It’s Time for Muslims to Rise Up and Reclaim Islam
I am always amazed by the comments from passionate Muslims who rail against criticism of Islam and its Qur’an.
The mere act of stating facts about the teachings of the Qur’an preached by their own Imams sends your average Muslim into a fit of outrage while citing passages of Muhammad to damn you, your mother, your soul and your country in a whirlwind of flying slobber.
Can you feel the love?
Have you ever noticed that whenever Islamic fascists protest a movie, a cartoon, a story in the press or a social event in a given country which attempts to illuminate how the Qur’an advocates, encourages and blesses violence and murder of non-believers or transgressors against Islam, the radical Muslim resorts to violence, death threats, murder, bombings, beheadings, etc., in the name of Islam as a way of protest? Whenever Muslims do this they are reinforcing the very point of the story, cartoon, movie, etc. And isn’t it “funny” how we have to apply the term “Moderate Muslim” to define the rest of the Muslims? The term shouldn’t have to exist in the first place.
When they complain about the West and civilized societies which make “sweeping insinuations that the entire Islamic community and every Muslim is at war with the rest of the world”, they demonstrate an inability to look inward into their own community and to question their religious leaders who conjure up whole armies of martyrs using the teachings from the Qur’an, preaching death to the West and non-believers in general.
It is the general belief the West see Muslims as still believing The Crusades never ended. It is up to them to challenge their leadership to abandon these teachings which debase women, hurl insults and threaten the lives of non-believers, teaches revenge, advocates the punishment of those who will not convert to Islam, to kill those who turn away from Islam to adopt other religions, teach that Jews are monkeys and Christians are pigs.
These teachings are what create the perceived characteristics and nature of the Muslim community in general and specifically, Islam and Muhammad which are held by most in the West.
It isn’t their fault when they turn to the Qur’an to learn about the religion and to further understand Muslims and read passages like these.
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Sura 3.85:
And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers.
Lesson : No other religion other than Islam is to be tolerated
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Sura 5.51:
O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
Lesson : Do not befriend Jews, Christians…
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Sura 3 – Al-E-Imran (MADINA) : Verse 140
If a wound (and killing) has touched you, be sure a similar wound (and killing) has touched the others. And so are the days (good and not so good), We give to men by turns, that Allâh may test those who believe, and that He may take martyrs from among you. And Allâh likes not the Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong¬doers).
Lesson : teaches revenge
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Sura 8.12:
When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.
Lesson : Kill disbelievers
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Sura 9.123:
O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil).
Lesson : Fight against disbelievers; Regard them as evil and unworthy of kindness.
Very nice.
Family portrait. Why bother?
If the Muslim community is tired of being “misunderstood” they need to stand up and demand better leadership which doesn’t turn the Qur’an against them with its vile and hate-filled crap.
Any religion which espouses or advocates the dismemberment or beheading or killing as punishment or advocates honor killings is basically, fundamentally flawed to its very core.
The stories we read in the press, like the ones below, are messages which come from your own people who have stolen your religion from you and turn it against you. Do not whine to the West because we are taught this by your leadership while you stand idle in your shoes.
Report: Non-Muslims Deserve to Be Punished
He Just Wanted To Change Islam’s Image (But Failed)
Either get involved and take your religion back and prove to the world it is as peaceful as you claim or simply sit down and shut up as you have lost your moral ground to voice a single complaint.
“It falls upon the Muslim leadership to tear out the hateful verses from the Quran. Muslims want you to make way for Islam, but Islam does not make way for you. The Government insists that you respect Islam but Islam has no repesct for you. Islam wants to rule, submit, and seeks to destroy our western civilization. In 1945, Nazism was defeated in Europe. In 1989, communism was defeated in Europe. Now, the islamic ideology must be defeated. Stop Islamisation. Defend freedom.” – Fitna
Good points. But I’m not sure I would say “reclaim” Islam. As Robert Spencer has pointed out, if you return Islam to its basics, its followers would be even more orthodox/fundamentalist.
Muslims need to reject/abandon/ignore/fear the teachings and ideas put forth in those verses from the Koran you cited, but I’m afraid that will require more than a change in leadership…
Returning Islam to its basics is definitely not advocated.
I agree that it is going to take more than a change of leadership. With generations of hate-filled Muslims, it’s going to take a re-indoctrination of values.
I look to the recent passage of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 as a tool to put Islam in its rightful place.
http://rightamerican.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/free-speech-vs-hate-crimes-prevention-act-of-2009/
Hmm, maybe. But I feel like the jihadists usually find ways to turn most civil rights or social legislation back against us. And apart from the Supreme Court, we still have a federal judiciary dominated by liberal activist judges who come up with unexpected interpretations of such laws…
You’re right about jihadists tactics and the activist judiciary. Perhaps our laws would serve us better if they weren’t so ambiguous.
When I see judges rule in a way which places security of its citizens at peril due to their interpretation of a law and in context of the Constitution, it creates a (sometimes unfunded) mandate upon law enforcement and intelligence agencies to further ensure our security. This has a way of encroaching upon our civil liberties. This should underscore the fact that when judges decide these matters in favor of political dogma disguised as a religion it serves to takes away more of our freedoms while enabling their cause.