{"id":479,"date":"2015-02-26T14:36:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azmi.co\/cust\/ngba-wp\/?page_id=479"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:55:50","slug":"the-end-of-faith-sam-harris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=479","title":{"rendered":"THE END OF FAITH-Sam Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the name of All\u0101h,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0the Beneficent, the Merciful.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0DEDICATED TO<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Lord of the worlds<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0AND TO<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Mohammad\u2013who brought the world<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0to our feet and eternity to our arms.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Religion poisons everything,\u2019 such is the blissful mantra of the atheist. Religion is the only prop he can find to shore up his disbelief of God: he has no rational foundation. America and Russia\u2019s \u201cCold War\u201d was not over religion; India and China did not war over religion; the two World Wars were not over religion. It is man\u2019s greed for dominance over man and his parasitic disposition \u2013to live off the avails of others, and his wild drive of survival of the fittest<\/i>\u2013<\/span> that poisons everything. If man would follow Islam; man would find his Utopia. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

RESPONSE<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0To<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Sam Harris <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0THE END OF FAITH <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>(Paperback)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Published 2005, by W.W. Norton & Company Inc., New York).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 In his praise for Sam Harris\u2019s book, The End of Faith<\/i>, Alan Dershowitz, professor of law at Harvard University and author of America on Trial,<\/i> states:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u201cThe End of Faith<\/i> shows how the perfect tyranny of religious and secular totalitarianism demonizes imperfect democracies such as the United States and Israel.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

It is doubtful that a thinking person expects democracy to be perfect \u2013no man-made system, whose ruling is limited to its knowledge of the day, and governed by the dictates of the majority, can ever be perfect. Neither can such a \u201cdemocracy\u201d be superior than or equal with the Divine designed democracy. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, the occupier, usurper, oppressor, aggressor, and exploiter can hardly claim shade from the sun of \u201cperfection\u201d under the umbrella of democratic imperfection<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Only the foolish and the unthinking would give sanctuary to such a shrewd (and perhaps manipulative) cerebration.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

PREAMBLE<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The End Of Faith<\/span><\/i> is vast on text and void on substance: it is just another baseless anti-Islamic, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim rambling. Which rambling is due perhaps either to ignorance of or lack of understanding of the sublime teachings of Islam. Many Muslims also suffer from this.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Verses of the Qur\u2019an are used out of context (a malignant sickness of the critics of Islam), and seemingly without knowledge as to the background to which they were revealed; that some verses of the Qur\u2019an are allegorical; and that on certain topics \u2013such as stoning, blasphemy, apostasy\u2013<\/span> the Prophet followed the Torah until he received Qur\u2019anic revelation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 To comment on every misstatement about Islam and Muslims (and those of a non-Islamic nature) is not only \u201ctedious\u201d but needless. Muslims (as anyone else) have all rights and the Highest Authority to take up arms against the aggressor, occupier, usurper, and exploiter. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Sam Harris and those Muslims who agree with his \u201cgeneral disparagement of their religion\u201d (Islam) need to consult not a \u201cneurologist\u201d but a Muslim knowledgeable in the Qur\u2019an. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Muhammad Ali\u2019s translation of the Qur\u2019an with text, notes, and commentaries can be viewed online: <\/span>www.muslim.org<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Muslims are to know there is no charge against All\u0101h, the Prophet Mohammad, Islam, and the Qur\u2019an that is not refutable; many against Muslims have also been refuted on CD and www.nogodbutallah.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The End Of Faith <\/i>(paperback) \u2013<\/i>page numbers in brackets indicate the page(s) from which the quotes are taken.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

CONTENTS<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/span> Link between Islam and terrorism; Qur\u2019an mandates hatred<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/span> Whoever says Islam has nothing to do with terrorism<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3.<\/span> Qur\u2019an and suicide <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4.<\/span> Islam\u2013separation between State and Mosque <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4A.<\/span> Bernard Lewis and Islam <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5.<\/span> Islam\u2013tolerance and religious diversity; martyrdom; dark-eyed virgins <\/span><\/p>\n

6.<\/span> Rioting in Nigeria over the 2002 Beauty Pageant <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

7.<\/span> Arabia\u2013teenage girls not allowed to leave burning building because they were not wearing head-cover; All\u0101h concerned about hemlines<\/span><\/p>\n

8.<\/span> Anti-Semitism in Christianity and Islam; Jews bunglers of God\u2019s initial revelation<\/span><\/p>\n

9.<\/span> Muslim and Christian anti-Semitism; The Protocols of the<\/i><\/span> Elders of Zion<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

10.<\/span> The Holocaust\u2013a Jewish orchestration? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

11.<\/span> Islam and inquisitions \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

12.<\/span> Islam divides world into \u201cHouse of Islam\u201d and \u201cHouse of War;\u201d Jihad\u2013an unambiguous call to world conquest; Mohammad his own Caesar<\/span><\/p>\n

13.<\/span> Muslim tolerance applies only to Jews and Christians; life for Jews under Islam one of ceaseless humiliation and regular pogroms; life for Christians under Islam has been scarcely better<\/span><\/p>\n

14.<\/span> Task of the Islamic state is to bring obedience to the Qur\u2019an<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

15.<\/span> Islam and apostates<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

16.<\/span> Terrorism\/violence in the Qur\u2019an; Qur\u2019an instructs Muslims to despise non-Muslims; Thomas Carlyle on the Qur\u2019an <\/span><\/p>\n

17.<\/span> Sayyid Qutb and the Qur\u2019an; Muslim worldview\u2013intolerance against Jews<\/span><\/p>\n

18.<\/span> Qur\u2019an and suicide<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

19.<\/span> Muslims are the most sexually repressive people; Muslim paradise like an al fresco bordello; hur <\/i>of the Qur\u2019an <\/span><\/p>\n

20.<\/span> Qur\u2019anic paradise implausible<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

21.<\/span> Muslim support for Saddam Hussein during American attack on Iraq <\/span><\/p>\n

22<\/span>. Muslims and nuclear weapons<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

23.<\/span> Western leaders who insist that their conflict is not with Islam are mistaken<\/span><\/p>\n

24.<\/span> Qur\u2019an\u2013offender of Muslim dignity; Afghanistan under the Taliban <\/span><\/p>\n

25.<\/span> Western liberals blame their governments for the excesses of Muslim terrorists; Israel and the suicidal derangement of the\u00a0 Palestinians; Israelis frequently likened to the Nazis; Alan Dershowitz trying to buff Israel\u2019s image<\/span><\/p>\n

26.<\/span> What if the Palestinian-Jewish situation was reversed? Mohammad\u2019s flying to heaven on a winged horse<\/span><\/p>\n

27.<\/span> Islam\u2019s liberalism illusory; without Islam Muslim grievances against the West almost non-existent<\/span><\/p>\n

28.<\/span> Prof. Noam Chomsky\u2019s criticism of America\u2019s bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceuticals in Sudan in 1998 <\/span><\/p>\n

29<\/span>. Torture and murder of innocents<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

30.<\/span> Knowingly place the life of a child in jeopardy; where ethics are concerned, intentions are everything<\/span><\/p>\n

31.<\/span> Islamic fundamentalism; Jainism<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

32<\/span>. Zakaria and Islam <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

33.<\/span> Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of fanatics<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

34.<\/span> Is Islam compatible with a civil society? peace between Islam and the West<\/span><\/p>\n

35.<\/span> Why fundamentalist Christians support Israel; President Ronald Reagan and the battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ<\/span><\/p>\n

36.<\/span> People of faith often want to curtail the private freedom of others<\/span><\/p>\n

37.<\/span> There is surely an opposition between reason and faith <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

38.<\/span> Biological truths are simply not commensurate with a designer God; if God created the world and all things in it, He created smallpox, plague, and filarias<\/span><\/p>\n

39.<\/span> Bertrand Russell and God; Hitler and Stalin and the H-bomb<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

40.<\/span> Christopher Hitchens: what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence<\/span><\/p>\n

41.<\/span> Religion and human solidarity; religion limits moral identity<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

42.<\/span> Religious indifference<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

43.<\/span> To torture the ticking-bomb terrorist<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

44.<\/span> Torture in the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

45.<\/span> Gandhi and non-violence<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

46.<\/span> Padmasambhava and Mohammad<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

47.<\/span> Religion, truth, intellect, and politics<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

48.<\/span> Islam and blasphemy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

49.<\/span> Christianity, Islam, Judaism\u2013devoid of any real foundation for religious tolerance and religious diversity<\/span><\/p>\n

50.<\/span> The only angels we need invoke are; the only demons we must fear are <\/span><\/p>\n

51.<\/span> Muslims who agree with Harris\u2019 general disparagement of Islam<\/span><\/p>\n

52.<\/span> Faith and reason<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

53.<\/span> Muslim violence a product of politics and economics\u2013where are the Palestinian Christian <\/i>suicide bombers? where are the Tibetan Buddhist suicide bombers? Islamic doctrines about martyrdom and jihad directly inspire Muslim terrorism; Muslim women mostly suffers the consequences of Islam <\/span><\/p>\n

54.<\/span> America fought in defense of Muslims <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

55.<\/span> Likening Israelis to Nazis; Palestinians Nazi collaborators; Hajj Amin al-Husseini aspired to open his own death camp for the Jews; Yasser Arafat heroizing Hajj Amin al-Husseini<\/span><\/p>\n

56.<\/span> Albert Einstein on science and religion <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

57.<\/span> American media censoring images of war <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1. \u201cMost people in positions of leadership in our country will say that there is no direct link between the Muslim faith and \u201cterrorism.\u201d It is clear, however, that Muslims hate the West in the very terms of their faith and that the Koran mandates such hatred.\u201d (and he quotes the Qur\u2019an):<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cProphet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate. (Koran 9:73).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cBelievers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous. (Koran 9:123).\u201d(pp. 31-32).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> Jihad, in 9:73, does not here mean \u201carmed\u201d approach. Muhammad Ali explains: Jahada <\/i>signifies he strove <\/i>or exerted himself<\/i>, and jihad <\/i>is the using one\u2019s utmost power in contending with an object of disapprobation <\/i>(LL). It is in a secondary sense that the word signifies fighting<\/i>, and it is repeatedly used in the Holy Qur\u2019an in its primary significance. It is a fact that those who professed Islam were never fought against, even though their professions were insincere\u2014as on this occasion and on the occasion of the battle of Uhud. \u201cThe correct rendering is that jihad <\/i>signifies striving<\/i>, or exerting <\/i>oneself, and there is nothing in the word to indicate that this striving <\/i>is to be effected by the sword or by the tongue or by any other method\u201d (Rz).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 The Prophet is commanded here to carry on a jihad against disbelievers as well as hypocrites. Hence the only significance that can be attached to these words is that he must continue to preach forcibly both to the disbelievers and the hypocrites.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Even if the jihad here is taken to mean armed struggle; it is only so because of the unbelievers and hypocrites first making war against the Prophet. There is hardly any person who has been unjustly violated that would not strive against his violator whose sole intention is to extirpate him.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

In 9:23, Muslims are urged to fight the unbelievers because \u201cit was they who persecuted the Muslims. The object was to stop persecutions.\u201d This is what America and Canada and others are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan as they say: fighting to put an end to evil. And the Iraqi\u2019s and Taliban did not even \u201cpersecute\u201d America and Canada or the others. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Muhammad Ali has explained Arabic terms and gives a background to which the verses were revealed. His preliminary notes are a Solomon\u2019s mine of information. His translation of the Qur\u2019an with text, notes, and commentaries can be viewed online: www.muslim.org<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jihad<\/i> means to \u201cstrive\u201d in the way of freedom, truth, and jus-tice;\u00a0<\/i>against low desires and evil temptations; to speak out or write against an injustice; to finance or take up arms against occupation, oppression, persecution, and exploitation. Jihad<\/i> liberates us physically, morally, intellectually and spiritually:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -physically\u2013<\/i>gives\u00a0<\/i>freedom of religion, movement and expression; <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 -morally\u2013<\/i>impresses on us to be modest and moderate; and that the exacting of one\u2019s rights is governed by the instituting of the rights of others; <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 -intellectually<\/i>\u2013frees us from the degradation of worship of other humans and of nature and idols; makes man the equal of man, and the master of nature; and instills in us that the only existence greater than ourselves is All\u0101h, God; <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 -spiritually<\/i>\u2013enjoins us to entomb our lower desires; and to robe ourselves in the garments of prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage and Divine Attributes that will give us success in this life and in the next.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Islam allows fighting only in self defense, as careful reading of the Qur\u2019an shows. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Muslims do not \u201chate the West.\u201d Muslims hate the West\u2019s hypocrisy, arrogance and injustice:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 –Hypocrisy<\/i>\u2013preaching democracy yet when Muslims were the gainers in the democratic machinery, as in Algeria and in Occupied Palestine, \u201cdemocracy\u201d was sub-verted. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0–Arrogance<\/i>\u2013dictating to Muslims what manner of defense systems it can have and cannot have. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0–Injustice\u2013<\/i>took Muslims\/Palestinians lands and gave it to Jews. And for sixty years have been aiding in the slaughter of the occupied Palestinians.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 There is no law against blasphemy in Islam. All\u0101h says that Muslims will face \u201cmuch abuse\u201d from the People of the Book and the idolaters; but they must be \u201cpatient and keep your duty\u201d (there is no order to kill)<\/i>\u2013(Qur\u2019an 3:185). \u201cAnd those who molest the Messenger of Allah, for them is a painful chastisement\u201d \u2013(9:61); those who \u201cannoy\u201d the Prophet are \u201ccursed\u201d and would receive \u201can abasing chastisement\u201d \u2013(33:57); \u201cwhen you hear the Signs of God being denied and mocked at, sit not with them until they enter into some other talk\u201d\u2013(4:140. Also 6:68); \u201cRevile not those whom they call upon besides Allah, lest they out of spite revile Allah in their ignorance\u201d\u2013(6:109); there is no order to kill the deniers\/mockers \/revilers<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h says: \u201cThey do blaspheme who say: \u201cGod is Christ the son of Mary.\u201d \u201cThey do blaspheme who say: God is one of three in a Trinity\u2026\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 5:75, 76). If there was a law against blasphemy in Islam, according to the above two verses there probably would have been no Christians in the dominion of the Prophet Mohammad during his reign; neither would there have been any Christians in the countries ruled by Muslims: they would either have had to revert to Islam, flee, or face imprisonment or death.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is a law of blasphemy in Judaism and Christianity\u2013(Lev. 24:11-16, 23). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If the Prophet Mohammad exercised any \u201claw of blasphemy\u201d it would have been in accordance with the Judeo-Christian teaching, and prior to the Qur\u2019anic revelations. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

2. \u201cAnyone who says that the doctrines of Islam have \u201cnothing to do with terrorism\u201d\u2013and the airways have been filled with apologists for Islam making this claim\u2013is just playing a game with words.\u201d (And he quotes the Qur\u2019an): <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u201cThe believers who stay at home \u2013apart from those who suffer from a great impediment\u2013 are not the equal of those who fight for the cause of God with their goods and their persons <\/span>(are draft dodgers and non-military persons equal to those who fight in defense of their country?). <\/span><\/i>God has given those that fight with their goods and their persons a higher rank than those who stay at home. God has pro-mised all a good reward; but far richer is the recompense of those who fight for Him \u2026He that leaves his dwelling to fight for God and His apostle and is then overtaken by death shall be rewarded by God. …The unbelievers are your inveterate enemies. (Koran 4:95-101).\u201d (p. 33).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> Where is the \u201cterrorism\u201d in this verse? Fighting for All\u0101h means to fight against injustice. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Regarding the last statement of the verse The unbelievers are your inveterate enemies.<\/i> Surely you would consider those who persecuted you, tried to assassinate you, pursued you to another place to kill you, and warred against you your \u201cinveterate enemies.\u201d\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t America consider Al-Qaeda and the Taliban its \u201cinveterate enemies\u201d? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

3. \u201cYes, the Koran seems to say something that can be construed as a prohibition against suicide\u2013\u201cDo not destroy yourselves\u201d (4:29)\u2013but it leaves many loop holes large enough to fly a 767 through: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Let those who would exchange the life of this world for the hereafter, fight for the cause of God; whoever fights for the cause of God, whether he dies or triumphs, We shall richly reward him\u2026.The true believers fight for the cause of God, but the infidels fight for the devil, Fight then against the friends of Satan\u2026.Say: \u201cTrifling are the pleasures of this life. The Hereafter is better for those who would keep from evil\u2026.\u201d (Koran 4:74-78). (pp. 33-34).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> It is mind-boggling how one can construe the statement \u201cexchange this life for the Hereafter\u201d to mean to commit suicide. Were those men of <\/span>WW II<\/span> who were exhorted by their leaders to fight for their country or in defense of freedom \u2013to \u201cexchange\u201d their life of civilian to that of soldier facing almost certain death\u2013called to commit suicide? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Doubtlessly, the Allied soldiers were\/are viewed as fighting for \u201cgood\u201d and the German soldiers as fighting for \u201cevil.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Allied soldiers, whether alive or dead, to this day are glorified for their sacrifices against the force of \u201cevil\u201d to preserve freedom. There is no difficulty if the soldiers of All\u0101h, whether alive or dead, are rewarded for their sacrifices against the force of \u201cevil\u201d to preserve freedom. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u201cTrifling are the pleasures of this life. The Hereafter is better for those who would keep from evil\u2026.\u201d Isn\u2019t this life and all its glitter fleeting? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Qur\u2019anic teaching on suicide does not \u201cleaves many loop holes large enough to fly a 767 through.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is man\u2019s cerebration that has such \u201choles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

4. \u201cIslam does not distinguish between religious and civil authority;\u201d and he notes: \u201cAs many commentators have observed there is no Koranic equivalent of the New Testament line \u201cRender unto Caesar those things that are Caesar\u2019s and render unto God those things that are God\u2019s\u201d (Matt. 22:21). As a result, there appears to be no Islamic basis for the separation of the powers of the church and state. This, needless to say is a problem. <\/span>(Is it more of a problem to have one unit governing or two factions competing against the other \u2013consider the matters of abortion, euthanasia, blood transfusion, polygamy, etc; that pits state against Church).<\/i> (p. 34; and p. 241 note 15).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> (As noted further on). If Islam had intended a separation between Masjid\/Mosque and State, the Prophet would have instituted this. While knowledge may be grouped into two classes\u2013spiritual and material\u2013in Islam there is no secular knowledge: all knowledge is from Allah, God. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus may have said \u201cRender unto Caesar the things which are Caesar\u2019s and unto God the things which are God\u2019s\u201d\u2013(Matt. 22:17). But it is a mistake to believe that Jesus was advocating a separation of Church and State. As the context shows (vv. 19-20), Jesus was exercising justice. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It would have been interesting to note Jesus\u2019 response if someone had said to him that since God is the Creator of all things, even the coin bearing Caesar\u2019s head and the metal from which the coin was minted belong to God. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is hardly credible that if Jesus was ruler that he would have established a two-state system, and have another set of laws independent from that of God\u2019s; rather than govern by the Ten Commandments as he was required by God to judge.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (If Jesus was lording America, or anyplace else, for certain he would employ the Biblical laws: killing homosexuals\u2013(Lev. 20:13); apostates\u2013(Deut. 13:5-16; 17:2-5); witches\u2013(Exodus 22:18); adulterers \u2013(Lev. 20:10-12; Deut. 22:22; John 8:3-5); stubborn and rebellious sons\u2013(Deut. 21:18-21; one who curses his mother or father\u2013(Lev. 20:9); one who takes a wife and her mother\u2013(Lev. 20:14); one who messes with an animal\u2013(Lev. 20:15-16); the blasphemer \u2013(Lev. 24:11-16, 23); brides without tokens of virginity\u2013(Deut. 22:20-21); the engaged virgin who messes with another man\u2013(Deut. 22:23-24); and he would have enslaved heathens\u2013(Lev. 25:44-46).<\/span><\/p>\n

And, given its history, if the Church was lording America, or any place else, it would have done the same.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

4A. \u201cAs Bernard Lewis observes, since the time of the Prophet, Islam has been \u201cassociated in the minds and memories of Muslims with the exercise of political and military power.\u201d\u201d (p. 34). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> As stated, Muslims do not have to secure lands for All\u0101h: the heavens and the earth already belong to All\u0101h. There is no militancy in Islam, there is no passivity either. The only militancy in Islam is that of self-defense or in aid of others to end injustice. Islamic power is spread through missionizing \u2013with the Qur\u2019an not the sword\u2013 and whatever lands come under its domain through the people \u201creverting\u201d to Islam is acquired through peace and justice. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If Islam had counseled or if \u201cIslam has been \u201cassociated in the minds and memories of Muslims with the exercise of political and military power,\u201d Muslims would not have devoted all their effort to the pursuit of knowledge and science for the benefit of all men and opened these doors of learning to students irrespective of race and religion and for free; they would have directed a portion, and probably a significant portion, of their endeavors to the development of devices of destruction and subjugation. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h exhorting Muslims to have military preparedness\u2013(<\/span>Qur\u2019an; 3:199; 8:60) is not for offense\/aggression but for defense. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Islam which teaches that the Prophet\u2019s \u201cduty is only to deliver the message;\u201d \u201cThere is no compulsion in religion,\u201d \u201cAnd if thy Lord had pleased, all those who are in the earth would have believed, all of them. Wilt thou then force men till they are believers?<\/i>\u201d \u201cthou art not one to compel them. So remind by means of the Qur\u2019an,\u201d \u201cWe have truly shown him (man) the way; he may be thankful or unthankful,\u201d \u201cCall to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in the best manner\u201d\u2013<\/i>(Qur\u2019an 3:20; 24:54; 2:256; 10:99-100; 50:45; 76:3; 16:125); could not be the religion that calls Muslims to \u201cthe exercise of political and military power.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Neither could this Islam be guilty of religious intolerance or subjugation of non-Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 In contrast, it is Christianity that has been “associated in the minds and memories of” Christians “with the exercise of political and military power” as Jesus taught: “He that is not with me is against me<\/span> (though a person can be neutral);” “Those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me”<\/span> (though these enemies might not militate against him)-(Matthew 12:30; Luke 19:27). Perhaps these are the verses that inspired the murderous Crusades against Muslims and Jews and which tied the Vatican’s tongue while Christian Europe was “holocausting” Jews. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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5. The metaphysics of Islam are particularly inauspicious where tolerance and religious diversity are concerned, for martyrdom is the only way that a Muslim can bypass the painful litigation that awaits us all on the Day of Judgment and proceed directly to paradise. Rather than spend centuries moldering in the earth in anticipation <\/span>(the dead knows nothing and cannot anticipate, and also has no concept of time: it would be as if he slept only a moment or two; if all evidence of time was removed after you went to sleep, when you awake you will have no knowledge of how long you slept) <\/span><\/i>of being resurrected and subsequently interrogated by wrathful angels, the martyr is immediately transported to All\u0101h\u2019s Garden, where a flock of \u201cdark-eyed\u201d virgins awaits him.\u201d<\/span>(p. 34).<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> In the earthly domain, diplomatic and security personnel \u2013due to their having certain qualifications \u2013 not only have access to areas forbidden to others (who would be subjected to vigorous examination\/ investigation) but are also immune to (at least some) prosecution. There is no problem then if those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the defense of truth and justice are rewarded \u201cimmediately\u201d by All\u0101h. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As to the \u201cflock of \u201cdark-eyed\u201d virgins\u201d awaiting the Muslim martyr (and wouldn\u2019t these \u201cvirgins\u201d enjoy the men?) this sure beats sitting around reading past-time stories and watching lions strip hay and swallow apples; or touring the universe for billions of years only to return to earth to become amoebas and plants and dogs and cats and pigs and worms etc, again \u2013ad infinitum<\/i>!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wonder how many would like to be with these Muslim men and \u201cvirgins\u201d instead? Take a poll will you, please!<\/span><\/p>\n

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6. \u201cThe rioting in Nigeria over the 2002 Miss Pageant claimed over two hundred lives; innocent men and women were butchered with machetes or burned alive simply to keep that troubled place free of women in bikinis.\u201d <\/span>(Never mind the bikinis in Nigeria. Turkey and France have passed laws to keep Muslim women from wearing a piece of cloth on their heads.<\/span> And Britain was tripping over its shadows to prevent Muslim women from veiling their faces \u2013they are to dress as the English. This is hilarious! The British was in India for a hundred years, let Tony Blair tell how many English men wore dhoti and kurta<\/span> and how many English women wore sari and lenghas and shalwar kameez<\/span>. The British was also in the Middle East, let Blair tell how many wore the Arab jubbah and kefayyah. <\/span>Isn\u2019t this hypocritical?).<\/i> (p. 46).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> This rioting in Nigeria was not because of the pageant or to keep the \u201cplace free of women in bikinis;\u201d but because of the speculation by one paper that the Prophet Mohammad \u201cwould likely\u201d have taken one of the beauty contestants as \u201chis wife.\u201d Though this is no justification to riot. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Regardless of our \u201creligious sensibilities\u201d it is disgraceful that critics and revilers of Islam are threatened or harmed or killed: they are to be educated. Islam, the religion of reason, arguments, and examples does not seek to silence voices: Islam seeks to enhance mentality: \u201cCall to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in the best manner\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 16:125). \u2018The superiority of the learned scholar over the pious worshipper is as the superiority of the (full) moon over the stars\u2019\u2013(Prophet Mohammad). <\/span><\/p>\n

One who does not agree with the views of the other must take to the podium or take up the pen: this is the civilized and the intelligent approach. Only he who has no intelligent response in a matter would attack the messenger, physically or verbally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0There is no charge against All\u0101h, the Prophet, the Qur\u2019an and Islam that is not refutable. The \u201cperfected\u201d Divine system cannot be \u201cinsulted.\u201d Nor is there anything in the \u201cperfected\u201d Divine system for which to apologize. It\u2019s perfect!).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 As stated, t<\/span>his rioting in Nigeria was not because of the pageant or to keep the \u201cplace free of women in bikinis;\u201d but because of the speculation by one paper that the Prophet Mohammad \u201cwould likely\u201d have taken one of the beauty contestant as \u201chis wife.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That She is of the same essence as man, is a garment unto man as he is a garment unto her and has the same rights on him as he has on her, that she has three degrees of excellence over man \u2013having carried man for nine months, gave birth to him, and nursed him\u2013 and is the symbol of purity and the gateway to Paradise, is the most highly decorated crown Woman can have. Thus:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Mohammad would not only have <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0been capable enough to husband <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0a World Beauty Contestant,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0he would have rendered to her <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0the supreme and invaluable service <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0of robing her a Muslim.<\/span><\/p>\n

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7. (In March 2002), \u201cthe religious police in Mecca prevented paramedics and firefighters from rescuing scores of teenage girls trapped in a burning building. Why? Because the girls were not wearing the traditional head covering that Koranic law requires. Fourteen girls died in the fire; fifty were injured. Should Mus-lims really be free to believe that the Creator of the universe is concerned about hemlines?\u201d (p. 46). <\/span><\/p>\n

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Response<\/span> It is not Islam that caused the deaths and injuries of these students: it was ignorance of Islam (or stupidity). Since to save his\/her life a Muslim under compulsion can deny the existence of All\u0101h\u2013(Qur\u2019an 16:106); which is the worst of all sins, then in order to save his\/her life in any other situation he\/she can forego any other law of Islam.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even without this injunction of the Qur\u2019an, reason would dictate that as life is the first and the most sacred gift and as the preservation of it merits the highest honor, all consequences are subjugated to the saving of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, All\u0101h is \u201cconcerned about hemlines\u201d and other aspects of our life, for our social, moral, intellectual and spiritual excellence; but not at the senseless cost of our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Isn\u2019t \u201cdemocracy\u201d also \u201cconcerned about hemlines\u201d in its various shapes and also of other matters \u2013if not why is one not allowed public nudity, prostitution, intoxicants, marijuana\u2026\u2026..? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 It is without doubt that self-respecting parents maintain for themselves, and set dress codes\u2013\u201chemlines\u201d\u2013for their children. Do you not set guidelines (“hemlines”) for the dignified upbringing of your children?<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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8. \u201cAnti-Semitism is intrinsic to both Christianity and Islam; both traditions consider the Jews to be bunglers of God\u2019s initial revelation\u2026Whatever the context, the hatred of Jews remains a product of faith: Christian, Muslim, as well as Jewish.\u201d (pp. 92-93). <\/span>(This may be so in Christianity and Judaism but not in Islam).<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> In His Qur\u2019an All\u0101h recounts the history of the Jews. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h says that a community of Jews was turned into apes for their violating the Sabbath; and that the majority of Jews are faithless, treacherous, and transgressors\u2013(Qur\u2019an 7:166; 2:100; 5:13; 5:81). All\u0101h also says that He chose Jews above other nations (Qur\u2019an 44:32; 45:16), made them excel the nations (2:122), and made them inheritors of land [not to be confused with modern Palestine] (7:137). So where is the problem, why is the part of the Qur\u2019an exposing the iniquity of the Jews deemed as \u201cAnti-Semitism.\u201d Why is there no thunderous applause over the part that honored Jews? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0 Truth is not \u201chatred!\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Truth is not \u201canti-Semitic\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Truth is not \u201canti-Israel!\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Truth is not \u201canti-Jew!\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Truth is not \u201canti-Zionism!\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Truth is truth!<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If \u201ctruth\u201d is \u201canti-Semitism\u201d and \u201chatred\u201d then the \u201cholocaust\u201d memorials are to be obliterated for being \u201canti-Nazism\u201d and \u201chatred\u201d against Hitler and Germans. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If \u201ctruth\u201d is \u201canti-Semitism\u201d and \u201chatred\u201d then our yearly serving of The Ten Commandments<\/i> and the occasional dose of the \u201cholocaust\u201d movies (as well as the \u201cholocaust\u201d sob stories saturating the newsprint) are to be fed to the cats as being \u201canti-Arabism\u201d and \u201canti-Nazism,\u201d and \u201chatred\u201d against Egyptians and Germans, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If \u201ctruth\u201d is \u201canti-Semitism\u201d and \u201chatred\u201d against Jews then the Bible\u2013The Old Testament and the New\u2013and the Qur\u2019an would need to be outlawed. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Regarding the charge of Muslim and Christian \u201canti-Semitism.\u201d Ismail Zayid notes in his booklet Palestine<\/i>\u2013A Stolen Heritage<\/i> (p. 21): <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAbhorrent as antisemitism is, the most ruthless exploitation of it has been made by Zionists to achieve their aims. An example that is revealed in an editorial article in Davar<\/i>, the official newspaper of the governing Israeli Labour Party\u00a0<\/i>(Mapai). Editor Sharun wrote: \u201cI shall not be ashamed to confess that if I had the power, as I have the will, I would select a score of efficient young men \u2013intelligent, decent, devoted to our ideal and burning with desire to help redeem Jews\u2013 and I would send them to the countries where Jews are absorbed in sinful self-satisfaction. The task of these young men would be to disguise themselves as non-Jews, and, acting upon the brutal Zionism, plague these Jews with anti-semitic slogans, such as \u2018Bloody Jew,\u2019 \u2018Jews go to Palestine,\u2019 and similar \u2018intimacies.\u2019 I can vouch that the results, in terms of a considerable immigration to Israel from these countries, would be ten thousand times larger than the results brought by thousands of emissaries who have been, for decades, preaching to deaf ears.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Another effective method of exploitation of the world\u2019s repugnance to antisemitism, is its utilisation by Israelis and Zionists, to silence any criticism to Israeli policies by well-informed writers and politicians who will inevitably find the offensive charge of antisemitism thrown at them. Many distinguished and honorable men like Arnold Toynbee and even Jews like Rabbi Elmer Berger have been called \u2018antisemites\u2019 by Zionists, but were able, with moral courage, to withstand this offensive charge by which many lesser mortals were cowed.\u201d1<\/span><\/sup> (More on this later). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Those who make a charge of \u201canti-Semitism\u201d must prove that they are descendants of Shem \u2013one of the three sons of Noah\u2013 and also a descendant from one of the Twelve Tribes of Jacob\/Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Those who make a charge of \u201chatred against Jews\u201d must define who or what a Jew is. [A Muslim is one who professes that There is no God but All\u0101h; Mohammad is the Messenger of All\u0101h<\/i>].<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 A mentality that expects its virtue to be extolled and its vice suppressed is a mentality that needs to develop dignity and maturity.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 On the matter of \u201cAnti-Semitism.\u201d Semites (more correctly Shemites<\/i>) are the descendants of Shem, one of Noah\u2019s three sons. Can those who claim to be Semites <\/i>prove that they are descendants of Shem? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From the very beginning there were \u201cinter-breeding\u201d in the Jewish tent. Abraham left Haran (which is in eastern Turkey) at the age of seventy-five\u2013(Gen. 12:4. Haran could not be named after Abraham\u2019s brother, Haran, Haran lived and died in Ur\/Iraq\u2013Gen. 11:28). At his age of one hundred, Isaac was born, in Gerar (in Canaan\/Palestine)\u2013(Gen. 20:2; 21:5). Isaac, the lineage through which Judaism emerged, took Rebecca, a Syrian, for wife\u2013these Syrians, contrary to popular view, could not have been Semites; Shem\u2019s descendants went east; and Canaan is west from where the Ark rested, even if we accept that it rested on Ararat rather than on Judi\u2013(Qur\u2019an 11:44). Also, if Abraham was the first Semites in Canaan, Rebecca, who must have been born around the same time as Isaac, would have to be non-Semite. Thus, the only mates available for wives for Isaac would be non-Semites. And their offspring would consist of non-Semite genes. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Isaac, at the age of sixty, was given two sons, Esau and Jacob (who would have non-Semite genes, on account of their mother, Rebecca, a Syrian)\u2013(Gen. 25:20, 26). Thus, in sixty years Abra-ham\u2019s family circle increased by only three\u2013his daughter-in-law and two grandsons, (not counting Ishmael who was in Paran\/ Arabia). If Abraham was the only Semites in Canaan, unless tribes from Shem came to Canaan, there were no Semitic women for Jacob and Esau to take for wives, and Jacob and Esau\u2019s off-spring\u2019s would consist of non-Semitic genes. (While Lot came with Abraham to Sodom and Gomorrah. After the destruction of these two cities, Lot stayed back where he fathered, through his daughters, the Moabite and Ammonite tribes\u2013Gen. 19:29-38. If the Moabites and Ammonites, who were Semites, had migrated north to where Abraham was, they would not be termed Canaan-ites or Syrians). <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Isaac sent Jacob to Haran<\/i> (in Turkey), not to Shem\u2019s Semitic tribes, to find a wife\u2013(Gen. 28:1, 10; 29:1-4). As noted Shem\u2019s lineage went east, towards Yemen. Jacob, through whom the Twelve Tribes of Israel were established, married Rachel and Leah, daughters of Laban, a Syrian<\/i>, who was also his (Jacob\u2019s) mother\u2019s brother\u2013(Gen. 28:5; 29:10-35). Like his mother, Rebecca, Jacob\u2019s wives, clearly, were also non-Semites. These eight sons borne by Leah and Rachel\u2013Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zabulon; and Joseph and Benjamin, respectively, were not of pure Isaaic\/Jewish genes. This would make these eight, of the total twelve founders of the Tribes of Israel, to be of mixed genes. (Gen. 29:32-35; 30:17-20; 30:22-24; 35:16-18). But the matter does not end here.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jacobs\u2019 wives, Rachel and Leah, gave their respective handmaids, Bilhah and Zilpah, to Jacob to raise children\u2013(Gen. 30:1-9). These handmaids, Bilhah and Zilpah, were \u201cslave-girls\u201d. These \u201cslave-girls\u201d originally belonged to Rachel\u2019s and Leah\u2019s father, Laban, the Syrian\u2013(Gen. 29:24, 29). It would seem obvious that these handmaids\/\u201dslave-girls\u201d were also non-Semite. These handmaids, Bilhah and Zilpah, each bore Jacob two sons\u2013Dan and Naphtali, and Gad and Asher, respectively\u2013(Gen. 30:3-13). And three of these sons born of these two hand-maids were also founders of tribes of Israel\u2013Dan was not a founder of a tribe. Joseph\u2019s son, Manasseh, was founder of a tribe, making up the total twelve tribes. There is differing view as to whether Joseph was a founder or his other son, Ephraim was. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Thus we have Jacob\u2019s eight sons from his Syrian wives, plus three of his sons from his wives\u2019 handmaids and his grandson, Manasseh, making up the twelve founders of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, all being of non-Jewish (non-Isaaic) genes. (And if these early Syrians were non-Semites, which would seem to be the case, these twelve sons would have non-Jewish genes in their mix.). And the twelve Tribes have not yet officially been design-ated as such; and this some two thousand years before Christ. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Again, the Bible tells us that Simeon married a Canaanitish woman (who likely was non-Semite)\u2013(Gen. 46:10), and that Joseph married the Egyptian, Asenath, daughter of Potiphar, and had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim\u2013(Gen. 41:45, 50-52). Simeon, Joseph and Manasseh were all founders of tribes of Israel. If children are joined by their mothers only, children born to these wives would be out of the tent of \u201cChildren of Israel,\u201d on account of Simeon\u2019s wife being Canaanitish, Asenath being Egyptian, and Manasseh being of a non-Jewish mother. Even if Manasseh\u2019s wife was Jewish, his children and future descendants would not be \u201cpure\u201d Jewish, he being, in the first place, of mixed birth. Even if children are joined by either parent, there would still be the case of the non-Jewish genes in their make-up. Which brings us to Judah, one of Jacob\u2019s twelve sons, and the one from which Judaism and the term \u201cJew\u201d emerged.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Judah was married to a Canaanite woman, who bore him three sons, two of whom died; and his daughter-in-law, Tamar, who also must have been Canaanite, bore Judah two sons\u2013(Gen. 38:2; 11-30). Thus even Judah\u2019s descendants are not of pure \u201cJewish\u201d genes. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Even if we take these twelve children of Jacob to be the base of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, regardless of the ethnicity of his wives and handmaids, there was still the possibility of the \u201cpurity\u201d of these tribes being mixed with non-Jewish genes, through intermarriages among the tribes; on account of Simeon\u2019s wife being Cannanitish, and Joseph\u2019s being Egyptian, and Ma-nasseh having Egyptian genes in his make-up. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Intermarriage between tribes did not seem to be taboo \u2013we have Abraham having married his half-sister, Sarah\u2013(Gen. 20:12); Amram, Moses\u2019 father, having married his father\u2019s sister \u2013(Ex. 6:20); and Rehoboam, Solomon\u2019s son, having taken the daughter of David\u2019s son as wife\u2013(2 Chr. 11:18). (We even have Esau, Isaac\u2019s other son, marrying his uncle, Ishmael\u2019s, daughter, Mahalath\u2013(Gen. 28:9). With such intermarriages among the members of these tribes, and considering that the total members of the tribes were few\u2013at the time of his journey to reunite with Joseph, Jacob had only about seventy members in his family circle, excluding his daughters-in-law\u2013(Gen. 46:27)\u2013it would not take much for the entire family of the first hundred years, to be completely of mixed genes. By the time Moses appeared on the scene\u2013(14th\u201313th century B.C.)\u2013the \u201cpurity\u201d of the twelve tribes of Israel may already have been on its journey to extinction. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 History notes that around 930 B.C., the tribe of Ephraim, after successfully leading the ten northern tribes of Israel against the south, and reigning; the kingdom was conquered by the Assy-rians in 721 B. C., which led to the \u201ceventual disappearance\u201d of these ten tribes\u2013the tribe of Ephraim and the nine others\u2013(Ency. Brit<\/i>. 15th<\/sup> Ed; Vol. III, Ephraim, tribe of<\/i>, p. 919). Having lost their identity and dispersed among other peoples, it is possible that the \u201cpure\u201d Jewish genes, what was there of it, was further diluted through this intermixing. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 During their bondage, Pharaoh killed the Jewish sons and let their daughters live\u2013(Exod. 1:15-22; Qur\u2019an 2:49). It is probable that Jewish women were violated during their term of servitude, by their Egyptian \u201ctask-masters.\u201d Even during and after their liberation from Pharaoh, diluting of the \u201cpure\u201d Jewish genes took place. The Bible tells us that Moses, a Levite, married non-Jewish women\u2013a Midianite, Zipporah, who bore him two sons; and to an Ethiopian (Exodus 2:16, 21-22; 4:22; 18:2-4; and Numbers 12:1; respectively).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Even King David, who came from the house of Judah, may not have been of \u201cpure\u201d Jewish genes on account of his ancestors, Isaac, Jacob and Judah, all having had wives outside of the Abrahamic tent. David himself had sons from \u201cconcubines\u201d\u2013(1 Chr. 3: 9). The Bible tells us that David married Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, a Hittite; and she bore him (king) Solomon\u2013(2 Samuel. 11:1-5; 27; 12:24). Though Bathsheba\u2019s nationality is not given, it is reasonable to assume that she, like her husband, was also Hittite\u2013an \u201cIndo European\u201d race. Thus Solomon also may not have been of \u201cpure\u201d Jewish genes. Adding to the already diluted pool of Jewish \u201cpure\u201d genes. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Again, Solomon \u201cloved many strange<\/i><\/strong> women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;\u201d \u201che had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines\u201d\u2013(1 Kings 11:1-3); one of whom was Sheba, of Ethiopian heritage. We read of Rehoboam, Solomon\u2019s son, having eighteen wives and sixty concubines\u2013twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters\u2013(2 Chron. 11:21). Were all these wives and concubines Jewish; and of \u201cpure\u201d Jewish genes? Was it allowable that Jewish women be taken as concubines? Or were these concubines non-Jewish captives of war, (or women taken, as Solomon had taken)?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apart from their bondage by Pharaoh (for some three hundred years?), in which their sons were killed and daughters spared, it is also a fact that Jerusalem was destroyed twice\u2013by the Babylonians and the Romans, respectively. It is doubtful that Jewish daughters were not violated during these times of bondage and captivity. Resulting once again in outside genes entering into the pool of already mixed Jewish genes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Then there were the Israelites, David\u2019s two wives among them, that were taken and held captives by the Amalekites (whose origin is unknown) for at least three days, before they were freed by the Israelites\u2013(1 Samuel 30:1-18). It is doubtful that in these three days these daughters of Israel were not violated by their captors, who were, most likely, non-Semites. Which violation may have resulted in some captives having issues. Which children may, in all likelihood, have intermarried with other members of the Israelite community. Plus, Jews being \u201cscatter(ed) among the heathen, and disperse(d)\u201d in the countries\u2013(Ezekiel 22:15), which may have generated more inter-racial marriages. By the time Jesus appeared Jewish \u201cpure\u201d blood was already on its slide into extinction. If not already extinct. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 In short, with the founding Fathers\u2019 marriages possibly to non-Jewish women, certain leaders\u2019 marriages with non-Jewish women and their many concubines, the possible violation of Jewish women at certain times in their history and marriage to those with mixed genes, and their dispersal, it could hardly be denied that very few, if any, of the pure descendants of Jacob are in existence today. Perhaps it is because of this it is stated: \u201cCitizens of the State of Israel are called Israelis, a term carrying no ethnological or religious connotations.\u201d(Ency Brit<\/i>. 15th<\/sup> Edn., Vol. V, p. 552).<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Which brings us to: Arthur Koestler in his book, The Thirteenth Tribe,<\/i> theorized, convincingly so, that present day World Jewry may be the descendants of the Khazar \u2013an eighth century Turkish tribe\u2013 that converted to Judaism. Though his attempt to follow the history of the Khazar Empire is based on insufficient available materials, Koestler has endeavored to show that anthropological evidence agrees with history in negating the accepted belief in a Jewish race of Biblical lineage; he also points out that the large majority of existing Jews is of \u201cEastern European\u201d ancestry. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If there is no Biblical Jew, i.e.<\/i> no Semitic Jewish race, the term \u201canti-Semitism\u201d would be meaningless. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0To make a charge of anti-Semitism,<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0it must be proven that there are Semites. <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0It must be shown that those who make the charge <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0of anti-Semitism are descendants of the<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0twelve tribes of the prophet Jacob.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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As the horn of history unclogs, she may clearly sound the seemingly muffled truth that Biblically there is no Jew.<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

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9. \u201cContemporary Muslim anti-Semitism is heavily indebted to its Christian counterpart. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion<\/i>, a Russian anti-Semitic forgery that is the source of most conspiracy theories relating to the Jews, is now considered an autho-ritative text in the Arab-speaking world.\u201d (p. 93).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> The Islamic Post<\/i>, International Edition, January 2007; in its article Zionism, The Media, and World Control (<\/i>pp. A3, 7) notes: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 (1) \u201cNot a single announcement will reach the public without our control.\u2013(Excerpted from the Protocols of the learned Elders of Zion\u201d).<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (2) \u201cLiterature and journalism are two of the most educative forces, and therefore our government will become proprietor \u00a0of the journals.\u201d\u2013(Excerpted from the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion).\u201d <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 (3) \u201cAlready now, we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the Goy (non-Jewish) communities, to such an extent that they all come near looking upon events of the world through the colored glasses of those spectacles we are setting astride their noses.\u2013(Excerpted from the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion).\u201d <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

And former so-called \u201cIsraeli\u201d Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, said to Shimon Peres:<\/span> \u201cEvery time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that\u2026.I want to tell you something very clear; don\u2019t worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0<\/i> (Would be interesting to know the proud American public\u2019s thoughts about the little Jewish tail prickling the great American eagle).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Those who claim that there is a Jewish plot to control the world must provide their proof(s) or be exposed as liars. Such control may be effected in either or all of four forms: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (1) physical control<\/i>\u2013as with a military presence; <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (2) mental<\/i> control<\/i>\u2013as in regulating what is read, seen or taught: controlling thoughts through media outlets. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(<\/span><\/i>This is why, for the preservation of truth and justice, it is imperative that the media is not allowed to be monopolized or controlled by any one individual, group or company. Care should also be taken to ensure that information is not dependent upon reporters who might be biased. <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In his book, Pirates And Emperors\u2013Old and New International Terrorism in the Real World<\/i>, Professor Noam Chomsky has given an insight into this method of control, and its effective use in the U.S., see chapter one: Thought Control: The Case of the Middle East). \u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (3) governmental control<\/i>\u2013as in dictating the policy of the government. As the government is made up of a number of members, this control can be effected by lobbying individuals, through benefit or friendship, to vote in a certain manner. This could have the effect of a policy acting against the interest of the host country\u2013it would not be unusual for members of a government to act in favor of one\u2019s own monetary or partisanship interest instead of his nation\u2019s interest. Perhaps there are instances of leaders having looted the national treasury.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (4) economic control<\/i>\u2013as in owning businesses and corporations in a country. Having control of the economy can be used as a leverage to influence\/threaten the government \u2013mass unemployment caused by closing down of companies can be disastrous for a government\/country. Also making large gifts\/donations to a country can facilitate the donor having influence in the country. As well, loaning money to countries could allow the loaner to dictate policies of the country; enabling him to have control of the country. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 That there is a Jewish conspiracy to control the world is a matter that should not be too difficult to resolve. An international team of impartial investigators can, going back to, say, the last hundred and fifty years to the present, scrutinize all the major conflicts throughout the world to see who instigated these conflicts and\/or who stood to benefit from them and in what form; as well as investigate the various governments of the world to learn what influence Jews have in these governments, if any, and the nature of these influences. As well as investigate the news media, if they are biased or practice censorship of any party. This should be able to confirm or debunk the claim that there is a \u201cJewish conspiracy\u201d to control the world.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This would also vindicate or verify whether The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion<\/i> is forgery or fact.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 Is The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion<\/i> a forgery? You decide.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 (Edward Said and Ismail Zayid have noted in their respective book The Question of Palestine<\/i> and Palestine\u2013A Stolen Heritage<\/i>) statements by Jews expressing their intention on how to wrestle Palestine from the Palestinians, as well as their accomplishment in doing so. It is not incredible then that there should be a writing detailing Jewish intention to \u201csubvert world events,\u201d to use the words of Rabbi Dow Marmur, and\/or control the minds of the people. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Protocols<\/i> is said to state as noted above: \u201cLiterature and journalism are two of the most educative forces, and therefore our government will become proprietor of the journals.\u201d <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 While at that time (1895-1905) there was no Jewish state and thus no \u201cour [Jewish] government\u201d to \u201cbecome proprietor of the journals\u201d<\/i> does not mean that there may not then have been a Jewish influence in \u201cLiterature and journalism.\u201d<\/i> Edward Said has noted in his book above statements from writers (even one from a Bishop of Salisbury) denigrating Palestinians\/Arabs and their ill-usage of the land of Palestine and that Palestine would be better served under Jews. Which writings may have been instrumented by Jews and which writings may have impressed upon minds in Europe and America, thus setting the stage for the dismembering of Palestine. (It is rather incredible that the vitriolic vituperative spewed on Palestinians in their own land predicated by Jewish demands for a homeland in Palestine would be a convenient coincidence). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Perhaps an impartial investigation can corroborate or debunk this hypothesis. Surely if slavers kept records of their slaves which would facilitate African-American Alex Hailey to trace his roots all the way back to Gambia, and if Hitler would keep records of those he sought to annihilate (?) then surely the archives of \u201ccivilized\u201d Europe and America must have records of the minds\/memoirs of their intellectuals). <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The<\/i> Protocols<\/i> is said to have been formulated between the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. If The Protocols<\/i> is a forgery it would seem to be a rather clumsy one, for it states as noted above:\u00a0 \u201cAlready now, we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the Goy (non-Jewish) communities, to such an extent that they all come near looking upon events of the world through the colored glasses of\u00a0\u00a0 those spectacles we are setting astride their noses.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The Protocols<\/i> could not say that Jews have already possessed to some extent the minds of non-Jews and controlling their thoughts if it wasn\u2019t so, and could have easily beendisproved.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Jews had such high influence since back then that the British government had to dangle the carrot of statehood in front of \u201cLord Rothschild, a British Jew and banker\u201d in 1917 to keep Russia on Britain\u2019s side in the war. See Ismail Zayid Palestine\u2013A Stolen Heritage<\/i>). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>If The<\/i> Protocols <\/i>is a \u201cforgery\u201d the forger(s) and whoever tried to palm it off as fact would have been the butt of the joke. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Either I missed something or the forger(s) should have been shepherded off to Siberia. With those who rubber stamped it \u201cauthentic\u201d close behind.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 As noted above, former so-called \u201cIsraeli\u201d Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, said to Shimon Peres: \u201c\u2026we, the Jewish people control America\u2026.\u201d <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 In his revealing book The Question of Palestine Edward<\/i> Said notes, regarding the \u201cinsoluble-appearing problems\u201d between Palestinians and Jews, that:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA perfect opportunity for change was at hand when the Soviet Union and the United States issued their joint declaration on October 1, 1977. The notable thing about the declaration was that it spoke of Palestinian rights (and not merely interests) as something to be discussed in any final, peaceful settlement of the Middle Eastern problem. The chorus of abuse and hysteria <\/span><\/i>greeting that declaration from organized Jewish opinion <\/span><\/i>was dis-heartening. <\/span>Not only was the domestic Jewish-American reaction abusive, it was proudly so, as Jewish leaders boasted of having inundated the White House with thousands of letters and phone calls. <\/span><\/i>The intended lesson was that any perceived threat to Israel (and any perceived deviation from an expected U.S. government line of unconditional acceptance of everything done by Israel) <\/span><\/i>would totally mobilize every Jew and every Israeli supporter against the administration. The meaning of such intimidation is to keep the Middle East as a domestic, and not merely a foreign policy, issue. The other meaning, however, is that it is easy to mobilize people on the basis of fear.<\/i>\u201d<\/i><\/strong> (p. 50. Italics\/emphasis\/\u201cred\u201d color added). <\/span><\/p>\n

(The Middle East cannot be a \u201cdomestic\u201d policy when it was the international community that created this Middle East mess).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Some might cerebrate that this manipulating of the White House is a form of Jewish \u201ccontrol.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Given that the US is the most powerful nation on earth and can hold sway over other nations (at least over some and to some degree) \u2013as was demonstrated in 1948, bringing \u201cpressure\u201d and \u201ccoercion and duress\u201d on certain non-Muslim nations to effect the partition of Palestine; and considering that the US is more powerful now than in 1948\u2013 <\/span>and given as Ariel Sharon \u2013head of the Jewish state and of all people would know the machinations of the state\u2013 said that \u201cthe Jewish people control America\u201d<\/i> then one might be correct in saying that Jews indirectly (i.e.<\/i> through the US) are controlling, or can control, the world (to these degrees). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 However, if Sam Harris knew that if it was a fact that Jews were controlling or planning to control the world would he have stated it? (See RABBI MARMUR & FAROUK<\/span>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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10. \u201cThe gravity of Jewish suffering over the ages, culminating in the Holocaust, makes it almost impossible <\/span>(but not fully impossible)<\/i> to entertain any suggestion that Jews might have brought their troubles upon themselves. This is, however, in a rather narrow sense, the truth.\u201d (p. 93).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> Was the \u201cHolocaust\u201d a Jewish orchestration? <\/span><\/p>\n

By their own pronouncements18<\/span><\/sup> Jewish objective was\/is to depopulate Palestine of the native Palestinians and populate it with alien Jews. (See PALESTINE). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 For a party to have a legitimate claim to establish a state of their own in a country it is necessary that they constitute a sizeable percentage of the population. In 1918 the Jewish population in Palestine was a paltry 56,000 or 8 percent.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Europe had a sizeable Jewish population scattered in various countries, the question is, how to get them to come to Palestine to effect the Jewish state \u201call at once\u201d as Joseph Weitz stressed: <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Zionist enterprise so far, in terms of preparing the ground and paving the way for the creation of the Hebrew State in the land of Israel (? the land of Israel? Sheer arrogance and audacity!)<\/i>,<\/span> has been fine and good in its own time, and could do with \u201cland-buying\u201d\u2013but this will not bring about the State of Israel; that must come all at once.\u201d<\/strong><\/i>19<\/span><\/sup>\u2013<\/span>(See endnote for full quote. The evil scheme of God\u2019s \u201cchosen people\u201d will freeze your blood).<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 In 1895<\/strong> Theodor Herzl wrote of emptying Palestine of native Palestinians into neighboring Arab states.20<\/span><\/sup> From 1918 to 1931 Jewish population increased from 56,00021<\/span><\/sup> to almost 174,600 or 17%<\/strong> of the population; whereas Arabs (Muslims and Christians) in 1931 constituted 851,000 or 83%<\/strong> of the population. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The Second World War was from 1939-1945. Palestine was Partitioned in 1948.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 1940<\/strong> Joseph Weitz echoed Herzl\u2019s scheme to transfer the native Palestinians out of Palestine because \u201conly with such a transfer will the country be able to absorb millions of our brothers, and the Jewish question shall be solved, once and for all.\u201d22 <\/span><\/sup>(Where will these \u201cmillions of our brothers\u201d come from and how will they come so as to\u201csolve\u201d the Jewish question once and for all\u201d?)<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 From 1931 to 1946 Jewish numbers in Palestine increased a whopping nearly 500,000<\/strong>\u2013to 31%<\/strong> of the population, leaving the Palestinians at 69%<\/strong>. This dramatic increase of Jews to Palestine was due to the effort of the Zionists who made every effort to settle illegal refugee Jews<\/strong> fleeing Nazi persecution in Palestine:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Zionists took every action to prevent the settlement \u00a0of the Jewish survivors of the Nazi horrors in America or elsewhere, and, capitalising on the world\u2019s sympathy for the survivors, flooded Palestine with illegal immigrants”23<\/span><\/sup> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 During this period, refugee Jews were refused entry into many western countries, including the U.S. Canada, and Britain. The question is: did these countries refused sanctuary to Jews because of national policy or because of Zionists\u2019 machination in these countries \u2013that may have been eager to solve the West\u2019s \u201cJewish problem\u201d making it the \u201cArab \u201cproblem,\u201d considering that it was the U.S. that was spearheading the rape of Palestine and demanding that Palestine take in 100,000 Jewish refugees\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong>(why didn\u2019t the 100x bigger-than-Palestine US take them in?)<\/span>\u2013 who were desperate to have the refugee Jews settle in Palestine in order to swell Jewish numbers; thus intensifying demand for a Jewish home in Palestine? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Was this flow of European Jews from \u201cNazi horrors\u201d and the Zionists \u201ccapitalizing\u201d on their plight a timely, convenient coin-cidence or carefully planned strategy? <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 As stated, Europe had a sizeable Jewish population scattered in various countries, the question is, how to get these \u201cmillions of our brothers\u201d<\/span> to come to Palestine \u201call at once\u201d<\/span> to solve the Jewish question \u201conce and for all\u201d<\/span>? The answer seemed to have been given by Sharun (see item #8 above for full quote) who is noted as stating that if he could he would <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cselect a score of efficient young men \u2013intelligent, decent, devoted to our ideal and burning with desire to help redeem Jews\u2013 and I would send them to the countries where Jews are absorbed in sinful self-satisfaction. The task of these young men would be to disguise them-selves as non-Jews, and, acting upon the brutal Zionism<\/span><\/i>,<\/i><\/strong> plague these Jews with anti-semitic slogans, such as \u2018Bloody Jew,\u2019 \u2018Jews go to Palestine,\u2019 and similar \u2018inti-macies.\u2019 I can vouch that the results, in terms of a considerable immigration to Israel from these countries<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> would be ten thousand times larger<\/span><\/i> than the results brought by thousands of emissaries who have been,\u00a0 for decades, preaching to deaf ears<\/span><\/i>.\u201d\u201d<\/span> (Italics\/emphasis \u201cred\u201d color added). <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Did someone (or ones) before Sharun had this very scheme in mind and acted upon it to produce the \u201cholocaust\u201d to bring the mass of Jews \u2013the \u201cmillions of our brothers\u201d<\/span>\u2013 to Palestine \u201call at once\u201d<\/span> to solve the Jewish question \u201conce and for all\u201d<\/span>?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As stated, was this flow of European Jews and the Zionists \u201ccapitalizing\u201d on their plight to strengthen demand for a home in Palestine a timely, convenient coincidence or planned strategy? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The following is copied from the Internet page Jews against Zionism<\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cANTI-SEMITISM BY POLITICAL ZIONISM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Although Zionists and others dispute it, the undeniable fact is that revolutionary secular and apostate elements in the Jewish community in Europe contributed greatly to hostility towards Jews after World War I. This aroused hatred of Jews in general among many non-Jews. While a prisoner in 1924 in the fortress of Lansberg on the River Lech, Hitler wrote his Mein Kampf.\u00a0 When he became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he was assisted by Goebbels, Roseberg and Streicher.\u00a0 From them came the declarations, \u201cThe Jews of Germany caused the defeat of Germany in the 1914-1918 war; the Jews of Germany were responsible for the terrible conditions in Germany that followed the war; the Jews of Germany are foreigners and they wish to remain foreigners; they have no loyalty to the country of their birth; they are not human; they are filthy dogs; they have no right to intrude into Germany\u2019s affairs; there are too many Jews in Germany.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(The material on this topic is lengthy and informative. Readers are urged to check out this site on the Internet. The article also notes):<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cRead about the brutal Zionist role in the Holocaust<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Read “The Jews of Iraq<\/span><\/a>” by Naim Giladi, a first hand account of violence and intimidation of Iraqi Jews to leave their homeland.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The writings of Mr. Naim Giladi document in detail what the Zionists did in Baghdad in 1950 to provoke the departure of the Jews to the Zionist state. The Zionists do not care what effect their policies have on the Jewish communities of any country. When they accuse European nations of every sin under the sun, do the Zionists care that this will produce hostility towards Jews? No! Not a bit. On the contrary, as we have discussed, they thrive on such circumstances, clinging to the vain hope that these Jewish communities will rush for the \u201csalvation\u201d of the \u201csafe haven\u201d of the Zionist Paradise where Jews are in constant danger as the Zionist regime undertakes every form of cruel provocation against non-Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Horrifying Accusations of Violence and Intimidation
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\u00a0In more recent times the Zionists have sought every opportunity to encourage Jews to leave their home countries. Anytime there is even the smallest event of hostility toward Jews on the heels of Zionist policy, or if there are signs of economic distress and dislocation, the Zionists magnify it a thousand times, seek to ruthlessly humiliate the nations involved, and agitate for Jews to go to the Zionist state, the so-called \u201cnatural home\u201d of the Jewish People.\u00a0 This has been the case in countries such as France, Argentina, Uruguay, the former Soviet Union and Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Deuteronomy 32:43: Praise his People, O Nations: For he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance against his adversaries and make expiation for his land and his People.\u201d<\/span>23A<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(This verse of Deut. 32:43 in the above quote refers to those nations of the many \u201cites\u201d kingdoms that Joshua would later exterminate. Not to modern nations. As shown in this presentation (See <\/span>JUDAISM,<\/span> also <\/span>PALESTINE, <\/span>and<\/span> RABBI MARMUR & FAROUK<\/span>) the Judaic Law was Divinely decreed to end upon the advent of the Prophet Mohammad. Jews were\/are required to follow the Prophet Mohammad. There is no eschatological Messiah for the Jewish people or a \u201creturn\u201d to the Holy Land. Materials in this presentation have adequately shown that <\/span>Jews salvation lies in them following the Prophet Mohammad\/Islam).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (Curiously enough, whenever anyone speaks against or questions the \u201cholocaust\u201d he is made to shut up; law has even been legislated to this effect. In fact not only law has been enacted to promote acceptance of the \u201cholocaust\u201d but as Professor Noam Chomsky note in his revealing book Pirates and Emperors, Old And New, International Terrorism in the Real World<\/i>, about the treatment meted out to Arab prisoners: \u201cThese included regular exercises of humiliation, such as forcing Araboushim to urinate and excrete on one another and crawl on the ground while they call out \u201cLong Live the State of Israel\u201d or lick the earth; or o<\/span><\/i>n Holocaust day, to write numbers on their own hands<\/span><\/i> \u201cin memory of Jews in the extermination camps.\u201d\u201d (Disgustingly sickening!)<\/span> <\/i>(p. 9. Italics\/emphasis\/color added).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Is \u201cThe gravity of Jewish suffering over the ages, culminating in the Holocaust, makes it almost impossible to entertain any suggestion that Jews might have brought their troubles upon themselves\u201d<\/span>? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seemingly not. It does not seem to be an uncommon practice to perish some members for the greater and long term benefit for the larger community \u2013weren\u2019t Allied soldiers, the majority of them Canadians, of World War II used as sacrificial lambs at Dieppe to snare the German wolf at Normandy for the long term gain for the whole world? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 If the \u201cholocaust\u201d was Divine chastisement, then Jews brought this upon themselves by not keeping their covenant with God (which requires them to follow the Prophet Mohammad. And until and unless they do, more chastisement seems to be ahead\u2013Deut. 18:18-19. Qur\u2019an 7:167). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If the \u201cholocaust\u201d is historical truth and fully documented deniers of it should not be hauled before the judge and thrown in jail; and the sky should not have been brought down on Iran for convening a conference on it:<\/span><\/p>\n

When one is forced to believe and is subjected to Judiciary for denying a thing the truth of such a thing becomes highly suspect. If an event or doctrine is truth there is no necessity to legislate belief in it or to criminalize question or denial of it; proponents and opponents alike must provide proofs of their claim and let the public judge who is truthful and who is liar. To institute a law against denial of a thing is an abomination and an insult to the intellectuals and to all members of society \u2013it may be equated with tyranny; and may be an avenue to other such legislation(s). Laws do not prevent people from being violated: laws can only bring violators to justice; laws do not sanctify or justify a claim: truth does. Forcing people to not speak out only serves to silence voices: it does not change mentality. Such a law may bring more harm than benefit \u2013it may attract more opposition to the \u201ctruth\u201d it professes to protect. It is a monumental disgrace that \u201ccivilized\u201d society would allow such a law to be instituted. Such a law is repugnant to reason. And is to be repealed. Forthwith! Be it history or theology <\/i>Truth stands by itself; Falsehood needs to be propped up!)<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The despots must be having a \u201claugh-a-rama\u201d at this \u201cdemocratic\u201d law: \u2018and they call <\/i>us<\/span> tyrants. Hah!\u2019<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Did Hitler kill \u201csix million\u201d Jews; was the \u201cHolocaust\u201d a German machination or a Jewish orchestration; was it German extermination or Jewish immigration (to bring Jews \u201cen masse\u201d to Palestine to effect statehood); was it a Jewish creation to gain world sympathy for the creation of their own home-land; or to shield the atrocities Jews were committing against Palestinians? In whatever strain it is questioned perhaps the certain way to put to rest whether the \u201cHolocaust\u201d is history or hoax fact or fiction is to have an impartial team made up of multinationals investtigate this matter. And providing them unfettered access to all related materials. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It may be that those who accuse others of being \u201crevisionist\u201d would themselves turn out to be \u201cforgist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Significantly, though Jewish officials deny it, \u201cAmnesty International\u201d has \u201cproduced what it called \u201cindisputable evidence\u201d\u201d that Jews used white phosphorous against the native Palestinians in its lopsided \u201cwar\u201d of 2008\/2009. White phosphorous is a \u201cchemical agent\u201d that \u201c\u201ckeeps burning till it is consumed \u2013complete destruction of the tissues down to the bone.\u201d\u201d24<\/span><\/sup> In this matter of burning, Germans can be said to be more humane with Jews than Jews are\/were with Palestinians in that at least Germans are said to have burned Jewish corpses <\/i>\u2013after they were dead<\/i>\u2013<\/span> compared to Jews burning Palestinians\/Arabs while they are alive<\/i><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (In its publication on Thursday, February 23, 2006, The Toronto Star <\/i>in its \u201cWorth Repeating\u201d column captioned \u201cNeo-Nazis everywhere lose an icon,\u201d commented on the imprisonment of David Irving, for his denial of the \u201cholocaust.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Significantly, the Revised Edition<\/i> (1983) of Menachem Begin\u2019s book The Revolt<\/i> denies the Deir Yassin massacre as \u201cArab\u2026.propaganda,\u201d\u2013even though this massacre was evidenced by the International Red Cross; noted by Britannica <\/i>\u2013probably the world\u2019s most respected documenter of events\u2013 and admitted to by Begin himself, then leader of the Irgun terrorists who committed the massacre. Yet the denier(s) of this massacre was not (as far as is known) <\/i>imprisoned for the denial of this barbaric incident; and branded a \u201cdenier, a racist\u201d and anti-Arab. (It may be submitted that this matter was not pursued. The matter should now be pursued, even in absentia of the individual(s) involved; if only to test the equity of the law). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That one is imprisoned for denying the \u201cholocaust\u201d is an act unworthy of the enlightened twentieth centuries. Man cannot disprove the existence of God, yet he is not incarcerated for his denying God. Why then should man suffer incarceration for denying earthly things\u2013things lower than God? Jesus, who benefited many with his miracles, is not only disbelieved in but is labeled a prac-titioner of \u201cmagic\u201d and a \u201cbastard.\u201d Yet his deniers and accusers are not subject to Judiciary.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The above-mentioned column states that \u201cthe Holocaust laws were intended to prevent the legitimation of mass murder.\u201d (What a maroon! Does this mean that it is permissible to commit murders of a lesser degree than \u201cmass murder\u201d?) If such a law is intended to prevent \u201cmass murder\u201d it has failed miserably in Rwanda and Bosnia and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If one wants to commit \u201cmass murder\u201d of Jews or of any other, no law can prevent it. Laws can only bring perpetrators to justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The article under discussion also stated that David Irving was \u201cbranded\u201d an \u201canti-Semite.\u201d Semites (more correctly Shemites<\/i>) are the descendants of Shem, one of Noah\u2019s three sons. Can those who claim to be Semites <\/i>prove that they are descendants of Shem?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arthur Koestler in his book The Thirteenth Tribe<\/i> theorized, convincingly so, that the Khazar, an eighth century Turkish tribe that converted to Judaism, may be the ascendants of modern World Jewry. Though his attempt to follow the history of the Khazar Empire is based on insufficient available materials, Koestler has endeavored to show that anthropological evidence agrees with his-tory in negating the accepted belief in a current Jewish race of Biblical lineage; he also points out that the large majority of existing Jews is of \u201cEastern European\u201d ancestry. If there is no Biblical Jew, i.e.<\/i> no Semitic Jew-ish race, the term \u201canti-Semitism\u201d would be meaningless. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0To make a charge of anti-Semitism,<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0it must be proven that they are Semites.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Ridiculously (and reminiscent of Galileo and the Church), Pope Benedict XVI, to appease Jewish objection, \u201cordered\u201d Bishop Richard Williamson to recant his \u201cholocaust\u201d belief: \u201c\u201cI believe that the historical evidence is strongly against \u2013is hugely against\u2013 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolph Hitler\u2026I believe there were no gas chambers.\u201d\u201d25 <\/span><\/sup><\/span>(Notably, the Bishop cites \u201chistorical evidence\u201d).<\/span> The Bishop is also reported as saying that \u201conly 200,000 to 300,000 Jews were killed during the war and that none had been gassed.\u201d26<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Reason dictates that rather than try to shut the Bishop up, the civilized and intelligent and democratic approach would be to have the Bishop substantiate his views by producing his<\/i> \u201chistorical evidence,\u201d as well as those who claim that \u201c6 million Jews\u201d were gassed to substantiate their claim by producing their<\/i> \u201chistorical evidence\u201d and let the public decide who is truthful and who is liar. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The future will show if the Bishop will keep on jihading <\/i>for \u201ctruth\u201d or buckle under bullying.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Truth stands by itself; <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Falsehood needs to be propped up!<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding the Jewish objection to Bishop Richard Williamson statement. Jews not only object to statements that are displeasing to them but also object to the erect-ing of business establishment on the site where Jews were said to be killed. Though it is acceptable for them to demolish hundreds of Palestinians villages \u201c\u201cwith their houses, garden-walls, and even cemeteries and tombstones, so that literally a stone does not remain standing, and visitors are passing and being told that \u2018it was all desert;\u2019\u201d\u201d and that \u201cThere is not one place built in this country (Palestine) that did not have a former Arab population.\u201d26A<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 And Jews objected to the US-Soviet Union\u2019s declaration speaking about \u201cPalestinian rights,\u201d as Edward Said notes in his revealing work The Question of Palestine<\/i>: \u201cThe chorus of abuse and hysteria<\/i> greeting that declara-tion from organized Jewish opinion<\/i> was disheartening. <\/span>Not only was the domestic Jewish-American reaction abusive, it was proudly so, as Jewish leaders boasted <\/span>of having inundated the White House with thousands of letters and phone calls.\u201d <\/span><\/i>(Isn\u2019t this bullying? And grown people, and supposedly intelligent, behaving in such a manner? Disgraceful!). <\/span><\/i>(p. 50. Emphasis added). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Would these \u201cobjectionable\u201d Jews refrain from their actions that others find objectionable \u2013such as to stop stone-walling justice for the Palestinians and stop sending money to so-called \u201cIsrael\u201d which perhaps help to occupy\/usurp more Palestinian\u2019s land and crucify them? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 How often are students urged to expose and\/or stand up to the schoolyard bully? Honest and just people are to use the spine we\u2019ve been given and stand up against bullying (and blackmail?) in all its form.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Truth and justice are not to be butchered on the stones of politics and friendship.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Significantly. In 2006 Iran sponsored a conference on the \u201cholocaust.\u201d Iran was, as expected, condemned. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 This flood of anti-Iran condemnation for sponsoring the conference is but a down-pouring of social and political claptrap. This conference is not about whether Jews were killed or not. That Jews and Gypsies were killed is with-out question. The question is, was \u201csix million Jews\u201d killed? Is the \u201cholocaust\u201d a reality or was it a concoction to hide the atrocities Jews were committing against Palestinians in their drive to depopulate Palestine of native Arabs and populate it with alien Jews; or was it a concoction to elicit sympathy for Jews to give them a home-land in Palestine;<\/span> or was it a hoax by Europe\/Christians to solve their Jewish homeless problem by making it the Palestinian\/Arab problem?<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 That in calling this conference, Iran is trying to rewrite history is intellectual, political, and religious rubbish. In fact, in this matter of revising history, those who make such a claim may themselves be culprits in this matter of rewriting history. As noted above the Revised Edition of Begin\u2019s book The Revolt<\/i> denies that Jews massacred some 250-300 Arabs of Deir Yassin in 1948, to establish their state. Where is the sanctimonious outcry against these Revisers <\/i>trying to rewrite the Deir Yassin history? Where are the vociferous proponents of truth and justice: hibernating in their hypocrisy?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 That Iran is here inciting hatred against Jews is \u201cintellectual\u201d and political twaddle. (How this is hatred against Jews is mind-boggling: seems that anything that goes against Jewish likeness is hatred).<\/i> Panning through the mountain of uncertainty to find the gold nugget of truth could hardly be stamped as incitement to hate. In fact, opposition to this conference would seem to give the im-pression of a desperate drive to keep something hidden.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of being condemned, Iran is to be commended for bringing, against the weight of world opposition, this taboo of topic to the international investigating table \u2013to determine if the \u201cholocaust\u201d is what it is claimed to be or if there is anything sinister underlying it (if Hitler is a scape-goat). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Toronto Star, Saturday, January 27, 2007 in its article UN condemns Holocaust denial as Iran objects,<\/i> by Staff Reporter, Olivia Ward, notes that the \u201cAmerican-drafted resolution\u201d was endorsed by the United Nations which \u201c\u201ccondemns without reservation any denial of the Holocaust\u201d\u201d and encouraged the 192 mem-bers of the UN to \u201c\u201creject any denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in part, or any activities to this end.\u201d\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 If the holocaust is a \u201chistorical event\u201d why the paranoia at Iran\u2019s convening this conference? It would be a crystal-clear open and shut case, proving Iran to be in error. If the holocaust is a \u201chistorical event\u201d why the\u00a0\u00a0 need for the \u201crodeo round-up\u201d of the United Nations to \u201chog-tie\u201d Iran?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Iran, rightly, objected to the UN masquerade, stating, as noted in the article: \u201cwe truly disassociate ourselves from this entirely hypocritical political exercise.\u201d The article also notes an Iranian representative as saying, \u201calthough his country opposed genocide, \u201cthe Israeli regime has routinely attempted to exploit the sufferings of the Jewish people\u2026.as a cover for the crime it has perpetrated over the past six decades against the Palestinians.\u201d\u201d Can anyone refute this? It is undeniable that the \u201cholocaust\u201d was\/is used to elicit sympathy for Jews. Every time there is a Palestinian-Jewish flare up (and even without) we are deluged with \u201cholocaust\u201d stories (as if to convey that Jewish cruelties against Palestinians is justified or negated because of Jewish sufferings at the hands of the Nazis). In the past more than sixty years there must have been more \u201cholocaust\u201d stories than victims. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The article also notes that the resolution was co-sponsored by Canada and more than a hundred other countries and \u201cadopted by consensus.\u201d The representatives of the governments of these countries may have (whether through conviction or coercion or partisanship or belief or benefit or hatred of Iran or other) \u201cendorsed\u201d this resolution. But whether their populations agree with their views is another matter. Considering that individuals (intellectuals?) from some thirty countries attended the Iranian conference\u2013though at least one, a Canadian, was known to be grilled for his attendance; and even had his academic tenureship challenged. (Seems that where certain sector[s] of society or certain topic[s] is concerned \u201cfreedom\u201d of conscience is rabidly restricted. Hallelujah!<\/i> to partisan democracy!) <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/i> In endeavoring to investigate the veracity of the holocaust Iran may stand \u201calone,\u201d but Iran, for certain, does not stand \u201cisolated,\u201d nor stand in \u201cshame.\u201d Iran stands in dignity. Uncowed. And in truth. Iran\u2019s convening the conference on the \u201cholocaust\u201d is not an insult to \u201cthinking people.\u201d The \u201creal truth\u201d is enforcing belief in, or enforcing against denial of, the \u201cholocaust\u201d is what has \u201cinsulted\u201d \u201cthinking people.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No one is to be forced to have belief in the \u201cholocaust\u201d or no one is to be forced to not deny it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 One who is charged as being a \u201cholocaust denier\u201d can rightly make the counter-charge that his accuser(s) is a \u201cholocaust imposer\u201d (\u201cholo-poser\u201d for short) or \u201cholo-caust flagger.\u201d (\u201cholo-flagger\u201d for short).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Truth stands by itself; <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Falsehood needs to be propped up!<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Why not a Law against denial of the Deir Yassin Massacre?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Why not a Law against denial of\u00a0 the \u201cVirgin-birth\u201d of Jesus?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Students, peasants, scholars and writers, worldwide, are to march together <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

for the abolition of this despicable law.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Freedom of conscience, forever!<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

(Incidentally, it was reported that one UN agency wants to teach Palestinian children about the Jewish \u201cholocaust\u201d [wonder who or what led this UN agency to dream up this preposterous scheme, or why? Did this UN agency consider teaching Jewish children about <\/span>Nak<\/span><\/i>bah [darkness] \u2013referring to Palestinians driven off their lands in 1948 to facilitate the Jewish state<\/span><\/i>\u2013 <\/span><\/i><\/strong>the Palestinian holocaust; about how they came to have possession of the Palestinians\u2019 homes, lands, and country \u2013all the way back from Theodor Herzl to the present?]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Hamas, rightly, balked at this UN agency\u2019s obscene gesture. Whether the Jewish \u201cholocaust\u201d is fiction or fact, history or hoax, Palestinian children are not to be made to have sympathy for their Jewish occupier\/usurper. Will this UN agency teach Jewish children to have sympathy for the Nazis \u2013to accept\/understand their motivation for the \u201cholocaust\u201d? <\/span>[Which motivation seems to be unclear \u2013that it was because Jews killed Jesus; Jews were controlling the German economy; Hit-ler hated Jews; Hitler believed Germans are the master race and all others are inferior; because a Jewish girl spurned Hitler; Hitler blamed Jews for Germany\u2019s WW I defeat; Jews were Communists and subversives; Hitler believed Jews were scheming with the British to topple him. Take your pick. Maybe all. Maybe none.<\/span> The Bible says that the Israelites\/Jews exterminated their numerous \u201cites\u201d enemies\u2013[Josh. 6:21; 10:28-41; 12:1-24.<\/span> So it is acceptable for Israelites\/Jews to create the ancient \u201cites\u201d holocausts and the modern Palestinian holocaust but not acceptable for Hitler to create the Jewish \u201cholocaust\u201d?] <\/span>Perhaps there is no known reason why Hitler killed Jews because there is no human reason. There are Jews who believe the \u201cholocaust\u201d was Divine orchestration. And All\u0101h, God, says in His Qur\u2019an that He would raise up those who would chastise Jews to the Resurrection [for their not keeping their covenant which requires them to follow the Prophet Mohammad]. Maybe the \u201cholocaust\u201d was one such Divine chastisement. Or, as reasonably submitted above, <\/span>Hitler may very well have been a scape-goat. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Until a thorough and independent investigation is carried out the \u201cholocaust\u201d should not be taught to anyone. Most of all Palestinians].\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This UN agency needs to concern itself with matters of importance and use donations for worthy causes \u2013to have China remove alien Hans Chinese from the Uighur\u2019s lands, Eastern Turkistan <\/i>-UIGHURISTAN-<\/span>,<\/strong> and end their occupation of it; to get Russia out of Chechnya and Dagestan; to ensure Kashmiri\u2019s get to exercise the scandalously long overdue right to decide their future; to have Britain or France or Canada or America or anyone of the other nations who were gung-ho to give Jews fifty-six percent of Palestine give half of their country to the Gypsies for their national home-land; to look after the welfare of the displaced in Darfur, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sabra and Shatila; to feed the starving and those suffering the ravages of nature and war as those in Africa, Asia, Indonesia, Philippines, Ethiopia, Somalia, and elsewhere; to liberate child-laborers and educate them; to free child-warriors and educate them; to remedy the dispute between China and Tibet; to end Myanmar\u2019s (Burma\u2019s) ethnic-cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims; to secure safety of eastern Chadian women; to protect human rights activists in Chechnya; to secure justice for the Lubicon Cree in Alberta, Canada (and natives elsewhere); to champion Palestinians inalienable right to return to their country as guaranteed by the Human Rights Convention and<\/span> to return Palestine to its rightful \u2013moral, social, historical, and spiritual\u2013 Palestinian owners).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

11. \u201cWhile Christianity has few living inquisitions today <\/span>(and this is so because the Church holds no sway in the land today). <\/span><\/i>Islam has many. \u2026in our opposition to the worldview of Islam, we confront a civilization with an arrested history. It is as though a portal in time has opened, and fourteenth century hordes are pouring into our world. Unfortunately, they are now armed with twenty-first-century weapons.\u201d <\/span>(And to know he writes that Islam is \u201cAnti-Semitism\u201d)<\/i>. <\/i><\/strong>(pp. 106-107).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:\u00a0<\/span> What utter rubbish!<\/span> (Leaving aside the handful of Muslims who, erroneously, believe they have the right to bomb other nations into Islam). While Muslims are not justified to blame their intellectual stagnation on non-Muslims, trying to explain Muslim militancy without involving non-Muslims is like trying to remove a worm from a can-full without disturbing other worms. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 In the last two hundred years, no Muslim country have colonized or tried to colonize other nations or sought to exploit the wealth of other nations. No Muslim country have subverted the governments of non-Muslims or assassinated their leaders or tried to run their countries and\/or control their resource(s), or deprived them of their homes, lands and country. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, consider how many Muslims are\/were victims of non-Muslims \u201ctravesties.\u201d Briefly, Britain sliced Jordan out of Syria and carved Kuwait out of Iraq; France carved Lebanon out of Syria and placed it under Maronite Christian domination; the British held Egypt, Sudan, Aden, Iraq and Nigeria; the French, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Sudan; and the Italians, Libya; British instigation and American machination carved the Zionist State out of Palestine; in 1956 the Zionist State in \u201ccollusion\u201d with France and Britain attacked Egypt, so Britain could have control of Egypt\u2019s<\/i> Suez Canal; Russia is still coloring Chechnya red; Bosnians are still trying to recover from Serbia\u2019s onslaught and Iraq is yet to rise from the rubble of American bombardings (for oil and\/or hegemony?). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 If \u201cour world\u201d had not stolen Palestine, to begin with, it is unlikely there would now be \u201chordes\u201d of Muslims \u201carmed with twenty-first-century weapons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The West may be \u201cat war with Islam;\u201d but Islam is not \u201cat war\u201d with anyone. Islam is a defensive<\/i> force not an aggressive<\/i> one. (p. 109).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

12. \u201cThe world, from the point of view of Islam, is divided into the \u201cHouse of Islam\u201d and the \u201cHouse of War\u201d <\/span>(and who is it that made this designation? And the world, from the point of view of America and so-called \u201cIsrael,\u201d is divided into the \u201cHouse of those with us\u201d and the \u201cHouse of those against us\u201d)<\/i>\u2026.<\/span> The feature of Islam that is most troubling to non-Muslims, and which apologists for Islam do much to obfuscate, is the principle of jihad <\/span>(jihad is troubling to non-Muslims because Islam is the only religion that has openly declared war against the oppressor, occupier, usurper, and exploiter; if these \u201capologists\u201d should study Islam they will see there is nothing in Islam for which to apologize, and nothing in jihad to \u201cobfuscate\u201d; jihad is explained in item 1).<\/span><\/i> We are misled if we believe that the phrase \u201cin defense of Islam\u201d suggests that all Muslim fighting must be done in \u201cself-defense.\u201d On the contrary, the duty of jihad is an unambiguous call to world conquest. As Ber-nard Lewis writes, \u201cthe presumption is that the duty of jihad will continue interrupted only by truces, until all the world either adopts the Muslim faith or submits to Muslim rule\u201d <\/span>(and whose presumption is this?)<\/span><\/i>. There is no denying that Muslims expect victory in this <\/i>world, as well as in the next <\/span>(and America and Canada and Britain, etc; expects to have \u201cvictory\u201d against \u201cterrorism\u201d at home and abroad \u2013in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and\u2026Muslims fight for victory when the enemy forces himself upon us)<\/span><\/i>. As Malise Ruthven points out, \u201cThe Prophet had been his own Caesar\u2026.If imitatio Christi<\/i> meant renouncing worldly ambition and seeking salvation by deeds of private virtue, imitatio Muhammad<\/i> meant sooner or later taking up arms against those forces which seemed to threaten Islam from within or without\u201d <\/i><\/span>(Amen!!! Which \u201cCaesar\u201d is there who will not take up arms against those who threaten it \u201cfrom within or without\u201d? This is what America and Canada and the whole entourage have done\/are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan\u2013and Iraq and Afghanistan did not even \u201cthreaten\u201d them whether \u201cwithin or without\u201d). <\/i>(pp. 110-112. Italics\/Emphasis added).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> Mohammad became \u201cCaesar\u201d because he was forced to become \u201cCaesar.\u201d If the enemies had not militated against Mohammad, Mohammad would have had no recourse to the sword. Mohammad\u2019s duty was only to deliver the Divine Message; not enforce it\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:256, 272; 3:20; 5:95, 102; 6:107; 9:6; 10:99-100; 13:40; 16:82; 17:7; 18:6, 29; 24:54; 29:18; 42:15; 46:35; 50:45; 64:12; 76:3; 109:1-6). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As shown in this presentation, there is no militancy in Islam. (There is no passivity either: there are times to give the other \u201ccheek\u201d and times to take an \u201ceye\u201d in turn).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Islam is not a \u201creligion of conquest\u201d but of world spiritual enlightenment: against the degradation of idolatry, the irration-ality of polytheism, and the inanity of man-worship \u2013that the only being greater than man is All\u0101h, God, the only one worthy of worship.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Prophet\u2019s sayings on jihad are simply to stress the taking up of arms, when need be, in defense of truth, freedom and jus-tice. It is doubtful that the commanders of the Allies in Iraq and Afghanistan (and the Generals of World War II) lectured their troops on the futures of soya-beans and pork-bellies, rather than instruct them in lethal warfare. (The speeches imploring recruits and soldiers about the exigency to defeat the Third Reich must have been morbidly aggressive). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And unlike Mohammad who was on his own soil, defensing<\/i>; the Allies are thousands of miles away from their own land, offensing.<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 The \u201carmed\u201d noble jihad<\/i> is a Divine injunction to be exercised in the pursuit of truth, justice, and freedom when the situation necessitates, to the Resurrection; and the sacred martyrdom<\/i> is a Divine gift for those who are slain in this endeavor of truth, justice and freedom, to the Resurrection. Muslims who demean or demonize or \u201cobfuscate\u201d these hallowed institutions are trape-zing over the Fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

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13. \u201c\u2026the Muslim conception of tolerance applies only to Jews and Christians\u2013\u201cPeople of the Book\u201d\u2013while the practices of Bud-dhists, Hindus, and other idolators are considered so spiritually depraved as to be quite beyond the pale\u201d(and he refers to Qur\u2019an 2:190, \u201cIdolatry is worse than carnage\u201d). (p. 114).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> But the word \u201cIdolatry\u201d <\/i>is not the correct word in this context. Muhammad Ali translates. \u201cPersecution<\/i> is worse than slaughter,\u201d explaining: \u201cThe word which I have rendered as persecution is fi<\/i>tnah<\/i>,<\/i> which originally means a burning with fire<\/i>, and then affliction, distress <\/i>and hardship, slaughter, misleading <\/i>or caus-ing to err<\/i>, and seduction from faith by any means <\/i>(LL). An explanation of these words is met with in v. 217: \u201cThey ask thee about fighting in the sacred month. Say: Fighting in it is a grave offence. And hindering (men) from Allah\u2019s way and denying Him and the Sacred Mosque and turning its people out of it are still graver with All\u0101h, and persecution is graver than slaughter.\u201d Fitnah <\/i>is thus synonymous with hindering men from Allah\u2019s way and the Sacred Mosque<\/i>, and denying Allah and turning people out of the Sacred Mosque<\/i>, and indicates the persecution of the Muslims. Ibn \u2018Umar explained the word fitnah <\/i>when he said: \u201cAnd there were very few Muslims, so a man used to be persecuted on account of his religion: they either murdered him or subjected him to tortures until Islam became predominant, then there was no fitnah\u201d<\/i>, i.e., persecution <\/i>(B. 65: ii, 30).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Idolatry \u2013bowing to objects fashioned by one\u2019s own hands, things that can confer no benefit or effect any harm\u2013 is, indisputably, \u201cspiritually depraved.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 However, that Muslim \u201ctolerance\u201d extends even to Idolaters is cemented in the following Qur\u2019anic expressions: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u201cAnd revile not those whom they call <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0upon besides All\u0101h\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cAnd if anyone of the idolaters seek thy<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0protection, protect him till he hears the word<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0of All\u0101h, then convey him to his place of <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0safety<\/i>. This is because they are a people<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0who know not\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe have truly shown him (man) the way;<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0he may be thankful or unthankful\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cso whoever goes aright, goes aright only <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0for the good of his own soul; and whoever<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0errs, errs only against it\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cSay: O disbelievers, I serve not that <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0which you serve, Nor do you serve Him<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Whom I serve\u2026.For you your religion,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0and for me my religion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Qur\u2019an 6:108; 9:6; 76:3; 10:108 & 17:15; 109:1-6)<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h sent Mohammad as a mercy to all creatures: Mohammad could not abuse or turn away from anyone. And as noted, the Prophet\u2019s duty was only to deliver the Qur\u2019anic Message; no to enforce belief in it.<\/span>\u00a0 Thus, Islamic tolerance could not only apply \u201conly to Jews and Christians,\u201d Islamic tolerance \u201capplies\u201d to all.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Harris also notes: \u201c\u2026life for Jews within the House of Islam has been characterized by ceaseless humiliation and regular pogroms.\u201d(p. 114).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 The yellow badge that Jews were forced to wear in Germany may have \u201coriginated in Baghdad,\u201d but Palestinians have their badge of humiliation <\/i>(and in their own country) made by Jews declaring them as \u201cClass B\u2019 citizens\u201d on their ID cards. In fact Palestinians are not only labeled \u201cClass B\u2019 citizens\u201d but are subjects of Jewish \u201cpogrom(s)\u201d and even in \u201cmodern history\u201d: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNot only did the Israelis refuse to allow the return of the (Palestinian) refugees to their homes, but they consummated the tragedy by seizing all their property in one of the greatest acts of plunder in modern history. The confiscation of Arab land was not confined to the holdings of the refugees but extended to the 200,000 Palestinians who remained in their homes in 1948, by a series of extraordinary laws and regulations of legalised robbery. These included \u201cThe Land Acquisition Law,\u201d \u201cThe Abandoned Areas Ordinance, 1949,\u201d \u201cThe Absentee Property Regulations, 1948\u201d and others a<\/span><\/sup>.<\/span> The injustices, to which the Arabs in Israel were subjected, went far beyond the expropriation of their farms and property, and included flagrant infringement upon their basic human rights and civil liberties. Derek Tozer, a British correspondent, writing in The American Mercury<\/i>, stated: The official policy of the Government (of Israel) is unequivocal. Arabs, like Jews in Nazi Germany, are officially \u2018Class B\u2019 citizens, a fact which is recorded on their identity cards\u201d\u201db<\/span><\/sup>. William Zukerman, Editor of the Jewish Newsletter<\/i>, said \u201ca more flagrant case of discrimination is hard to find even in the annals of the chauvinistic twentieth century.c<\/span> <\/sup>\u201d\u201d27<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0And Professor Noam Chomsky in his book Pirates & Emperors, International Terrorism in the Real World,<\/i> notes as part of the \u201cdoctrine\u201d of Zionism is that the Jewish state \u201cmust remain a state based on the principle of discrimination against non-Jewish citizens.<\/i><\/span>\u201d (p. 33. Italics\/emphasis\/color added).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Sam Harris lists pogroms against Jews by Muslims, in several Muslim countries and a number of times. But no reason is given why these pogroms were carried out. Was it because of Muslim jealousy over Jewish prosperity; because of faith (and the teaching of Islam); or was it because Jews were inimical towards the State or towards Muslims? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Regarding Jewish opposition to the Prophet Mohammad, M. H. Haykal notes in his The Life of Muhammad<\/i>(p.207): \u201cTheir opposition and hostility were never open.”<\/span> <\/i>(Perhaps this is true even today.<\/span> Italics\/emphasis added). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jewish mischief is not unknown, Professor Noam Chomsky in his Pirates And Emperors, Old and New, International Terrorism in the Real World<\/i> notes from \u201cLebanon-based correspondent Jim Muir:\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cthat the Israelis helped fuel and encourage the Christian-Druze conflict\u201d in the Chouf region.\u201d\u00a0 And that \u201c\u201cLocal eyewitnesses reported that Israeli soldiers frequently shot into the Palestinian camps from nearby Christian areas in an effort to incite the Palestinians against the Christians,\u201d and residents in the Christian villages reported that Israeli patrols forced Christians and Muslims at gunpoint to punch one another among other forms of \u201cbizarre humiliation.\u201d The techniques finally worked.<\/span> Israel\u2019s Christian allies attacked Muslims near Sidon in a manner guaranteed to elicit a response from considerable more powerful forces, initiating a bloody cycle of violence that ultimately led to the flight of tens of thousands of Christians, many to the Israeli-dominated regions in the south, while tens of thousands of Shi\u2019ites were driven north by Peres\u2019s Iron Fist operations.\u201d (pp. 46-47. Color added). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is odd that Muslims would carry out pogroms against Jews because of the teachings of Islam. If this was so how could pogroms be carried out more than once in these Muslim countries: they would not have been allowed in the first place; or after the first pogrom they would have been permanently barred, as they were barred from Jerusalem by the Christians.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Muslims could not be said to be following Islam and to have carried out \u201cpogroms\u201d against Jews because of the teachings of Islam or even because of their \u201chatred\u201d against Jews seeing that Islam clearly forbids us to let hatred of a people cause us to transgress and to act inequitably and to aid one another in sin and aggression\u2013(Qur\u2019an 5:2, 8).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps these \u201cpogroms\u201d were carried out by Jews themselves to get their fellow Jews to flood Palestine (As noted above in item #10) so as to kick the indigenous Palestinians out and fill Palestine with Jews. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Sam Harris also states, \u201cLife for Christians under Islam has been scarcely more cheerful.\u201d (p. 114).<\/span>\u00a0 (At least Christians had \u201clife\u201d under Islam; under Christianity [not to be confused with secularism] Muslims were expelled or given the sword).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Regarding Christians in Muslim lands, T. W. Arnold in his book The Preaching of Islam<\/i> has noted what may very well be a timeless observation: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the persecutions of the Christians in Muslim countries can be traced either to distrust of their loyalty, excited by the intrigues and interference of Christian foreigners and the enemies of Islam, or to the bad feeling stirred up by the treacherous or brutal behaviour of the latter towards the Musalmans (Muslims).\u201d(p. 77). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 On jizya: The only charge the Qur\u2019an imposes on non-Muslims under a Muslim government is the jizyah<\/i>; which Muhammad Ali explains:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cwas a tax levied on non-Muslim subjects under the rule of Islam, so called because it was a tax for the protection of life and property which that rule guaranteed them. Muslim subjects were exempt from this tax in consideration of military service, which for them was compulsory. As a matter of fact, they too were made to pay for that protection, but in different form. They bore the hardships of a military life, they fought the country\u2019s battles, they laid down their lives in defence of the country. Non-Muslims were exempt from all this, and in lieu of this they contributed their share in the shape of money. It is obvious which of the two alternatives is the easier. In countries where conscription is the law to-day, there would certainly be many who would be glad to buy their exemption from military service so cheaply, paying a small amount as tax. It must be remembered, furthermore, that the tax was not indiscriminately charged to every non-Muslim subject. Males under twenty and above fifty, all females, those suffering from some chronic disease, the blind and the poor were all exempt. As a matter of fact, the Muslims had also to pay a tax in addition under the name of zakaat, <\/i>and this was much heavier than jizyah\u00a0<\/i>as it was levied at the rate of 2 1\/2 percent, on all savings annually.\u201d (The Early Caliphate<\/i>, p. 41 f\/n). <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 It is a rather strange reasoning that one would convert to Islam to escape \u201cheavy taxation\u201d when Muslims are required to shoulder a heavier burden than non-Muslims. The Kharaj and Jizya are not \u201cDiscriminatory Taxes.\u201d Jizya<\/i>, as already noted, was paid by non-Muslims for military protection. Payment of \u201chalf a guinea or a dinar a year\u201d is a cheap price than suffering the hardship of military life and for putting one\u2019s life on the line for the welfare of the country. Muhammad Ali notes: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c\u2026jizyah, <\/i>which was originally a tribute paid by a subject state, took the form of a poll-tax later on in the time of \u2018Umar; and the word was also applied to the land-tax which was levied on Muslim owners of agricultural land. The jurists, however, made a distinction between the poll-tax and the land tax by giving the name of kharaj<\/i> to the latter.\u00a0<\/i>Both together formed one of the two chief sources of the revenue of the Muslim state, the zakat <\/i>paid by the Muslims being the other source.\u201d (The Religion of Islam<\/i>, p. 559).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Thus, Muslims also had to pay not only kharaj <\/i>but zakat<\/i> as well, (and do military service). This disparity clearly shows that there is no basis for the claim that the kharaj and jizya are \u201cDiscriminatory Taxes.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All governments levy taxes to raise revenues. If Muslim rulers of later times discriminated against non-Muslim subjects then Islam is not to be blamed for this. Islam forbids discrimination. Muhammad Ali has noted in his The Early Caliphate<\/i> that when a Muslim government could no longer provide the protection for which jizya <\/i>was taken, this amount was returned to the people. He gave the example of Abu \u2018Ubaidah when he <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cgave up his position at Hims and returned towards Damascus. On leaving Hims, however, he ordered that the whole amount of jizyah <\/i>realised from the people of Hims should be returned to them. Jizyah<\/i>, he said, was a tax in return for protection. When they could no longer give that protection, they had no right to keep the money. The whole amount was consequently withdrawn from the treasury and made over to the people\u2026.who were all either Christians or Jews. In vain will the critic ransack the dusty pages of history for another such brilliant spot, such scrupulous regard for the rights of citizenship in time of war. The treatment by Muslims of the inhabitants was such that, at their departure, Christians as well as Jews actually shed tears and prayed God to bring them back. Muir, after admiring the leniency of the Arab conquerors towards the conquered and their justice and integrity, quotes a Nestorian Bishop of the time: \u201cThese Arabs to whom God has accorded in our days the dominion are become our masters; but they do not combat the Christian religion; much rather they protect our faith; they respect our priests and our holy men, and make gifts to our churches and our convents\u201d (p. 128 [The Caliphate])\u201d\u201d (p. 86).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 On the belief that the Kharaj and Jizya are \u201cDiscriminatory Taxes,\u201d (as claimed by another writer) Muhammad Ali notes that during the reign of \u2018Umar when the whole of Persia \u201ccame completely under the rule of Islam\u201d that while \u201cjizya <\/i>was imposed in some parts, there were other adjacent parts where the people neither embraced Islam nor paid jizya<\/i>. They only agreed to render military assistance in time of need.\u201d \u201cIn affairs of state, non-Muslims were duly consulted.\u201d \u2018Umar also ordered \u201cthat old-age pensions must be granted to all the old people among non-Muslim subjects, who must also be exempt from jizya. <\/i> Poor-houses for the weak and the disabled were open to Christians just as to Muslims.\u201d (Ibid<\/i>. pp. 101, 118).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To say that jizya is a \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d tax is, in the words of Muhammad Ali, \u201cto betray ignorance.\u201d \u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Those who are jaundiced against jizya <\/i>and \u201cdhimmitude\u201d must turn their sights to the Biblical Fathers and the Defenders of the Faith\u2013David and Joshua and the Christian conquerors of Jerusalem and Spain\u2013whose vic-tims were shrouded in blood, expelled or forced to con-vert. Not to mention the 800-year Inquisitions\u2013Medieval, Roman and Spanish; from 1000-1834.<\/span> Praise be to Islam\u2019s mercy and tolerance\u2013to jizya <\/i>and \u201cdhimmitude\u201d!<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Interestingly. whereas Muslims are raked over the coals for alleged \u201cdiscrimination\u201d against non-Muslims.\u00a0 The Toronto<\/i> Star<\/i>, Friday, May 2, 2008. Irish clerics barred from praying at Wall, p. AA4, notes that Irish Christian leaders were \u201cbarred from praying\u201d at the Western Wall at Jerusalem. Why? Because they \u201crefused to remove the crosses\u201d they wore. And the official explanation for requiring the clerics to remove their crosses? Because to display \u201csymbols of other religions\u201d would \u201coffend the sensitivities of Jews.\u201d<\/i> (Italics\/Emphasis added).<\/span> Wonder what Bat Ye\u2019or (and her sympathizers) would have said to this.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0That these Christian leaders were \u201cbarred from praying\u201d at the Western Wall at Jerusalem is ironic; considering that it was Christian governments \u2013primarily American and British\u2013 that put Jews in occupation of Palestine. (Notably, the Prophet Mohammad allowed the Christians of Najran, who were there to debate the Divinity of Jesus, to pray in his Mosque. See CHRISTIANS OF NAJRAN). (Why non-Muslims are not allowed worship in Arabia see ARABIA & NON-MUSLIMS)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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14. Sam Harris quotes L. Binder: \u201cit is the task of the Islamic state to bring about obedience to the revealed law.\u201d (p. 115).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> And it is the task of the secular state \u201cto bring about obedience to the\u201d parliamentary law (or you end up \u201cfined\u201d or in the slammer or both). Where then is the difficulty in the Islamic state bringing about obedience to its Constitution\u2013the \u201crevealed law\u201d: the Qur\u2019an? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Aren\u2019t all members of an organized body required to conduct themselves in \u201cobedience\u201d to its laws?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

15. \u201cWhile the Koran merely describes the punishments that awaits the apostate in the next world (Koran 3:86-91), the hadith is emphatic about the justice that must be meted out in this one: \u201cWhoever changes his religion, kill him.\u201d No metaphor hides this directive, and it would seem that no process of liberal hermeneutics can brush it aside.\u201d(p. 115). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Response:<\/span> In Islam there is no death for apostasy. All\u0101h says in His Qur\u2019an: \u201cAnd whoever of you turns back from his religion, then he dies while an unbeliever\u2026<\/i>\u201d \u201cHow shall All\u0101h guide a people who disbelieved after their believing<\/i>?\u201d\u2013(2:217; 3:85). \u201cThose who believe then disbelieve<\/i>, again believe and again disbelieve<\/i>, then increase in disbelief\u201d\u2013(4:137); if apostates were to be killed there would be no \u201cbelieving\u201d then \u201cdisbelieving\u201d then \u201cbelieving again.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Qur\u2019an was revealed over a period of twenty-three years. Killing of apostates, if any, would have been prior to these Qur\u2019anic injunctions. The Prophet governed according to the Qur\u2019an not out of desire\u2013(Qur\u2019an 10:15; 21:45; 53:3-4). Until revelation was given on a topic the Prophet judged according to the Torah; and the Judeo-Christian religion requires death for apostasy\u2013(Deut. 13:5-16; 17:2-5). This is one of the laws that the Qur\u2019an abrogates: the Qur\u2019an 2:106; 16:101 speaking about abrogation refers to previous Scriptures (See Muhammad Ali com-mentaries on this topic; his translation of the Qur\u2019an can be viewed online: www.muslim.org<\/span><\/a>). (See also ISLAM-APOSTASY<\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

16. Sam Harris attempts to link non-existent violence in Islam to terrorism. In his ambition to do so he lines a track of verses six pages long (pp. 117-123), then states: \u201cThis is all desperately tedious, of course. But there is no substitute for confronting the text itself. I cannot judge the quality of the Arabic<\/i>; perhaps it is sublime. But the book\u2019s contents are not. On almost every page, the Koran instructs observant Muslims to despise non-believers. On almost every page, it prepares the ground for religious conflict. Anyone who can read passages like those quoted above and still not see a link between Muslim faith and Muslim violence should probably consult a neurologist.\u201d (p. 123. Italics\/Emphasis added). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> In the human sphere, whichever country bows to the dictates of the hypocritical UN body \u2013enforcing sanctions against Muslims and not against others\u2013<\/span> is blessed with megatons of carrots, whichever country stands up to its bullying is \u201ccursed\u201d with Vesuvian showers of fire and brimstone.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h Who has ordained mercy on Himself, created man out of mercy to have mercy on him, from Whom only good comes, Who taught man speech, gave him intelligence and bounties, Who implores us to seek His forgiveness, and Who forgives sins \u2013there is no problem then in All\u0101h blessing the dutiful and \u201ccursing\u201d the ingrate: He has all rights and justification to do so.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sam Harris cannot only not \u201cjudge the quality of the Arabic,\u201d<\/i> he seems to be ignorant of the background to which verses of the Qur\u2019an were revealed.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That \u201cthe Koran instructs observant Muslims to despise non-believers,\u201d and \u201cit prepares the ground for religious conflict,\u201d and is \u201ca link between Muslim faith and Muslim violence,\u201d is sheer fantasy. Only one verse need to be entered to belie this myth: \u201cAll\u0101h forbids you not respecting those who fight you not for religion, nor drive you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly. Surely All\u0101h loves the doers of justice\u201d \u2013(Qur\u2019an 60:8).<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Islam <\/i><\/strong>which stresses keeping of oaths and not to be deceptive (Qur\u2019an 16:91-92); to speak justly (6:153); to be righteous (2:277-278; 6:152-154); to not let hatred for a people incite you to transgress (5:2); to judge justly (4:58); because Allah loves those who judge in equity cannot be the religion of \u201cviolence\u201d or hatred or injustice or intolerance.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Islam <\/i><\/strong>which admonishes against dealing unjustly with men (2:279, 5:8); and not to rob them of their dues (26:183); to give justice even if it be against one\u2019s self or parents or kins or whether he be poor or rich (4:135), not to act corruptly in the earth or to make mischief (26:183); not to be transgressors (2:190), not to help one another in sin and aggression (5:2), to restrain our anger and forgive others (3:133), to fight on behalf of the oppressed (4:75); because Allah loves those who are just, and because He commands justice and the doing of good, and He forbids injustice (60:8, 16:90) cannot be the religion of \u201cviolence\u201d or hatred or injustice or intolerance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Islam <\/span><\/i><\/strong>which teaches not to take a greater recompense than the injury suffered (2:194; 16:126; 22:60; 42:40); that instead of retaliation, to make reconciliation, and to show patience and forgiveness (16:126; 42:39-43); to be merciful and forgiving (3:133); to fight only as long as there is persecution and oppression (2:193), and to make peace when the enemy desires peace (4:90, 8:61); be-cause Allah loves the doer of good, and the dutiful (2:195, 3:75) cannot be the religion of \u201cviolence\u201d or hatred or injustice or intolerance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Islam which <\/span><\/i><\/strong>teaches that all men are created equal (95:4), that we are made into different tribes and nations that we may know one another (49:13), that we are to be judged not by our race, color or nationality but by our deeds (6:133), that angels ask forgiveness for all mankind (42:5), that the noblest ones are those who are righteous (49:13, 98:7), to return evil with that which is better \u2013(23:96), to give justice (4:58; 5:8); because Allah loves those who judge in equity, and because Allah is aware of what you do (5:45, 4:135) cannot be the religion of \u201cviolence\u201d or hatred or injustice or intolerance<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Islam <\/i><\/strong>which teaches that all religions are for All\u0101h (8:390; not to revile the gods of others (6:108); and to fight of behalf of non-Muslims (4:75; 22:40); All\u0101h has given to every nation acts of devotion, which they observe (22:67) cannot be the religion of \u201cviolence\u201d or hatred or injustice or intolerance. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Islam <\/i><\/strong>does not require Muslims to conquer lands for All\u0101h: the heavens and the earth already belong to All\u0101h. The Prophet\u2019s duty was only to deliver the Message of the Qur\u2019an not enforce it: \u201cthy duty is only to deliver the message,\u201d \u201cThere is no compulsion in religion,\u201d \u201cAnd if thy Lord had pleased, all those who are in the earth would have believed, all of them. Wilt thou then force men till they are believers?<\/i>\u201d \u201cthou art not one to compel them. So remind by means of the Qur\u2019an<\/i>,\u201d \u201cWe have truly shown him (man) the way; he may be thankful or unthankful<\/i>,\u201d \u201cCall to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in the best manner\u201d\u2013<\/i>(Qur\u2019an 3:20; 24:54; 2:256; 10:99-100; 50:45; 76:3; 16:125). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 There is no religious intolerance in Islam or subjugation of non-Muslims. The Prophet and the four Caliphs never forced Islam at the point of the sword on anyone.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Killing of Unbelievers is applicable only during battle; and even then Muslims are urged to take prisoners and set them free\u2013(Qur\u2019an 47:4); and to make peace with the enemies when they desire peace\u2013(Qur\u2019an 8:61). The injunction to \u201cslay the unbelievers wheresoever ye find them,\u201d refers only to those who fight against the Muslims\u2013(2:190-191). About the hypocrites, All\u0101h instructs the Prophet to \u201cnever offer prayer for any one of them who dies<\/i>\u201d\u2013(9:84). The Prophet could not have waited till the hypocrites die<\/i> if Islam had decreed that they all be killed. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 That Muslims are to fight Unbelievers until they say none has the right to be worshipped but All\u0101h does not mean unbelievers must accept All\u0101h as God. All it means is that just as the unbelievers have the right to their belief, they must accept that Muslims have the right to practice their belief that \u2018none has the right to be worshipped but All\u0101h.\u2019<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Muslims are permitted to fight to put an end to oppression and occupation\/usurpation \u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:190-193; 4:75, 90-91; 8:39; 22: 39-41; 60:8-9). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Critics of Islam would do well to understand the background to which verses of the Qur\u2019an were revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Sam Harris notes: \u201cAs Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) wrote, \u201cI must say, it is as toilsome reading as I ever undertook. A wearisome confused jumble, crude, incondite, endless iterations, long-windedness, entanglement \u2026insupportable stupidity, in short! Nothing but a sense of duty could carry any European through the Koran.\u201d (p. 262, note 17).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Response:<\/span> And to know all of this \u201cinsupportable stupidity\u201d inspired drunks and lascivious into sobriety and chastity; ruthless brigands into unity; propelled backward camel drivers into seats of knowledge and thrones of Caesars; brought light to \u201cEuropean\u201d society; and progress to mankind.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Qur\u2019an is not a story-book; it does not narrate events in sequence. Abul A\u2019la Mawdudi explains: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe different portions of the Qur\u2019an were revealed according to the requirements of the various phases of the (Islamic) Movement. \u2026The Prophet was entrusted with a special mission and had to appeal both to the emotions and to the intellect; he had to deal with people of different mentalities and cope with different situations and various kinds of experiences during the course of his mission. \u2026He has also to train and reform his followers and to imbue them with spirit and courage, and to refute the arguments of opponents and to expose their moral weaknesses and so on. That is why the style of the discourses that Allah sent down to His Messenger had to be what suited the requirements of a Movement. It is, therefore wrong to seek the style of a formal book or that of college lectures in the discourses of the Qur\u2019an.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That also explains why the same things are repeated over and over again in the Qur\u2019an. A mission and a movement naturally demand that only those things should be presented which are required at a particular stage and that nothing should be said about the require-ments of the next stage. That is why the same things are repeated over and over again as long as the movement remains in the same stage, no matter whether it remains there for months or for years. \u2026.Moreover, it repeats at suitable places its basic creed and principles in order to keep the Movement strong at every stage. That is why those surahs which were revealed at a particular stage of the Movement generally deal with the same topics, though, of course, in different words and in various forms. Moreover, all the surahs of the Qur\u2019an contain references to the basic creed, i.e., the Unity of Allah, His attributes, the Hereafter and accountability, punishment and reward, Prophethood, belief in the Book etc… They all teach piety, fortitude, endurance, faith and trust in Allah and the like, just because these virtues could not be neglected at any stage of the Movement. If any of these bases had been weakened at any stage even in the least, the Islamic Movement could not have made any progress in its true spirit.\u201d28<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is an accepted truth that repetition of words commits them to memory; and regimentation builds character, instills discipline and easy and automatic remembrance of duties. This is precisely the motive of the Qur\u2019an for repeating its injunctions\u2013for exhorting Muslims to daily prayers, giving alms, fasting and undertaking the pilgrimage to Mecca. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One can see all branches of the security and defense systems \u2013police, army, navy, and air force\u2013of a nation practicing this \u201cinveterate habit\u201d of repeating verses.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But for the Qur\u2019an, Thomas Carlyle may yet be running around with flint tools and torches.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

17. Sam Harris quotes \u201cSayyid Qutb, one of the most influential thinkers in the Islamic world, and the father of modern Islamism among the Sunni, wrote, The Koran points to another contempt-ible characteristic of the Jews: their craven desire to live, no matter what price and regardless of quality, honor, and dignity.\u201d This statement is really a miracle of concision. While it may seem nothing more than a casual flip against the Jews, it is actually a powerful distillation of the Muslim worldview. Stare at it for a moment or two, and the whole machinery of intolerance and suicidal grandiosity will begin to construct itself before your eyes.\u201d (p. 123).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> What utter twaddle.<\/span> For centuries Muslims and Jews lived in harmony \u2013and lest we forget it was Salahuddin Ayyub (Saladin) that invited Jews to return to Jerusalem after they were barred by the Christians\u2013<\/span> until Zionism reared its ugly, despicable head.<\/span> If Palestinians\u2019 heritage was not \u201cstolen\u201d there would not now be \u201cthe whole machinery of intolerance and suicidal grandiosity\u201d against the Jewish occupiers\/ usurpers of Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And if it is fact that Jews have a \u201ccraven desire to live, no matter what price and regardless of quality, honor, and dignity,\u201d where is the problem in stating it? Truth is not hatred! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 So Jews prefer life and Muslims prefer death, where\u2019s the problem; wouldn\u2019t one also kill to stay alive\u2013isn\u2019t this what \u2018survival of the fittest\u2019 (and the best armed) is all about? This is what America, Canada, and others are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan: killing to stay alive!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Muslims preferring death in the cause of All\u0101h is not without parameters. This fight or preference of death is only to preserve truth, justice, and liberty, as careful reading of the Qur\u2019an shows. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 However, this statement of Qur\u2019an 2:94-96, when viewed in its context shows that it was made in response to Jewish claims that the Hereafter was specially for them to the exclusion of other peoples. The verse was only stating a fact, not promoting hatred of Jews. Here are the relevant verses:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u201cSay: If the abode of the Hereafter with <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0All\u0101h is specially for you to the exclusion <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0of the people, then invoke death if you are truthful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cAnd they will never invoke it\u00a0 on account of <\/span><\/p>\n

what their hands have\u00a0 sent on before, and <\/span><\/p>\n

All\u0101h knows the wrong-doers\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cAnd thou wilt certainly find them the<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0greediest of men for life, (greedier) even <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0than those who set up gods (with God). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0One of them loves to be granted a life<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0of a thousand years, and his being granted <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0a long life will in no way remove him<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0further off from the chastisement. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0And All\u0101h is Seer of what they do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Where is the hatred? Where is the \u201cmiracle of concision\u201d? Where is the \u201cpowerful distillation of the Muslim worldview\u201d? \u201cStare at it for a moment or two\u201d\u2013nay, stare at it for a year or two, yet nay, stare at it for a lifetime\u2013see when (if ever) \u201cthe whole machinery of intolerance and suicidal grandiosity will begin to construct itself before your eyes.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 That the \u201ceducated\u201d and the \u201cmiddle-class\u201d are the ones who mostly love to die in the way of All\u0101h is so because the preserving of truth, justice, and freedom even at the sacrifice of life is the highest ideal to which one can aspire, and is without borders of race or social status. These are the ideals \u2013truth, justice, and freedom\u2013 that the Allies of World War II \u2013among them men of education and affluence\u2013 sacrificed their lives to preserve. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clearly, God\u2019s \u201cchosen people\u201d would have no qualms or hesitation to return to Him at any point in their lives; and would even prefer to be with Him than to \u201cfight\u201d for or to hang on to mortal items. Especially that which is not theirs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

18. Sam Harris wrote: \u201cThe Koran\u2019s ambiguous prohibibition against suicide appear to be an utter non-issue.\u201d (p. 123). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> There is no \u201cambiguity\u201d in the Qur\u2019an; only a lack of contemplation on its verse(s)\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:82). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Islam forbids \u201csuicide.\u201d This is confirmed by sayings of the Prophet: \u201cNarrated Jundab the Prophet (peace and blessings of All\u0101h be upon him) said: \u201cA man was inflicted with wounds and he committed suicide, and so Allah said: My slave*<\/span> has caused death on himself hurriedly, so I forbid Paradise for him\u201d\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 2, # 445. See also Vol. 7, # 670; Vol. 8, # 647). <\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/span>(We are not \u201cslaves\u201d of All\u0101h. Islam abolished slavery.\u00a0 We are servants of All\u0101h. Whereas a slave<\/i> is not at liberty to leave the service to his master, a servant <\/i>can at any time leave the service to his master\u2013man can at anytime disbelieve in All\u0101h: leave His service).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 All instances of fighting in the Qur\u2019an \u2013fight for the cause of God\u2013 is in the defense of truth, justice and freedom. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Regarding \u201csuicide bombers.\u201d Unlike soldiers on the field of battle who have freedom of movement and even equity of arms, the occupied who are bereft of this freedom and armaments have the right to fight the occupier\/usurper with whatever means available and by whatever methods. Man has no right to edict judgment against him; this judgment is for All\u0101h, God\u2013 \u201cand drive them out from where they drove you out, and persecution is worse than slaughter<\/i> (Qur\u2019an 2:191; 217).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 What would you do should your Government forcibly squeezes you and your family into forty-four percent of your <\/i>house and put a homeless family of fewer members than yours into the remaining fifty-six percent; and even give this homeless family title of ownership to this fifty-six percent of your<\/i> property? And whereas members of your family do not have the right to come and live in your house, members of the homeless people born anywhere in the world has the right to live in your house\u2013whereas a Jew born anywhere in the world has automatic citizenship to Palestine, a Palestinian born in Jaffa, his own country, is a refugee. This is the reality and injustice Palestinians face. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0No King or Queen or Prince or pauper or President or Prime Minister or politician or doctor or lawyer or writer or student or peasant would accept such an ignominious scheme and not challenge it in every way open to him and her. Yet Palestinians are forced to accept the fate that no one in the world would accept. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

-The U.N. had no right to Partition Palestine \u2013The U.N. is not the Sovereign owner of Palestine<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

-Britain had no right to promise Jews a homeland in Palestine \u2013let Britain give Jews England or Scotland or Ireland or Wales (or Tristan da Cunha).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

-America had no right to bring \u201ccoercion and duress,\u201d and \u201cpressure\u2019 on nations to effect partition of Palestine \u2013let America give Jews New Yoprk or California or Texas.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0-If France wants Jews to have a homeland let the French give Jews Paris or Marseilles or Nice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0-If Canada wants Jews to have a homeland let Canadians give Jews Ontario or Quebec or Alberta.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0-If Germany wants to atone for the \u201cHolocaust\u201d let the Germans give Jews half of the Fatherland.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Palestinians are not to suffer for Europe\u2019s shame.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Those who criticize and condemn the Palestinians must put their dignity where their mouths are: they must swallow this unpalatable bit of morsel the fearless and forbearing Palestinians are being force-fed for sixty-years now\u2013they must give half of their property to the homeless and half of their country to the natives or ethnic sector for their State; they must suffer what the Palestinians have suffered and endure what the Palestinians are forced to endure and accept what the Palestinians are expected to accept.. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Jews wanting a home is no legitimacy <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0to deprive the Palestinians of theirs.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 It is crass intellectual, political, and rabbinical putrefaction that Hamas does not have the right to fight for what is his; but that Jews have the right to kill for what is not theirs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s see these \u201cself-respecting\u201d(?) intellectuals, politicians, and teachers of religion [and those who parrot them] accept this grotesque monstrosity for themselves that they are trying to foist onto the proud and intrepid Palestinians.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Twistedly, like Saddam Hussein being blamed for the deaths of Iraqi children from US\/UN sanctions, Jewish killing of Palestinian civilians is blamed on Hamas. Why then isn\u2019t Hamas rocketing Jews blamed on these Jews themselves for being occupiers\/usurpers, and the deaths of their children blamed on these Jewish fathers and mothers for setting their children as objects against liberation?). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jews have a right to be there. Not the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 (In this matter of Palestine there are writers \u2013authors, magazines, and newspapers\u2013 who could not write truth\/justice even if truth\/justice was strapped to their fingers; either because of anti-Arab\/anti-Muslim\/anti-Islam bigotry, partisanship, patriotism, or toeing the political line. Whereas such writers may be considered \u201csad\u201d and even \u201cpathetic\u201d the great tragedy is of those writers who could not write this truth\/justice because of having traded their dignity for benefit: in the words of one brilliant poet (quoting from memory) \u201cThe mouth is muzzled by the food it eats\u201d <\/strong><\/span><\/i>(or, in this instance, the hands are crimped by the gifts they take). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 For those familiar with Scripture: \u201cAnd thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous\u201d\u2013Exodus 23:8). And for \u201cyo\u201d judges and Rabbis and Reverends who aspire to having golf-time in Heaven instead of hard-time in Hell this is for you: \u201cthey shall judge the people with just judgment. Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons<\/i>, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the wise\u201d\u2013Deut. 16:18-19).<\/span> Amen!\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 As noted earlier. Lest we forget!It was the Muslim Salahhuddeen Ayyube (Saladin) the majestic conqueror of Jerusalem whose mercy brought Jews back to Jerusalem from where they were barred by the Christians. And this is how Jews repay Muslims\u2019 love and benevolence\u2013dispossess them of their homes, lands, and country, and slaughtering them for sixty years now. But this could hardly have been unexpected considering that (as noted in item # 9) they were treacherous to God\u2013breaking their covenant with Him\u2013and were arrogant\/ ungrateful to their prophet\u2013telling Moses to go and fight while they sit and wait; killed the prophets of God, and even tried to kill God\u2019s \u201conly begotten son,\u201d Jesus); was treacherous towards the Prophet Mohammad; and tried to deceive Muslims; and as M. H. Haykal points out \u201ctheir opposition and hostility were never open;\u201d and in post-1948 Palestine they colluded with France and Britain and attacked Egypt so Britain could \u201coccupy\u201d Egypt\u2019s<\/i><\/strong> Suez Canal; were the first air-plane hijackers in the Mid-East; and provoked the war in Lebanon. And \u201cAriel Sharon\u201d \u201cadvised that the way to deal with demonstrators is to \u201ccut off their testicles\u201d\u201d [wonder what Sharon had in mind to \u201ccut off\u201d from female<\/i> demonstrators]. For a marathon-long list of Jewish atro-cities read Prof. Noam Chomsky, Pirates and Emperors, Old And New, International Terrorism in the Real World<\/i>, if you can digest intellectual and \u201ccivilized\u201d savagery. One instance of this sickening savagery against Arabs noted by the Professor: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThese included regular exercises of humiliation, such as forcing Araboushim to urinate and excrete on one another and crawl on the ground while they call out \u201cLong Live the State of Israel\u201d or lick the earth; or on Holocaust day, to write numbers on their own hands \u201cin memory of Jews in the extermination camps.\u201d\u201d (p. 9).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0And they expect to be viewed through \u201crose-colored glasses\u201d and garlanded with flowery words. (Speak out against their atrocities and they are likely to become faster than Wyatt Earp on the \u201claw-suit\u201d draw). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Truth is truth! Truth is not \u201canti-Semitism\u201d!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Truth is not \u201chatred\u201d!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Notably, Muslims are profiled because of 911).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Ironically\u2013and this is no mockery, only an observation; though some might say it is poetic justice\u2013whereas Ariel Sharon \u201cadvised\u201d to \u201ccut off their (demonstrators) testicles\u201d he now has his brains \u201ccut off\u201d: lying senseless\/comatose in hospital. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Whether we call Him Ishwar, Eli, Yahweh, All\u0101h, Atnatu or Manitou, one by one the arrogant butchers of Palestine (and of the world) are returned to God to toast for their crimes. The magnificence of it is, in the Court of All\u0101h, God, there is no diplomatic immunity, no legal technicality, no hung-jury\/ no mistrial; no bribery; no one to \u201cpressure\u201d or bring \u201ccoercion and duress\u201d on; and no godfather to shield behind his coat \u2013in fact, the godfather would be hustling for a skirt for himself to hide behind\u2013 you did the crime, or was involved in it, you toast the time. And considering that one Divine day is equal to a thousand human years, even if the maximum time spent in Hell is twelve months, in Divine terms that would be 365,000 human years. You\u2019re well crisped!)<\/span><\/p>\n

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19. \u201c\u2026the most sexually repressive people found in the world today \u2013people who are stirred to a killing rage by reruns of Bay-watch<\/i>\u2013 are lured to martyrdom by a conception of paradise that resembles nothing so much as an al fresco bordello.\u201d (And Harris notes from Christopher Luxenburg, \u201ca scholar of ancient Semitic languages,\u201d who \u201cargued\u201d that the Arabic hur <\/i>of the Qur\u2019an which is translated as \u201cvirgins,\u201d means \u201cwhite raisins.\u201d <\/span>(White raisins in paradise sure beats Jewish occupation and humiliation on earth).<\/i> (p. 127).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> Sexually repressive people:<\/strong><\/em> Muslims have been engaged in noble jihad<\/i> before \u201cBaywatch<\/i>! Way long before. It is rather strange that Muslims are \u201csexually repressive\u201d considering that Muslims are allowed up to four wives.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 It would seem to be \u201csexually repressive\u201d for one to hop from bosom to bosom trying to prove his manhood or to bolster his ego or to hide his inadequacy. Or maybe all of these.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(As the ultimate sacrifice one can make towards a cause is the giving up of his life for that cause. Those who are martyred in the cause of Allah must be deemed to have demonstrated the ultimate in faith and action\u2013righteousness. In His Qur\u2019an 2:154 and 3:168 Allah informs us that the martyrs of Islam are not dead but that they are alive. The Prophet Mohammad also taught that Martyrs of Islam are in Paradise: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cNarrated Anas: \u201cHaritha was martyred on the day (of the battle) of Badr, and he was a young boy then. His mother came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of All\u0101h be upon him) and said, \u201cO All\u0101h\u2019s Apostle! You know how dear Haritha is to me. If he is in Paradise, I shall remain patient, and hope for reward from All\u0101h, but if it is not so, then you shall see what I do?\u201d He said, \u201cMay All\u0101h be merciful to you! Have you lost your senses? Do you think there is only one Paradise? There are many Paradises*<\/span> and your son is in the (most superior) Paradise of Al-Firdaus\u201d\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 5, # 318).<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0*<\/span>All\u0101h tells us that Hell has seven gates\u2013(Qur\u2019an 15:44), meaning that there are seven classes of sinners or that sinners are grouped into seven categories. We are also told that there are varying degrees in being a Muslim, according to our deeds\u2013(Qur\u2019an 6:132). Perhaps these \u201cmany Paradises\u201d spoken of by the Prophet are for the Believers according to their righteousness; which would seem to be reason why in the Hereafter there will be those who will continue to strive for the perfection of their \u201clight\u201d (perhaps to attain the highest Paradise of Al-Firdaus); speaking about the Believers All\u0101h says: \u201cTheir light will gleam before them and on their right hands\u2013they will say: Our Lord, make perfect for us our light, and grant us protection; surely Thou art Possessor of power over all things\u201d\u2013Qur\u2019an 66:8).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Paradise that resembles an al fresco bordello: <\/i><\/strong> All\u0101h did not leave the populating of the earth to chance<\/i>, He instilled in us the desire for this companionship (if man came by accident, as atheism believes, chance<\/i> would also have to fashion the abstract as well, and the unseen. And what are the odds of chance<\/i> equipping the species with complimentary genitals and operating systems).\u00a0<\/i> As sex in marriage is Divinely lawful on the earthly plain there is no difficulty if it should be allowed in the spiritual plain. Carnal pleasure in the conjugal bed is<\/i> a form of worship of God\u2013(Genesis 1:28. Qur\u2019an <\/span>25:54; 16:72; 24: 32); but ignorant revile this blessed union as vulgar.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 That hur means \u201cwhite raisins.\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/span> Hur<\/i> means \u201cpure.\u201d The meaning of hur<\/i> in the context refers to \u201cpure; beautiful ones,\u201d as Muhammad Ali has translated\u2013M.A. has explained this term in detail (Qur\u2019an 52:20), his translation of the Qur\u2019an can be viewed online: www.muslim.org<\/span><\/a>. (See also HURS).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 The hurs <\/i>of Paradise are described as having big, beautiful, lustrous eyes\u2013(Yusuf Ali). Of the possibly tens of thousands of raisins I have so far seen, I have yet to see at least one with beautiful big lustrous eyes.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Allah says that dutiful men shall be joined<\/i> with hur<\/i>\u2013(Qur\u2019an 52:20). <\/i>Can you envision men joined <\/i>with \u201craisins\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Allah says that these hurs,<\/i> untouched by man or jinn,\u00a0<\/i>are confined to pavilions\u2013(Qur\u2019an 55:72-74). Have you ever heard of \u201craisins\u201d being \u201cuntouched\u201d by man or jinn and \u201cconfined\u201d to pavilions?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These hurs <\/i>are likened unto hidden pearls\u2013(Qur\u2019an 56:22). Have you ever heard of \u201craisins\u201d likened unto hidden pearls, even though it might have been a \u201cgreat delicacy in the ancient world\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 And the Prophet Muhammad, who is the foremost authority in explaining the Qur\u2019an, said of these hurs<\/i>\u2013\u201cBeautiful fair females\u201d<\/i>\u2013that: \u201cIn Paradise there is a pavilion made of a single hollow pearl sixty miles wide, in each corner of which there are wives<\/i>\u2026.\u201d\u2013(Bokhari, Vol. 6, # 402). Wives not<\/span><\/i><\/strong> raisins. Have you ever heard of raisins being called \u201cwives\u201d even though it might have been a \u201cgreat delicacy in the ancient world\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Even without the above presentation, a few moments head-work would dictate that it is amusing to entertain that All\u0101h would try to attract man \u2013especially the educated and the affluent\u2013 to trade their lives in His cause or to eschew evil with promises of \u201craisins,\u201d be they \u201cwhite,\u201d black, or crimson \u2013literal or metaphorical.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And to know, Islam is the one said to be without \u201creason.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(May be the reason why in these days there are no \u201cwhite raisins\u201d with \u201cbeautiful, big, and lustrous eyes,\u201dis because those unique \u201cwhite-raisins\u201d plants eventually heard through the \u201cgrape-vines\u201d about the fig tree cursed to death by Jesus and they all died from \u201cshock and awe\u201d).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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20. Sam Harris notes some descriptions of Paradise then writes: \u201cwe should observe just how deeply implausible the Koranic paradise is. For a seventh-century prophet to say that paradise is a garden, complete with rivers of milk and honey is rather like a twenty-first-century prophets saying that it is a gleaming city where every soul drives a new Lexus <\/span>(maybe it\u2019s that too and a Harley-Davidson and a yacht).<\/i> A moment\u2019s reflection should reveal that such pronouncements suggest nothing at all about the afterlife and much indeed about the limits of the human imagination.\u201d (pp. 127-128).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> And a few \u201cmoment\u2019s reflection\u201d on the Qur\u2019an would reveal that some verses of the Qur\u2019an are allegorical (Qur\u2019an 3:7), and that descriptions of paradise are figurative expressions:\u201cSo no soul knows what refreshment of the eyes is hidden for them: a reward for what they did\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 32:17. Bokhari, Vol; 6, # 302, 303).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Man can relate to things only in the physical life. To us the ultimate in possessions are gold and precious stones, wealth and carnal pleasure. So Allah relates to us in terms of what we understand. These descriptions of paradise are to let us know that we will receive in Paradise the ultimate in bliss. (See HEAVEN\/ PARADISE).<\/span><\/p>\n

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21. \u201cThe widespread support for Saddam Hussein among Muslims, in response to the American attack upon Iraq, is as good a way of as any as calibrating the reflexivity of Muslim solidarity. Saddam Hussein was, as both a secularist and tyrant, widely despised in the Muslim world prior to the American invasion; and yet the reaction of most Muslims revealed that no matter what his crimes against the Iraqi people, against the Kuwaitis, and against the Iranians, the idea of an army of infidels occupying Baghdad simply could not be countenanced, no matter what humanitarian purpose it might serve. Saddam may have tortured and killed more Muslims than any person in living memory, but the Americans are the \u201cenemies of God.\u201d\u201d (p. 128).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> America did not invade Iraq to liberate Muslims. (The defense was advanced by another source that America was in Bosnia to free Muslims and points out that there is no oil in Bosnia. But did America stop the genocide in Bosnia because of felicity for Muslims or for not wanting anyone else [possibly Iran] to get involved against Serbia which might have caused an all-out war. There is no oil either in Tibet, Myanmar, and Rwanda; but America was\/is not there).<\/span> American-led sanctions and American military excursion have killed more innocent Iraqi\u2019s than Saddam Hussein is said to have killed. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 American machination has \u201cstolen\u201d Palestine from Muslims and given it to Jews and for six decades has aided Jews to occupy and slaughter Muslims. America has subverted Muslim government(s) and strives to control Muslim oil.<\/span><\/p>\n

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22. \u201cIt should be of particular concern to us that the beliefs of Muslims pose a special problem for nuclear deterrence. There is little possibility of our having a cold<\/i> war with an Islamist regime armed with long-range nuclear weapons\u2026What will we do if an Islamist regime, which grows dewy-eyed at the mere mention of paradise, ever acquires long-range nuclear weaponry?\u201d (pp. 128-129).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> Return Palestine to Muslims, stop subverting Muslim government(s) or trying to control them, and desist from controlling their oil and you won\u2019t have to worry about war with Muslims\u2019, \u201ccold\u201d<\/i> or hot. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 It is not \u201cthe beliefs of Muslims\u201d that \u201cpose a special problem for nuclear deterrence,\u201d it is man\u2019s arrogance and injustice that \u201cpose this \u201cspecial problem.\u201d If man would give to others the rights that he exacts for himself there would be no war between nations\u2013cold or hot\u2013and billions will not be blown battling \u201cterrorism.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was no \u201cdewy-eyed\u201d \u201cIslamist regime\u201d that fricasseed conventional Hiroshima and Nagasaki while yet in pajamas and booties, and threatened to atomize Baghdad in its second act of aggression against non-nuke Iraq: it was the clear-eyed deacon of democracy, dishonesty, and hypocrisy that did!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 For the thousand or so years Islam was at the helm man did not need bunkers and bomb shelters and gas masks for protection. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Contrastingly, in its mere three hundred years as lords of the world Western Powers have man scrambling for bunkers, bomb shelters and gas masks; and has stockpiled enough nuclear and biological arms to annihilate the world a million times over. And yet he is not satisfied: still trying to manufacture more. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 There will never be peace unless one gives to others the rights he exacts for himself. There will never be justice so long as there are those dedicated to living off the blood of others.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of bellyaching about hypothetical \u201cdewy-eyed\u201d \u201cIslamists\u201d Sam Harris needs to script and vociferate against the literal powers that be.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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23. \u201cWestern leaders who insist that our conflict is not with Islam are mistaken; but, as I argue throughout this book, we have a problem with Christianity and Judaism as well.\u201d (p. 131).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> These \u201cWestern leaders\u201d are right. And they know from whence they speak. The West\u2019s conflict is with Muslims not with Islam. The nucleus of which is the House of Palestine<\/i> which was \u201cstolen\u201d by the \u201cHouse of the West.\u201d As shown in this presentation there is nothing in Islam to foster \u201cconflict\u201d or \u201chatred\u201d or \u201cinjustice.\u201d In fact, if man would follow Islam he will find his utopia!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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24. \u201cCan anyone point to a greater offender of Muslim dignity than Islamic law itself? <\/span>(Yes! Jewish\/U.S.\/U.N. theft of Palestine and their torturous six decades of sufferings, deaths, and destruction of the Palestinians. Islam does not offend it enhances). <\/i>For a modern example of the kind of society that can be fashioned out of an exclusive reliance upon the tenets of Islam, simply recall what Afghanistan was like under the Taliban. <\/span>(What was the world like before the advent of Islam?\u2013Islam brought light to the world).<\/i> Who are those improbable creatures scurrying about in shrouds and being regularly beaten for showing an exposed ankle? Those were the dignified (and illiterate) women of the House of Islam.\u201d <\/span>(Rubbish! They were of the House of Taliban.<\/span> Islam extricated woman from the bog of degradation in which she was mired under Judaism, Hinduism, and Christianity, and sat her aloft on the throne of dignity and honor. And how do you know these women under the Taliban were illiterate?\u2013they were probably more literate than you)<\/i>.\u201d (p. 131).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> The \u201ctenets of Islam\u201d propelled backward camel drivers into masters of knowledge and into thrones of Caesars. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Islam has liberated Woman and given her rights that leave her nothing for which to strive.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Woman of Islam is not inferior. Woman is not of \u201clower birth\u201d as Hinduism teaches \u2013(Gita 9:32); or of servility as Judaism and Christianity teach\u2013(Gen. 3:16; 1 Tim. 2:11); or guilty of \u2018transgression\u2019 or defiler of man\u2013(1 Tim. 2:14; Rev; 14:4); or wife just \u201cto avoid fornication\u201d\u2013(1 Cor. 7: 2). (See CHRISTIANITY-WOMEN<\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Man and woman were created from the same medium\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:1); both were deceived by the Devil \u2013(2:36; 7:20-22); All\u0101h has established marriage between man and woman\u2013(25:54; 16:72; 24:32. That marriage is a sacred contract in which all avenues of reconciliation are to be explored before dissolution; and that a divorce is the most shameful deed are proofs that there is no \u201ceasy\u201d divorce in Islam); He created woman to be man\u2019s mate, that he might find peace and comfort in her, and has put between them love and compassion\u2013(7:189; 30:21. That woman is a source of peace and comfort condemns the act of marital rape, for any man who forces himself upon his wife, abuses her, causes her distress, or places her under duress, he can not find peace and comfort in her).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Man and woman, created from the same essence\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:1) and instilled with the same laws \u2013such as the five senses, and susceptibilities to hunger and diseases\u2013 one cannot be superior to the other; both have the same faculties and potentials. Whoever develops himself will be superior to the other. This verse shows that from the beginning man and woman are equal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Man is to give reverence to the womb that bore him\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:1)\u2013not to the loins that emitted him. Reverence to the womb is not discrimination, but honor. Allah has listed honor to parents, especially mothers, after worship of Him\u2013(6:152; 17:23; 31:14). The Prophet Mohammad says Paradise lies at the feet of mothers \u2013not the feet of fathers. And that after worship of All\u0101h, next in line for our service is our mother; and three times over before service to our father: thus women have three degrees of excellence over men. Such esteem is not discrimination. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Men and women are garments to the other\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:187)\u2013to protect, beautify, comfort and conceal flaws; such consideration for the other is not oppression. Men and women are friends of the other\u2013(9:71); friendship does not allow oppression. Women have rights similar to those against her\u2013(2:228); people with mutual rights cannot oppress.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Muslim woman can earn, inherit and own property\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:32, 7, 177). Whereas woman has exclusive right to utilize her earnings however she pleases\u2013(4:4, 32), it is incumbent on man to maintain her\u2013(4:34). As every group requires a head, husbands, being the maintainers, are given a degree of superiority over wives \u2013(2:228); but this superiority is no licence to subjugate her: she has rights similar to those against her \u2013(2:228). Woman has moral and spiritual equality with man\u2013(3:194; 4:124; 16:97; 33:35; 40:40). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No religion (or atheism) has done anything remotely close to that which Islam has done for Woman. (See ISLAM-WOMEN<\/span>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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25. \u201c\u2026many Western liberals now blame their own governments for the excesses of Muslim terrorists. Many suspect that we have somehow heaped this evil upon our own heads <\/span>(and they are right \u2013it is Western nations that voted to give more than half of Palestine to Jews; yet they would not give any portion of the natives\u2019 country back to them for a national homeland: not even a \u201cfarthing\u2019s\u201d worth).<\/i> Berman observes, for instance, that much of the world now blames Israel for the suicidal derangement of the Palestinians. Rather than being an expression of mere anti-Semitism (though it is surely this as well) <\/span>(much of the world is correct: who is it that is in occupation of Palestine; and for sixty years have subjected them to brutality and humiliation? The rest of the world that does not share this view should be in the situation of the Palestinians. It is not \u201cderangement\u201d to evict the occupier\/usurper; it is heroism!)<\/i>; <\/span><\/i><\/strong>this view is the product of a quaint moral logic: people are just people, so the thinking goes, and they do not behave that <\/i>badly unless they have some very good reasons <\/span>(the Palestinians have all good reasons and justification to fight the obstacles against liberation)<\/i>. The excesses of Palestinian suicide bombers, therefore, must attest to the excesses of the Israeli occupation <\/span>(and what kind of effort did the Allies direct against German occupation? \u201cAsk yourself, what are the chances\u201d that you would not do as the Palestinians if you were a \u201cpowerless minority\u201d)<\/i>. Berman points pout that this sort of thinking has led the Israelis to be frequently likened to the Nazis in the European press. Needless to say, the comparison is grotesque <\/span>(only where the concentration camp is concerned; though horrific refugee camps are not far behind)<\/i>. The truth is, as Dershowitz points out, that \u201cno other nation in history faced with comparable challenges has ever adhered to a higher standard of human rights, been more sensitive to the safety of innocent civilians, tried harder to operate under the rule of law, or been willing to take more risks for peace.\u201d <\/span>(What a yarn! Provoking defenseless victims \u2013men, women and children\u2013 so you can \u201cattack and smash\u201d them is anything but having \u201cadhered to a higher standard of human rights, been more sensitive to the safety of innocent civilians, tried harder to operate under the rule of law, or been willing to take more risks for peace.\u201d If this is Dershowitz\u2019s defense in his \u201cCase for Israel\u201d he needs the help of Merlin: no man can defend this indefensible U.S.-U.N. gruesome rape of Palestine and her torturous six decades of painful hemorrhaging).<\/i> (pp. 134-135)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> In his book The Question Of Palestine,<\/i> Edward Said noted an interview of May 10, 1978, between Al-Hamishmar <\/i>and \u201cGeneral Gur, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army,\u201d who recounted with unpretentious candor of the Army\u2019s atrocities against civilians. General Gur ended by saying that in the thirty years, since their Independence War, \u201cwe have been fighting against the civilian [Arab] population which inhabited the villages and towns, and every time that we do it, the same question gets asked: should we or should we not strike at civilians?\u201d Summed up, \u201cofficial Israeli military policy has been to attack Arab civilians en masse.\u201d (pp. xi-xii; 224). And as Edward Said pointed out, \u201cnot a single U.S. newspaper\u201d carried this interview. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Regarding the Jewish \u201cunilateral withdrawal\u201d plan from the \u201cOccupied Territories,\u201d columnist Haroon Siddiqui quotes the Jewish State\u2019s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, as saying: \u201cWe would be completely separate from the majority of the Palestinian population and preserve a large and stable majority in Israel.<\/i>\u201d29<\/span><\/sup> And this declaration was made in 2006<\/i><\/strong>. (Italics\/emphasis added).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Professor Noam Chomsky in his book Pirates & Emperors\u2013International Terrorism in the Real World,<\/i> notes as part of the \u201cdoctrine\u201d of Zionism is that the Jewish state \u201cmust remain a state based on the principle of discrimination against non-Jewish citizens.<\/i>\u201d (p. 33. Italics\/emphasis added).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Professor Chomsky has given an insight into the usage of the term \u201cterrorism\u201d: \u201cThe terms \u201cterrorism\u201c and \u201cretaliation\u201d also have a special sense in U.S. New-speak. \u201cTerrorism refers to terrorist acts by various pirates, particularly Arabs. Terrorist acts by the emperor and his clients are termed \u201cretaliation\u201d or perhaps \u201clegitimate pre-emptive strikes to avert terrorism\u201d quite independently of the facts.\u201d(p. 29). (Please read these books \u2013Said\u2019s and Chomsky\u2019s). <\/i><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Plus the daily tribulations the Palestinians face at their Jewish occupiers\/usurpers. It could hardly be trumpeted then that the Jewish state \u201chas ever adhered to a higher standard of human rights, been more sensitive to the safety of innocent civilians, tried harder to operate under the rule of law, or been willing to take more risks for peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The Toronto<\/i> Star \u2013<\/i>Wednesday, April 30, 2008, A familiar song, but in a different land,\u201d by Oakland Ross, p. AA2\u2013 reported that \u201cRAM FM, an English-language\u201d non-political affiliated radio station allowing Jews and Palestinians to voice their views in \u201cIsrael;\u201d were raided by \u201cIsraeli police,\u201d \u201carresting seven\u201d employees \u2013who were \u201cheld overnight and interrogated at length;\u201d and brought in \u201cleg-irons, shackles and hand-cuffs\u201d before a judge\u2013 and \u201cconfiscating $70,000 worth of broadcasting equipment.\u201d With the explanation that RAM FM had \u201cinstalled an unlicensed secondary transmitter\u201d which \u201cinterfered with commu-nications\u201d at the airport.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Employees arrested \u201cheld overnight and interrogated at length\u201d? And brought hog-tied before a judge? And equipment confiscated? All because the boss installed an \u201cunlicensed transmitter\u201d? Whew! Wonder what would have happened if they were suspected <\/i>\u201cterrorists,\u201d or worse, \u201cterrorists\u201d?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 This station was in operation for some \u201ceighteen months.\u201d Is this how long it took to determine that its transmitter was affecting airport communications or was \u201cunlicensed\u201d?\u00a0 Accepting, for the sake of argument that the desert heat may make some officials and\/or workers sleepy and they like to indulge in mighty long siestas. One would expect that the \u201ccivilized\u201d and the \u201cintelligent\u201d not to mention the \u201cdemocratic\u201d <\/i><\/strong>response to such an infraction would first be to instruct the owner to correct the problem. Or, if the interference is dramatic enough, given that people\u2019s lives are in the air (never mind the lives of Palestinians that are on the ground), one can understand booting the employees out and barricading the station. May be even slapping the boss with a fine. But to use Gestapo\/jack-boot measures?<\/span> Lest we forget now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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26. Regarding Palestinians resistance to Jewish occupation, if the situation was reversed, Sam Harris writes: \u201cAsk yourself, what are the chances that the Palestinians would show the same restraint in killing Jews if the Jews were a powerless minority living under their occupation and disposed to acts of suicidal terrorism? <\/span>(At least Sam Harris admits, even if unwittingly, that Jews are occupiers).<\/i> It would be no more likely than Muhammad\u2019s flying to heaven on a winged horse.\u201d (p. 135)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> If this is an attempt to legitimize Jewish occupation of Palestine and\/or justify their callous military attacks on the hapless and defenseless Palestinians, it is a pathetic one. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 First, no Court of Justice would deem as one\u2019s legal property an item acquired through \u201cpressure\u201d or \u201ccoercion and duress\u201d\u2013as was said to have been exerted by the U.S. on certain countries outside the Muslim world in order to effect the Partition of Palestine. (Wonder why Muslims have not challenged this theft of Palestine in the World Court). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Second, a mugger has no \u201cright\u201d whatever to \u201cretaliate\u201d against his victim if his victim turns on him: the mugger being the transgressor to begin with. Likewise, the occupier\/usurper, being the transgressor, has no \u201cright\u201d to \u201cretaliate\u201d against his victim\u2013the occupied. \u201cRetaliation\u201d is the \u201cright\u201d of victims! And in this case, Jewish occupiers\/usurpers of Palestine have NO \u201cright\u201d to \u201cretaliate.\u201d This \u201cright\u201d to \u201cretaliate\u201d is the Palestinians\u2019!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As to \u201cMuhammad\u2019s flying to heaven on a winged horse.\u201d The Prophet Mohammad\u2019s journey to heaven is known as the Isra <\/i>\u2013trip from the Sacred Masjid (the Ka\u2019bah<\/i>) in Makkah to the Remote\/Farthest Masjid (Al-\u2018Aqsa<\/i>, not to be confused with the Dome of the Rock<\/i><\/span>) at Jerusalem\u2013 and the Mi\u2019raj <\/i>\u2013trip to the heavens\u2013(Qur\u2019an 17:1; 53:1-18). Both the Isra<\/i> and the Mi\u2019raj <\/i>are believed to have been undertaken on the same night. The Isra<\/i> is believed to be the first stage in the Prophet\u2019s Mi\u2019raj (Ascension).<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 If chance <\/i>(atheism) can produce a universe of such immensity and beauty; gives forms of symmetry and precision; sight, hearing, speech; complimentary genitals; systems for eating, digesting, evacuating, procreating, suckling; to reproduce in womb and eggs; photosynthesis in plants; bees to make honey; porcupine with quills; skunk with spray; vipers with venom; spider with webs; bat with sonar; magnetism; electricity; oxygen and the several other gases; etc; (and, religiously, if God can take Enoch and Jesus, and Elijah in a \u201cchariot of fire,\u201d to heaven) then certainly All\u0101h the Omnipotent Creator can effect \u201cMuhammad\u2019s flying to heaven on a winged horse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

(Notably, whereas some Muslims are of the view that this journey of the Prophet was physical \u2013undertaken bodily\u2013 others hold it to be spiritual \u2013a vision. Each party citing its own point of reference; though according to a lengthy narration in Bokhari Vol. 9, # 608, this journey seemed to have been a spiritual one, as it records that at the beginning, when the angels came to the Prophet he was \u201csleeping,\u201d and the end records that after this journey \u201cThe Prophet then awoke\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

M. H. Haykal expressed in his book The Life Of Muhammad <\/i>that much of the descriptions surrounding the Mi\u2019raj <\/i>are \u201cthe product of pure imagination.\u201d (p.144).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Whether this journey of the Prophet was literal or visionary is irrelevant; what is of consequence is its significance. As Muhammad Ali explains, the Mi\u2019raj<\/i> \u201cindicated his triumph in the world,\u201d and his being carried to the Mosque at Jerusalem \u201csignified that he would also inherit the blessings of the Israelite prophets,\u201d which finds resonance in Jesus\u2019 prophecy that \u201cThe kingdom of God shall be taken from you (Jews), and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof\u201d\u2013Matthew 21: 43). <\/span><\/p>\n

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27. \u201cThe basis for liberalism in the doctrine of Islam seems meager to the point of being entirely illusory. <\/span>(Which Qur\u2019an have you been consulting).<\/i> \u2026With respect to Islam, the liberal tendency is to blame the West for raising the ire of the Muslim world, through centuries of self-serving conquest and meddling, while conservatives tend to blame other contingent features of Middle East, Arab, or Muslims history. The problem seems to have been located everywhere except at the core of the Muslim faith \u2013but faith is precisely what differentiates every Muslim from every infidel <\/span>(or differentiates every infidel from every Muslim; incidentally, \u201cinfidel\u201d was a Christian term to differentiate non-Christians from Christians)<\/i>. Without faith, most Muslim grievances against the West would be impossible even to formulate, much less avenge.\u201d (pp. 137-138).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> Was it faith that propelled the Allies of World War II against Germany; Britain against Argentina (over the Falklands Island); America to invade Granada and Iraq, and to be in Afghanistan? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Muslim \u201cgrievances against the West\u201d is not about faith, it is mostly about the arrogance and injustice of the West \u2013the theft of Palestine being the nucleus.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 That \u201cThe basis for liberalism in the doctrine of Islam seems meager to the point of being entirely illusory.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 It is this same \u201cliberalism\u201d \u2013of prostitution, narcotics, pornography, and even of drunkenness, etc\u2013 within itself that the West is trying to extricate itself from. It is this same Western \u201cliberalism\u201d that has library-readership under scrutiny; people held with-out charge or trial; and people judged without the accused seeing the evidence against him or without him ever facing his accuser. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Islamic \u201cliberalism\u201d gives us freedom of sobriety, chastity, and society \u2013freedom from<\/i> drunkenness; promiscuity; narcotics; pimping and prostitution; pornography; unwed mothers and fathers and abandoned children and even traumatized individuals (traumatized by not knowing the identity of their biological parents)<\/i>; AIDS; syphilis; gonorrhea; robbers; rapists; murderers; gambling; child pornography; and sexually-diseased children. (Maybe the list is longer. Marathon-long).<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Islamic \u201cliberalism\u201d gives us freedom of government\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:58; 3:158; 5:38; 42: 38); freedom of belief<\/i>\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:256; 3: 20; 9:107-108; 10:99-100; 16:125; 24:54; 50: 45; 76:3; 109:1-6); freedom of movement, thought, and expression\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:140; 6:68, 108; 29:52); freedom in pursuit of knowledge, acquisition of wealth and property\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:274-275, 276-282; 20:114; 35:12; 53:48; 62:10); and the exercise of justice\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:58, 105, 135; 7:29; 16:90; 57:25).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(And whereas Islam has one law for everyone\u2013from King to peasant\u2013the self-styled \u201cdemocracy\u201d has two laws, one for the elite \u2013diplomatic immunity\u2013 and one for the proletariat. Then there is the obscene divorce law that penalizes the man to support his wife for the rest of her unmarried life; even though she may have a legion of bed-mates. There is no system \u2013secular or religious\u2013 on the face of this earth that is superior to the system of Islam<\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

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28. Regarding Noam Chomsky criticism of America\u2019s bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceuticals in Sudan in 1998, Harris in opposing Chomsky\u2019s view, writes: \u201cBut let us now ask some very basic questions that Chomsky seems to have neglected to ask himself: What did the U.S government think it was doing when it sent cruise missiles into Sudan? Destroying a chemical weapons site used by Al Qaeda. <\/span>(\u201cAl Qaeda\u201d could use a similar argument that it was destroying the World Trade Centre because it is the financial heart of the U.S., to collapse its economy, for whatever reason they believe).<\/i> Did the Clinton administration intend<\/i> to bring about the deaths of thousands of Sudanese children? No.<\/span> (\u201cAl Qaeda also could claim it did not \u201cintend\u201d to kill thousands; would it have been accepted if \u201cAl Qaeda\u201d had parachuted the passengers out of the planes and destroyed the WTC before employees arrived?)<\/i>. Was our goal to kill as many Sudanese as we could? No. Were we trying to kill anyone at all? Not unless we thought members of Al Qaeda would be at the Al-Shifa facility in the middle of the night. <\/span>(Couldn\u2019t \u201cAl Qaeda\u201d use the same argument that it believed government\/ military officials were working at the WTC?)<\/i>. Asking these questions about Osama bin Laden and the nineteen hijackers puts us in a different moral universe entirely.\u201d <\/span>(Really? So America, having all manner of armaments, has the right to fly thousands of miles away and bomb the facility of another country, whether it was making pills or plutonium, because it has the right to prevent others from having what it has? And we wonder why the world is so wobbly like \u201cwaltzing mice\u201d. Though this is not to justify the bombing of the WTC).<\/i>(pp. 139-141). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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29. \u201cAs a culture, we have clearly outgrown our tolerance for the deliberate torture and murder of innocents.\u201d <\/span>(But we have not outgrown our \u201ctolerance\u201d to outsourcing them).<\/i> (p. 144)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> What about the \u201ctorture and murder\u201d of mere suspects?\u00a0 Should a state that outsources \u201ctorture and murder of innocents\u201d still be crowned with this honor of having \u201coutgrown\u201d its \u201ctolerance for the deliberate torture and murder of innocents\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

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30. \u201cChomsky might object that to knowingly place the life of a child in jeopardy is unacceptable in any case, but clearly this is not a principle we can follow. <\/span>(Why then condemn \u201csuicide bombers\u201d for causing deaths of Jewish children: their parents have \u201cknowingly\u201d placed them in this \u201cjeopardy\u201d by themselves being occupiers).<\/i> The makers of roller coasters know, for instance, that despite rigorous safety precautions, sometime, somewhere, a child will be killed by one of their contraptions. Makers of automobiles know this as well<\/span> (why then are they sued for selling faulty products? They\u2019re only \u201ccollateral\u201d damage)<\/i>. So do makers of hockey sticks, baseball bats \u2026.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 Where ethics are concerned, intentions are everything.\u201d <\/span>(Didn\u2019t Hitler also have good intentions \u2013producing a super race? Something people seem to be considering now \u2013using DNA technology to customize babies. And using early pregnancy test to abort the \u201cinferior\u201d female).<\/i> (pp. 146-147).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> Whereas a parent (and even a mature child) knows the risk involved and has a choice in buying any of these items, the child (and parents) of \u201ccollateral damage\u201d has no choice in bombs falling on his or her head.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 And if \u201cWhere ethics are concerned, intentions are everything,\u201d why haunt honorable Hitler for holocausting Jews: (nail whatever qualifier you like to this cross of \u201cintentions\u201d), given that both Jews and Christians believe that Jews killed Jesus, the Christians\u2019 son of God (and even God Himself, as Christians believe that Jesus is also God), what nobler \u201cintentions\u201d is there than to scourge the evil that killed the son of God (and even God Himself); thus, rather than crucify Hitler on the dubious cross of \u201canti-Semitism\u201d he should be canonized with the halo of saint-hood.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(All\u0101h revealed, and research has unearthed, that Jesus was not killed or crucified, and that son of God belief is a remnant of paganism\u2013Qur\u2019an 4:157-159; 9:30. Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din has detailed the pagan inheritance of Christianity in his revealing book The Sources of Christianity<\/i>). <\/span><\/p>\n

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31. Unlike a rise in Islamic fundamentalism. Sam Harris, glorifying Jainism, wrote:<\/span> \u201cA rise of Jain fundamentalism would endanger no one. In fact, the uncontrollable spread of Jainism throughout the world would improve our situation immensely. <\/span>(Even more than atheism?)<\/i> We would lose more of our crops to pests, perhaps (observant Jains generally will not kill anything, including insects), but we would not find ourselves surrounded by suicidal terrorists or by a civilization that widely condones their actions.\u201d (p. 148). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Response:<\/span> Then we can all die from starvation!<\/span>\u00a0 After the pests have destroyed all the crops, and as Jainism would not have us kill the cattle (which might already be dead anyway from having no crops to feed on), instead of dying from service to All\u0101h (and service to all honest citizens, in pursuit of the ideals of truth, justice, and freedom) we will all die from stupidity. (Since we will die anyway. Better to die of starvation and reincarnate as a king or even attain moksa <\/i>\u2013liberation from the cycle of deaths and rebirths\u2013<\/span> than eat the cow and risk being reborn as a cockroach, only to be gobbled up by a chicken or be stomped on. Or worse, having to go through the reincarnation chain all over again \u2013from \u201c<\/span><\/span>primitive microbes all the way up the ladder to \u201chuman beings and demi-gods.\u201d<\/span> Though, either way it would all be pointless: there\u2019d be nothing to eat. Not even the insects!)<\/span>\u00a0 We do not need the bomb to annihilate us:<\/span> stupidity is just as lethal<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jainism will also watch the tiger maul the child and will not fire the gun nor throw him a \u201csword\u201d\u2013according to karma, in a past life the child was the tiger mauling the tiger who then was the child; he was now being mauled in repayment of his deeds in an equal and opposite reaction<\/i>. Sam Harris should pray to All\u0101h that he is never in such a need and be surrounded by Jainism.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 The Muslim would do both for you: speed the bullet and swing the \u201cblade.\u201d<\/span> (Yes. Even though your brothers and sisters are occupying\/usurping Muslim Palestine \u2013and even though you may be supporting this occupation\/usurpation\u2013 <\/i>while the world looks on in self-inflicted impotence sanctioning the horrors of it all as the Frankenstein it created runs amok over its helpless and defenseless victims). <\/span><\/p>\n

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32. \u201cAccording to Zakaria, the key to Arab redemption is to modernize politically, economically, and socially\u2013and this will force Islam to follow along the path to liberalism.\u201d (p. 148). <\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> As already shown, Islam is <\/i>\u201cliberalism.\u201d Islam does not have to conform to Muslims; Muslims have to conform to Islam. Had the \u201cArabs\u201d (Muslims in general) not sectified\/polarized themselves and were following Islam they (we) would yet be leaders of the world. The Qur\u2019an gives success\u2013(Qur\u2019an 20:1-2). Muslims are destined to be successful, victorious, and triumphant. Islam is the religion of science and progress.<\/span><\/p>\n

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33. \u201cWe cannot wait for weapons of mass destruction to dribble out of the former Soviet Union \u2013to pick only one horrible possibility\u2013 and into the hands of fanatics.\u201d <\/span>(But who are the \u201cfanatics\u201d \u2013those who fight for their rights or those who deny these rights?)<\/i> (p. 151). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> True. But aren\u2019t those who believe they have the best system and do all they can to impose it onto others also \u201cfanatics\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 China may consider its system to be the best: its people have jobs and wealth (and poverty, as democracies), can worship secretly, and probably the best economy in the world today. Would China be deemed a \u2018fanatic\u2019 for trying to impose its system onto others? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t the U.S. consider itself above the rule of the World Court?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 And if the West believes it has the best system and takes the right to impose it on Muslims, doesn\u2019t Muslims, knowing they have the best system, have the right to impose it upon the West? Why balk then at those Muslims who believe they have the right to impose Islam on other nations (though Islam does not give them this right: the Prophet\u2019s duty was only to deliver the Message not to enforce belief in it)? <\/span><\/p>\n

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34. \u201cIs Islam compatible with a civil society? (And what is a civil society\u2013drunkenness and lewdness?)<\/i><\/span> Is it possible to believe what you must believe to be a good Muslim, to have military and economic power, and to not pose an unconscionable threat to the civil societies of others? I believe that the answer to this question is no (Your belief is wrong. Islam is<\/span> a \u201ccivil\u201d society. Islam is a threat only to the occupier, usurper, oppressor, and exploiter).<\/i><\/span> If a suitable peace (suitable to whom?) <\/i><\/span>is ever to be achieved between Islam and the West, Islam must undergo a radical transformation (wrong! It is the West that needs to undergo a radical <\/i>transformation \u2013she must return Palestine to Muslims, stop running around the world like a \u201cwild ass of a <\/i>m<\/i>an<\/i>\u201d<\/i>*<\/span>: stop assassinating, stop subverting governments and stop trying to control other nations and\/or their resource[s])<\/i>. <\/span>\u2026.Otherwise, we will be obliged to protect our interests in the world with force\u2013continually.\u201d (pp. 151-152).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> This is the pinnacle of arrogance \u2013\u201cour interests.\u201d The fulcrum on which the \u201caxis of evil\u201d revolves. What about the \u201cinterests\u201d of others?\u00a0 The West can have \u201cinterests\u201d in other peoples\u2019 lands, but these people cannot have \u201cinterests\u201d not even in their own lands. \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 *<\/span>(Genesis 16:12, The Torah<\/i>, The Jewish Publication Society Of America).<\/span><\/p>\n

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35. Sam Harris notes: \u201cFundamentalist Christians support Israel because they believe that the final consolidation of Jewish power in the Holy Land \u2013specifically the rebuilding of Solomon\u2019s temple\u2013 will usher in both the Second Coming of Christ and the final destruction of the Jews.\u201d <\/span>(Aren\u2019t Jews here being made into a \u201cpatsy\u201d: prodded to effecting their own annihilation for the benefit of Christians? Instead of accepting Islam, as they are required in their covenant with God, and \u201clive\u201d free of Divine chastisement to the Resurrection, and in peace with Divine favors in this world and the next). <\/i>\u201cAt a 1971 dinner, (President) Reagan told California legislator James Mills that \u2018everything is in place for the battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.\u2019\u201d <\/span>(Christians trying to prepare\/hasten the time and season of God? This is amusing).<\/i> (pp. 153; 266 note 1).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> Christians are expecting Jews to self-destruct so they can sit with Christ in judgment over others, and Jews are expecting a Messiah to come to liberate them. This ought to be interesting \u2013which one will triumph. Bets anyone? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 What does it matter who will be in charge of the Holy Land at Jesus\u2019 supposed<\/i> return? Whether as God, son of God, or as prophet of God he is disposed to truth and justice. Are the prophets of Armageddon dedicated to truth and justice? How rightly Jesus says\u2013about the Day of Judgment (when all people will be called with their respective leaders\u2013Qur\u2019an 17:71\u2013to be witness as to his instructions to them, and they will be seeking their leaders intercession before All\u0101h); Jesus stated it eloquently and unambiguously: \u201cMany will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity<\/i>\u201d<\/strong>\u2013(Matt. 7: 22-23).<\/span> Which words of Jesus finds consonance in the Qur\u2019an 5:116-117: \u201cAnd when All\u0101h will say: O Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men, Take me and my mother for two gods besides All\u0101h? He will say: Glory be to Thee! it was not for me to say what I had no right to (say)\u2026<\/i><\/strong>I said to them nothing save as Thou didst command me: Serve All\u0101h, my Lord and your Lord\u2013<\/i>(see Mark 12:29);\u00a0<\/i>and I was a witness of them so long as I was among them, but when Thou dist cause me to die Thou wast the Watcher over them. And Thou art Witness of all things.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

(Christians are waiting the return of Jesus, but Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses imply that Jesus already returned, though he was \u201cinvisible.\u201d<\/i>30<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Jews are awaiting their Messiah, but the Old Testament does not speak of an eschatological Messiah\u2013coming of a king in the last days\u2013to redeem the Israelites\u2013see Ency, Britannica;<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>15th Edn; Vol; 11; Art; Judaism).<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0God sending a Messiah to redeem Jews and their land would contradict His decree that power and prophethood would be taken from the Israelites, who are to follow Shiloh\u2013(Gen. 49:10); contradict His sending a prophet like Moses, whom the Israelites are to follow\u2013(Deut. 18: 15-19); contradict His sending the Comforter who will give \u201call truth\u201d\u2013(John 14:15-16; 16:12-13); contradict His taking His kingdom from Jews and giving it to an-other people\u2013(Matt. 21:43); contradict His decree that Jerusalem would cease to be the focus of Divine worship \u2013(John 4:21; Isaiah 60:7; 65:15; Haggai 2:9; Malachi 1:11); contradict His sending \u201canother\u201d angel with the \u201ceverlasting gospel\u201d\u2013(Rev.14:6; as the everlasting gospel \u2013the Qur\u2019an<\/i>\u2013was yet to come the <\/span>BIBLE IS RENDERED OBSOLETE<\/span><\/i>);<\/span> and also contradict His decree to chastise Jews to the Resurrection (unless they follow Islam). \u00a0(See JUDAISM).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Regarding \u201cSolomon\u2019s Temple.\u201d All\u0101h, the All-knowing God, tells us in His Qur\u2019an 17:1 that He took the Prophet Mohammad to this shrine which He refers to as a Masjid\/Mosque not \u201cTemple.\u201d This shrine of Solomon in Jerusalem was not present at the time of the Prophet Mohammad\u2019s journey \u2013Isra\/Mi\u2019raj. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 6c. BC, and again in 70 A.C. (After Christ) by the Romans. The Prophet Mohammad was taken to the site of this Masjid\/Mosque.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Since Islam was not yet established how could this shrine of Solomon be called Masjid\/Mosque and not Temple or Synagogue? All prophets are\/were Muslims; they are paternal brothers\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 4 # 651-652). Solomon, though a Jew by nationality, was Muslim by faith. The shrines of prophets, though called by a name according to their languages\/races are in fact Masjids\/Mosques, the name of the shrine of Muslims. Thus, Jewish claim that a \u201cTemple\u201d of Solomon was on the Mount has no Divine foundation. There is no \u201cTemple Mount\u201d but Divinely and correctly \u201cMasjid\/Mosque Mount.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 That the shrines built by Jinns for Solomon are noted as Synagogues\u2013(Qur\u2019an 34:13)\u2013is so because this is the name by which Jewish shrines are known. That this \u2018Masjid\/Mosque on the Mount\u2019 is the \u201cpersonal\u201d shrine of Solomon is evidenced by the fact that it is the only one recognized by Jews as \u201cTemple of Solomon.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And, as Solomon was a Muslim and taught Islam (which does not have a \u201cchosen people\u201d to the exclusion of others; and as Jews believe they are God\u2019s \u201cchosen people\u201d to the exclusion of others which is implying that God is unjust \u2013choosing people on the basis of race, a factor in which we have no choice) Muslims, spiritually, are closer to Solomon than Jews are to Solomon. In fact, those who call themselves Jews may not even be descendants of the Biblical Fathers \u2013Jacob and his twelve sons\u2013 but rather descendants of the eighth-century Khazar, a Turkish tribe that converted to Judaism. (See JUDAISM). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 This Masjid\/Mosque of Solomon is referred to as the Remote\/Farthest Mosque \u2013though there may have been shrines farther than it\u2013 simply because it is a shrine built by a prophet, who was a Muslim, for a prophet\u2013(2 Chron. 6:1-11) and hence a Masjid\/ Mosque. (For more on this see AL-AQSA MOSQUE).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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36. It is no accident that people of faith often want to curtail the private freedom of others.\u201d (p. 159).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> In Islam, unless it affects society, what a person does in the privacy of his home is not a matter for the state. The Prophet is reported as saying that it is permissible to put out the eyes of someone who peeps into your house without your consent\u2013(Muslim, # 5370). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Conversely, government(s) (who are not of \u201cfaith\u201d) \u201ccurtail the private freedom of\u201d prostitutes (criminalizing prostitution: consensual sex between adults);<\/span> marijuana smokers; watchers of kiddie-porn (invading their homes and seizing computers and\/or other materials);<\/span> smokers (banning cigarettes to under 18);<\/span> customers of and keepers of \u201cbawdy-houses\u201d (adults in a private quarter);<\/span> drinkers of alcohol (making it illegal for people under 18 to drink);<\/span> teenagers to have sex (regulating under 18 who they can have sex with);<\/span> monitor what people read and their phone conversations. Perhaps the critic can find more instances of such government(s\u2019) curtailment of the \u201cprivate freedom of others.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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37. \u201cWhile there is surely an opposition between reason and faith ….From the perspective of faith, it is better to ape the behavior of one\u2019s ancestors than to find creative ways to uncover new truths in the present.\u201d (p. 165).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> That Islam does not<\/i> require one to \u201cto ape the behavior of one\u2019s ancestors\u201d is cemented in this verse:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAnd when it said to them, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cFollow what All\u0101h has revealed,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0they say: \u201cNay, we follow that wherein we <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0found our fathers. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0What! Even though their fathers had <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0no sense at all, nor did they <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0follow the right way\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Qur\u2019an 2: 170).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 There may an \u201copposition between reason and faith\u201d in other religions but not in Islam: Islam teaches that reason is the door to All\u0101h, God. Through His Qur\u2019an All\u0101h calls on man to reason, arguments and examples. (The materials on this topic is voluminous. Muhammad Ali has dealt at length with this subject in his comprehensive work The Religion of Islam.<\/i> His translation of the Qur\u2019an can be viewed online: www.muslim.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Those who do not use their reasoning faculty are compared to animals\u2013<\/i>\u201cAnd the parable of those who disbelieve is as the parable of one who calls out to that which hears no more than a call and a cry. Deaf, dumb, blind, so they have no sense;\u201d \u201cThey have hearts wherewith they understand not, and they have eyes wherewith they see not, and they have ears wherewith they hear not. They are as cattle; nay, they are more astray\u201d \u201cSurely, the vilest of beasts, in All\u0101h\u2019s sight, are the deaf, the dumb, who understand not;\u201d \u201cOr thinkest thou that most of them hear or understand? They are but as the cattle; nay, they are further astray from the path\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:171; 7:179; 8:22; 25:44). Seemingly, there is none lower than one who has the capacity of rea-son and does not use it.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h instructs us to pray: \u201cMy Lord, increase me in knowledge\u2013(Qur\u2019an 20:114).<\/span> One who follows blind faith has no need of knowledge.\u00a0 And the noble Messenger of All\u0101h exhorts us to go even to China (meaning even far away) in order to acquire knowledge. And that: \u2018The superiority of the learned scholar over the pious worshipper is as the superiority of the (full) moon over the stars.\u2019<\/span>\u00a0 Muhammad Husayn Haykal notes: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIslam made reason the judge in everything, whether in religion or in conviction and faith itself. God said: \u201cAnd the case of those who disbelieve is like that of a person who hears the sound of a call but who does not distinguish any word or idea. To talk to them is like talking to the deaf, dumb, and blind. Those who disbelieve simply do not use their reason, and neither do they understand\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:171)<\/span>. Commenting on this verse, Shaykh Muhammad \u2018Abduh wrote: \u201cThis verse clearly asserts that taqlid<\/i> (Imitation of the ancestors, conservatism.\u2013Tr.) without reason or guidance is the prerogative of the disbelievers, that man is not a convinced Muslim unless he has reasoned out his religion, known it in person, and become personally convinced of its truth and validity. Whoever, therefore, has been brought up so as to acquiesce without reason and to act without knowledge and wisdom \u2013even though he may be virtuous\u2013 is not a convinced Muslim. Religious conviction does not have for its purpose the subjugation of man to the good as if he were an animal. Rather, its purpose is that man may, by the use of reason and the pursuit of knowledge, rise to the level where he will do the good because he fully knows that it is in itself good and acceptable to God, and avoid the evil because he fully knows its undesirable consequence and harm.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2026.The Qur\u2019an has called upon men to look into the universe and to discover its construction and structure. It commanded men to do so in the conviction that their investigation of the structure of the universe would lead them to the discovery of God as well as of His unicity \u2013May He be adored!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIndeed, the call to look into the universe to discover its laws and to arrive at the conviction that God is its creator is repeated a hundred times in the various Surahs<\/i> of the Qur\u2019an. All these Qur\u2019anic invitations are directed to man\u2019s rational faculties in the expectation that he will consider, search for and discover the truth, so that his religious conviction might be rational and truly supported by the facts. The Qur\u2019an constantly warns its readers not to adopt uncritically and blindly the ideas and prin-ciples of the forefathers, but to have faith in man\u2019s personal capacity to reach the truth.\u201d (The Life of Muhammad<\/i>, pp. 522, 523, 524). \u00a0<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 If Islam had taught that \u201cit is better to ape the behavior of one\u2019s ancestors than to find creative ways to uncover new truths in the present\u201d the Prophet would not have exhorted Muslims to seek knowledge; and Muslims would not have become masters of academic and science.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

38. \u201cBiological truths are simply not commensurate with a designer God, or even a good one. The perverse wonder of evolution is this: the very mechanisms that create the incredible beauty and diversity of the living world guarantee monstrosity and death. The child born without limbs, the sightless fly, the vanished species\u2013these are nothing less than Mother Nature caught in the act of throwing her clay. No perfect God could maintain such incongruities <\/span>(so if people with AIDS produce an \u201cinfected\u201d child, and the women who took the fertility drug, thalidomide, and gave birth to limbless children, God is to be blamed for their defects?)<\/i>. It is worth remembering that if God created the world and all things in it, he created smallpox, plague, and filarias. <\/span>(All\u0101h, God, also created antidotes for these diseases\u2013Bokhari Vol; 7, # 582, 591, man has discovered some. The laws of God are in operation in nature \u2013when two parts hydrogen unites with one part oxygen the result is water\u2013 and if elements that cause smallpox etc; should combine, is God to be blamed? Some of these diseases (like AIDS, syphilis, and gonorrhea) are caused by man violating the laws of nature, whether deliberately or not<\/i>). Any person who inten-tionally loosed such horrors upon the earth would be ground to dust for his crimes.\u201d <\/span>(What about those who loosed the horrors of landmines, agent orange, nuclear bombings, and white phosphorous, etc; why are they not ground to dust for their crimes\u2013instead, they are dressed in silken suits and sitting in palaces blowing fancy smokes and swallowing exotic juices, and plumed as Emperors).<\/i>\u00a0 \u2026The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago \u2013and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since\u2013\u00a0 is no one to consult on questions of ethics. Indeed, to judge him on the basis of his works is a highly invidious undertaking.\u201d <\/span>(If you have two sons and instructed them to avoid crime and drugs, and if one or both of them engages in a life of crime and drugs would you be blamable?)<\/i> (pp. 172-173). <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

39. Sam Harris quotes Bertrand Russell, \u201cApart from logical cogency, there is to me something a little odd about the ethical valuations of those who think that an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent Deity, after preparing the ground by many millions of years of lifeless nebulae, would consider Himself adequately rewarded by the final emergence of Hitler and Stalin and the H-bomb.\u201d This is a devastating observation, and there is no retort to it.\u201d (And whose \u201cethical valuations\u201d are these?)<\/i><\/span> (p. 173).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> Thus, according to atheism, as \u201cThe child born without limbs, the sightless fly, the vanished species \u2013these are nothing less than Mother Nature caught in the act of throwing her clay;\u201d then \u201cHitler and Stalin and the H-bomb,\u201d must also be \u201cclay(s)\u201d thrown off by \u201cMother Nature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 And since it is \u201cMother Nature caught in the act of throwing her clay\u201d why blame Hitler and Stalin and others for their criminalities? In which event the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation is to close shop and make reparations to the Nazis (or their families) they hounded and prosecuted; and \u201cHitler and Stalin\u201d should be canonized; and Spandau prison should be ornated into a shrine to Rudolph Hess. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h created man because He loved to be known<\/i>, as the Prophet Mohammad taught. But All\u0101h did not leave us without purpose: He enjoined on us worship of Him; and the Prophet taught for us to love All\u0101h, and explained that \u2018love of All\u0101h\u2019 means to love His creatures\u2013in other words service to the creatures of All\u0101h is \u2018love\u2019 of All\u0101h\u2019 or \u2018service to humanity is service to All\u0101h\u2019. Further to His creation of man All\u0101h has given him knowledge and guidance between good and evil. Whether man heeds this guidance and puts that knowledge to good usage or evil is in his hands. While atheism let criminals who have escaped human judgment go unaccountable for their crimes, Islam hauls them before the Court of All\u0101h. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(The magnificence of it is, in the Court of All\u0101h there is no diplomatic immunity, no legal technicality, no hung-jury\/no mistrial; no one to buy off; and no godfather to shield behind his coat\u2013in fact, the godfather would be hustling for a skirt for himself to hide behind\u2013you did the crime, or was involved in it, you roast the time. And considering that one Divine day is equal to a thousand human years, even if the maximum time spent in Hell is twelve months, in Divine terms that would be 365,000 human years. Your buns are well toasted!) <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Regarding Sam Harris quoting Bertrand Russell: \u201cthere is to me something a little odd about the ethical valuations of those who think that an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent Deity, after preparing the ground by many millions of years of lifeless nebulae, would consider Himself adequately rewarded by the final emergence of Hitler and Stalin and the H-bomb.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 What makes Bertrand Russell and you believe that \u201cHitler and Stalin and the H-bomb\u201d are the \u201cfinal emergence\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Revealingly, when All\u0101h told the angels that He would be putting a ruler in the earth the angels responded: \u201c\u2018Wilt Thou place in it such as make mischief in it and shed blood? And we celebrate Thy praise and extol Thy Holiness.\u2019 He said: \u2018I know what you know not<\/i>\u2019\u201d \u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:30).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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40. Sam Harris quotes Christopher Hitchens: \u201cwhat can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.\u201d (p. 176).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> Thus, atheism can be \u201cdismissed without evidence.\u201d All\u0101h has proved his existence through the Qur\u2019an. Islam does not<\/i> oppose evolution. As to the critic\u2019s claim that the Qur\u2019anic expressions are \u201cputative:\u201d it is the miracle of miracles that statements on science, and history \u2013Pharaoh\u2019s body saved, Roman victory over Persia, Alexander the Great, Jesus not killed\/crucified\u2013 coming from the mouth of an unschooled desert dweller have proved true. (See QUR\u2019AN-SCIENCE; QUR’AN-PROPHECIES; CREATION OR EVOLUTION<\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

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41. \u201cRather than find real reasons for human solidarity, faith offers us a solidarity born of tribal and tribalizing fictions. \u2026 religion is one of the great limiters of moral identity, since most believers differentiate themselves, in moral terms, from those who do not share their faith.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> Islam which reveals that all men are created equal (Qur\u2019an 95:4), that we are made into different tribes and nations that we may know one another (49:13), all people were given prophets\/mes-sengers 6:42; 10:47), all people given acts of worship (5:48; 22: 34, 67), not to revile the false gods of others (6:108), all religions are for All\u0101h (8:39), we are to be judged not by our race, color or nationality but by our deeds (6:133), that angels ask forgiveness for all mankind (42:5), that the noblest ones are those who are righteous (49:13, 98:7), to return evil with that which is better (23:96), to give justice (4:58; 5:8); because All\u0101h, God, loves those who judge in equity, and because All\u0101h, God, is aware of what you do<\/span> (5:45, 4:135)\u2013is <\/i>for \u201chuman solidarity,\u201d and is the enhancer of \u201cmoral identity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Islam which stresses the fulfilling of covenants, keeping of oaths and not to be deceptive (Qur\u2019an 16:91-92); to not let hatred for a people incite you to transgress (5:2); to render back trusts to whom they are due, and to judge justly (4:58); because Allah God loves those who judge in equity<\/span> (5:45-47)\u2013is <\/i>for \u201chuman solidarity,\u201d and is the enhancer of \u201cmoral identity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Islam which admonishes against dealing unjustly with men (Qur\u2019an 2:279, 5:8); and not to rob them of their dues (26:183); to give justice even if it be against one\u2019s self or parents or kins or whether he be poor or rich (4:135), encourages the feeding of the needy and the poor, to free the captives, to help those in debt, to care for the orphans, the wayfarer, and to free the slaves (9:60, 2:177), not to act corruptly in the earth or to make mischief (26:183); not to be transgressors (2:190); to restrain our anger and forgive others (3:133), to fight on behalf of the oppressed (4:75); because Allah God loves those who are just, and because He commands justice and the doing of good, and He forbids injustice<\/span> (60:8, 16:90)\u2013is <\/i>for \u201chuman solidarity,\u201d and is the enhancer of \u201cmoral identity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Islam which forbids against helping one another in sin, and to not counsel one another in sin, but in goodness (Qur\u2019an 5:2; 60:8-9); not to take a greater recompense than the injury suffered (2:194; 16:126; 42:40); that instead of retaliation, to make recon-ciliation, and to show patience and forgiveness (16:126; 42:39-43); to be merciful and forgiving (3:133); to fight only as long as there is persecution and oppression (2:193), and to make peace when the enemy desires peace (4:90, 8:61); because Allah God loves the doer of good, and the dutiful<\/span> (2:195, 3:75)\u2013is <\/i>for \u201chuman solidarity,\u201d and is the enhancer of \u201cmoral identity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Islam also teaches against wastefulness\u2013(3:139; 6:142; 7:31; 32:7). And of the conservation and protection of the environ-ment:, the Prophet Mohammad is reported to have said: \u201cIf any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity\u201d\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 8, #41). The Prophet is also reported to have said: \u201cIf the Hour is about to take place while any one of you has a sapling in his hand, which he can cultivate before it takes place, let him cultivate it for he will be rewarded for it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Muslims are urged to save water even if they have a river at their disposal. They are cautioned not to urinate in standing water, and, in times of war to avoid the cutting down of trees. Islam also issued guidelines for the protection of other beings. Allah God says in the Qur\u2019an: \u201cAnd there is no animal in the earth, nor a bird that flies on its two wings, but (they are) communities like yourselves…\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 6:38).<\/span> And these creations, along with man, submit in prayer to Him\u2013(Qur\u2019an 24:41).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As all other beings form communities as man, it is only just that they are accorded the rights to existence and dignity similar to those given to humans. There are several sayings of the Prophet Mohammad, regarding this right and dignity of lower animals. Once, after a vision of the Hereafter, he is reported as saying: \u201cI saw a woman and a cat was lacerating her with its claws. On enquiring, it was said that the woman had imprisoned the cat till it died of starvation and she neither fed it nor freed it so that it could feed itself\u201d\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 1, # 712).<\/span> A man was granted forgiveness for giving water to a thirsty dog. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Prophet was asked if there was a reward in serving animals. To this the Prophet is reported to have replied, \u201c(Yes) There is a reward for serving any animate (living being\u201d)\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 8 # 38). The Prophet also forbade the shooting of tied or confined animals; the cutting of the limbs or other parts of live animals; and the beating of animals on the face\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 7 # 421; 424; 449). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 As the noble Messenger of Allah God says: \u201cHe who is not merciful to others, will not be treated mercifully\u201d \u2013(Bokhari Vol. 8 # 42).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It cannot honestly be denied that the world today would benefit from a massive dose of Islamic values.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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42. \u201cNeedless to say, the suffering of those who are destined for hell can never be as problematic as the suffering of the righteous If certain people cannot see the unique wisdom and sanctity of my religion, if their hearts are so beclouded by sin, what concern is it of mine if others mistreat them\u201d (p.177).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> The \u201cIslamic\u201d response in item # 41 debunks such a view. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Muslims are required to teach the Divine Message to mankind \u2013not to enforce it or to be indifferent to their suffering\u2013<\/span> and, as angels pray for all mankind, to ask All\u0101h, God, to open the hearts of all people to Islam; to give justice to all irrespective of race, color or creed, and even against one\u2019s self; and to fight on behalf of the oppressed. <\/span><\/p>\n

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43. On the \u201cticking-bomb\u201d terrorist: \u201cImagine that a known terrorist has planted a large bomb in the heart of a nearby city. This man now sits in your custody. As to the bomb\u2019s location, he will say nothing except that the site was chosen to produce the maximum loss of life. Given this state of affairs\u2013in particular, given that there is till time to prevent an imminent atrocity\u2013it seems there would be no harm in dusting off the strapado<\/i> and exposing this unpleasant fellow to a suasion of bygone times.\u201d (pp. 192-193).\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> If it is acceptable to inflict torture to save others. Then consider the scenario in which a mass-murderer went to his execution refusing (even under torture) to give to the families of his vic-tims the locations where he disposed of his victims. The parents and families of these victims, desiring to give their beloved sons and daughters a decent burial, would have the right to torture the murderer\u2019s lawyer \u2013if they believe the lawyer was given this information by his murderous client, and believe that because of lawyer-client confidentiality and him wanting to not tarnish his reputation and lose business, would not want to divulge this information\u2013<\/span> to obtain the locations of his victims. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 And if the murderer had gone to \u201cconfession\u201d before his execution, the parents and families of these victims would the right to torture this priest\u2013if they believe the priest was given this information by the murderer and that the priest would not want to divulge this information because of priest-sinner confidentiality\u2013to obtain the locations of their beloved ones. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The question that needs to be addressed is, why is this man \u201cterrorist\u201d and trying to kill innocents? If he is \u201cterrorist\u201d because of your injustice and is trying to kill innocents of yours because you are responsible for killing innocents of his how can torturing him be justified? (Though this does not justify him killing innocents).<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 If he is \u201cterrorist\u201d because of your injustice, so it is acceptable to kill the innocents of his but when he tries to kill the innocents of yours in revenge you want to torture and\/or kill him; let\u2019s see the man (and woman) that would accept for himself and herself such a gruesome monstrosity.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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44. \u201cGiven the damage we were willing to cause to the bodies and minds of innocent children in Afghanistan and Iraq, our disavowal of torture in the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed seems perverse. If there is even one chance in a million that he will tell us something under torture that will lead to the further dismantling of Al Qaeda, it seems that we should use every means at our disposal to get him talking.\u201d (p. 198).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Response:<\/span> What makes you think Al Qaeda wouldn\u2019t\/haven\u2019t change its plans?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The question that needs to be answered is why did this man become a \u201cterrorist\u201d? Is he \u201cterrorist\u201d by choice or is he the product of the machinery that wants to torture him? If he is the product of the machinery that seeks to torture him how can torturing him be justified \u2013this would be like the creator of Frankenstein blaming Frankenstein for what Frankenstein is.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 In his book Why Terrorism Works<\/i>, (p. 148) Alan M. Dershowitz gives a similar argument for \u201ctorture;\u201d he notes: \u201cWhat moral principle could justify the death penalty for past individual murders and at the same time condemn nonlethal torture to prevent future mass murders?\u201d Nonlethal torture is explained as \u201csterilized needle being shoved under the fingernails.\u201d (And to know, we were horrified at bamboo slivers \u201cshoved under the fingernails\u201d of prisoners).<\/span> And if they <\/i>should torture us<\/i> as \u201csuspected\u201d spies? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 There is no comparison between these pictures Dershowitz that has painted. In the first, killing was committed. Punishment for unjustly taking the life of another is forfeiting of your own life\u2013(Genesis 9:6; Exodus 21:12). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Is it possible to tell one\u2019s tolerance to \u201cnonlethal\u201d torture to ensure it will not result in death?\u2013the torturer will become a murderer and subject to forfeiting his life. If the person is a suspect<\/i> an innocent would have been tortured (and killed)\u2013this may give birth to another \u201cterrorist,\u201d in revenge. If one is a convicted terrorist<\/i> there is no certainty he has information about future terrorism \u2013he would be unjustly \u201ctortured.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If one is a convicted terrorist<\/i> there is no certainty he has information about future terrorism \u2013he would be unjustly \u201ctortured.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 If \u201ctorture\u201d is justified to prevent future murders, then, if there is a clever lawyer who have murderers<\/i> set free (some who may have committed \u201cmass murders\u201d) members of the victims (and society) would have the right to subject the lawyer to what is needed to obtain information on the guilty ones, and also that the lawyer does not defend \u201cfuture\u201d murderers; as well as to have this lawyer reveal how many murderers went free because of his defending them. (It is doubtful that victims and\/or their families would care any about lawyer-client privilege; all they would care about is to get the criminals out of society. After all these criminals might be right now stalking them or their daughters or other members of their families. The victims and\/or their families may even be ready to \u201cshove\u201d lethal non-sterilized needle or bamboo sliver under the fingernails of this lawyer in order to have him fess up). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Injustice is the incubator of terrorism. It is not terrorism to fight the occupier, transgressor, and usurper. It is heroism!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 If man would extend to others the rights he exacts for himself billions will not be blown battling \u201cterrorism.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 (A word on capital punishment. While it is understandable that individuals who are convicted on circumstantial evidence should not be executed; there is no justification for not executing those clearly guilty of pre-meditated murder; the murder of children, the elderly, and those engaged in law enforcement. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0As for those who view capital punishment as barbaric. So, it is barbaric to take the life of people. But it is not barbarism to cut the necks of the dumb, innocent birds and animals to satisfy the mouth and belly. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Should the murderer(s) facing life imprisonment desire another spree at crime, he only needs to be a \u201cgood\u201d inmate till he is paroled. Then, he can again kill, and murder, and rob and be on the lam till he is again caught. Taxpayers \u2013which may include victims and their families \u2013will end up being hosed a second round to ensure his proper defense. Then end up being further squeezed to finance his feed, house, and clothing and maybe even gym, television and library facilities, which some of the taxpayers cannot afford for themselves and children. In short, victims are penalized to defend and maintain their villains. What \u201cmoral principle\u201d or what basic intelligence would succumb to this monumental idiocy?) <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

45. \u201cGandhi was undoubtedly the twentieth century\u2019s most influential pacifist. The success he enjoyed in forcing the British Empire to withdraw from the Indian subcontinent brought pacifism down from the ethers of religious precept and gave it new political relevance.\u201d <\/span>(Pity this pacifism didn\u2019t work for King in the U.S. It is doubtful that South Africa would have gotten rid of the scourge of apartheid if she had stooped to pacifism instead of brandishing the blade. And, but for the Mao-Mao the British Union Jack might still be flying over Kenya)<\/i>. (p. 202).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> Much hoopla is heaped on Gandhi\u2019s non-violence. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 With no disrespect to Gandhi, India achieved independence because Gandhi was dealing with a civilized nation, Britain. Dictators would make \u2018stew\u2019 of \u201cnon-violence.\u201d V. M. Tarkunde points out in his book, Radical Humanism,<\/i> (p.33): \u201cIndia\u2019s national independence was the result, not so much of Gandhi\u2019s civil disobedience, as of the economic and political changes which occurred in the world and in Great Britain itself during the anti-fascist World War. The ineffectiveness of civil disobedience against a ruthless and unprincipled authoritarian rule was demon-strated during the Emergency which was enforced in India in 1975 by Indira Gandhi.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Same goes for Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. After fifty years, and in the bulwark of democracy (or as 9\/11 has shown it\u2019s just \u2018bul\u2019) King\u2019s \u201cdream\u201d is yet a \u201cdream.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Non-violence will not avail against head-hunters. It will get smoked.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

46. Padmasambhava,<\/i> (8th. century) was an \u201cIndian Buddhist mystic.\u201d His teachings seem to include \u201cTantric ritual, worship and yoga.\u201d (Ency Brit<\/i>;). <\/span>Sam Harris notes the following teaching about the \u201cnature of consciousness\u201d by Padmasambhava.<\/i> He wrote (Brackets are his): \u201cThe following text was found with closed eyes, on the first attempt, from among scores of books. I invite the reader to find anything even remotely like this in the Bible or the Koran.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0[I]n the present moment, when (your mind) remains in its own condition without constructing anything,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Awareness at that moment in itself is quite ordinary.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0And when you look into yourself in this way nakedly\u00a0\u00a0 (without any discursive thoughts),<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Since there is only this pure observing, there will be found a lucid clarity without anyone being there who is the observer;<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Only a naked manifest awareness is present.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(This awareness) is empty and immaculately pure, not being created by anything whatsoever.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0It is authentic and unadulterated, without any duality of clarity and emptiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is not permanent and yet it is not created by anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0However, it is not a mere nothingness or something annihilated because it is lucid and present.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0It does not exist as a single entity because it is present and clear in terms of being many.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(On the other hand) it is not created as a multiplicity of things because it is inseparable and of a single flavor.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0This inherent self-awareness does not derive from anything outside itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0This is the real introduction to the actual condition of things.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013-Padmasambhava.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 One could live an eon as a Christian, a Muslim, or a Jew and never encounter any teachings like this about the nature of consciousness. The comparison with Islam is especially invidious, because Padmasambhava was virtually Muhammad\u2019s contemporary.\u201d (p. 216). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> Mohammad also meditated. Perhaps he also experienced this \u201cnature of consciousness.\u201d One thing for certain we do know, he gave us better than the \u201cnature of consciousness.\u201d In fact, Mohammad has given us what no man has given us: past, present, and future \u2013as there is no other Divine Messenger to come after Mohammad!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The Qur\u2019an is a Book of social, moral, spiritual, and intellectual guidance, for the benefit of self, society and the world. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Mohammad meditated and worked; he fought wars to end injustice; brought man from the degradation of idolatry and man-worship and the irrationality and futility of polytheism; enthro-ned woman; liberated the slaves; ennobled the orphans; reshapened the altars of drunkenness and profligacy into shrines of sobriety and chastity; transformed tribal cut-throats into a nation of peace, unity and love; brought knowledge that catapulted backward camel drivers into thrones of Caesars and pioneered the way for world enlightenment (perhaps even benefiting Padmasambhava). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mohammad\u2019s teachings brought developments to History and Geography, Political Economy and Sociology, Medicine and Pharmacy, Chemistry and Botany, Hospitals, Astronomy, Mathematics, Fine Arts, Education, Science and Learning \u2013in fact, all branches of science. (And perhaps even the typewriter so one can quickly churn out volumes criticizing him).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cNever has a people been led more rapidly to civilization, such as it was, than were the Arabs through Islam.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cAnd to it was also indirectly due the marvellous development of all branches of science in the Moslem world.\u201d31<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Mohammad, through the Qur\u2019an, taught us the three stages of the development of the soul to its perfection \u2013(Qur\u2019an 12:53; 75:2; 89:27); and has guided us on the path to meet God\u2013the ultimate bliss\u2013(Qur\u2019an 6:31; 10:45; 19:95; 33:44; 36:55-58). All\u0101h has created everything in the heavens and the earth for our use\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:29; 22:65; 31:20; 45:12-13); will make Muslims rulers in the earth\u2013(Qur\u2019an 24:55); and the inheritors of Paradise \u2013(Qur\u2019an 23:8-11; 43:70;58:22; 78:31-36; 85:11)\u2013thus Muslims have the best of both worlds <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Mohammad, through the Qur\u2019an, liberates woman\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:187; 4:19-22); exalts her\u2013(4:1; 9:71-72); gives her equality in material, moral and spiritual matters\u2013(4:32, 7-10, 176-177; 3: 195; 33: 35; 4:124; 16:97; 43:70); honors her\u2013(4:1); makes her a garment to man as he is hers\u2013(2:187); gives her mutual rights\u2013(2:228); makes her a protector of man as he is hers\u2013(9:71); and establishes her as a source of bliss\u2013(7:189; 30:21). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Mohammad, through the Qur\u2019an, made service to parents next to service to God\u2013(Qur\u2019an 17:23; 31:14). (Islam honors woman-hood as the symbol of purity and motherhood as the gateway to Paradise).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Mohammad, through the Qur\u2019an, taught to deal justly (Qur\u2019an 2:279, 5:8); not to rob men of their dues (26:183); to give justice even if it be against one\u2019s self, parents, kins, or whether he be poor or rich (4:135; 4:58; 5:8); encourages feeding the needy and the poor, free the captives, help those in debt, care for the orphans, the wayfarer, and to free slaves (9:60, 2:177), not to act corruptly in the earth or make mischief (26:183); not to trans-gress, or aid in sin and aggression (2:190; 5:2); to restrain anger and forgive (3:133); to fight on behalf of the oppressed (4:75); not to take a greater recompense than the injury suffered (2:194; 16:126; 42: 40); instead of retaliation to reconcile, be patient and forgive (42:39-43; 24: 22; 3:133); to return evil with that which is better (23:96); to be merciful and forgiving (3:133); to fight only as long as there is persecution (2:193); to make peace when the enemy desires (4:90; 8:61); freedom of religion\u2013(2:256; 9:107-108; 10:99-100; 18:29; 24:54; 42:15; 50:45; 64:12; 109:1-6); freedom of movement, thought, and expression\u2013(4:140; 6:68, 108; 29:52); the pursuit of knowledge, and the acquisition of wealth and property\u2013(2:274-275, 276-282; 35:12; 53:48; 62:10); to choose only those worthy of power and to exercise justice\u2013(4:58); to govern by consultation\/counsel\u2013(3:158; 5:38; 42:38); that we are made into different tribes and nations that we may know one another (95:4, 49:13); are to be judged by deeds (6: 133); the noblest are those who are righteous (49:13, 98:7).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 What other teachings more can there be to effectuate eternal life; and to effectuate peace and justice and tenderness and benevolence in the domestic and in the world?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cOne could live an eon (nay, one could live many eons) as a\u201d Buddhist or atheist \u201cand never encounter any teachings like\u201d Mohammad\u2019s in Buddhism or in atheism or in Padmasambhavaism<\/i> or in Harrisism.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Glory, praise, and thanks be to All\u0101h<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0for sending us Mohammad.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Honors unto Mohammad<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0for bringing the world to our feet<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0and eternity to our arms.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

47. \u201cA kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous.\u201d (p. 221).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> As shown in this presentation Islam has belied such a claim. Islam is <\/i>for intellectual advancement and sound government.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Islam is democracy, socialism, and dictatorship, all delicately balanced together. Islam is:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013democracy:<\/i><\/strong> in that it allows one freedom of religion\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:256; 9:107-108); freedom of movement, thought, and expression [though freedom of expression even in modern advanced societies would seem to have its limit when it advocates anarchy, and when it proves slanderous]\u2013(4:140; 6:68, 108; 29:52); the pursuit of knowledge, and the acquisition of wealth and property\u2013(2:274-275, 276-282; 35:12; 53:48; 62:10); to choose only those worthy of power and to exercise justice\u2013(4:58); to govern by consultation\/counsel \u2013(3:158; 5:38; 42:38). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(It is to be noted that Islamic democracy is unlike secular democracy. In secular democracy there are opposition parties, the laws are man-made; and laws usually are determined by the will of the majority\u2013e.g. capital punishment; abortion. In Islam, since the laws are Divine injunctions, and are not based on the will of the majority, there is no need for an opposition. In the cases where secondary laws are required, owing to the progress of society, the legislation of such laws are not governed by the dictates of the majority, but are based on the principles of the Qur\u2019an, and are formulated through consultation. Thus, under Islamic democracy there is no marginalization of any sector of society: one cannot prove his judgment\/belief superior to the teaching of the Qur\u2019an).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013socialism:<\/i><\/strong> in that it is the duty of the State to utilize its income from the people (their Zakat\/compulsory charity)\u2013(Qur\u2019an 9:60) to generate wealth for the welfare of its population and to care for the poor as well as the orphans.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013dictatorship<\/i>: <\/strong>whereas in secular dictatorship all power is held by a single person or a small party. In Islam, leadership is chosen by the people and the people are governed, not by the dictates of the leadership, but by the Qur\u2019an<\/i> and Sunnah<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Islam is dictatorship in that the Leader (Caliph) rules for life, so long as he does so within the framework of Islam. No one (except crooks, maybe) would want to replace a just ruler.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 As Shari\u2019ah<\/i> is based on the Qur\u2019an in which there is no injustice, the opinions of jurists in Shari\u2019ah <\/i>that discriminate are to be removed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

48. Blasphemy. (p.224)<\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> There is no Qur\u2019anic order to kill blasphemers. All\u0101h reveals in His Qur\u2019an that: \u201cwhen you hear the Signs of God being denied and mocked at, sit not with them until they enter into some other talk\u201d\u2013(4:140. Also 6:68). And, \u201cRevile not those whom they call upon besides Allah, lest they out of spite revile Allah in their ignorance\u201d\u2013(6:109). Clearly, there is no order to kill the deniers\/ mockers\/revilers<\/i> of Allah. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 All\u0101h says: \u201cThey do blaspheme who say: \u201cGod is Christ the son of Mary.\u201d \u201cThey do blaspheme who say: God is one of three in a Trinity\u2026\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 5:75, 76). If there was a law against blasphemy in Islam, according to these two verses there probably would have been no Christians in the dominion of the Prophet Mohammad during his reign; neither would there have been any Christians in the countries ruled by Muslims: they would either have had to revert to Islam, flee, or face imprisonment or death.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 All\u0101h says that Muslims will face \u201cmuch abuse\u201d from the People of the Book and the idolaters; but they must be \u201cpatient and keep your duty\u201d (there is no order to kill)<\/i>\u2013(Qur\u2019an 3:185).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Allah says: \u201cAnd those who molest the Messenger of Allah, for them is a painful chastisement\u201d (this is a Madinan chapter revealed \u201cin the ninth year\u201d of the Hijrah, near the end of the Prophet\u2019s mission. And there is no order to kill<\/i>\u2013(Qur\u2019an 9:61). Even in the early Madinan chapter, there is no order to kill those who \u201cannoy\u201d the Prophet: they are \u201ccursed\u201d and would receive \u201can abasing chastisement\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 33:57). (There is a law of blasphemy in Judaism and Christianity, See ISLAM-BLASPHEMY).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

49. \u201cIt is time we acknowledged that no real foundation exists within the canons of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any of our other faiths for religious tolerance and religious diversity.\u201d (p. 225).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> Such an ignorant view of Islam has already been debunked in item # 41. Only one paragraph need be entered here to show that Islam is <\/i>for \u201creligious tolerance and religious diversity\u201d: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All men are created equal (Qur\u2019an 95:4), we are made into different tribes and nations that we may know one another (49:13), all people were given prophets\/messengers 6:42; 10:47), all people given acts of worship (5:48; 22:34, 67), not to revile the false gods of others (6:108), all religions are for All\u0101h (8:39), we are to be judged not by our race, color or nationality but by our deeds (6:133), that angels ask forgiveness for all mankind (42:5), that the noblest ones are those who are righteous (49:13, 98:7), to return evil with that which is better (23:96), to give justice (4:58; 5:8); because All\u0101h, God, loves those who judge in equity, and because All\u0101h, God, is aware of what you do (5:45, 4:135). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 That \u201cno real foundation exists within the canons of Christianity, Islam, Judaism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Firstly, that which Jews and Christians believe \u2013that Jews are God\u2019s chosen people to the exclusion of other people; and that Jesus is Divine, inherited sin and vicarious atonement; respectively, are not teachings of the Bible. These doctrines have no Divine foundation, no prophetic foundation, no logical foundation, and are repugnant to reason. These doctrines are assumed and propagated as Divine truths. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Secondly, Judaism and Christianity may not share any \u201cfoundation\u201d with Islam \u2013as Jews do not believe in Jesus and Mohammad, and Christians do not believe in Mohammad\u2013 but Islam does<\/i> share \u201cfoundation\u201d in Divine \u201cJudaism\u201d and Divine \u201cChristianity\u201d: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cHe (All\u0101h) has made plain to you (Mohammad)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0the religion which He enjoined upon Noah<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0and which We have revealed to thee, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0and which We enjoined on Abraham <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0and Moses and Jesus \u2013to establish religion <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0and not to be divided therein\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Qur\u2019an 42:13)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

50. \u201cThe only angels we only need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith<\/i>, which is surely the devil\u2019s masterpiece <\/span>(If there is no God from whence the devil?)<\/i>. (p. 226).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> As shown, Islam is the \u201cfaith\u201d<\/i> that promotes \u201creason, honesty, and love;\u201d and conducts the noble jihad <\/i>against \u201cignorance, hatred, (and) greed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

51. Harris notes that he also received correspondent \u201cfrom Muslims who agree with my general disparagement of their religion.\u201d (Afterword,<\/i> p. 229).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> Such an agreement by Muslims is a sad reflection of their pathetic level of knowledge of our religion. Such Muslims would do well to invest some time in learning our religion than have their intellect blinded by dazzling literature (and speech).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

52. Sam Harris: \u201c\u2026religious faith is the belief in historical and metaphysical propositions without sufficient evidence. When the evidence for a religious proposition is thin or nonexistent, or there is compelling evidence against it, people invoke faith \u2026. Faith is simply the license they give themselves to keep believing when reasons fail.<\/i> When rational inquiry supports the creed it is championed, when it poses a threat, it is derided; sometimes in the same sentence. Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dan-gerously over our world.\u201d <\/span>(Please give examples of these inquiries that threaten religion\/Islam. This may be true of other religions but not of Islam).<\/span><\/i> (pp. 232-233<\/span>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> Blind Faith is no passport to paradise: Reason is the door to God.\u00a0<\/span> The atheist can deny the existence of God; the atheist cannot disprove the existence of God. Throughout the Qur\u2019an All\u0101h calls on man to belief <\/i>through reason, arguments and examples. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Belief<\/i> in All\u0101h means: All\u0101h is One and Only; the Eternal, Absolute; on Whom all depend; He begets not; nor is begotten; there is none like Him; He incarnates not; has no \u201cchosen people\u201d to the exclusion of others; needs no \u201csatisfaction\u201d to forgive sins; belief in all His Angels; Books; Prophets; Resurrection; Judgment; Heaven and Hell. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Faith<\/i> does not mean acceptance of Allah without proof of His existence. All\u0101h has proven His existence through the Qur\u2019an. The Qur\u2019an makes scientific pronouncements, prophecies and gives insights to the Doomsday. (See QURAN).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Maurice Bucaille on the Prophet and Qur\u2019an:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important author, in terms of literary merit, in the whole of Arabic literature? How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human being could possibly have developed at the time,<\/span><\/i> and all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncements on the subject<\/i>?\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIn view of the level of knowledge in Muhammad\u2019s day, it is inconceivable that many of the statements in the Qur\u2019an which are connected with science could have been the work of man.<\/span><\/i> It is, moreover, perfectly legitimate, not only to regard the Qur\u2019an as the expression of a Revelation, but also to award it a very special place, on account of the guarantee of authenticity it provides and the presence in it of scientific statements which, when studied today, appear as a challenge to explanation in human terms.\u201d <\/span>(The Bible, The Qur\u2019an and Science, <\/i>pp. 125, 251-252. Emphasis, \u201cred\u201d added).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Reason also dictates that creations could not have come by chance.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>It would be a subjugation of reason to entertain that <\/span><\/span>chance<\/i> could give forms of symmetry and precision; sight, hearing, speech; equip us with genitals; systems for eating, digesting, evacuating; procreating, suckling; reproduce in the womb and in eggs; instill the system of photosynthesis; equip bees to make honey; porcupine with quills, skunk with spray, vipers with venom; spider with webs, and bat with sonar. Etc\u2026.. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 While many religious beliefs \u201chave been swept away by the new physics\u201d\u00a0findings, such as the \u201cexistence of mind, for example, as an abstract, holistic, organizational pattern, capable even of disembodiment, refutes the reductionist philosophy that we are all nothing but moving mounds of atoms.\u201d32<\/span><\/sup> \u201cEverything we see in the sky, like everything on earth, happens in a rational orderly way.\u201d33<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Twentieth-century man discovers what the Seventh century denizen of the desert, Mohammad, conveyed to us: all things are chained to the law; it is All\u0101h \u201cWho creates, then makes complete, And Who measures, then guides\u201d\u2013<\/strong>(Qur\u2019an 87:2-3; 25:2; 54:49).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 In Islam,<\/span>Creationism is not opposed to evolutionism. <\/span>The Arabic \u201cRabb <\/i>(Lord) signifies the fostering of a thing in such a manner as to make it attain one condition after another until it reaches its goal of completion<\/i>\u201d\u2013(M. Ali). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe principle of evolution, it should not be forgotten, was taught to the world for the first time in Islam. The Qur\u2019an began with a chief Divine Attribute \u2013Rabb-ul-\u2018Alamin.<\/i>\u2026It also means the Originator of things and their Combiner to create new forms. It means the Law-giver, Who frames Laws under which He propounds the shapes which things must assume and the ratio and proportion in which various ingredients must combine with each other. He is the Regularizer, i.e., the Lord Who puts things on the way to perfection. He is the Arranger of the different stages through which they have to pass on their way to completion.\u201d\u2013(Ref. Qur\u2019an 87:1-3).\u201d34<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>(See QUR\u2019AN).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

53. In response to the claim that the \u201cviolence we see in the Muslim world is the product of politics and economics, not faith,\u201d Sam Harris states: \u201cThe speciousness of this claim is best glimpsed by the bright light of bomb blasts. Where are the Palestinian Christian <\/i>suicide bombers? They, too, suffer the daily indignity of the Israeli occupation. (Maybe like Jews they also prefer life to death; or perhaps unlike Muslims who have an <\/i>\u201cal fresco bordello\u201d of virgins to look forward to, Christians don\u2019t care much to watch the \u201clion” “eat straw like the ox.\u201d <\/i>Isaiah 11:6-7).<\/i><\/span> Where for that matter are the Tibetan Buddhist suicide bombers?\u2026They do not exist. (Tibet was not stolen from them and given to another people. Or maybe they do not have the know-how to make bombs; and maybe the arms dealers are more concerned with Chinese cheap labor than selling fire-works to Tibetans). <\/span><\/i>What is the difference that makes the difference? The difference lies in the specific tenets of Islam.\u00a0 \u2026.The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific doctrines about martyrdom and jihad that now directly inspire Muslim terrorism. Unless the world\u2019s Muslims can find some way of expunging a theology that is fast turning their religion into a cult of death, we will ultimately face the same perversely destructive behavior throughout much of the world. Wherever these events occur, we will find Muslims tending to side with other Muslims, no matter how sociopathic their behavior. This is the malignant solidarity that religion breeds. It is time that sane human beings stopped making apologies for it. And it is time for Muslims \u2013especially Muslim women\u2013 to realize that nobody suffers the consequences of Islam more than they do.\u201d (p. 233-234).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> That Muslim women \u201csuffers the consequences of Islam,\u201d is patent \u201cclaptrap and lip-talk\u201d and ignorance of the teachings of Islam. There is no \u201cconsequences\u201d in Islam for women to suffer. Islam has elevated Woman and given her rights that left her nothing for which to strive. (See WOMEN and JIHAD).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 As already shown, Islam allows fighting in the pursuit of truth, justice and freedom: against the occupier, usurper, oppressor, and exploiter. And the occupied has the right to fight with whatever means available and by whatever methods; man has no right to edict judgment against him; this judgment is for All\u0101h. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Whereas Islam does not sanction killing of civilians in war, all those in the land of the occupied are \u201coccupiers.\u201d If they do not wish to be objects against liberation they must leave (some half a million Iraqi babies and children were killed because of sanctions against Saddam Hussein, and the responsibility for their deaths was placed at the feet of Saddam Hussein. Jews blitzkrieg of civilian Lebanon and Hezbollah was blamed for Hezbollah setting up in these areas).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Jews have a right to be in Palestine. Not the state. Let America give the Jews Texas or California for their homeland. Or Britain, the instigator of the theft of Palestine, can give Jews England or Scotland or Ireland or Wales. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 As to the question, \u201cWhere are the Palestinian Christian <\/i>suicide bombers\u201d and the \u201cTibetan Buddhist suicide bombers?\u201d<\/span> The best people to answer this question are the Christians and the Buddhists. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 However, that there are no Christian<\/i> suicide bombers seem obvious. Palestine is Muslim land; regardless of whether Muslim or Jew is in ownership, Palestine would still be non-Christian land, thus it is pointless for Christians to die for it. Or because being followers of the same Bible, Christians prefer Palestine to be of Jewish ownership\u2013as Sam Harris himself notes (in item 35) \u201cFundamentalist Christians support Israel because they believe that the final consolidation of Jewish power in the Holy Land \u2013specifically the rebuilding of Solomon\u2019s temple\u2013 will usher in both the Second Coming of Christ and the final destruction of the Jews\u201d\u2013 <\/span>and thus would not militate against Jews. Or, since Christians expect their God\/son of God, Jesus, to light down at Jerusalem, they want that Jerusalem be under the control of fellow followers of the Bible. Or maybe they are in no hurry to sit \u201cwith God\u201d \u201cat the right hand of God.\u201d Or maybe they are hoping for the \u201cHoly See\u201d to bless them with another Crusade; so they can boot out both Muslims and Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 It is not Islam\u2019s \u201cspecific doctrines about martyrdom and jihad that now directly inspire Muslim terrorism,\u201d it is \u201cpolitics and economics\u201d \u201cthat now directly inspire Muslim terrorism\u201d: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAll\u0101h forbids you not respecting those <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0who fight you not for religion, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0nor drive you forth from your homes, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0that you show them kindness and deal <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0with them justly. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Surely All\u0101h loves the doers of justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0All\u0101h forbids you only respecting those<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0who fight you for religion,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0and drive you forth from your homes<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0and help (others) in your expulsion,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0that you make friends with them; <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0and whoever makes friends with them,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0these are the wrongdoers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(Qur\u2019an 60:8-9).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 That it is<\/i> \u201cpolitics and economics\u201d \u201cthat now directly inspire Muslim terrorism\u201d is further evidenced by the following: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To capitalize on Jewish influence in the Bolshevik party and keep Russia on Britain\u2019s side in the war, Arthur Balfour, British foreign secretary, in November 1917, informed Lord Rothschild, a British Jew and banker, that: \u201cHis Majesty\u2019s Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people\u2026\u201d35<\/span> <\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>But Britain reneged on her promise. The result was Jewish \u201cterrorism\u201d directed against the British. Eventually, the British gave up its mandate over Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Shortly \u201cafter 1945\u201d the American Government, under President Harry Truman, took the lead in the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine. Ismail Zayid\u00a0<\/i>notes: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSumner Welles affirmed: \u201cBy direct order of the White House, every form of pressure, direct or indirect, was brought to bear by American officials upon those countries outside the Moslem world, that were known to be either uncertain or opposed to Partition.\u201d\u201d And <\/i>\u201cJames Forrestal, then U.S. Secretary of Defense, wrote: \u201cThe methods that had been used to bring coercion and duress on other nations in the General Assembly bordered closely on scandal.\u201d\u201d36<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0No Court of Justice would view as one\u2019s legal property an item acquired through \u201cpressure\u201d and\/or \u201ccoercion and duress.\u201d (This partition of Palestine is to be challenged in the World Court. Where are the legal brains dedicated to truth and justice?)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Britain had no right to promise Muslim\/Arab lands to Jews for a national homeland. America had no right to \u201cpressure\u201d non-Muslim countries to vote for the Partition Plan. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 The U.N. was not the sovereign owner of Palestine to apportion this land between Arab and non-Arab.*<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0*<\/span>(\u201cNon-Arab\u201d instead of Jews, is used to illustrate the mendacity of His Majesty\u2019s Government: in the Balfour Declaration, Arabs are referred to as \u201cnon-Jewish.\u201d Would the British people accept being referred to as the \u201cnon-Jewish\u201d population, or as the \u201cnon-black\u201d sector of Britain? To refer to Arabs in their own country and who were the majority as \u201cnon-Jewish\u201d is blatant British arrogance).37<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 In replanting the gardens of the world to suit their parasitic designs the Emperors sow the venomous seeds of hatred that grow into towering trees of conflict whose bitter fruits are tasted long after the sordid wretches are gone.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of lecturing Muslims to adulterate sublime Divine guidance (to facilitate uncontested occupation, oppression, usurpation, and exploitation) and demonize the noble jihad and martyrdom, Sam Harris must lecture the Emperor(s) to return Palestine to the Palestinians, stop running around in the world like a \u201cwild-ass of a man,\u201d stop subverting governments, and stop trying to control Muslim oil..<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is no \u201cproblem with Islam;\u201d there is \u201cproblem\u201d with man. Pointedly, those who are dedicated to living off the backsides of others.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

54. Sam Harris notes about America that \u201cmost of our conflicts of recent years have been fought in defense<\/i> of Muslim populations: the first Gulf War was fought in defense of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia <\/span>(Or was it for the flow of oil?)<\/i>, <\/i><\/strong>and was followed by a decade of our protection for the Iraqi Kurds in the north and the Iraqi Shia in the south <\/span>(or were they protected for possible use by the U.S. against Saddam Hussein when need be?);<\/i> the intervention in Somalia was designed to relieve famine there; <\/span>(so we war to prevent famine: right strategy, no people no food needed; what was the politics behind this war anyway?) <\/i>and our intervention in the Balkans was for the purpose of defending Bosnians and Kosovars from marauding Christian Serbs <\/span>(or was it because America feared the war spreading to other states?).<\/i> Our original support of the mujahideen in Afghanistan belong in this category as well <\/span>(or was it to de-claw the Soviet bear?).<\/i>\u00a0 As Berman says, \u201cIn all of recent history, no country on earth has fought so hard and consistently as the United States on behalf of Muslim populations.\u201d\u201d (p. 240, note # 10 for p. 30). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> Were these U.S. \u201cprotection\u201d for Muslims or for American \u201cinterests\u201d? How about America protecting the Muslims of Palestine, China\u2013 Eastern Turkistan (UIGHURISTAN),<\/span> Chechnya, Kashmir? And people in Tibet, Rwanda, and Myanmar? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

55. Sam Harris states: \u201cThe likening of the Israelis to the Nazis is especially egregious given that the Palestinians distinguished themselves as Nazi collaborators during the war years.<\/span> (And America collaborated with Jews to kick Palestinians out of Palestine. Why didn\u2019t America give Jews Texas or California for their homeland? Palestinians are not subjecting Jews to Nazi-like living. \u201cIsraelis\u201d <\/i>are<\/span> like the Nazis\u2013they occupy\/usurp the Palestinians lands, slaughter them when they retaliate, forced them into horrific refugee camps \u2013which may as well be likened to death camps\u2013 and subject them to nauseating humiliation and degradation and \u201cen masse\u201d death. In fact, Jewish treatment of Palestinians can be said to be more deplorable than Nazi treatment of Jews \u2013considering that Jews should know better than to subject another people\u2013 and an innocent people at that who had nothing to do with Jewish suffering\u2013 to conditions that they claim was meted out to them)<\/i>. Their calculated attacks upon Jews in the 1930s and 1940s led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of European Jews who would otherwise have been permitted to immigrate by the British<\/span> (Why didn\u2019t the British take Jews into England or Scotland or Ireland or Wales \u2013the British <\/i>did<\/span> allow swarms of illegal refugee Jews into Palestine. Don\u2019t blame Hajj Amin al-Husseini; blame the British. Jews were already scheming to wrestle Palestine from Muslims \u2013since the eighteen hundreds, read Edward Said <\/i>The Question of Palestine, but I suspect you already know this)<\/i>. This result did not appear to have been inadvertent. Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem and the leader of the Palestinians\u2026.aspired to open his own death camp for the Jews in Palestine once the Germans had won the war <\/span>(It may be argued that Jews opened their own death camps for Palestinians in their drive to eliminate Palestinian presence from Palestine)<\/i>\u2026As recently as 2002, Yasser Arafat, the head of the Palestinian Authority, referred to Husseini as a \u201chero.\u201d\u201d<\/span> (And don\u2019t Jews consider Menachem Begin, who butchered some 250 old men and women and children and newly born at Deir Yassin with knives and grenades, a \u201chero\u201d? And also \u201cheroized\u201d Yithzak Shamir \u2013by making him prime minister\u2013 and Baruch Goldstein who slaughtered some thirty Muslim worshippers in the Abraham Masjid in Hebron. It may be argued that al-Husseini only \u201caspired to open his own death camp for the Jews\u201d but Jews actually opened <\/i>their<\/span> \u201cdeath camp\u201d for the Palestinians). <\/i>(p. 264, note 35). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> By their own pronouncements and declarations Zionism came to Palestine with the sole motive of depopulating Palestine of its native Palestinians and populate it with alien Jews.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zionism claims: \u201cThe race of the Israeli people is the most <\/span>superior of all races,<\/i>\u201d38<\/span><\/sup> and that so-called \u201cIsrael\u201d \u201cmust remain a state based on the principle of discrimination against non-Jewish citizens<\/i>.\u201d*<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zionism expelled the Palestinians, massacred them to achieve statehood, forced them into squalid refugee camps, and slaugh-ters them to keep them in subjection. (And has now given us the Dec. 2008-Jan 2009 Hamas\/Palestinian holocaust in Gaza).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clearly, Zionism is not only \u201cracism,\u201d Zionism is criminal. Every honest person is<\/i> to be \u201canti-Zionism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIsraelis\u201d are<\/i> like Nazis.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/span>(Prof. Noam Chomsky notes: \u201cZionism is thereby conceived as the doctrine that Israel must be accorded rights beyond those of any other state<\/i>; it must maintain control of occupied territories, thus barring any meaningful form of self-determination for Palestinians<\/i>; and it must remain a state based on the principle of discrimination against non-Jewish citizens<\/i>. It is perhaps of some interest that those who declare themselves \u201csupporters of Israel\u201d insist on the validity of the notorious UN resolution declaring Zionism to be racist<\/i>.\u201d<\/span> (Pirates & Emperors \u2013Old and New, International Terrorism in the Real World, <\/i>pp. 29-30. Italics\/emphasis added).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

56. Sam Harris notes Einstein as stating: \u201cScience without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.\u201d (p. 271 note 44). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> As man can construct, control and send rockets to distant planets all on pre-set laws of operation and to execute certain functions, it is not impossible that there is a \u201cpower\u201d that has created the universe and instituted laws for its governance. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 As noted elsewhere Islam and science are compatible.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

57. \u201cI suspect that if our media did not censor the more disturb-ing images of war, our moral sentiments would receive a correction on two fronts: first we would be more motivated by the horrors visited upon us by our enemies: seeing Daniel Pearl decapitated, for instance, would have surely provoked a level of national outrage that did not arise in the absence of such imagery. Second, if we did not conceal the horrible reality of collateral damage from ourselves, we would be far less likely to support the dropping of \u201cdumb\u201d bombs, or even \u201csmart\u201d ones. <\/span>(Like bunker-buster bombs smashing the skulls of Iraqi babies, who are not your \u201cenemies\u201d?) <\/i>While our newspapers and news-casts would be horrible to look at, I believe we would feel both greater urgency and greater restraint in our war on terrorism.\u201d (pp. 286-287, note 36). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Response:<\/span> Or maybe feel the greatest urgency to have \u201cour government\u201d scrap its obscene foreign policy (against Muslims).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 On Palestinian terrorism. The question that needs to be answered is why or how did Palestinians become \u201cterrorists\u201d? Are they \u201cterrorists\u201d by choice or are they the product of the machinery that vilifies them? If they are the product of the machinery that seeks to vilify them, how can vilifying them be justified? This would be like the creator of the bomb blaming the bomb for its destruction. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As shown in this presentation and in others there is no violence or hatred or injustice in Islam. Even reason would dictate that All\u0101h the God Who is the Creator of all and is the Just would not sanction violence or hatred or injustice against one sector of his creation by another.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Only the occupier, oppressor, usurper, those dedicated to falsehood, and those dedicated to living off the blood of others are terrified of Islam. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 As stated at the beginning, Sam Harris and those Muslims who agree with his \u201cgeneral disparagement of their religion\u201d need to consult not a \u201cneurologist\u201d but a Muslim knowledgeable in the Qur\u2019an. Muhammad Ali\u2019s translation of the Qur\u2019an with text, notes, and commentaries can be viewed online: <\/span>www.muslim. org<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>There is no charge against All\u0101h, the Prophet Mohammad, Islam, and the Qur\u2019an that can survive hammering on the anvil of reason.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Those who endeavor to speak or write must advocate truth and justice. Patriotism and friendship must not compromise truth and justice. Those who take up the pen must uphold the honor of writing. Whoever knowingly compromises truth and justice should crack his\/her pen and throw it into the trash-box and go and sit in the park and feed the squirrels: he\/she will have dignity in that.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 That truth and justice are without border: unless and until the masses become courageous to detonate this explosive truth and obliterate the wicked walls of partisanship, patriotism, and politics, truth and justice will remain subjugated under the jackboot of injustice.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

NOTES<\/span><\/p>\n

1<\/span>.<\/span> I.Z. has taken Sharun\u2019s statement from Alfred Lilienthal, What Price Israel<\/i>, 1953, p. 207.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a018.<\/span> \u00a0In his Book The Question of Palestine,<\/i> pp. 99-100 Edwardnotes from the writing of Joseph Weitz:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u201c\u2026after the [Second World] war the question of the land of Israel and the question of the Jews would be raised beyond the framework of \u201cdevelopment\u201d; amongst ourselves. It must be clear that there is no room for both peoples in this country<\/span>.<\/span> <\/i>No \u201cdevelopment\u201d will bring us closer to our aim, to be an independent people in this small country. If the Arabs leave the country, it will be broad and wide-open for us. And if the Arabs stay, the country will remain narrow and miserable. When the War is over and the English have won, and when the judges sit on the throne of Law, our people must bring their petitions and their claim before them; and the only solution is Eretz Israel, or at least Western Eretz Israel, without Arabs. There is no room for compromise on\u00a0\u00a0 this point!<\/span><\/i> The Zionist enterprise so far, in terms of preparing the ground and paving the way for the creation of the Hebrew State in the land of Israel, has been fine and good in its own time, and could do with \u201cland-buying\u201d\u2013but this will not bring about the State of Israel; that must come all at once, in the manner of a Salvation (this is the secret of the Messianic idea); and there is no way besides transferring the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries, to transfer them all<\/span><\/i>;<\/span> except maybe for Bethlehem, Nazareth and Old Jerusalem, we must not leave a single village, not a single tribe<\/span><\/i>.<\/span> And the transfer must be directed to Iraq, to Syria, and even to Transjordan. For that purpose we\u2019ll find money, and a lot of money. And only with such a transfer will the country be able to absorb millions of our brothers,<\/span> and the Jewish question shall be solved, once and for all. There is no other way out.\u201d<\/span>\u2013[Emphasis added]\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

(If this did not freeze your blood you might want to check with your doctor you might have something else in your veins. Imagine yourself and wife\/husband and children living simply and peacefully only to have such a black scheme to kick you out of your homes, lands, and country being hatched and realized).<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Edward Said notes (on p. 14) from Moshe Dayan a so-called \u201cIsraeli\u201d army general as stating: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe came to this country which was already populated by Arabs, and we are establishing a Hebrew, that is a Jewish state here. In considerable areas of the country [the total area was about 6 percent] we bought the lands from the Arabs. Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages,<\/span> and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; <\/span>not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either<\/span>. Nahalal [Dayan\u2019s own village] arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat\u2013in the place of Jibta, [Kibbutz] Sarid \u2013in the place of Haneifs, and Kefar Yehoshua\u2013in the place of Tell Shaman. There is not one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population<\/span>. [Ha-Aretz<\/i>, April 4, 1969.\u201d (Highlight added. No comment needed).<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Edward Said also notes: \u201cOne outraged Israeli, Professor Israel Shahak, who reckons almost four hundred villages were thus eliminated, has said that these villages were \u201cdestroyed completely, <\/i>with their houses, garden-walls, and even cemeteries and tombstones, so that literally a stone does not remain standing, and visitors are passing and being told that \u2018it was all desert.\u2019\u201d (p. 14).<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a019.<\/span> See note # 18. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a020.<\/span> Theodor Herzl, Cited in Edward Said, The Question Of Palestine<\/i>, p. 13. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The quote reads (referring to the Palestinians):<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe shall have to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. (Our own country? How did Palestine become your country? Arrogance at its peak).<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.\u201d (Like a thief?<\/i>)<\/span> (Brackets added). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

21.<\/span><\/span> \u00a0Statistics noted herein are from Ismail Zayid, Palestine A\u00a0 Heritage<\/i>, p. 29, and which are taken from official records.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

22.<\/span> See note # 1 for full quote.<\/span><\/p>\n

23.<\/span> Ismail Zayid, Palestine<\/i> A Stolen Heritage<\/i>, p. 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

23A.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sources:<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Guardian Volume two Issue 7<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Satmar Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jews of Batna, Aleria:\u00a0 A Study of Identity and Colonialism by Elizabeth Friedman.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jewish Communities of Morocco and the AIU by M. Laskier, State University, Albany, N.Y.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Impact of Western European Education on the Jewish Millet of Baghdad by Maurice Sawdayee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Outcaste Jewish Life in Southern Iran by Laurence D.Gordon and Breach.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Last ArabThe Communities of Jerba, Tunisia by Abraham Udovitch and Lucette Valensi.\u00a0 Harwood Academic Publishers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The GENOCIDE IN THE HOLY LAND (available for purchase on the site<\/span><\/a>) <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Ben Gurion’s Scandals<\/span><\/a> by Naeim Giladi (available for purchase on the site<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

24.<\/span> Toronto Star, Friday, January 23, 2009. Oakland Ross, Gaza teenager\u2019s horrific burns blamed on phosphorous shells, pp. AA 1,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 3.<\/span><\/p>\n

26.<\/span> Toronto Star<\/i>, Thursday February 5, 2009, Nicole Winfield, Bishop ordered to recant Holocaust denials<\/i>, p. A 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

2<\/span>6A.<\/span>Edward Said. The Question of Palestine<\/i>, p. 14. \u201cRed\u201d color added. <\/span><\/p>\n

27.<\/span> Ismail Zayid, Palestine<\/i> A Stolen Heritage<\/i>, p. 15. \u00a0a.<\/span> Peretz, Don, Israel<\/i> and the Palestine Arabs<\/i>, Washington 1958, pp. 95-96, 152, 172; \u00a0\u00a0 b.<\/span> American Mercury Magazine<\/i>, August 1957; c.<\/span> Jewish Newsletter<\/i>, June 1959.<\/span><\/p>\n

29.<\/span> Toronto<\/i> Star<\/i>, Thursday, March 30, 2006, Art. Israeli unilateralism won\u2019t produce peace,<\/i> p. A21. Italics\/emphasis added.<\/span><\/p>\n

30.<\/span>\u00a0Mankind\u2019s Search For God,<\/i> p. 353. Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses state:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIn the investigation of God\u2019s Word, those Bible students were keenly interested in the prophecies of the Christian Greek Scriptures related to \u201cthe end of the world\u201d and to Christ\u2019s \u201ccoming.\u201d (Matthew 24:3, KJ<\/i> [i.e. King James Version of the Bible] Christ was not Greek nor spoke Greek, wherefore then Christian Greek Scriptures?)<\/i> By turning to the Greek text, they discovered that Christ\u2019s \u201ccoming\u201d was, in fact, a \u2018pa.rou.si\u2019a,\u2019<\/i> or invisible presence<\/i>. Therefore, Christ had given his disciples information about the evidence of his invisible presence in the time of the end, not a future visible coming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0(But Christ said: \u201cVerily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom\u2019\u2013(Matt. 16:28). Unless \u201cSon of man\u201d is some other than Jesus, these people would not be able to see Jesus if his \u201ccoming\u201d would be \u201cinvisible<\/i>\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

31.<\/span> H. Hirschfeld, New Researches, <\/i>pp. 5, 8, 9, respectively. Cited in Muhammad Ali, Intro. to his translation of the Qur\u2019an, p. viii. <\/span><\/p>\n

32.<\/span> Paul Davies, God And The New Physics,<\/i> p. 229.<\/span><\/p>\n

33.<\/span> James Trefil, The Dark Side Of The Universe, <\/i>p. 8.<\/span><\/p>\n

34.<\/span>Introduction to the Study of the Holy Qur\u2019an<\/i>, pp. 25-26.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

35.<\/span> Ency. Brit<\/i>. 15th<\/sup> Edn, Vol 1, Balfour, Vol 17, p. 937e. <\/span><\/p>\n

36.<\/span> Ismail Zayid, Palestine<\/i>,<\/i> A Stolen Heritage<\/i>, pp. 10, 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

37.<\/span> Ency. Brit<\/i>. 15th<\/sup> Ed; Art. Syria and Palestine, History of<\/i>, The\u00a0 Balfour Declaration, Vol. 17; p. 957. <\/span><\/p>\n

Arthur Balfour, the then British Foreign Secretary, addressed a letter to Lord Rothschild, promising the Jews a home-land in Palestine, though \u201cnothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish<\/i> communities.\u201d (Italics\/emphasis added).<\/span><\/p>\n

38.<\/span> Ibid;<\/i> p. 33; (From a letter written by a student) \u201cPublished in \u201cHaolam Haze,\u201d an Israeli newspaper, (issue 1594) and quoted in \u201cIsraeli Imperial News,\u201d October, 1968. Italics\/emphasis added.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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