“the fact that an opinion has been widely held is no
evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness
of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish
than sensible.” - bertrand russell
in every
religion there is something good, something bad and something terribly ugly. the
good is what is being preached, the bad is what is being practiced and the ugly
is the outcome.
all religions preach honesty,
modesty, detachment, kindness, justice and other virtues. these are of course
our own spiritual heritage. we humans aspire to evolve spiritually and are
attracted towards these qualities. even those societies that have had no
religion at all (in americas and the far east) have uphold also these qualities.
societies that did not have messengers from god where not worse than those who
had them. but what religions practice is not what they preach. and i am not
talking about their followers. the very founders of religions failed to walk
their own talk. the bible is full of stories of atrocities of moses, his
killings of innocent people all sanctioned by his unfair god. we know very
little of jesus. the gospels were written 30 to 60 years after his death and
cannot be relied as authentic. yet there are indications in the new testament
that show if he had power, he would probably be as unfair as his predecessor
(see `luk
10:12,13 , 19:27
and rev
2:22, 23 ) however we do have a lot of stories recorded from
muhammad. many of them are authentic (sahih) that can give us a good glimpse
into the mind of the man who claimed to be the prophet and the mercy of god to
mankind. yet the picture we get from this last prophet is anything but holy.
he massacred
and exterminated all the jews from arabia and instigated hatred between his
followers and the jews that has lasted for over 1400 years and has cost millions
of lives. prior to him arabs and jews
lived in harmony and were allies.
he sent
assassins to kill his critiques in the middle of night, who committed no other
crime than composing poetries ridiculing his holiness, even if they where old or
mothers of several infants. (*)
he raped a
jewish girl 40 years younger than him whom he captured in one of his raids in
the same day that he killed her husband, her father and many of her relatives.
he
enriched himself by looting caravans, killing the men, usurping their properties
and selling their wives and daughters as slaves.
after his affluent wife died
and after he enriched himself with spoils of his wars on defenseless people, he
broke the boundaries of decency and performed sex with twenty women, some only 9
years old, some he married, some he captured in wars, some where his slaves and
maid servants and some just offered themselves to him. he did not spare even the
beautiful wife of his own adopted son.
he founded a religion that has
brought nothing but hatred and discord between his followers (among themselves)
and his followers and the rest of mankind. so much war, so many killings that
took place in the name of islam and are taking place still in various corners of
the world.
he heralded a misogynistic
religion that has undermined the rights of women and subjected them to
mistreatment and abuse.
as i write these notes, a
couple of muslims are being
prosecuted for blowing the pan am flight killing 280 innocent people and ruining
the lives of 280 families. while the accused deny the charges and blame the
palestinians for this cowardice attack, we have to question ourselves, where
these islamic terrorist, that are now burgeoning from philippines to timor, from
malaysia to afghanistan, from iran to libya, from canada to us, got their
inspiration to kill? do you think that islam has nothing to do with that? there
are many verses of quran that encourage the believers to kill the non-believers. in
islam the end justifies the means.
modernist muslims prefer to
live in denial than come to terms with the fact that quran is responsible for
all these atrocities perpetrated by muslims. they call for peace, tolerance and
freedom of speech. they condemn the extremists and the fundamentalists for
misinterpreting quran. yet they are the ones who are misinterpreting it, and are
not willing to let go the book that promotes war, hatred and suffocation of
thoughts.
it is
time that we questioned ourselves, when we accept islam as a legitimate
religion, aren’t we promoting a doctrine that produces terrorists? what we
think islam is, is irrelevant, what we want islam to be is inconsequential. what
really islam is, matters.
islam is not a religion that
promotes peace. it orders its believers to kill all those who do not accept its
dogma, without mercy. it instructs its followers to subdue the christians and
the jews and make them pay jizyah (a penalty tax).
islam is not a
religion that promotes equality of genders. muhammad said women are “deficient
in intelligence”, that majority of them go to hell because they are
disobedient to their husbands, that they should be beaten if they fail to please
their husbands.
islam is not a
religion that promotes equality for all humanity. it clearly regards the non-muslims
as second-class citizens and for those who are not either jews or christians it
prescribes death. it also allows slavery.
islam is not a
religion that promotes freedom of thought and speech. it curtails the right of
all the non-muslims to teach their religion, to congregate and
to celebrate their belief. it instructs killing all those who decide to
break rank and think freely and independently.
if what i write offends you, it
is not because there is anything offensive in my writings. it is because we
muslims have been cocooned in lies for so long that now the light of truth is
blinding us. religion is compared to opium and we are so much intoxicated by it
that any attempt to wean us from it will be faced with hostility and anger.
i am not attacking or insulting
my fellow muslim brothers and sisters. they are in my blood and i am in theirs.
i am trying to wake them up, to shake them up, to bring them to their senses and
show them the hidden and dark side of islam. i don’t do that because i want to
hurt them, i do that because i love them. because our peace and security, our
prosperity and happiness, our unity and integration with the rest of our
brothers and sisters in humanity cannot be achieved as long as we are cocooned
in the lies of islam and shackled in hate towards those who do not agree with
us..
my writings are my gift of love to my fellow human beings. i do not profit from
them nor i seek fame thereof. on the contrary i am being hated by the majority
of my muslim readers and if found i will be put to death. i am not a sadist and
tormenting others does not give me pleasure. i feel the pain of every suffering
person. i cry like a child when i see the atrocities that some of us inflict on
the rest of us. i am at lost when i see the apathy and indifference of some for
the misfortunes of others. i am a
human, part of humanity, feeling the pain of humanity. it is our
responsibility to make each other see the truth. no one will do that for us; no
one can do that for us; and no one should do that for us.
i earnestly
invite you to study the quran and question it. read the articles in this site
and think with open mind. if you think i am mistaken, show me; i am open to
change. otherwise please join me in this spiritual undertaking. let us wake up
our brothers and sisters. let us not look down at the unbelievers with disdain.
let us quench this hate that is burning in our hearts. let us embrace all
humanity as our kin. let us demolish the walls that have separated us from the
rest of mankind. let us descend from this pedestal of self-righteousness. let us
regard women as equal, let us forget what muhammad said and listen to to the
voice of reason. and let the love of god give us life through the love of
humanity.