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May 22nd, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

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Mr. Robert Spencer, Director, JihadWatch.org: It’s unfortunate that there is no negotiating with the Jihadists. There is no striking a deal with them. Islamic law is very clear on that, and here, once again, is an example. We need to take Islam seriously. Islamic law does not allow for treaties. It does not allow for negotiated settlements between Muslim states and non-Muslim states. All it allows for is a temporary period, of up to ten years, of Hudna, or what is commonly translated as ‘truce’, to allow the Islamic forces to gather their strength. Well, that’s not the same as peace as we know it; that’s not the same as the absence of a state of war. That’s only a temporary lull in a war that the Jihadists consider has gone on for fourteen centuries and are willing to fight for fourteen more.

Answer: Dear Sir, should we repeat what we have already discussed? Peace treaties are extensively discussed in the Qur’an. Verse 9:8 has just been presented. Verses 9:1-10 and many others shed more light on the subject. Please show me the conjecture of “Hudna of up to ten years” in the Qur’an or even in Hadith. Muqtada Sadr of Iraq is a criminal, and no authority on Islam. The criminal Jihadists are already weak and on the run. Now they are reduced to secretly bombing fellow Muslims in Muslim countries! If they come out in the open, they will surely be annihilated. Mr. Triskovic rightly said that Terror is not a very big problem.

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The Noble Koran, 47:4:

“So when you meet (in fight, Jihad in Allah’s cause) those who disbelieve, smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives)…Thus (you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out Jihad against the disbelievers till they embrace Islam [i.e. are saved from the punishment in the Hell-fire] or at least come under your protection), but if it had been Allah’s Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight), in order to test you, some with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost.”

Answer: All words and lines that I have colored in red above and below, are not there in the original Arabic text; someone’s intellectual dishonesty it is!

>>> Jihad in Allah’s cause) - till when you have killed and wounded many of them, - (you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out Jihad against the disbelievers till they embrace Islam [i.e. are saved from the punishment in the Hell-fire] or at least come under your protection), - (without you) - (He lets you fight), <<<

There are more words within brackets than open! Did you notice the venom of interpolation? Here is the correct rendition and explanation:

47:4 If you meet the disbelievers in battle, strike at their command centers, until you have subdued them, then, bind them firmly. And thereafter, there must be an act of kindness or ransom when the battle lays down its weapons. If God willed, He could punish them Himself, but that He may let you be tested by means of one another (as to which people remains vigilant.) As for those who are slain in the way of God, He does not render their actions vain.

[As soon as the war is over, immediately free the captives as an act of kindness or ransom, such as exchange for your men in their captivity. There is no third option. Fadharb ar-riqaab is usually rendered as ‘smite their necks.’ A little contemplation, however, makes it plain that in a battle of swords and arrows no commander would order his soldiers to aim for the necks alone. Therefore, the term has been used idiomatically, indicating knocking out the command centers. It is interesting to note that even in today’s encounters with high technology this principle is given a top priority.]

Mr. Serge Trifkovic, Author, Defeating Jihad: In Islamic thinking, the world is divided into the House of Islam - where Islamic politic has been established, where Allah rules Supreme - and the House of War, which is the rest of the world. This dichotomy is reminiscent of other totalitarian ideologies, and most explicitly, Communism. Both Communism and Islam seek the end of history in this world. The end of history will come when either the whole of our planet becomes dark with Islam or else when the Proletarian revolution brings the avante garde of the working class to power over the world, which will be the end of state, the end of money, and the end of class oppression. In both cases, it is possible to have a period of truce. It is possible to have what we call in modern parlance, peaceful coexistence. But that peaceful coexistence is a tactical ploy and not a permanent solution.

Answer: Sir, there is no real “House of Islam” anywhere in the world today – “where Islamic politic has been established”. So, the “House of War” automatically becomes irrelevant. Communism is already dead and buried. You said, “…when either the whole of our planet becomes dark with Islam …” But if you knew the true picture of Islam, you would say, “enlightened with Islam” like the celebrated Orientalist, scholar, philosopher and historian, Tor Andre did.

Tor Andre - Muhammad, the Man and His Faith: Islam is a forceful spiritual energy. Its true meaning will manifest itself when it will be implemented on large scale.

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Sahih Al-Bhukari
Volume 4, Book 52, Hadith 196:

“Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.’”

Answer: This is another repetition. Please see Freedom in the previous Rebuttal – 24. [Verses 2:256, 2:193, 22:39-40] As we have discussed before, any Hadith violating the Qur’an is nothing but plain forgery. Saying it again, the exalted Prophet would have lost all credibility even before his noble companions if he once violated the Revelation unto him. Here is the Ultimate Truth.

3:20 If they argue with you (O Messenger), tell them, “I have submitted to God; I and those who follow me.” Say to the People of the Scripture, and to those who have no Scripture, “Would you submit (to God)?” If they submit, then they have been guided but if they turn away, then your duty is only to convey the message. God is Seer of His servants.

Mr. Robert Spencer, Director, JihadWatch.org: If we consider that if only we changed our policies toward Israel, and only we changed our policies toward Iraq, or changed our policies towards something else, if only we hadn’t taken out the Musaddaq regime in Iran in 1953, and other things people have said to me – these ideas are ridiculous. They’re based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the motives and goals of the Jihadists. This is not a conflict that was created with the creation of the state of Israel or a conflict that was created when American armies went into Iraq. The global Jihad has gone on without interruption, without significant interruption, since the 7^th century. And it only declined in force and activity at periods when the Islamic world was too weak to prosecute it.

Answer: Dear Sir, this is another repetition. We have said that when we go into history, there are always two sides to the story. The exalted Prophet Muhammad and his noble companions had created a model State for all humanity to behold. The visitors keenly observed the human equity and equality and respect for all human rights.

In the early Islam, delegates from the two super powers of the time, the Persian and the Roman (& Byzantine) Empires used to regularly visit the Islamic capital Madinah presenting their grievances how their ruling elite persecuted their own subjects. The exalted Prophet, and then his successors wrote to the tyrants that if they did not honor human rights, a popular uprising would take place and their own condition would become dismal like the subjugated masses… The visitors used to embrace Islam for its sheer nobility. (Simon Ockley)

Simon Ockley - History of the Saracen Empire 1823: A rugged, strife-torn and mountaineering people…were suddenly turned into an indomitable Arab force, which achieved a series of splendid victories unparalleled in the history of nations, for in the short space of ninety years that mighty range of Saracenic [Nomad Arabs] conquest embraced a wider extent of territory than Rome had mastered in the course of eight hundred. The greatest success of Mohammad’s life was affected by sheer moral force. It is not the propagation but the permanency of his religion that deserves our wonder, the same pure and perfect impression which he engraved at Mecca and Medina is preserved after the revolutions of twelve centuries by the Indian, the African and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran….

Let us listen to a couple of more top non-Muslim historians.
Giyani Balbir Singh - Navan Hindustan, 1947: Those who believe Islam was spread by force are fools who neither know the ways of Islam nor the ways of the world.
De Lacy O’Leary - Islam at the Crossroads London 1923: History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated.

Ms. Bat Ye’or, Author, Eurabie: The Euro-Arab Axis: The question now that we have to ask ourselves is, do we want to preserve our Judeo-Christian values and our own civilization or do we want, do we choose to go towards a dhimmitude, an enlarged dhimmitude, in Europe which will engulf the whole of Europe; may be not America, but America will be isolated because it will have to deal in geopolitic with a Islamized, dhimmi Europe. And these are problems that have to be taken into consideration by Europeans themselves, in choosing their identity and their future – freedom or dhimmitude – and by the Americans also.”

Answer: Dear Madam, we have explained the conjecture of dhimmitude extensively. Could you please name one Muslim country where non-Muslims are living as dhimmies or second class citizens? Please see Rebuttals 21 & 23.

Mr. Serge Trifkovic, Author, Defeating Jihad: In order to defend itself against the onslaught of global Jihad, which is coming in the century ahead, I have no doubt of that, the West would need to redefine itself and to say what exactly is the geographic and cultural space to be defended and in the name of what. Defending it in the name of a tepid, lukewarm ideology of multiculturalism is impossible. Multiculturalism and post-modern liberalism are not worthy dying for. They’re not something that can inspire people to do what their ancestors had done at Poitiers [Battle of Tours in France in 732 - SA] and the walls of Vienna in 1683.

What global Jihad has on its side is simple-minded commitment of millions of people to not only spread the faith but also better themselves at the expense of the infidel, in the first instance through immigration and later on, if necessary, by other means.

Answer: All religions are waiting for a ‘promised one’ to come and raise them to glory while annihilating all others! Dear Sir, if you are a believer in the coming of Messiah, why should you worry at all? And if the global Jihad is coming in the 22^nd century, why start crying wolf now and create fear and hatred instead of mutual affection ordained by God? Please recall the Golden Rule.

[The Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Mathew 7:12]

And Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said: “None can be a believer unless he likes for the fellow man that which he likes for himself.” [Bukhari, Muslim]

The pristine Islam, and not the barbaric man-made Shari’ah, is coming as a blessing to all humanity.

The central themes of the pristine Islam are service of humanity and benefiting God’s creation. As soon as the dust of myth is wiped off, Islam will once again become the Beacon of Light for all humanity. And surely it will be the front-line force in making this planet a better place to live.

9:32 They seek to extinguish God’s light (the Qur’an) by their utterances. But God will not allow this to pass, for He has willed to spread His light in all its fullness even though the rejecters may detest it.

Rev E. Stephenson - My Reflections: The message of Mohammad, Islam, is nothing but a blessing for mankind—The usher from darkness to light and from Satan to God.

Mr. Walid Shoebat, Former Member PLO Fatah Brigade: What the West needs to understand about Islam is that Islam has the potential of replacing the dangers that we just kind of did away with, Nazism and Communism. Like Nazism and like Communism, Islamism, the end justifies the means. There is no respect for national borders, and the whole ideology is to promote their way of thinking and promote their way of life throughout the entire world. That’s what’s being taught in the Middle East, that’s what is coming out from all the jurisprudence in Al Azhar and Saudi Arabia, and all throughout the Muslim world, is that Islam will conquer and will continue to conquer, until it triumphs - until everybody in the world says, “There’s no God but Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet.”

Answer: Dear Sir, unfortunately with your background, you are still carrying the deep stigmas of some Criminals of Islam and Humanity, and you seem to be completely unaware of the most benevolent True Islam. Do not listen to me. See what the greats have said.

Dr. Mawde Royden - The Problem of Palestine: Mohammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems were pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human mind has ever thought of such total freedom as established by Mohammad.

A.S. Tritton - Islam 1951: The picture of the Muslim soldier advancing with a sword in one hand and the Quran in the other is quite false.

Mahatma M.K. Gandhi - Young India, 1924: The more I study, the more I discover that the strength of Islam does not lie in the sword. The more I desired to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind…. I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. ….

FRIDAY SERMON, ABD AL-QADER AL-KILANI MOSQUE
BAGHDAD, IRAQ, FEBRUARY 14, 2003:

[An elderly, obese and senile Mullah utters nonsense], “I advise you, oh America, Britain, and those whom Allah said about you: Allah’s wrath upon you, the Jews, oh the sons of apes and pigs – there is no strife on the face of the earth that you have not sparked. Whenever they start the fire of strife, Allah extinguished it. May Allah extinguish your light and your fires. But we, we are the men whom Allah has chosen, and wanted, and made us strong, so as to pluck your heads, ripe for the picking, that rose that acted in tyranny and in arrogance. We will be the ones to pluck them, if Allah wills it.

Mr. Serge Trifkovic, Author, Defeating Jihad: The peculiarity of Islam has to be faced, and it has to be faced frankly and openly. Unlike others - and I am again saying this in the full knowledge that it will offend some Western ears - unlike the Hindus, unlike the Confucians, unlike the Animists of sub-Saharan Africa, the Muslims have inherent tendency to expand and to convert the rest of the world not only to their religion but to their outlook and to their legal and moral system. They will not state this openly while they’re in a minority in the countries to which they immigrate, but we have seen this time and over again throughout history. Once they reach the numbers necessary to impose their will, they will do so.

Answer: Dear Sir, you may like to look at “Forcing God’s Hand” (Grace Halsell, 1999) and “The Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs” (March 2000).

We are letting go the bloody history of Christian expansion, mutual bloodshed, heretical killings, and persecution of other faiths, forced conversions, Inquisition, and their persecution of Jews who always found a cool shelter under Muslim rule.

Thomas Arnold - The Call to Islam: ” We have never heard about any attempt to compel Non-Muslim parties to adopt Islam or about any organized persecution aiming at exterminating Christianity. If the Caliphs had chosen one of these plans, they would have wiped out Christianity as easily as what happened to Islam during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain; by the same method which Louis XIV followed to make Protestantism a creed whose followers were to be sentenced to death; or with the same ease of keeping the Jews away from Britain for a period of three hundred fifty years.”

A quick glance at the above two publications indicates that there is a massive collaboration underway between fundamentalist Jews and Evangelists trying to force an urgent Armageddon. Detailed plans have been made to demolish Haram Ash-Shareef (Masjid Al-Aqsa) and the Dome of the Rock (Qubba-tus-Sakhra) in Jerusalem. Evangelists and Rabbis are preaching that the Messiah will come only when the new and the third Jewish Temple has been built at the site of the Holy Muslim shrine! This Messiah will annihilate all people on earth but Jews and Christians for “they worship a tribal God concerned with only two peoples Jews and Christians”. (Grace Halsell)

The Christian interest, according to the Washington report, rests in providing a landing base to the Messiah at the new Jewish temple after destroying Masjid Al-Aqsa…. Globally, there are more than ten Christian missionaries trying to convert people to Christianity as compared to one Muslim preacher preaching Islam.

I hope, this alleviates your concerns. Now a few excerpts from these two publications:

• USA shows unmatched combination of high levels of education and high levels of religious belief and activity.

• Now is the time for the temple to be rebuilt.

• The Israeli government must end the pagan Islamic occupation.

• Who is the Antichrist? — A personified opponent of Christians —-. He will take over the government of the world.

• Who are Gog and Magog? — Enemies of Israel. Generally taken to mean Russia, China (and of course Muslims).

• The Arab World is an Antichrist World.

• Jews are the earthly elect and Christians are the heavenly elect of God.

It is easy to see that the ‘promised one’ of each nation seems to be bent upon destroying the other peoples. Will mankind make this horrible scenario a self-fulfilling prophecy?

It is my humble conviction in the light of the Qur’an that no ‘promised one’ will ever appear. The last one to come was the exalted Prophet Muhammad and, God willing, mankind will choose the path of love and peace rather than tread the horrible way to a Armageddon or WWIII. Mankind has to, and eventually will, become One Community as ordained in the Last Word of God, Al-Qur’an. Amen!

Continuation of Friday Sermon, Abd Al-Qader Al-Kilani Mosque
Baghdad, Iraq, February 14, 2003

They will know – and I don’t want to mention their names from this pulpit – The Americans and their president and the British, and their allies, and the Zionists, the spoiled offspring of this entity, Allahu Akbar! If Allah permits us, oh Nation of Muhammad, even the stone will say, Oh Muslim, a Jew is hiding behind me, come and cut off his head and we shall cut off his head. By Allah, we shall cut it off! Oh Jews, Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Al-Jihad for the sake of Allah! Al-Jihad for the sake of Allah! Victory to Allah! Allahu Akbar! The believers will triumph! Allahu Akbar!
Allahu Akbar! The believers will triumph!”

Comment: Mullahs like this one are fortunately a rare breed and they are the Criminals of not only Islam but of Humanity. I found his chants a repugnant comedy. All peoples in the world must join hands to neutralize such insane fundamentalists of any religion.

Mr. Serge Trifkovic, Author, Defeating Jihad: Miracles do happen. I do not know if it is another, maybe even deadlier, terrorist attack that will act as a catalyst, or whether it will be a geopolitical confrontation in the Middle East itself, with Israel perhaps, and trust that a jolt will bring back into the minds and hearts of Westerners the awareness of the need to stand up and be counted.

Answer: Dear Sir, let us hope for a beautiful miracle and let all of us, all humans, be counted as peace makers. The Bible calls all of us “Children of God” and the Qur’an names all humanity as “One Single Community”.

Thanks and God bless us all!

With respects and best regards,
A life-long student

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Mr. Walid Shoebat, Former Member PLO Faith Brigade: The Hadith very clearly says, the Hadith what Muhammad said, ‘I have been ordered to fight until everyone says that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.’ So, this is how Islam spread to North Africa, this is how Islam spread over to Indonesia, this is how Islam spread in the Middle East. Syria was not a Muslim country, Lebanon was not Muslim. Saudi Arabia, even, was a mixed multitude. All throughout the Middle East, that’s how Islam spread, by the sword. This is why you don’t see any synagogue in Saudi Arabia. You don’t see any churches in Saudi Arabia. Christianity virtually is nonexistent. Even in my village in Bethlehem, Muslims are taking over; there’s only 20% left of Christian population. In Lebanon, Christian Lebanese are moving by the droves. Hizbullah there is very active. Lebanon used to be a Christian nation. Now, all of a sudden, it’s being Islamized. So, Islam is moving.

Answer: Dear Sir, we have given plenty of evidence that Islam was never spread by sword. Once again, Prophet Muhammad could have not violated the Revelation that guaranties ‘No Compulsion’ [2:256] and freedom of religion. As a former Muslim, you obviously know how many people were forging Ahadith during the first five centuries of Islam. But here is the Ultimate Truth:

Freedom

2:256 … There is absolutely no compulsion or coercion in Religion. ..

2:193 So, fight them (who compel) only until there is no more harassment, and Religion may be adopted for the sake of God alone…

3:20 If they argue with you (O Messenger), tell them, “I have submitted to God; I and those who follow me.” Say to the People of the Scripture, and to those who have no Scripture, “Would you submit to God?” If they submit, then they have been guided but if they turn away, then your duty is only to convey the message. God is Seer of His servants.

Protection of temples and monasteries:
22:39 Permission to fight is granted to those against whom war is wrongfully waged. God is Able to support them.
22:40 …If God had not enabled some people to repel others, Monasteries, Churches, Synagogues, and Masjids, where the Name of God is oft mentioned, would have been destroyed. And God will certainly help those who help Him. God is Mighty, Powerful.

Dear Sir, Saudi Arabia is not the only country in the world. All Muslim countries, otherwise, have a whole beautiful spectrum of temples. Please reflect that Muslims are weak today and still Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. Isn’t it some evidence against the false theories of sword? Is it possible that Islam is marching along due to its own magnetism, its beautiful teachings? Yet, if Christianity is non-existent in some countries, so is Islam e.g. most of the countries in Latin America. Making mention of Indonesia as you have, hurts your own credibility and nullifies all your assertions, Sir! Even the most ignorant would know that Islam was carried to the Far East by Muslim traders.

Giyani Balbir Singh - Navan Hindustan, 1947: Those who believe Islam was spread by force are fools who neither know the ways of Islam nor the ways of the world.

De Lacy O’Leary - Islam at the Crossroads, London 1923: History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated.

New York City 2002:
[Chanting, “There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger”, with people holding posters stating “Islam is not terrorism” and other slogans.]

Comment: None would have an issue with peaceful assembly. The criminals are those who resort to violence.

Mr. Robert Spencer, Director, Dhimmiwatch.org: Muslims who come to the United States and come to Western Europe with an idea that Sharia is the Law of Allah, they look upon our freedom of religion and they look upon the fact that non-Muslims are in power in the United States and in Western Europe making laws, and making laws not on the basis of the Law of Allah, but on the basis of consensus and free elections. They look upon all that as a manifestation of Jahiliyah, or unbelief, the pre-Islamic period of ignorance, as the times in any nation’s history before it became Muslim is referred to. So that you have Pakistan and Iran and so on, they refer to the period of their history before they became Muslim as the period of Jahiliyah, they also will consider the United States and Western Europe to be in periods of Jahiliyah today. And many Muslims today coming into the United States and Western Europe will work to establish Islamic states here on the basis of the idea that the secular state and the state based on elections has no legitimacy; you don’t have elections about the Law of Allah, you simply obey what God says.”

Answer: Dear Sir, certainly, the West is NOT living in Jahilyah, the Age of Ignorance. It might be worthwhile to quote Mufti ‘Abde Rabbuhu again, a quote with which almost all Muslims would agree with their hearts.

The greatest Islamic scholar of the times, Mufti ‘Abde Rabbuhu (d. 1906) of Egypt visited Europe. When he returned, he made a remarkable statement, “In Europe, I saw Islam but no Muslims. In Egypt, I see Muslims but no Islam.” Muslims realize that, albeit some un-Islamic harmful social practices, Islam is almost in place in the West.

Elections: During the noble early era of Islam, every Caliph and governor, after being suggested by a group of people of sound character and reputation, had to obtain Bai’at, the Oath of Allegiance, from the citizenry before assuming the office. A poor, elderly woman could openly raise any objections which the nominee would have to answer. Shura, Mutual Consultation in public matters is a most important Qur’anic ordinance for Muslims. How close to, or even better, it is than modern elections and democracy!

A step forward: Amazingly, one who personally sought an office out of greed was automatically disqualified! Exception: Someone who would have special skills unknown to people.

Details left open for the changing times: The Qur’an ordains the basic socio-political guidelines with details to be decided through mutual consultation according to changing times. Barring the non-Qur’anic Middle Eastern despotism in some countries, most Muslim countries do hold elections.

Shura: 42:38 The believers respond to their Lord … and conduct their affairs by mutual consultation, and they keep open for the welfare of others what We have given them.
The Exception: 12:55 Joseph replied, “Place in my charge the treasury of the State. I shall be a competent custodian.”

London, England, May 2005:
[Footage filmed at an unnamed pro-Islam rally with chants of “There is no God but God and Muhammad is His Messenger” (in Arabic) and “Jihad”. An unnamed Mullah speaks.]

Comment: None would have an issue with peaceful assembly. The criminals are those who resort to violence.

Part 6 of 6: The HOUSE OF WAR

Mr. Robert Spencer, Director, JihadWatch.org: The most important thing that the West needs to know about Islam today is that is has a political character, and that it is not simply a religion. But it is a religion or belief system that mandates warfare against unbelievers, for the purpose of establishing a societal model that is absolutely incompatible with Western society. Americans need to know this, Western Europeans need to know this, because Muslims are coming into Western countries while holding these beliefs, and intending to act upon them. They are the motivations behind modern terrorist activity, and they are the goals of the millions of Muslims in the United States and around the world. We need to know this so that we can protect ourselves. But, unfortunately, because of political correctness, and because of media and general government unwillingness to face the sources of Islamic terrorism, these things remain largely unknown.”

Answer: Dear Sir, Mr. Triskovic has just said that, “The War on Terror is unnecessary because Terror is not a very big problem.” [Rebuttal – 18]

You may also take solace in the fact that: Muslims, in general, are indifferent to Islam.
The proof is right here in the pudding as we speak: We have been unable to generate any funds in order to bring these Rebuttals in video format. Numerous Muslims and even non-Muslims, finding it educational, love the work. Muslims are mostly interested in having a good, peaceful and successful life in the West.

We honestly feel that the Western media have been extremely hostile to Islam and Muslims. The governments of the USA and UK especially have grievously hurt even innocent Muslims around the world in their “unnecessary War on Terror”.

Mr. Walid Shoebat, Former Member PLO Fatah Brigade: Islamic Fundamentalism is a sleeper cell in America. A good point, a good case in point, is the story of Saladin. Saladin is a great hero in Islam. Saladin was the one who defeated the Crusaders. There was a treaty that supposed to be happening between the Crusaders and Saladin. And the story goes as follows:

The Arab mediator came to Saladin and said the Qu’ran says ‘that if they concede to peace, then concede to it’, which means that if the enemy wants peace, let’s have peace, which is a verse you can find directly in the Qu’ran. And Saladin responded with a great answer, when he stated to the guy, ‘you are an Arab and I am a Kurd, you should know the Qu’ran better than I; don’t forget the Qu’ran also says that why should we concede for peace when we have the upper hand.’ So you find both verses in the Qu’ran. Peace, you concede to peace when you are the weaker party. This is why you hear the term Hudna. Hudna is a peace treaty – Cease-fire. In Iraq, Sadr asked for Hudna because he knew he can’t defeat the Americans. You have Hudnas all over when the enemy is stronger than you are. But as soon as you gain strength, then you don’t concede for peace. This is why the face of Islamic Fundamentalism in the West has the facade that Islam is a peaceful religion because they’re waiting to have more Islamic immigrants, they’re waiting to increase in number, waiting to increase in political power, and once they do, then look out. You’ll see the real face of Islamic Fundamentalism here in America.”

Answer: Dear Sir, with due respect, I am forced to call this as scare tactics. There is no such thing as Hudna or a ten year period of peace in the Qur’an or even in Hadith.
There are only two verses in the Qur’an about the opponents conceding to peace or offering peace.

4:90 Do not fight the hypocrites who join a people with whom you have signed a peace treaty. And do not fight those who come to you wishing not to fight you or their believing relatives. Had God willed they could have fought you. Therefore, if they leave you alone, and offer you peace, God has opened no way for you but the way of peace. [Your prime duty remains the establishment and defense of the Divine Order in which there is no room for revenge. 24:22]

4:91 You will find others who desire peace for their people and make peace with you. But at the slightest opportune moment they come to fight against you. If they neither leave you alone, nor offer peace, nor hold their hands, subdue them regardless of which group they belong to. In their case, God has given you a clear authority to fight.

Please reflect why Medieval European minstrels wrote ballads praising and calling Saladin the “warrior-prince”.

Upper hand:

9:8 How can there be a treaty seeing that if they get the upper hand against you, they would respect no ties and no pacts with you? They pleased you with their speech but their hearts opposed you. Most of them defy their pledges.

The verse is obviously mentioning the tried treacherous that keep violating the peace treaties. If more detail is needed, please see verses 9:1-10.

Now please decide for yourself the conjecture of “Hudna” and the falsehood about the most chivalrous Sultan Salahuddin Ayyubi (Saladin). Dear Sir, where is the command about having the upper hand in the sense you stated?

Excerpts from Jihadist Recruitment Videos: [Various scenes purported to be from Jihadist Recruitment Videos, spoken in Arabic and depicting weaponry, bombings, etc., while weak, subdued slogans of “Allahu Akbar” are chanted.]

Comment: These weaklings look like mere chickens.

Respects and best regards from a life long student.

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May 20th, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

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Mr. Walid Shoebat, Former Member PLO Faith Brigade: When the Westerners think of religion, whether it’s Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and all the isms in the world, Westerners think that it’s a personal issue. A Buddhist will go to the temple and peacefully worship, whatever he does, meditates, contemplates; a Jew goes to a synagogue and does his mitzvahs, his good deeds; a Muslim goes to the mosque, pays Zakat, alms, or go to the pilgrimage at Hajj in Mecca; or a Christian goes to church on Sunday. They think it’s a personal issue, religion is a personal issue. So when they look at Islam, they compare Islam with the way they understand religions, and that’s the first mistake. Islam is not a religion for personal use. Islam is Shari’ah law. Islam is a form of government to the world, first, then to personal application. It is not just how you pray or pray towards Mecca, it’s how you dress. You dress in an Arab culture. You speak Arabic. You can’t go to heaven unless you pray in Arabic. You can’t read the Qu’ran in English and expect to get good deeds to go to heaven. Read the Qu’ran in Arabic. It becomes an imperialistic system, that everybody, now, must speak Arabic, think Arabic, practice the religion in Arabic. It’s a form of law, not just in how you eat, but how you get married, how you deal with your government, how you deal with your military, how you deal with the youth, how you deal with women, every aspect of your life becomes Islam. Everything’s Islam.”

Answer: Dear Sir, much of what follows in your video is only repetitious. That will help me keep my answers brief. I have just responded to Mr. Trifkovic that, indeed, Islam is a beautiful System of Life. But, can you confine the Golden Rule within the Church? If there was truly a Separation of Church and State, why did the Roman Catholic Hitler fight in the name of God? Dear Sir, Arab-ism has not yet left you a bit. You know that hardly 10% of Muslims speak Arabic. What percentage of Muslims in the world knows Arabic, thinks Arabic and dresses like the Arabs do? Where does the Qur’an command the Muslims to adopt the Arabic language and Arab culture? What is wrong with sticking to harmless geographically diverse cultural traits? Islam affectionately encourages unity in diversity.

5:48 … For each community among you We have appointed certain rites and a traced-out way. When God wills, He could make you all one single community. But He decided to let you test yourselves by what (potentials) He has granted you. So, outdo one another in doing good to the society. To God you will all return, and He will then make you understand wherein you differed.

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Sahih Al Bukari, Vol. 2, Book 23, Hadith 413:
“The Jews brought to the Prophet a man and a woman from amongst them who had [adultery] illegal sexual intercourse. The Prophet ordered all of them to be stoned [to death] near the place of offering the funeral prayers beside the mosque.”

Answer: All of them or just that couple? Jews had brought the case to the exalted Prophet and requested the decision on the basis of the Torah. Please note that the Torah ordains stoning for adultery and death for homosexuality while the Qur’an prescribes 100 lashes to each adulterer and ordinary punishment to homosexuals..

Deuteronomy:
If a bride has no blood on the bed-sheet
22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
22:14 —-, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
22:20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: —- put evil away from among you.
Leviticus:
20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. [The Islamic Mullahs seem to have gotten this non-Quranic punishment of stoning from here]
20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. [What about the ‘gay rights’]
The Qur’an:
24:2 The adulteress and the adulterer, flog each one of them with a hundred stripes. ..

It is easy to see that if the Jews had sought the Qur’an’s decision, the convicted ones would have received only stripes. Despite all the circumstances given in the history above, it is likely that the story might be a fabrication since the exalted Prophet would be the last man to dispense the barbaric punishment of stoning which, incidentally, is not prescribed in the Book for any crime..

4:16 If the two of you spread such immorality or lewdness in the society, punish both of them (as determined by the appropriate court of law). But if they repent and mend their ways, leave them alone. God is the Acceptor of repentance, Merciful. (This includes homosexuality, male and female.)

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Sahih Al Bukari, Vol. 7, Book 62, Hadith 88: “The Prophet wrote the [marriage contract] with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated the marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine more years (i.e. until his death).

Answer: We have discussed before that the Hadith conjecture came into being 250-450 years after the exalted Prophet, and that too on hearsay – He heard it from him who heard it from this who heard it from that and so on. The Muhadditheen (Hadith collectors) did not have a scrap of paper before them! So, how much credibility could such reports have? We may consider only those Ahadith worthy of reflection that do not defy the Qur’an.

The Qur’an ordains that a man and a woman must meet the following criteria before they can get married:

1 – Ability to grant free consent.
2 – Sufficient age and maturity to sign a solemn legal contract.
3 - Sufficient age and maturity to understand and manage one’s financial matters.

See Qur’an 4:6, 4:19, 4:21.
How could the Prophet defy the Revelation? Won’t he lose all credibility and even his noble companions if he did that?

Contrary to the Imamist propaganda, the exalted Prophet had no more than one wife at a time. And Ayesha was a sister, not daughter, of Abu Bakr. The Prophet (S) did not marry for three years after Khadijah’s demise in Makkah three years before Hijrah. Hazrat Ayesha was the widow of a martyr, Saleh bin Saleh Al-’Ataib. She was 48 years old at the time of marriage to the exalted Prophet. The wedding took place in 622 CE when Muhammad (S) was 52 years old. [Kitab-e-Dalail-e-Nabawwut Syedna Muhammad (S), by Abdul Jabbar Fatimi, written 150 years before Tabari, the first ever ‘canonized’ historian. Azwaaj-in-Nabi wal-Ashaab, by Sheikh Hammad bin Hakam. The rest is nothing but slanderous imagination of the Zoroastrian “Imam” Tabari, the Jewish biographer Ibn Ishaq and his Parsi follower Ibn Hisham]

Mr. Robert Spencer, Director, Dhimmiwatch.org In no way is Islamic Sharia, Islamic government, compatible with Western understandings of human rights and freedom of conscience. Traditional Islam forbids conversion from Islam, forbids anyone to leave Islam. There’s no way out. And, it forbids Muslims and non-Muslims to live as equals in society; and mandates the second-class status of non-Muslims, forbidding them to hold authority over Muslims, forbidding them to hold certain jobs as a result; and even mandated in history that houses of worship, of Jews and Christians, were neither to be built or repaired, making communities relegated to a perpetual state of decline.”

Answer: Dear Sir, the manmade, “Imamist” Shari’ah is not compatible even with Qur’an. It is based on conjecture as we have seen once again in the question above. Traditional Islam in the hands of the Muslim clergy is another name for the Shari’ah which the Muslims themselves hate and will throw out of the window. Conversion: We have already seen the freedom of religion granted by the Qur’an. [2:193, 2:256, 22:40] Houses of Worship, Temples: Please check 22:40. You will see some of the finest non-Muslim temples in Muslim countries. The non-existent “Dhimmitude” fabrication has been described in detail in the last few Rebuttals.

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The Noble Koran 5:51:

“O you who believe, take not the Jews and the Christians as Auliya (friends, protectors, helpers, etc.) they are but Auliya to one another. And if any amongst you takes them as Auliya, then surely he is one of them.”

Answer:

Did Britain and America depend on Italy and Japan to protect them against the Nazis?

5:51 O You who have chosen to be graced with belief! (Since they deny the Final Revelation that is the Constitution of your state,) do not take the Jews and Christians as your allies. They are allies of one another. He among you who takes them for allies is one of them. God does not guide those who choose to do wrong. [Awliya = Protecting friends. This verse points to taking allies on a national scale, and not to individual friends. See 60:7-9]

Mr. Serge Trifkovic, Foreign Affairs Editor, Chronicles Magazine: It is not possible for a non-Muslim living in a Muslim society to invoke his civil rights, or human rights. That would be independent, or separate, from the Sharia concept. He is expected to submit to Sharia willingly, and if he accepts his dhimmitude, the position of a dhimmi, he will be a protected person. A protected person is someone who is, in fact, a willing subordinate to the Muslim overlords.”

Answer: Dear Sir, please tell me the name of one country where non-Muslims are called Dhimmies and where they are selectively denied human rights and are considered as “willing subordinates to the Muslim overlords.” It is true that there is much room for improvement in the human rights area in some Muslim countries because of violation of the Qur’an. Fortunately, reforms are taking place fast thanks to public demand, NGOs and human rights groups. Saudi Arabia is the only country that generally enforces the deplorable Shari’ah law on its residents. But even there, non-Muslims enjoy complete freedom from the Shari’ah laws except for violent crimes, drug trafficking and modesty in clothing. It appears that women will soon be allowed to drive a car.

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The Life of Muhammad (p. 368):

We saluted the prophet as he stood praying, and he came out to us, and we told him that we had killed God’s enemy. He spat upon our comrade’s wounds, and both he and we returned to our families. Our attack upon God’s enemy cast terror among the Jews, and there was no Jew in Medinah who did not fear for his life.”

Answer: The same history tells us that the Jews in the City-state of Madinah enjoyed all rights as citizens and they were the most affluent people conducting their businesses and agriculture in complete freedom and security. Please see the Madinah Charter a link to which will be provided in a few days. The Jews, in violation of the Madinah Charter and peace treaties, repeatedly sided with the Makkan troops attacking the peaceful Muslims of Madinah. That is when they were finally exiled. The compassionate Prophet allowed them to take their belongings with them.
What authenticity would a fabricated Hadith carry before the Unassailable Qur’an? [59:2-5]

Respectfully,

A life-long student

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May 19th, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

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Mr. Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.com: Islam from its beginnings was both a religion and a system of government. For example, the Islamic calendar doesn’t base year one from the time that Muhammad was born or the time Muhammad received his first revelation from God, which I think are both what Westerners might expect, but from the time that Muhammad became the leader of an army and head of state in Medinah. This is the beginning of the Islamic calendar because in the Islamic understanding, Islam is a political and social system as well as an individual faith.

Answer: Dear Sir, a knowledgeable gentleman like yourself surprises me with such a gross error! Most people know that the Islamic Calendar is known as AH meaning Al-Hijrah or the Migration. After suffering relentless persecution at the hands of the people of Makkah, the exalted Prophet ordered the Muslims to migrate to Madinah at the request of Madanites. He himself initiated his migration on 16 July 622. This is the date of the beginning of the Islamic calendar. It took more than one year thereafter for the exalted Prophet to establish firm brotherhood between the Immigrants and the local Helpers (Ansar), make peace treaties with numerous tribes of the City-state, and formulate the most benevolent Madinah Charter (Meethaq Madinah). The Madinah Charter is unanimously agreed upon as the first ever written Constitution of a State. Space disallows me to post the Charter here but it guaranteed freedom of speech, religion, and equal human rights to all citizens, regardless of race, color, creed or religion, worldly status, wealth or lineage.  All citizens were  guaranteed the basic human needs, food, clothing  and shelter, peace and security.

You said, “Islam is a political and social system as well as an individual faith.” Dear Sir, if you study the Qur’an with an open mind, you will notice that human intellect cannot even think of such excellent socio-political principles as given in the Qur’an. An intelligent librarian would place the Qur’an in the Sociology section of the library, and not in the section on religion.

Herbert George Wells - Happiness of Mankind, Kent, 1938: The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. …. Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.

Mr. Serge Trifkovic, Foreign Affairs Editor, Chronicles Magazine: In Islam, the separation between temporal, secular, and religious power is not only impossible, it is heretical. Only in the complete blending of all aspects of human activity and all aspects of political and legal functions of the state can we have the Caliphate, the properly organized state that is pleasing to Allah.

Answer: Dear Sir, Islam being a System of Life (Deen) does see life as a whole. But how many Muslim “heretics” have you seen just because they believe in their religion as a personal matter? Probably not one!

As for Secularism, it is the antithesis of all religion, whether Islam, Judaism, Christianity or any other religion. I don’t think that you would like to confine the Golden Rule within the four walls of the Church alone. This example suffices to prove that, fortunately, the separation of the Church and State (and the individual) is practically non-existent in Christianity either. It would be a great tragedy for Christianity if all moral values were practiced within the confines of the Church.

Even more pertinently, think of the WWII when Hitler and Churchill both fought in the name of God. Where was that “Separation” then? The last Muslim Caliphate, the Ottomans, dwindled for disregarding the moral values given in the Qur’an and for no other reason.

In Islam, the only way to “please” Allah is: Serve His creation, serve humanity. [13:17, 6:147]

Bishop Thomas Ward - The Bible: Its Source, “The Golden Rule was plagiarized from The Treatise on Morality by Confucius of the 6th century BC.”

But, of course, it’s a most beautiful moral value.

The Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Mathew 7:12

And Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said: “None can be a believer unless he likes for the fellow man that which he likes for himself.” [Bukhari, Muslim]

(Respectfully submitted by a life-long student)

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May 18th, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

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Anchorman: Is what we are witnessing today a class of civilization? We asked that of noted Palestinian scholar, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Dr. Edward Said.

Dr. Edward Said: No, I don’t think so, and I think the whole thesis is a bit of a false one because in the first place, you know, civilizations are not little packages that are kind of completely detached from each other. They’re all connected in one way or another, and you know, so-called Western civilization has many elements of Islamic, and Confucian, and Latin American, and Russian, European, African and other components.

Ms. Bat Ye’or, Author, Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide: The basis of the prophet of this new version of Islam as a religion of peace and tolerance was Edward Said who established in all universities and in academia this Islamic vision of peace. On this basis, the whole history of Dhimmitude and Jihad disappeared.

Answer: Linguistically and figuratively, Islam has always meant Peace & Submission. So, who can be a new prophet of a new version of Islam meaning peace?
Dear Ma’am, I am sure most non-Muslims and even Muslims are not even aware of the non-Qur’anic terms, “Dhimmi” and “Dhimmitude”. Dhimmitude did not disappear - it never existed even in the life time of the exalted Prophet.

To repeat what we have said before:

Most certainly, Christians or any non-Muslims have never been relegated to a second class status in a Muslim country. We have addressed this question under the Dhimmi Status in Rebuttal - 15. Here is a glimpse once again.

Dhimma = Responsibilty. So, Dhimmi, a non-Qur’anic term coined by Islamic jurists, would mean non-Muslim citizens whose safety and well-being is the responsibility of the Islamic State. This unconditional guarantee would be above and beyond the guarantee provided to the Muslim citizens.

We have seen that the exalted Prophet had said, “If a non-Muslim is wronged in the Islamic State, I will personally plead on his behalf.” [Sahah Sittah]

So, even if there was such a thing as Dhimmi status ever in history, it could never mean ‘second class’ citizenship. It would rather be ‘first class plus’.

Would you kindly point out a single Islamic country where non-Muslims are called Dhimmies?

Dr. William Draper - History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, London 1875: …. The man (Muhammad) who of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race…. During the period of the Caliphs the learned men of the Christians and the Jews were not only held in great esteem but were appointed to posts of great responsibility, and were promoted to the high ranking job in the government….

Mr. Robert Spencer, Islam Unveiled: Edward Said, who in his book Orientalism, posited that criticism of the Islamic world on the part of Westerners was racist and imperialist. It is spread in order to make political points, to accustom Westerners to the idea that Muslims are here to stay in the United States, and that they must not be questioned in terms of their loyalty to the secular framework of Western society, of the United States, and of Europe as well; that they must not be questioned in this despite Islam’s historical, political character, because Islam is a religion of peace. And this fiction has become so entrenched in American public discourse as to be practically beyond question, such that anybody who does question it is immediately branded as a racist, a hate-monger, a bigot. And this is a very effective tool in a country where racism is the Cardinal sin above all, to silence any effective debate about the continuing attachment of Muslim immigrants to Sharia law and their intentions toward the secular systems in which they now reside.”

Answer: Dear Sir, the truth has its own ways to make itself known, to expound itself. How can Islam be anything but a religion of peace when Muslims are strongly forbidden to fight except in self-defense or in the face of persecution. Please see Rebuttal – 2.

There is no doubt that Muslim-Americans are a highly productive force in the society. They are at the top in per family income and higher education. Rarely if ever is there a Muslim behind common societal ills in America, such as violent crimes, high school dropout, and teenage pregnancies. Are America’s 6 million culturally diverse Muslims waiting collectively to turn into something else altogether at some preordained time (and enforce Shari’ah law)? This would hurt them more than anyone else.

J. W. H. Stab, Islam and its Founder: In Islam, science and religion have thrived like twin sisters. Therefore, during the Koranic glory of Islamic civilization, science made incredible progress from which the West was later enlightened.

Part 5 of 6, More Than A Religion

Mr. Richard Boucher, the US Under Secretary for the South Asian Affairs: …that this is not a clash against Islam or Arabs. This is about freedom, not culture. It’s about working with Islamic governments who want to move forward into the modern world, working with Islamic governments who see their face as the face of peace, and working against the violence and the terror and the people who would seek to hold back the world, and would seek to disrupt peace and freedom for others. And so that is what it’s about for us. The true faith of Islam, we believe, is a religion of peace, and we intend to work with them in that regard. The true faith of Islam, we believe, is a religion of peace.

Comment: How can one dispute with this bright diplomat, and how, when he is saying nothing but the truth?

Abdullah Al-Araby, Director, The Pen vs. the Sword Publications: Islam has to be known as more than a religion. The idea that Islam is a spiritual religion like, for instance, Christianity, is completely incorrect.

Serge Trifkovic, Foreign Affairs Editor, Chronicles magazine: It would be incorrect to describe Islam as primarily or solely a religion. Since its early beginning in Mohammad’s lifetime, it has also been a geopolitical project and a system of government, a political ideology, if you will.

Answer: Dear Sirs, although commonly used, no one in the world has been able to define exactly what ‘spirituality’ means. Look how vague the Merriam-Webster dictionary is:

1 : something that in ecclesiastical law belongs to the church or to a cleric as such 2 : clergy 3 : sensitivity or attachment to religious values 4 : the quality or state of being spiritual

I will try to come closer: “Sensitivity or attachment to moral values.” In that sense, dear Sirs, you will find no guidance better than that given in the Qur’an. We have been showing some glimpses all along.

You asserted that Christianity (in contrast) is a spiritual religion without any geopolitical project or political ideology. Let’s go to the most original source.

A great-great grand-daughter of Thomas Carlyle has sent the following from the UK:

From Noorah Carlyle, UK

THE NEW TESTAMENT

A few of the violent sayings attributed to Jesus:

1. “I come not to send peace, but a sword.” (Matthew 10:34)

2. “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:26)

3. “Those mine enemies which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.” (Luke 19:27)

4. “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” (John 15:6)

5. “Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division.” (Luke 12:51-2)

Dear Sirs, you will find nothing like this in the Glorious Qur’an.

(Contd respectfully by a life-long student)

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May 17th, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

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Announcer & Video Images: “America is the land of diversity and service.”

Man #1: “I’m an African American. My forefathers overcame the trials of slavery.”

Woman #1: “I’m Native American. I’m a journalist, wife, and mother.”

Man #2: “I’m of European heritage. One of my ancestors was a member of the Continental Congress.”

Woman #2: “I’m Hispanic American. I’ve been a Girl Scout since I was six years old and now I’m a troop leader.”

Man #1: I served in our nation’s armed forces as have many of my relatives.”
Woman #1: “My father served two tours of duty in Vietnam.”

Man #2: “Another fought for freedom in Gettysburg.”

Woman #2: “Two of my uncles fought for our country in the Korean War.”

Man #1: “And I am an American Muslim.”

Woman #1: “And I am an American Muslim.”

Man #2: “And I am an American Muslim.”

Woman #2: “I am an American Muslim.”

Announcer: “Muslims are part of the fabric of this great country and are working to build a better America.”

Comment: This is a fact that none can deny.

Mr. Serge Trifkovic, Foreign Affairs Editor, Chronicles Magazine: “The spokesmen for the Western Islamic World know how to play the game. They know how to present their cause in the way that is not only regarded as acceptable by the societal mainstream but also reasonable, and one might say, just. They will appeal to democratic institutions and their human rights in the full knowledge that given the power to do so, they would abolish those institutions and deny those rights to others.”

Answer: Dear Sir, you might be pleasantly surprised to know that almost all Muslims believe and say that there are more Islamic Principles established in the West than in other countries, Muslim or non-Muslim.

Dear Sir, you said, “(They) know how to play the game.” It is not a game to defend one’s rights. Was Martin Luther King, Jr playing a game?

Interesting: The greatest Islamic scholar of the times, Mufti ‘Abde Rabbuhu (d. 1906) of Egypt visited Europe. When he returned, he made a remarkable statement, “In Europe, I saw Islam but no Muslims. In Egypt, I see Muslims but no Islam.” Muslims realize that, albeit some non-Islamic harmful social practices, Islam is almost in place in the West. Why would so many Muslims prefer to live in the West? Why would any community harm the Qur’anic values very much in place in the West, values that they love? Why would Muslims “play games” when they love these values? Even the Arab autocracies are slowly coming closer to the freedom enjoined by the Qur’an. Perhaps you know that important historical figures such as the American Founding Fathers, Queen Victoria of England and Napoleon Bonaparte were avid readers of the Qur’an and freely benefited from it. The West have consciously or unconsciously acquired many great principles from the Qur’an, in addition to intellectual inquiry and the method of trial and error. Please ponder how many centuries the transformation has taken and the West is still far from being perfect, rather it is in danger of decline.

Sir Iqbal said in simple terms: Revelation economizes human effort.

How true! See what that wizard of a genius said:

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - Out of My Later Days, “The code of permanent values can only come through Revelation to chosen personalities (Messengers) of God. Science can tell what is. It cannot tell what ought to be.

Raymond Lerouge - Life de Mohamet: The Arabian Prophet Mohammad is the founder of a revolution unparalleled in history. He founded a political state that will ultimately embrace the entire planet. The law of that Government would rest on justice and kindness. His teachings revolve around human equality, mutual cooperation and universal brotherhood.

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Sahih Al Bukhari,
Vol. 7, Book 67, Hadith 427:
[The Prophet said] “By Allah, and Allah willing, if I take an oath and later find something else that is better than that, then I do what is better and expiate my oath.”

Answer: No doubt, taking things out of context or missing relevant information causes much confusion. The mentioned Hadith is reported in more detail in “Uswah Hasanah” pg 215. It’s very clear. The exalted Prophet said to some people on oath that he did not have camels to mount them. Then someone brought forth a herd of camels and he gave each of them a camel saying, “Allah has sent them for you.” What is wrong here, Sir?
The exalted Prophet could never have violated the Revelation. Not a single friend or foe ever accused him of doing that.
3:77 Those who trade away the Divine value of keeping pledge and their oaths for petty gains, will have no portion in the Hereafter…

Mr. Walid Shoebat, Author Why I Left Jihad: When I used to be working as a translator at the Luke College in Chicago, the fundraising for Jihad movements, for the PA, the PLO at that time, we would do the translation for the announcements or the flyers that we hand out or put on the walls of the college. And I remember the Arabic would be basically the facts: Bring your friends, we were intending to raise funds to support our Jihad brothers in Lebanon, whether they were fighting in southern Lebanon against Israel or whatever. And then comes the English part. In the English part, it’d be the standard: We will be conducting a Middle Eastern cultural party, you’re welcome, we’ll be serving lamb and baklava. So the West doesn’t understand as when we get together as a group, our conversations are different. As soon as a Westerner would come into the scene, then the whole conversation changes. It becomes palatable to Western mind. When I used to go to work, let’s say during the Gulf War - I used to work at a American company – and everybody would be hovering around the T.V. set. As soon as there’s a Scud missile hitting Riyadh or something like that, everybody will be distraught, unhappy, because Scud lands in the American camp. And I would be standing there right amongst American employees, ‘Oh that’s too bad, you know, oh that’s too bad. I’m sorry, I know we had loss of life’. And out of frustration from having to keep the truth of what I really felt, I would roll down the window on the freeway going home and scream as loud as I can, ‘Allahu Akbar! Allah is Great. Allahu Akbar!’, because this is the chantation you do when the enemy is killed, when you win. So if it was a victorious day for the Iraqis when they land a Scud missile, then it would be ‘Alhahu Akbar!’ on the freeway, I know nobody can hear me now. And when I went to my apartment home, the rest of the apartment complex were also Arabs from the Middle East, we’d get together in my apartment, watch the Gulf War, and we’d be praising Allah every time it was some incident when Americans got killed. But it wasn’t the same face that we put on when we were in an American environment. In an American environment, we played a different scenario. You acted as if you are on their side. So there’s this whole Fasad is hidden from the West of how Muslim fundamentalists who want to propagate Jihad in America can act publicly.

Answer: Dear Sir, you eloquently relate the stories of terror since, pardon me, you have been an active terrorist yourself. You know that 99.999% Muslims denounce Terrorism as much as anyone else. Secondly, for you, Muslims seem to exist only in the Middle East. What percentage are they of the total Muslim population? 10% and a vast majority of them are peaceful, law-abiding citizens.

Sincerely, a life-long student

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May 16th, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

Dear friends,

We are receiving some good ideas about converting the Rebuttal script into a good Video format.

Secondly, many viewers want to have video lectures on a regular basis.

Please know that the plan would need funds and technology that we don’t have.

The best way to help is to buy QXP, other English/Urdu books and the audio & Computer CDs.

Thanks & Wassalam!

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May 15th, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

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Mr. Robert Spencer, Islam Unveiled: Islam is a religion and a political system that dictates that one must carry out warfare against the unbelievers until they either convert or submit, and this is the justification that the terrorists around the world are using for what they’re doing. And that justification is based on core elements of Islamic tradition. That being the case, it’s very difficult for moderate Muslims, peaceful Muslims, to stand up within the Islamic community and to say ‘this is not part of Islam’. They only do so out of conscious deception, intending to mislead Westerners, in accord of the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya – or religious deception – or they do so simply on the basis of being simply unaware of what Islam actually teaches.

Answer: Dear Sir, you said: Islam is a religion and a political system that dictates that one must carry out warfare against the unbelievers until they either convert or submit ….” But you did not mention the source of this assertion whereas evidence to the contrary is repeatedly documented in the Qur’an. Please refer to a few verses that follow soon.

About calling a Spade a Spade: Right here, I am standing before the entire Muslim Community in the world, denouncing Terrorism and coercion all through. And I am finding nothing but absolute agreement of Muslims from around the world.

We have seen amply in Rebuttal 15-16, and before, that Islam allows warfare only in self-defense and against persecution, not for conversion or any other reason. We have shed enough light on freedom of religion as ordained in the Qur’an. [2:190, 2:193, 2:256, 13:17, 22:39-40, 60:8]

As for Taqiyya, you will not find the word in the Qur’an. The word did not even exist in the life of the exalted Prophet. How can it be an Islamic doctrine, then? There is a small group of Qur’an deniers among a sect that call concealing the details of their faith as Taqiyyah. That’s the A to Z of it.

Sahih Al Bukari, Vol. 4, Book 52, Hadith 269

“The Prophet said ‘War is deceit.’”

Answer: Let’s believe for a moment that this report, generated on hearsay 250 years after the exalted Prophet, is authentic. The Arabic text says: Al-Harb-il-khad’ah. The more accurate translation would be, “Surprise element is an important factor in any war.” Khalid bin Waleed, who later became a gallant Muslim commander, was on the enemy side in the Battle of Uhud. He found an unexpected soft spot and inflicted significant damage to the unaware Muslims who had ignored an important part of the exalted Prophet’s strategy. Then the Prophet said the above, “Surprise element is an important factor in any war.” Which army general would disagree with that principle even today?

Mr. Abdullah Al-Araby, Director, The Pen vs. the Sword Publications:

“Lying, generally speaking, is not allowed in Islam. But unlike other religions, there are certain situations where a Muslim can lie and that would be acceptable, even encouraged. This concept, called  Al-Taqiyya, Al-Taqiyya means ‘prevention’, so a Muslim is allowed to lie to prevent harm that may come to him or to Islam.”

Answer: Sir, we have just analyzed Taqiyyah. You will not find the word in the Qur’an. The word did not even exist in the life of the exalted Prophet.

Other religions? Please recall, and sufficient should it be, the infamous quote of St. Paul here when even life is not endangered.

St. Paul, the principal founder of Christianity, confesses his guilt in his letter to Romans 3:7 - If through my falsehood (telling lies), God’s truthfulness abounds to His glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? (Prof. Thomas Broadway - The Ancient Scriptures)

Mr. Robert Spencer, Islam Unveiled: “When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion. This is taught in the Qu’ran, Chapter 3 verse 28, Chapter 16 verse 106.”

Answer: OK, Sir! Here are the verses you mentioned. Please tell us what is wrong with saving one’s life, instead of laying it down in vain emotions and adamant behavior.

3:28 (Those who reject the laws of such an Omnipotent Creator, will not support the Divine Ideology.) Let not the believers take non-believers for their allies instead of their fellow believers. If anyone does that, he will have nothing to do with God. The persecuted are exempted from this obligation in order to save themselves….

The following verse sheds more light on the situation.

16:106 Anyone who utters unbelief, after attaining faith in God, except under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in faith, is different from the one who is fully content with disbelief….

The Life of Muhammad (p. 367) [by whom?] If it is by “Ibn Ishaq” or Ibn Hisham, we have already analyzed the Jewish and Magian forgery of the document.

[Ibn Ishaq d. 773 CE was half Jew and half Zoroastrian and his supposed biography of the Prophet, even if ever written, was immediately lost. Imam Malik has called ibn Ishaq a big liar. Then more than half a century later Ibn Hisham d. 840 wrote ibn Ishaq on hearsay from Ziyad al-Bakai (Magian), Musailma Abrash (Jewish) and Hamid Razi (Magian). (“Seerah” Ibn Ishaq has been forged from ibn Hisham as late as 2000 CE under fictitious names.)] (Mazhabi Dastanain aur Unki Haqeeqat by Allama Habib Kandhalwi).

“The Apostle said – ‘Who will rid me of Ibn-Ashraf?’
Muhammad bin Muslama, brother of the Bani Abdul-Ashal, said ‘I will deal with him for you, O Apostle of God, I will kill him.’
He said, ‘Do so if you can.’
He said, ‘O Apostle of God, we shall have to tell lies.’
He answered, ‘Say what you like, for you are free in the matter.’”

Answer: Again, this is a frank forgery and defamation by “Ibn Ishaq” centuries after the exalted Prophet. Ka’b bin Ashraf, a top Jewish leader of the Bani Nadhir Tribe, had moved from Madinah up-North along with his tribe in all safety. What weight does the rumor carry before the Unassailable First & Foremost Authentic and Authoritative Qur’an, as follows?

Please recall that the peaceful exile took place in 5 Hijrah (627 CE) of the Jewish tribe of Banu Nadhir near Madinah. They were banished from there after they had repeatedly violated the peace treaties they had signed with the exalted Prophet. They kept joining hands with the Makkan idolaters, the hypocrites and some clans committed to annihilate the believers. For their treachery, Banu Nadhir lost their citizenship and got exiled according to the treaty. They were allowed to take with them all movable property except the weapons of war. With 600 camels laden with their belongings, the tribe was allowed to migrate peacefully to any place of their choosing and thereupon they relocated themselves in Syria. See what the Qur’an says:

59:2 He is the One Who evicted the disbelievers among the People of the Book from their homes at the first gathering (of the forces). You never thought that they would leave and they thought that their strongholds would defend them against God. But God’s requital came to them from directions they little expected, and caused fear in their hearts. So, they dismantled their dwellings with their own hands and (got them dismantled) at the hands of the believers. Learn a lesson, then, O You who are endowed with insight! [They dismantled their immovable property to prevent the believers from benefiting from it]

59:3 And if God had not decreed banishment for them, He would have punished them harder in this world, yet for them is suffering of the fire in the life to come.

A life-long student with due respects.

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May 13th, 2008 by Dr. Shabbir

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From the British Historian, Hilaire Belloc’s
The Great Heresies-1938.

“…. it has always seemed to me possible, and even probable, that there would be a resurrection of Islam, and that our sons or our grandsons would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between the Christian culture and what has been for more than a thousand years its greatest opponent.”

“…the suggestion that Islam may re-arise sounds fantastic but this is only because men are always powerfully affected by the immediate past: one might say that they are blinded by it…”

“but not so very long ago, less than a hundred years before the Declaration of Independence… Vienna was almost taken and only saved by the Christian army under the command of the king of Poland on a date that ought to be among the most famous in history – September 11, 1683.

Answer: Hilaire Belloc was probably an Islamophobic and this attitude must have sprung from the misinformation that he carried on him like many people do even today. We wonder whether Hilaire Belloc knew that numerous non-Muslim Western intellectuals and historians before and after him would have said much more than this but in a positive manner. For the sake of brevity, let’s cite only two examples.

President Richard Nixon - Nixon’s Ten Commandments - “Roger Bacon owed his illumination to the Muslim Moors of Spain. The great figures of European Renaissance could see further because they stood on the shoulders of the giants of the Muslim world. — Those achievements represent what the Muslim world has been in the past. They also point to what it could become in the future.”

Sir George Bernard Shaw - The Genuine Islam, Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936:

“If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

…. I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. … I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity.

…. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.”

Dear Sirs & Madams, let us not be frightened by the irrational and barbaric, clergy invented “Islamic Shari’ah”. Sir GBS obviously knew better, and hence, he emphasizes “The Genuine Islam”. The vast majority of Muslims hate the “Imamist” Shari’ah and they would be the first ones to throw it out of the window. It is the benevolent Qur’an that the world would love to adopt as stated in the Qur’an, verses 9:31-33, 13:31, 14:48, 18:48, 41:53, 48:28, 51:20-21, 61:8-9, and foreseen by numerous intellectuals from the East and the West.

Let us also remind ourselves that the primary theme of Islam is protection of human rights. The Book narrates the history of many nations as a lesson to us. Without exception, whenever they suffered decline, it was for one single reason: Violation of human rights.

Verse 13:17 clearly lays down the Principle that the real existence on earth is of the one that benefits humanity.

Mr. Robert Spencer: On September 11, 1683 the siege of Vienna was broken. That was the high point of Islamic Jihad expansion into Europe. After that, Islam went into a decline and the Islamic world was colonized, and in a drastically weakened state. It seems very likely, almost certain as far as I’m concerned, that Osama bin Ladin chose September 11th in 2001 to signal that the decline of the Islamic world was over and that the Jihadists were back and were going to pick up where they left off in Vienna in 1683.

Answer: Dear Sir, is it possible that much of the current friction between the West and the rest of the world is the result of the massive colonization by the West, not only of the Islamic states but other nations as well? Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy, Belgium and Sweden, the Western Soviet Union etc colonized the whole world. Didn’t Spain colonize the entire South America which had not a single Muslim country on its map? How about the colonization of the predominantly Hindu India by Great Britain? And didn’t the Western Christian nations fight against each other for attaining colonies – all in the name of God? Dear Sir, you have honored OBL beyond his worth. I doubt if the ignorant Mullah would know anything about the 1683 Vienna.

Mr. Serge Trifkovic: If we look at the tectonic plates between Islamic world and non-Islamic world today, we notice something very interesting that even very diverse Muslim societies, which cannot be easily branded under one civilization label, have something in common, and it is the tendency to be in conflict with their neighbors. If we look at the extreme southeastern outreach of Islam, we see East Timor where Indonesian Muslims slaughtered a third of the population of its former Portuguese colony who were, by the way, Roman Catholics. In southern Philippines we see an extremely violent Islamic rebellion, which has been simmering and becoming more or less violent for years. In Indonesia itself, we have religious conflict in the Spice Islands, where the beleaguered Christian minorities are in danger of extinction. We have very active Islamic movements both in Thailand, and in China in Xingiang. In the Indian subcontinent the history is tragic indeed. That’s where the Holocaust, the Hindu Holocaust took place in medieval times, a little-known episode in the history of Islam in the western world, but the one that left a deep traumatic mark on the people in the region, and where the conflict is still latently present in the province of Kashmir. In Africa there is the constant war in Sudan, which finally gained some prominence in the western decision making circles but which has been going on for 20 years and it’s impossible to estimate the number of lives it has claimed, but it certainly goes into many hundreds of thousands. There is the constant instability in Nigeria between resurgent central and northern states which are increasingly pressurizing the government in Lagos into accepting Sharia law as the law of the land in those provinces and, of course, there is Mauritania where Muslims constantly battle non-Muslim southerners. Then there is, of course, the Caucasuses, Chechnya. And in Europe itself we have the conflict in the former Yugoslavia between the Bosnian Muslims and Serbs and Croats respectively, and the conflict between the Albanians and the Serbs, the Albanians and Macedonian, and quite possibly before too long, Albanians and the Greeks. So if we eliminate these conflicts, if we eliminate from the equation, Chechnya, the Balkans, Sudan, the world is a pretty peaceful place. If we eliminate from the terrorist equation terrorist acts carried out by the Muslims over the last five years, we will come to realize that the War on Terror is unnecessary because Terror is not a very big problem.

Answer: Dear Sir, please look at my response to Mr. Robert Spencer above. The Western colonization has deliberately caused and left these burning issues in the world. And how could you so easily forget the devastating, protracted fight of the Irish Liberation Army against England, both Christian? Using your logic, what were the Portuguese doing in Indonesia in the first place – and France in Morocco, Algiers and Egypt? Why did China annex Xinjiang?

[Wikipedia: Xinjiang was set up as an autonomous region on October 1, 1955. It has an area of more than 1.66 million square kilometers, one sixth of the total size of China and larger than any other province or autonomous region. It is an autonomous region (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) of the People’s Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area (spanning over 1.6 million sq. km) comprised of Turkestan territory militarily occupied and annexed by China which takes up about one sixth of the China’s territory.]

Why did India annex the Muslim state of Kashmir? Why do Philippines and Thailand refuse to grant religious freedom to Muslims? You should know how many big Muslim territories the Soviet Union annexed from Persia, and the Muslim state of Chechnya. At the dissolution of the Soviet Union, why was the Muslim Chechnya not granted freedom like other states? Sir, why have you disregarded the Ethiopia interference in Sudan, and concealed the battles between the Christian Serbia and the Christian Croatia, and the recent genocide of Muslims by the Serbs in Bosnia and Kosovo?

The only Holocaust ever wrought in India was by the British in 1858 when they evicted millions of Hindus and Muslims out of their homes and, the children, women, the elderly included, the entire populations of big cities like Delhi were forced to live (and die) under the open skies for 18 months!

The West should pay heed to your advice that, “the War on Terror is unnecessary because Terror is not a very big problem.” Is it then, just an excuse for invading other countries?

Part 4 of 6

“War is Deceit”

Senator Gary of Nevada addressing (the Senate?)
Madam President, Gary from Nevada: I have been on the floor before speaking about Islam and what a great religion it is! I’ve said before and I repeat, my wife’s primary physicians are two members of the Islamic Faith, her internist and the person that has performed surgery on her. I know them well, been in their homes, socialized with them, talked about very serious things with them. We have helped each other with family problems. I have been with them to the new mosque in Las Vegas. They are wonderful people with great families. And I’ve come to realize that Islam is a good religion. It is a good way of life. People have a good health code as their religion dictates and they have great spiritual values as the religion dictates, and it is too bad that there are some people, misdirected people, around the world that are trying to take away from this very fine religion. I believe that they cannot give this religion a bad name. I think the power of this religion and the power of the people in this religion will overcome these evil people who are using the name of this fine religion to do bad things to innocent people.

Comment: Any unbiased mind will strongly agree with the observant, humble and open-minded Senator from Nevada.

With respects from a life-long student, Shabbir.

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