Myth vs Fact-Part 203

Myth	Fact
Islam: Religion of peace.	Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 197: Narrated Ka'b bin Malik: Whenever Allah's Apostle intended to lead a Ghazwa, he would use an equivocation from which one would understand that he was going to a different destination .
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Muslim Charter of Misrepresentation

Thursday, January 10, 2008 saw the signing by representatives of 400 European Muslim organizations, of a Charter of European Muslim Understanding, whose text you may read at UpPompeii. The charter is the work of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe.

Let us critically examine some critical provisions of the charter. Section 1, Article 5: [Emphasis added for clarity.]

5. Islam has honoured human beings as stewards of the earth. This honour embraces all the children of Adam, both male and female, without discrimination. By virtue of this honour, human beings are to be protected from anything that is an affront to their dignity, is harmful to their mental faculties, is damaging to their health or which abuses their rights by exploiting their vulnerabilities.

All human beings, male and female are equal, without discrimination. All are to be protected from affront to dignity and physical harm; their vulnerabilities are not to be exploited. Is there any truth in those statements? By what standard and what evidence shall we judge this matter?

1. Our understanding of Islam is based on immutable principles that are derived from the authentic sources of Islam: the Qur'an and the Prophetic traditions (Sunnah), within the framework of consensus with consideration for the time factor as well as the specifics of the European reality.

What does Allah, in his Qur'an tell us about the dignity of women?

• 2:223. Your wives are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth (have sexual relations with your wives in any manner as long as it is in the vagina and not in the anus), [...]
• 4:11. Allâh commands you as regards your children's (inheritance); to the male, a portion equal to that of two females; [...]
• 2:282. [...]And get two witnesses out of your own men. And if there are not two men (available), then a man and two women, such as you agree for witnesses, so that if one of them (two women) errs, the other can remind her. [...]

What do the traditions testify to the dignity of women?

• Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 6, Number 301: [...]The women asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?" He said, "Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?" They replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn't it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?" The women replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her religion." [...]

What of the dignity of disbelievers; what did Allah say?

• 8:22. Verily! The worst of (moving) living creatures with Allâh are the deaf and the dumb, those who understand not (i.e. the disbelievers).
• 2:65. And indeed you knew those amongst you who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath (i.e. Saturday). We said to them: "Be you monkeys, despised and rejected."
• 3:112. Indignity is put over them wherever they may be, except when under a covenant (of protection) from Allâh, and from men; they have drawn on themselves the Wrath of Allâh, and destruction is put over them. This is because they disbelieved in the Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allâh and killed the Prophets without right. This is because they disobeyed (Allâh) and used to transgress beyond bounds (in Allâh's disobedience, crimes and sins).
• 9:29. Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

And what did Moe testify to our dignity?

• Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 8, Number 387:
  
  Narrated Anas bin Malik:
  
  Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah."
  

Dignity, equality, protection; three strikes and yer out!!

7. Islam calls for equality between man and woman within the framework of mutual respect and views that a balanced life is one in which the relationship between man and woman is harmonious and complementary. It unequivocally rejects all notions or actions that undermine women or deprive them of their legitimate rights, regardless of some customs or habits of some Muslims. Islam strongly opposes the exploitation of women and their treatment as mere objects of desire.

Is that true? What did Allah say about that?

• 4:24. Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those (captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess. [...]
• Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 459:
  
  Narrated Ibn Muhairiz:
  
  I entered the Mosque and saw Abu Said Al-Khudri and sat beside him and asked him about Al-Azl (i.e. coitus interruptus). Abu Said said, "We went out with Allah's Apostle for the Ghazwa of Banu Al-Mustaliq and we received captives from among the Arab captives and we desired women and celibacy became hard on us and we loved to do coitus interruptus. So when we intended to do coitus interrupt us, we said, 'How can we do coitus interruptus before asking Allah's Apostle who is present among us?" We asked (him) about it and he said, 'It is better for you not to do so, for if any soul (till the Day of Resurrection) is predestined to exist, it will exist."

9. Islam respects human rights and calls for equality among all human beings, it rejects all forms of racial discrimination and emphasises the importance of liberty. Hence it condemns compulsion in religion and allows the individual freedom of conscience. Furthermore, Islam encourages that freedom ought to be exercised in accordance with moral values and respect for law, such that it does not infringe upon the rights of others.

What did Moe say about discrimination?

• Sahih Muslim Book 020, Number 4476:
  
  It has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: The Caliphate will remain among the Quraish even if only two persons are left (on the earth),
  
  

And what of compulsion? [See 9:29 cited above.]

• Sahih Bukhari Volume 6, Book 60, Number 80:
  
  Narrated Abu Huraira:
  
  The Verse:--"You (true Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind." means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam.
  
  

10. Islam calls for mutual acquaintance between people, dialogue and co-operation among people and nations so as to enhance co-existence and achieve peace in the world. The term Jihad that occurs in Islamic texts means to exert all efforts towards good, starting from reforming oneself to spreading truth and justice between people. Jihad in its understanding as warfare is regarded as one of the means available to a Muslim state when it needs to defend itself against aggression. This is in compliance with international law. Based on such an understanding of Jihad, Islam rejects indiscriminate violence and terrorism and supports just causes and affirms the right of all people to defend themselves by legitimate means.

What did Allah say?

• 8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allâh) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allâh Alone [in the whole of the world ]. [...]
• 9:29. Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
• 9:123. O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allâh is with those who are the Al-Muttaqûn (the pious - see V.2:2).
  

What did Moe say?

• Abu Dawud 14.2635
  Narrated Anas ibn Malik:
  
  The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: I am commanded to fight with men till they testify that there is no god but Allah, and that Muhammad is His servant and His Apostle, face our qiblah (direction of prayer), eat what we slaughter, and pray like us. When they do that, their life and property are unlawful for us except what is due to them. They will have the same rights as the Muslims have, and have the same responsibilities as the Muslims have.

Now we know that Islam remains true to form, contstant in its practice of al-Taqeyya. There is no truth in it!

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URGENT News From Stop the ACLU! Action IS Required

This email alert came to me the other day and is extremely important. I'm not putting it into the usual weekly round-up--this needs its own separate post. Read it through, follow the links, sign the petition and pass it around.

This pertains to an ACLU suit that we and others I have shared it with to be a very dangerous one with potentially serious risks to our national security as well as you and me. The story is from CNS News and is also linked from our commentary on this article which you can read here. Our article further links to another similar case the ACLU is involved in and provides extensive evidence through other link sources in the article how the ACLU may be doing grave harm to America by its actions of defending certain Muslims who have suspected ties to terrorist activities and persuading our courts to grant its wishes.

The average reader can see that getting an American court to release to the ACLU confidential documents that belong to highly vetted sources in U.S. government is as risky as one gets. Given the ACLU's growing support and affiliations towards radical Islam and its assistance to terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, information we have more than adequately documented in our article, we firmly believe it is time for the United States Congress to subpoena the ACLU to Washington and hold hearings in conjunction with these matters without delay.

I encourage each of you to read the CNS link, our story, and all the links in it as they provide compelling evidence of the urgent need for Congress to summon ACLU officers, lawyers and directors to Washington. And when you are finished and have come to the conclusion that the ACLU truly needs to be investigated when Congress returns, we want you to click here (also in the second to last paragraph in our piece) to read and sign the petition to Congressional leaders to act on this petition as soon as possible.

When you sign the online petition, you will be required to provide your zip code. We have set it up this way because we want to be able to track in a senator and Congressman’s district how many of their constituents are in support of this petition. Without the zip code, we cannot provide any numbers as to how many people in a certain district signed it. You do not, however, need to provide your street address.

If you wish to do more, you can copy and paste this petition in a Word or similar document and bring in person, mail or fax (we don't recommend e-mail for this occasion) to your elected officials in Congress and tell them directly how disturbed you are that the ACLU is allowed to get away with all its actions, how it is indeed a subversive organization putting America at risk and how you want them to use their legislative influences to get the subpoenas out to the ACLU without delay.

If you still want to do more, consider copying the same info you sent to your own Congressmen and U.S. Senators to the House and Senate leaders, noted at the top of the petition, as well as the chairmen and minority leaders noted in the petition. The phone numbers and addresses are not on the petition page but can be located at this page as your current Congressmen and senators. While it is not usually useful to petition lawmakers not located in one's given district, this generally does not apply when it concerns leaders and members of a certain committee as such are in fact writing policy for other lawmakers as well as citizens throughout the country.

If you do not know who your Congressmen and senators how, again, this page has all the information you need to know to contact them.

Once you have signed this petition, we need you to do one more thing and that is forward this e-mail to everyone you know for their signatures (must be 18 or over). Post the link to the petition on message boards, forums, chat rooms and similar places. And if you run your own website or blog, please post a link to it there as well. We need this linked everyone. Please help get the word out today.

And if you have not signed our previous petition to Alberto Gonzalez and the U.S. Justice Dept., to investigate the ACLU for suspected criminal ties to the porno industry, we ask you to do so by clicking here. We fully realize that Mr. Gonzalez is no longer with the Justice Dept. but the petition still is valid as we will see to it that his replacement, Michael Mukasey, is fully apprised of our requests for them to take appropriate action against the ACLU and we will personally deliver them to his office if we can get a huge outpouring of responses.

Can everyone help in this matter? We want to get one million signatures for each petition. It's a Herculean task but one million signers is less than ½ of 1% of all the American people. If everyone gets this to 5 or 10 people and the effort is replicated over and over, we can do it.

We fully realize that Congress is not likely to act on such a petition of ours, which is fully in line with our 1^st Amendment rights to petition for a redress of our grievances. We know that in an earlier era, Congress wouldn't even need to hear from us to take on the subversive ACLU; they would do so as a matter of principle.

But in this day and age and particularly with Democrats in control of Congress (and being the party of the ACLU as evidenced by the very high, if not perfect, scores of most Democrat lawmakers on the ACLU's scorecard), we must do everything possible to urge the U.S. Senate (scheduled to return on January 15^th) and the House (scheduled to return on January 22^nd) to do the bidding of the American people and help rein in the ACLU.

We would also like to get on as many radio and TV shows across the country and locally to urge their listeners to act on these petitions. We would likely start with well known national dislikers of the ACLU such as Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham.

If you are interested in urging these and others to speak about these petitions and/or have us on the air, we would greatly appreciate that. I don't have Ingraham's or Savage's e-mail addresses handy but we will post them in an update on our article on the Stop the ACLU website if we get correct ones. O’Reilly can be reached at oreilly@foxnews.com and Beck can be reached at me@glennbeck.com.

And if you believe in this effort and would like to assist financially, we would be so grateful. It will cost a lot of money to get this message out to sizable audiences out there but if you want to help us, then would you be so kind as visit www.paypal.com and make your gift to nedd@stoptheaclu.org? This operation has been struggling for a long time and we cannot continue our efforts and direct activism without some desperately needed cash infusions.

If everyone getting this message can do just a little, say $5 to $10, we can do a lot. Please help today if you can. However, if you are experiencing financial hardships, do not feel pressured to donate. We only want those who are able to do so to give today.

Thank you and God bless you.

All the Best in 2008,

Nedd Kareiva

Director

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Definition of a Hillbilly

Any questions? The "buy one get one free" presidency--is this the official portrait?

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Blogburst for Fred Thompson

I'm joining with Rick Moran at RightWing NutHouse and others for this Blogburst--Fred is the only consistent, true conservative out there and he needs our support.

BLOGBURST FOR FRED: MAN THE OARS AND START PULLING

Fred Thompson’s campaign is once again at a critical juncture and again I am showing my support for the candidate of my choice by organizing a Blogburst in hopes that we can raise the funds necessary for Fred’s campaign to be competitive.

This time, it’s South Carolina where Fred is staking all in hopes of a breakthrough victory. A clinical analysis of the GOP race for President shows that it is still anyone’s ballgame. Rasmussen’s most recent 4 day rolling average has Fred in 4th at 12%, ahead of Giuliani and just 9 points out of the lead held by Mike Huckabee at 22%.

But Thompson desperately needs to win in South Carolina in order to continue to be a viable candidate. And there are several factors at play in the Palmetto State that makes a Thompson win a realistic goal:

1. Romney has dropped out of the running in SC, having pulled his ads and is transferring staff in order to ambush John McCain in Michigan.

2. That leaves only three candidates with a realistic shot at winning in SC; Huckabee, McCain, and Thompson. Amazingly, none of the three candidates will have an overwhelming advantage when it comes to financing. This levels the playing field considerably.

3. SC voters have made it clear that opposition to illegal immigration is one of the top issues in the state. Looking at the three candidates above, who do you think has the most consistent, conservative record on immigration?

4. Outside factors may play a role in the dynamics of the race. McCain may very well be grievously wounded by a Romney win in Michigan – a state he won in 2000. There would be little time for McCain to right himself following a loss there what with the SC primary 4 days later.

In short, a Thompson win in SC is not only possible but within reach – if Fred has the money for media buys to get his message to the people.

I realize that many bloggers who support Fred have been hitting their readers hard for donations recently – especially since Fred’s campaign has set as a goal raising $540,000 by tomorrow in order to finance his ad campaign. As of Thursday morning, the effort has realized $420,000 towards that goal.

My hope is that once again, speaking with one voice and calling on our readers to dig deep, we can duplicate our success from December’s blogburst, putting Fred way over the top and give the campaign a rocket powered boost into South Carolina and beyond.

We’ve done it before and we can do it again. If you’re a blogger, please participate in this Blogburst for Fred by asking your readers to donate. If you haven’t already, join Jim Lynch’s The Marblehead Regiment and add your blog to his blogroll.

Man the oars and start pulling for Fred. The hour is late and the need is great. Time to pony up if we want to see a true conservative in the White House next November.

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Fred needs our help--let's do all we can.

Catch the Wave!

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