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The New Face of Islam

A critique of radicalism is building within the heart of the Muslim world.

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  • Posted By: MichaelX @ 02/13/2009 9:46:20 AM

    Have you killed in the name of your god today? That seems to be the way things are going. More death, and turmoil has been created by "religeous beliefs" than anything, ever. Fact.
    You "people" have bumped your heads. Wake up. You are forsaken, but only in your own small minds.

  • Posted By: SALAMWALAKUM @ 11/22/2008 8:34:50 PM

    MUSLIM MEN CAN MARRY FOUR WOMEN AT ONE TIME, MUSLIMS HAVE TO PRAY FIVE TIMES A DAY, WOMEN HAVE TO WEAR A HEAD COVER, COMMENTS POSTED BY QARTHA FROM THE QURAN I CAN GO ON. BUT THE FINAL QUESTION IS WHY DO SO MANY BELIEVE?

  • Posted By: qartha @ 10/10/2008 4:48:21 AM

    Muhammad experienced bitter persecution in Mecca, but when he became politically and socially powerful, he launched severe attacks and bloody wars against his enemies. He sometimes became intolerant and unforgiving. In the Quran, he commands more than sixteen times that his enemies, all unbelievers, and those who have slipped away from Islam should be killed:

    "Kill them wherever you come upon them. Expel them from where they expelled you; sedition is more grievous than slaying. Fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, kill them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers" (The Cow 2:191).

    "Take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of God; then if they turn away seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take no friend nor helper from among them" (Women 4:89).

    "Fight them, till there is no persecution, and the religion is Allah's entirely" (Spoils 8:39).

    "When the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolators wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush" (Repentance 9:5).

    Muhammad did not bring peace to the world, but many wars. He sent his followers into raids and holy wars more than thirty times. He himself participated in such attacks and expeditions twenty-nine times. He commanded his people to shed the blood of his enemies. He was the example of the believers and the political leader of the Arabian peninsula.

  • Posted By: qartha @ 10/10/2008 4:44:01 AM

    That's right, James. What we see happening in parts of the world regarding Muslim is similar to what was written in the Koran : killing "infidels", away from Christian community, killing anti islam community, etc.

  • Posted By: James4Truth @ 09/27/2008 7:43:51 AM

    The article is off base, the Koran does teach that killing infidels is ok, it does teach that a muslim cannot be a friend with a Christian or a Jew, and it does teach the killing of those who oppose islam.

    What we see happening in the middle east is similar to what has happened in must of the western world with Christianity, as people become more "enlightened" they become less believing in a God who has interacted with His creation. The key here is that when you look at the most dedicated followers of Islam you see terrorists, because thta is what it teaches.

  • Posted By: intermedusa @ 09/03/2008 11:32:11 AM

    WHAT IS ISLAM SUPREMACISM : PART 1
    By
    Larry Houle
    www.godofreason.com
    E-mail: intermedusa@yahoo.com

    THE TRUTH OF ISLAM

    Islam is all about Muslim men. It is an evil ideology created by a man - Muhammad for his male followers granting them unlimited sex, riches, and political power. Allah hates all Muslim women with a deep seated loathing. Muslim women are vile, dirty, stupid creatures. Muslim men can have multiple wives, unlimited sex slaves, can marry and rape Muslim baby girls, beat his wives, and murder them and his daughters if they dare impugn his honor. Whereas kafirs have zero humanity, Muslim women are only just slightly higher on the human evolutionary scale being half a human. This is the divine order of the universe ordained by Allah. This vision of the inequality of Muslim women to Muslim men, and the Eternal sub - humanness and lack of humanity of kafirs is FOREVER and can never be changed in any way.


    It is the prime directive of Islam to conquer the nations of the world for Allah by whatever means necessary. Allah seeks the extermination of all kafirs. By refusing to convert to Islam, kafirs have declared war against Islam, are a grave danger to Allah and must be destroyed. Islam is a declaration of war against kafirs. The Koran is not a holy book but a book of war. A book of genocide. Allah is a god of war. This war is permanent until all kafirs convert to Islam or agree to pay a devastating Jizya (submission tax) or be murdered.

    For Muslims, it is a holy religious duty to murder kafirs. The Quran is written in the language of terrorism. It is filled with numerous verses urging the Muslims to terrorize the non Muslims, kill them, and take possession of their lands and properties. The important points to remember is that whatever Muhammad did to terrorize the kafirs was actually the actions of God. Among the many verses which exhort Islamist terrorism, the following verses stand out as naked aggression of Allah/Muhammad on the unbelievers: 2:63, 3:151, 8:12, 8:60, 8:59, 9:5, 9:29, 9:55, 11:102, and 17:59 etc. These teachings are the Eternal Laws of Allah authorization murder and extermination as a holy duty.

    Deceit, torture, murder, assassination, massacre, genocide, pillage, robbery, enslavement and rape are halal (legal) acts in Islam deserving of paradise, as long as they are perpetrated on kafirs. These evil, immoral teachings are the ETERNAL Laws of Allah. These ETERNAL LAWS OF ALLAH are divine and can never BE CHANGED.

  • Posted By: intermedusa @ 09/03/2008 11:31:14 AM

    WHAT IS ISLAM SUPREMACISM : PART 2
    By
    Larry Houle
    www.godofreason.com
    E-mail: intermedusa@yahoo.com

    Again as a kafir, you are not a human being to a Muslim. You have absolutely no humanity. A Muslim has the full right granted to him by God, to murder you, take your wife and young daughter(s) rape and gang rape them (no matter what the age of your daughter) take them as sex slaves or sell them into slavery to be breed like cattle for future sex slaves and profit. Your male children will be beheaded if they are young men. If there is any doubt as to whether your young son is a young man or a young boy, Muslims will pull down their pants and examine their genitals for the slightest growth of hair. Just the slightest hair growth is enough for him to be beheaded. All your property will be seized and whatever the Muslim does not want to keep as his personal property, sold.


    If a Muslim kills or is killed murdering, raping, pillaging non -Muslims then they are guaranteed accession by God to a Paradise of full breasted, lustrous eyed virgins who regenerate as virgins after each sex act that they can sexually molest with external erections for all eternity. THIS IS THE EVIL INSANITY THAT IS ISLAM.

  • Posted By: Khadega @ 08/08/2008 7:19:49 PM

    That is not the new face of Islam, that is the always face of Islam. Osama Bin Laden, doesn't represnt Islam, as KKK doesn't represnt Christianity. Bin Laden and most of Islamic groups were created and encouraged by US policies to fight communist and Russia in the 1950s. Islam have been here for the last 1400 years, and if What Bin Laden message is the core message of Islam, no one would be walking in this planet. If 1.2 Billion muslims believe as Bin Laden believes, wouldn't the human race would be erased by now??????????

  • Posted By: Stop the hate @ 07/30/2008 5:04:52 AM

    Reading some of the ignorant postings full of hatred that were presenting nothing more than the persons' hate and ignorance and their efforts to spread LIES, misinformation, and made-up statistics, and even a made-up Qur'an that they either did not understand the true meaning of the text or the events surrounding the time some of the passages were written.I have a message for all the readers who are intelligent, not bigoted, do not have that type of hatred, and can see through the lies and misinformation, people of all races and religion, we should not allow these ignorant and hate-filled people to try to spread their lies and hate between us. We have great examples of this from history: the KKK, the enslavement of the African Americans, the hate towards the Japanese/Asians, the hate towards the Latins/Mexicans, and the Native Americans, all of these things no Muslim has anything to do with it, and all these things were caused by the same type of a group of people full of hate and their love to divide.

  • Posted By: DEMİRCİ @ 07/27/2008 3:27:55 PM

    Comment: Honourable brother,Larry houl,
    first of all,
    would like to thank you,
    you have noticed my arguements /comments,
    regarding the innocent killing,
    on the name of islam,


    Mr,Harry Houl,
    you should consider the fact,
    my arguements were limited on the subject,
    I had presented my real view,
    regarding the innocent killing,
    being carried out on the name of islam,
    to which you have accepted with opened minde.


    As for as other things are concerned toislam,
    i presented no comments,
    Now you have raised my questions,
    which forced me say only one thing,
    pls first study the Quraan,
    then understand it,
    after this ,
    you have right to say what found and felt about islam or Quraan.


    Be sure ,
    i have read your all arguements,
    but have no similarity
    between your views and the teaching of islam,


    Killing of man is killing of whole mankind,
    who committed such crime or sin ,
    is liable to sever punishment,
    in the court of Allah.
    WWW.BEYAZRENKLER.ORG

  • Posted By: toolazy @ 06/02/2008 11:14:41 PM

    Thank you, thank you, thank you....God bless the authors of this article n' the publishers of Newsweek.....American Muslims are tired of proving themselves to their neighbors, colleagues, the government n' their own country, the States....Klu Klux Klan doesn't represent the whole of Christianity nor do these terrorist groups represent Islam....

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 06/25/2008 11:13:53 AM

    Honourable brother,Larry houl,
    first of all,
    would like to thank you,
    you have noticed my arguements /comments,
    regarding the innocent killing,
    on the name of islam,


    Mr,Harry Houl,
    you should consider the fact,
    my arguements were limited on the subject,
    I had presented my real view,
    regarding the innocent killing,
    being carried out on the name of islam,
    to which you have accepted with opened minde.


    As for as other things are concerned toislam,
    i presented no comments,
    Now you have raised my questions,
    which forced me say only one thing,
    pls first study the Quraan,
    then understand it,
    after this ,
    you have right to say what found and felt about islam or Quraan.


    Be sure ,
    i have read your all arguements,
    but have no similarity
    between your views and the teaching of islam,


    Killing of man is killing of whole mankind,
    who committed such crime or sin ,
    is liable to sever punishment,
    in the court of Allah.

  • Posted By: existentialist @ 06/23/2008 10:35:24 PM

    I traveled to Muslim country a couple of weeks after 9/11. My friends there did not in any way support the acts of AQ. UBL will go down in history just as all of the other megalomaniacs that sought power and influence by espousing extremist principles based on warped interpretations of the human condition. Their quest for power always ends the same way - defeated in the face of freedom, liberty and individual rights. It is interesting how the profile of so many of his ilk is the same; outcast and marginalized in their youth, subscribing to fundamentalist and extremist ideologies in young adulthood and gathering like minded dolts around them. These movements have hurt mankind through the ages but they have never prevailed, and neither will this one. Freedom. liberty and choice are the ultimate truths of man that can never be vanquished. The likes of UBL and his followers, sadly, simply don't get it...

  • Posted By: existentialist @ 06/23/2008 10:35:05 PM

    I traveled to Muslim country a couple of weeks after 9/11. My friends there did not in any way support the acts of AQ. UBL will go down in history just as all of the other megalomaniacs that sought power and influence by espousing extremist principles based on warped interpretations of the human condition. Their quest for power always ends the same way - defeated in the face of freedom, liberty and individual rights. It is interesting how the profile of so many of his ilk is the same; outcast and marginalized in their youth, subscribing to fundamentalist and extremist ideologies in young adulthood and gathering like minded dolts around them. These movements have hurt mankind through the ages but they have never prevailed, and neither will this one. Freedom. liberty and choice are the ultimate truths of man that can never be vanquished. The likes of UBL and his followers, sadly, simply don't get it...

  • Posted By: Human-Android @ 06/01/2008 11:07:48 AM

    Some people have called me a bigot. I happily wear that name if you are referencing my hate for organized religion - and that includes Judiasm and the followers of the Ja-sus cult. These religions have lost their zeal for crusading, however. Islam is busy night and day forcing brown and yelow skinned people to join the club through outright force, intimidation, and legal discrimination.
    I used the example of female genital mutilation because it's titilating. Titilation is about the only way to get white Americans interested in the travails of brown and yellow skinned people, it's been my sad experience to note. FGM is widespread throught the Muslim world, particularly in S.E. Asia and states in the Persian Gulf. Muslims lie to promote their religion. The claim that FGM is only practiced by misinformed African Muslims is a lie. This suposed 'wave of liberalization' coming from the Mosques (many funded by that champion of human rights, Saudi Arabia) is just another lie to get Americans and westerners to back off, in regards to exposing Islam's dirty laundry. I won't stop, and millions of others won't either. We know too much about Islam now to stop caring.
    By the way, it was the Nazis who conflated race with culture and religion. Get that straight. No one is 'born' a muslim, the way they are born black or asian or white.
    When we turn away from exposing injustice at the hands of Muslims, Hindus in Kashmir (the ones that are left after Pak's ongoing terror campaign, funded by Bhutto, you should know) loose, along with their co-religionists in Malaysia, Indonesia and Bangladesh. Black African Christians and animists loose. Jews all over the world loose, and so on.
    When Muslims can convert to another religion or to no religion at all without fear of death, prison or discrimination, then I'll say true progress is being made. Converting away from Islam is illegal in most Islamic states. I'm sure if your survey of the news strays farther than periodicals like 'Newsweek' you would know that.
    Tex, you are the pot calling the kettle black. Stop being a useful idiot for those who want to spread the most discriminatory force alive in the world today. Educate yourself.

    • Posted By: Lionheart48 @ 06/23/2008 8:20:11 PM

      You are absolutely correct in everything you say about Islam. The US may be the land of the "free" but it is hardly the land of the 'truth'. People here are 'educated' by the ignorant media who's only purpose is to increase circulation and ratings. Those actually doing independent research on their own are very few indeed. Most people are more interested in how many children Angelina Jolie now has than in what Islam actually teaches, let alone what the Bible teaches. Unfortunately this will never change but it still is refreshing to find that once-in-a-while you can meet someone who seeks the truth and is not reluctant to share it once found.

    • Posted By: toolazy @ 06/02/2008 11:23:27 PM

      omg....where are u getting your info frm? i have one answer....just read the Quran, no, ...my plans aren't to convert you, just to show what Islam is....what it means....just read, n' get your evidence against Islam from there itself....

  • Posted By: Lionheart48 @ 06/23/2008 7:59:03 PM

    The Quran and Hadith have some explicit text advocating subjugation and violence against 'infidels'. This is not to say that the majority of Muslims advocate or support these positions. But one has to wonder about the jubilation expressed in many Muslim countries when the events of 911 first became known. Nonetheless, Osama bin Laden's interpretation of these 'scriptures' is the significant and worrisome one because he and his followers are the ones who subscribe to terrorism as a legitimate way of defeating infidels and establishing Muslim hegemony. Hence, arguments that the majority of Muslims do not subscribe to Obama's doctrine does not diminish the threat OBL and Co. represent.

  • Posted By: repudar71 @ 06/20/2008 9:24:46 AM

    If I wanted to read the Bible, I could do that by myself. I don't need your help here.

  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 06/19/2008 8:24:10 AM

    LET me simplify this for some. These moslems that follow the wahhabbi version of thier oft twisted religion, must be met and vanquished. Whether its in the US, Europe or SW Asia, the only law is kill them or they will kill you. Those camps in p-stan gotta go....we are just waiting for the word....1st BCT 327, 101st Air Assault

  • Posted By: shaba @ 06/15/2008 3:32:09 PM


    DEUTERONOMY
    CHAPTER 17
    Those who worship false gods shall be put to death???Priests and judges shall determine the hard cases???Kings shall not multiply horses or wives or gold???The king must study the laws of God daily.
    1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is ablemish, or any bevilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
    2 ¶ If there be found among you, within any of thy agates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in btransgressing his covenant,
    3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
    4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
    5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt astone them with stones, till they bdie.
    6 aAt the mouth of btwo witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to cdeath; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
    7 The hands of the witnesses shall be afirst upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
    8 ¶ If there arise a matter too hard for thee in ajudgment, bbetween blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of ccontroversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the dplace which the Lord thy God shall choose;
    9 And thou shalt come unto the apriests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall bshew thee the sentence of judgment:
    10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee;
    11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
    12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
    13 And all the people shall hear, and afear, and do no more presumptuously.
    14 ¶ When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;


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