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Islamic History
hasn't been ALL bad either. There are many examples of good Islamic
societies. During the height of the Caliphate in Baghdad, Jews and
Christians lived in peace as compared to the persecution of faith that
went on in Europe at that time. There was a flowering of literature
and philosophy and many examples of great 'free spirits' who
flourished under Islamic Society, such as (off the top of my head)
Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Ibn Sina, Al-Jahiz and many, many others.
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What these have to do with
Islam? If the Abbasids were tolerant rulers this is not because of what
Muhammad taught. Today you claim to be a tolerant person and you also claim to
be a Muslim but you cannot find any justification for your tolerance in Quran.
You are tolerant because of your own personal values and because your
understanding of Islam is not complete. That is the case with the Abassids
too.
What the talents and
achievements of Rumy, Ibn Arabi, Ibn Sina and other luminaries born as Muslims
have to do with Islam? Does Quran teach Algebra, Chemistry, Biology or
Astronomy? Muhammad made a mistake in parting
the inheritance. This guy could not add simple fractions. Why you want to
credit Islam for the achievements of these great minds? Our people had a
culture and a civilization that predated Islam by thousands of years. It is
amazing that we call our own architecture, art, science and literature
“Islamic”. What is Islamic about them? We even call Arabic names Islamic.
What do you think Arabs used to call themselves before Islam? I noticed that
Pakistanis and Bengalis have Persian names and they call these purely Iranian
names like Parviz, Afrasiab, Sardar, Kamran, etc. “Islamic”. This is
amazing. Please, give credit where credit is due. What our people created with
their own talents and genius is not Islamic. It is ours. The accomplishments
of our luminaries are no more Islamic than the theories of Einstein and
Hawking are Jewish and Christian.
What Islam did for art?
What it did for music? What
the prophet say about the poets? What were his views on economy?
How much he knew about agriculture? He once said it is useless to pollinate
the female date trees with male flowers. Then when the trees did not produce
dates he said I am just a man and I make mistakes. This man knew nothing about anything. That is why those who believe in
him have
sunk into fanaticism and have not advanced.
What happened to Ibn Sina
and Ar Razi? They were called apostates and their philosophical books were
banned. Ar Razy wrote a tome on rationalism and rejected the mumbo jumbo of
religion. His book was destroyed. All is left are fragments of his sayings in a
book of refutation to him. In Islam the freethinking is discouraged. If it weren’t
for Islam most likely we would have the enlightenment happen in Iran 400 years
before it took place in Europe. Imagine where would we be now if we had
achieved what we achieved 400 years ago. We shall never know the extent of the
damage that Islam caused to the world of humanity. Just think all the
libraries and books that the Islamic forces burned. Who knows how much human
knowledge was lost then. I had an Iranian who challenged me to show him one
great Iranian poet prior to Islam. He wanted me to produce what his savage
masters destroyed 1400 years ago. Now he claims that prior to Islam there were
no great minds in our country as if we have to thank Islam for great men of
our land who only were born after Islam. This brainwashed man does not ask
himself how Iran became a great world power if it did not have any great
minds. How can I produce the evidence when Muslims invaders destroyed all the
evidence?
Once
upon a time Iran was one of the
great powers of the world. We were one of the
contributors to human civilization. My people wrote the first charter of human
rights. We banned slavery completely 2500 years ago. Women ruled our great
land. All nations that were part of our vast empire were free to practice
their religion. This is mentioned in the Bible. We believed in the benevolent
Ahura Mazda the god of light and practiced good words, good deeds and good
thoughts.
But today we have forsaken
our god of light and follow the sadistic deity of Muhammad who craves for
blood and calls for the heads of those who do not want to submit to his
despotic authority. Today we are a poor thirds world country sinking deeper
and deeper day after day. Human rights are inexistent, women are second-class
citizens, minorities are persecuted, poverty is rampant and we are known as a
nation of terrorists. This is what Islam has given us.
Look at our countries; all
Islamic counties; look at us! See how miserable, barbaric and pitiful are our
societies. Show me one Islamic country that is not in war. If we are not
fighting with others, we are fighting among each other. What do you expect
from a people who are brought up to believe that “paradise is under the
shade of the sword”? What do you expect of the ignorant people that eulogize
martyrdom and celebrate death? What do you expect from the society that its
spiritual leader (Khomeini) says: “Economy is for the donkey”? What do you
expect from a society that dresses up a toddler as suicide bomber and take
pride in their own stupidity? What do you expect of a society that massacres 3
million of his own people (Pakstanis in Bangladesh) and their spiritual leader
issues the fatwa that rapping the Bengali women is acceptable according the
Sharia and the Sunna of the Prophet. Now please don’t say he was wrong
because he based his fatwa on this Quranic verse:
4:24
Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those (captives) whom
your right hands possess.
Or see this story of
Muhammad’s raid of Kheybar where he gives permission to his followers to
enslave war captives and rape them, Sahih
Bukhari 1.367
Or this one
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Volume
7, Book 62, Number 137:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
We got female captives in the war booty and we used to do coitus
interruptus with them. So we asked Allah's Apostle about it and he
said, "Do you really do that?" repeating the question
thrice, "There is no soul that is destined to exist but will come
into existence, till the Day of Resurrection."
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Do you know what is coitus
interruptus? The followers of the Holy Prophet used to rape the women they
captured in their raids and withdraw before ejaculation. They report that to
the Holy Prophet (peace be upon his immaculate soul) and the only thing that
occurred to this man is that even if they withdraw and spill their semen on
the ground if Allah wills the women will become pregnant. Forget about the
stupidity of his statement; think about the inhumanity of this man.
These are not stories
narrated by Jews. These are stories counted by the followers of Muhammad,
people who believed in him and loved him. Would anyone fabricate damaging
stories such as these for the object of his adoration? These stories are true.
The Ahadith are filled with tales of inhumanity and barbarity of Muhammad. Is
this the man you call the prophet of God? Is this the person you follow?
Considering what Quran teaches
it is clear that one cannot be a Muslim and humane at the same time. Time has come that we separate the good people
from Muslims who truly follow Muhammad. Read the Quran this time with open
mind. Don’t try desperately to look for good in it rather look for the evil
in it because if Quran contains a thousand good things and one bad thing it
cannot be from God. But Quran contains a thousand bad things for one good
thing.
Don’t let the idea of
monotheism fool you. That is another fallacy that we shall discuss in another
occasion.
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