From Magna Carta to Sharia Law – Britain’s Decline

The Brussels Journal
From the desk of A. Millar on Mon, 2008-09-15

 Before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, few us knew anything about Islam, and no one had heard of sharia law. A couple of years ago even, it seemed unimaginable that Britain would adopt Islamic law.

We have sunk further and quicker than we thought possible. Today we learned that sharia courts (which have operated illegally in Britain until now) are being re-classed as tribunal hearings, making their judgments legally binding. According to the Daily Express, “new powers have been given to tribunals in London, Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester with the network’s headquarters in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Two more courts are being planned for Glasgow and Edinburgh.” According to the Daily Mail, this “[…] new network of courts […] agree[s] to be bound by traditional sharia law, and under the 1996 Arbitration Act the court's decisions can then be enforced by the county courts or the High Court.”

It is almost unbelievable that this should occur in a modern, democratic, Western country, and, moreover, under a government that claims to be liberal, and to care about the right of women and homosexuals among others. But, tracing the actions of the pro-Islamic Labour Party, and of modern liberalism more generally, it should have been predictable. Modern liberalism is not a force for human rights and equality (though it still uses these terms where they can be of use in breaking down British tradition); it is a selfish urge for freedom for one’s own self – others be damned. Multiculturalism frees the liberal from the demands of ‘culture.’ Mass immigration frees him from the need to know his history. Invoking the Inquisition of three hundred years ago frees him from having to confront the reality of Islamic fundamentalism. The establishment of sharia law no doubt frees him from holding any position whatsoever.

I have pointed out before, that the Labour government has colluded with extremist Muslims, even employing a Holocaust denier as an advisor on Muslim affairs. Ken Livingstone, the former Left-wing Mayor of London, has also openly embraced Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a man who believes that wives can be beaten into submission, that homosexuals should be executed, and pregnant Israeli women should be murdered. The UK’s Left-wing Respect Coalition Party asserts that opposition to radical Islam is “the new racism,” and this dangerous sentiment is now received wisdom among those closer to the center of the political spectrum. But Islam is neither a race nor ethnicity, but a religion, and one that has Asian, Black, and White followers. A 2006 UK government report entitled ‘Young Muslims and Extremism,’ notes that a significant number of White Britons were being drawn into Islamic terrorism, and we have seen a few example of White Muslim jihadis since then.

The sharia courts operating in Britain, will hear and pass legally binding judgment on cases involving divorce, financial disputes, and even domestic violence. But, it will not end there. According to the Daily Mail, sharia court officials have said, that they hope, “[…] to take over growing numbers of 'smaller' criminal cases in future,” and extremist clerics have already asserted their aims to establish sharia law for everyone in Britain. Only yesterday, the Sun newspaper showed a video of radical clerics announcing plans to take over Britain:

It may be by pure conversion that Britain will become an Islamic state. We may never need to conquer it from the outside.

This, among other similar pronouncements, was made at a rally billed as a debate on whether the West had “learned the lessons” of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Apparently, we have not.

Sharia law regards women as inferior to men, and non-Muslims as inferior to Muslims, and it demands the execution of homosexuals. Sharia courts in Britain have already tried cases in domestic violence, and have issued no punishments beyond requiring the abuser get mentoring from Muslim elders and to attend anger management classes. In my opinion, this is an entirely unacceptable judgment for those who inflict violence on women. According to the Daily Mail, again:

In one recent inheritance dispute in Nuneaton, a Muslim man's estate was split between three daughters and two sons with each son receiving twice as much as each daughter – in keeping with sharia law.

The establishment of sharia law in Britain, even on a minor scale, not only undermines British law and culture of equality ‘under the law,’ with cases judged by a jury of one’s peers, but is implicitly menacing to people of all non-Muslim religions, atheists, conservatives, women, homosexuals, and people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds.

Conservatives and Christians have criticized the so-called “gay lifestyle,” and liberals have always furiously denounced those conservatives and Christians for saying this. But liberals are those who have remained utterly silent when extremist Muslim clerics have called for the execution of homosexuals or the beating of women. The liberal establishment generally, and the Labour government in particular, has betrayed their professed belief in human rights and equality, and are ushering in extremism and intolerance. If their proposed new Bill of Rights for the UK goes ahead as planned, extremist Muslims may have yet another advantage, as it is proposed that religious minorities will be given additional rights, thus possibly reinforcing sharia.

Whatever their difference, the people of Britain must form a broad coalition to oppose such extremism. The homosexual man or woman, the Hindu, Sikh, and atheist, have as much to lose as the White British Christian.


Emphasis in the article above is mine. 

From Dean: Britain is in deep trouble and has been for sometime. For more read this, Sharia Law Invades Britain, by Phyllis Chessler.  And  if you haven't read Melanie Phillips Londonistan please consider doing so.

If you think it can't possibly happen here or to our neighbors in the north, THINK again. The creep of Islam and Shari'a law has already hit our shores. We have ourselves to thank for allowing this abomination to continue.

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A Secular Market Nightmare

By Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, May 09, 2008

The global sub-prime mortgage mess would have been “unthinkable in the Islamic capital markets sector,” Malaysian Islamic finance scholar Mohammed Mahmud Awan told Arab News on April 24; Islamic law, or “shari'a principles” would prohibit selling “a debt against a debt,” Awan said at a Bahrain university globalization conference. Trading trillions of dollars in debt without assets backing them caused the crisis, Awan claimed, adding that the “Islamic finance model...would have easily prevented the current economic crisis.”

Others disagree. All “Islamic finance today is interest based,” notes Rice University Islamic economics, finance and management chairman Mahmoud el-Gamal in the Financial Times. Islamic banking, merely “shari’a arbitrage,” is “first and foremost about religious identity,” el-Gamal says.

Indeed, Islamic finance debt instruments are no better than Western mortgage securities, and probably worse. Islamic sukuk al-ijara (shari’a bonds) are merely reverse-engineered structured finance instruments. Many grave secular risks accompany the growing foothold of shari'a finance in the West.

Despite claims of their superior safety by International Center for Education in Islamic Finance professor Awan, Islamic financial institutions manufacture “special purpose entities” (SPEs)---which coincidentally helped destroy Enron. Islamic financial engineers merely renamed the prickly SPEs “special-purpose vehicles (SPVs)”---legal devices to “restructure interest-bearing debt, collecting interest [as] rent or [a] price mark-up,” el-Gamal observes.

Here's how they work: sukuk bond issuers sell real estate or assets to SPVs, which then capitalize their investment by selling share certificates. In turn, the SPVs then lease back the assets they purchased to the sukuk issuers, collecting principal plus interest, which they pass on to sukuk investors as “rent.” When the sukuk matures, the SPVs sell or return the property to the sukuk issuers. Supposedly safe “alternative” Islamic finance instruments that claim to avoid usury, in short, use Western structured finance tools---“some of the most complex ever created.”

Repeat. Using Western securitization technology, shari’a finance banks now transform liquid, traceable cash flows from interest-bearing debt---that is, real interest-bearing assets---into illiquid assets.

“Junk” synonymous with high yields; continue reading under this topic here.

"Religious banks obviously cannot prevent financial crisis.Therefore, U.S. government and IRS regulators, bankers and investors should insist on keeping the best, safest and fairest secular markets in the world strictly unIslamic."

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The Silent Jihad Against The West

By Vincent Gioia, The Post Chronicle

Anyone that cares to learn about what is going on in the world is familiar with active jihad, the "holy war", conducted with terrorism and directed at the modern world in general and western civilization more specifically. But there is also another form of jihad that is part of the deliberate effort to have Islam replace all concepts of morality and the values held dear by the rest of us. The name of this silent "fifth column" effort is "Sharia Banking". Unfortunately, Sharia Banking is increasingly accepted by western banking institutions without any real understanding of what the Muslim goal is and what is at stake in the efforts by these institutions to attract more business, profits and money to bail them out of financial messes they brought upon themselves.

Islamic Sharia banking is coming to the United States and other western nations, thanks to global banks such as Citigroup, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Great Britain is now pledging to become the Islamic banking center of the world. Clearly the headlong rush by all global banks to enter the world of Islamic banking is well underway. Why do western banks seek to participate in Sharia banking; because it gives them a chance to enter the Islamic banking industry which has over $1.5 trillion available today and is growing at a steady and explosive rate of over 15% per year.

The implications for the west, and especially for the United States, are staggeringly destructive. Islamic banking working through global banks is doing for Islam what it could never do on its own: giving legitimacy to Sharia law and infiltrating it into the fabric of western society.

For those not familiar with Sharia Banking; it is a system which creates and sells services and products that are in strict accordance with Sharia law. Sometimes it is referred to in the Islamic culture as "Sharia finance". It dictates how the practices of banking, investment, bonds, loans, brokerage, etc, are to be conducted.

To insure compliance and to become "Sharia banking" compliant, banks must hire Sharia experts to review and approve each product and practice of the bank. This is known as "halal", which has been described as "the Muslim equivalent of kosher in Judaism." There is a shortage of such Sharia experts so there is competition among banks to find such experts to sit on their boards of directors. By having an "expert" involved in banking decisions, this provides the legitimacy to each banking decision because it is made at the director rather management level. However, most of these Sharia experts" are from the radical Wahhabi school of Islam in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, and they hold views diametrically opposed to the basic values of Western civilization.

The Center for Security has identified some of the Sharia experts sitting on the boards of U.S. financial institutions. The top twenty "advisors" include many with conflicts of interests and anti-trust issues since they sit on boards of many Islamic banks at the same time. The Center for Security identifies a couple of advisors with ties to money-laundering and terrorism:

Yousuf Quaradawi who is prominent in the Muslim Brotherhood, owns two banks himself and has issued statements in support of Palestinian attacks on Israeli citizens and has issued rulings supporting Hamas and Hezbollah jihad attacks against Israel.

Muhammad Yaqui Usami who is a radical cleric and Sharia court judge in Pakistan. He is on the board of organizations that train thousands of Taliban and jihad foot soldiers. But the most heinous thing is his complicity in the murder and suffering of countless innocent Muslims as apostates because they disagreed with his Islamic mandates.

Read the rest here.

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Kafir Dreams

By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Bill Warner, the director of the Center for the Study ofPolitical Islam (CSPI) and spokesman for PoliticalIslam.com.

FP: Bill Warner, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Warner: Thank you Jamie.

FP: I’d like to talk to you today about how many of the names, words and phrases we use about Islam are muddled and incorrect. Many non-Muslims create certain terms about Islam to try to make the world seem safer and to feel good about themselves. But many of these terms have no actual basis in Islamic theology or culture and have no real meaning in an Islamic context.

I think the best way to start this discussion is to begin with the term “moderate Muslim."

Warner: “Moderate Muslim” is a perfect example of the muddle and incorrect terminology that kafirs (unbelievers) use.

This term is intended to describe a Muslim who doesn’t seem dangerous or advocate violence. But “moderate Muslim” is a non-Muslim name, one that kafirs made up.

The doctrine of Islam does talk about the different kinds of Muslims. The measure of a Muslim is the Koran and the Sunna. Anyone who follows these teachings is a moderate Muslim, by definition.

Islamic doctrine defines what is moderate and not moderate. Since we are dealing with Islam, we need to know that the doctrine is dualistic. Islam can have two doctrines about any issue. This follows from the Koran. The early Koran, which was written in Mecca is generally religious. The Koran written in Medina is very political and includes jihad. The two Korans are not only very different, but they also contradict each other in major ways.

So we have the possibility of two kinds of moderate Muslims, since we have two doctrines. Osama bin Laden is a moderate Muslim, who follows the Koran of Medina, the Koran of jihad. Kafirs call him an extremist or radical Muslim. Actually, Osama obeys the Koran of Medina and the Sunna of Mohammed, so he is a moderate, pious Medinan Muslim.

The jihadists on September 11, 2001 were all moderate Medinan Muslims. They were not extremists or radicals.

The other kind of moderate Muslim follows the Koran of Mecca and he is more generally what kafirs mean when they say “moderate Muslim”. But how moderate is a Meccan Muslim? A moderate Muslim thinks that you are a kafir, but he isn’t violent, just antagonistic.

Read the rest of the interview here.

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What Islam Isn't

By Dr. Peter Hammond
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, April 21, 2008

The following is adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat:

Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.

Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called 'religious rights.'

When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to 'the reasonable' Muslim demands for their 'religious rights,' they also get the other components under the table. Here's how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

United States -- Muslim 1.0%
Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 1%-2%
Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
Norway -- Muslim 1.8%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Denmark -- Muslim 2%
Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

France -- Muslim 8%
Philippines -- Muslim 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad &Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris --car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).

Guyana -- Muslim 10%
India -- Muslim 13.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

Albania -- Muslim 70%
Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
Egypt -- Muslim 90%
Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
Iran -- Muslim 98%
Iraq -- Muslim 97%
Jordan -- Muslim 92%
Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
Palestine -- Muslim 99%
Syria -- Muslim 90%
Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace -- there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
Somalia -- Muslim 100%
Yemen -- Muslim 99.9%

Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.

"Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel." – Leon Uris, 'The Haj'


It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.

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Myth vs Fact-Part 298

Myth	Fact
Islam: Religion of peace.	Sahih BukhariVolume 5, Book 59, Number 600 Narrated Mujahid: I said to Ibn 'Umar, "I want to migrate to Sham." He said, "There is no migration, but Jihad (for Allah's Cause). Go and offer yourself for Jihad, and if you find an opportunity for Jihad (stay there) otherwise, come back." (In an other narration) Ibn 'Umar said, "There is no migration today or after Allah's Apostle." (and completed his statement as above.)
Tafsir

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Muslim Supremacy, Part II

Review Part I here.

Allah does not love unbelievers, but intensely hates them and his loathing of unbelievers can not help but affect Muslim attitudes toward non-believers. Muslim superiority is confirmed by the Qur’an rewarding them with the greatest of earthly comforts while people outside the brotherhood are condemned to suffer the most horrible of torments. One example is Sura 56. There are many more.

Allah deliberately puts obstacles in the path of unbelievers preventing them from accepting the “truth” (according to Allah). Islamic supremacy once again rears its ugly head; If We had so willed, We could certainly have brought every soul its true guidance (32:13). Instead Allah puts a veil over the hearts and ears of unbelievers; Verily We have set veils over their hearts lest they should understand this, and over their ears, deafness, if thou callest them to guidance, even then will they never accept guidance. (18:57) – See also 17:46 & 45:23.

To insure unbelievers are prevented from accepting belief in Allah, he uses chains and barriers for this purpose; Certainly the word has proved true of most of them, so they do not believe. Surely We have placed chains on their necks, and these reach up to their chins, so they have their heads raised aloft. And We have made before them a barrier and a barrier behind them, then We have covered them over so that they do not see. And it is alike to them whether you warn them or warn them not: they do not believe. (36:7-10) and fills the non-believers heart with doubt; No soul can believe, except by the will of Allah, and He will place doubt (or obscurity) on those who will not understand (10:100)

The Qur’an goes on to state that Allah causes unbelievers to commit the sin that he will later punish them for. Not knowing the “truth” condemns the non-believer to Hell alone so the previous statement is an insurance that non-believers are doomed. An arrogant Allah; And if Allah please He would certainly make you a single nation, but He causes to err whom He pleases and guides whom He pleases; and most certainly you will be questioned as to what you did (16:93)

Does Allah love you? NO, unless you are a believer and accepted in the brotherhood, apparently. …and whomsoever Allah causes to err, you shall not find a way for him. (4:143);

…. and Allah sendeth him astray purposely, and sealeth up his hearing and his heart, and setteth on his sight a covering? Then who will lead him after Allah (hath condemned him)? Will ye not then heed? (45:23).

Allah sends demons ( his angels perhaps?) to cause unbelievers to commit further bad deeds so that he can later hold that against them; See thou not that We have set the Evil Ones on against the unbelievers, to incite them with fury? (19:83).

Allah deceives unbelievers into believing they are dooing good deeds, when, in fact they are not ( according to Allah ). A little more insurance to your sentence of an eternity in the torments of Hell; As to those who do not believe in the hereafter, We have surely made their deeds fair-seeming to them, but they blindly wander on. (27:4) See also 39:23, 6:39, 35:8, 13:27 & 14:4).

Isn’t he a wonderful benevolent god? Allah is a deciever, who will even go so far as to use Satan to help him fool unbelievers into thinking they are doing good; On the contrary their hearts became hardened, and Satan made their (sinful) acts seem alluring to them. (6:43). Perhaps Allah doesn’t have to go far to find Satan and only has to look at himself for that.

Allah will be gloating at the joke he played on non-believers when they claim to have done what they thought was right. He will gladly send you to Hell despite your protests; Then would they offer submission (with the pretence), "We did no evil (knowingly)." (The angels will reply), "Nay, but verily Allah knows all that ye did; "So enter the gates of Hell, to dwell therein. (16:28-29)

Christians will surely understand the distinction between Allah and the God of Abraham.

John 3:16; For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.

Allah gives us Muhammad and hates non-Muslims to the point that he will prevent them from knowing the “truth”, causes them to err, and then condemns them to eternal torture for their unbelief and misdeeds. No faithful Muslim can ever love a non-believer even if it is a family member; Thou wilt not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day, loving those who resist Allah and His Messenger, even though they were their fathers or their sons, or their brothers, or their kindred. (58:22)

Muslims are warned nine times in the Qur’an not to befriend unbelievers. Doing so could put the Muslim in the same class as unbelievers.

O ye who believe! Take not for friends unbelievers rather than believers: Do ye wish to offer Allah an open proof against yourselves? (4:144)

O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk. (5:51)

Muhammad states unbelievers have only evil intentions for Muslims. They harbor corruption even though they appear harmless and friendly; O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse (3:118)

The Misbeliever is a helper (of Evil), against his own Lord! (25:55)

Muslims must fight non-Muslims; O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty. (9:123) and they will spend eternity mocking the suffering of non-Muslims; And the dwellers of the garden will call out to the inmates of the fire: Surely we have found what our Lord promised us to be true; have you too found what your Lord promised to be true? They will say: Yes. Then a crier will cry out among them that the curse of Allah is on the unjust. (7:44) – Muhammad personally mocked his dead enemies following the Battle of Badr (Ibn Ishaq 454)

Ah yes so much for peace and love from Muslims.

The so called “religion of peace” presents the curse of Allah on other religions, including Buddhists in Thailand, Jews in Israel, Christians in the Indonesia, Hindus in India.

Islam is at war with every other religion on earth yet the other religions are not at war with each other. Why is that?

The Qur’an is specific in its condemnation of other religions and the hatred Allah has for their people.Muslims are prone to violent protest with the slightest insult to Islam or Muhammad but the Qur’an has no problem with insulting and condemning other religions.

Here are a few examples; The Jews call Ezra a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! (9:30) (See also Bukhari 8:427), one of the last things Muhammad ever said on his deathbed was "May Allah curse the Jews and Christians.”)

The Qur’an is specific about Christians, Jews, Polytheists (Hindus) and atheists:

Christians are blasphemers (5:17, 5:73) who have invented a lie about Allah (10:68-69). Inventing a lie about Allah is the worst of sins (7:37, 29:68) and for this reason Christians are condemned to Hell (10:70). Although one (early Medinan) verse seems to say that righteous Christians will go to heaven, this is abrogated by later verses that make it very clear that Christians must cease being Christian (ie. reject the Trinity) or suffer eternal torment for their beliefs (5:72-73).

Jews are also cursed by Allah (5:13), in one of His final pronouncements. The Qur’an goes on to assure Muslims that Jews are wicked (4:160-162) – so wicked, in fact, that they have somhow managed to do the impossible (18:27) and alter the word of Allah (2:75). Jews are “fond of lies” and “devour the forbidden” (5:42).

The Qur’an assures believers that Jews and Christians have “diseased hearts” (5:52). Allah even takes credit for the enmity between then (5:14). Only Jews and Christians who submit to Islamic subjugation and pay the Jizya are protected in this world (9:29 & Ibn Ishaq 956).

Hindus are polytheists. Although Muhammad didn’t know any Hindus (and neither did Allah, apparently) the Qur’an still manages to lay the groundwork for the 1000 year ethnic cleansing campaign against the Hindu people that is estimated to have taken tens of millions of innocent lives. In Islam polytheists are worse than all other religion. Those who join idols (14:30) or false gods (11:14) to Allah also invent a lie about Him (29:17) and will burn in Hell. Even believing in other along with Allah is an unforgivable crime (4:48, 40:12).

Atheists believe in no god, which is even worse than believing in the wrong one (Muhammad and his successors had atheists put to death - Bukhari 84:57) . Merely questioning the existence of Allah is a testament to one’s arrogance and impiety (25:21). But the arrogance of Muslims is encouraged in the Qur’an. Muhammad always answered probing questions merely by telling the inquiring party that they would go to Hell if they didn’t believe in him (36:49-64).

Muslim apostates become “perverted transgressors” (3:82) as well as anyone who denies Allah (40:63).

There is no such thing as freedom of conscience in Islam and the penalty for apostasy is death according to Muhammad (Bukhari 52:260).

Contemporary Muslims do not desire debate, rather they want dialogue, meaning they speak while you listen. The Qur’an speaks of jihad instead: Listen not to the unbelievers, but strive (Jihad) against them with the utmost strenuousness. (25:52)

Why would Muslims desire to hear anything a non-Muslim has to say since Allah has already condemned them to Hell? As for the Disbelievers, Whether thou warn them or thou warn them not it is all one for them; they believe not. Allah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts, and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be an awful doom (2:6)

An obvious question would be why would Allah even create infidels (particularly Jews and Christians) if their ultimate destination is Hell? Of course Muhammad has an answer for that (Sahih Muslim 6666). He has an answer for everything if you believe what he says.

Allah fights against the unbelievers (9:30), so why should Muslims not fight in his cause (4:76)?
Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies and others besides, whom ye may not know (8:60)

Strive hard (Jihad) against the Unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be firm against them. Their abode is Hell,- an evil refuge (indeed). (66:9, See also 9:73)

Unbelievers should be punished in this life as Muslims expect great rewards in the afterlife as well as this life (4:134), He whom Allah sendeth astray, for him there is no guide. For them is a penalty in the life of this world, but harder, truly, is the penalty of the Hereafter… (13:33:34)

All beings in heaven and on earth shall bow to Allah, whether willingly or by force; And unto Allah falleth prostrate whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly (13:15)

Those who resist Allah and His Messenger will be among those most humiliated. (58:20 - The context for this verse is the eviction of the Jewish Medinan tribes and the confiscation of their wealth, land, and children by Muhammad).

Non- Muslims should be fought until no other religion exists except Islam; And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah… (8:39 – “Persecution” in this context means resistance to Islam – defined in the prior verse as an unwillingness to believe (see verse 38).

This passage was “revealed” following a battle that Muhammad deliberately provoked. Verse 2:193 essentially says that same thing and was also “revealed” at a time when the Muslims were not under physical attack).

Unbelievers have no rights and must be pressured by Muslims (13:41 - See also 21:44) and (33:27, See also Bukhari 53:392) and are granted authority and power over other people 24:55.

Muslims are given instructions in how to deal with infidels by Allah; Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them." This because they contended against Allah and His Messenger: If any contend against Allah and His Messenger, Allah is strict in punishment. (8:12-13)

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Muslim Supremacy, Part I

Recall the events in Beslan, Russia when jihadists slaughtered 186 children and 148 other non-Muslims? Widely reported on many news channels and in newspapers, the events on the morning of September 3, 2004, shocked and horrified many of us. Few Muslims actually celebrated the murder of innocent children but fewer still actually denounced the event. There was little passion from the Muslim community over the almost routine murder of innocents in the name of Allah.

By contrast, Westerners posting cartoons of Muhammad or desecrating the Qur’an brings out the passion exhibited by deadly protests, arson, riots and issuing fatwas to slay the unbelievers. Killing non-believers in the name Allah simply produces yawns and indifference in this community.

Following the jihadist attack of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, there have been 10, 851 deadly terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Islam throughout the world. And yet we still do not see outrage…passionate outrage on the part of Muslims. But merely mention Abu Ghraib or the Quatanamo detainees and the recent video from Geert Wilders, Fitna, then you see outrage in the Muslim community.

Many Westerners puzzle over this obvious lack of moral perspective, in particular are those who attempt to reconcile the politically-correct assumption that Islam is like other religions and is peaceful. Many even believe that God and Allah are the same, going so far as to say Islam and Judeo-Christian values are based on the same principals, teaching universal love and friendship.

Many of our own political leaders believe Islam is truly a religion of peace. This article from Front Page Magazine, “Islamic Supremacy at The DNC” shows just how naïve they are. Please note that this article displays the never ending politically-correctness of the DNC, we should also understand that many in the RNC also embrace this notion.

The dark reality beneath the rosy assurances of Muslim apologists that Islam is all about peace and tolerance lies the truth that Islam exhorts violence, hate, and deeply rooted indifference.
Simply stated Islam teaches hate, and requires believers to kill in the name of Allah. (Reference: Verses of Violence and from Answering Islam, “Is Islam a Peace Loving Religion.”

The Qur’an displays the distinctions between believers and non-believers, Muslims versus non-Muslims, heaping praise upon the former while condemning the latter. It is a far stretch to believe that Islam teaches universal love and peace based upon Muhammads own words and those written in the Qur’an. Islam teaches the inferiority of non-believers, comparing them to vile animals showing Allahs malicious pleasure of oppression and hatred towards them.

Allahs plan for non-believers is eternal torture in Hell. Clearly Muslims are encouraged, even commanded to treat non-Muslims harshly based upon the teachings in the Qur’an and words of their prophet Muhammad.

Judeo-Christian values command us to love one another and treat each other with respect. We are taught that God is love and that anybody coming to Him seeking the truth of His word will have that door opened to him. Believing in Christ is prerequisite on our journey to salvation and eternal life. A Christian is taught humility and an abiding tolerance for others especially those who do not share Christian values.

A look into the Qur’an and Islam shows a pattern of violence and aggressive disregard towards non-Muslims. This pattern is persistent throughout Islams dark history.

Muslim superiority and arrogance reflect the message of the Qur’an and is characterized by oppression and discrimination of all non-believers. Within larger societies in our modern world, Muslim minorities are distinguished by peevish impatience, dissonance and armed rebellion. Few Muslims are disturbed by this obvious double standard.

Depending on the situation and/or issue, Islam plays the victim card or victimizes others. Islam is a supremacist ideology imposing subjugation on non-believers making them subordinate to Muslims.

Any who resist Islamic rule will be forced to acknowledge their inferior status by whatever means necessary until they submit and convert or pay a poll tax, jizyah;

Jizyah is the tax imposed upon Non-Muslims(Dhimmis) living under Muslim rule according to the Qur’an and hadith: Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold forbidden that which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. Qu’ran 9:29

Imagine Christians attempting to impose a tax on all non-Christians. Ridiculous! There is no other religion on earth that draws such sharp distinction between its own followers(believers) and non-believers, nor is there one that dehumanizes and condemns those who choose not to follow Islams arrogant doctrinal system.

Muslim apologists are correct in saying that Islam teaches love and kindness, but miserably fail to add that this only applies to Muslims. Any who fall outside the Muslim community are persecuted and condemned for their non-belief.

Muslim supremacists loath and disregard non-believers. The Qur’an commands the superiority of Islam and mandates the use of violence to establish its doctrine. This is no “misunderstanding” or “hijacking”of Islam by radicals. It is the dogma of their belief at the direction of Muhammad himself who led military campaigns to subjugate other tribes and religions at the point of a sword, setting in motion highly aggressive campaigns against the five other major world religions mere decades after his death.

Muslims may be punished by death for the murder of a fellow Muslim (Bukhari 83:17) but no Muslim can be put to death for murdering a non-Muslim (Bukhari 83:50).

The Qur’an's so called “Law of Equality” assigns human value and rights based on gender, religion, and status. It is the exact opposite of equality as we know it in the Western liberal tradition.

Muslim apologists are always ready to dismiss the violent rhetoric of the Qur’an with “creative” interpretations, torturous and nauseating explanations including outright denial, but the words from their own book condemns their deception for what it is, a violent hate filled book.

Ask the victims of Islams unholy practice and treatment of non-believers and you get the picture.

The Qur’an commands Muslims to be merciful among themselves but hard against the disbelievers (48:29).

Allah wishes triumph over non-believers; And never will Allah grant to the unbelievers a way to triumph over believers [Pickthall – “any way of success”] (4:141)

Non-believers must be subjugated under Islamic rule; Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. (9:29)

Perhaps now you understand why Muslims often behave arrogantly toward non-believers.

Muslims often refer to non-believers as the vilest of animals, even going so far as to claim Jews and Christians are the “sons of apes and pigs”, verse 5:60. Verse 2:65 continues the theme.
Those who reject (Truth), among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, will be in Hell-Fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are the worst of creatures. (98:6) Surely the vilest of animals in Allah's sight are those who disbelieve, then they would not believe. (8:55)

According to verse 7:176 unbelievers are "panting dogs" with regard to their idiocy and worthlessness.
A hadith says that Muhammad believed rats to be "mutated Jews" (Bukhari 54:524, also confirmed by Sahih Muslim 7135 and 7136).

Verses 46:29-35 say that unbelieving men are worse than demons who believe in Muhammad.
Christianity teaches that God loves all men but hates sin. This is not found any place in the Qur’an, in fact it clearly states that Allah does NOT love those who disbelieve in him.
For He loves not those who reject Faith (30:45)

According to Muhammad Allah loves only those who obey him: "Obey Allah and His Messenger": But if they turn back, Allah loveth not those who reject Faith. (3:32)
Surely Allah does not love any one who is unfaithful, ungrateful. (22:38)

In verses 11:118-199 Allah does NOT bestow mercy on everyone, choosing not to guide some; And Allah's is the direction of the way, and some (roads) go not straight. And had He willed He would have led you all aright. (16:9)

If Allah does not like you then you are destined for the most terrible eternal torment in Hell; Those who reject our Signs, We shall soon cast into the Fire: as often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise. (4:56)

Allah hates non-believers so much he will cause them to commit sin and prevent them from believing in him, relegating their destiny to eternal fire and damnation. There are over 400 verses in the Qur’an describing the torment he has prepared for non-believers; And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers (3:85)

Allah does not love unbelievers who are but fuel for the fires of Hell; (As for) those who disbelieve, surely neither their wealth nor their children shall avail them in the least against Allah, and these it is who are the fuel of the fire (3:10)

Allahs “angels” will torment unbelievers on his command; “O ye who believe! Ward off from yourselves and your families a Fire whereof the fuel is men and stones, over which are set angels strong, severe, who resist not Allah in that which He commandeth them, but do that which they are commanded.” (66:6)

No good deed by non-believers is rewarded by Allah; The parable of those who reject their Lord is that their works are as ashes, on which the wind blows furiously on a tempestuous day: No power have they over aught that they have earned (14:18)

Shall we tell you of those who lose most in respect of their deeds? Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life, while they thought that they were acquiring good by their works? They are those who deny the Signs of their Lord and the fact of their having to meet Him (in the Hereafter): vain will be their works, nor shall We, on the Day of Judgment, give them any weight. That is their reward, Hell, because they rejected Faith, and took My Signs and My Messengers by way of jest. (18:103-106)

If you do not believe Muhammads claim as a prophet you are going to Hell; Surely those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers and (those who) desire to make a distinction between Allah and His messengers and say: ‘We believe in some and disbelieve in others’, and desire to take a course between (this and) that. These it is that are truly unbelievers, and We have prepared for the unbelievers a disgraceful chastisement. And those who believe in Allah and His messengers and do not make a distinction between any of them-- Allah will grant them their rewards (4:150-152)

Christianity teaches punishment for sin and wickedness but there is relatively little said about Hell, the emphasis being on personal and eternal suffering for selfish, cruel deeds. Every 12th verse of the Qur’an teaches of Hell vividly describing Allahs wrath on non-believers. Not believing in Muhammads personal claims about himself condemns unbelievers to Hell.

But as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads, Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted; And for them are hooked rods of iron Whenever, in their anguish, they would go forth from thence they are driven back therein and (it is said unto them): Taste the doom of burning. (22:19-22)

End of part 1.

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Islam and Christianity:Looking at the Numbers

By Bill Muehlenberg.

There were two recent news items which had to do with Islam. The first seemed to indicate that Islam is in the ascendency, while the second gave a slightly different perspective.

The first story involved a statement from the Vatican which said that for the first time, Muslims now outnumber Catholics. Muslims make up 19.2 per cent of the world’s population, compared to Catholics who make up 17.2 per cent. This is mainly due to demographics: Muslims tend to still have large families, while Catholics are having much smaller families. Of course if all Christians are considered together, they make up 33 percent of the world’s population, or about 2 billion people. By contrast, there are around 1.3 billion Muslims in the world today.

The second story involved the baptism of former Muslim Magdi Allam by the Pope on Easter Sunday. This was a noted conversion which made world headlines. Allam, an Italian journalist and author, left Islam, renouncing it as a religion of violence. He said, “Upon my first Easter as a Christian I have not only discovered Jesus, but I have discovered for the first time the true and only God”.

But there is a third story about Islam that most of the mainstream media is not reporting, and that is a very significant story indeed. It involves not just the conversion of one Muslim, like Allam, but many, indeed millions. The truth is, there has recently been a tsunami of Muslim converts to Christianity.

In a recent article Andrew Walden offers some amazing statistics: “In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every day, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity.” These are some remarkable figures indeed.

As already mentioned, the rise in numbers in Islam is mainly due to demographics, not conversions. “This is more than the normal flow between two large religious communities. Islam can point to little in the way of recent conversions. Its claim to be the world’s fastest-growing religion stems mostly from the high birth rate in Islamic countries, whose infant mortality rates have been cut by the introduction of Western medicine. Christian growth is based on adult conversion. As leading Christian evangelist Wolfgang Simpson writes, ‘More Muslims have come to Christ in the last two decades than in all of history’.”

Walden looks at a number of Muslim countries where significant conversion rates to Christianity are occurring. He also looks at Western nations where Muslims are leaving their faith: “Islam is also losing adherents in areas where Islamist harassment is heavy on the streets. The London Times estimates 15% of Muslims living in Western Europe have left Islam - 200,000 in the UK alone. Those who leave often face harassment, threats, and attack.”

In another recent article Joel Rosenberg also picks up on this issue, with what he calls the “untold story” of Muslims leaving the faith in droves. He says, “The God of the Bible is moving powerfully in the Middle East to draw men, women and children to His heart and adopt them into His family in record numbers. More Muslims have come to faith in Jesus Christ over the last thirty years - and specifically over the last seven to ten years - than at any other time in human history. There is a revival going on among the ancient Catholic, Coptic, and Chaldean churches. Today, the Church is being truly resurrected in the lands of its birth.”

He examines a number of Middle Eastern nations, and presents some encouraging figures. Consider some cases: “In Afghanistan , for example, there were only 17 known evangelical Christians in the country before al-Qaeda attacked the United States . Today, there are well over 10,000 Afghan followers of Christ and the number is growing steadily.”

In Uzbekistan there were no known Muslim converts to Christ in 1990, but now there are more than 30,000. In Egypt more “than 1 million Egyptians have trusted Christ over the past decade or so, report Egyptian church leaders. The Egyptian Bible Society told me they used to sell about 3,000 copies of the Jesus film a year in the early 1990s. But in 2005 they sold 600,000 copies, plus 750,000 copies of the Bible on tape (in Arabic) and about a half million copies of the Arabic New Testament.”

In Sudan, despite “a ferocious civil war, genocide and widespread religious persecution, particularly in the Darfur region - or perhaps because of such tragedies - church leaders there tell me that more than 1 million Sudanese have made decisions to follow Jesus Christ just since 2001. Since the early 1990s, more than 5 million Sudanese have become followers of Jesus. Seminary classes to train desperately-needed new pastors are held in mountain caves. Hundreds of churches have been planted, and thousands of small group Bible studies are being held in secret throughout the country.”

In Iran in”1979 when the Ayatollah Khomeini led the Islamic Revolution, there were only about 500 known Muslim converts to Christianity. Today, interviews with two dozen Iranian pastors and church leaders reveals that there are well over 1 million Shia Muslim converts to Christianity.”

How is this all happening? “One of the most dramatic developments is that many Muslims throughout the Middle East and even in the United States are seeing dreams and visions of Jesus. They are coming into churches explaining that they have already converted and now need a Bible and guidance on how to follow Jesus. This is in fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. The Hebrew Prophet Joel told us that ‘in the last days, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days….And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.’ (Joel 2:28-32)”

Concludes Rosenberg, “Is life easy for these Muslim converts? By no means. They face ostracism from their families. They face persecution from their communities. They face being fired by their employers. They face imprisonment by their governments. They face torture and even death at the hands of Muslim extremists. But they are coming to Christ anyway. They are becoming convinced that Jesus is, in fact, the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and that no one comes to the Father in heaven except through faith in Jesus’ death on the cross and powerful resurrection from the dead.”

Muslims may be gaining numbers mainly because of larger families, but Christians are growing in number because of an actual encounter with the living Saviour who once was dead but now lives. These are exciting times, and in the midst of so much gloom and doom, we need to be aware of such good news stories. God is at work and is doing powerful things in the Muslim world. We need to keep praying, believing and acting to see more of this take place.

Muslims Leaving Islam in Droves.

The Big Untold Story in the Middle East.

Once again the MSM has dropped the ball if they could even find it in the first place. Perhaps we should rename them MDM or Mainstream Disinformation Media or No News From The Left.

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Submit To Islam?

Specially formatted for all you lovers of "cut and paste.

"Rage Boy" in all his wonderment. The question remains however, is he getting his cut? When do you reckon he will get his 72 virgins? Hope it's soon, he certainly looks like he could use a little TLC.........
Dude, I gotta get me one of them beards. Do you think your new girlfriends will enjoy finding last weeks halal or camel cakes or pizza in that mess?

The Allah of Islam comes to the west;

Hate Ideology Invades American Mosques;

Hate At The Local Mosque;

Study: 3 in 4 U.S. mosques preach anti-West extremism;

The Mullahs are the Generals, and the Mosques are the Military Headquarters and Propaganda Ministries. -James Demeo

By Ibn Misr

But the allah of islam tells muslims in Koran 3:110, “Ye are the best of Peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book had Faith, it were best for them: among them are some who have Faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors.”
This too is conditional: you should have faith, believe in allah, emulate mohammad, and kill the perverted transgressors.

According to the Tafsir (interpretation) of that verse, muslims are the best, because contrary to the perverted, and transgressors people of the Book (Jews and Christians), they believed in mohammad and islam.

Allah commanded muslims to treat others as inferiors, filth, unclean Kafers, and to show them harshness. That’s what they did to all the Christian countries they conquered (but defensively, remember, islam only defends itself). Look at the condition of the Christian natives (you can even see it on videos that the Egyptian government don’t want you to see, here), and you’ll agree with me that muslims are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong.

The allah of islam commanded muslims to be the best deceivers, Taqquiya 3:28, and they are.

The allah of islam commanded muslims to be killers, “to slaughter the unbelievers wherever you find them.” And to kill and be killed. They are the best in that, with no competition.

The allah of islam commanded his followers to curse in every prayer every non muslim, especially Christians and Jews, and they are the most devout, unmatched and best in that regard.

The allah of islam commanded his followers to steal (the jeziah) and rob the unbelievers (kafers). Not only are they the best to fulfill that, but actually that’s what sustained them for 1400 years, it’s their bread and butter. This particular command is very dear to their hearts, to emulate their prophet’s lifetime carrier, robbing caravans, Jews and Christians.

The allah of islam commanded his followers to forbid anyone rejecting him, and to slaughter any one that desert islam, that's what they've been doing for the last 1426 years.

The allah of islam commanded them to “instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them”, they're doing it with the greatest religious zeal in a way unmatched even by savage and vicious animals. They’re the best neck, and finger-tips cutters all over the world.

The allah of islam commanded them to force islam on people by the sword and terror till all people submit and feel themselves subdued, Mohamed his prophet of doom started this legacy, and it’s still alive and well, with his followers keeping close to a billion human beings in bondage to that blood thirsty allah. They’re the best terrorists evolved for mankind to enslave people.

The allah of islam commanded them to attack and conquer peaceful countries, destroy their civilizations, kill their men, abduct and rape their women, molest their children before selling them as slaves, they excelled in doing exactly this all along their history and still doing it and proud of it. The statistics of western countries speaks for themselves, Muslims are the best rapists.

The allah of islam forbids them to greet Christians and Jews, except to deceive them by smiling in their faces, while rage and hatred is filling their hearts.

The allah of islam commanded them to beat women, and they're the best and only people to perform this ritual as a religious duty, and proud of it.

The allah of islam commanded them to molest (marry) little baby girls, emulating their most honorable prophet of mercy. No one is doing it better than them. They’re the best.

Ok so I’m convinced, Muslims are the best if they follow Isalm and revere Mohammad. Where do I sign up?

Lovely, wonderful guides for you new converts; “The Verses of Violence”.
Getting to know your new "religion"; Islam Undressed.

“There will always be a large pool of feel-good, do-nothing appeasers who ignorantly continue to claim that Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion. Because some effort is required to move from a state of ignorance and oblivion to a state of knowledge and awareness, sadly there will ever be many such nitwits amongst us. In addition, there are always some who can not draw a correct inference no matter how plainly the facts are laid out before them. You can walk that horse carefully and gingerly to water, but you can not make the animal drink, even to preserve its own life.” Vernon Richards.

Things that make ya go hmmmmm.......

Islam in Fast Demise, by the "Madman" Ali Sina Hmmmmmm imagine that.

“Lan astaslem.”

I will not submit. I will not surrender.

Bouse tizi Muhammad.

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God's Love Toward a Radical Muslim

by Mohd. Saleem

I am no more than an ordinary man who has been spending life as if knowing nothing. I was born in a wealthy Muslim family in Pakistan, but when I was a few months old, I was carried to Saudi Arabia by my father. When I was about six, my mom passed away. As I grew older I had so many questions like almost everyone experiences at some point in life. Why am I here? Where did I come from? Is there really a God and if so where is He? Why doesn't He talk?

I have been studying the Quran since I was around 12. Later I also started reading other kinds of Islamic books like the Life of Prophet Mohammad, Hadiths, etc. I have been Wahabi or Ahlae Hadiths like most of the Saudi Muslims are. (Osama Bin Laden is also one of them.) They are very extreme and I have been one also.

I had been taught that Islam is the only way to Heaven. I was told, "If you do this, you'll get so and so blessings in Heaven," and "if you do that, you'll get so and so blessings in Heaven." I became an extremist for the religion Islam.

Well, I believed what I was doing was right, and if it is right, then there is no risk in digging. I had read about the prophets in the Quran and Hadiths, but Jesus Christ was the only personality that really touched me more than any others. I found out that Christians believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I very much wondered why they believe that. I started searching for Jesus Christ more and more. I had a Christian friend who used to study with me. I asked him one day if I could have his Bible. He was surprised and said "Sorry, you cannot have it." I assured him no one would ever know, "It will remain between me and you." But my father came to know that I read the Bible and that it was in our home. He was very angry and he knew I have only one Christian friend. So he took me with my uncle to this friend's home and warned them saying, "If you do this again and try to preach Christianity to a Muslim child, you'll have to suffer a lot and you know it. We will complain about it to Islamic Police (Mutawa) and you could be exiled from this country forever." I was a bit worried. I shouldn't have done this to my friend's family.

My father warned me, and so did my uncle, to pray five times a day as I used to pray, and one time in the mosque. I kept going, and many times when there was no one in the mosque I used to cry and ask God to show me, "who is this Jesus and who are you?" Often while the Imam (leader) of the prayer was praying in Arabic (as it's compulsory to pray in Arabic only), I did not give much attention to what he was saying. One day I was praying in the Mosque, during Zuhar's prayer (noon prayer). I wasn't thinking of Jesus Christ that time. I saw an image of a handsome person on the floor where we bow our heads in prayer. I was shocked. I never saw such a thing before. It was kind of an image on water. I heard in myself that this is Jesus Christ. This is the Lord!

Continue reading here.



A Muslim’s Way Out of Islam
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com Monday, March 03, 2008

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Hossain Salahuddin, a poet, essayist and an ex-Muslim who is the author of several books. He is the editor of the magazine Maverick, which promotes literature, freethinking and rationalism.

Read the interview here.

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The Myths of Islam, Part 3

Islam is Completely Incompatible with Terrorism

The Myth:
Islam is completely incompatible with acts of terrorism. It is against Islam to kill innocent people.



The Truth:
Even though many Muslims earnestly believe that their religion prohibits the killing of innocent people by acts of terrorism, the truth is certainly more complicated. This is why the Jihadis and their detractors are both able to point fingers at the other, while confidently insisting that they are the true Muslims.


In fact, the definition of an “innocent person” is far more ambiguous in Islam than Muslim apologists will lead others to believe. So, also, is the definition of terrorism.


First, consider that anyone who rejects Muhammad is not considered to be innocent under Islamic law. The most protected and respected of all non-Muslims are the dhimma, the “people of the book.” These would specifically be Jews and Christians who agree to Islamic rule and pay the jizya (tribute to Muslims). Yet, the word “dhimmi” comes from the Arabic root meaning “guilt” or "blame." ["...the dhimmi parent and sister words mean both 'to blame' as well as safeguards that can be extended to protect the blameworthy" Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land]


So, if even the dhimma have a measure of guilt attached to their status (by virtue of having rejected Allah’s full truth), then how can non-Muslims who oppose Islamic rule or refuse to pay the jizya be considered “innocent?”


Within the Islamic community itself there is a category of Muslims who are also said to bear guilt – greater even than the average non-believer. These are the hypocrites, or “Munafiqin,” whom Muhammad referred to in the most derogatory terms. A hypocrite is considered to be a Muslim in name only. They are distinguished either by an unwillingness to wage holy war or by an intention to corrupt the community of believers.


When Muslims kill Muslims in the name of Allah (which occurs quite frequently), they usually do so believing that their victims are Munafiqin or kafir (unbelievers). This is actually a part of Islamic Law known as takfir, in which Muslims are declared apostates and then executed. (A true Muslim would go to paradise anyway, in which case he or she could hardly be expected to nurse a grudge amidst the orgy of sex and wine).


In addition to the murky definition of innocence, there is also the problem of distinguishing terrorism from holy war. Islamic terrorists never refer to themselves as terrorists, but always as holy warriors (Mujahideen, Shahid, or Fedayeen). They consider their acts to be a form of Jihad.

Holy war is something that Muhammad commanded in the Qur’an and Hadith. In Sura 9:29, he establishes the principle that unbelievers should be fought until they either convert to Islam or accept a state of humiliation under Islamic subjugation. This is confirmed in the Hadith by both Sahih Muslim and Bukhari.


In many places, the prophet of Islam says that Jihad is the ideal path for a Muslim, and that believers should “fight in the way of Allah.” There are dozens of open-ended passages in the Qur’an that exhort killing and fighting – far more than ones of peace and tolerance. It is somewhat naïve to think that their inclusion in this "eternal discourse between God and Man" was of historical value only and not intended to be relevant to present-day believers, particularly when there is little to nothing within the text that distinguishes them in such fashion.


Combine the Qur’anic exhortation to holy war with the ambiguity of innocence, and a monumental problem develops that cannot be covered over by mere semantics. Not only is there a deep tolerance for violence in Islam, but also a sharp disagreement and lack of clarity over the conditions that justify this violence... and just whom the targets may be.


Even many Muslims who claim to be against terrorism still support the “insurgency” in Iraq, for example, and often entertain the allegation that there is a broader “war against Islam.” Although the Americans in Iraq are trying to protect innocent life and help the country rebuild, Muslims around the world and in the West believe that it is legitimate for Sunnis to try and kill them.
Enjoying the sanction of holy war, the Mujahid reasons that it is permissible to attack fellow Iraqis – the ones helping the Americans… even if they are part of a democratically-elected Iraqi government. These non-combatants and combatants alike are believed to be the “Munafiqin” assisting the enemy “Crusaders.”


Although we use Iraq as an example here, this is the same rationale that is ultimately behind all Islamic terror, from the Philippines to Thailand. Wherever the religion of Islam is a minority, there are always radicals who believe that violence is justified in bringing it to dominance - just as Muhammad taught by example in places like Mecca and the land of al-Harith.


And what of the so-called “innocents” who suffer from the bombings and shootings? Even in Muhammad’s time they were unavoidable. The much-touted hadith in which Muhammad forbade the killing of women also indicates that there were such casualties in his conflicts.


If there is any doubt that he believed that the forbidden is sometimes necessary, it should be put to rest by an incident in which Muhammad's men warned him that a planned night raid against an enemy camp would mean that women and children would be killed. He merely replied “they are of them,” meaning the men.


This is the slippery slope that is opened by the sanction of holy war. What starts out as the perception of a noble cause of self-defense against a supposed threat gradually devolves into a "let Allah sort them out" campaign through a series of logical steps that are ultimately justified by the sublime goal of Islamic rule.


Islam is not intended to co-exist as an equal with other religions. It is to be the dominant religion, with Sharia as the supreme law. Islamic rule is to be extended to the ends of the earth, and resistance is to be dealt with by any means necessary.

Apologists in the West often shrug off the Qur'an's many verses of violence by saying that they are only relevant in a “time of war.”

To this, Islamic terrorists would agree. They are at war.

Islam is a Democracy


The Myth:
Islam is compatible with democratic principles. The religion itself is a democracy.


The Truth:
A democracy is a system in which all people are judged as equals before the law, regardless of race, religion or gender. The vote of every individual counts as much as the vote of any other. The collective will of the people then determines the rules of society.
Under Islamic law, only Muslim males enjoy full rights. The standing of a woman is often half that of a man's - sometimes even less. Non-Muslims have no standing with a Muslim.


The Islamic state is guided by Islamic law, derived from the Qur'an and Sunnah. A body of clerics interprets the law and applies it to all circumstances social, cultural and political. The people are never to be placed above the Qur'an and Sunnah any more than man should be above Allah.


It is somewhat debatable as to whether there are any states in the Muslim world that qualify as actual democracies. There is no denying, however, that the tiny handful that are often held up as democratic nations are ones in which deep tension exists between the government and religious leaders, as the later often complain that it is an idolatrous system imposed on them.


Islam does not facilitate democracy.



Further reading:
Democracy and Islam
Loyalty to a Non-Muslim Government

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