What’s Wrong With Islam/Muslims?

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Mercenary Mission

Islam was contrived for the purpose of its founder’s
personal emolument & empowerment through accrual of spoils &
dominion through perpetual war.  Three ayat in Surah Al-Anfal make
this matter crystal clear.  Four ahadith confirm it beyond all
doubt. [Emphasis added for clarity.]

8:1. They ask you (O Muhammad ) about the spoils
of war. Say: “The
spoils are for Allâh and the Messenger.”
So fear Allâh and adjust all matters of difference among you, and obey
Allâh and His Messenger (Muhammad ), if you are believers.

The spoils are for Allah and Moe; how many stolen
sheep, camels & dates can an impotent stone idol eat?  How
many captured women can it rape?

8:41. And know that whatever of war-booty
that you may gain, verily one-fifth (1/5th) of it is assigned to Allâh,
and to the Messenger,
and to the near relatives [of the Messenger (Muhammad )], (and also)
the orphans, Al-Masâkin (the poor) and the wayfarer, if you have
believed in Allâh and in that which We sent down to Our slave (Muhammad
) on the Day of criterion (between right and wrong), the Day when the
two forces met (the battle of Badr) – And Allâh is Able to do all
things.

 

8:67. It is not for a Prophet that he should have
prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made
a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land. You
desire the good of this world
(i.e. the money of ransom for freeing the captives), but Allâh desires
(for you) the Hereafter. And Allâh is All-Mighty, All-Wise.

Allah wants genocide: “great slaughter”, Moe wants ransom money.
One ahadith omitted from Khan’s translation of Sahih Bukhari speaks
volumes about Moe’s arrogance & avarice, I quote from Aisha
Bewley’s translation.

Bukhari  Ch 61 # 2756: …It
is mentioned from Ibn ‘Umar from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, “My
provision has been placed under the shadow of my spear, and abasement and humility
have been placed on the one who disobeys my command.

Moe got his income with his spear: by raiding camel caravans and Jewish
settlements. Later we will see Moe’s ‘command’ and the threat he made
in conjunction with it.   Allah gave Moe a special privilege
not given to anyone else: accrual of spoils.

3. The booty has been
made Halal (lawful) for me yet it was not lawful for anyone else before
me. [Sahih Bukhari 1.7.331]

 

Sahih Muslim Book
019, Number 4327:

The spoils of
war were not made lawful for any people before us, This is because
Allah saw our weakness and humility and made them lawful for us.

Allah was very generous: he gave Moe the keys to the
treasures of the world and he made Moe wealthy through conquests.

Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 220:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been sent with the
shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror
(cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping,
the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my
hand.” Abu Huraira added: Allah’s Apostle has left the
world and now you, people, are bringing out those treasures (i.e. the
Prophet did not benefit by them).

Sahih Bukhari Volume 3, Book 37, Number 495:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

Whenever a dead man in debt was brought to Allah’s
Apostle he would ask, “Has he left anything to repay his debt?” If he
was informed that he had left something to repay his debts, he would
offer his funeral prayer, otherwise he would tell the Muslims to offer
their friend’s funeral prayer. When
Allah made the Prophet wealthy through conquests, he said, “I am
more rightful than other believers to be the guardian of the believers,
so if a Muslim dies while in debt, I am responsible for the repayment
of his debt, and whoever leaves wealth (after his death) it will belong
to his heirs. ”

Violence

Islam
is aggressively violent, by
design; irreparably. I quote Islamic law.

As for subsequent
times, there are two possible states in respect to non-Muslims.The
first is when they are in their own countries, in which case jihad
(def: o9.8) is a communal obligation, and this is what our author is
speaking of when he says, “Jihad is a communal obligation,” meaning
upon the Muslims each year.[Reliance
of the Traveller, Book O9.1]

Jihad
is something  Muslims
must
do against non-Muslims every year.
Exactly what is it?

Chapter O9.0: Jihad

(O: Jihad
means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically
derived from the word mujahada signifying warfare
to establish the religion.

What
is its practical application?

O9.8: The Objectives
of Jihad

The
caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians…

O9.9

The
caliph fights all other peoples until
they become Muslim (O: because they are not a people with a Book,…

How
does that apply to the United States of America?

Between
1779 and 1815, the Barbary pirates were attacking America’s
merchant marine, seizing boats, enslaving their crews and stealing
cargo. They demanded payment of tribute for safe passage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War

In
1786 Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli’s envoy to
London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman or (Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman
Adja). They asked him by
what right he extorted money and took slaves. Jefferson
reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:

The
ambassador answered us that
[the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet (Mohammed), that it
was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have
answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty
to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves
of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman (or
Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to heaven.
[3]

Allah
said:

8:39. And fight
them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e.
worshipping others besides Allâh) and the religion (worship) will all
be for Allâh Alone [in the whole of the world ]….

9:29.Fight
against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day,
(3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger
(4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm)
among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay
the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

Muhammad
said:

“I
have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the
right to be worshipped but Allah.’ And if they say so, pray like our
prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood
and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them
except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah.“ Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 8, Number 387

Caliph
Umar’s general told the Persians:

…Our Prophet, the Messenger of our Lord, has ordered
us to fight you till you worship Allah Alone or give Jizya (i.e. tribute); and our
Prophet has informed us that our Lord says:– “Whoever
amongst us is killed (i.e. martyred), shall go to Paradise to lead such
a luxurious life as he has never seen, and whoever amongst us remain
alive, shall become your master.”… Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 53, Number 386

Compare
the answer of Sidi Haji Abdrahaman to Bukhari4.53.386:

• ordered us to
  fight you till you worship Allah Alone or give Jizya
  • that it was their right and duty to make
    war upon them
• Whoever amongst
  us is killed (i.e. martyred), shall go to Paradise
  • every Mussulman (or Muslim) who should be
    slain in battle was sure to go to heaven.
• whoever amongst
  us remain alive, shall become your master
  • to make slaves of all they could take as
    prisoners.

Compare
what Allah said to what Moe said:

• fight them
• Fight against those
  who
  • I have been ordered
    to fight the people

Compare
Reliance of the Traveller, Book O, Chapter 9, paragraph 8 to Rodwell’s
translation of 9:29:

• The
  caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians
  • Make war upon such of those to whom the
    Scriptures have been given as believe not in God

Terrorism

Allah said that he would cast terror & did cast
terror. Allah commanded Moe to treat victims harshly so as to terrorize
other prospective victims and build up military strength to threaten
and terrify them.  Allah said that the local Jews were more afraid
of Moe and his army than of himself. Moe said that he was made victorious with terror.
Allah, ever generous to his slaves, guarantees them extra credit
towards an upgrade in his Celestial Bordello for any step taken to injure or
enrage us.

• 3:151
• 8:12
• 8:57
• 9:120
• 33:26
• 59:2
• 59:13

Objections:

• Mis-translation.
  • I do not know a word of Arabic; can’t read a single character
    of it. Hilali & Khan translated the Qur’an
    quotes cited above with the exception of the one by Rodwell. I linked
    to nine parallel translations for easy comparison.  You can
    compare more than thirty parallel translations at Islam
    Awakened.
• Mis-interpretation.
  • How did Muhammad interpret those ayat?
    • What did he do?
      • Dictated & dispatched numerous extortion letters.
        When Ibn Sa’d opens, press and hold the Ctrl key, press the F key and
        paste this expression into the search window: Yuhannah Ibn Rubbàh and
        (other) chiefs of the people of Aylah.  That missive is
        among tthe most explicit, leaving nothing to the imagination.
      • Waged war upon those who rejected his demands.
        Use the Ctrl F key combination and enter, raid, ghazwa or invasion to
        find the ‘good stuff’.
    • Why does each of the four major hadith collections have a
      ‘book’ of Jihad?
      • Sahih Bukhari
      • Sahih Muslim
      • Sunan Abu Dawud
      • Malik’s Muwatta
  • Who interprets the Qur’an correctly, you or Ibn Kathir, who
    spent his life studying it, its interpretation & application?
    • The Order to fight to eradicate Shirk and Kufr
    • The Order to fight People of the
      Scriptures until
      They give the Jizyah
  • Why
    does Sharia confirm the obvious prima facile meaning of the Qur’an,
    citing 9:29 as the basis for annual attacks upon disbelievers?
  • Why do other Islamic legal scholars confirm the command?
    • Al-Shafi’i
      (God have mercy on him) said: “The
      least that the imam must do is that he allow no year to pass without
      having organised a military expedition by himself,
      or by his raiding parties, according to the Muslims’ interest, so that
      the jihad will only be stopped in a year for a (reasonable) excuse.” He
      said: “If he did not undertake the sending of enough troops to fight,
      those who are absent (must) go out, and consider as an obligation that
      which God (who is praised) said.”

    • Below
      is what Al-Ghazali actually wrote about jihad war, and the treatment of
      the vanquished non-Muslim dhimmi peoples (from the Wagjiz, written in
      1101 A.D.): …one must go on jihad
      (i.e., warlike razzias or raids) at least once a year…one
      may use a catapult against them [non-Muslims] when they are in a
      fortress, even if among them are women and children. One may set fire
      to them and/or drown them…If a person of the Ahl al-Kitab [People of
      The Book – Jews and Christians, typically] is enslaved, his marriage is
      [automatically] revoked…One may cut down their trees…One must destroy
      their useless books. Jihadists may take as booty whatever they
      decide…they may steal as much food as they need…

What’s
Wrong With Muslims?

If
they believe and are faithful, they obey Allah’s commands by joining
the Jihad, striving hard with their lives and their wealth. If not
called to fight, they support Jihad with Zakat. How did the Holy Land
Foundation raise $13M for Hamas?

8:2.  The believers
are only those who,
when Allâh is mentioned, feel a fear in their hearts and when His
Verses (this Qur’ân) are recited unto them, they (i.e. the Verses)
increase their Faith; and they put their trust in their Lord (Alone);

49:15. Only
those are the believers who have believed in Allâh and His
Messenger, and afterward doubt not but
strive with their wealth and their lives for the Cause of Allâh.
Those! They are the truthful.

61:10. O You who believe! Shall I guide you to a commerce that
will save you from a painful torment.

61:11.
That you believe in Allâh and His Messenger (Muhammad ), and that
you strive hard and fight
in the Cause of Allâh with your wealth and your lives,
that will be better for you, if you but know!

61:12.
(If you do so) He will forgive you your sins, and admit you into
Gardens under which rivers flow, and pleasant dwelling in Gardens of
‘Adn ­ Eternity [‘Adn (Edn) Paradise], that is indeed the great success.

61:13.
And also (He will give you) another (blessing) which you love, help
from Allâh (against your enemies) and a near victory.
And give glad tidings (O Muhammad ) to the believers.

What
is the relationship between Allah & Muslims?

9:111. Verily, Allâh
has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties;
for the price that theirs
shall be the Paradise. They fight
in Allâh’s Cause, so they kill (others) and are killed. It
is a promise in truth which is binding on Him in the Taurât (Torah) and
the Injeel (Gospel) and the Qur’ân. And who is truer to his covenant
than Allâh? Then rejoice in the bargain which you have concluded. That
is the supreme success .

• They fight in Allâh’s Cause, so they kill
  (others) and are killed.

That’s
what Muslims do; they kill.  That’s what’s wrong with Muslims:
they worship and obey a bloodthirsty demon who commands them to subjugate
us.

Objections:

• I have Muslim
  friends; nice people, well behaved.
  • Muslims are explicitly commanded, in several ayat, not to
    befriend Kuffar. I will cite one of them.
  • 60:1. O you who believe! Take
    not My enemies and your enemies (i.e.
    disbelievers and polytheists, etc.) as friends, showing affection towards them,
    while they have disbelieved in what has come to you of the truth (i.e.
    Islâmic Monotheism, this Qur’ân, and Muhammad ), and have driven out
    the Messenger (Muhammad ) and yourselves (from your homeland) because
    you believe in Allâh your Lord! If you have come forth to strive in My
    Cause and to seek My Good Pleasure, (then take not these disbelievers
    and polytheists, etc., as your friends). You show friendship to them in
    secret, while I am All-Aware of what you conceal and what you reveal.
    And whosoever of you
    (Muslims) does that, then indeed he has gone (far) astray, (away) from
    the Straight Path .
• Most
  Muslims don’t engage in Jihad.
  • Yet.
    They haven’t been called by their Imam or Mullah. The Ummah is large
    and the battlefronts are relatively small. Once a sufficient number
    have answered the call, the rest are relieved unless an emergency
    occurs.
    • Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 311:

      Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:

      The
      Prophet said, on the day of the Conquest of Mecca, “There is no
      migration (after the Conquest), but Jihad and good intentions, andwhen you are called for Jihad,
      you should immediately respond to the call.”

    • Abu
      Dawud Book 14, Number 2497:

      Narrated
      AbuUmamah:

      The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who does not join the
      warlike expedition (jihad), or equip, or looks well after a
      warrior’s family when he is away, will be smitten by Allah
      with a sudden calamity. Yazid
      ibn Abdu Rabbihi said in his tradition: ‘before the Day of
      Resurrection”.

• Jihad is the Muslim’s struggle
  against his ego and temptations.
  •  How do Muslims kill and get killed in inner struggle;
    wrestling with temptation?  Review 9:111 & see 3:169.
• Jihad
  is an anachronism, only applicable to Moe’s lifetime.
  • Abu Dawud Book 14, Number 2526

    Narrated Anas ibn
    Malik:

    The
    Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Three things are the roots of faith:
    to refrain from (killing) a person who utters, “There is no god but
    Allah” and not to declare him unbeliever whatever sin he commits, and
    not to excommunicate him from Islam for his any action; and jihad
    will be
    performed continuously since the day Allah sent me as a prophet
    until the day the last member of my community will fight with the
    Dajjal (Antichrist). The
    tyranny of any tyrant and the justice of any just (ruler) will not
    invalidate it. One must have faith in Divine decree.

  • Abu Dawud Book 23, Number 3455:
    

    Narrated Abdullah ibn
    Umar:

    I heard the Apostle
    of Allah, (peace_be_upon_him) say: When you enter into the inah transaction,
    hold the tails of oxen, are pleased with agriculture, and give up conducting jihad (struggle in the way of
    Allah). Allah
    will make disgrace prevail over you, and will not withdraw it until you return to your
    original religion.

Take
a cold, clear eyed second look at Abu Dawud 23.3455.

• give
  up conducting jihad (struggle
  in the way of Allah). Allah will make disgrace prevail over
  you,
  • Allah will curse the Muslims if they abandon making war in
    favor of productive pursuits.
• until
  you return to your original religion.
  • Jihad; making
    war is their religion!!!!!