It became obvious to me that Muslims are accepted by all the people of the world yet our prophet wants us to hate them, to disassociate ourselves from them, to force them into our way of life or kill them, subdue them and make them pay Jizya.  How silly!  How pathetic!  How inhumane!  No wonder there is so much inexplicable hate of the West and of the Jews among Muslims.  It was Muhammad who inseminated the hate and the distrust of the non-believers among his followers.  How can Muslims integrate with other nations while holding these hateful messages of the Qur’an as the words of God?

There are many Muslims who immigrate to non-Muslim countries and are received with open arms.  Many of them get into politics and become part of the ruling elite.  We suffer no discrimination in the non-Islamic countries.  But see how our holy prophet tells us to deal with non-Muslims where we are the majority:

 Q.9: 29
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

I also find the following verses completely against my conscience.  I love all humanity and wish everyone to be happy in this world and forgiven in the next.  But my holy prophet bade me not to seek forgiveness for the unbelievers even if they are my parents and beloved ones.

(Interpretation of the meaning by Muhsin Khan):

Q.9: 113
It is not (proper) for the Prophet and those who believe to ask Allaah’s forgiveness for the mushrikeen, even though they be of kin, after it has become clear to them that they are the dwellers of the Fire (because they died in state of disbelief).

Qur’an and hadith are full of outrageous verses like these that, to me, are clear proof that Muhammad was not a prophet, but a cult leader.  To force people to denounce their own family is what cults do.  He was an impostor who lied so loudly and so forcefully that the ignorant people of his time believed in him. Then the following generations echoed these lies passing them to the next.  Philosophers and writers were born in this atmosphere of lies and elaborated on them, embellished them, and made them credible.  But when you go to the core of the religion, when you read the Qur’an and study the hadith you see they are nothing but pure nonsense.  Rumi was a great poet and a mystic, he tried to give Islam mystical significance that it lacked.  But what Rumi said is Rumi's thinking. The Qur’an is bereft of mystical meanings.  Muhammad's concept of religion and god was extremely primitive.  Why Rumi, Attar,  Sohravardi or other mystics strive to attribute meanings to senseless verses of the Qur’an has to do with their upbringing as Muslim kids.  On one hand, unlike the more rationalist thinkers such as Ar Razi, they could not denounce Islam altogether for it was ingrained in their subconscious mind.  Nothing is more difficult to get rid of than religion.  This is truly the most potent narcotic if it is administered to a person from childhood.  Yet as intelligent people, it was not possible for these great minds to accept the Qur’an at face value.  Therefore they tried to find esoteric meanings in meaningless verses of the Qur’an and it was they who gave birth to a new religion that had nothing to do with what was taught by Muhammad.  Yet this religion was palatable to those with brains.

Thus we have two Islams.  One that strives to attribute mystical significance and otherworldly meanings to the inane teachings of the Qur’an, as is professed by Sufis, and the other that rejects any interpretation of these verses beyond their literal meanings, as is practiced by the majority of Muslims with their hub in Saudi Arabia among the Wahhabis.  And, of course, there are a myriad of sects between these two extremes, each interpreting the Qur’an according to their own whims and caprices, each calling others mortad or heretics and constantly making war among themselves to impose their own "pure" version of Islam on others. 

However, the real Islam is not what its philosophers and mystics have inferred but what is in the Qur’an and that is the Islam of the fundamentalist and the terrorist.  The real Islam is the Islam that abuses women, allows men to beat their wives, imposes penalty tax on religious minorities, wants to dominate the world by subduing all non-Muslims, calls for Jihad, and killing of non-believers until Islam becomes the only dominant religion of the World. 

My rejection of Islam is not based on the bad deeds of the Muslims but on the bad teachings of its holy book and on the bad deeds of its founder.  Many cruelties and heinous acts of violence, perpetrated by Muslims throughout the centuries were inspired by the Qur’an and the Sunnah (the examples of the prophet).  That is why I condemn ISLAM for the bad things that Muslims do.  Any effort to humanize Islam is a waste of time.  The obstacle to any reform is Qur’an.  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 first and second world wars combined.  Eradication of Islam means restoring peace among humanity and civility, democracy and prosperity in the Muslim world.