Posted on 12/10/2015 1:46:37 PM PST by Jyotishi
I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam. After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of the world, I feel responsible as a Mus-lim and as a human being, to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations.
I have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward Non-Muslims. We Muslims are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions.
We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax called Jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques.
What message do we convey to our children when we call the Jews "Descendants of the pigs and monkeys"... Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate?
I have been in churches and synagogues where they were praying for Muslims, while we curse Christians and Jews, and teach our children to call them infidels and to hate them.
We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammed when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, we are proud with the story in our Islamic books, that he married a young girl seven years old (Aisha) when he was above 50 years old.
I am sad to say that many, if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror attacks.
Muslims denounce these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic terrorists and sympathize with their cause. Till now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a Fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Sharia law just for writing a book criticizing Islam.
Muslims demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France to stop the ban on the Hijab (Muslim head scarf), while we did not demonstrate with such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders.
It is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to con-tinue doing their evil acts. We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict. As a mat-ter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East.
We kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab countries to make them "Jew-Free countries" while Israel accepted more than a million Arabs to live there, have its nationality, and enjoy their rights as human beings. In Israel , women cannot be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'Apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights. I agree that the "Palestinians" suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and not because of Israel.
It is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the Arab world. On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in Israel, its 'enemy.' If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening.
We Muslims need to admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in harmony with human mankind. Our religious leaders have to show a clear and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia, slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other religions, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on non-Muslims to spread Islam.
Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion. The time has come to stop our hypocrisy and say it openly: "We Muslims have to change."
- Tawfik Hamid is a former Egyptian extremist who is now an Islamic reformer fighting against Radical Islam. He is part of the Potomac Institute.
This fellow says all this and claims to still be a moose-limb? The boy should realize that his only hope is Christ!
If he really wants to change, a good start would be to denounce Mo the Profit as a lying thug and charlatan and become a Christian. It’s impossible to believe the Koran and all that crap and not do the stuff he describes.
Why are there so many apologists for Islam cropping up all of a sudden? Without Trump, there would be no attempt to define the terrorist deviancy down.
They have to stop the violence and stop killing those who call for an end to the violence.
Exactly. By definition, you cannot rewrite the Quran. What the Quran says is very clear.
“Taqiyya. (What else?) “ This guy just put a target on his back. Just possibly he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Mohammadans have neither hearts nor light in their souls.
I don’t buy any of this.
But let’s say I did. In that case, the man is apostate. With few exceptions it is impossible to embrace any of his talking points without throwing out islam itself.
Most likely. But, best case, he's thinking of religion in the ontological sense (where do we come from, what is being, what's it all about), like many do, and realizing that temporal Islam is about conquest. There's a conflict.
That’s not possible. You need to read the koran and hadiths.
If not, then he
1: is not speaking for the "we" he keeps saying
2: is on the path to being assassinated by the "we" he keeps talking about or
3: is on the road to true redemption and leaving Islam (which leads back to point 2)
Deleting is believing. rm -rf /islam
I agree 100%.
On an individual basis when someone has lied to you it is hard if not impossible to ever wholly trust anything else they ever say. The best you can do is follow the logic of the phrase “trust but verify”. This confessional from someone who still wishes to identify himself as a Muslim is of course welcome. But as it, admitted in its own words, goes against the underlying text and belief system of that religion it can’t really mean much beyond the sincere outpouring of one individual struggling toward but not yet arrived at the truth. So keep going, Tawfik, and we’ll keep praying for you with our eyes open and weapons within reach.
Islam will not reform. An well penned article or a think tank will not make a difference.
The irony is that if he believes what he has written he isn’t a muslim.
He could find himself without a head for heresy.
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