Lifting the Veil: The True Faces of Muhammad & Islam
28 Apr, 2009
- I have been fully aware, from my residence both in the UK and the USA, that the ordinary person in the street has very little knowledge or understanding - if any - of the history, culture and religion of either the Arabs or the Muslims. I am also sure that this ignorance is wide-spread all over the non-Muslim world. It is also a fact that most of the people who profess the Muslim faith have little comprehension of the Quran, Hadiths or Islamic history.
- For the last twenty three years, I have been studying and researching the subjects of the three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, exploring their roots, their inter-relationships and their historical interactions. The Quran, especially, I have studied in my native tongue Arabic, and compared and contrasted the English and Arabic translations and interpretations.
My sole purpose in doing this research and enormous expenditure of time and effort - which has turned into a ‘mission’ - is to enlighten all those who are not followers of ‘Islam’ as well as all those who profess ‘Islam’ to make them aware of the real issues and facts based entirely on the Arabic language of the Quran, the Hadiths, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and Pagan Arabian religion and history.
Over the next few months, I shall explore almost every aspect of Muhammadan Islam from its very beginnings till modern times, relying almost ENTIRELY upon the Arabic and Islamic sources themselves to prove the statements and conclusions here in declared.
I have tried my best to put all the relevant information at the immediate attention of the readers so that they do not have to look for them in all quarters for verification. All the Quranic verses are shown exactly as they are without alterations. All the relevant references are made clear by quoting books, chapters and verses.
Religion is invariably the most emotional, most volatile and most explosive subject to discuss. Belief is not subject to empirical deductions, to reality, to facts or to logic. Any true ‘believer’ will not question the ordinances and subjects of his/her belief. One can only accept the totality of that particular religion or not. One cannot pick and choose bits and pieces of a religion; for a true believer it is a matter of all or nothing.
A Muslim theologian will find many ‘explanations’ as to why the Quranic stories of the Bible are markedly and sometimes absurdly different from their originals. It will not matter an iota to him that his explanations are spurious and untenable when subjected to historical and theological scrutiny. As a convinced believer, he has no choice but to accept that everything he reads in the Quran as being Allah’s Truth.
Just as a ‘Muslim’ clings to the ‘truth’ of his religion, then he/she should not be surprised at all, that adherents of other religions have exactly the same rights and feelings. They too are just as extremely sensitive as to how others perceive them and their religion. Since the Quran and its interpreters use unambiguous and very strong language in attacking and denigrating the People of the Book - as well as all other unbelievers - it is therefore not unreasonable to expect a maligned religion and its adherents to defend themselves and prove otherwise.
There are, of course, many enlightened ‘Muslims’ in the world, but, unfortunately, the majority of them have little knowledge of the subject matter, and if they do know, are threatened by death if they contradict the majority. There are estimated over one billion ‘Muslims’ in the world today, most of whom do not understand the Arabic language or know much about Arab and Islamic histories. Since the Quran is written with a high standard of the Arabic language - which is difficult even for Arabic speaking people to fully comprehend - it is hence almost impossible to have it understood clearly by those who do not know the language.
People in Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, for instance, although they profess to be fervent ‘Muslims’, in reality do not know more than the invariably one sided explanations, misrepresentations and misinterpretations perpetrated upon them by their religious leaders (Ulama).
The author Salman Rushdie, for example, was sentenced to death by an Iranian - a Persian and not an Arabic speaking - religious court, which misrepresented his views on the Quran.
On many occasions, TV screens show the hate-filled and contorted faces of ‘Muslim’ fundamentalists and their supporters screaming for Jihad (Holy War) and death and destruction not only for the USA but also for all Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Hindus, to name just a few.
‘Muslims’ are the only ‘religious’ group who demonstrate their anger and hate for all none believers by carrying their holy book, the Quran, in one hand, and guns, grenades or swords with the other.
These manifestations are only the symptoms of a disease. To cure or combat the disease, one must find its source, its characteristics and its evolution. To comprehend - not to excuse - the reasons for such insane and irrational behaviour, and such intense hatred, one has to learn and understand the background of the people concerned: their core beliefs; their understanding of their theology and their history.
In the last twenty years, Islamic fundamentalism has grown enormously more powerful. It has spread its tentacles and terrorist cells not only to none Muslim countries, but has also become a serious threat to the stability and freedoms of many Muslim states from Algeria to Uzbekistan.
They have methodically and insidiously used the mosques and the religious education of their children to spread their ‘cult’ of hate. Already there are several ‘Muslim’ states controlled by despotic theocracies such as Iran, Sudan and Afghanistan to name but a few. Human rights and freedoms in these countries have no existence or relevance, since the ‘religious’ rulers have arrogated to themselves the sole right to act ‘In The Name of ALLAH’.
In these countries, more than half the population - all women - are oppressed, disfranchised, marginalized and their human rights trampled upon. The same ‘Muslim’ and Arab peoples, contrary to reality and facts, blame their misfortunes and poverty on the West and others instead of on their mostly corrupt leaders and unconstitutional governments.
Putting it in the most basic and elemental context, the ‘engine’ that drives their apocalyptic rage is jealousy, envy and spite. This may sound very simplistic; so be it, since nothing else can explain their disturbed mental condition.
They are jealous and envious of the success of many none Muslim countries - especially the Christian West and Israel.
They hark back to the centuries when ‘Islam’ was the dominant imperialist power on earth and find it extremely difficult to comprehend or accept the facts of life that while their power has ebbed away and diminished through their own faults, the West and others - invariably democratic governments - have excelled and flourished because of their liberal and egalitarian societies.
It is always easier for people to blame others for their own failures, with the certain but dire consequences that they will never be able to rectify their situation unless and until they face facts and reality.
Without democratising and liberalising the Muslim peoples’ systems of authoritarian and unrepresentative governments and making them accountable, they will never be able to get out from their miserable circumstances and share the wealth that the world economies can offer.
“The greatest threat to the civilized world in the 21st century is not nuclear weapons, but most assuredly Fundamentalist Muhammadan Islam, with or without weapons of mass destruction. They believe and state clearly and unambiguously, that the whole world must be converted to their version of Islam and that no other religion should exist.”
It is possible that the above statements will encounter a lot of disbelief and outrage among some people. Some may consider them ‘racist’ or ‘extremist’. The contents of this series aim to show beyond a reasonable doubt, that these statements are not only factual but also true, as they are based entirely on the words of Muhammad and his followers.
In the name of God - any god- millions of people have been killed, murdered and/ or exterminated. In reality, the gods that have been invoked had nothing whatsoever to do with the actions of the humans who were using/abusing their names.
History shows us without a shadow of a doubt, that religion was invariably used as a façade to hide the true purpose of all wars of aggression:
That is, the consolidation of power through fear and the acquisition of wealth in all its manifestations.
Since the September 11th attacks by ‘Muslim’ terrorists against the USA, the world media and books have inundated the public with information, misinformation and disinformation about Islam.
Politicians and theologians keep repeating the mantra that Islam is a religion of ‘peace’, when the history of Muhammadan Islam is written with the blood of conquests and subjugation of tens of millions of PEOPLE in at least twenty-five countries spanning three continents - Asia, Africa and Europe - stretching from India and China in the east to the Atlantic in the west. The subject peoples of these lands - who had their own religions and beliefs - did not voluntarily become ‘Muslims’ through dialogue and spiritual enlightenment.
I have endeavoured to compile this series in a concise manner without compromising my objectives. My intention is to give the reader a panorama of the subject without delving into unnecessary details. I have done my best to put before the reader the history and our understanding of the traditions of the Arabs before Islam. This is followed by a brief history of the Arabs and the rise of Islam until the death of Muhammad.
Before exploring the history of the Arabs after Islam and their conquests, I have endeavoured to elucidate the background and genesis of the Quran, since it was - and still is - the propellant that ignited and sustained their belief in their theological supremacy over all others, thus leading to their conquests and expansion.
I have concentrated on what in my opinion are its most relevant chapters and verses and have compared and contrasted the Biblical, Scriptural and pagan Arabian religious narratives mentioned therein with their original versions, showing innumerable instances where the Quranic stories deviate substantially from them in form and content.
This series has been made freely accessible to all because its only purpose is to inform and challenge the intellect of its readers. Any and all those who doubt anything within, can confirm or refute any of the information contained therein by using the internet, which holds more instant information than ever in the history of mankind.
All I ask the reader & or listeners to do is to use his/her God-given intelligence to evaluate, compare, contrast, research and investigate, arriving at their own conclusion.
Note: I have used the term Muslim in this Introduction so as not to
confuse the reader at this stage. In my series, the term Muslim has
been replaced by the more factual and accurate MUHAMMADAN MUSLIM.
PS: The readers are now able to LISTEN to the series of Questions and Answers regarding the subject of ‘Islam’ by visiting: http://www.youtube.com/AhmadsQuran3.
Name: tanstaafl
Subject: to I.Q. Al Rassooli
Date: Tuesday April 28, 2009
Time: 10:53:27 -0400
Comment
Do you find the Qur'an a rather boring read in Arabic? I ask this question since I have read that an Arabic speaker candidly reveal that the Qur'an is as boring a read in Arabic as it is in English. I can testify that in English, the Qur'an is boring and without context.
Name: Ib-Ra-Hima
Subject: Weapons of Mass
Distraction
Date: Tuesday April 28, 2009
Time: 12:04:09
-0400
Comment
When will we see that ever since humanity became aware of the Caucasoid and later Semitic people we have suffered under waves of varying degrees of barbarism as a result of their young cultures and malformed cosmogonies? These groups have been at war with one another ever since, with the rest of the indigenous world and the planet itself as their hapless pawns and even becoming collaborators. How have we been able to overlook the totality of the history of the world and its destroyers for the sake of deconstructing one group that happens to offend our sensibilities, while the other side is just as culpable in the devastation the world is currently witnessing? We call Western "civilization" egalitarian and libertarian without ever questioning the price at which these ideologies came to be. How well their propaganda/education machine works is never examined. It is simply used as the reference point from which we then observe and thus experience the world, never realizing that it has conquered us because it now dictates what we use to judge the world we observe. This system has been refined over 2000+ years so they have the jump on the Semitic Arab and their approach toward world domination. Yes I said world domination! Do we realize that both groups Democracy and Theocracy are really one and the same... tools of world domination? Every war since Hellenistic times has been waged with this underlying theistic impetus feeding its roots. So we must not get caught in the mass distraction of our own self interest, blinding us to the true view of the entire picture. Let us be clear the "Western World" is no friend of humanity either. The Elders of indigenous cultures say, ‘to know the true face of a thing look at its history’. So for those who are honest they will apply this to all sides not just the one they don't like and they will see the painful truth that we are still being played. Just by the fact that we are now vocal proponents of a system that began and still is doing the same as the Muslims, in parts of the world we don't happen to care about, we are showing how "modern" education and systematization can desensitize us to the injustices of our new found "liberators". This is because what we consider our wants and needs have been supposedly "catered" to by a system that is surreptitiously exploiting the entire planet with our contribution and eager consumption. So which system is worse, the barbaric Muslims or the barbaric Egalitarians? They have even managed to convince us that the Western/Modern world is "Advanced"... look at all our technology, including this tool the internet. But is a society that "invents" a technology to solve one problem that creates ten others, really advanced? So if we are courageous enough to face ourselves honestly and with humility and admit we have been fooled once again, then maybe we can begin to ask the real questions about existence it's purpose and all humanities’ role in it. Again lets us step outside the box of dialectics and see the bigger picture.
Name: Sean
Subject: Ib-Ra-Hima
Date: Tuesday April 28, 2009
Time: 20:01:47 -0400
Comment
First of all "YAWN"!!! you are boring and only regurgitate the same phony garbage that other fools like you have done in the past. Ahseya Cramer; you are just a mindless muslim fool. Your contribution to this topic is ZERO. It's unfortunate when a human mind is closed and fails to see the common sense even when it is placed right in front of their eyes. There is nothing I can say to you that will help you out of your darkness. Ib-Ra-Hima; you are neither deep nor intellectual, only long winded and boring. Grow some courage and pick a side. I realize that picking a side can be difficult. Sometimes it can even be impracticle since there may be many different aspects, points of view, and facts that blur the picture. This usually causes the subject to appear as a solid gray therby preventing a clear cut black and white picture from emerging. But islam is not gray. It really is black and white. It is pure ignorance, cruelty and evil. I have read most of the Quran and some of the Sahih Bukhari hadith and I am revolted by what I have come to understand about Mohammed and islam THRU RESEARCH. Only a fool would look upon islam and then attack other cultures and beliefs in an assanine attempt to spread the blame evenly. Many other beliefs, throughout the thousands of years humans have been around, have led to untold misery, but Islam not only leads the pack but has 1.3 billion followers. AND THEY ARE HELL BENT ON EXPANDING AND FORCING THEIR WILL ON OTHERS...WHATEVER THE COST.
Name:
Subject:
Date: Tuesday April 28, 2009
Time: 21:47:55 -0400
Comment
"But is a society that "invents" a technology to solve one problem that creates ten others, really advanced? " Go live in a cave then. what are you doing here?
Name: Nusrat Ali
Subject: Bogus Kuran and bogus Mohammad
Date: Wednesday April 29, 2009
Time: 01:50:49 -0400
Comment
Beautiful article full of many facts.I too was not knowing the meanings of the kuraninc verses till my B. Sc in AMU.I found lot of discrepencies and incongruancies whenever i tried to read Kuran.my two best friends also felt the same. Many times they told me that they do not believe in Mohammad & Kuran. Later one of them went back to hinduism via aryasamaj. sometimes I wonder why hindus considered islam as a religion in the past. Hindus realised very very late that Islam is not a religion but an evil cult of hate intolerence violence loot and murder.It was perhaps Maharishi Dayanand great exponent of vedas & upnishads who exposed islam's ugly face to Hindus. THANKS MR RASSOOLI FOR YR V GOOD WRITING.
Name: i read koran in english and its illogical and boring
Subject:
Date: Wednesday April 29, 2009
Time: 04:06:40 -0400
Comment
....i tried re-reading it and same result,no chronologcal order no thing,thing jumping from 1 thing to another and no meaning. except hate the infidel and kill and 72 virins.so i left islam.
Name: Kinana
Subject: student
Date: Wednesday April 29, 2009
Time: 08:47:26 -0400
Comment
i sit at your feet! this is a good introduction and i welcome the chance to continue my studies of Islam. thanks
Name: selvi
Subject: Let us burn the Maha mada(great evil) in fire of truth
Date: Wednesday April 29, 2009
Time: 12:06:06 -0400
Comment
Let us burn the Maha mada (great evil) in fire of truth.Truth alone wins. Mohammad was mad dilusionists twisted all the existing religion then and formed his own faith islam. Moslums will soon become humnas and can know the true face of Mohammad and his dilusions and hallaucinations. There is no evil satan or devil. Mo is more worse than psuedo satan.
Name: Anti Clot
Subject: Who wrote the Quran?
Date: Wednesday April 29, 2009
Time: 16:53:12 -0400
Comment
Imagine the almighty god, full of wisdom. And what did he "reveal" in his very first "revealation"? That all humans are made from clot (surah 96)! It is not only wrong but it is also insulting to all the people he created (did he?)! And what else does god has to say? Wrong things everywhere, against science, logic and any common sense. The whole book is so worthless and senseless and the very reason for the backwardness of 1.4 billion people living in dirt and poverty because all the know is how to pray five times a day for a better life after death.
Name: Archpagan
Subject: To I Q Al Rasooli
Date: Thursday April 30, 2009
Time: 09:06:20 -0400
Comment
Would you please enlighten me as to how the idol of pre-islamic allah looked like?
Name: Ian Jones
Subject: Re- Who wrote the Quran?
Date: Thursday April 30, 2009
Time: 11:30:34 -0400
Comment
First you should understand the original scripture of the Jews and the Christians. Do they still exist? What exist now are destorions of it. Thats why the Quraan was sent by the almighty to warn mankind. I wonder, if Anti Clot was born like anyone of us or is he born through artificial insamination, then again stil he needs the foundation of all humans which is spermor clot. But people like Archpagan, who wants to know how the Almighty looks like, does not know what happened to prophet Moses, who wanted to see the Almighty and when the almighty revealed him self how the mountains crumbled on earth and the Moses was almost blinded, but alast the mercy of the Almighty prevented desater and Moses fell to the ground repenting. Do you know this story Archpagan??? Comment Imagine the almighty god, full of wisdom. And what did he "reveal" in his very first "revealation"? That all humans are made from clot (surah 96)! It is not only wrong but it is also insulting to all the people he created (did he?)! And what else does god has to say? Wrong things everywhere, against science, logic and any common sense. The whole book is so worthless and senseless and the very reason for the backwardness of 1.4 billion people living in dirt and poverty because all the know is how to pray five times a day for a better life after death.
Name: kafir/infidel (Ex.communist)
Subject: ISLAM is like plague of humanity, sewage waste ,very deadly.
Date: Friday May 01, 2009
Time: 02:42:59 -0400
Comment
We learnt a lot about ISLAM/QQURRAN/ALLA/MO from the readings here, and on FFI,various books on ISLAM, discussions with Mussalmans, so called Muslim scholars (actually brainwashed evil moslems who chose or forced to choose the most brutal, backward, hatefilled theology called ISLAM and are forcing their wicked ,hatred on all nonmoslems now ) etc. After reading all of this - it is plain and simple conclusion that ISLAM is a farce ,most cruel, evil so called religion. There is nothing new in ISLAM - no great ideas, concepts, principles, philosophy, goodness or that will make a human , a good person. On the other hand - by following ISLAM , even an innocent and good person will become a killer, hate, jealousy filled, evil in his/her thinking. ISLAM is like darkness. ISLAM is a dark chapter in human history. There is one country, one people (HINDUS) - who were brutalized, murdered, raped, killed, enslaved, ruled ,forced, terrorised, by ISLAM/ISLAMISTS for 800 years . INDIA and Hindus paid dearly on all accounts, in termsof the forced conversions, killings, loss of land to ISLAMISTS/Moslems. There is no other country ,apart from Indonesia that was subjected to such demonism of ISLAM by Moslems. NOw, can we expect that the truth has come out and now the true darkness of ISLAM/QQURRAN/MO is known - will this information and truth be made available to the people of INDIA - to politicians, academecians, professionals, theologians, government, hindus, christians, jains, Buddhists, sikhs and also to Moslems ?? All this information ,facts, truth must reach INDIA/INDIANS urgently - is the evil Mussalman ZAKIR NAIK taking note of this? I am 100% sure - ZAKIR NAIK reads this web site as well as FFI.
Name: to Ian Jones
Subject:
Date: Friday May 01, 2009
Time: 08:52:28 -0400
Comment
Can God go missing. Can God Words gone missing. You are very stupid.
Name: CNP
Subject: re Ian Jones & kafir/infidel (Ex.communist)
Date: Saturday May 02, 2009
Time: 06:55:06 -0400
Comment
Can you please eloborate? God gone missing? If you want to understand a lot about ISLAM read the Quraan, The people who are wicked ,hatred are killers, haters, jealousy filled humans, evil thinkers and historyare shown what they did in the Americas and in Australia and new Zealand all native brutalized, murdered, raped, killed, enslaved, ruled ,forced, terrorised, by westerns more than for 800 years .
Name: balam
Subject: True faces of Islam and Mohammad
Date: Saturday May 02, 2009
Time: 23:39:44 -0400
Comment
It is a nice article but I would beg to differ when you call Islam a theology.Theo stands for God which Muslims do not believe in.The Muslim kalama say:THERE IS NO GOD but allah.Allah was a pagan high god worshipped by pagan Arabs along with over 360 pagan deities.Mohammad adopted the pagan god Allah and discarded the other.Mohammad,s father,s name was ABD-ALLAH.How did he acquire that name,I would like to know?.Islam has no connection with the Judeo-Christian faith.Mohammad just tried to make a connection to acquire credibility.He was never inspired by God because the charactristics of the Holy God and Unholy Allah are completely opposite.Islam is the distorted face of Judaism and Christianity ,on the body of Paganism,with demonic blood running through its veins.Mohammad allowed the worship of three daughters of Allah,which he later retracted.He was a liar with poor memory.Hence Mohammad and Muslims are MONO-PAGAN DEIST,NOT MONO-THEIST.
Name: balam to Archpagan
Subject: Allah
Date: Monday May 04, 2009
Time: 01:06:30 -0400
Comment
You can find the Picture of Allah in the book:ISLAMIC INVASION by DR,MORAY.The statue of Allah has been excuvated in Middle East,with crescent moon and stars on its chest.
Name: Archpagan to balam
Subject:
Date: Wednesday May 06, 2009
Time: 12:38:45 -0400
Comment
Thanks a lot for giving such information.I have been in search of the same for long.