Khaled: Arabs culturally challenged despite 1400 years of Islam

Submitted by Plato (India), Jul 4, 2008 at 03:33

Your reply again seems to have no relevance to my post, Khaled: Why does the Koran curse and abuse non-Muslims (http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/134151).

What has my lack of knowledge of jahiliya, our being in the twenty first century rather than 600 AD or Arab contempt for my poverty-stricken countrymen got to do with my post?

You wrote: >> The Prophet also had disciples. He only preached.<<

Wrong, the prophet also went on gazwas and used bribes to gain converts. Surprised? The Koran tells Muslims that one use for zakat is to encourage conversions. 009.060 YUSUFALI: Alms are for the poor and the needy, and those employed to administer the (funds); for those whose hearts have been (recently) reconciled (to Truth); ….

The prophet followed Allah's advice (i.e. his own words). Ibn Ishaq, Life of Muhammad, translated by Guillaume, Oxford University Press, Pakistan, page 594 : ‘The apostle gave gifts to those whose hearts were to be won over, notably the chiefs of the army, to win them and through them their people.' The prophet's partiality in giving gifts to his own tribe of Quraish to keep them on his side disturbed the Ansar. Ishaq, page 596: ‘Are you (Ansar) disturbed in mind because of the good things of this life by which I win over a people that they become Muslims while I entrust you with Islam?....'

What a lovely way to win people for Islam. Arabs and Muslims continue this practice. Poor Filipinos, Indians and Africans are promised better pay and jobs in the Arab countries to become Muslims.

Khaled you write: >> and please tell your countrymen to stop flooding into the Arab Gulf. The indians are known as 'Maskeen Al Hind'<<

Yes, I know, Indians who slave in Arabia for subsistence wages to keep the Arabs lolling in luxury and from dirtying their hands are contemptuously called ‘maskeen al Hind'. Is this what 1400 years of Islamic culture has taught the Arab Muslims? What happened to Islamic feelings of brotherhood? We know it is all about Muslim-Muslim brotherhood. But you know that a very large proportion of the ‘maskeen' from India in Arab lands are Muslims.

If the ‘maskeen al Hind' leave, you will have to recruit other ‘maskeens' or live with stinking toilets which my countrymen keep clean for you. And I am proud of my countrymen who come to Arabia to build your roads and skyscrapers, tend to your sick and clean your toilets. They have earned every rial and dirham you dole out by the sweat of their brows. They did not come there with begging bowls.

Regards

Plato

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