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Rational Thinking explores Islam, Quran and Muhammad’s claim to prophethood. 

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." -Pascal

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"Islam is a religion of peace". Or is it? This is what our politically correct politicians keep telling us. But what is politically correct is not necessarily correct. The truth is that Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of hate, of terror and of war.   

A thorough study of Quran and Hadith reveal an Islam  that is not being presented honestly by the Muslim propagandists and is not known to the majority of Muslims.  Islam as it is taught in Quran (Koran) and lived by Muhammad, as is reported in the Hadith (Biography and sayings of the Prophet) is  a religion of intolerance, inequality, violence, discrimination, superstition, fanaticism, and blind faith. Islam advocates killing the non-Muslims, abuses the human rights of the minorities and women. Islam expanded by Jihad (holy war) and forced its way by killing the non-believers and the dissidents. Apostasy in Islam is the biggest crime, punishable by death.  Muhammad was a fundamentalist himself therefore fundamentalism cannot be separated from true Islam. Islam, which means submission, demands from its followers to submit their wills and thoughts to Muhammad and his Allah, a deity that despises reason, democracy, freedom of thought and freedom of expression. 

I reject Islam a) because of Muhammad’s lack of moral and ethical fortitude and b) because of the absurdities in Quran.

a)               Muhammad lived a less than holy life. His lust for sex, his affairs with his maids and slave girls, his pedophilic relationship with Aisha a 9-year-old child at the age of 53, his killing sprees, his massacre and the genocide of the Jews, his slave making and trading, his assassination of his opponents, his raids and lootings of the merchant caravans, his burning of the palm plantations, his destroying the water wells, his cursing and invoking evil on his enemies and his revenge on his captured prisoners of war disqualify him as a decent human being let alone the messenger of God

b)               An unbiased study of Quran shows that far from being a “miracle” that book is a hoax. Once Quran is scrutinized with rational thinking, almost every sentence proves to be false. Quran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities and grammatical errors. Could possibly the author of this Universe be as ignorant as it appears to be in Quran?

Quran tells Muslims to kill the disbelievers wherever they find them (Q. 2:191), to murder them and treat them harshly (Q. 9:123), slay them  (Q. 9:5), fight with them, (Q. 8: 65 ) even if they are Christians and Jews, humiliate them and impose on them a penalty tax (Q. 9: 29). Quran takes away the freedom of belief from all humanity and tell clearly that no other religion except Islam is accepted (Q. 3: 85). It relegates those who disbelieve in Quran to hell  (Q.  5:10), calls them najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (Q. 9: 28). It orders its followers to fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left (Q. 2: 193). It says that the non-believers will go to hell and will drink boiling water (Q. 14: 17). It asks the Muslims to slay or crucify or cut the hands and feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace and that “they shall have a great punishment in world hereafter” (Q.5: 34). “As for the disbelievers”, it says that “for them garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowls and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods” (Q. 22: 9). Quran prohibits a Muslim to befriend a non-believer even if that non-believer is the father or the brother of that Muslim (Q. 9: 23), (Q. 3: 28). Quran asks the Muslims to “strive against the unbelievers with great endeavor (Q. 25: 52), be stern with them because they belong to hell (Q. 66: 9).  The holy Prophet demanded his follower to “strike off the heads of the disbelievers”; then after making a “wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives” (Q. 47: 4). As for women the book of Allah says that they are inferior to men and their husbands have the right to scourge them if they are found disobedient (Q. 4:34). It teaches that women will go to hell if they are disobedient to their husbands (Q.  66:10). It maintains that men have an advantage over the women (Q. 2:228). It not only denies the women's equal right to their inheritance (Q. 4:11-12), it also regards them as imbeciles and decrees that their witness is not admissible in the court (Q. 2:282). 

This means that a woman who is raped cannot accuse her rapist unless she can produce a male witness. Muhammad allowed the Muslims to marry up to four wives and gave them license to sleep with their slave maids and as many “captive” women as they may have (Q. 4:3). He himself did just that. This is why anytime a Muslim army subdues another nation, they call them kafir and allow themselves to rape their women. Pakistani soldiers raped up to 250,000 Bangali women in 1971 after they massacred 3,000,000 unarmed civilians when their religious leader decreed that Bangladeshis are unislamic. This is why the prison guards in Islamic regime of Iran rape the women and then kill them after calling them apostates and the enemies of Allah.   

This site scrutinizes Islam with Rational Thinking. It rejects time-honored beliefs that cannot stand the probing of reason. It asks questions and encourages independent thinking.  It promotes unity of humankind, equality between men and women, abolition of prejudices and freedom from dogmatism and blind faith. 

In a world that has become so technologically advanced that even the poorest nations that cannot feed themselves boast having sophisticated nuclear and biological weapons, small misunderstandings can cause catastrophic results. Religion has always been the biggest  source of misunderstanding. For religion, people are ready to die, kill and destroy everything else. Only a religious person would believe that he would go to paradise if he kills other human beings. Only a religious person has no regards for the lives he destroys because their faith is not right. 

In the past century Islamic fundamentalism has been on the rise, and with that terrorisms, revolutions, and upheavals ensued. Millions of lives were lost and still counting. Let us pause for a moment and take a second look at Islam. We may just have made a mistake.  

The reason I  think Islam is harmful and must go is not due to the fact that Quran says Earth is flat or the stars are missiles that Allah fires at the genies who climb the heaven to eavesdrop the conversation of the exalted assembly. These tales could even amuse us. Islam must go because it teaches hate, it orders killing the non-Muslims, it denigrates women and it violates the human rights. Islam must go not because it is false but because it is destructive, because it is a danger; a threat to peace and security of humankind. With the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in Islamic countries, Islam has become a serious and a real threat to the survival of our civilization.

Ali Sina

   


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"Wherever ye are, death will find you out, even if ye are in towers built up strong and high!"  (Quran 4:78)

WTC explosion (face of Islam)

Terror: 
The Real Face of  Islam

O Prophet! make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal sternly with them.  Hell shall be their home, evil their fate. Q. 66:9

Portrate of Muhammad

Portrait of Muhammad. 
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I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels.  Strike off their heads, maim them in every limb. Q. 8:12

Victims of terrorism

Policemen try to recover from the downpour of debris...
 

Palestinians celebrate

Palestinians celebrate in the streets after hearing about the destruction.

 Palestinian woman celebrates

A Palestinian woman celebrates the death of 3000 American Kafirs. A victory for Islam 

These images have angered many people. They have angered Muslims for a totally different reason. These images depict the crude expression of how Muslims feel about America and the West. But these are images they do not want you to see. They think they undermine the rights of the Palestinians. I care for the Palestinians and denounce Israeli use of excessive force (See these images). I hope for peace. But I question how peace is possible with this much hate? Let us not hide our heads under the sand. We Muslims have a lot of soul searching to do.  For how long shall we live in denial? Something is terribly wrong with us. We are filled with hate.   How can we make peace with those whom we hate so intensely?    

I am not writing to endear myself with one group or another.  I am not here to collect votes. But to call humanity to unity and tell them the truth. If that truth hurts someone so be it! “Only truth will set us free”.  We should each look at our own faults before pointing fingers at the faults of our neighbors and sweeping our own dirt under the carpet.   

 

Iranians mourning 1

Iranians mourning 2

Iranians mourning 3

While many Islamists celebrated, thousands of Iranians poured into the streets to show their solidarity with the families of the victims of the terrorist attack at America.  They wept bitterly. They were beaten by agents of  Islamic regime and many were taken to custody. The difference between the Iranians and the Palestinians is that over 50% of Iranians do no more believe in Islam. Many of those Iranians who still are Muslims were as jubilant as the Palestinians in the above pictures. 

It is not our nationality that defines our humanity. It is our beliefs. 

See the comments on these pictures.
Iranians Love Americans 

And take in your hand a green branch and beat her with It and do not break your oath; (Q. 38:44)

Taliban's Moral Police are beating an
Afghan Woman in Kabul for not covering
herself properly & showing her hand in
public! Another woman is trying to cover &
protect the victim. The little girl is watching!

 

 

A CHALLENGE

I receive many mails from angry Muslims who ask me to remove this site. if you disagree with this site and want me to remove it, I invite you to disprove my accusations of Muhammad and Islam. If you can show that what I say is unfounded I promise to remove this site not before confessing that I was wrong and Islam is a true religion. 

So far a few Muslims have responded to this challenge. Here is our discussions. I don't think they managed to prove me wrong. Can you? Do you know of any Islamic scholar who may be able to do so?  If you cannot prove what I say about Muhammad is false, why are you still a Muslim? Why you insist to follow a false doctrine? Don't you think the miserable state in which all Islamic world founds itself is because it is following a false doctrine that is dangerous and backward?

Please don't start writing your refutation before reading the articles in this site. You'll be shooting yourself on the foot. If you want to write and tell me: "Oh you are wrong. Islam is a religion  of peace. You take everything out of the context. And other clichés like these, please don't. I receive many messages like these everyday and I am sick reading them. Don't send me the URL of Islamic sites telling me to read, as if there is something new there that I don't know. I have read all of them, they rehash the same nonsense and I have answered them all. I refuted the Quran and don't have to refute thousands of apologetic sites on Islam. If Quran is the biggest miracle of Islam then don't ask me to refute the interpretation of a follower of Quran. Take your time, go through my refutation of Quran and my views about the alleged miracles of Quran or the claim that it is "scientific". Write to me ONLY after you read few of the articles posted in this site. Most if not all your arguments are already answered.  

The best way to win an opponent is to know him and learn about his weaknesses. So read carefully. 

 

 "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." -Edward Everett Hale

"I think the true test of a genius is the ability to see the follies of one's own times. The ability to change one's own times is the true test of a leader. And the ability to do both is the true test of a visionary who will never be elected.Marilyn vos Savant

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