An Introduction to Real Islam
11 Jan, 2006
Prospects and Conclusion
Rays of Hope
Islam has been on a steady upsurge over the last decades. Also during the same period, a significant number of Muslims have made ways into the West mostly as illegal refugees and have firmly dug their feet in those societies. Once they got themselves firmly rooted in the West with a secured life and as the Muslim community grew in strength, their religious conviction started coming to the fore. The West’s societal values, life-style and ethics, which do not conform to the Islamic ways, are becoming the targets of Islamic radicals' subversive actions or intimidations. On the mass scale, they have been seeking to establish Sharia laws all over the sinful Western society as a long-term strategy of establishing the rule of Islam. About 50% of the British Muslims have pitched for the Sharia laws in a recent survey. A leader of the Muslim Council of Britain recently demanded that the UK government allow the Sharia laws in Muslims’ affairs as a precondition to get their cooperation in reversing the tide of radicalization of the British Muslims. Sharia was approved and operational in Ontario (Canada), which was later abdicated after vigorous campaigns by civil liberties and secularist Muslim groups.
Thus, Islam is not in as ascendancy not only in the West Islamic countries but also in the West. It is critical to stem this tide of Islam's resurgence in order to preserve the civilizational progress achieved over the centuries. The US government launched an aggressive ‘war on terror’ mainly against the Islamist terrorists to counter the threats of Islam. Although this is critical in order to maintain the safety and security in the short term, it is extremely critical to wage an ideological war against the foundational precepts of Islam to extirpate the threat of Islam once and for all. The ideological battle has to focus on irrational, illogical, violent and cruel nature of Islam that lies in the Islamic scriptures, namely the Koran and the Sunnah.
Although battles against the fundamentalist Islam has been carried out at various levels throughout the centuries, never was a campaign directed at the theological basis of Islam. For example, the reformation movements of the Mutazilis soon after the establishment of Islam, which ushered in the so-called ‘golden age of Islam’, was never directed at the theological basis of Islam. But instead, the great Mutazili philosophers sought to reinterpret the illogical, irrational and baseless theological precepts of Islam, applying twisted logic or sophistry. Naturally such deceptive ploys failed to stand up to the assault of the fundamentalist Islamists.
What is needed, is to prove those illogical, irrational and absurd precepts of the Koran and Sunnah for what they are using honest logical and scientific analyses. This is only way the foundations of Islam can be smashed. Islam is founded on such a load of irrational, illogical, inhuman and absurd precepts that this is one of the simplest job to do. When this is done, Muslims will either leave Islam in great number or they will have to change Islam altogether to fit into the modern world for the survival, as has happened with Christianity and Judaism. And that’s exactly what the websites like www.faithfreedom.org and www.islam-watch.org, run by ex-Muslims, has been doing. Thousands of people, both Muslims and non-Muslims have changed their views about Islam after reading these two web-magazines.
It is, however, time to take this campaign to the bigger audience. For this to happen, materials produced by these websites and their writers have to be put in the print media, namely in books, magazines, newspapers etc. The publication of ‘Beyond Jihad – Critical Voices from Inside’ which is a collection of critical essays on Islam written a group of ex-Muslims is a significant milestone in that direction. Next is upcoming Ali Sina's book, "Understanding Islam and the Muslim Mind", which is going to be a devastating blow to the foundation of Islam.
Let's see what experts on Islam have got to say about this book:-
A blisteringly honest, thoroughly documented, and piercingly insightful investigation of the root causes within Islam of the fanaticism and violence that today threatens the entire world. Should be required reading at the State Department and the White House. -- Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades (Regnery)
A powerful, no holds barred look at an ideology of hate and what must be done to eradicate it. This book pulls no punches. A must read for anyone seeking to understand Islamist terrorism" Professor Kim Ezra Shienbaum, Ph.D Dept. of Political Science, Rutgers University Camden, NJ. Chief Editor of Beyond Jihad.
Some writers at Islam-Watch are producing a critical handbook on Islam, which is designed to counter Islamic propaganda. The Handbook for Exposing and Refuting Islamic Apologist's Claims is an on-going collaborative project. This project is expected to be completed in 2007 and will be available for free on the internet.
However, we must appraise the outstanding contributions being made and awareness being created by famous ex-Muslims like Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasrin, Anwar Shaikh, Ibn Warraq and Wafa Sultan et al. Special mention must be made to Ibn Warraq’s six book titles currently in sale in amazon.com (Ibn Warraq’s profile in Islam-watch).
Muslim’s reaction to criticism on Islam
[From Muslim Way of Refuting Facts by Infidel]
As criticisms of Islam is directed at the very foundation of Islam, Muslims must respond to such criticisms. Traditionally Muslims have done away with the critiques or have choked them out, which has been in the age of the Internet. As criticism grows, Muslims come under increasing pressure to defend the integrity and sanctity of their allegedly bullet-proof religion. So we notice, whenever you criticize anything related to Islam, Allah, Muhammad, Sharia laws or Muslim community, you will find a refutation from Muslims immediately. Refuting something is OK, but the way Muslims refute is funny. Here are some most common ways of Muslims refute the criticisms of Islam:
1. First of all, Muslims will say, “This is false information”, “This is a lie”, “Non-Muslim are jealous of Muslims and Islam”.
2. Whatever you say is wrong and whatever they say is only right. Moreover, you are jealous of Muslims and their Islam.
3. Next step is Taqqiya. i.e. “Islam means peace”, “Islam was not spread by sword but love”, “No compulsion in religion”,
4. If you quote from Koran or hadith, you will be accused of quoting verses in bits and pieces.
5. And be prepared for accusation that the verses you quoted are twisted and out of context.
6. If you provide reference to your quote, then Muslims will say “All your references are false and lies”, which implies only their references are true and correct.
7. You will be advised to “Read the Koran first and you will see the light”
8. If you say you have already read it then they will doubt you as if you are a liar.
9. If you quote full verses (not bits & pieces) from Koran and hadith, your translation is incorrect misleading. Then you will be advised to learn Arabic and read original version.
10. If you say, I read the same Koran with most authentic translations, which Muslims are referring to, then you will be asked “Did you read only the cover?”, “Read it with open mind” (Read with closed mind, like a Muslim reads by keeping their brains aside).
11. Besides your reading of translated Koran or even though you know Arabic, if you quote Koran, they quote hadith, tafseer etc, if you quote hadith, then they will say "Only Koran is authentic".
12. After all this, you are still willing to continue, they will distract you and other readers from original issue/topic and feed plenty of irrelevant issues.
13. You are still sticking to the original issue, Muslims will refer other religions’ scriptures like Bible, Torah, Vedas, Geeta etc and other events and persons like Bush, Blair, Indira Gandhi, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine etc.
14. Be prepared for one or more Muslims to showing their way of convincing, such as Copy & paste stuff or reference from crap Islamic sites. This includes verses from Koran & hadith, twisted facts from non-Islamic Holy Scriptures like Mohammad is prophesized in all of them.
15. In this connection, one or more Muslims will write about Miracles in the Koran. Remember that whatever is discovered in recent time, Muslims will attribute it to Koran, but they will keep quite till it is discovered. They will never say about the fallacies in Koran like “Sky is a dome on imaginary pillars”, “Sun sets in mud”, “sun revolving around the earth” etc. If you draw their attention to these fallacies, they will copy and paste crap again which is totally illogical and irrational. You will be again advised to read Koran.
16. You are about to loose your patience but still continuing, then comes personal attack. You will be abused as fool, stupid, idiot, pig, dog etc.
17. If that does not work, then there will be accusation of taking money for your criticism of Islam. You may get this also “Western media is biased; its propaganda to defame Islam, Islam is wronged by all non Muslims” etc.
18. Even than if you are not stopping, then Muslims will run for your mother and sister.
19. You are stubborn and still want to continue, you will be cursed like “Burn in hell, you will repent on last day, still time to seek the truth” etc.
20. Towards the end, when all above ways are failed, you will be threatened directly like, “beware, watch it, keep cool, my sincere advice” or indirectly like “Give me your email id, don’t hide behind false name, you are a coward (since you have false id on net), and lastly invitation to go to debate one to one or visit mosques or Islamic centers like Islamic Research Foundation in person” etc.
21. And finally- its drum beating, for all Muslims, as if they won a debate, even when they lose miserably, because Koran is the word of Allah.
Since Koran is Allah’s word and is clear to understand and is for all man kind, for all time and for all places, why there are hadiths, tafseers and commentaries?
Why various sects of Islam and clerics understand it differently, while Koran is very clear and for all to understand?
Why some verses are for a particular time i.e. 1400 years ago and Arabic peninsula only, while Koran is for all time, for all places and for all mankind?
Why there is abrogation, later verses of the Koran supersede earlier ones? Was Allah not able to reveal it at first time or did he change his mind time to time to suite Muhammad’s needs?
Why Islam, being the only true religion, not able to be in majority, leave alone only religion, on the face of this earth, even after more than 1400 years past when revealed to Muhammad?
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Gratitude
This booklet, which is the excerpts of a collection of articles critical of Islam, would not have been possible without the support of Islam-Watch and FFI (Faith Freedom International). I have tried to cover all the major questionable aspects of Islam, and for that I have tried to select the best article suited for each topic. I have edited and (slightly) modified excerpts from those articles to make them more suited for this book. I express my gratitude to all the people behind Islam-Watch and FFI, and to all those authors whose works are quoted here. They helped me in all ways possible for the completion, modification and promotion of this book.
Special Thanks to:-
M.A. Khan
Archimedez
Ali Sina
Syed Kamran Mirza
Dr. Babu Suseelan
Amil Imani
Taslima Nasrin
Abul Kasem
Mumin Salih
Sher Khan
Muhammad Asghar
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