Posted on 04/02/2005 11:38:43 AM PST by quidnunc
Ever since 9/11, Muslim leaders who have access to the national media have told us that Islam is the religion of peace and that violence does not represent the essence of Muhammad’s religion.
Even President Bush and Britain’s Prime Minister Blair have repeated this assertion, saying that Islam has been “hijacked” by a few violent fanatics. Is this true?
Sadly it is not, for empirical, observable facts demonstrate beyond doubt that Islam at its founding is filled with violence — in the life of Muhammad himself and in the Quran itself.
Hence, these Muslim apologists must stop misleading unsuspecting Westerners, and they must be honest about the heart of their religion, for once and for all.
Here are ten clear, verifiable reasons that explain why Islam is not the religion of peace.
Clear? In order to prevent the standard, reflexive “out of context” defense from Muslim apologists, the context of each verse in the Quran is explained either in this article or in the links provided within each of the ten reasons. No verse is taken out of context, and Muslim translators are used.
Verifiable? The readers are invited to look up each verse in the Quran in multiple translations, by visiting this website and typing in references, like so: 61:10-12. (61 is the chapter or sura, and 10-12 are the verses). Once at the site, they should ignore request for the transliterated Arabic titles of the chapters in the Quran, and just type in the numbers.
Tabari (AD 839-923) is an early Muslim historian who is considered largely reliable by scholars today. In fact, the State University of New York Press selected his history to be translated into 38 volumes. (We use volume 9, pp. 153-55, trans. Ismail K. Poonawala.)
In the context of the list of Muhammad’s assets (horses, camels, milch sheep, and so on) at the end of his life, Tabari records the nicknames of Muhammad’s weapons.
Muhammad nicknames three swords that he took from the Jewish tribe Qaynuqa after he banished them from Medina in April 624: “Pluck Out,” “Very Sharp,” and “Death.” Two other swords from elsewhere are named: “Sharp” and “That is wont to sink” (presumably into human flesh). After his Hijrah or Emigration from Mecca to Medina in 622, he owned two swords called “Sharp” and “Having the vertebrae of the back.” This last sword he collected as booty after his victory at the Battle of Badr in March 624.
Next, Muhammad took three bows from the Qaynuqa tribe and named them as follows: “Most conducive to ease, or wide,” “white,” and “of nab wood” (species of tree from which bows are made).
The name of a coat of mail implies “ampleness” or “redundant portions,” probably because Muhammad was portly (cf. Ibn Ishaq, Life of Muhammad, trans. Guillaume, p. 383).
Finally, even Muhammad himself has a nickname. After Tabari lists the positive ones, he matter-of-factly provides one that is not so positive: “The obliterator.”
-snip-
(James Arlandson in The American Thinker, March 9, 2005)
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Islam is a heresy of Catholicism. It takes certain truths, omits and distorts others, and then calls itself its own religion. V's wife.
Hoe can a "religion" that declares Jesus Christ as just a prophet, not God improve on Christianity?
Oh the irony... this is what Christianity does to Judaism.
Islam hijacked the Bible like they hijack everything else.
"...he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
No.
First one to hang a chair on an iceberg wins.
:-)
Pardon, but isn't Buddha before Jesus' ministry?
What?
Since Muhammad was illiterate, the answer to whether he improved on anything should be apparent to anyone.
Ishaq:180 “According to my information, the Apostle often sat by a young Christian slave named Jabr. The Meccans said, ‘He is the one who teaches Muhammad most of what he brings.’ Then Allah revealed, Qur’an 16:103 ‘We know what they (pagans) say: “It is only a mortal man who teaches him (Muhammad). But the tongue of the man they wickedly point to is notably foreign, while this (Qur’an) is pure Arabic.’”
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/
Replacement theology. Using the basis of an older religion to build a new one, saying that it is the fulfillment of prophecies of the elder, adding a new text to reinforce and extend the claim.
huh!
Islam has a love-hate relationship with Christianity and Judaism. They always want to dominate both and it can be benign very oppressive. All in all Islam is schizophrenic on this and many other matters,. It is after all based on the nighttime hallucinations of Muhammad.
Makes sense to me if not in those same words.
I'm curious-- you're aware that your monitor is supposed to have a flame retardant lining before you make a comment like that in a thread like this?
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