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 Muhammads religion.
Even President Bush and Britains 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 Muhammads assets (horses, camels, milch sheep, and so on) at the end of his life, Tabari records the nicknames of Muhammads 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.
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(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.
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, Quran 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 (Quran) is pure Arabic.
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/
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.
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"Why I left Islam", by Dr. Ali Sina
"...the real Islam is not what its philosophers and mystics have inferred but what is in the Quran and that is the Islam of the fundamentalist and the terrorist. The real Islam is the Islam that abuses women, that allows men to beat their wives, that imposes penalty tax on the religious minorities, that wants to dominate the world by subduing all the non-Muslims, that calls for Jihad and killing the non-believers until Islam becomes the only dominant religion of the World*.""The enemy is Islam and that is the target of my attacks. I do that, despite knowing that I have become the magnet of the hatred of fanatical Muslims and my own life could be in danger.
Yet I know that by eradicating Islam we can save the world from the dangers of a catastrophe that otherwise is looming over our heads and could cause more disaster than the 1st and 2nd World Wars combined."
Islamic terror based on Quran: ex-CIA official
"A former top official of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency paints a menacing picture of the relationship between Islam and terrorism.
"Islamic terrorism is based on Islam as revealed through the Quran," keynote speaker Bruce Tefft claimed in a panel discussion at the University of Toronto on jihad and global terrorism.
And, he added, "There is no difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalism, which is a totalitarian construct..."
According to Tefft, the Quran enjoins Muslims to believe that the whole world should be governed by the principles of Islam*, an expansionist religion that has historically grown through conquest..."
-- Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
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Don't think I could be part of a religion who's leader was a warrior who preached death to his enemies. It must be the only religion in the world based on convert or die.
Islam fits the description of "the abomination of desolations" prophesied about in the book of Daniel.
When Jesus on the Mount of Olives he predicted this:
Matthew 24:24 - For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Mark 13:22 - For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
Mohammed was a false prophet/christ figure. He thinks he got his directions from the Archangel Gabriel but it was probably the archangel lucifer that gave him instructions.
"Basic Islamic theology teaches that since Allah sent Gabriel down with the Quran to Muhammad the messenger of Allah, Muhammad and the Quran fulfill and complete the mission of Christ and the New Testament."
Funny that God Himself never mentioned that Christ need all this help.
Islam worships the god of the moon, no the God of the Christians and Jews.
They are a messed up religion that produced radical terrorists that want us all dead.
I no longer care what Islamists think. I just look over my shoulder if they are around.
Jesus answers that in three words.
"It is finished."