6).
This famous quote is often misused to prove that the general principle of
Quran is tolerance. He advised his follower to speak good to their enemies (
2:83),
exhorted them to be patient (Q.
20:103) and said that "
there is no compulsion in religion"
(
2:256).
But all that changed drastically
WHEN
HE CAME TO POWER. Then killing and slaying the
unbelievers was justified in innumerable verses with harshness and without
mercy. The verses quoted to prove Islam's tolerance ignore many other verses
that bear no trace of tolerance or forgiveness.
Is it normal that a book revealed by God should have so many serious
contradictions? THE BELOW
SHOWS HOW HORRIBLE MUHAMMAD WAS
The Prophet himself set the example of unleashing violence by invading the
Jewish settlements breaking the treaties he had signed with them and
banished some of them after confiscating their belongings, massacring others
and taking their wives and children as slaves. He inspected the youngsters
and massacred all those who had pubic hair along with the men and those who
were younger he kept as slaves. He distributed the women captured in his
raids among his soldiers keeping the prettiest for himself (
33:50).
He made sexual advances on Safiyah a Jewish girl in the same day he
captured her town, Kheibar, and killed her father, husband and many of her
relatives. Reyhana was another Jewish girl of Bani Quraiza whom he used as
sex slave after killing all her male relatives. In the last ten years of his
life he accumulated a score of wives, concubines and sex slaves including
the 9 year old Ayesha.
These are not stories but records from authentic Islamic history and the
Hadiths. It can be argued that these behaviors were not unknown or unusual
for the conquerors and leaders of the mediaeval world but these are not the
activities befitting of a peaceful saint and certainly not of someone who
claimed to be the Mercy of God for all the creation.
There were known assassinations of adversaries during the Prophet's time,
that took place at his behest. Among them there was a 120 year old man, Abu
'Afak whose only crime was to compose a lyric satirical of the Prophet. (Kitab
al Tabaqat al Kabir, Volume 2, by Bin Sa'd, page 32) Then when a poetess, a
mother of 5 small children, 'Asma' Bint Marwan, wrote a poetry cursing the
Arabs for letting Muhammad assassinate an old man, our Holy Prophet ordered
her to be assassinated too in the middle of the night, which was carried out
while her youngest child was suckling from her breast. (Sirat Rasul Allah
(A. Guilaume's translation "The Life of Muhammad") page 675, 676).
Dear conscientious Muslims: Question yourselves- isn't this compulsive dogma
of following a man who lived 1400 YEARS AGO,
leading us to doom in this changing world? Who are we deceiving? See how
our Umma (people) have sunk into poverty and how we lag behind the rest of
the world? Isn't it because we are following a religion that is outdated and
impractical? In this crucial moment of history, when a great catastrophe
has befallen us and a much bigger one is lying ahead, should not we wake up
from our 1400 years of slumber and see where things have gone wrong?
The hatred has filled the air and the world is bracing itself for its
doomsday. Should we not ask ourselves whether we have contributed,
unwittingly, to this tragedy and whether we can stop the great disaster from
happening?
Unfortunately the answer to the first question is yes.
Yes, we have contributed to the rise of
fundamentalism by merely claiming Islam is a religion of peace, by simply
being a Muslim and by saying our shahada (testimony that Allah is the only
God and Muhammad is his messenger). By our shahada we have recognized
Muhammad as a true messenger of God and his book as the words of God. But as
you saw, those words are anything but from God. They call for killing, they
are prescriptions for hate and they foment intolerance. And when the
ignorant among us read those hate laden verses, they act on them and the
result is the infamous September 11, the result is human bombs in Israel,
massacres in East Timor and Bangladesh, kidnappings and killings in
Philippines, slavery and genocide in Sudan, honor Killings in Pakistan and
Jordan, torture in Iran, stoning and maiming in Afghanistan and Iran,
violence in Algeria, terrorism in Palestine and misery and death in all
Islamic countries. We are responsible because we endorsed Islam and hailed
it as a religion of God. And we are as guilty as those who put into practice
what Quran preaches and ironically we are the main victims too.
If we are not terrorists, if
we love peace, if we cried with the rest of the world for what happened in
NYC, then why are we supporting Quran that preaches killing, that advocates
holy war, that calls for murder of non-Muslims? It is not the extremists who
have misunderstood Islam. They do literally what Quran ask them to do. It is
we who misunderstand Islam. We are the ones who are confused. We are the
ones who wrongly assume that Islam is the religion of peace. Islam is not a
religion of peace. In its so-called pure form it can very well be
interpreted as a doctrine of hate. Terrorists are simply doing that and we
the intellectual apologists of Islam are justifying it.
We can stop this madness. Yes we can avert the disaster that is hovering
over our heads. Yes we can denounce the doctrines that promote hate. Yes we
can embrace the rest of humanity with love. Yes, we can become part of a
united world, members of one human family, flowers of one garden. We can
dump the claim of infallibility of our Book and the questionable legacy of
our Prophet.
Dear friends, there is no time
to waste. Let us put an end to this lie. Let us not fool ourselves. Islam is
not a religion of peace, of tolerance, of equality or of unity of humankind.
Let us read the Quran. Let us face the truth even if it is painful. As long
as we keep this lie alive, as long as we hide our head in the sands of
Arabia we are feeding terrorism. As long as you and I keep calling Quran the
unchangeable book of God, we cannot blame those who follow the teachings
therein. As long as we pay our Khums and Zakat our money goes to promote
Islamic expansionism and that means terrorism, Jihad and war.
Islam divides the world in two
parts: Darul Harb (land of war) and Darul Islam (land of Islam). Darul Harb
is the land of the infidels, Muslims are required to infiltrate those lands,
proselytize and procreate until their number increase and then start the war
and fight and kill the people and impose the religion of Islam on them and
convert that land into Darul Islam.
In all fairness we denounce
this betrayal. This is an abuse of trust. How can we make war in the
countries that have sheltered us? How can we kill those who have befriended
us? Yet willingly or unwillingly we have become pawns in this Islamic
Imperialism. If this sound to you abhorrent, we ask you how can you support
a doctrine that is so deceiving, so cunning and so ruthless? Let us see
what great Islamic scholars have to say in this respect.
Dr. M. Khan, the translator of Sahih Bukhari and the Quran into
English wrote: "Allah revealed in Sura Bara'at (Repentance, IX) the order to
discard (all) obligations (covenants, etc), and commanded the Muslims to
fight against all the Pagans as well as against the people of the Scriptures
(Jews and Christians) if they do not embrace Islam, till they pay the Jizia
(a tax levied on the Jews and Christians) with willing submission and feel
themselves subdued (as it is revealed in (9:29).
So the Muslims were not permitted to abandon "the fighting" against them
(Pagans, Jews and Christians) and to reconcile with them and to suspend
hostilities against them for an unlimited period while they are STRONG and
have the ability to fight against them. So at first "the fighting" was
forbidden, then it was permitted, and after that it was made obligatory
"[Introduction to English
translation of Sahih Bukhari, p.xxiv.]
Dr. Sobhy as-Saleh, a contemporary Islamic academician, quoted Imam
Suyuti the author of Itqan Fi 'Ulum al- Qur'an who wrote: ?The command to
fight the infidels was DELAYED UNTIL THE MUSLIMS BECOME STRONG, but when
they were weak they were commanded to endure and be patient. [ Sobhy
as_Saleh, Mabaheth Fi 'Ulum al- Qur'an, Dar al-'Ilm Lel-Malayeen, Beirut,
1983, p.269.]
Dr. Sobhy, in a footnote, commends the opinion of a scholar named
Zarkashi who said: "Allah the most high and wise revealed to Mohammad in his
weak condition what suited the situation, because of his mercy to him and
his followers. For if He gave them the command to fight while they were weak
it would have been embarrassing and most difficult, but when the most high
made Islam victorious He commanded him with what suited the situation, that
is asking the people of the Book to become Muslims or to pay the levied tax,
and the infidels to become Muslims or face death. These two options, to
fight or to have peace return according to the strength or the weakness of
the Muslims." [ibid p. 270]
Other Islamic scholars (Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi, Ga'far ar-Razi, Rabi'
Ibn 'Ons, 'Abil-'Aliyah, Abd ar-Rahman Ibn Zayd Ibn 'Aslam, etc.) agree
that the verse "Slay the idolaters wherever you find them" (9:5)
cancelled those few earlier verses that called for tolerance in Quran and
were revealed when Islam was weak.
Can you still say that Islam is the religion of peace?
Conclusion:
We know too well that it is not easy to denounce our faith as it means
denouncing a part of ourselves. We are a group of freethinkers and humanists
with Islamic roots. Discovering the truth and leaving the religion of our
fathers and forefathers was a painful experience. But after learning what
Islam stands for, we had no choice but to leave it. After becoming familiar
with the Quran, the choice became clear: it is either Islam or it is
humanity. If Islam is to thrive, humanity has to die. We decided to side
with humanity. We are still Muslims culturally but we no longer believe in
Islam as the true religion of God. We are humanists. We love humanity. We
endeavor for the unity of humankind. We work for equality between men and
women. We strive for secularization of Islamic countries, for democracy and
freedom of thoughts, beliefs and expressions We have decided not to live
anymore in self-deception but to embrace humanity, enter into the new
millennium hand in hand with people or other cultures and beliefs in amity
and in peace. We denounce the violence that is eulogized in Quran as holy
war (Jihad). We condemn killing in the name of God. We believe in sacredness
of human life, not in the inviolability of beliefs and religions. And we
invite you to join us and the rest of the humanity and be part of the family
of humankind with love, camaraderie and peace.