An Indian Muslim woman feeds a decorated horse, part of a procession to mark Ashoura in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Shiites mark Ashoura, the tenth day of the month of Muharram, to commemorate the Battle of Karbala when Imam Hussein, a grandson of Prophet Muhammad, was killed. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
After 9/11, and the purported responsibility of Islam as the event’s driving ideology, it could have been predicted that there would be anti-Muslim sentiments. However, one could have never guessed that 13 years later Muslims would be viewed far worse than in those first few months.
In fact, Islamophobia has seen a drastic increase in correlation to other global events — ironically, even when Muslims themselves are the victims. A recent example is the hanging of Reyhanah Jebbari in Iran and the convoluted reaction against Muslims that resulted.
Yet such reactions have extended past verbal abuse and now encompass an institutionalised practice of sweeping generalisations in favour of vilifying Muslims and Islam and an absurd lack of regard to individualism within human nature. It’s reminiscent of justifications used for previous disasters and an ironic reflection of what “terror” groups themselves teach, and forces Muslim-response campaigns which under any absence of such embarrassing double standards would not be necessary.
The fact of the matter is that Muslims have always spoken out against groups like ISIS. Yet it is worth noting that after these extremist groups act, Muslims across the globe (and in particular the Western world) are left stranded in the centre of an imperial dichotomy which labels them according to “fundamentalist” and “moderate” Muslims.
It is relatively clear that innocent people are being targeted in retaliation to events which are on all accounts disconnected from them; for instance, the Lee Rigby incident on the 22 May 2013 saw the immediate rise of Islamophobic attacks.
Now, ISIS have invited a barrage of daily mishaps against all kinds of Muslims (or even those that appear to be Muslim). Most prominently, Malia Bouattia, the NUS Black Students Officer was faced with immense insults over her vote against a potentially Islamophobic motion. The entire body of the National Union of Students voted, nonetheless this young woman was singled out due to her religion and dragged through the mud (so to speak) in the tabloid press and on social media. The vote against the motion itself was justified and made clear that it was not a refusal to condemn ISIS (a falsehood encouraged by sensationalist journalism), but rather a problem with a particular resolution within that motion.
It should be clarified that the notion of religious responsibility actually excuses the perpetrator in favour of demonising an entire religion. You are, quite literally, focusing your judgement, disapproval, and abuse at innocents while the guilty walks you by. It is the worse kind of conviction as it completely vindicates the transgressor.
Condemning the individual(s) responsible is surely more just.
The irony of these incidents, especially in the case of ISIS, is that Muslims themselves are being targeted more than any other group; Sunni and Shia Muslims are being killed and enslaved in thousands in Iraq and Syria. More than anyone else, Muslims are the victims of these extremist groups — both in the sense of their direct impact (death toll in Iraq), and indirect impact (targeted abroad due with Islamophobic attacks in reaction to groups like ISIS).
The main implications of frequent hate crimes, including the recent murder of a Saudi Arabian woman in Colchester whom was stabbed 13 times and an Afghan boy shot in Australia, are ignored. Beyond this, there are hundreds of other cases of extreme violence against Muslims (simply because they are Muslim) in the UK alone, thousands in Europe, and tens of thousands in the US.
Arson, bombing, desecration, and vandalism of mosques, religious centres, schools, and Muslim homes have grown to thousands of reported incidents in any given year. Muslim women and men are spat at, screamed upon, beaten, and subjected to daily harassment in public. Instances of cyber-abuse are now completely normal.
The extent of such victimisation is so severe, in fact, that Fox News suggested a few weeks ago that Islam is the enemy and as such all Muslims should be profiled, legally identified, then separated from society — exactly what Jews suffered under the Nuremberg Laws implemented in 1935 by Hitler. For a global-reaching media outlet with an average of more than two million viewers to be allowed such statements on air is preposterous.
Considering all this, it is ridiculous to promote the idea that Muslims “must” speak up against ISIS. Muslims are relentlessly put in the position to defend their faith from irrelevant external influences which predominantly go against the most basic Islamic teachings followed by more than 1.5 billion Muslims across the planet. How is it that a mere 0.1% minority have been allowed to subject over a billion others to the label of “other Muslims?”
It is not religion which controls a person’s personality. There are good, and bad people. Human nature is based on free will. If you are a good person, your religion will bring out the best in you. If you are a bad person, you will use religion to justify your actions and garner support from those of a similar nature.
Even if there was no religion, those with a twisted agenda would fabricate some other basis for their actions and pursue them anyway.
The danger of blanketing a religion, a group of people, with such labels of “evil” is that these were the same assertions used to instigate all previous genocides of a certain group in recorded history. For instance, Nazis believed Jews were out to control the world, and so launched the holocaust- the same criteria was used in Rwanda, and Yugoslavia by Hutus/Tutsis, and Serbians/Bosnians.
In fact, this predominant focus of Muslims as “the nemesis” which is the reason for growing Islamophobia reflects exactly what ISIS teach themselves. Their justification is “us” and “them;” so for this to be perpetuated in the West too — is falling right into ISIS plans. To alienate and marginalise Muslims to the point where every other word from their mouth must be a defence for their faith and livelihood is what garners the ideology and narrative ISIS is based on, and the same one ISIS will enjoy to further their reach.
Should Muslims really be compelled to apologise for and defend their faith day in and day out? The rise of ISIS in the Middle East and the spread of extremism around the world has unusually led even more liberal figures to condemn Islam as violent and intolerant.
This shows that these groups appear to be hijacking the name of Islam — would a reaction from Muslims constantly justifying their faith not only reinforce the strength and grasp these militants have on the religion?
Recently, the “Not In My Name” campaign launched mass support in favour of Muslims. Though well-envisioned and the aim admirable, it exposed a sad reality. It is unfortunate that Muslims have been forced to feel such actions are necessary. That they must dedicate a portion of their lives simply to justifying their existence and distancing themselves from those that are using their religion as a name for evil.
There seems to be two sets of categories perpetuated that a Muslim must now fall into: fundamentalist or moderate, sympathiser or extremist-condemner.
This article is a proud declaration that such labels do not exist. Radicalisation does not exist. The moment you start forming ideals on how best to behead another human being, you are not “radicalised,” you have already left Islam.
You are either Muslim, or you are not; and within that right is the same right to remain silent about ISIS should you wish to, and lead a peaceful life nevertheless. The same right every other religion has when their adherents (KKK and the Protestants, LRA in Uganda etc.) choose to act in a barbaric manner and the world isolates the actions to those individuals.
Having said that, I will condemn ISIS, but not because I am Muslim. I will condemn ISIS just like I condemn the Holocaust, the Yom Kippur war, the genocides in Rwanda and Yugoslavia. I will condemn ISIS, but not because I am Muslim.
I will condemn ISIS because I am human.
Crossposted from Huffington Post United Kingdom.
Content posted to MyMPN open blogs is the opinion of the author alone, and should not be attributed to MintPress News.
Your arguments ignore so many aspects of Islam and its interaction with other cultures, it’s difficult to even know where to begin a critique. Cherry-picking the humanistic attributes shown by some Muslims and making dubious comparisons of current “Islamophobia” to historical events is the typical deflection and misdirection used by apologists and their Muslim friends.
But, you’re right, the West is just so intolerant of Muslims. We can’t accommodate your every request to change our society’s long-established customs to suit your needs, or to not offend your sensitivities. You don’t want to adapt – so please, feel free to emigrate to a country that will understand and accommodate your cultural, ideological, and religious needs. (one in the same in Islam’s case) We’re tired of being told we need to change for you.
You seem to misuse words. Apologists do the complete opposite of what this article does, apologists would do what you recommend and instead agree on the negativity Islam “in fact” is, then ensue to apologise- hence the term “apologist”. Your comment is also very vague and raises no relevant points to the article.
There is a difference between wanting to be accommodated, and simply not wanting to be abused. Islam mandates that everyone should respect the laws of the lands where they live. Hence, we require no special treatment; there is no sensitivity, nor special requirements. No one expects you to change for anyone. It is sad though, to see your narrow perspective fulfilled by this article and a progressively defensive stance taken rather than any progressive approach towards empathy for those whom face abuse on a daily basis.
Religious freedom is a civil liberty inherent in UK law, so to be tolerant towards others faiths is not doing us a favour- or indeed changing for anyone- it is abiding by your own rules.
Ah yes, the usual refrain from Muslims…always the victims. It’s thoroughly disgusting that you, your ilk, this article, and others like it minimize the murders of and attacks upon non-Muslim people, and whine about how “Islamophobia” is rampant and how Muslims are suffering following acts committed in the name of their religion. Nonsense. Where is even a speck of evidence of this? Where is evidence that Muslims are speaking out in a meaningful way against violence? Ahmadiyyans have, but then again they are reviled by most mainstream Muslims.
I’m sorry but it’s Muslims who are murdering innocent people in the streets, it’s Muslims who are killing thousands of people in the Middle East, it’s Muslims who are committing countless acts of terrorism around the world. This behooves Muslims to not only condemn these acts, but to make meaningful steps to reform and stop this violence. Simply saying it’s not all of us is a pathetic excuse and completely unhelpful. We have heard that line already, numerous times…and yet the violence continues to worsen. You…are…a…broken…record. Instead of making excuses, why not take some action?
Why is the violence that is inherent in both the teachings of the holy books of Islam and the intolerance, and chauvinism and hatred that is rampant throughout much of the Islamic world not open to scrutiny? Why is Islam not open to criticism and consideration like every other mainstream religion? Muslims – It’s not always somebody else’s fault. Some very serious introspection and discussion is required to discover why there are such problems in Islam and Islamic society. To deny that there are very serious, negative differences between the Islamic world and the rest of humanity would seem a ridiculous statement to virtually any reasonable person.
I personally feel that Islam, in its present state, is completely incompatible with Western liberal society and democracy. The facts and the current state of affairs bears this out. The sooner the West rids itself of this oppressive, abhorrent ideology, the better.
“Who killed the butler? IT’S THE MUSLIMS!
Who stole the money? IT’S THE MUSLIMS!
Who took ‘er job? MUSLIMS!”
– Carl Gustav
Have you read the article and tried to understand the opinion expressed? This generalization is getting just plain abusive, I find myself defending my religion every day.
People usually quote the Qur’an incorrectly, and completely forget about the clerics most Muslims follow. There are two religious authorities imposed in the Sunni and Shia ‘Islam’. The Qur’an and the Hadeeths which are stories written 300 years after Muhammad’s death. Those stories all begin with “Muhammad once said”. If he really said all those things he must’ve had some serious issues and not be considered a messenger of peace and God at all! Then you have the scholars and clerics who can speak words of utter hate which most Sunni/Shia Muslims will follow blindly because their early clerics said you can’t be Muslim and not listen to us, so they checkmated people with good intents for their own sake and that’s very wrong.
Most Muslims I know have dropped the Hadeeth and other self-imposed religious authorities. Those Hadeeths resemble children stories and mostly imply a Muslim’s final goal is world-domination of Islam. Some even kick started the hatred and irrational fear some Muslims hold against dogs for example.
The Qur’an never commanded killing all unbelievers as in “get out and take some action, preferably cutting necks”. No, if read properly in context as most islamophobes forget to, you see that polytheists and other hateful agressors towards the then Muslim-minority in Arabia are mentioned. Definitely not other Muslims, or a handful of Christians and some Jews as is the case with ISIS.
What bothers me though is, how did the terrorist organizations in the Middle-East get so darn good at brainwashing folks? And how did they brainwash med-students and other engineers as is shown in the sacred fear-mongering media lately? Well let me guarantee you it’s NOT two Qur’an verses taken out of context, that’s for damn sure!!
I did enquire in the “very serious introspection” as you mentioned it, and found out the only thing wrong in my peaceful religion is the not-so-peaceful-Hadeeth. So I left the traditional hateful Sunni sect, and became a Qur’an only Muslim. You can’t be a terrorist without mentioning some Hadeeths or fatwas, and you definitely can’t be one mentioning only verses from the Qur’an, especially if you know their context by heart…
One last thing: “The problem” is not Muslims. As stated in this article, “The problem” supposedly was Jews according to Hitler. Because some Judaic sects had some rich people in them and because ‘stealing’ money with asking intrests as their religion, contrary to Christianity and Islam, allowed them to.
Stop generalizing, generalizing is the first step to hatred. ISIS logically follows millions of people in the west condemning random Muslims.
I’m a M.A. Theology student.
And I’d love to hear from you
I hesitated dignifying your comments since you felt the need to attribute ridiculous quotes to me at the beginning (really?) to make some kind of point…
However, despite this foolishness some of your other commentary is interesting.
If you find yourself having to defend your religion on a daily basis, perhaps the questions you should be asking yourself are – why are people upset at Islam? What is causing Islam to be viewed in such a negative way but a not insignificant percentage of the population of the country you live in/the West, etc? From what you have said above, you have a very different interpretation of the Qur’an than many Muslims. I prefer your version, but I also think we’re deluding ourselves if we pretend that yours is the majority view.
It’s interesting that you chose to follow a version of Islam that many of your co-religionists would consider to make you a “bad Muslim”. Why continue to be a Muslim at all if you reject a substantial portion of the teachings? Wouldn’t just being spiritual and fully embracing things like freedom, equality and peace while rejecting the institutionalized aspects of Islam provide you with equal comfort? If Islam is so flexible as you say…why is it so fixated with conversion of kaffirs, and killing apostates? These are disturbing realities for most Westerners.
I forgot to mention – No I did not “misuse” any words, as you suggest. I was referring to the liberal (i.e. non-Muslim) apologists who attach blame to the US and Western civilization and it’s perceived perfidy in international relations, etc, etc. I don’t have time to teach you more about these people, but no doubt many of them are your friends, so striking up conversations with them will likely clarify this for you. Alternatively a google search will undoubtedly reveal further information on these self-loathing people, as well as articles and blogs written by them. Unlike in Muslim countries – the West does allow freedom of speech and expression…
Additionally, I reserve my empathy for the victims of your abhorrent religion. Turning this around to make Muslims the victims (with virtually no evidence to suggest this claim has any merit) when their co-religionists are the ones decapitating people in the street, bombing marathons, shooting soldiers at war memorials, and butchering rabbis while they pray in synagogues is disgraceful. Shame on you.
The only thing this article is asking for is that Muslims be accorded the same human rights and religious liberty as others. Islam is almost unique in being judged purely by the most extreme and hateful self-described members of that religion. Meanwhile, people in America lose their jobs or face censure for trying to call attention to violent acts of Christian extremism.
You’re right in a way, that societys often have long established customs of hatred, bigotry, and racism. Here in the United States one such “tradition” led to slavery, countless deaths from violence, and centuries of oppression that we’re only now just beginning to overcome in some of the most rudimentary ways. I am surprised that this custom is one you’d want to cling to so proudly, however.
You’ve either misunderstood or misquoted me, or both. Not once did I suggest we hold on to anything negative from our past. Yet again another deflection – this isn’t about what may or may not have been done in the past by other cultures or religions. Certainly all manner of awful things were committed in the name of other ideologies and religions. So what? I’ll be the first to agree that it did. Yes, there are other “extremists” and violent people out there. Got it.
This is about Islam, and it’s incompatibility with Western liberal society, culture and democracy.
Perhaps you will be lucky and they will cut your throat last. I pity the naïve left.
This idea that all, or even a majority of Muslims are cutting off heads and slitting throats is pure imperialist fantasy. It signifies a person who is deeply disconnected from reality, or at the very least has only learned about Islam from Fox News and the Daily Mail.
I never said they were, a closer reading of my comment would make that fact plainly obvious. The fact that you need to twist words to make any point whatsoever speaks volumes.
I’ve lived and worked in Muslim countries. Have you? I research and study Islam professionally on a daily basis. What authoritative and learned sources do you consult, then, to develop your personal view? As per usual the left can only deride sources without providing any credible evidence to support their position. Brushing off debate with flippant remarks is very amateurish. (and shows you’ve lost)
I’d love to see Muslims grow spiritually and start seeing Islam as something to find the inner self as the Sufi order does. This is the Jihad stated in the Qur’an, the war against yourself.
Most Muslims still think women dressing in ten layers of curtains are described in the Qur’an. Not true, those dress-codes are described in the Sharia law, something written hundreds of years after Muhammad’s death and the revelation of the Qur’an.
The Sharia law and Hadeeths should be considered as historical texts to be studies by historians so we can see the barbarity and past mistakes our religious community has made. And not to impose them once again on Muslims after hundreds of years. If all Muslims dropped their sacred historical and cultural lessons, and instead replaced them with only what the Qur’an teaches. We would live to see an end to all this hatred against each other…
Qur’an only Islam. That’s my true meaning of Islam or ‘peaceful’ in Arabic…
I’m never going to apologize for what some psychotic sociopaths are doing in the Middle East! Especially not because they have a diffrent set of beliefs.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22356306 – One article (the only one about this ever), and if you have the scientific insight, the numbers of Muslims persecuted will shock you, they are far greater than all the casualties inflicted by terrorist organizations!
These are also Buddhists, but with a completely diffrent set of beliefs than most Buddhists. The same can be said for the ‘Muslims’ fighting everything because they’re mentally ill and dangerously insane….
Think for your self people!!! Don’t let the media and hate think for you.
That is an interesting article, although it’s not the only reporting on the topic. Although I had not read it before I was aware of the situation from other reporting in the media (I can’t recall exactly where). While I agree that violence in the name of religion is unacceptable, I think pointing fingers and saying “yeah well those guys are doing it too!!!” is not all that helpful when the point of the discussion was to address Islam.
I think every Muslim would very well served to read this thoughtful and well-written article:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4894/beautifying-islam
O’m definitely not trying to say they did it too so we’re allowed to. I’m simply showing you the influence of the media on regarding this issue.
You’re right about their spirituality harming others though I can guarantee you this was not the case in the Arabic lands before the gulf war and the CIA interfering with the whole situation and systematically arming terrorists have escalated a sensible issue regarding the sunni/shia teachings. It was a ticking bomb waiting to explode (pun somehow intended)…
The medieval church went through the same problems. We simply had no media back then to sensationalize and escalate the whole situation, so we know less about it but according to what I’ve studied thoroughly the revolution the Christians suffered is now being suffered by Muslims. It may seem like a reversed revolution. But many news agencies systematically ‘forget’ to mention all the Muslims suffering from terrorist and they always show the one or 2 special cases supporting it.
I personally know people who somehow support ISIS and it’s been made clear to me that those people are brainwashed to an extent where you start questioning their mental health. Not the religion itself. Although Muslims around the world should start questioning their clerics and religious authorities en masse. The Qur’an is rarely, if ever, used to justify terrorist attacks… It’s the Islam who the people livin in fear and hate have build up that justifies just that.
Playing the blame game isn’t my way of justifying their terrorist and sociopathic behavior, it’s my way of saying all religions went through what the Qur’an is now going trough. It will heal itself with time. And the sensation in the media definitely isn’t helping. It’s helping terrorists oil up their massive propaganda machine.
hope this made some sense…
Quran tells us to: “not to make friends with Jews and Christians”(5:51), fight them “until they pay the Jizya (a penalty tax for the non-Muslims living under Islamic rules) with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” ( 9:29). “kill the disbelievers wherever we find them” (2:191), “murder them and treat them harshly” (9:123),”fight and slay the Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem” ( 9:5).
Quran says that all those who disbelieve in Islam go to hell (5:10), they are najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (9:28), and orders us to fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left (2:193). It prohibits a Muslim to befriend a non-believer even if that non-believer is the father or the brother of that Muslim (9:23), (3:28).
It says that the “non-believers will go to hell and will drink boiling water” (14:17). It asks the Muslims to “slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace and that they shall have great punishment in the world hereafter” (5:34). And tells us that “for them (the unbelievers) garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods” (22:19-22) and that they not only will have “disgrace in this life, on the Day of Judgment He shall make them taste the Penalty of burning (Fire)” (22:9).
Quran says that “those who invoke a god other than Allah not only should meet punishment in this world but the Penalty on the Day of Judgment will be doubled to them, and they will dwell therein in ignominy” (25:68). For those who “believe not in Allah and His Messenger, He has prepared, for those who reject Allah, a Blazing Fire!” (48:13).
As for him who does not believe in Islam the Prophet says that after he dies it will be announced with a “stern command”: “Seize ye him, and bind ye him, And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire. Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits! This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High. And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent! So no friend hath he here this Day. Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds, Which none do eat but those in sin.” (69:30-37)
The holy Prophet prescribes fighting for us and tells us that “it is good for us even if we dislike it” (2:216). Then he advises us to “strike off the heads of the disbelievers”; and after making a “wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives” (47:4). Our God has promised to “instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers” and has ordered us to “smite above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them” (8:12). and “to strike terror into (the hearts of the enemies”(8:60).
He has made the Jihad mandatory and warns us that “Unless we go forth, (for Jihad) He will punish us with a grievous penalty, and put others in our place” (9:39). Allah speaks to our Holy Prophet and says “O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be stern against them. Their abode is Hell,- an evil refuge indeed” (9:73).
He promises us that in the fight for His cause whether we slay or are slain we return to the garden of Paradise (9:111). In Paradise he will “wed us with Houris (celestial virgins) pure beautiful ones” (56:54), and unite us with large-eyed beautiful ones while we recline on our thrones set in lines (56:20). There we are promised to eat and drink pleasantly for what we did (56:19). And have sex with “boys like hidden pearls” (56:24) and”youth never altering in age like scattered pearls” (76:19)
FRIEND I TOO LOVE MUSLIMS DRESS AND DONT HATE MUSLIMS BUT STILL MUSLIMS READ QUARAN AND FEEL MOHD AS GODS MESSENGER TERRORISM CANT GET OVER,QUARAN CONTAINS MANY CONTRADICTING VERSES OF GOOD AND BAD,ITS BETTER ACCEPT ALLAH AS GOD AND DEEDS AS RELIGION MEANS ONLY GOOD DEEDS SHALL TAKE U TO HEAVEN NOT BY BEING A MUSLIM,HINDU,CHRISTAIN
First of all, like most Westerners I have every sympathy for Muslims painted with the same brush regarding extremism, but notice the irony that the writer is doing the very same thing! In fairness, most people have been exceedingly patient with the Muslim community. I find the term Islamophobia a gag on critical feedback. Islam doesn’t allow critique and therein lies the problem. Christian communities and secular communities both are open to critique because it is viewed as a positive thing overall. We develop and grow that way. See the difference? I am not going to criticise on this occasion the Muslim community. When the writer spoke of the vandalism of mosques in the UK, it reminded me that the Uk allows them be built! In Saudi Arabia there are 1.1 million Christians and they are not allowed church, cross or bible in the country. Millions of Christians have been driven out of the Middle East, the same has not happened to Muslims, it hasn’t even got close to how bad things are for Christians there. But you are a perfect example of how Muslims view non-Muslims, you only care what happens to your own. When you start challenging how Christians are mistreated in the Middle East then I will take your rant seriously.
Yasmin Ahmed says “After 9/11, and the purported responsibility of Islam as the event’s driving ideology, it could have been predicted that there would be anti-Muslim sentiments.” Why be so shy with the truth, giving barely a hint of it with that weasel-word “purported”? 9/11 was an inside job. If you want the details, go to the site of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. What Muslims should feel bad about is that so many of them have believed that 9/11 was done by Muslims, albeit of an unusually demented sort. But if 9/11 was an anti-Muslim false-flag operation, primarily the work of dual-citizen US and Israeli Jews — and Christopher Bollyn’s website clearly shows that it was, as does Zander C Fuerza’s “Masters of Deception” — then the best thing Muslims can do in their self-interest is to let the truth be known. If 9/11 was false-flag, it is but natural that ISIS is more of the same. Just see what the Voltaire Network has revealed about Senator McCain’s close links to the leaders of ISIS. And has McCain been punished for this? Hell no. McCain is working for the same empire that Obama is serving, only more fanatically. Yasmin Ahmed’s piece, despite her protestations, is far too timid with the truth. It certainly looks like an apology — where fury would be more appropriate.
lQuran tells us to: “not to make friends with Jews and Christians”(5:51), fight them “until they pay the Jizya (a penalty tax for the non-Muslims living under Islamic rules) with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” ( 9:29). “kill the disbelievers wherever we find them” (2:191), “murder them and treat them harshly” (9:123),”fight and slay the Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem” ( 9:5).
Quran says that all those who disbelieve in Islam go to hell (5:10), they are najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (9:28), and orders us to fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left (2:193). It prohibits a Muslim to befriend a non-believer even if that non-believer is the father or the brother of that Muslim (9:23), (3:28).
It says that the “non-believers will go to hell and will drink boiling water” (14:17). It asks the Muslims to “slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace and that they shall have great punishment in the world hereafter” (5:34). And tells us that “for them (the unbelievers) garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods” (22:19-22) and that they not only will have “disgrace in this life, on the Day of Judgment He shall make them taste the Penalty of burning (Fire)” (22:9).
Quran says that “those who invoke a god other than Allah not only should meet punishment in this world but the Penalty on the Day of Judgment will be doubled to them, and they will dwell therein in ignominy” (25:68). For those who “believe not in Allah and His Messenger, He has prepared, for those who reject Allah, a Blazing Fire!” (48:13).
As for him who does not believe in Islam the Prophet says that after he dies it will be announced with a “stern command”: “Seize ye him, and bind ye him, And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire. Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits! This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High. And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent! So no friend hath he here this Day. Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds, Which none do eat but those in sin.” (69:30-37)
The holy Prophet prescribes fighting for us and tells us that “it is good for us even if we dislike it” (2:216). Then he advises us to “strike off the heads of the disbelievers”; and after making a “wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives” (47:4). Our God has promised to “instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers” and has ordered us to “smite above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them” (8:12). and “to strike terror into (the hearts of the enemies”(8:60).
He has made the Jihad mandatory and warns us that “Unless we go forth, (for Jihad) He will punish us with a grievous penalty, and put others in our place” (9:39). Allah speaks to our Holy Prophet and says “O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be stern against them. Their abode is Hell,- an evil refuge indeed” (9:73).
He promises us that in the fight for His cause whether we slay or are slain we return to the garden of Paradise (9:111). In Paradise he will “wed us with Houris (celestial virgins) pure beautiful ones” (56:54), and unite us with large-eyed beautiful ones while we recline on our thrones set in lines (56:20). There we are promised to eat and drink pleasantly for what we did (56:19). And have sex with “boys like hidden pearls” (56:24) and”youth never altering in age like scattered pearls” (76:19)
There is over 6200 verses of this in the Qur’an !!!!
did this parts fall out of your book???
29) O ye who believe! eat not up your property
among yourselves in vanities: but let there be
amongst you traffic and trade by mutual good-
will: nor kill yourselves: for verily Allah hath been to you Most Merciful.
Quran 5:69 says (Arberry): “Surely they that believe, and those of
Jewry, and the Christians, and those Sabeaans, whoso believes in God and
the Last Day, and works righteousness–their wage waits them with their
Lord, and no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow.”
5:82. ” . . . and you will find the nearest in love to the believers
[Muslims] those who say: ‘We are Christians.’ That is because amongst
them are priests and monks, and they are not proud.”
5:53 says, “… whoso kills a soul, unless it be for murder or for
wreaking corruption in the land, it shall be as if he had killed all
mankind; and he who saves a life, it shall be as if he had given life to
all mankind.”
“There is no compulsion in religion. The right way has become distinct from error.” (-The Cow, 2:256).
WELL SEE AGAIN SAYING SO UR MOHD WAS A CONFUSED MAN WHO WROTE CONTRADICTING VERSES FOR WHICH THE WHOLE WORLD IS FACING TERRORISM,SO SHALL U AGREE ON THIS AND HE WAS NOT A GODS MESSENGER AS GOD CANT CHANGE HIS STAND SO OFTEN
well how shall the author defend the writing in quran to kill the unbelievers,rape slaves,marry 4 wifes etc,please let the world see what is islam and dont more try to fool people,let all know the truth
There is over 6200 verses of this in the Qur’an !!!!
29) O ye who believe! eat not up your property
among yourselves in vanities: but let there be
amongst you traffic and trade by mutual good-
will: nor kill yourselves: for verily Allah hath been to you Most Merciful.
Quran 5:69 says (Arberry): “Surely they that believe, and those of
Jewry, and the Christians, and those Sabeaans, whoso believes in God and
the Last Day, and works righteousness–their wage waits them with their
Lord, and no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow.”
5:82. ” . . . and you will find the nearest in love to the believers
[Muslims] those who say: ‘We are Christians.’ That is because amongst
them are priests and monks, and they are not proud.”
5:53 says, “… whoso kills a soul, unless it be for murder or for
wreaking corruption in the land, it shall be as if he had killed all
mankind; and he who saves a life, it shall be as if he had given life to
all mankind.”
“There is no compulsion in religion. The right way has become distinct from error.” (-The Cow, 2:256).