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Why is Islam so intolerant and violent?

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How refreshing to read the article by Yasmin Alibhai Brown excerpted below! A Muslim telling the truth about Islamic intolerance, hatred and violence, and commenters also telling the truth about Islam, for a change - will wonders never cease?

Blowback?

Note that this "intolerance" - infidelophobia - began with the Islamic movement's inception, long before Iraq, the modern state of Israel or any other alleged "blowback" transgressions. In this regard, some 270 million nonbelievers have been slaughtered in the past 1,400 years in the name of Islam. What's the "blowback" transgression of the Indians, for example, whose country was invaded centuries ago by Islamic warriors who massacred an estimated 80 million Hindus and Buddhists?

"What's the 'blowback' transgression of the Indians, whose country was invaded centuries ago by Islamic warriors who massacred an estimated 80 million Hindus and Buddhists?"

Infidelophobia in the Quran

The reason for all this hatred and violence is Islamic doctrine and texts themselves, which continually call for the deaths of and other abuses against nonbelievers/infidels.

"About sixty-one percent of the contents of the Koran are found to speak ill of the unbelievers or call for their violent conquest; at best only 2.6 percent of the verses of the Koran are noted to show goodwill toward humanity. About seventy-five percent of Muhammad's biography (Sira) consists of jihad waged on unbelievers."

--Dr. Moorthy Muthuswamy

(See the long list of infidelophobic Quranic/Koranic verses below.)

Islam is not a race

Note also that Islam is not a race; hence, criticizing Islam is not racism, and critics are not "racists."

'Islamophobia' is a bogus slur

Moreover, the word "Islamophobia" is a term glommed onto by Muslim jihadis and deliberately used in order to "beat down Islam's critics," according to a number of Muslim spokesmen themselves. We who object to Islam's cruel, brutal, bloody and hateful doctrines are not irrational bigots and "Islamophobes," and we resent the accusation and character assassination. All talk of banning "Islamophobia" and criticism of Islam represents an assault on and potential genocide of all nonbelievers. We will not submit. لن استسلم

"'Islamophobia' is a term glommed onto by Muslim jihadis and deliberately used in order to 'beat down Islam's critics.'"

How did modern Islam become so intolerant?

by Yasmin Alibhai Brown

In Allah’s name, what is wrong with us Muslims? And why do we find it so hard to ask that question of ourselves? What will it take to break the heavily curtained window of denial?...

...no injustice can excuse or explain the rise of brutal Islamicists. Palestine is their cynical, moral pretence. Racism? Black Afro-Caribbean men who suffer the worst discrimination in this country don’t set up terrorist cells. Muslim foreign policy rage is questionable too. Over many decades, Western meddling in, say, Zimbabwe or Kenya has led to some of the intractable, current problems in those nations. Again, Kenyans and Zimbabwean migrants to the UK aren’t cooking carnage in pots in their kitchens.

Religion is another fig leaf used by millions of Prophet Mohamed’s followers. Islam, they rightly contend, does not sanction the killing of civilians by hobbyists or leaders. However, by focusing on what the good texts say, Muslims avoid the reality of what Muslims do. I doubt even the most virtuous imam can point this out without being subjected to threats.

And while ever alert on Islamaphobia, organisations like the Muslim Council of Britain assiduously avoid looking at the willed ignorance and barbarism within Muslim communities around the world in states controlled by Muslims.

Take this last week, when Bangladesh erupted with anger and competing protests led to five deaths. Secularists demand punishment for the Bangladeshi men who committed atrocities in the 1971 war for independence from Pakistan. Some of the perpetrators were militant Muslim militia and are defended by an alliance of powerful Islamicist parties.

In Egypt, human rights groups claim children are being detained and tortured. The government has spent £1.7m on tear gas. In Tunisia, after the assassination of the popular secular leader Chokri Belaid, Ennahda, the hardline Islamic party, takes charge. Fifty-three more died in an explosion in Syria where over 70,000 have been killed in two years.

Islamic rebels in Mali, Nigeria and elsewhere carry on their nefarious, destabilising activities. Eighty-nine Shias were killed in Pakistan, whose first leader, Muhammad Jinnah, was a Shia, as am I. They want to obliterate us there, in Afghanistan, Kashmir, Bahrain, and Iraq too, where bombs go off routinely to kill these worshippers. Other minority Muslim groups are also targeted and often murdered.

Internal and external intolerance is now Islam’s brand. Those great past Muslim civilisations famous for diversity, humanity, science, extraordinary achievements have died. Education, the arts, photographs, television, sports, even work are denounced by crazed imams online and in mosques worldwide, including the UK. In Brittain’s book, some women took on these values, and in effect, imprisoned themselves.

Polymath Ziauddin Sardar has met “countless Muslim scholars, thinkers, writers and activists” who are impatient for change and reform. That can’t happen while there is an aversion to criticism and self-criticism.

Thoughtful and honest Muslims stay silent because they fear ostracisation or inciting more racism against Muslims – both real perils. But silence now is cowardly, and collusion with the corrupters of our faith. True believers have a duty to speak out against that corruption.

Regardless of the constant victim-playing, it is good to see this dialogue out in the open.

What does the Quran/Koran say about nonbelievers?

"This Book is not to be doubted.... As for the unbelievers, it is the same whether or not you forewarn them; they will not have faith. God has set a seal upon their hearts and ears; their sight is dimmed and grievous punishment awaits them." Quran 2:1/2:6-2:10

"God's curse be upon the infidels! Evil is that for which they have bartered away their souls. To deny God's own revelation, grudging that He should reveal His bounty to whom He chooses from among His servants! They have incurred God's most inexorable wrath. An ignominious punishment awaits the unbelievers." Quran 2:89-2:90

"Lord...Give us victory over the unbelievers." Quran 2:286

"Lord...give us victory over the unbelievers." Quran 3:147

"I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads, strike off the very tips of their fingers." Quran 8:12

"Let not the unbelievers think they will ever get away. They have not the power so to do. Muster against them all the men and cavalry at your command, so that you may strike terror into the enemy of Allah and your enemy..." Quran 8:59-60

"When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them." Quran 9:5

"Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate." Quran 9:73

"Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous." Quran 9:123

"Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends. They are friends with one another..." Quran 5:51

"He that chooses a religion over Islam, it will not be accepted from him and in the world to come he will be one of the lost." Quran 3:85

"Let not believers make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful - he that does this has nothing to hope for from Good - except in self-defense. God admonishes you to fear Him: for to God shall all return." Quran 3:28

"Garments of fire have been prepared for the unbelievers. Scalding water shall be poured upon their heads, melting their skins and that which is in their bellies. They shall be lashed with rods of iron.

"Whenever, in their anguish, they try to escape from Hell, back they shall be dragged, and will be told: 'Taste the torment of the Conflagration!'" Quran 22:19-20

"Muhammad is God's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another." Quran 48:29

"Those that deny Our revelations We will burn in fire. No sooner will their skins be consumed than We shall give them other skins, so that they may truly taste the scourge. God is mighty and wise." Quran 4:56

"Believers, know that the idolaters [non-Muslims] are unclean. Let them not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year is ended." Quran 9:28

"The unbelievers among the People of the Book [Bible] and the pagans shall burn for ever in the fire of Hell. They are the vilest of all creatures." Quran 98:6

Comments (9)
  • Jon Smetana  - Is That All There Is?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9kKf7SHco
    Peggy Lee:Is That All There Is?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NSIW1QNMj4
    Party Lights Claudine Clark

    Location, location, location is the key to the successful discovery of natural resources without which there's no successful production of goods.

    Location, location, location is the key to successful production of goods without which there's no successful retail store.

    Location, location, location is the key to a successful retail store without which there's no money.

    Long ago - thousands of years ago - the Jews picked up on the above three principles. While standing in the hot Middle Eastern desert with nothing in sight except sand, the Jews said to themselves, "Is that all there is, my friend? There's gotta be some place, somewhere, with something other than sand. How can we make a buck when there's nothing here to make and sell except goat cheese?"

    For some reason the Jews got the inkling to go West, and further West, until they ended up in Europe where they opened alot of retail stores and sold alot of stuff and made alot of money; because in the West there's lots of natural resourses which make the above three principles happen: location, location, location.

    But their Semitic Arabian cousins were stubborn and insisted on staying in the hot Middle Eastern sand where they made nothing and sold nothing - at least not on the scale that their Jewish cousins were in the West.

    Islam is the Arabian expression of hate for their very own stubborn insistance on staying in the Middle Eastern sand where for thousands of years they've been selling nothing but sandals and goat cheese, jealous of their Hebrew cousins playin' the slot machines on Wall Street, eating Gefilte fish in the neighborhood deli and making hot flicks in Hollywood.

    Islam is their demand for pleasure that can't be obtained.

    Islam is their hatred for their lousy location.

    That's why they're raiding Europe. I see the light. I see the light. I see the party light.


  • Pray Hard  - Well ...
    Some of the Muslims do have oil, but they didn't get it due to their own intelligence and ingenuity.

    But, they are too stupid and arrogant for introspection, so I'd bet that they will hate themselves forever, just like they do now.
  • Pray Hard  - Phobias ...
    I see the term "Islamophobia" as simply a meaningless, contrived, inapplicable word. It is only a slur if one has pc/mc angst. I'm not afraid of being described however a dhimmi, libtard or Muslim might describe me. Since a phobia is an irrational fear, Islamophobia is simply a nonsense word. Having a healthy fear of Islam/Muslims is perfectly sane. It reminds me of word games little kids play with each other, calling each other made up names, and is just about the emotional and intellectual level of Muslims. Now, if I'm afraid of pink unicorns, then I have a phobia. But, Muslims, not ...
  • Lucy
    "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."

    - Omar M. Ahmad, founder of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

    "I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation.”
    - Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR Spokesperson

    "I am a traitor to America because my religion requires me to be. We pledge to wage jihad for the rest of our lives until either we implant Islam all over the world or meet our Lord as bearers of Islam."
    - Samir Khan

    "Greater integration between Islam and the West depends on incorporation of Sharia law into the legal systems of Europe and the U.S."
    - Ground Zero Mosque Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf

    "Ultimately, we (Muslims) can never be full citizens of this country...because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country"
    - Ihsan Bagby, CAIR

    "No we don’t want to democratize Islam, we want to Islamize democracy" "We love you, America – and we want your children for Islam"
    - Islam on Capitol Hill.com

    "Once we gain power in Egypt, "we will launch a campaign of Islamic conquest, throughout the world"
    - Sheikh 'Adel Shehato, Senior official of Egyptian Islamic Jihad

    Islam Reality
  • Pray Hard  - Umma ...
    The Umma is the only thing Muslims have allegiance to and I don't mean Uma Thurman.

    Well, with Uma being blonde, I'm sure I could find tens of millions of Muslim men who'd ... never mind.
  • Pray Hard  - Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
    "Waslam" sounds much better to me.
  • Anonymous  - Religious.
    Seen on a bumper sticker recently.

    'God wants spiritual fruits,
    not religious nuts'
  • Pray Hard  - Mughalistan ...
    http://sheikyermami.com/2013/03/07/mughalistan-how-muslims-destroy-ind ia/
  • Finn  - Holy revelations?
    "God's curse be upon the infidels! Evil is that for which they have bartered away their souls. To deny God's own revelation, grudging that He should reveal His bounty to whom He chooses from among His servants! They have incurred God's most inexorable wrath. An ignominious punishment awaits the unbelievers." Quran 2:89-2:90

    Why is it that we deny the recognition of "The Words of Allah (God/Jahve)" as the hallucinations of a schizofrenic mind? If you went to see a psychiatrist telling her you hear a voice of thunder in your head speaking such damnations, you would most surely get a diagnose and pills and maybe be incarcerated as you would probably be considered dangerous to other people.
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