A Christian Arab, who grew up in
a Muslim Country
Excerpts from Brigitte Gabriel's speech delivered at the
Intelligence Summit in Washington DC, Saturday February 18,
2006.
"We gather here today to share information and knowledge.
Intelligence is not merely cold hard data about numerical strength
or armament or disposition of military forces. The most important
element of intelligence has to be understanding the mindset and
intention of the enemy. The West has been wallowing in a state of
ignorance and denial for thirty years as Muslim extremists
perpetrated evil against innocent victims in the name of
Allah.
I was ten years old when my home exploded around me, burying me
under the rubble and leaving me to drink my blood to survive, as
the perpetrators shouted "Allah Akbar!" My only crime was that I
was a Christian living in a Christian town. At 10 years old, I
learned the meaning of the word "infidel." ...I had a crash course
in survival. Not in the Girl Scouts, but in a bomb shelter where I
lived for seven years in pitch darkness, freezing cold, drinking
stale water and eating grass to live. At the age of 13, I dressed
in my burial clothes going to bed at night, waiting to be
slaughtered. By the age of 20, I had buried most of my
friends--killed by Muslims. We were not Americans living in New
York, or Britons in London We were Arab Christians living in
Lebanon.
As a victim of Islamic terror, I was amazed when I saw
Americans waking up on September 12, 2001, and asking themselves
"Why do they hate us?" The psychoanalyst experts were coming up
with all sort of excuses as to what did we do to offend the Muslim
World. But if America and the West were paying attention to the
Middle East they would not have had to ask the question. Simply
put, they hate us because we are defined in their eyes by one
simple word: "infidels."
Under the banner of Islam "la, ilaha illa allah, muhammad
rasoulu allah," (None is god except Allah; Muhammad is the
Messenger of Allah) they murdered Jewish children in Israel,
massacred Christians in Lebanon, killed Copts in Egypt, Assyrians
in Syria, Hindus in India, and expelled almost 900,000 Jews from
Muslim lands. We Middle Eastern infidels paid the price then. Now
infidels worldwide are paying the price for indifference and
shortsightedness.... Tolerating evil is a crime. Appeasing
murderers doesn't buy protection. It earns one disrespect and
loathing in the enemy's eyes. Yet apathy is the weapon by which
the West is committing suicide. Political correctness forms the
shackles around our ankles, by which Islamists are leading us to
our demise.
America and the West are doomed to failure in this war unless
they stand up and identify the real enemy: Islam. You hear about
Wahabbi and Salafi Islam as the only extreme form of Islam. All
the other Muslims, supposedly, are wonderful moderates. Closer to
the truth are the pictures of the irrational eruption of violence
in reaction to the cartoons of Mohammed printed by a Danish
newspaper. From burning embassies, to calls to butcher those who
mock Islam, to warnings that the West be prepared for another
holocaust, those pictures have given us a glimpse into the real
face of the enemy. News pictures and video of these events
represent a canvas of hate decorated by different nationalities
who share one common ideology of hate, bigotry and intolerance
derived from one source: authentic Islam. An Islam that is
awakening from centuries of slumber to re-ignite its wrath against
the infidel and dominate the world. An Islam which has declared
"Intifada" on the West.
America and the West can no longer afford to lay in their lazy
state of overweight ignorance. The consequences of this mental
disease are starting to attack the body, and if they don't take
the necessary steps now to control it, death will be knocking
soon. If you want to understand the nature of the enemy we face,
visualize a tapestry of snakes. They slither and they hiss, and
they would eat each other alive, but they will unite in a hideous
mass to achieve their common goal of imposing Islam on the
world.
This is the ugly face of the enemy we are fighting. We are
fighting a powerful ideology that is capable of altering basic
human instincts. An ideology that can turn a mother into a
launching pad of death. A perfect example is a recently elected
Hamas official in the Palestinian Territories who raves in
heavenly joy about sending her three sons to death and offering
the ones who are still alive for the cause. It is an ideology that
is capable of offering highly educated individuals such as doctors
and lawyers far more joy in attaining death than any respect and
stature, life in society is ever capable of giving them.
The United States has been a prime target for radical Islamic
hatred and terror. Every Friday, mosques in the Middle East ring
with shrill prayers and monotonous chants calling death,
destruction and damnation down on America and its people. The
radical Islamists deeds have been as vile as their words. Since
the Iran hostage crisis, more than three thousand Americans have
died in a terror campaign almost unprecedented in its calculated
cruelty along with thousands of other citizens worldwide. Even the
Nazis did not turn their own children into human bombs, and then
rejoice at their deaths as well the deaths of their victims. This
intentional, indiscriminate and wholesale murder of innocent
American citizens is justified and glorified in the name of
Islam.
America cannot effectively defend itself in this war unless and
until the American people understand the nature of the enemy that
we face. Even after 9/11 there are those who say that we must
engage our terrorist enemies, that we must address their
grievances. Their grievance is our freedom of religion. Their
grievance is our freedom of speech. Their grievance is our
democratic process where the rule of law comes from the voices of
many not that of just one prophet. It is the respect we instill in
our children towards all religions. It is the equality we grant
each other as human beings sharing a planet and striving to make
the world a better place for all humanity Their grievance is the
kindness and respect a man shows a woman, the justice we practice
as equals under the law, and the mercy we grant our enemy. Their
grievance cannot be answered by an apology for who or what we
are.
Our mediocre attitude of not confronting Islamic forces of
bigotry and hatred wherever they raised their ugly head in the
last 30 years, has empowered and strengthened our enemy to launch
a full scale attack on the very freedoms we cherish in their
effort to impose their values and way of life on our
civilization.
If we don't wake up and challenge our Muslim community to take
action against the terrorists within it, if we don't believe in
ourselves as Americans and in the standards we should hold every
patriotic American to, we are going to pay a price for our
delusion. For the sake of our children and our country, we must
wake up and take action. In the face of a torrent of hateful
invective and terrorist murder, America's learning curve since the
Iran hostage crisis is so shallow that it is almost flat. The
longer we lay supine, the more difficult it will be to stand
erect."
Rev. Paul Ciniraj, Director,
Salem Voice Ministries,
Devalokam (P.O), Kottayam,
Kerala-686038, India.
email: ciniraj@asianetindia.com
THE INVENTION OF ISLAM
By AHMED SIMON
PRE-ISLAMIC ERA
History documents the Vikrama Era (58 B.C. to 415 A.D.) of the
Maharaja/s Candragupta/s stretched their Hindu Empire from India
right up to the whole of the Arabian Peninsula in the West. These
Maharaja/s were greatly devoted to their Hindu Deities of Lord
Siva (moon God-Allat) and his spouse, Goddess Durga (moon
goddess-Allah). The Maharajas gave thanks to their Godly Deities
by building temples in their honour, in all their territories (at
least 7 in Saudi Arabia alone, including the present Kaaba). Even
after their Empire fell, the Arabs faithfully devoted themselves
to these Godly Deities/Temples up to Muhammad's time. (For details
&endash; see 'Kaaba a Hindu Temple' in www.hinduism.co.za).
MUHAMMAD
Muhammad of the Qoraish tribe of Saudi Arabia was born in 571
A.D. but his father, Abdullah, died 4 months before he was born.
Infant Muhammad and his widowed mother, Amina were looked after by
her father, Abdul Mutalib. During this time, Halima, a Bedouin
lady, nursed infant Muhammad. After a few weeks, she complained
infant Muhammad was possessed by the devil and refused him. His
mother Amina then died, when he was only 5 years old. When
orphaned Muhammad was 8, his grandfather, Abdul Mutalib also died,
and the boy Muhammad was passed on to his uncle, Abu Talib, who
had a trading caravan business with Syria. At age 20, Abu Talib
handed Muhammad over to work for Khadija, who had a thriving
caravan business. At age 25, Muhammad married his boss,
40-year-old rich widow Khadija, and thereby became stepfather of
Khadija's two daughters from a previous marriage. Muhammad did not
show 'his true colours' while he was married to Khadija. But after
she died, Muhammad was 'let loose' with enormous wealth and went
on to have 9 wives, dozens of concubines, numerous temporary
wives, and over a hundred male/female slaves. He was also
betrothed to 6-year-old Aisha, and married her at age 9 (8 by our
calendar). He took to sexual fondness of his daughter-in-law when
he saw her changing her clothes and married her &endash; the
initially wife of his adopted son, Zaid. Once when he was caught
red-handed raping his wife (Sadiah's) slave (Mary), out of
wedlock, he reprimanded Sadiah for 'making a big thing out of it.'
Muhammad and his companions frequently raided unsuspecting
villages, (even those who had peace treaties with him)
decapitating the men, and taking their wives, sons/daughters as
slaves, 'the best always for himself' according to the Quran. In
Sahih Bukhari's Hadith, when some thieves were caught, Muhammad
ordered his companions to dig out both eyes of each thief, and
sent them away, blind and bleeding. Out of the 68 wars Muhammad
and his companions fought, only one was defensive and the
remaining 67 were offensive wars initiated by Muhammad and his
companions.
THE INVENTION OF THE QURAN
In these existing conditions, Muhammad started inventing his
own religion after 610 A.D. when he appointed himself as Allah's
apostle and messenger, as stated in the Quran (not as a prophet)
and claimed that the Angel Gabriel ordered him thus (without any
witnesses to his claim). Muhammad gathered a concoction of about
10% of Babylonian Talmud (not the Torah of Judaism, but with
numerous errors/etc); about 5% of Christianity (a few parts of the
Gospel, but distorted and erroneous, probably gathered from Mary
his Coptic slave, and Waraqa, his wife Khadija's Christian cousin,
and during his travels to Syria); about 25% of existing Hindu
temples/Allah/idols/rituals and beliefs in Saudi Arabia. (The word
'Allah' is a Sanskrit word and in truth, there is no Islamic
Allah); about 10% of Animism (spirits, demons, Jinns, devils,
spirits, etc) gathered from existing Arab folklore and mythical
tales; about 10% of Arabic traditions and culture, and 40% of
Muhammad and his companions' own barbaric creations, to make up
Islam, his new religion. Since Muhammad and his several hundred
companions were completely illiterate (could not read or write)
and Muhammad had a poor memory; thus, his companions memorized for
him the Quranic verses they plagiarized/concocted. But in the
battle of Yamamah, almost all his companions were killed and the
original Quranic verses were lost forever and was never compiled
in writing before Muhammad himself was killed by food poisoning in
632 A.D. by a Jewish slave, who said, "If you are a true Apostle,
Allah would have saved you". Caliph Abu Bakr (632-634A.D.) then
entrusted Zayed Ibn Thabit to compile the Quran, from memories of
Muhammad's illiterate wives, concubines, slaves, and a few
contacts; who claimed to have heard Muhammad and his companions
utter various verses. Zayed managed to gather an estimated 7,900
verses. But this first compilation of the Quran, with numerous
contradictions, ridicule, confusions, and errors, created a lot of
trouble and huge problems arose over the years. Under the
caliphate of Uthman (644-656 A.D.), he was compelled to withdraw
all the distributed, handwritten copies of the Qurans and burnt
them. Zayed was again ordered for the second time, to recompile
and re-edit the Quran more sensibly and convincingly from his
original Quran, kept with Hafsa (Muhammad's widow). Zayed did the
best he could in re-editing the Quran and more than 2,000
contradictory, confusing, erroneous and illogical verses were
abrogated (cancelled), some were replaced, and others
added/borrowed to make sense of the cancellations/replacements.
This re-edited Quran in Sura 16:101-103 says Arabs accused a
Christian slave of teaching Muhammad and was persecuted, and
25:4-5 confirms accusations of borrowing stories from Folktales,
and Fables by the then Arabs. Abu Al-Aswad Al Doaly put dots as
syntactical marks, during the time of Mu'awiya Ibn Abi Sufian
(661-680 A.D). The letters were marked with different dotting by
Nasr Ibn Asem and Hayy ibn Ya'amor, during the time of Abd
Al-Malek Ibn Marawan (685-705 A.D). A complete system of
diacritical marks, (damma, fataha, kasra,), were newly created by
Al Khaleel Ibn Ahmad Al Faraheedy (d. 786 A.D). Now the Quran
stands at only 6,241 verses today from its original 7,900. But
given the circumstances prevailing in those days and the fact that
compiling from various uneducated peoples' memories, etc; this
concocted manmade Quran, still have a lot of contradictions,
confusions, absurdities, illogicalities, ridicule, errors,
unscientific theories, etc. (For details, see 'A dialogue between
a Christian and a Muslim about the Quran' and 'A balanced
understanding of Islam' in this website). So a lot of people did
have a hand in inventing the Quran. Thus, the bulk of the verses
of today's Quran, are actually from Muhammad's wives, concubines,
temporary wives, slaves and was edited by Zayed Ibn Thabit (it has
nothing to do with God).
THE CONTENTS OF THE QURAN
The chapters of the Quran are not arranged in importance,
continuity, biography, chronology, significance or sequence of any
sort, but are arranged by length - the longest chapter first and
the last chapter with just 6 lines. Verses are disorderly arranged
and jumbled up in unrelated subjects/topics. Christians will be
horrified to know that there is no prophecy, no chronology, no
geography, no biography of anybody (not even Muhammad), no
ministry, no history, no proverbs, no parables, no miracles, no
psalms, generally, just do's and don't, like an instruction manual
of a washing machine; and with punitive punishments, reprisals and
rewards specified.
For example, for do's, all Muslims are to slay (kill)
non-Muslims as in Sura 4:74, 9:5 and 9:29. For punishments, Sura
4:34 commands husbands to scourge (whip) his wife/s who are
disobedient to him and abandon her/them till she/they submit to
him. For non-Muslim 'rewards', Sura 2:191 commands "Slay them
(non-Muslims)…Such is the reward of those who suppress faith
(Islam)". Muslims are also commanded to carry out Sura 8.12 which
demands, "I will terrorize the unbelievers. Therefore, smite them
in the necks and every joint and incapacitate them. Strike off
their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes". There are
numerous such 'evil rewards' specified for non-Muslims. For Muslim
rewards, are those who fight and die for Allah in Sura 52:17-20;
55:56-58; 55:70-74 and 56:37-38, which reward suicides with best
fruits, rivers of vine, and 72 voluptuous fair virgin ladies in
Heaven. There are even rewards for homosexual Muslims, "boys as
fresh as pearls", as in Sura 52:20-24. The Quran also forbids all
Muslims, the freedom "to think and act as they see fit, because
the thinking is already done by Allah and his Messenger", as in
Sura 33:36 (in other words, independent thinking is not allowed in
Islam). This is impressed upon Muslims, from their childhood
nurturing in Maddrassahs and thus, explains why Muslims are
terrified to go against their Quran. Questioning the logic of the
Quran is considered blasphemous in Islam.
The Quranic verses are meant for reciting only, in a
rhythm and do not require understanding the meaning, from this old
Arabic script. Thus, most Muslims do not understand and question
the Quran they read, in total blind faith. Differences in the
Qurans today create more problems, and pilgrims who land in Mecca
for their pilgrimages, will be searched and their Quran, if found
to be different from the Wahabi sect's Quran, will be confiscated
and burnt.
HADITH AND SUNNAH
Because of the limitations of the Quran's open-ended verses of
generalization/absurdities/etc, it led to various interpretations
and thus explanations were required of the biographical accounts
of the sayings, customs and actions of Muhammad and his
companions, to better understand the Quran &endash; this is called
the Hadith, and also considered sacred, but second to the Quran.
Numerous writers produced various Hadiths over 600 years (from
around 800 A.D. to 1,400 A.D.), and it created even more
confusions, contradictions and distortions over the different
schools of thought (Madhab) by the various writers, as almost all
never even knew Muhammad personally.
The Sunnah is the 'Path' or 'Way' (it implies the doings
and practices of Muhammad), and is also considered sacred, but
third in rank. Here too, the vast differences between various
writers are causing untold numerous problems, leading to
chaos.
Depending on the Islamic sect and the various Hadith and
Sunnah they choose to comply; the differences among Muslims are so
great that the killings between Islamic sects is continuing to
this day in Pakistan, Indonesia, Algeria, Afghanistan and the
Middle East.
ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW
There are four main 'schools of thought' in the application of
the Islamic Sharia laws. These laws gradually sprouted out and is
amended and changed even today, from country to country, and state
to state, but always basing on the 7th century model of
Jurisprudence. The biggest drawback is that Islamic Sharia Laws do
not permit 'Circumstantial Evidence', but recognizes only
eyewitness accounts to a misdemeanor/crime. It is well known in
Islamic Sharia law applications, that people, who want to settle
scores with someone, do give false eyewitness accounts. Records
show that girls/women are the worse adversely affected. For an
example, if a girl is raped, she should produce a minimum of 2 or
4 eyewitnesses of reputable character (depending on the Sharia
applied) to convict the rapist. If there is only one eyewitness,
the rapist is set free to rape again. It doesn't end there. If
this girl gets pregnant from this rape, she is condemned to be
stoned to death, for adultery (getting pregnant out of wedlock).
In a democratic and modern society, it is well documented that 92%
of criminal convictions are obtained not by eyewitness accounts
but by 'circumstantial evidence' and application of science (like
DNA, etc), which are all disallowed in Islam. The Sharia laws are
also in contravention of the United Nations Convention on Human
Rights. Can you imagine living in a society with rapists,
murderers, sex-maniacs, etc running around as free as a bird,
because of Islam?
CONCLUSION
The uneducated women of the 7th century, who are the main
sources of the Quran, are known for their physical and sexual
prowess, rather than their intelligence. The backward mentality of
these sources is reflected in Islam. Thus, Islam is regressive and
leads to decay. This is manifested in every Muslim society. Muslim
societies are the most violent, dangerous, lawless, unprogressive,
undeveloped, disorderly, plagued with diseases, disasters and thus
Muslims unashamedly flee Islamic societies to non-Islamic
countries. By this migration, Muslims prove that Islam is evil,
regressive and inhuman. Thus, millions of Muslims today, give up
Islam, even though the trap in Islam is so physically a
cold-blooded entrapment, (to kill apostates); retaining only those
less intelligent or forced to remain in Islam out of the
ignorance, birth or Islamic pressure. Even reputed Islamic
religious, of authoritative standing and powers that may be, are
very worried of the rapid pace of Islam's demise manifesting
itself in every direction. The pressure on the UN to ban the
barbaric Quran is mounting day by day. It is evident without a
doubt that Islam is a fake invention. The demise of this manmade
Islam is undeniable and evident even to the less intelligent.
