Newly Discovered: Crombouke.blogspot.com

http://www.crombouke.blogspot.com/ (Disclaimer)

Usually I would quote the "about" page here, but there doesn't seem to be one. So I'll direct you towards what they call the Index of Islamic Infamy, that contains "Everything you ever wanted to know about Islam but were too politically correct to ask."

http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/everything-you-need-to-know-about-islam.html

Newly Discovered: HandbookForInfidels.com

http://www.handbookforinfidels.com/ (Disclaimer)

Welcome to Handbook for Infidels, a candid, unflinching appraisal of the religion that keeps making the news, around the world, day after day. This site attempts to shed some light on just why Islam keeps making the news, and why that news is never pretty.

The Handbook is intended to serve as a wake-up call for some of my dozy (or less scrappy) fellow progressives, who seem unaware that we're now engaged in a global War of Ideas that's much bigger, and more threatening, than the absurdly-named "War on Terror" suggests. HFI is one-stop shopping for the secular progressive who wants to get the skinny on what we're facing in the Muslim world, and what we can do to protect our more enlightened, life-embracing culture from the advancing shadow of grim, aggressive Islamism.

Some key points to get out of the way:

1) This site is NOT about hate. The Candid Progressive is too happy to be a hater. But not so blissed-out as to be unperturbed by a barbaric, woman-hating, freedom-squelching ideology with hordes of violence-prone True Believers, who are just aching to drag us all back into the Seventh Century and make us slaves to ancient superstition. That sort of jangling, in-your-face insanity does manage to puncture my cozy little bubble of bourbon-fueled bonhomie from time to time -- and from my (relatively) civilized, femme-loving, liberty-addicted perspective, that whole scenario seems more than a little f’d up. Toss in the fact that I consider religious superstition to be the greatest impediment to intellectual, moral, and spiritual enlightenment, and the result is a politically incorrect book that treats Islam with exactly as much respect as it deserves, and gives faint-hearted multiculturalists the "vapors”.

2) This site is NOT about racism. I have nothing but respect for former Muslims, regardless of their race/color/ethnicity. And I consider bone-headed white converts to Islam to be just as great a threat to democracy and human decency as rabid Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia. The trick (which many of my fellow Lefties have not yet mastered) is to ignore skin color, language, and geography, and focus on the ideas that motivate people, and on their resulting actions. Race has nothing to do with it.

3) If white people behaved in the ways that millions of dusky-hued Muslims do every day, liberals would be literally foaming at the mouth in their condemnation of them. On MSNBC, they would never shut up about those vile, pedophilic, wife-beating, honor-killing, homo-hanging Scandinavian bastards. But since the miscreants (and the victims, for the most part) are swarthy people from "developing" nations, the mainstream media seems to have nothing but respect for their ideology and culture. Apparently they get a special Brown People Dispensation, and are thus beyond reproach. That, of course, is bullshit. Bad behavior is bad behavior, regardless of who is hacking off their pubescent daughter's genitalia, or stoning someone to death.

4) This is a critique of an ideology -- an ideology that is inherently hostile to democracy, free speech, freedom of the press, women’s rights and other fundamental human rights -- principles that all progressives should support wholeheartedly. Islam's brutal subjugation of women should be reason enough to make all liberals unite in heated opposition to it. (And the fact that this has not happened indicates that something very strange and unlikely is going on here, between Islam and the political left.)

5) The idea that Muslims should somehow be exempt from having their ideology criticized (in a way that Catholics, or Mormons, or Christian Creationists, for instance, are not) is a bigoted position, because it’s based upon the assumption that they are too uncivilized, or too immature, to handle it. It’s actually more respectful to treat them as adults, like everyone else, and expect them to deal with criticism without reacting violently, just like everyone else.

6) Some cultures are clearly far more enlightened and humane than others. A brief look at what goes on in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan makes this fact obvious. Cultural relativism is a lie, and it serves no purpose, except to prevent backward cultures from engaging in the kind of honest self-criticism that leads to the development of happier, healthier, more progressive societies.

7) Political correctness is totally counter to the spirit of free speech, and prevents the discussion of important truths. It might make superficial people feel more comfortable, but it has serious, real-life consequences. Political correctness is an unacceptable hindrance for serious people who want to see the world become a better place.

8) Ultimately, the problem here is religion in general -- a problem of people accepting “revealed” truths without sufficient evidence, and confidently acting upon those beliefs, regardless of the consequences. Magic-thinking still causes a vast amount of misery around the world, and prevents the development of more enlightened intellects and moral codes. That being said, no other religion in the 21st Century continues to promote medieval barbarism on such an epic scale as Mohammed’s “spiritual” legacy. Islam is religion taken to its most diabolic extreme. [...]

Reading Material for Muslims During Ramadan 2012

Brief Summary of Islamic Fasting

Sawm (صوم‎) is the Arabic word which refers to Islamic fasting. The observance of sawm during the Islamic month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and therefore a compulsory (fard) duty.

The salient features of Islamic fasting are:

 *For 30 days every lunar year (during the month of Ramadan), waking up before dawn and eating and drinking to prepare for the fast 

 *Refraining from eating, drinking, smoking, and engaging in sexual intercourse from dawn (fajr) to sunset (maghrib). 

 *Breaking the fast at sunset and again eating and drinking to prepare for the day ahead. 

The adverse effects of Islamic fasting are vast and encompass such issues as; health, national economy and productivity, crime rates, public safety and social behavior. In practice, Islamic fasting is unlike medical fasting or fasting as found in other religious traditions. It is more accurately described as delayed eating; Muslims simply turn their eating habits upside down and gorge at dusk and at dawn.

Binge eating is a common habit during Ramadan.[1] For example, in Egypt, national statistics point to a substantial increase in consumption of food, electricity, and medications related to digestive disorders during the month of Ramadan as compared with the monthly average in the rest of the year.[2] Similarly in Doha, Qatar, almost 8,000 cases of indigestion were recorded at the Hamad Medical Hospital emergency room solely in the first week of Ramadan 2011, due to "most of the population sleeping during the day" and eating "large feasts".[3]

Once the month of Ramadan comes to an end, Muslims then observe Eid ul-Fitr ("Festival of Fast-Breaking"), a day to celebrate the end of Ramadan. Eid celebrations include the unprecedented large-scale slaughter of hundreds of thousands,[4] possibly millions, of animals. In the Netherlands alone, which has little over a million Muslims, a 100,000 animals were slaughtered in 2010 for Eid al-Adha ("Festival of Sacrifice").[5]

 References for the article here: http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Sawm

Adverse Effects of Islamic Fasting

Medical fasting is different from Islamic fasting (Sawm), and contrary to popular Muslim beliefs, Islamic fasting, unlike Medical fasting, has numerous adverse effects that have been observed using scientific studies and news sources. Intermittent and prolonged fasting is generally not conducive to a healthy lifestyle. Depriving the body of water and essential nutrients by dividing and postponing meals to irregular intervals does nothing to limit consumption. In-fact it causes a host of health, performance and mood disorders. Fasting is not normally prescribed for the well being of human beings. Instead, it is commonly understood that eating healthy, smaller-portioned meals, interspersed throughout the day is far better in maintaining a well-balanced diet and far more forgiving on a person's metabolism. Any claims that prolonged and intermittent fasting contributes to the well-being of an individual's health are misleading, based on the scientific studies that prove otherwise. If the Islamic argument in favor of fasting is that “we fast because God commanded us to do so," then it is obvious that God is not a nutritionist or a dietitian because the negatives definitely outweigh the positives. So the question to the Muslim world is: what benefit does the Muslim world get for 1 billion people staying hungry throughout the day for one full month every year? Did Allah actually want Muslims to suffer physically, economically and socially for one month every year? Also, if fasting is beneficial as Muslims claim, why do Muslims not fast the entire year instead of just one month?

Read the full article here: http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Adverse_Effects_of_Islamic_Fasting

The Ramadan Pole Paradox

This article consists of a set of questions and answers exploring Ramadan's relation to the North and South Poles. According to Islamic rules, the length of a fast is governed by the rising and the setting of the sun. This can cause a huge problem for those who live close to these poles. The closer we get to the poles, the longer our days or nights become. They can eventually extend for up to several months each, making the fourth Pillar of Islam impossible to practice without starving yourself to death. Obviously Muhammad was unaware of the poles.

Read the full article here: http://wikiislam.net/wiki/The_Ramadan_Pole_Paradox

Muslim Statistics (Ramadan and Eid)

With the advent of Ramadan in just a few days, child trafficking, a trade that sometimes goes unpunished in Yemen, is expected to increase as food prices rise and parents struggle to provide for their children.

"I think during Ramadan prices rise and there is a lapse of security along the borders," Coordinator of Child Parliament Om Khalthoum said.

Almost 1,500 Yemeni children were saved by child protection centers from exploitation, abuse and deprivation that come at the hands of their traffickers or smugglers, according to Naseem Ur-Rahman of UNICEF. Yemeni children, primarily boys, are trafficked into Saudi Arabia for exploitation as beggars, street vendors and unskilled laborers.

While there are no statistics that determine how many children are trafficked on an annual basis, authorities do know that during the month of Ramadan the numbers rise. "One of the main problems is that there is a lack of reliable data," Ur-Rahman said.

. . .

There is also a need for a legal description of children trafficking specifically for sex, begging or any other action that assists or encourages children to escape from their houses to practice prostitution or any other immoral actions. Occasionally children are even maimed or crippled in order to ensure success in begging.

. . .

Despite making great strides in recent years, the government of Yemen does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. Even with their latest significant efforts, the Yemeni government did not show evidence of progress in prosecuting and punishing trafficking offenders or in preventing sex trafficking over the last year, according to the US State Department Trafficking in Persons Report for 2009.

The Yemeni government reported no trafficking investigations, prosecutions, or convictions during the reporting period, and took no steps to address trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation.

Read the full article here: http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Muslim_Statistics_(Ramadan_and_Eid)

Ramadan Bombathon 2012

Oh, and don't forget to keep yourself up-to-date over at TROP with the latest scores in the 2012 Ramadan Bombathon. Islam (like last year, and the year before that) has taken an early lead:

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

Tidiane N'Diaye: The Veiled Genocide (The Islamic Slave Trade of Black Africans)

For more books on the Islamic slave trade, see Books on Slavery. To contribute and keep yourself up-to-date on the fight against modern-day slavery (widely ignored by "human-rights activists" because Muslims remain the main perpetrators of this trade), visit iAbolish.org.

Video Description:

Any black African Who Refused to Become Muslim was Deported as a Slave to Muslim World

17 million black Africans who refused to convert to Islam were deported to the Muslim world as slaves. The history of this trading of humans is still a taboo subject. Tidiane N'Diaye breaks the silence in his book 'The Veiled Genocide'. And the worst part is that most of the enslaved were castrated and sadly, weren't allowed to have any children. The Islamic slave trade of black Africans lasted over 13 centuries.

Newly Discovered: FalseIslam.org

http://www.falseislam.org/ (again, I would normally provide a disclaimer here, but this site was created by a recent Pakistani Muslim-turned-atheist who had previously been very active in defending Islam on Internet forums. So whilst the site is still a work in progress, I highly recommend showing your support by visiting it)

Islam is a false religion with out any doubt. Purpose of this site will not be bashing muslims but to educate people in particular muslims about Islam. The glorified version of Islam and Muhammad that muslims learn while growing up and which is in-grained on their minds is not true. Muslims should know the facts about Islam, Quran, Muhammad and Islamic history.

I am an ex-muslim and one time staunch defender of Muhammad and Islam. It is my sincere hope to save as many muslims as I can from the curse of Islam. It is an evil barbaric ideology which has no place in 21st century civilised world. I will prove here without any doubt that Islam is a bogus religion and Muhammad and Quran have nothing to do with any god

Downloadable Qur'an and Tafsir Texts

English translations of the Qur'an

Yusuf Ali, Pickthal and Shakir's translations

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

"Tafsir al-Jalalayn is one of the most significant tafsirs for the study of the Qur’an. Composed by the two “Jalals” -- Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli (d. 864 ah / 1459 ce) and his pupil Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 911 ah / 1505 ce), Tafsir al-Jalalayn is generally regarded as one of the most easily accessible works of Qur’anic exegesis because of its simple style and one volume length. For the first time ever Tafsir al-Jalalayn is competently translated into an unabridged highly accurate and readable annotated English translation by Doctor. Feras Hamza."

http://www.altafsir.com/Books/Al_Jalalain_Eng.pdf

Tafsir Ibn-'Abbas

"Attributed variously to the Companion Abdullah Ibn Abbas (d. 68/687) and to Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub al-Firuzabadi (d. 817/1414), Tanwîr al-Miqbâs is one of the most pivotal works for understanding the environment which influenced the development of Qur’anic exegesis. Despite its uncertain authorship and its reliance on the controversial Isrâ’îliyyat or Israelite stories, Tanwîr al-Miqbâs nevertheless offers readers valuable insight into the circulation and exchange of popular ideas between Islam, Judaism and Christianity during the formative phase of Islamic exegesis." 

http://www.altafsir.com/Books/IbnAbbas.pdf

Asbab Al-Nuzul by Al-Wahidi

"'Alī ibn Ahmad al-Wahidi, Asbab al-Nuzul 'Alī ibn Ahmad al-Wāhidī (d. 468/1075), the earliest scholar of the branch of the Qur'anic sciences known as Asbāb al-Nuzūl (i.e. the contexts and occasions of the Revelation of the Qur'an). Al-Wāhidī and subsequent scholars aimed to collect and systemize information concerning all the known reasons and contexts for the Revelation of particular Qur'anic verses. This translation by Mokrane Guezzou represents the first accurate and reliable English translation of this seminal work."

http://www.altafsir.com/Books/Asbab%20Al-Nuzul%20by%20Al-Wahidi.pdf

Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged)

"The Qur'an is the revelation of Allah's Own Words for the guidance of His creatures. Since the Qur'an is the primary source of Islamic teachings, the correct understanding for the Qur'an is necessary for every Muslim. The Tafsir of Ibn Kathir is among the most renowned and accepted explanation of the Qur'an in the entire world. In it one finds the best presentation of Hadiths, history, and scholarly commentary."

http://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Tafsir%20Ibn%20Kathir%20all%2010%20volumes.pdf

Newly Discovered: GlobalInfidel.TV

http://www.globalinfidel.tv/ (I would normally provide a disclaimer here, but I joined the site about a week ago and highly recommend it) 

In the summer of 2010 I began production on a documentary called "Not Welcome" about the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in Murfreesboro, TN. I took the position that Islam was just another religion, that this conflict was nothing more than political opportunism, with Evangelicals trying to maintain the home turf advantage in their small town. Eventually I came to discover I was wrong about this - very wrong.

For more on how and why I did an about face and came to see Islam as both a human rights disaster and greatest threat to national security today, read my article "The High Price of Telling the Truth About Islam".

Here is the 25 minute short version of that documentary: (link)

Later I returned the money to my backers and ended up becoming committed to the struggle for human rights and liberty known as "Counter Jihad".

So why don't I just take this video down, now that I have "seen the light"? I keep it up as a cautionary tale, as a reminder that when the fight against the inhumanity of Islam becomes a religious crusade, nothing gets accomplished. If we really care about human rights, and that is where we find commonality, then that is where our focus should be. When we work together to expose the sadistic and brutal totalitarian threat that is Islam, then and only then will we get our message across.

I have created this site as free resource to anyone who is wanting to know more about the human rights abuses in Islam. Again, I feel strongly that part of why the Counter Jihad movement has not been as successful as it can be in, educating the general public about the dangers of Islam, has a lot to do with the debate becoming a politically partisan issue or a religious issue. If we care about our national security, liberty and human rights, then we must stop allowing this cause to be hijacked by other special interests.

Remember, Counter Jihad is about Liberty and Human Rights. Islam and liberty cannot coexist. Islam and free speech cannot coexist. Islam and women's rights, gay rights, human rights, cannot coexist. Th enemy of Islam is information - spread it!

Eric Allen Bell

Founder

Global Infidel TV

Eric@BellMedia.org

List of Free Islam-Related Downloads

Only a short list at present, but I will continue adding to it under the "Downloads" label.

Hadith software

"This software is a collection of over 18,000 hadith from: Complete Sahih Bukhari, Complete Sahih Muslim, Complete Malik's Muwatta, Partial Abu Dawud

It features full text search, bookmarks, and easy to use navigation. Now you can search for a topic and cross-reference between all four collections! "

http://www.imaanstar.com/hadith.php

Edward William Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (Dictionary)

"Regarded as the best Arabic-English lexicon in the world, and now available FREE. Online in PDF below. Including OCR, making the English word-searchable (NB: not 100% accurate)

Contents: All 8 volumes, each with its own folder, total 3162 pages. One large word-searchable file for each volume. Arrangement by root, exhaustive meanings including derivatives, comments on grammar, examples of usage in Al Quran/Koran & other sources." 

http://www.studyquran.co.uk/LLhome.htm

Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic

"This edition of the Dictionary, published eighteen years after its first appearance is an enlarged and improved version of it original corpus. During the past two decades, the Dictionary has achieved widespread acceptance and use. In the interim, modern written Arabic has continued to exhibit vigorous lexical growth. Therefore, feeling the need to fill in many gaps and update the corpus, the author again undertook systematic collection of material. In addition to many neologisms of recent origin, the author has incorporated much older material attested in present-day contexts, which had not yet appeared in the Dictionary, as well as numerous improvements and corrections. The result is this revised 4th edition has nearly 200 new pages."

http://kalamullah.com/Books/Hans-Wehr.pdf

Sirat Rasoul Allah

"Ibn Ishaq -(Muhammad ibn Ishaq (d. 767 or 761)) The earliest Islamic historian whose work still survives. He collected oral traditions that formed the basis of an important extant biography of the Prophet. Although is original books have been lost his work survived through that of his editors, such as Ibn Hisham and Ibn Jarir al-Tabari.

This is a translation by Alfred Guillaume who has attempted to compile the original text of Ibn Ishaq by combining his work referenced in several sources. This is mainly from Ibn Hisham but with additions from other sources. Ibn Hisham work was well known for having redacted large sections of Ibn Ishaq when it was felt it was controversial or did not comply with orthodox doctrine."

http://www.justislam.co.uk/images/Ibn%20Ishaq%20-%20Sirat%20Rasul%20Allah.pdf

The Truth About Muhammad

"In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam-perhaps the first such portrait in half a century-unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad's life that continue to affect our world today.

From Muhammad's first "revelation" from Allah (which filled him with terror that he was demonpossessed) to his deathbed (from which he called down curses upon Jews and Christians), it's all here-told with extensive documentation from the sources that Muslims themselves consider most reliable about Muhammad."

http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.schnellmann.org/Robert_Spencer_The_Truth_About_Muhammad.pdf&date=2011-03-16

Reliance of the Traveller (Revised Edition)

"The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law 'Umdat al-Salik by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d. 769/1368) in Arabic with Facing English Text, Commentary, and Appendices. Edited and Translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller"

http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.islamicbulletin.com/free_downloads/resources/reliance_complete.pdf&date=2011-03-16

Abridged Tafsir Ibn Kathir Volumes 1 - 10

"The Qur'an is the revelation of Allah's Own Words for the guidance of His creatures. Since the Qur'an is the primary source of Islamic teachings, the correct understanding for the Qur'an is necessary for every Muslim. The Tafsir of Ibn Kathir is among the most renowned and accepted explanation of the Qur'an in the entire world. In it one finds the best presentation of Hadiths, history, and scholarly commentary."

http://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Tafsir%20Ibn%20Kathir%20all%2010%20volumes.pdf

Jihad in the Qur'an and the Sunnah

"In this article, Sheikh 'Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid, ex-Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia, has presented Jihad in the light of Qur'aan and Sunna. Never before such an article was seen, describing Jihad in its true colours-so heart evoking and encouraging! May Allaah bless him with all His Blessings for all times.

Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, the translator of the Noble Qur'aan and the Sahih Al-Bukhari, has translated this article from Arabic to the English language with all its fervor and feelings. May Allaah reward him with best of His Rewards."

http://islamicemirate.com/E-Books/Jihad/Jihad%20in%20Quran%20and%20Sunnah.pdf

Can we talk? A manual of persuasion about Islam

"Bill Warner, of Political Islam, came out with a handbook for talking about Islam. It's a PDF file — essentially a book — to help us talk about Islam with people and actually get somewhere in the conversation."

http://www.politicalislam.com/pdf/WebSitePDF/CanWeTalk.pdf

SQOTW: This Muhammad of Yours is a Dwarf and Fat

No wonder present-day Islam forbids depictions of Muhammad....

From WikiIslam:

Narrated AbuBarzah: AbdusSalam ibn AbuHazim AbuTalut said: I saw AbuBarzah who came to visit Ubaydullah ibn Ziyad. Then a man named Muslim who was there in the company mentioned it to me.

When Ubaydullah saw him, he said: This Muhammad of yours is a dwarf and fat. The old man (i.e. AbuBarzah) understood it. So he said: I did not think that I should remain among people who would make me feel ashamed of the company of Muhammad (peace be upon him).

Thereupon Ubaydullah said: The company of Muhammad (peace be upon him) is a honour for you, not a disgrace. He added: I called for you to ask about the reservoir. Did you hear the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) mentioning anything about it? AbuBarzah said: Yes, not once, twice, thrice, four times or five times. If anyone believes it, may Allah not supply him with water from it. He then went away angrily.

By saying he "heard and understood it", it is saying that the description was accurate. His only thought was that he didn't want to be around those who made him feel ashamed of the company of Muhammad. If the description wasn't accurate, you'd expect him to object or think "these people have no idea what they're talking about" or whatever, right? 

Newly Discovered: IslamInOurSchools.com

http://www.islaminourschools.com/ (Disclaimer)

For far too long now, educators have gotten away with presenting a sanitized version of Islam in our public schools. Some times this is done intentionally by instructors who toe the politically correct line so prevalent these days and wish to say nothing that might in some way “offend” someone else, even if it is the truth. At other times, educators have no choice in the matter, as they are required to teach from accepted and approved curriculum.

Additionally, textbook publishers portray a very rosy version of Islam in mainstream publications, while at the same time denigrating other world religions to cast them in a much less favorable light compared to the view Islam receives.

This website was started by one man who has studied Islam at the graduate level while pursuing a Master’s degree, and who has been teaching Islam at the college level for the past five years. Other contributors to the site will include concerned parents, students, those who have been fighting their individual battles at the local school district levelwith inaccurate portrayals of Islam. It is our goal to expose this issue, raise awareness, compile resources, document errant textbooks, identify schools and educators engaged in this unwelcome activity, and form strategies to ensure our children and future students are provided only the truth in classrooms.

Many other groups around the nation have endeavored to do something similar, but there exists no single place where all the various pieces of research, papers, articles, and critiques can be found together. One must poke, prod, and search the internet to find these scattered gems. It is my hope to bring to this site the best materials I find and gather them all into one place – a clearinghouse for information on the presentation of Islam in our public schools.

SQOTW: Prophet Muhammad Gives his Seal of Approval to Muslim Vigilantism

From Abu Dawud, Book 38, Number 4348:

Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas: A blind man had a slave-mother who used to abuse the Prophet (peace be upon him) and disparage him. He forbade her but she did not stop. He rebuked her but she did not give up her habit. One night she began to slander the Prophet (peace be upon him) and abuse him. So he took a dagger, placed it on her belly, pressed it, and killed her. A child who came between her legs was smeared with the blood that was there. When the morning came, the Prophet (peace be upon him) was informed about it.

He assembled the people and said: I adjure by Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right to him that he should stand up. Jumping over the necks of the people and trembling the man stood up.

He sat before the Prophet (peace be upon him) and said: Apostle of Allah! I am her master; she used to abuse you and disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was my companion. Last night she began to abuse and disparage you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her.

Thereupon the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Oh be witness, no retaliation is payable for her blood.

Newly Discovered: TheBattleOfTours.blogspot.com

http://thebattleoftours.blogspot.com/ (Disclaimer)

I still remember the first time I read the Koran, and thinking “wow, if this is what we’re up against, we’re in real trouble”.

The Koran raised the hairs on the back of my neck. It is not peaceable, but violent. Not every single word and sentence, to be sure, but the overall impression you have when you read it is of unremitting violence and hatred of non-Muslims.

I’ve since grown my library on Islam to several hundred volumes and nothing I’ve read has caused me to be any more sanguine about the "Religion of Peace".

I’ve been careful to read on both sides of the story: the apologist side, by Muslims and non-Muslims, and the critical side from non-Muslims and apostates.

Even the best of the apologists are, on careful reading, unconvincing in defence of the "religion", the ideology of Islam.

Islam is in its own words and on its own insistence, an ideology that is supremacist, anti-semitic, sectarian, homophobic, misogynist and backwards looking.

Islam could be all of these things, apart from "supremacist" and it would be fine by me. That is, if it practiced its beliefs, like all other religions, in private, as a relationship between the person and their God and they could be as homophobic or misogynist as they wished. But the defining thing about Islam is its supremacism: it seeks to dominate all other religions and become “victorious” throughout the world.

As Robert Spencer has noted:

Islam is unique among the religions of the world in having a developed doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates warfare against unbelievers.

I've "fact-checked" each of those claims and each is literally true. "Doctrine" is the codified beliefs, which are in the Koran, the Hadith and the life of Muhammad (the Sirah). "Theology" is the study of these doctrines. And the "legal system" is the Sharia. Study of these areas will quickly reveal to the interested reader, that Islam requires warfare against unbelievers; it is a core belief. The Pakistani Islamic scholar Abul a'la Maudidi, winner of the King Faisal Prize for "Services to Islam", summarises it best in this simple statement from his book "Jihad in Islam":

Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam....[p6]

Not much doubt or ambiguity there.

The “Battle of Tours” came to mind as I read more about Islam and learnt of the earlier battles between the west and a westward advancing Islam.

That battle in 732 stopped the spread of Islam into Western Europe. Had it not been stopped, we could have a very different Europe today, arguably with no Enlightenment, no Reformation, and no Renaissance.

President Teddy Roosevelt, always amongst lists of America's greatest presidents, mentions the hero of that Battle, in his anti-pacifism book "Fear God and Take Your Own part":

The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists to-day at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because of victories stretching through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to those of Charles Martel [The Battle of Tours] in the eighth century and those of John Sobiesky in the seventeenth century. [p70-71]

.... Wherever the Mohammadenas have had complete sway, wherever the Christian have been ubable to resit them by the sword, Christianity has ulitmately disapperated. From the hammer of Charles Martel [The Battle of Tours] to the sword of Sobiesky, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact that it was able to show that it could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan agressor. [p197]

Pretty robust stuff! We can argue around the edges of this, and about the extent of "social values" after Islamic conquest; but we can't doubt the thrust. That militant and aggressive Islam (Teddy's "Mohammadans" or "Moselm invaders") has to be confronted if the meaning, substance and core of the west is to be retained; and that today the invasion is not by direct military conflict, but by the asymmetric "jihad of the womb"....(Muslim scholar's words, not mine).

I subtitle it “the Battle of Today” because there is, today, in Nonie Darwish’s words, “a battle for the soul of the world” between western tradition and a radical backward-looking version of Islam.

Sam Harris puts it more bluntly in "The End of Faith": "We are at war with Islam".

The battle of ideas goes on globally now. Not just, or even mainly, through wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but more importantly by the “stealth Jihad” – demands by Islamists in western countries for accommodation to Islamic values and Sharia law.

There are many examples of the stealth jihad, which one can find from even a cursory study. The pressure grows for ever more accommodation, from Sharia courts in the UK, to demands for non-Muslims to observe Ramadan.

There are many in the “blogosphere” who reject these pressures, in defence of time-honoured western values: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and respect for the rights of women and minorities.

In all these areas, Sharia stands in stark and negative contrast. And that is why we must continue the "Battle of Today".

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I'm also posting on other bits and pieces that grab my interest, such as on China and Hong Kong, climate change, the war on drugs, and general miscellanea and ephemera.

I have not turned on “comments” setting, but I’m happy to have comments to my email, and I’ll ask you if I propose to post your comment.

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Bill Warner's Downloadable Handbook for "Talking about Islam"

I just come across this whilst browsing through some posts at Citizen Warrior and thought I'd share. Bill Warner is the guy behind Political Islam:

Bill Warner, of Political Islam, came out with a handbook for talking about Islam. It's a PDF file — essentially a book — to help us talk about Islam with people and actually get somewhere in the conversation. Download it here:

Can We Talk?

UK Imam: "In Islam a Man is Allowed to Have as Many Concubines as he Wants"

Old but Shocking (2009): "Manningham Belongs to Muslims", 'Asian' Teen Stabs 51-Year-Old White Man

This took place in Bradford, UK, the same place where the so-called race riots took place. The teen explains his motivations plain as day, "Manningham belongs to Muslims. We dont want whites. We rule Bradford. We are going to get you out."

The attack was clearly racially and religiously motivated. If anything, there's a chance it was only religiously motivated (to most Muslim Asians, every white is assumed to be a Christian), yet the sentencing judge simply says it "seemed to have a racial motive." I highly doubt this old man would have been attacked if he was dressed in recognizably Islamic clothing.

From The Telegraph:

A teenager, Amir Rehman, who stabbed and slashed a random passer-by in a brutal racially motivated attack in Manningham, West Yorkshire, has been jailed for five years.

Rehman, 18, shouted racial abuse as 51-year-old Ronald O'Connor walked to a shop for a loaf of bread, near the gates of Lister Park, Manningham, last December.

 Leeds Crown Court heard that Rehman shouted: "Manningham belongs to Muslims. We dont want whites. We rule Bradford. We are going to get you out."

 His victim tried to get in the shop, but Rehman ran towards him and stabbed him twice in the upper arm with a four to five-inch bladed knife.

 Rehman, of Manningham, tried to slash Mr O'Connor's face and the victim also had the palms of his hands slashed as he tried to defend himself.

 Richard Gioserano, prosecuting, said: "Rehman was swinging at him over and over again with the knife. Mr O'Connor was in great pain and in fear, literally, of his life."

He ran into the shop, police were called and Rehman was arrested outside.

 Mr O'Connor had to have surgery at Bradford Royal Infirmary for a deep laceration to his palm while he also suffered lacerations to his fingers and two incisions to his upper arm with apparent nerve damage.

 Rehman and two friends, Amar Farooq and Tanveer Hussain, committed a series of robberies only hours after Rehman appeared at court for a preliminary hearing in March.

 The trio were drinking heavily at the time of the attacks and the robberies targeted children on their way home from school.

 During the callous street muggings some of the youngsters were threatened with being stabbed, though no knife was seen.

 A 15-year-old schoolboy who was making his way home at 3pm on 4 March, was grabbed from behind, punched in the face and had his iPod and mobile phone stolen.

 A group of three more pupils, two boys and a girl aged 14 and 15, who saw the attack were the next victims.

 Hussain asked to borrow a mobile phone and when all three said they didn't have one, Farooq said: "You have 10 seconds to give me your valuable stuff or I will stab you all."

 The girl ran off and Farooq grabbed one boy shoving him against a wall while the other two stole £1.10 from the other boy, said Mr Gioserano.

 Their next victim was an 11-year-old boy.

 Jonathan Devlin, defending, said there were no explanations or excuses for the offences other than drink.

 All three pleaded guilty to three robberies and Rehman pleaded guilty to wounding with intent in connection with the Manningham incident.

 Rehman was sent to youth custody for five years while Hussain, 23, of Manningham, and Farooq, 25, of Garlington, were jailed for 30 months.

 The judge, Recorder David Bradshaw, told Rehman he had committed an unprovoked attack on an innocent man causing horrendous injuries.

 He said: "I am satisfied it was accompanied by racial abuse and seemed to have a racial motive."

Old but Shocking (2009): Christian Beaten to Death for Drinking from Teacup “designated for Muslims”

Along with "Scripture Quote of the Week " (SQOTW) and "Newly Discovered", I plan on making "Old but Shocking" a regular feature of this blog. "Old but Shocking" will tend to feature old, but not ancient, news stories which have  been, in all probability, undeservingly forgotten or overlooked by most.

From Worthy News:

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (Worthy News) — A Christian man was beaten to death in Pakistan's Punjab province for drinking from a tea cup “designated for Muslims,” the latest in several attacks against the Christian minority in this region, local Christians and rights investigators said Friday, June 12.

Advocacy group International Christian Concern (ICC) said it learned that “radical Muslims” running a tea stall beat Ishtiaq Masih last month after he ordered tea at a roadside stall in Machharkay village where his bus stopped “to allow passengers to relieve themselves.”

“When Ishtiaq went to pay for his tea, the owner noticed that he was wearing a necklace with a cross and grabbed him, calling for his employees to bring anything available to beat him for violating a sign posted on the stall warning non-Muslims to declare their religion before being served,” ICC said.

Ishtiaq had reportedly not noticed the warning sign before ordering his tea, as he ordered with a group of his fellow passengers. “The owner and 14 of his employees beat Ishtiaq with stones, iron rods and clubs, and stabbed him multiple times with kitchen knives as Ishtiaq pleaded for mercy.”

PASSENGERS INTERVENE

Other bus passengers and passers-by finally intervened and took Ishtiaq to the Rural Health Center in the village. ICC said. “There Ishtiaq died as a result of spinal, head, and chest injuries. The doctor who took Ishtiaq's case told ICC that Ishtiaq had excessive internal and external bleeding, a fractured skull, and brain injuries.”

Makah Tea Stall is located on the Sukheki-Lahore highway and is owned by Mubarak Ali, a 42-year-old radical Muslim, ICC said. An ICC investigator visiting the area apparently observed a large red warning sign with a death's head symbol which read, "All non-Muslims should introduce their faith prior to ordering tea. This tea stall serves Muslims only." The warning also threatened anyone who violated the rule with "dire consequences."

A neighboring shopkeeper told ICC on condition of anonymity that Ali is a fundamentalist Muslim and all his employees are former students of radical Muslim schools, known as madrassas.. Ali kept separate sets of cooking-ware for Muslims and non-Muslims at his stall, they said.

Ishtiaq's family reportedly said they immediately reported the incident to police and filed a case against Ali. “Though the police registered their case, no action has been taken to apprehend Ali or his employees.”Ali was not immediately available for comment.

POLICE INVESTIGATION

In published comments, a police official of the local Pindi Bhatian Saddar police station said however that investigations were underway and they are treating it as a faith-based murder by biased Muslims. When asked about Ali's warning sign, police chief Muhammad Iftikhar Bajwa claimed that he could not take it down, ICC said.

ICC said Pakistan “explicitly prohibits such discrimination, and the police could take strong action against the warning sign.” Ishtiaq's father has reportedly said that police are reluctant to take action as they are also Muslim and that “the murderers who are still freely operating the tea stall.”

The case is the second reporter murder of Christian my radical Muslims in Punjab province in recent weeks. Last month, another young Christian man was reportedly and murdered by angry Muslims, for making love with his Muslim girl friend and refusing to convert to Islam.

Christian leaders have also been targeted, Christians say.

In one of those incidents a traffic incident in Punjab Province led to Muslim assailants later mounting an attack on the home of a Christian pastor in the town of Kila Sardar Shah in Sheikhupura district, who they already criticized for his evangelism “and justice ministries,” said mission group Christ for All Nations Ministries (CANM) in published remarks.

MANY ATTACKERS

Some 17 attackers struck the mother and sister-in-law of pastor Riaz Masih with rifle butts June 1 after the pastor’s brother in the same housing complex complained to a local councilor about the official nearly driving into his sons, CANM said.

CANM said the attackers threatened more violence against Pastor Riaz Masih if he does not assault charges. Masih had reportedly complained to a to a local councilor about the official nearly driving into his sons.

Christian leaders have described the roadside incident as “only the fuse igniting hostilities” that have grown due to meetings held by CANM, as they apparently attracted many youths, including some Muslims.

Christians make up less than five percent of the country's mainly Muslim population of about 176 million people, according to United States Central Intelligence Agency estimates.

Newly Discovered: IslamicInfo4Masses.blogspot.com

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This site almost exclusively consists of useful and informative links arranged neatly by topic. As an example, I present to you its top 20 [actually 19] "good sites about Islam":

1. WikiIslam

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2. Islam Watch

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3. Faith Freedom

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4. Ali Sina Site

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5. Jihad Watch

http://www.jihadwatch.org/

6. The Religion of Peace

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

7. Prophet of Doom

7.1 http://www.prophetofdoom.net/

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8. Answering Islam

http://www.answering-islam.org/

9. In the name of Allah

9.1 http://www.inthenameofallah.org/

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10. Investigating Islam

http://www.investigateislam.com/english/

11. Stop Islamization of Europe

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12. El Islam Nazi

http://islamnazi.wordpress.com/

13. Radical Islam

http://www.radicalislam.org/

14. Geert Wilders

http://www.geertwilders.nl/

15. Islam Review

http://www.islamreview.com/

16. Apostate of Islam

http://www.apostatesofislam.com/

17. All About Muhammad

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18. In the name of Allah

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19. Islam Radio

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Scripture Quote of the Week: The Curse of Ham ("The Father of the Black Africans")

This is from Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Muluk, i.e. The History of al-Tabari. This texts is highly important to orthodox Islam and Muslims due to it forming in part the Sunnah of Muhammad. Just take a look at the praise heaped upon it by A.I. Makki of the Muslim Writers Society.

Of course, the modern-day Muslim apologetic denial of this comes in the form of blaming "early Jewish converts to Islam". That's right; just like the Nazis, when all else fails, blame it on those nasty Jooooos.

From Al-Tabari, Vol. 2, p. 11, p. 11:

Shem, the son of Noah was the father of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Greeks; Ham was the father of the Black Africans; and Japheth was the father of the Turks and of Gog and Magog who were cousins of the Turks. Noah prayed that the prophets and apostles would be descended from Shem and kings would be from Japheth. He [Noah] prayed that the African’s color would change so that their descendants would be slaves to the Arabs and Turks.

Newly Discovered: MostIntolerantReligion.com

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After 2011 Mumbai Bombing, many Islamic scholars came forward to defend Islam, in same way, when Islamic scholars came forward to defend Islam after 9/11. These scholars say, that Islam forbids terrorism and Mass Murder in name of Religion. They further claim, that Prophet of Islam was a holy man, and lived a very simple and pious life. He was best example for Mankind, and he need to be followed.

I was unable to draw any conclusion when for the first time I read the report on World Designated Terrorist Organisations. On one hand Islamic scholars claim, Islam to be the religion of Peace, which forbids Terrorism, and on other hand 90% of world’s terrorist organisation are Islamic. This made me start my research on sources of Terrorist Ideologies and reason behind their Intolerant nature towards Non-Muslims.

The reasons I found was shocking enough which I never expected, because I thought that every religion must be teaching peace, love and Humanity. But after going through Islamic sources I realized, that Islamic does not come under the same roof, in which other religions come. The summary with which I came up, I have posted in this site with references to authentic Islamic scriptures.

Next, when I heard about Islamic Miracles and Science in Qur’an by Islamic scholars, who practice Taqqyia to convert a Non-Muslim into Islam, I started exposing them too, by going through loads of article present in site, which claims Islam to be the only true religion.

Now I believe that Islam is a death cult of Brain dead people, who are ready to blow themselves up in name of Allah, following their Terrorist prophet. Qur’an commands its believers to do all, which is not only Barbaric but also Inhumane, for instance see this:

[Remember] when your Lord inspired to the angels, “I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.” [Qur'an 8:12]

This is not the only command which changes a ignorant Human into Monster. There are many such verses from Qur’an and Narration from Sunnah, which commands the same thing. Being a citizen of this world, I have full right to defend my Family and this world from Islam and its teachings. Anyways, Qur’an already commands believers to not make or have any friendship with NON-BELIEVERS, still I would like to apologize in advance, If this site by any mean have hurt sentiments or feelings of my Muslim mate of this Mother Planet.

Viewers are free to Complain, or Suggest any thing the wish, for that please visit here. Regarding refuting articles in this site, or for inviting for debate, please visit here, or can mail me on rahulraj@thefalseprophet.co.in .

Regards

‘Rahul Raj’

TheRationalizer: Translation Help Needed

I came across this message today. TheRationalizer is someone who has been instrumental in refuting the various false claims of "Western scientists find scientific miracles in the Qur'an" .

From the FFI Forum:

Hi all

Many of you have probably seen the videos with titles such as "Western scientists confirm miraculous nature of Quran" - where scientists appear to be commenting on how there is information in the Quran which could not possibly be in there except via divine revelation.

I've tracked down a number of these scientists and so far had 4 agree to be interviewed on the subject. You can see the interviews here - I have spent time writing up English subtitles for these videos (the first 3 anyway), and what I really need is to find volunteers to translate these subtitles into other languages. No special software is required, you should be able to use Notepad in Windows.

If you can help then please email ThisIsTheTruthUncut - add an @ to the end of that, followed by a dot and the word COM

Thank you.

TheRationalizer