Dan’s Course on Islam
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Lane-Poole He was the most faithful protector of those he protected, the sweetest and most agreeable in conversation. Those who saw him were suddenly filled with reverence; those who came near him loved him; they who described him would say, "I have never seen his like either before or after." He was of great taciturnity, but when he spoke it was with emphasis and deliberation, and no one could forget what he said... 'Speeches and Table Talk of the Prophet Muhammad': Colin L. Powell (Secretary of State) makes the same point even more emphatically, casting the hijackers not only out of Islam but even out of Arabdom, and seeming to imply that Muslims definitionally cannot be terrorists; their acts, he argued, “should not be seen as something done by Arabs or Islamics; it is something that was done by terrorists.” Dr. Daniel Pipes, Militant Islam Reaches America, p. 96. Ernest Renan A century ago, (1851) The French critic Ernest Renan famously observed that Muhammad was the only relious leader who lived “in the full light of history.” By this he meant that the Arabic literary sources – religious texts, biographical accounts, chronicles, and much more – are replete with information about Muhammad’s life. Beyond the impressive level of detail, they also provide plenty of evidence that can be interpreted as detrimental to the Prophet’s reputation - which of course only adds to their credibility. Dr. Daniel Pipes, Militant Islam Reaches America, p. 182. Steven Runciman “Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword
CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL, New York, 1948, p. 205. Abdurrahman Wahid All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. W. Montgomery Watt "I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but I believe that embedded in the Quran and other expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of divine truth from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn, and 'Islam is certainly a strong contender for the supplying of the basic framework of the one religion of the future.'" ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY TODAY, London, 1983, p.ix. "Muhammed is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities." Encyclopedia Britannica http://www.mostmerciful.com/published-quotes.htm http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/36610 Negative Quotes About Islam: (Critical*, Evaluations*, Criticism*, Criticisms*, Examination*, Judgements*, Judgement*, Reproving*) 33.3 Negative Quotes About Islam Not 1 of 55 Muslim nations could be elevated to “ideal”. Newsweek ranked 15 Muslim states (there are 55 in the world) according to the degree that they grant individual rights to their citizens. The survey describes the five worst states – Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Libya, and Iraq – as utterly devoid of human rights. It concludes that human rights in seven other states are “few”. The three best nations had “some” human rights. Turkey, the most humane is called “not ideal”, but ranks high in the “Muslim world.” Not 1 of 55 Muslim nations could be elevated to “ideal”. The sad truth is that there has never been one enduring Muslim government that can be cited as a role model for a benign “soul of Islam” kind of state – certainly not under Muhammad, nor under the Caliphs, the sultans or any government of the 55 Muslim nations existing today. Don Richardson, Secrets of the Koran, p. 142 & 214. Alexis de Tocqueville: the principal cause of decadence "I studied the Kuran a great deal ... I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammed. As far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world, and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion infinitely more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself." G.K. Chesterton: A permanent menace There is in Islam a paradox which is perhaps a permanent menace. The great creed born in the desert creates a kind of ecstasy of the very emptiness of its own land, and even, one may say, out of the emptiness of its own theology. . . . A void is made in the heart of Islam which has to be filled up again and again by a mere repetition of the revolution that founded it. There are no sacraments; the only thing that can happen is a sort of apocalypse, as unique as the end of the world; so the apocalypse can only be repeated and the world end again and again. There are no priests; and yet this equality can only breed a multitude if lawless prophets almost as numerous as priests. The very dogma that there is only one Mahomet produces an endless procession of Mahomets. Moderate Islam is pseudo-Islam What is called Islam but is not Koran-based is pseudo-Islam. Hence violent Christianity is pseudo-Christianity, but oppositely – due to the violent nature of the Koran – moderate Islam is pseudo-Islam. By “pseudo” I mean not authentic: Somenting has been altered so antithetically that it no longer resembles the original. Don Richardson, Secrets of the Koran, p. 138. Islamists belong in the “garbage can.” In Tunesia, Minister of Religion Ali Chebbi says that Islamists belong in the “garbage can.” Algeria’s interior minister Abderrahmane Meziane-Cherif concludes that “You cannot talk to people who adopt violence as their credo; people who slit women’s throats, rape them, and mutilate their breasts; people who kill innocent foreign guests.” If Muslims feel this way, non-Muslims may as well; being anti-militant Islam in no way implies being anti-Islam. Dr. Daniel Pipes, Militant Islam Reaches America, p. 135. Islam is a one-way door Abudl A’la Maududi: Islam is a one-way door; you can enter through it but you cannot leave. Colin Chapman, Cross and Crescent, p. 233. Not by Reason “It is hard to reason a person out of something that he did not reason himself into.” (a 200 year old maxim) Arguments Produce Sceptics Christine Darg: “It has rightfully been said that arguments produce sceptics, but love makes saints.” Christine Darg, Miracles Among Muslims,p. 28. Oxford Encyclopedia: Avoids the crisis of the Muslim world Oxford Encyclopedia: The crisis of the Muslim world – attested to by every serious analyst of the subject can hardly be found in the Oxford Encyclopedia. Instead, this is a formal presentation for outsiders, hoping they will come away with a good impression. Dr. Daniel Pipes, Militant Islam Reaches America, p. 106. An Intellectual Scandal: whitewash the primary meaning of jihad It is an intellectual scandal that, since September 11, scholars at Amercian universities have repeatedly issued public statements that avoid or whitewash the primary meaning of jihad in Islamic law and Muslim history. It is quite as if historians of medieval Europe were to deny that the word “crusade” ever had martial overtones, instead pointing to such terms as “crusade on hunger” or “crusade against drugs” to demonstrate that the term signifies an effort to imporve society. Dr. Daniel Pipes, Militant Islam Reaches America, p. 267. U.S. government... a discreet missionary for the faith Dr. Daniel Pipes: “It is nearly inconceivable that moderate Muslims will have any influence over their more radical coreligionists. Practicalities aside, American officals would do well to ask whether their statements on Islam do not conflict with their government’s basic principals. The United States has a message for the world, and that message is not Islam. The message, it hardly needs pointing out, is one of individualism, freedom, secularism, rule of law, democracy, and private property. Finally, federal officals may not realize the implications of their scolding Americans who are apprehensive about Islam, and their noisy espousal of that religion’s virtues. Here, then, it is spelled out for them: In adoptiong a determinedly apologetic stance, they have made themselves an adjunct of the country’s Islamic organizations. By dismissing any connection between Islam and terroism, complaining about media distortions, and claiming that America needs Islam, they have turned the U.S. government into a discreet missionary for the faith.” Dr. Daniel Pipes, Militant Islam Reaches America, p. 102. God has a habit of anointing non-professionals to accomplish a task Christine Darg: “Reinhard Bonnke also teaches that God has a habit of anointing non-professionals to accomplish a task. It’s the unanointed professionals who often go to a field and accomplish little. Christine Darg, Miracles Among Muslims, p. 34. I am not reaping the Harvest... but gathering out the stones Robert Bruce: (19th Cent. Missionary to Persia) I am not reaping the harvest; I can scarcely claim to be sowing seed; I am hardly ploughing the soil; but I am gathering out the stones. Colin Chapman, Cross and Crescent, p. 19. Jesus Greater than Muhammad “Did you realize that Jesus is greater than Muhammad?” “Our God is a personal God.” Dr. Abraham Sarker, Understand My Musim People, p. 20. “By 1000 A.D. 50% of Christendom had fallen to Islam.” Dr. Abraham Sarker, Understand My Musim People, p. 74. Basic Assumptions Must not Be Multipiled Beyond Necessity “Essentia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem” “Basic Assumptions (about the essential nature of things) must not be multiplied beyond necessity.” English philosopher of the 1300’s named William of Occam in Dr. William Campbell, The Qur’an and the Bible, p.viii. The God of Islam is not the same God of the Bible Franklin Graham: “We’re not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. He’s not the Son of God of the Christian or Jude-Christian faith. It’s a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion.” (Oct. 2001, cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp) Dr. George Braswell, Islam and America, pp. 126-127. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (inscription of the gate of Dachau Concentration Camp Site Museum) Robert Spencer, The Myth of Islamic Tolerance, p. 122. “Past performance is the best indicator of future behavior.” The Triumph of Evil = Good Men do Nothing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” David Earle Johnson, Princes of Islam, p. 165. Deathbed Testimonies of Muslims are Uncertain Abu Bakr: “Oh my daughter, this is the day of my release and of obtaining of my desert: - if gladness it will be lasting; if sorrow it will never cease.” Omar: “I am not other than as a drowning man who sees a possibility of escape with life, and hopes for it, but fears he may die and lose it, and so plunges about with hands and feet. More desperate than the drowning man is he who at the sight of heaven and hell is buried in the vision... Had I the whole East and West, gladly would I give up all to be delivered from this awful terror that is hanging over me. And finally touching his face against the ground he cried aloud: ‘Alas for Omar, and alas for the mother of Omar, if it should not please the Lord to pardon me.” When Yazid was burying Omar his father, he is quoted as saying: ‘I will not magnify him before the Almighty in whose presence he has gone to appear. If He forgives him it will be of his mercy; if He takes vengeance onhim, it will be for his transgressions.’ Apologists for Islam... are trying to excuse murders perpetrated by Muhammad. “Western freethinkers, such as (Bertrand) Russel, find Jesus Christ less admirable than Socrates or Buddha. But what do they reproach him with?... For cursing a fig tree, causing it to whither and die (Matthew 21:18-21), while apologists for Islam, Western and Muslim, are trying to excuse murders perpetrated by Muhammad.” İnb Warraq, Why I’m not a Muslim, p. 350. 33.4 Negative Quotes About Islam Muhammad... lived in the full light of history Muqtedar Kahn: (Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy) “An extraordinary aspect of Muhammad’s life is that he lived in the full light of history.There are detailed accounts of his life available to us. No comparable religious figure’s life and times have been so well recorded as Muhammad’s.” Muslims seek to Emulate their Prophet Muqtedar Khan: (Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy) “Muslims as a part of religious observance, not only obey, but also seek to emulate and imitate their Prophet in every aspect of life. Thus Muhammad is the medium as well as a source of divine law.” (“The Legacy of Prophet Muhammad and the Issues of “ilia and Polygamy,” Ijtihad, June 9, 2003; quoted by Robert Spencer, The Truth About Muhammad, pp. 7-8. Muhammad... incompatible with civilized socitey (Muhammad) bestows praise upon such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge and bigotry as are utterly incompatible with civilized socitey. No steady rule of right seems there to be attended to, and every action is blamed or praised so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers. Muhammad a demon-possessed pedophile Jerry Vines: “Christianity was founded by the virgin-born Jesus Christ. Islam was founded by Muhammad, a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives, and his last one was a 9-year-old girl. “Allah is not Jehovah, either. Jehovah is not going to turn anyone into a terrorist that will try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people.” (14 June 2002, biblicalrecorder.org /content/news/2002/6_14_2002/ne140602vines.shtml) Dr. George Braswell, Islam and America, p. 127. In a fascinating book written by two Muslims who converted to Christianity, Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner give an eye-opening account of Islam's prophet in "Unveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs." "Citing passages from the Hadith, the collected sayings of Muhammad, the Caners note that, by his own account, the founder of Islam was often possessed by Satan. The phrase "Satanic Verses" refers to words that Muhammad first claimed had come from God, but which he later concluded were spoken by Satan. Muhammad married 11 women, kept two others as concubines and recommended wife-beating (but only as a last resort!). His third wife was 6 years old when he married her and 9 when he consummated the marriage. To say that Muhammad was a demon-possessed pedophile is not an attack. It's a fact." The specific Hadith citation concerning Muhammad's pedophilia is in Volume 7, Book 6, Numbers 64 and 65... http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/radiical.htm Muhammad... THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST John Quincy Adams: “In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar (i.e., Muhammad), the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fradulent spirit of an imposter, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime concept of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguished and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HİS DOCTRİNE WAS VİOLENCE AND LUST; TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPİRİTUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE... Between these two religions, thus contrasted in thier character, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant... While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men.” (Emphasis in the original). Robert Spencer, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades), p. 83. Mohammedanism... unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of this world. Bertrand Russell: “Bolshevism combines the characteristics of the French Revolution with those of the rise of Islam. Marx has taught that Communism is fatally predestined to come about; this produces a state of mind not unlike that of the early successors of Mahommet. Among religions, Bolshevism is to be reconed with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of this world.” Robert Spencer, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades), p. 173. Mohhammedanism... as dangerous in man as hydrophobia in a dog Winston Churchill: “How dreadful are the curses which Mohhammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.” Robert Spencer, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades), p. 92. Muhammad is the Antichrist Thomas Aquinas, a seminal and influential Christian theologian of the medival ages, wrote about Islam in his great treatise, Summa contra Gentiles:
Dr. George Braswell, Islam and America, p. 69. 33.5 Negative Quotes About The Qur'an The Qur’an... a Wearisome confused jumble, crude Thomas Carlyle: His account of Muhammad in his On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic History, in 1841 commenting on the Qur’an calls it: “A Wearisome confused jumble, crude, incondite, endless iterations, longwindedness, entanglement, most crude incondite; - insupportible stupidity, in Short! Nothing but a sense of duty could carry any European through the Qur’an.” p. 299. Yüklə 7,46 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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