41. A Useful Publication
"Islam is the driving force behind every major conflict in the Middle East."
-- Robert Tracinski in
"The Intellectual Activist"
Dec. 2001, page 2.
The Intellectual Activist is a very useful publication.
TIAdaily.com
40. The Right To Kill?
Some 3000 Muslim "radicals" rallied in Pakistan to protest a government crackdown on terrorists.
They shouted "God ["Allah"] is great" and "Down with America".
They were demanding the right to kill infidels without government intereference, as commanded in the Koran by "Allah", and as practiced by Mohammed and described in the Hadith.
Islamhas no cocept of individual liberty or individual rights. It teaches a barbaric tribalism. It teaches that man's highest duty and purpose and goal in life is to kill all those who do not believe in the mythical god "Allah".
Ceph
39. Eating Their Own
The Muslim terrorists are now targeting other Muslims -- different sects or those clooaborating with the US (the great satan) in bringing peace. [See Blog No. 34]
Two Sunni politicians engaged in drafting an Iraqui constitution ("blasphemy") were gunned down and their bodyguard ("hypocrite") was also killed.
Another Sunni constitution-drafter was blown up by a suicide terrorist, along with ten bystanders ("casualties of Allah's war"). Presumably this terrorist was a Shiite fanatic, possibly of the Iranian branch, or a Sunni fanatic, possibly of the Wahhabi branch (Bin Laden's denomination).
What is not uncertain is that the terrorists were Muslims. They are following the instructions of their mentor and guide, the "prophert" Mohammed: A man came to Mohammed and said, "Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad." Mohammed replied. "I do not find such a deed." [Hadith Bukhari 4:44; see also 4:50]. Jihad is the most "holy" activity for a Muslim.
Ceph
38. Still Barbaric
According to an AP dispatch from Peshawar, Pakistan, a Christian was arrested for buring trash for his employer. The trash contained pages from the Koran.
This is an offense punishable by death under Pakistan's Muslim blasphemy laws.
A mob of 300 rioted and threw rocks at a Hindu temple.
Still barbaric after 1400 years of Mohammedan "culture" of death.
Ceph
37. A Good Step
An Associated Press story from Amman, Jordan, tells of a meeting of about 180 Muslim scholars.
The scholars agreed that religious edicts (fatwas) should be issued only by clerics of "recognized" authority. These would be "qualified" clerics in any one of the eight "major" versions of Islamic jurisprudence.
Eight versions of theocratic authoritarian intolerance ought to be enough for everybody (except for the umpteen versions of Islamic terrorism). It would still be possible, of course, to implement the barbaric intolerance of countrues like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the rest of the Islamic "republics".
Eight versions of intolerance is enough to allow for death-penalty fatwas against people like Salman Rushdie and Oriana Fallaci for writing a book.
Or a fatwa agaunst me, Cephalo, for putting the name of "Allah" in quotes.
The scholars' agreement might rule out fatwas from the likes of Bin Laden. See the text of Bin Laden's 1998 fatwa "Jihad Against Jews And Christians" in the book "Osama's Revenge", by Paul Williams, pages 217-218, in which Bin Laden decrees that:
"The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim... This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah...."
So if Bin Laden as an authority on the will of "Allah" is no longer to be taken seriously, that is certainly a welcome step in the right direction.
Of course, this was only 180 scholars out of a couple of billion believers. What is needed is for it to become commonplace anong the believers to laugh at and ignore any mullah or imam or ayatollah who presumes to speak for "Allah". That wouls indeed be a good step toward sanity and peace.
Ceph
36. Slavery in Islam
An E-mail from Anonymous takes me to task for stating (in Blog No. 4) that the Koran considers all blacks to be slaves. He then changes the subject and wants to discuss slavery in America. Here is his E-mail (unedited):
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To: ceph@asia.com
Subject: [Non-Muslim] 6/1/2005 07:13:56 AM
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 05:13:59 -0700 (PDT)
you said that Koran considers all blacks to be slaves!! I wonder how come did u get such false idea? mention to me just one word from Koran proving your idea.
also i want you to tell me why did america consider black africans to be slaves and till a very short time ago black people where considered as a second degree humans in the united states of america and why did white people in america use to bring black people from africa to work as slaves for them????????
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Posted by Anonymous to Non-Muslim at 6/1/2005 07:13:56 AM
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Well, Anonymous, I must admit you caught me in an error. It is the Hadith, not the Koran, that considers all black people slaves. Sorry; I got the reference wrong (but not the meaning). The only Koran reference to blacks seems to be:
[K 9:61] Gabriel came to Mohammed and said, "If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey's."
Not really politically correct, eh Anonymous? But not about slavery, either.
Mohammedans consider both the Koran and the Hadith (supposed life and sayings of Mohammed) to be sacred. So here is what the Hadith says on the subject:
Tabari II:11. "Shem, the son of Noah,was the father of the Arabs...; Ham was the the father of the Black Africans.... Noah... prayed that the African's color would change so that their descendants would be slaves to the Arabs and Turks."
Tabari II:21. "Ham begat all those who are black and curly-haired.... Noah prayed that the hair of Ham's descendants [Africans] would not grow beyond their ears, and that whenever his deswcendants met Shem's [Arabs], the latter would enslave them."
Ishaq 405. "We brought them to the pit. Hell was their meeting place. We collected them there, black slaves, men of no descent."
[copied from "Prophet of Doom" at Racism (Topical Quotations V.2) ProphetOfDoom.net]
So the Hadith supports the idea that Mohammedans are to follow Noah in his (supposed) racist belief that black people are, or should be, slaves.
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Here is a summary of Muslim involvement in slavery:
Muslim slavers were enslaving black Africans for 900 years (since the 700's) before Europeans got started. The mullahs (Muslim clergy) imported to convert Africans to Islam did not oppose slavery. Mohammed himself was a slaver (of peoples of all colors). Mohammed's book the Koran permits and promotes slavery. According to Mohammed, "Allah" permits and promotes slavery.
Moravian Anabaptist Christian missionaries began to oppose African slavery in 1740. Muslim Sudan still permits slavery, though it is "illegal"there since 1991. Black slaves from southern Sudan are still being bought and sold through Arab [Muslim] north Sudan into [Muslim] Libya.
Islam has always permitted and practiced slavery (of all races), and is still doing so today. No Muslim today speaks out against slavery, because to do so would be be go against the Koran, a capital sin against Allah, the Glorious, Almighty Killer (K 8:17), the Greatest (K 22;62) slaver of them all (K 25:63).
[Summarized from "Secrets of the Koran", by Don Richardson, pages 201-208.]
Anonymous might better stop agonizing over past American slavery, and face the fact that throughout Islamic history, right up to today, Mohammedans have been the main players in the African slave trade.
It is much worse than that. The Islamic religion teaches that all non-believers, of all races, are fit only to be slaves of Muslims (or murdered).
And the believing Mohammedan is considered to be the slave of "Allah", created only for the purpose of praising "Allah":
[K 51:56] I created the jinn [demons] and mankind only that they might worship me. [Dawood]
Anonymous, if you are really concerned about slavery, you might consider getting out of Islam.
Ceph
35. Muslim censorship comes to USA
An interesting letter to the editor was published in a small-town newspaper. It deals with Muslim censorship of books in America.
Title: BE FREE WHILE YOU CAN
According to columnist Diana West (April 12), National Review Online has withdrawn a book from sale, under pressure from a Muslim organization. The book was a study of the life of Mohammed. The complainant was the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a front for Muslim terrorists and Islamic clerical fanatics (See www.danielpipes.org/article/394).
CAIR objected that the book was disrespectful of Mohammed, and they demanded that NR stop offering it for sale. NR meekly caved in to this blatant demand for censorship.
CAIR's stated goal is to transform America into a Muslim theocracy, where Islamic sharia law (clerical tyranny) replaces the US Constitution. CAIR Chairman Ahmad said in 1998, "The Koran ... should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth." CAIR cares nothing for individual freedom of action, freedom of religion, or freedom of speech.
By its spineless surrender, NR has handed this Muslim terrorist front an easy victory. Will Amazon or Barnes & Noble be the next target of CAIR's drive to eliminate books that deal with Mohammed and the Mohammedan religion?
CAIR wants to stifle all discussion of Islam, so that the ignorant Americans won't object too much to a Muslim take-over.
I suggest that anyone who values his freedom would do well to rush out and buy the two books while they are still available. They are: "The Life & Religion of Mohammed". by Menezes, and "Sword of the Prophet", by Trifkovic. They are available at HumanEvents.com. Buy and read them both. Know your enemy.
"Allah is the enemy of the infidels." (K 2:98).
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Ceph: Yes, the best way to thwart such attempts at censorship is to buy the books that the censors don't want you to read. In this case, you will learn some unsavory but important facts about Mohammed and his religion, facts that the Muslim thought police don't want you to know.
See also this article by Robert Spencer:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7009
Buy the books at:
http://www.hebookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6614&sour_cd=HEB002901
