Response to Samir and Shazia Khanum

Submitted by Abdulllah A. (United States), Sep 1, 2005 at 17:25

It is true that majority of muslims are peaceful and do not want to convert the world to islam and do not divide world into house of islam and house of war. And it is true that sufis preach peace. But it does not change the fact that quran teaches hatred and violence aginst non muslims and Mohammed practised it.

It is true that quran is without chronology and context and is a collection of of one liners and unrelated paragraphs and cannot be understood without hadiths and Mohammed's biography, but reading chronology and context does not leave any doubts whatsoever that Mohammed looted and killed innocent non muslims and raped their women, had his critcs asassinated (80 asassinations) and terrorized whole of Arabia . He changed the rules of piety and declared every evil act as pious in Allah's eyes if practised on non muslims.. Quran indicates it and all hadiths and early biographies confirm it.

Most muslims and sufis are peaceful inspite of islam, not because of it. Ignoring the hadiths and history or saying they are corrupt does not change scriptures. Quran says do as mohammed did and said, and the only available accounts of what he did and said chronicled by believers, pious imams and muslim historians are hadiths and early siras. How can they be all wrong and wishful writings of a few later day sufis and apologists be right. Read some examples from quran, hadiths and sira are as follows. Judge for yourself:

Either Samir and Shazia are just practising "taqiyya", the islamic principle of deception to help islam or have not read hadiths and prophet's earliest biographies by Ishaq, Tabari, Waqqidi, and Saad. But I am sure Bin Laden , Zarqawi and their follcwers have all read it. Their actions are the testimony...

SBukhari:V4B52N220 "Allah's Apostle said, ‘I have been made victorious with terror.'"
Qur'an 8:12 "I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle."
Qur'an 8:67 "It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughter in the land."
Quran 9.5: "Slay the infidels wherever you find them"
Sunan Abu -Dawud,4390
"Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi:
I was among the captives of Banu Qurayzah. They (the Companions) examined us, and those who had begun to grow hair (pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not killed. I was among those who had not grown hair."
Qurann descibes the above incident briefly:
Q:33.26-27
"Some ye slew, and some ye made captive
And He caused you to inherit their land and their houses and their wealth",
Tabari VII:97 "The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, ‘Kill any Jew who falls under your power.'"
Tabari VIII:38 "The Messenger of Allah commanded that all of the Jewish men and boys who had reached puberty should be beheaded. Then the Prophet divided the wealth, wives, and children of the Jews among the Muslims."
Ishaq:316 "Following Badr, Muhammad sent a number of raiders with orders to capture some of the Meccans and burn them alive."
Bukhari:V1B11N617 Prophet said "I would order someone to collect firewood and another to lead prayer. Then I would burn the houses of men who did not present themselves at the compulsory prayer and prostration."
Bukhari yol 3,Book46, No. 717
"Narrated Ibn Aun:
Prophet had suddenly attacked Bani Mustaliq without warning while they were heedless and their cattle were being watered at the places of water. Their fighting men were killed and their women and children were taken as captives; the Prophet got Juwairiya on that day.
Tabari VIII:143 He encountered a large force whom he summoned to Islam. They refused to respond so he killed all of them."
Bukhari:V5B59N512 "The Prophet offered the Fajr Prayer [Prayer of Fear] near Khaybar when it was still dark. He said, ‘Allahu-Akbar!' [Allah is Greatest] Khaybar is destroyed' Then the inhabitants came out running on their roads. The Prophet had their men killed; their children and woman were taken as captives."
Tabari VIII:122/Ishaq:515 "The Prophet gave orders concerning Kinanah(Chief of Khaybar) to Zubayr, saying, ‘Torture him until you root out and extract what he has (to find location of treasury). So Zubayr kindled a fire on Kinanah's chest, twirling it with his firestick until Kinanah was near death. Then the Messenger gave him to Maslamah, who beheaded him."
Bukhari:V1B11N626 "The Prophet said, ‘No prayer is harder for the hypocrites than the Fajr. If they knew the reward they would come to (the mosque) even if they had to crawl. I decided to order a man to lead the prayer and then take a flame to burn all those who had not left their houses for the prayer, burning them alive inside their homes.'"
Bukhari:V4B52N270 "Allah's Messenger said, ‘Who is ready to kill Ashraf? He has said injurious things about Allah and His Apostle.

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