For Shakeel and more Muslim fantasy and poor reference

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Feb 14, 2007 at 13:02

My dear Shakeel, there are indeed many Copts, Syrian, Iraqi and lebanese Christians that work in Saudi Arabia as well as many Pakistanis that work there too. As for claim that there are one million Copts working in Saudi Arabia: you must be kidding. But I will give you a chance: so wher is your evidence to support such a claim? And when would Muslims learn that you do not pontificate about something that you do not know and cannot support?

Now the hadith about abul qasim aka Muhammad (and there are also traditions about Omar saying the same thing) that there will be no other religion but Islam was meant to be for the area of Muhammad's little worldd and that is the Hijaz.

Shib al-Jijieera al-3Arabiya (oh you do not know any Arabic do you?) is a different story as attested by the significant Jewish population in let us say al-Yemen that was there until 1949 and then they immigrated to Israel. Muhammad had no clue about the fact that Arabia was indeed a shib jizeera.

As for the word Arab: The Arabs that lived in the Syrian and Mesopotamian deserts at the time of Muhammad were called Tayyaye (Syriac) and almost all of them were Christians. They were all forced to convert to islam as the same tradition was read as: No Arab should be anything but Muslim! So much for the la ikrah fi al-deen or there is no compulsion in religion.

So you see my dear shakeel, your argument is bogus.

Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".