10 Posts tagged “islam” from Friends
Muhammad A. Khan (aka M.A. Khan) is the author of the very informative and well documented book entitled, “Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slavery.” The book leans toward the pedantic and there are a few English language grammatical errors; however Islamic Jihad is so incredibly documented that it was leaves little room to criticize the book for the accuracy of the Islamic exposé. So do not tackle this book for reading enjoyment, rather engulf the book to educate your self on the actual nature of Islam’s past to understand its present and predict its future.
Khan is also the administrator of an awesome source website about Islam and its not so peaceful nature at Islam Watch. This website bills itself as “Telling the truth about Islam” and “Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims”.
Consider this an introduction to an essay by M.A. Khan I found on Faith Freedom International. The essay is entitled, “The Journey of a Pakistani from a Muslim to an Ex-Muslim”.
The essay is a bit of mixture of M.A. Khan biography and associated insights into Islam. It is an awesome read!
JRH 6/24/09
Considering the Japanese style sneak attack of Islamic terrorists on 911, it is remarkable that there is not more public information being disseminated to the American public.
The lack of information is remarkable but I do understand the reasoning. The Mainstream Media and a Politically Correct (PC) U.S. government are afraid that if the negative side of Islam is disseminated to the American public that an increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes would increase. Indeed the well financed Islamic-American organizations are also a huge factor in enforcing PC thinking in America. These Islamic-American organizations gravitate toward radical Islam even though publicly they claim to represent the American mainstream Islam. To all the Muslim-Americans that claim to be moderate Muslims eschewing Radical Islam as an aberration of Islam, the existence of Islamist agenda Muslim-American organizations should be sending up red flags. Yet one rarely reads of an influential Muslim-American castigating these Islamist oriented Muslim-American organizations.
I have often read that Islamist/Salafist/Wahhabist Islam statistically only represents 10% of practicing Muslims globally. I am assuming that this statistic is representatively associated with the primary sect of Islam which is the Sunni.
The PC crowd has effectively kept Americans in the dark about the negative aspects of Islam.
An even darker knowledge is that of understanding where Shia Islam resides in the moderate/radical realm of Islam. Shia has had to be radical to survive the dislike of the majority Islamic sect of Sunnis. Thus it is very easy for Shias to radicalize even though there is a “quietist” element which developed to be non-confrontational. Nonetheless, the very nature of Shia (the party of Ali) has to do with the thought that the fourth Caliph after Mo’s death should have been the second Caliph.
Ali was a cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Mohammed. When Ali was defeated and assassinated by his rival, the closest thing to blood descent to the prophet ended. This made a significant portion of Muslims displeased. Thus this portion developed Imams as descendants of Mohammed through Ali as the true heirs of spiritual-political leaders of Islam. The majority of Islam got behind the Caliphate apart from the party of Ali. Thus Shia faired adversely accept in the land that had a traditional heritage of empire and independence. That land was Persia which is present day Iran.
Now I am fairly certain that my brief explanation of Shia would be castigated by an adherent as a weak interpretation. Nonetheless, it is important to understand the roots of Shia to get a grasp of the radical nature of Iran and its radical thinking of a global Caliphate with the Shia perspective rather than the Sunni perspective.
With this in mind I encourage you to read this Hudson Institute publication entitled, “The Paradoxes of Shiism”.
JRH 6/23/09
David Bukay has an article in the Summer 2009 edition of the Middle East Quarterly.
Bukay takes an intellectual stroll with the end game being Islam is totally incompatible with Western Society. Then Bukay turns up the burner by demonstrating that Islam is in no way compatible with the Western concept of Democracy.
Bukay even pits the differences between Islam (so-called moderate) and Islamism. Bukay points out that Islam is becoming the uniting force at least among Middle Eastern Muslims to the extent that the very old concept of Pan-Arabism is nearly a dead ideology.
Muslims are finding there heroes among the Islamists that promote an international Caliphate for Islam. The Caliphate ideal is a concept that stretches beyond the Arab Middle East. Thus Islamism is gaining footholds in place like Turkey founded after the ashes of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI. Ataturk purposely founded a Turkish secular government abolish the vestiges of the Caliphate that existed in the defunct Ottoman Empire.
The largest Muslim nation in the world is Indonesia. The pan-Islam ideology is awakening Indonesians who Asian rather than Arab to bump against the secular regime in Indonesia.
Bukay further notes that nations where old fashioned despots are the leadership predominantly only do so because the military backs the despot. He sites Saudi Arabia and Egypt to name a few which would have succumb to Islamism long ago if it were not for the power of military might.
Something you should think about after reading Bukay’s analysis. It has been said that the percentage of Islamists in the world represents 10% of global Islam. Let’s say that as of 2009 there are 2.4 BILLION Muslims globally. Ten percent would be 240 MILLION Islamists world wide.
Now that 240 MILLION is a huge chunk of people. Now imagine this: according to my interpretation of Dr. Bukay’s article; that would mean there 2.16 BILLION Muslims who predominantly look up to the agenda to activist Islamists.
Please read “Is the Military Bulwark against Islamism Collapsing?”
JRH 6/15/09
Well it looks like the “divine assessment” from Allah to Supreme Leader Khamenei to Ahmadinejad had the fix going on Iran’s recent election. In spite of Mousavi - Ahmadinejad’s rival - also claiming victory, the government results show Ahmadinejad had a land slide victory.
Iranian youth reminiscent of the violent protests staged prior to the Shah being deposed, reared its head at the announcement that Mousavi had lost the election. Mousavi immediately proclaimed fraud. Ayatollah Khamenei would have none of Mousavi publicly telling his people Ahmadinejad’s victory was a “divine assessment.”
This indicates to me that the Supreme Leader desired for Ahmadinejad to remain in Office. The carefully crafted and approved candidates probably were thought to be less than inspiring to the Iranian voters. Since Supreme Leader Khamenei believes it is Allah’s will (yeah right) for Ahmadinejad to be President, I am certain the Islamic Supreme Leader ordered the fix.
Mousavi has protested the results in very attention getting style. Look for Mousavi to disappear after the public scrutiny dies down. That is what happens in Islamofascist regimes.
JRH 6/14/09
Here is a message from ACT! For America pertaining to a new grassroots campaign to expose the evils of sharia law that is many American-Muslim groups is promoting. Following message is an article attached to bring home the idea that sharia law is evil.
JRH 6/10/09
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ACT! For America email
Email sent: June 10, 2009 9:35 AM
In the very near future we will begin the launch of our 2009 “Stop Shariah Now” campaign. This will be an integrated grassroots, lobbying and public relations effort designed to raise public awareness and push for public policies that expose Shariah law and its infiltration into the United States.
Shariah Islamic law is infiltrating America through vehicles such as Shariah compliant finance products offered by major financial institutions, including UBS, AIG, Citibank and HSBC. It has been reported to us that members of the Muslim Students Association in southern California have been seen chanting their demands for Shariah law during public demonstrations. We have also seen reports that estimate between 50,000 and 100,000 Muslims in America are practicing polygamy, a practice allowed under Shariah law.
Recently, a report surfaced on the internet that Lisa Ashton, a flight attendant with British Midland Airways, was fired for refusing to wear a traditional Islamic robe and walk behind male colleagues while in public in Saudi Arabia. This is the consequence of Shariah law in a society and a Western nation’s effort to bend over backwards to accommodate it.
The next time you hear someone claim that Islam affords equal rights and protections to women, pull out the “Top 10” list below. You might want to add that in one of the hadith (the sayings and traditions of Mohammed), Mohammed claimed he was given a look into hell and saw that it was filled mostly with women because they were ungrateful to their husbands (Sahih Bukhari 2,18,61).
Then ACT! For America posted this article found on Infidels Are Cool.
My cousin Mary was not pleased with this YouTube video I posted at my Face Book profile page.
Here is Mary’s rebuke:
Not all muslims are bad, I married one! He had gone to Bible College when I first met him. He mixes Judaism with Christianity and Islam. Ishmael (?) was Abraham's son.
Mary I understand the reason you may defend Muslims because of your past matrimony with a Muslim and having two wonderful children with him.
Just to be clear I am fully aware that all Muslims are not evil. Indeed statistics report that 90% of Muslims consider them self as moderate and that the Islam practiced by Islamic terrorists place a bad name on Islam. However it must be kept in mind that the 90% who consider them self as a moderate also believe in the infallibility of Mohammed, his Quran and the near infallibility of the Hadith, Sunna, Sira and the developed Sharia Law.
It is the 10% of radical Muslims who actually follow this infallibility ideology to a tee. So in effect according to the Muslim holy writings the so-called radical Muslims are actually the good Muslims. The 90% that knowingly or unknowingly pick and choose the part of Islam that is not violent would not be considered good Muslims according to their own holy writings.
Because of this one rarely hears about a Moderate Muslim from the 90% being critical amongst their brethren about the 10% who are following the Theo-political tenets of Islam to the tee.
Now there is a good reason for this kind of self-justification among Muslims. The goal of Islam as set forth by Mohammed was to subjugate all humanity to Islam whether humanity appreciates Islam, Allah and Mohammed or not. So there is set of dualistic ethics that pertains to Muslims and other ethics that pertain to kafir (or house of war – aka dar al-harb).
Bill Warner says it best at his website Political Islam.
The dualistic ethical system of the Islamic Trilogy prepares the foundation of jihad with one set of ethics for Muslims and another set of ethics for the kafirs. So, there are two ways to deal with the kafirs. One is to think of them as inferiors but act in a kindly way. The other is jihad.
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The following hadith summarizes all the key elements of jihad. (Notice that only the fourth item, the Day of Resurrection, is purely religious in nature). It tells us that the whole world must submit to Islam; kafirs are the enemy simply by not being Muslims. To achieve this dominance, Islam may use terror and violence. It may use psychological warfare, fear, and theft. It may take the spoils of war from kafirs. Violence and terror are made sacred by the Koran. Peace comes only with submission to Islam.
Bukhari 1,7,331 Mohammed: "I have been given five things which were not given to any one else before me:
Allah made me victorious by awe, by His frightening my enemies for a distance of one month's journey.
The earth has been made for me and for my followers a place for praying and a place to perform rituals; therefore, anyone of my followers can pray wherever the time of a prayer is due.
The spoils of war has been made lawful for me yet it was not lawful for anyone else before me.
I have been given the right of intercession on the Day of Resurrection.
Every prophet used to be sent to his nation only but I have been sent to all mankind."
The story of the Trilogy culminates in the dominance of political Islam. The Trilogy teaches that Islam is the perfect political system and is destined to rule the entire world. The governments and constitutions of the world must all submit to political Islam. If the political systems of the kafirs do not submit, then force, jihad, may be used. All jihad is defensive, since refusing to submit to Islam is an offense against Allah. All Muslims must support the political action of jihad. This may take several forms-fighting, proselytizing or contributing money.
The Trilogy lays out the complete strategy, tactics, and vision of political Islam and jihad. Much of the Trilogy is about how Mohammed dealt with those people who disagreed with him. Violent political action with a religious motivation was taken against kafirs. Under Islam, their only political freedom was to submit. This legal inferiority is sacred, eternal and universal.Duality of ethics was the basis for Mohammed's greatest single innovation-jihad. Jihad is dual ethics with sacred violence. The key religious element of the dual ethics is that Allah sanctifies violence for complete domination. The kafirs must submit to Islam.
In Mecca, Mohammed demonstrated the initial practice of jihad when Islam was weak: persuasion and conversion. When he moved to Medina, he demonstrated how jihad worked when Islam was strong: using immigration against inhabitants, creating political power by struggling against the host, dominating other religions, using violence, sowing division among the tribes, and establishing a government.
Jihad is civilizational war for two reasons. First, jihad uses every aspect of civilization as an element of war. Violence, education, fear, psychology, sociology, sex, population, immigration, public relations, corruption and religion are all used in jihad. Military force and terror are the smallest aspects of jihad. The second reason that jihad is civilizational war is that the purpose of jihad is to annihilate every aspect of the non-Islamic civilization. Art, history, law, dress, manners, names, education, customs, government, foreign policy, economics, and every other detail must become Islamic.
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Islam has been waging civilizational war for centuries. Before the Muslims arrived, Egypt and North Africa and the southern coast of the Mediterranean were Christian. There was a Buddhist monastery in Alexandria Egypt. Turkey was Buddhist and Christian. Persia-now Iran-was Zoroastrian. The Hindu culture covered an area of the world twice as large as it is now. Languages disappeared to be replace (sic) by Arabic.
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Mohammed encouraged the rape of female captives after battles. This is reported in the Sira and Hadith and approved in the Koran. In jihad it is not considered rape to have forced sex with a woman as long as she is a kafir captive or slave. This is true even if she is married. In the Muslim world, the act is only rape when committed against a Muslim. Again, the dual ethics of Islam prevail.
Bukhari 3,34,431 One of the captives was a beautiful Jewess, Safiya. Dihya had her first, but she was given to Mohammed next.
4:24 Also forbidden to you are married women unless they are your slaves or captives.
Rape was one of Mohammed's tactics of conquest because it worked. Forced sex with women whose protectors had been killed was considered supreme domination. It was also a humiliation to the women's male relatives and husbands who had not been killed. If a woman is captured, raped and absorbed into the captor's environment, her helplessness renders her totally compliant and her submission is complete. To protect her children from slavery, many widows and rape victims readily agreed to conversion and their children were raised as Muslims.
Forced sex is far more than rape in political Islam. It is a method of war, a tactical strike which is not a crime because it is jihad. It is not a sin. It is practiced against the kafir and is sanctioned in the Trilogy of the Koran, the Sira, and the Hadith. (Excerpts from Bill Warner)
Thus it is my position that all Muslims may not be evil, but the potential to be evil is in their holy writings and the example of their prophet.
Bill Warner has a series of essays that exposes Islam as not a cool religion for humanity. The series is called, “An Ethical Basis for War Against Political Islam.”
As to Ismael being a son of Abraham. That is absolutely true; however the Muslim version is absolutely false!
The Muslims call Ishmael the preferred son because he was the oldest. Yet the Old Testament (the true Word of God written before Mohammed was born) clearly shows that Abraham was to have a child of promise through his wife Sarah. Ishmael is the son of Abraham and the slave girl Egyptian Hagar.
The child of promise was Isaac the son of Abraham and Sarah. It is from this bloodline that leads up to the incarnated birth of Jesus the Christ the Son of God and the son of Mary.
The New Testament portrays Ishmael as the son of the bondwoman Hagar. Isaac is portrayed as the son of the free woman Sarah. The promises of God flow the son of the free woman – Sarah – culminating in the Savior of the world Jesus. Salvation is by faith rather than by the sword. Deviated from Christianity is handled at the Last Judgment and not by execution in this life.
Brigitte Gabriel provides another comment spanking President Barack Hussein Obama about his (or his speech writers’) lack of appreciation for real history as opposed to Leftist and Islamic revisionist history.
Gabriel does this in the form of an “open letter” to the President. Gabriel was very even tempered (unlike me) in the letter but I still doubt that the President will return a proper answer.
JRH 6/9/09
Apparently the anti-Jihad/anti-Islamism writers have used the Cairo Speech of President Barack Hussein Obama as an inspiration to contradict the President’s view of Islam vis-a-vie Christianity and Judaism.
One such writer is Raymond Ibrahim writing for The Middle East Quarterly.
Raymond Ibrahim is the associate director of the Middle East Forum and editor/translator of The Al Qaeda Reader. He writes daily for Jihad Watch.
A widely published author on radical Islam, Mr. Ibrahim regularly discusses that topic with the media, such as Fox News, C-SPAN, Reuters, NPR, CBN, PBS, and talk-show hosts, such as Jim Bohannon, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, and Michael Savage. He regularly lectures at universities and briefs governmental agencies, such as U.S. Strategic Command, the Department of State, and … (About Page raymondibraham.com)
JRH 6/8/09
I have not examined President Barack Hussein Obama’s Cairo speech in detail as yet. What I heard in the wee hours of the morning struck me that BHO was trying to build a common cause with the Mohammedan world by explaining America’s anguish over 9/11. I also heard things like America is not at war with Islam.
Indeed it would be difficult for an America to be at war with a religion. The very concept of a war with a religion runs completely against the grain of American foundational thinking. Religious freedom has been ingrained into Americans which has grown from a tolerance of diverse Christian sects and Denominations to a relative tolerance of non-Christian religions even if they may cause a moral dilemma with Christian thought. Americans even struggle with government scrutiny of what many would consider cults: Christian, New Age, Mind Control or whatever.
Since Americans in the 20th and 21st centuries have been taught that Islam (I prefer Mohammedanism) is one leg of the Judeo/Christian tradition. A precursor study of Mohammedanism would dispel that thinking. Mohammedanism is only a leg of Judeo/Christianity as much as its founder Mohammed attempted to borrow enough Judaism and Christianity to entice Jews and Christians to get in line with Theo-political-militaristic Mohammedanism.
It is not any truer now then it was when Jewish Arabs and Christian Arabs laughed at Mohammed resulting in Jewish and Christian massacres.
These are just a few thoughts that flashed before my mind as I listened to the President act like a dhimmi and a cohort simultaneously.
Robert Spencer has some real insight about the BHO Cairo speech you probably will not hear or read in the Mainstream Media. Spencer somewhat line items the speech with his thoughts inserted as one reads it.
JRH 6/5/09
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Platitudes and naivete: Obama's Cairo speech
Posted by Robert Spencer
June 4, 2009 11:50 AM
Here is the text as prepared for delivery, provided by the White House, via USA Today, June 4 -- with my comments interspersed:
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning,
...whose Grand Sheikh, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, has given his approval — on Islamic grounds — to suicide bombing.
and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
According to Islamic law, a Muslim may only extend this greeting -- Peace be upon you -- to a fellow Muslim. To a non-Muslim he is to say, "Peace be upon those who are rightly guided," i.e., Peace be upon the Muslims. Islamic law is silent about what Muslims must ...
[Continue Reading at Jihad Watch or SlantRight.]
Here is a plea from the Jerusalem Prayer Team to support Israel even if our President cuddles to the Islamic world. Cuddling to the Islamic world would of course mean Barack Hussein Obama is throwing Israel under the bus.
BHO’s appeasement policies will probably make possible a Middle East Muslim’s dream: the destruction of Israel and the Second Holocaust.
Join the Jerusalem Prayer Team by the millions to keep Israel alive and solvent for God Almighty to do His thing when BHO forces American Policy to abandon Jewish Israel in favor of Middle Eastern Muslims.
Read the following JPT request for support then read Mike Evans’ essay entitled, “President Vows Middle East Solution in Two Years”.
JRH 6/3/09
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Obama to deliver speech in Cairo, Egypt
JERUSALEM REPORT
From Mike Evans, founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team
Email Sent: June, 2009 8:54:13 AM
Please VOTE Today:
President Obama, please stand with Israel.
President Obama, please do not stand with Israel.
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As a friend of Israel, I am deeply concerned about the events that are taking shape and their effect on Israel's future. Please pray for the Jewish people. Please stand with me in defense of the Jewish people. Please let your voice be heard in support of the Jewish people.
Your gift to help the Jewish people is needed even more today as the media reports on the demoralizing effects the downturn in the economy and the resulting recession has had in Israel. Within a two-month time period almost 40,000 Israelis have lost their jobs and an additional 300,000+ workers are slated to lose jobs soon. The result is that more than 1.6 million Israelis live below the poverty level. Some 800,000 of those suffering from the effects of poverty are children.
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Thank you to the 740 Jerusalem Prayer Team partners who have given to bless Israel. We need 1,100 to give in order to reach our goal. We are more than halfway there. Please pray today for all that have given and for those who have not given to give a gift today. Pray that God will bless them according to Psalm 122:6: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall PROSPER that love thee." And, Genesis 12:3 says, "I will BLESS them that BLESS thee..."
Barukh attah Adonai elohoeinu melekh ha-olam, she'asah li kol tzorki.
Blessed art thou, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who provides for me all my needs.
Please stand up for Israel, today. Bless her with an "I Support Israel" gift to help provide food, clothing, medications, and shelter. The world's economy has created a grave crisis for the poor. They are forgotten and suffering.
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