Islam Is
The Real Source of Violence.
Human rights abuses happen in many
countries, but never to the proportion and the magnitude of what is
happening in Iran and other Islamic countries. In the last few years, and
with no little thanks to the Islamic Revolution of Iran, I noticed that
the major human right abuses are perpetrated in the name of religion. I
became concerned for the plight of my people in Iran and her neighboring
countries and decided to investigate the cause. I asked myself whether all
this is because the gentle and peaceful message of Islam is misunderstood
and whether there is a way to revive the pure Islam and save my country.
It was in this quest that I realized, to my chagrin, that the human right
abuses are not deviations from the true Islam but they ARE teachings of
Islam.
I realized that in Islam, Man has no rights! All
the rights are reserved for Allah. Man has only duties. Among his duties,
he has to pray five times a day, believe in the religion of Allah and
submit his will, thoughts and intelligence to him. Any independence from
Allah, even at the level of thought is punishable by beating, imprisonment
and death.
All the Islamic countries have signed the 1948
Universal Declaration of Human Rights; despite that gross violations of
human rights happen in almost all of them. The reason is – the laws of
Quran and Sharia take precedence over the human rights whenever they are
in conflict.
You are in violation of the laws of Quran and
Sharia if you apostatize. Apostasy is the biggest sin that Allah cannot
forgive. If you decide to turn your back to Islam, you must be killed. The
prophet himself killed those who rejected him after they had accepted him
and there are many verses in Quran from which the Islamic governments can
get their guidelines in killing the apostates. (Q.
2:39,,
3:90-91,
4:89
, 9:66)
If you apostatize your marriage with your wife is
annulled and your relationship with her is adulterous, which means not
only you should be killed for heresy, your wife also should be stoned to
death for adultery.
If you are a woman you cannot marry a non-Muslim,
or both of you could face death.
If you belong to a religious minority; a Christian
or a Jew, you may live but not before paying a penalty tax. This tax that
is called Jizyah could be as high as half of your income. This was the
amount that the Prophet exacted from the Jews of the Kheibar after he
raided that town and killed many of their able men, taking as sex-slaves
and maids their young and pretty women.
Torture in Islamic countries is common but it is
also inspired by what the Prophet did. Muhammad is reported to have
employed torture to force his victims reveal the information that he
needed.
The oldest biography of Muhammad called the “Sirat Rasulallah On page
515, tells of
Muhammad’s conquest of Kheibar. He ambushed this city without any
provocation, and. “Kinana al-Rabi, who had the custody of the treasure
of Banu Nadir, was brought to the apostle who asked him about it. He
denied that he knew where it was. A Jew came (Tabari says “was
brought”), to the apostle and said that he had seen Kinana going round a
certain ruin every morning early. When the apostle said to Kinana, “Do
you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?” He said,
“Yes”. The apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and
some of the treasure was found. When he asked him about the rest he
refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr Al-Awwam,
“Torture him until you extract what he has.” So he kindled a fire with
flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle
delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and he struck off his head, in
revenge for his brother Mahmud.”
One wonders why the same angle Gabriel who told the Prophet about the plot
of the Banu Nadir against his life, a plot that no one heard of except the
Prophet, thus giving him the excuse to exterminate that tribe and
confiscate all their property, did not come to tell him where the treasure
was hidden, forcing the impeccable and compassionate mercy of God
amongst men to commit such horrendous act with another human being?
Muhammad himself raped the captured women in his raids. Rayhana and Safiya
from the Jewish tribes of Banu Quraiza and Banu Nadir were the shares of
the Prophet and were allotted to him before other Muslim warriors could
get their share of their sex slaves.
Assassinations is the preferred Method of the Islamic regime of Iran.
Hundreds of dissidents, whether inside of Iran or outside, have been
eliminated in this way. Not surprisingly it was Muhammad who set the
example. More than a dozen of people were assassinated by the followers of
Muhammad and at his behest. One of them was a centenarian man called Abu
Afak whose crime was to mock the Prophet in a poem. Another one was Asma
Bint Marwan who composed a lyric cursing the Arabs for letting Muhammad
get away with his crimes. The Prophet asked: “Who will get me rid of
her”?. “Umayr b. Adiy al-Khatmi who was with him heard him, and that
very night he went to her house and killed her. In the morning he came to
the apostle and told him what he had done and he [Muhammad] said, “You
have helped God and His apostle, O Umayr!” When he asked if he would
have to bear any evil consequences the apostle said, “Two goats won’t
butt their heads about her”.
Asma was the mother of 5 small children. When her
assassin came to take her life, she was asleep and her suckling baby next
to her.
Every torture, every cruelty, every inhumanity
perpetrated by Muslims in authority is inspired by the words and the deeds
of the Prophet and can be found in Quran and hadith, the two sources of
guidance for over a billion Muslims worldwide.
This is a long subject and one could write a book
about it. Human rights violations cannot stop while Islam dominates the
minds and the hearts of these people. The violence perpetrated by the
Muslims is not limited to the Islamic countries. Although the Muslims are
the primary victims of this cult, the West is not immune to Islamic
terrorism. With the growth of the Muslim population in European and
American countries, the inhabitants of these two continents could expect
to see more terrorisms, World Trade Center style, and more loss of
innocent lives.
The United States, Canada and all the European
countries expend millions and millions of dollars to counter terrorism.
But the sad reality is that Islamic terrorism is not the problem but the
symptom of the problem. It is Islam that rears terrorists. You fight one
terrorist group, ten more emerge from beneath the rock. “Fundamentalism
is the poisonous branch of the poisonous tree of Islam” says Taslima
Nasrin, the Bangali doctor who’s death is now decreed by the Muslim
Ulama, “as long as the tree is standing these poisonous branches will
keep shooting out”. To
eliminate Islamic terrorism we have no option but to eliminate Islam.
Despite the anger and the threats of violence by
the Muslim fundamentalists, Islam is a very vulnerable religion. The
majority of Muslims are not aware of the inhumane teachings of Islam. The
best part of them will leave Islam once they learn the bitter truth about
it.
This is why I have dedicated my energy and life and
have embarked on the self imposed mission to introduce the real Islam to
the world, stop this insanity, bring common sense, call for unity of human
kind, promote equality of the genders and advance reason and commonsense.
I have created the Rational Thinking site that is
taking many hours of my life every day. I feel that I am responsible for
those women who are murdered by their relatives in the barbaric and
inexplicable ritual of honor killings, while their killers walk with
impunity and even admired by the fanatic populace. I am responsible for
the lost lives of the little children that are sold as slaves in Sudan by
Muslim slave merchants, who find the justification of their actions in the
words and the examples of the Prophet of Islam. I am responsible for the
inhumane treatment of the women in the hands of their husbands because
Muhammad told men to beat their wives in order to make them obedient (Q. 4:
34). I am responsible for the lives of those who are executed
because they have changed their religion and became Baha’is, Christians
or Ahmadis. I am responsible for the thousands of Indonesian Christians
who are taken by Muslim Mujaheds and under the threat of decapitation are
forced to convert and men and women undergo the inhumane ritual of genital
mutilation as the sign of their initiation in there imposed religion. I am
responsible for hundreds of lives of the intellectuals who have died in
recent years in typical Islamic chain executions from which the Japanese
Italian and Norwegian translators of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses did
not escape. And the Japanese interpreter was killed. I am responsible for
the bombings in America, Europe and Israel by Muslim fanatics. I am
responsible for the lost lives and the dismemberment of innocent
bystanders that are killed in human bomb explosions in Israel, for the
victims and the victimizers alike who are also victims of their stupidity
and bigoted mindset. I am responsible…. Nay indeed we are all
responsible to stop this insanity before millions of people lose their
lives in a most unthinkable act of religious frenzy called Jihad.
In a world that has become so technologically
advanced that even the poorest nations that cannot feed themselves boast
having sophisticated nuclear and biological weapons, small
misunderstandings can cause catastrophic results. Religion is, as it has
always been, the biggest source of misunderstanding. For religion,
people are ready to die and destroy everything else. Only a religious
person would believe that he would go to paradise if he kills another
person. Only a religious person has no regards for the lives he willingly
destroys because their faith is not right. “Men never do evil so
completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
–Pascal
It is this burning desire to save my fellow human
being from the torments of a false doctrine that has made me dedicate my
life in writing about the fallacies of Islam and exposing this most great
obstacle in the road of human freedom.
My plan is to write a report/book linking all the
human right abuses taking place in the name of Islam, whether in those
countries that Muslims are in majority or where they are in minority to
the Quran, and the Sunnah (recoded deeds) of the Prophet.
I realize that the conventional wisdom demands
staying away from the founders of the religions and concentrate on the
abusing followers. But I have a more maverick view than other freedom
fighters and human rights activists. I am of the opinion that most human
right abuses in Islamic countries are rooted in the antiquated and
impractical belief of Islam and once Islam is weakened and is no more
supported by the majority of educated Muslims, the ignorant masses will
lose their stamina and Islam will be relegated as the belief of a bunch of
old uneducated people easing its barbarity and loosening its fangs.
I understand that in this day and age it is
politically incorrect to criticize the beliefs of someone else. But I do
not agree with that! In my school of thought, PEOPLE are sacred beliefs
are not. Beliefs must be scrutinized, analyzed, questioned, probed and if
found wanting discarded. But people must be respected; their lives
protected, their liberty guaranteed, their rights uphold and their freedom
of thought and expression ensured.
One could write a book taking the examples of the
human right abuses in the Islamic world and trace each and every one of
them back to the Prophet himself. It was what he said and what he did that
is inspiring the Muslim fundamentalists to destroy the statute of Buddha
in Bamyan, to cut the fingers and hands of petty thieves, to lapidate
women, to flagellate the intellectuals, to murder the apostates, to rape
the women as the Pakistani Muslim soldiers did in its 1971 war with the
Bangladeshi women and to enslave humans and sell them as they are doing in
Sudan and even in Saudi Arabia as sex slaves.
I am convinced that to view the problem of
violation of human rights in Islamic countries under any other light than
what was mentioned in this article is missing the point and not addressing
the real issue. Any time and recourse dedicated to expose this despotic
president or that criminal Mullah is a waste of time. The problem is in
the teachings of Quran and in the examples that its author set for Muslims
to emulate. People must learn the truth, then no Mullah would be able to
beguile them and no dictator can use religion as the pretext to rouse them
in violence.
Ali Sina
April 2001
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