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31- You emphasize so
much on doubt and that your mission is to make people doubt their beliefs.
Don’t you think that this isn’t polite? It means that you only cause
confusion. Teaching people to doubt is not impolite. Teaching them to
have faith is impolite. We come from a religious culture that has all its values
upside down. What is faith? Faith is belief in something without
evidence. Once you have the evidence it is no more faith but knowledge. For
example, there are people who believe in the Bigfoot. The Bigfoot is said to be
a human-like (humanoid) creature living in North America. There is not enough
evidence of the existence of such creature, yet some believe that it exists. If
this belief is strong it becomes faith. But what will happen if we actually find such creature? Do you say that you “believe” that Bigfoot exists? No, at that time you “KNOW” that it exists. Knowledge is based on facts. Belief is based on hearsay, suppositions and lack of facts. Primitive people invented myths and believed in them. They built religions around them. Even today some people believe that snakes are gods, some believe in cows as sacred beings, some believe that rats are the spirits of their ancestors, others believe that a black meteorite fallen from sky is sacred. Muslims believe that Muhammad split the moon, they believe that he performed Vudoo as soon as he was born and started to praise Allah. Jews believe that Moses parted the Red Sea, Christians believe that Jesus rouse from the dead and ascended to heaven, etc. All of these religious people believe that Noah collected all the living animals in his ark while the whole earth was flooded for 40 days. They don’t doubt the absurdity of these beliefs. How could the polar bear go to Canaan? Who informed the Australian Kangaroos to head to Middle East? How these animals got there? All these stories are absurd. There is no evidence for any of them, yet people believe in them, because belief does not require evidence. Take the example of Mi’arj. Is this scientific? If God is
supposed to be omnipresent, why Muhammad had to go somewhere else to meet him?
Is Jerusalem the gateway to Heaven? If Muhammad traveled on a winged steed in
one night to get to heaven then the heaven must be a physical place close to
Earth. You cannot travel outside the Earth’s atmosphere with wings. Wings will
only take you were there is air. With so many mapping, air travels satellite
photos why we haven’t find this heaven? If heaven is not a geographic place
but a spiritual realm, why Muhammad needed the winged steed? The hadith says
that Muhammad met Allah from behind the curtain. If Allah was behind the curtain
then he cannot be omnipresent. An omnipresent god cannot be behind, in front,
under or over anything. He is everywhere. This whole story is so naïf that it
is mind boggling anyone still believe in it. But faith blinds. If someone said a
similar story about someone else, no Muslim would believe it, but since it is
about Muhammad, all lies are truth. The bigger the lie, the better it is. These charlatans calling themselves prophets wanted to keep
people ignorant. They did not have our interest in their heart. They were a
bunch of liars and impostors. They kept telling you it is not up to you to test
God, but God must test you. They praised people for believing without
questioning. The stronger was this belief, the better it was. Of course it was
better for them, because people did not dare to question them and expose their
lies. Now that we are mature, we have to ask these questions. We have to become
skeptic and doubt whatever we were told and accepted as true. This does not mean
to reject everything. It means we should ask for facts and stop believing things
for which we have no evidence. It’s time to “know” not to “believe”.
Doubt is the path to knowledge. If you don’t doubt you don’t ask and if you
don’t ask you’ll not learn. The world owes to men and women who doubted. We
owe to Galileo to Copernicus to Newton, to Darwin, to Einstein and to all those
who doubted what they were told and found the facts. Now we no more BELIEVE that
the Earth is flat but we KNOW that it is round. [This subject is explained in more detail under the section FREETHINKING]
Why...? Why...? Why...?
Because a nun CHOOSES to wear those habits. No one
forces her to become a nun. That is her choice. But a Muslim woman in Islamic
countries does not have that choice. She is obligated to wear the veil. It is like the fakirs of India who apply to themselves lots
of tortures. They CHOOSE to do that because they believe in this way they become
enlightened. But if you inflict the same tortures on someone who is not willing,
you are abusing him.
33- Why a Jew can
grow a beard and he's just practicing his faith, and when a Muslim does that,
he's an extremist? By growing beard a Jew is making an statement that he is an
orthodox Jew. Jewish orthodoxy does not advocate bombing, shelling, terrorism
and holy wars. When a Muslim grows beard he is also making an statement that he
is fundamentalist Muslim. Islamic fundamentalism entails bombing, shelling,
terrorism and holy wars. This is what Quran teaches. This is what is required
from a good Muslim. The issue is not the beard. The issue is what that beard
stands for. A neo-nazi shaves his head and a person getting ready for
chemotherapy also shaves his head. But there is a world of difference between
the two. The policeman carries a gun and a thief also carries a gun. One is
doing his job the other is perpetrating a crime. It is not the beard that makes
a Muslim an extremist; it’s the message behind the beard.
This is again the question of the choice. A western woman
is free to go and work if she chooses. Some western women make more money than
their husbands and because they don’t want to leave their children with a
nanny, the husband stays home to take care of them. A Muslim woman in Islamic countries has no choice,
whether she has children or not is irrelevant. She cannot get into the work
place because she is a woman. This is abuse.
A subject means medicine, accounting, law, engineering, or
other professions that benefit humankind. Islam is a religion not a profession. What benefit humanity
gets from religion and religious people? What is the message of Islam? Hating
the people of other faiths, abusing the women and violating their rights,
believing in non-scientific mumbo jumbo and hocus pocus of the Quran. Dedicating
oneself to Islam is dedicating oneself to bigotry, and hate. This is hopeless.
36- Why when a Christian kills someone, religion is not mentioned, (i.e., Ireland and the IRA) but when a Muslim is charged with a crime, it's Islam that goes to trial? Because when a Christian kills someone, even if the
feud is between two religious groups like in the case of North Ireland, it
is never inspired by religion itself. Nowhere in the Gospel it says kill the
people of other faith. Quran is replete with such exhortations. For a Muslim all
wars are religious wars. Christians do not go terrorizing people shouting Jesus
is great, the Muslims always shout Allah u Akbar to get ready for killing.
37- But then again,
why is it after all that, Islam is still the fastest growing religion in the
world? This is the biggest lie that Muslims love to tell each
other. The truth is that Islam is a religion in fast demise. People in Islamic countries are poor and uneducated. Poor
and uneducated people have higher birth rate. That is why the population is
Islamic countries is growing faster than the population is civilized countries
where people are educated and birth control is in effect. In the Western countries also the Muslims are growing
faster than other groups because they are escaping from the poverty of their
countries of birth and are immigrating to the West in the search of a better life
more than any other group. So it is the population of the Muslims that is
growing and not Islam. The following is taken from Friday Times, Lahore: On not so good news about British Pakistanis by Khaled Ahmed "The figure of 700,000 [population of Pakistanis in UK] has grown from 5000 in 1951. Today, because of high birth-rate, fully 47 percent of them are under the age of 16, as compared to 17 percent for whites. They have the highest unemployment rate, five times more than the British average; and crime rate is higher among them than in any other community. Fully 2 percent of the prisoners rotting in British jails are Pakistanis, the highest for any one community." Therefore it is clear that the growth of the number of
Muslims in the West is not due to conversion but to their high birth rate. The number of the people that are embracing Islam is
minimal compared to the number of the born Muslims who are leaving Islam. Moreover,
those who are enrolling in Islam are often undereducated, lower class people of
the American Intercity. They are mostly the blacks who are resentful of the
white and who see Islam as a sort of protest against the white man and his
religion. On the other hand those who leave Islam are the Intellectuals and the
educated class who cannot put up with the nonsense that is written in the Quran. However, those who leave Islam leave it silently. They are often
concerned for their own safety. They know too well the criminal nature of Islam
and the way it deals with the apostates. Therefore they do not announce their
separation from Islam publicly. But those who embrace Islam are announced with
trumpets.
38 You quote Quran
out of its correct context. It is up the Muslims to tell us what are the “correct
contexts” of those verses. What is the real context when Muhammad instructs his
followers to scourge their wives if they are not obedient? What is the real
context when he tells them to kill the unbelievers wherever they find them? What
is the real context when he rapes a 9-year-old child or women captured in war?
The truth is that Quran is a book out of context. How can we apply those
barbaric teachings of Quran in this age of science and reason? The Modern Muslim apologists who unlike their more fundamentalist counterparts (like the ones in Afghanistan), have evolved that much to distinguish the wrong from the right, are embarrassed of the stupid and inhumane teachings of Quran. They are the ones who accuse us of taking the verses out of their context. They insist that Quran cannot be understood and need to be explained by experts. They claim that to fully grasp the meaning of Quran one has to be versed in Tafseer (scholar’s interpretation of Quran) and hadith. However they would not accept those tafseers too and call the Mofasserin (interpreters) and Mohadethin (experts in Hadith) fallible. I have seen vicious attacks at men like Ghazali, (the greatest Islamic scholar) Bukhari, Muslim (the last two were the greatest Muhadith revered for centuries), Maududi, Muhsin Khan, Yousef Ali, et al. So what is the correct tafseer? Nobody has been able to translate Quran properly let alone interpret it, is what these apologists want us to believe. Of course the apologists do not realize that what they say is apostasy. Quran repeatedly claims to be a "clear book" (5:15) "easy to understand” (44:58 , 54:22 , 54:32, 54:40) "explained in detail" (6:114), "conveyed clearly", (5:16, 10:15) and with “no doubt” in it (2:1). Claiming that Quran cannot be understood is not clear and needs tafseer is disbelieving in the Quran itself.
39- Quran contains many good teachings. out of more than 6000 verses you pick only those that suit your agenda. Your unwavering faith (Faith is always blind. It is belief
without evidence) surprise me. You ask me to look at the good things that
Muhammad said and not at his shortcomings and mistakes. Let me remind you that
Muhammad claimed to be a messenger of God. He is supposed to be the guidance to
humanity. If it is up to us to sieve between the good and bad and use our own
judgment to choose, why we need him? Also everyone has good and bad points. Even the worst
criminals have said and done something good in their lives. For example Hitler
was not a womanizer. He was a faithful man. Does that make him a good person? I
recall when I was a kid in Iran they used to interview the criminals in jail and
transmit it in the radio. At the end always these criminals had good advises for
the youngsters. Muhammad said many good things but he did not follow his own
advice and did very bad things. Your logic that we should look only the few good
things the Muhammad said or did and forget about his crimes against humanity
coming from an educated man is mind-boggling. Someone who claims to be a divine guidance to humanity and
infallible must be infallible and a guidance to humanity all the time. If you
have someone who sometimes tell you the right thing and other times tells you
the wrong thing, would you still trust him? Who is to determine what part of
Muhammad’s teachings are to be followed and what part are to be discarded? You
have a different value system than Mullah Omar the leader of Taliban. Each one
of you chooses what he pleases from the Quran according to his preferences and
values. Can you still say this book is a book of guidance? If there is one single error in anyone’s teaching who claims to be an infallible guide from God that person is no more an infallible guide. In the case of Muhammad there are more bad teachings than good. How can any intelligent person consider such a man as a messenger of God?
40- In the
verse 79:30 it is stated that the Earth is egg shape. Eggs are spherical. How
Muhammad knew this 1400 years ago? The above verse reads: Waal-arda baAAda thalika dahaha It means (word by word): And the Earth after that was spread. Hear are the three famous translations. 079.030 Egg in Arabic is “al baiza”. There is no similarity
between the two words. In Surah 78: 6 it says: Alam najAAali al-arda mihadan Meaning: Have we not made the earth like a bed? 078.006 Arabs used to spread their mattresses (beds) on the floor
and sleep on it during the night. In the above verse Muhammad is comparing the
Earth to a bed (Mihad) which is spread out. Therefore the translation of the
three most reliable interpreters of Quran is correct. I think this “egg story” is one of the lies of Rashad
Khalifa. I heard that from other submitters. Even so, Earth is not like an egg
and an egg is not spherical. Muslims are just desperate to fool themselves and any lie
will do.
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