http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E36120C9-D999-4CE1-B285-A838B7D316A2
By Alan M. Dershowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com Friday, September 28, 2007
In his speeches, most especially the one at Columbia University, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeats two myths about the Holocaust. The first every reasonable person knows is a total lie: namely that the Holocaust did not occur. The second myth, however, is one that escapes critical attention for the most part, because many people are not aware of its falsity. The myth is that the Palestinian people and their leadership had absolutely nothing to do with the Holocaust. The conclusion that is supposed to follow from this “fact” is that the establishment of Israel in the wake of the Nazi genocide of the Jewish people was unfair to the Palestinians. This is the way Ahmadinejad put it in his Columbia talk.
“…[G]iven this historical event [the Holocaust], if it is a reality, we need to question whether the Palestinian people should be paying for it… “The Palestinian people didn’t commit any crime. They had no role to play in World War II.”
These statements about the role of the Palestinians are demonstrably false. The truth is that the Palestinian leadership, supported by the Palestinian masses, played a significant role in Hitler’s Holocaust. The Palestinian leader at the time was Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufit of Jerusalem. As Professor Edward Said has acknowledged:
“Hajj Amin al-Husseini represented the Palestinian Arab national consensus, had the backing of the Palestinian political parties that functioned in Palestine, and was recognized in some form by Arab governments as the voice of the Palestinian people.”
Husseini was “Palestine’s national leader” and it was in that capacity that he made his notorious alliance with Hitler and played an active role in promoting the Holocaust. Here is the true story that Ahmadinejad tried to mythologize.
Shortly after Hitler came to power, the Grand Mufti decided to emulate him. He informed the German consul in Jerusalem that “the Muslims inside and outside Palestine welcome the new regime of Germany and hope for the extension of the fascist anti-democratic, governmental system to other countries.” In an effort to bring it to his own country, Husseini organized the “Nazi Scouts,” based on the “Hitler Youth.” The swastika became a welcome symbol among many Palestinians.
The mid to late 1930’s were marked by Arab efforts to curtail immigration and Jewish efforts to rescue as many Jews as possible from Hitler’s Europe. These years were also marked by escalating Muslim violence orchestrated by Husseini and other Muslim leaders. In 1936, Arab terrorism took on a new dimension. In the beginning the targets were once again defenseless Jewish civilians in hospitals, movie theatres, homes and stores. This was followed by strikes and shop closures, and then by the bombing of British offices. The Nazi regime in Germany and the Italian fascists supported the violence, sending “millions” to the Mufti. The SS, under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler, provided both financial and logistical support for anti-Semitic pogroms in Palestine. Adolf Eichmann visited Husseini in Palestine and subsequently maintained regular contact with him. The support was mutual, as one Arab commentator put it:
“Feeling the whip of Jewish pressure and influence, the Arabs sympathized with the Nazis and Fascists in their agony and trials at the hands of Jewish intrigues and international financial pressures.”
The Palestinians and their Arab allies were anything but neutral about the fate of European Jewry. The official leader of the Palestinians, Haj Amin al-Husseini, spent the war years in Berlin with Hitler, serving as a consultant on the Jewish question. He was taken on a tour of Auschwitz by Himmler and expressed support for the mass murder of European Jews. He also sought to “solve the problems of the Jewish element in Palestine and other Arab countries” by employing “the same method” being used “in the Axis countries.’ He would not be satisfied with the Jewish residents of Palestine - - many of whom were descendants of Sephardic Jews who had lived there for hundreds, even thousands, of years - - remaining as a minority in a Muslim state. Like Hitler, he wanted to be rid of “every last Jew.” As Husseini wrote in his memoirs:
“Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a manner befitting our national and racial aspirations and according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews. The answer I got was: “The Jews are yours.”
The Mufti was apparently planning to return to Palestine in the event of a German victory and to construct a death camp, modeled after Auschwitz, near Nablus. Husseini incited his pro-Nazi followers with the words “Arise, o sons of Arabia. Fight for your sacred rights. Slaughter Jews wherever you find them. Their spilled blood pleases Allah, our history and religion. That will save our honor.” In 1944, a German-Arab commando unit, under Husseini’s command, parachuted into Palestine and poisoned Tel Aviv’s wells.
Husseini also helped to inspire a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq and helped to organize thousands of Muslims in the Balkans into military units known as Handselar divisions which carried out atrocities against Yugoslav Jews, Serbs and Gypsies. After a meeting with Hitler, he recorded the following in his diary:
The Mufti: “The Arabs were Germany’s natural friends… They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in a war, not only negatively by the commission of acts of sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the formation of an Arab Legion. In this struggle, the Arabs were striving for the independence and the unity of Palestine, Syria and Iraq….
Hitler: “Germany was resolved, step by step, to ask one European nation after the other to solve its Jewish problem, and at the proper time direct a similar appeal to non-European nations as well. Hitler. Germany’s objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power. The moment that Germany’s tank divisions and air squadrons had made their appearance south of the Caucasus, the public appeal requested by the Grand Mufti could go out to the Arab world.”
It is fair to conclude that the official leader of the Muslims in Palestine, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was a full fledged Nazi war criminal and he was so declared at Nuremberg and sought by Yugoslavia as a war criminal after the war. He escaped to Egypt where he was given asylum and helped to organize many former Nazis and Nazi sympathizers against Israel.
It is also fair to say that Husseini’s pro-Nazi sympathies and support were widespread among his Palestinian followers, who regarded him as a hero even after the war and the disclosure of his role in Nazi atrocities. According to his biographer,
“Haj Amin’s popularity among the Palestinian Arabs and within the Arab states actually increased more than ever during his period with the Nazis… [because] large parts of the Arab world shared this sympathy with Nazi Germany during the Second World War.”
Nor was it merely a hatred of Zionism that animated this support for Nazi ideology. The grand mufti’s “hatred of Jews…was fathomless, and he gave full vent to it during his period of activity alongside the Nazis (October 1941-May 1945).” His speeches on Berlin Radio were anti-Semitic to the core: “Kill the Jews wherever you find them—this pleases God, history and religion.” In 1948, the National Palestinian Council elected Husseini as its president, even though he was still a wanted war criminal living in exile in Egypt. Indeed, Husseini is still revered today among many Palestinians as a national hero. Yasser Arafat, in an interview conducted in 2002 and reprinted in the Palestinian daily Al-Quds on August 2, 2002, calls Haj Amin al-Husseini “our hero,” referring to the Palestinian people. Arafat also boasted of being “one of his troops,” even though he knew he was “considered an ally of Nazis.” (If a German today were to call Hitler “our hero,” he would appropriately be labeled a neo-Nazi.!)
It is a myth therefore – another myth perpetrated by Iran’s myth-maker-in-chief – that the Palestinians played “no role” in the Holocaust. Considering the active support by the Palestinian leadership and masses for the losing side of a genocidal war, it was more than fair for the United Nations to offer them a state of their own on more than half of the arable land of the British mandate. The Sudeten Germans got a lot less!
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Too funny ... gotta read this one!
Islamic Cell Phone and the Next Islamic Invention
by Abul Kasem
Reproduced from http://www.islam-watch.org/AbulKasem/IslamicCellPhone.htm
28 Sep, 2007
The newest Islamic stuff in the market is the Islamic Cell Phone marketed by a company in Bangladesh . The New Age of Dhaka reported: The cell phone has full text of the holy Qur’an with English translation, prayer call (azan), prayer alarm before and after azan, automatic Qibla directions and Ramadan calendar. I could not help but had a good chuckle when I read the above news. Suddenly, I recalled ‘Dalil’, the Islamic digital watch (of course, invented and marketed by the infidels) that was launched in early eighties when the craze of digital time-piece was raging. This Islamic digital watch displayed prayer times, Ramadan fasting calendar with times and the direction of Qibla. Many Muslims bought this gadget to acquire bonus rewards from Allah; but guess who pocketed the money? Yes, it was the infidels who took the lion’s share of the profit. I am not quite sure if that Islamic digital watch (or its enhanced version) is still being marketed or not. Lately, in an attempt to maul the soft-drink giant Coca-Cola, Islamic soft drink, such as Mecca Cola is being marketed vigorously in Muslim countries as well as in some infidel countries where sizeable number of Muslims reside. I am not sure how successful the Islamic soft-drink has been in demolishing the Coca-Cola giant.
Here is a list of fifty items---I believe, sooner or later, will be claimed by the Islamists as their own inventions. The list is not itemized on the basis of subject/product---it is a random list---I listed them as they came to my mind. Peruse the list and add more to make it a century.
Next Islamic Inventions:
1. Islamic Toilet (no flushing---equipped with stone disposal container---Hadis style)
2. Islamic Toilet Paper (made from Zaqqum leaves---Muhammad’s hated tree)
3. Islamic Tampon (with musk fragrance---as per the instruction of Muhammad and practiced by Bibi Aisha—Hadis style, of course)
4. Islamic Bra (to match Hijab and Burqa)
5. Islamic Lipstick (OOPS! it may be Haram if worn openly---can be worn while inside a Burqa: made from camel’s fat---absolutely Halal)
6. Islamic Windows XP (computer boots with the sirens of Qur’an and Azan)
7. Islamic Pentium 4 (the processor is encoded with electronic Jihadists to automatically destroy anti-Islamic messages/articles)
8. Islamic CD and DVD (they are made from Lebanese bread ingredients---absolutely Halal stuff)
9. Islamic TV (only channels available are Islamic channels; no woman is shown, neither their voices are heard)
10. Islamic Radio (receives only Islamic broadcasts; automatically rejects female voices on the air)
11. Islamic Shoe (made from pure Halal skin---camel’s skin)
12. Islamic Battery (no acid is used; made from Zam-Zam water---no Haram stuff is added)
13. Islamic Camera (takes pictures of trees and plants only---automatically disables shutter when photographing human or animals)
14. Islamic Earthquake (Allah tests His Mumins in Iran and Turkey --Allah’s Qudrat---Qur’anic style, no doubt)
15. Islamic Geology (to counter the modern theory of Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift with the Islamic theory of Qur’anic Mountain Pegs)
16. Islamic Physics (to replace the concept of rational and logical approach to the understanding of natural Laws with the Islamic concept of Blind faith and Compulsion)
17. Islamic Chemistry (after all, the Muslims were the greatest Chemists!)
18. Islamic Gravity (based on Isra and Miraj: a Buraq, half-angel, half-horse; could defy gravity; refutes infidel’s concept Gravitational laws)
19. Islamic Theory of Relativity (time-dilation--Islamic style based on Muhammad’s ascent to Allah and his journey to heavens)
20. Islamic Electricity (don’t laugh! the Pakistani Islamists are sure of harnessing electricity from the Jinns!)
21. Islamic Flood (the recent deluge in Bangladesh is Allah’s punishment—Noah style)
22. Islamic Psychiatry (no joke! one Bangladeshi Islamic Psychiatrist has developed Psychotherapy---a la Qur’an)
23. Islamic Psychology (the Egyptian Islamic Psychologists are working on this new branch of metaphysics---Qur’anic style, of course)
24. Islamic Surgery (surgery performed by Burqa/Hijab-clad Muslimah surgeons; alternatively, a Muslim male surgeon performs surgery using long butcher’s knives swords and beheading axe used by the Jihadists without touching the sensitive flesh) of Burqa/Hijab-clad Muslimah)
25. Islamic Mouse (automatically retrieves Sahih Ahadith at a click)
26. Islamic Keyboard (keys are programmed to invoke Qur’anic verses)
27. Islamic Computer Monitor (moving display of Qur’anic verses at the task bar---intermittent high resolution images of Islamic barbarism reminds the user of his duty to join in the Jihad and to slaughter infidels)
28. Islamic Science Monitor (the Christians have their own version--- why not the Muslims?)
29. Islamic Secularism (based on verse 2:256, although it means the only religion acceptable to Allah is Islam, of course)
30. Islamic Atheism (don’t laugh! Allah does not exist in physical form---no need to turn hither and thither to see him)
31. Islamic Microscope (shows Jinns and Devils swimming in your blood-stream)
32. Islamic Oven/Microwave Oven (works by harnessing the heat of Islamic Hell and the electricity generated from the Jinns)
33. Islamic Refrigerator (uses as refrigerant 100% Halal stuff-- the cool water of Jannah and not the Freon gas invented by the infidels)
34. Islamic Toothbrush (not so new: the latest model incorporates Miswak fibres—Muhammad’s favourite dental cleaner, thus doing away with nylon fibre---an infidel invention and a Haram ingredient)
35. Islamic Toothpaste (as above---uses Miswak paste and Zaitun leaves, Muhammad’s favourite)
36. Islamic Soap (it is already in market: the new ingredient is the incorporation of dry clay/dust---so that Tayammum can be performed while in journey or when no water is available nearby---a two-in-one stuff)
37. Islamic Hard Disk (this device uses the incredible memory of the Hafizs’—the Qur’an memorisers to provide limitless memory at your disposal)
38. Islamic Mountains (mountains are stabilizers---lest the earth fly away---absolute Qur’anic stuff: this concept demolishes the infidel’s discovery of the theories of Plate Tectonic and Continental Drift, the foundation of modern geology)
39. Islamic Aircraft (shaped in the form of Buraq that Muhammad boarded to journey in space---conforms absolutely to Hadis standards)
40. Islamic Car (camel shaped---runs on desert sand: for use when Islamic oil wells run dry)
41. Islamic X-Ray (detects the body parts affected by major sins specified by the Qur’an)
42. Islamic Ultrasound (scans body-parts and detects the Islamic crimes, such as theft, illicit sex….,.body parts that are to be amputated and the precise location of brain part that can be demolished by stoning with the maximum pain; in case of pregnancy this Islamic device automatically detects if the foetus is the result of illicit sex or not; operates with male operators only---Pakistan style)
43. Islamic Paediatrics (specialises in the slaughter of infant and children in Islamic merciful manner)
44. Islamic Gynaecology (male specialist with blind-fold examines a Muslimah’s private organs using a sharp pencil and thin small metal rods; the Muslimah must be covered in Burqa. A security officer must be present. This method is already in practice in certain Islamic states of Malaysia )
45. Islamic Missiles ( Pakistan already has them---the latest model targets child-care centres, schools and hospitals of the infidels)
46. Islamic Telephone (a cousin of Islamic Cell Phone---this version replaces the ringing tone with the bursts of ‘Allahu Akbar,’ ‘Allahu Akbar’)
47. Islamic DNA (uses lashing to imprint permanent marks on a person’s buttock and back; helps Allah to identify the perpetrators of anti-Islamic writings and the Islam bashers)
48. Islamic Satellite (launched from Mecca , orbits Allahs throne, monitors and reports to Allah all activities of infidels)
49. Islamic Penicillin (made from camel’s urine: cures all infectious diseases---Hadis style)
50. Islamic Eye-Ointment (made from Muhammad’s saliva---cures all eye ailments)
Are those listed Islamic Inventions hilarious? many of them are, for sure. Complete the century by adding further Islamic stuff. The secret? simply add the prefix ‘Islamic’ to any new invention by the infidels----and lo! you have the Islamic version of it.
Abul Kasem is an Bengali ex-Muslim and academic. He has contributed in Leaving Islam - Apostates Speak Out and Beyond Jihad - Critical Voices from Inside. He has also written extensively on Islam in various websites and is the author of five e-Books: A Complete Guide to Allah, Root of Terrorism ala Islamic Style, Sex and Sexuality in Islam, Who Authored the Quran? and Women in Islam. Mr. Kasem leaves in Sydney, Australia. He can be contacted at abul88@hotmail.com.
by Abul Kasem
Reproduced from http://www.islam-watch.org/AbulKasem/IslamicCellPhone.htm
28 Sep, 2007
The newest Islamic stuff in the market is the Islamic Cell Phone marketed by a company in Bangladesh . The New Age of Dhaka reported: The cell phone has full text of the holy Qur’an with English translation, prayer call (azan), prayer alarm before and after azan, automatic Qibla directions and Ramadan calendar. I could not help but had a good chuckle when I read the above news. Suddenly, I recalled ‘Dalil’, the Islamic digital watch (of course, invented and marketed by the infidels) that was launched in early eighties when the craze of digital time-piece was raging. This Islamic digital watch displayed prayer times, Ramadan fasting calendar with times and the direction of Qibla. Many Muslims bought this gadget to acquire bonus rewards from Allah; but guess who pocketed the money? Yes, it was the infidels who took the lion’s share of the profit. I am not quite sure if that Islamic digital watch (or its enhanced version) is still being marketed or not. Lately, in an attempt to maul the soft-drink giant Coca-Cola, Islamic soft drink, such as Mecca Cola is being marketed vigorously in Muslim countries as well as in some infidel countries where sizeable number of Muslims reside. I am not sure how successful the Islamic soft-drink has been in demolishing the Coca-Cola giant.
Here is a list of fifty items---I believe, sooner or later, will be claimed by the Islamists as their own inventions. The list is not itemized on the basis of subject/product---it is a random list---I listed them as they came to my mind. Peruse the list and add more to make it a century.
Next Islamic Inventions:
1. Islamic Toilet (no flushing---equipped with stone disposal container---Hadis style)
2. Islamic Toilet Paper (made from Zaqqum leaves---Muhammad’s hated tree)
3. Islamic Tampon (with musk fragrance---as per the instruction of Muhammad and practiced by Bibi Aisha—Hadis style, of course)
4. Islamic Bra (to match Hijab and Burqa)
5. Islamic Lipstick (OOPS! it may be Haram if worn openly---can be worn while inside a Burqa: made from camel’s fat---absolutely Halal)
6. Islamic Windows XP (computer boots with the sirens of Qur’an and Azan)
7. Islamic Pentium 4 (the processor is encoded with electronic Jihadists to automatically destroy anti-Islamic messages/articles)
8. Islamic CD and DVD (they are made from Lebanese bread ingredients---absolutely Halal stuff)
9. Islamic TV (only channels available are Islamic channels; no woman is shown, neither their voices are heard)
10. Islamic Radio (receives only Islamic broadcasts; automatically rejects female voices on the air)
11. Islamic Shoe (made from pure Halal skin---camel’s skin)
12. Islamic Battery (no acid is used; made from Zam-Zam water---no Haram stuff is added)
13. Islamic Camera (takes pictures of trees and plants only---automatically disables shutter when photographing human or animals)
14. Islamic Earthquake (Allah tests His Mumins in Iran and Turkey --Allah’s Qudrat---Qur’anic style, no doubt)
15. Islamic Geology (to counter the modern theory of Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift with the Islamic theory of Qur’anic Mountain Pegs)
16. Islamic Physics (to replace the concept of rational and logical approach to the understanding of natural Laws with the Islamic concept of Blind faith and Compulsion)
17. Islamic Chemistry (after all, the Muslims were the greatest Chemists!)
18. Islamic Gravity (based on Isra and Miraj: a Buraq, half-angel, half-horse; could defy gravity; refutes infidel’s concept Gravitational laws)
19. Islamic Theory of Relativity (time-dilation--Islamic style based on Muhammad’s ascent to Allah and his journey to heavens)
20. Islamic Electricity (don’t laugh! the Pakistani Islamists are sure of harnessing electricity from the Jinns!)
21. Islamic Flood (the recent deluge in Bangladesh is Allah’s punishment—Noah style)
22. Islamic Psychiatry (no joke! one Bangladeshi Islamic Psychiatrist has developed Psychotherapy---a la Qur’an)
23. Islamic Psychology (the Egyptian Islamic Psychologists are working on this new branch of metaphysics---Qur’anic style, of course)
24. Islamic Surgery (surgery performed by Burqa/Hijab-clad Muslimah surgeons; alternatively, a Muslim male surgeon performs surgery using long butcher’s knives swords and beheading axe used by the Jihadists without touching the sensitive flesh) of Burqa/Hijab-clad Muslimah)
25. Islamic Mouse (automatically retrieves Sahih Ahadith at a click)
26. Islamic Keyboard (keys are programmed to invoke Qur’anic verses)
27. Islamic Computer Monitor (moving display of Qur’anic verses at the task bar---intermittent high resolution images of Islamic barbarism reminds the user of his duty to join in the Jihad and to slaughter infidels)
28. Islamic Science Monitor (the Christians have their own version--- why not the Muslims?)
29. Islamic Secularism (based on verse 2:256, although it means the only religion acceptable to Allah is Islam, of course)
30. Islamic Atheism (don’t laugh! Allah does not exist in physical form---no need to turn hither and thither to see him)
31. Islamic Microscope (shows Jinns and Devils swimming in your blood-stream)
32. Islamic Oven/Microwave Oven (works by harnessing the heat of Islamic Hell and the electricity generated from the Jinns)
33. Islamic Refrigerator (uses as refrigerant 100% Halal stuff-- the cool water of Jannah and not the Freon gas invented by the infidels)
34. Islamic Toothbrush (not so new: the latest model incorporates Miswak fibres—Muhammad’s favourite dental cleaner, thus doing away with nylon fibre---an infidel invention and a Haram ingredient)
35. Islamic Toothpaste (as above---uses Miswak paste and Zaitun leaves, Muhammad’s favourite)
36. Islamic Soap (it is already in market: the new ingredient is the incorporation of dry clay/dust---so that Tayammum can be performed while in journey or when no water is available nearby---a two-in-one stuff)
37. Islamic Hard Disk (this device uses the incredible memory of the Hafizs’—the Qur’an memorisers to provide limitless memory at your disposal)
38. Islamic Mountains (mountains are stabilizers---lest the earth fly away---absolute Qur’anic stuff: this concept demolishes the infidel’s discovery of the theories of Plate Tectonic and Continental Drift, the foundation of modern geology)
39. Islamic Aircraft (shaped in the form of Buraq that Muhammad boarded to journey in space---conforms absolutely to Hadis standards)
40. Islamic Car (camel shaped---runs on desert sand: for use when Islamic oil wells run dry)
41. Islamic X-Ray (detects the body parts affected by major sins specified by the Qur’an)
42. Islamic Ultrasound (scans body-parts and detects the Islamic crimes, such as theft, illicit sex….,.body parts that are to be amputated and the precise location of brain part that can be demolished by stoning with the maximum pain; in case of pregnancy this Islamic device automatically detects if the foetus is the result of illicit sex or not; operates with male operators only---Pakistan style)
43. Islamic Paediatrics (specialises in the slaughter of infant and children in Islamic merciful manner)
44. Islamic Gynaecology (male specialist with blind-fold examines a Muslimah’s private organs using a sharp pencil and thin small metal rods; the Muslimah must be covered in Burqa. A security officer must be present. This method is already in practice in certain Islamic states of Malaysia )
45. Islamic Missiles ( Pakistan already has them---the latest model targets child-care centres, schools and hospitals of the infidels)
46. Islamic Telephone (a cousin of Islamic Cell Phone---this version replaces the ringing tone with the bursts of ‘Allahu Akbar,’ ‘Allahu Akbar’)
47. Islamic DNA (uses lashing to imprint permanent marks on a person’s buttock and back; helps Allah to identify the perpetrators of anti-Islamic writings and the Islam bashers)
48. Islamic Satellite (launched from Mecca , orbits Allahs throne, monitors and reports to Allah all activities of infidels)
49. Islamic Penicillin (made from camel’s urine: cures all infectious diseases---Hadis style)
50. Islamic Eye-Ointment (made from Muhammad’s saliva---cures all eye ailments)
Are those listed Islamic Inventions hilarious? many of them are, for sure. Complete the century by adding further Islamic stuff. The secret? simply add the prefix ‘Islamic’ to any new invention by the infidels----and lo! you have the Islamic version of it.
Abul Kasem is an Bengali ex-Muslim and academic. He has contributed in Leaving Islam - Apostates Speak Out and Beyond Jihad - Critical Voices from Inside. He has also written extensively on Islam in various websites and is the author of five e-Books: A Complete Guide to Allah, Root of Terrorism ala Islamic Style, Sex and Sexuality in Islam, Who Authored the Quran? and Women in Islam. Mr. Kasem leaves in Sydney, Australia. He can be contacted at abul88@hotmail.com.
Least Corrupt Country
Our neighbor Singapore earned the esteemed title of being the 4th least corrupt country. What an honor! Congratulations, Singapore!
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_161639.html?vgnmr=1
In the same breath, I have to lower my eyes downward in utter shame as I read the Malaysian papers where "polishing one's hands", "under the table", "duit kopi" is all too common to mean bribery. Bribery is rampant in every industry and nothing gets done without having to "grease" someone's hands and I do not mean that literally. Work gets done if there is a potential exchange of money -- from the office boys all the way to that of the directors. How sad!
Look at this news flash recently from the Star paper. Just to cite a few.
Cop faces three more money laundering charges Supt Azmi Osman, who was charged on Tuesday with three counts of money laundering totalling RM1.3mil, appeared in court again on Wednesday to answer two more counts of a similar charge involving RM2.8mil.
Panel to get appointment letters on Thursday The three-man panel formed to determine the authenticity of a controversial video clip implicating a senior lawyer brokering the appointments of judges will receive their appointment letters on Thursday.
Second syariah court official out on bail A syariah court official in Ipoh who was arrested for allegedly receiving bribes to settle a khalwat (close proximity) case has been released on bail.
Syariah court official remanded A senior official of the Perak syariah court detained for allegedly receiving bribes amounting to about RM4,000 to settle a khalwat (close proximity) case has been remanded for two days.
I highly doubt that Malaysia will ever get there but I guess I can always remember to say "Oh, Malaysia is right next to Singapore!" Maybe, just maybe (please God!) they may just think that we too are an honest nation (at least by association)!
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_161639.html?vgnmr=1
In the same breath, I have to lower my eyes downward in utter shame as I read the Malaysian papers where "polishing one's hands", "under the table", "duit kopi" is all too common to mean bribery. Bribery is rampant in every industry and nothing gets done without having to "grease" someone's hands and I do not mean that literally. Work gets done if there is a potential exchange of money -- from the office boys all the way to that of the directors. How sad!
Look at this news flash recently from the Star paper. Just to cite a few.
Cop faces three more money laundering charges Supt Azmi Osman, who was charged on Tuesday with three counts of money laundering totalling RM1.3mil, appeared in court again on Wednesday to answer two more counts of a similar charge involving RM2.8mil.
Panel to get appointment letters on Thursday The three-man panel formed to determine the authenticity of a controversial video clip implicating a senior lawyer brokering the appointments of judges will receive their appointment letters on Thursday.
Second syariah court official out on bail A syariah court official in Ipoh who was arrested for allegedly receiving bribes to settle a khalwat (close proximity) case has been released on bail.
Syariah court official remanded A senior official of the Perak syariah court detained for allegedly receiving bribes amounting to about RM4,000 to settle a khalwat (close proximity) case has been remanded for two days.
I highly doubt that Malaysia will ever get there but I guess I can always remember to say "Oh, Malaysia is right next to Singapore!" Maybe, just maybe (please God!) they may just think that we too are an honest nation (at least by association)!
Friday, September 14, 2007
What next Malaysia???
Okay, now that the Lina Joy case has blown over, the Malaysian government is sneaking up on all the non-Muslims of the country by attempting to bring in Shariah law to govern the entire population. What a great example Shariah law is! Look at all the countries that have shariah laws, they have all gone backwards in time to the "tribal laws of the desert". Wake up Malaysia! Wake up people of Malaysia! Wake all the members of the Opposition Parties such as MCA, MIC and DAP. What are they doing? Wait, I know --- lining their pockets with money, I presume!
For years I grew up knowing that we should not and could not question the government on what it did for the Muslim/Bumi population while disregarding the other ethnic and religious groups that made up of a whopping 42% of the population. There was so much unhappiness within the general population while the governing body went around the world trying to pass the country of as The perfect example of a country with a Muslim majority! What a joke!
We could not question that the Muslim Malays were given lower passing grades to excel and then bypass the smart kids of other religious and ethnic background onwards to the universities of their choice. Someone with a Muslim name and a B/C grade average will be in a good university while the others with straight A's will be heading out for work at a factory (especially ones with no money). Muslims Malays were given government scholarships to head out to other countries to attain their advanced degrees -- and the rest of us could not question that either. There was so much injustice around.
Now we are headed towards more intolerance and prejudice with the attempt of passing an Islamic law on the heads of the non Muslims. Why should the non-Muslims be subjected under a religious law that is not of their faith. A person's religious faith should govern their individual moral compass and then the secular justice system should dictate the rest.
Malaysia is supposed to maintain two parallel justice systems in the country (see: Courts of Malaysia). One is the secular justice system based upon laws gazetted by Parliament. The other is sharia (syariah, Islamic law). Ostensibly syariah courts only have jurisdiction over persons who declare themselves to be Muslims.
Where decisions of the syariah court affect a non-Muslim, he or she can seek recourse in the secular courts who, in theory, overrule the syariah courts as the Syariah courts are limited in their jurisdiction by Article 121 of the Federal constitution. In 2006 a judge ruled that Article 121 limited the federal courts from ruling on matters ruled on by the Syariah court when it touch Islamic matter. This was seen as a misinterpretation of the article by some, and the case is under appeal in the court of appeals.
This was the perfect stucture that took care of the Muslims and protected the non-Muslims. So, why now is the government attempting to screw things up again - for the non-Muslims. What next? The jizyah tax imposed on non-Muslims.
All you non-Muslim people of Malaysia, please wake up, stand up and fight for this injustice. If you do not, trust me things are going to be very different. Look at all the Muslim countries - name one that has a success story! Every Muslim country in the world right now is having problems. Shariah law is tribal law at the very least. We are not living in the desert of Arabia to accomodate this law. We need to SPEAK UP!
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
A Malay Child of Merdeka
DR AZLY RAHMAN is a transcultural philosopher rooted in the tradition of Critical and Chaos Theory. Born in Singapore, raised in Johor Baru, he was a child of Malaysia's experiment in humanistic education: Maktab Rendah Sains MARA Kuantan.A member of The International Honor Society in Education, Azly holds a Doctorate in International Education Development from Columbia University,New York City, and Masters in four areas: International Affairs,Education,Communication, and Peace Studies.He has taught in Malaysia and the United States in a multitude of settings and in diverse fields such as Politics/International Relations,
Education,American Studies, Philosophy/ Humanities/Cultural Studies, and History/Foundations of Civilizations.His interest lies in deconstructing 'hegemony and totalitarianism' and to explore the possibilities of creating one's personal republic that willchallenge and transform the postmodern state.
He can be reached at: aar26@columbia.edu
Sometime ago in a column I wrote the following:We are in the 21st century. About three years from now, we will arrive at the year 2010. The non-Malays and non-bumiputeras have come a long way into being accepted as full-fledged Malaysians, by virtue of the ethics, rights and responsibilities of citizenship. They ought to be given equal opportunity in the name of social justice, racial tolerance and the alleviation of poverty.Bright and hard-working Malaysians regardless of racial origin who now call themselves Malaysians must be given all the opportunities that have been given to Malays since 40 years back.Islam and other religions require this form of social justice to be applied to the lives of human beings. Islam does not discriminate one on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, creed nor national origin. It is race-based politics, borne out of the elusiveness of nationalism, that creates post-industrial tribalistic leaders; leaders that will design post-industrial tribalistic policies. It is the philosophy of greed, facilitated by free enterprise runamuck that will evolvingly force leaders of each race to threaten each other over the control of the economic pie. This is the ideology of independence we have cultivated. I want to elaborate the point further:
A Malay child of Merdeka
As a child born into a Malay family a few years after the shouts of "Merdeka" filled the nation's stadium, and as a child privileged to be given the opportunities accorded to a "bumiputera," I have a statement of hope to convey to our nation. As an adult growing learning multiple ways of knowing about the world, through people of multiple cultures, I often ask the question of what will happen to the children and grandchildren of Mr Wong, my Jawi teacher in Johor Bahru, Ah Lan the lady who taught my mother how to sew clothes for a living, Dr Das who treated my childhood illness and taught me how to be "patient" about wanting to make changes in the world, Mr PV Kulasingam my fearful headmaster, Miss Chan my favourite Maths teachers who suddenly became angry at me a day after the May 13, 1969 riots, Miss Yap and Mr Ambrose my English teachers who taught me to love the language when I was struggling with other subjects, and countless other "non-Malays non-bumis"
I have come to be indebted to – those who have contributed to the "subjectivity" of what I am as a "cultural being living in an everchanging and evolving world of shifting cultural constructs." In short, I ask the question – what have this nation done to the children and grandchildren of these people through the policies we create to alienate each other?Because in my profession as an educator, questions are more important than the answers, I present them as such below:After this Merdeka, celebrations will we all be called the "new bumiputeras"? Will the false dichotomy of "Malays" versus "non-Malays" and "bumiputeras " versus "non-bumiputeras" be abolished? Will we come together as "true blue Malaysians" that will progress through the guiding national development philosophy crafted by the principles of scientific socialism,> multiculturalism, affirmative action and meritocratic principles in a balance, and the respect, cultivation, and preservation of indigenous cultures that sustain the dignity of each race? Will more financial aid be given to the deserving students of all races?Will more scholarships be given to "non-Malays" or "non-bumiputeras" so that they too will enjoy the fruits of labour of the parents and grandparents who toiled for this nation? Will more deserving "non-Malays" be given the much needed aid to study abroad and to come home and serve, so that they will take pride in building the nation that has been kind to them?
Will this new preferential treatment cure the ill-feeling and silent animosity over the awarding of resources amongst the different races? Will the children and grandchildren of great Malaysians – Soh Chin Aun, V Arumugam, Santokh Singh, (the grand-daddies of the real Beckhams of the Malaysian cultural iconoclasm) and Andre Goh, M. Jegathesan, be given scholarship they deserve? Will preferential treatment be given to those born after the Aug 31, 1957 to their children and grandchildren as well?It will be a shame to the hard work of the "founding fathers" of Merdeka if we do not work towards providing equality, equity, and equal opportunity to the children of all races. It would kill the spirit of Merdeka.Our Merdeka gone astray?This Merdeka, we have gone astray. Race-politics has reached its boiling point. It is predictable as a consequence of the outgrowth of politics in a pluralistic nation. Scholars who write about the difference between nationalism and socialism have predicted the bankruptcy of the former, in an age of globalisation and mass consumption – in an age wherein blind nationalism has become a blinder for the politics of plunder. This Merdeka, let us extend our special rights to all who deserve to live a life of dignity, based on the principles of universal declaration of human rights. In a nation wherein the three major races help build the nation, the nation must now belong to the children of all these races.
It is the logic of the brighter side of Social Darwinism – that all must be made fit to survive, not through natural selection but through an inclusive philosophy of developmentalism. It is an antidote to racial discrimination based on a sound philosophy of peaceful evolution. We cannot continue to alienate each other through arguments on"social contract" that is alien from perhaps what Jean Jacques Rousseau the great wrote about some 300 years ago – a philosophy that inspired the founding of America, a nation of immigrants constantly struggling (albeit imperfectly) to meet the standards requirements of equality, equity, and equal opportunity especially in education. How do we come together as Malaysians, as neo-bumiputeras free from false political-economic and ideological dichotomies of Malays versus non-Malays, "bumi" versus "non-bumis' and craft a better way of looking at our political, economic, social, cultural, and psychological, and spiritual destiny – so that we may continue to survive as a specie of Malaysians the next 50 years?As a privileged Malay and a "bumiputera", I want to see the false dichotomies destroyed and a new sense of social order emerging, based on a more just form of linguistic play designed as a new Merdeka game plan.
Think Malaysian - we do not have anything to lose except our mental chains.There is still a reason to celebrate.
Education,American Studies, Philosophy/ Humanities/Cultural Studies, and History/Foundations of Civilizations.His interest lies in deconstructing 'hegemony and totalitarianism' and to explore the possibilities of creating one's personal republic that willchallenge and transform the postmodern state.
He can be reached at: aar26@columbia.edu
Sometime ago in a column I wrote the following:We are in the 21st century. About three years from now, we will arrive at the year 2010. The non-Malays and non-bumiputeras have come a long way into being accepted as full-fledged Malaysians, by virtue of the ethics, rights and responsibilities of citizenship. They ought to be given equal opportunity in the name of social justice, racial tolerance and the alleviation of poverty.Bright and hard-working Malaysians regardless of racial origin who now call themselves Malaysians must be given all the opportunities that have been given to Malays since 40 years back.Islam and other religions require this form of social justice to be applied to the lives of human beings. Islam does not discriminate one on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, creed nor national origin. It is race-based politics, borne out of the elusiveness of nationalism, that creates post-industrial tribalistic leaders; leaders that will design post-industrial tribalistic policies. It is the philosophy of greed, facilitated by free enterprise runamuck that will evolvingly force leaders of each race to threaten each other over the control of the economic pie. This is the ideology of independence we have cultivated. I want to elaborate the point further:
A Malay child of Merdeka
As a child born into a Malay family a few years after the shouts of "Merdeka" filled the nation's stadium, and as a child privileged to be given the opportunities accorded to a "bumiputera," I have a statement of hope to convey to our nation. As an adult growing learning multiple ways of knowing about the world, through people of multiple cultures, I often ask the question of what will happen to the children and grandchildren of Mr Wong, my Jawi teacher in Johor Bahru, Ah Lan the lady who taught my mother how to sew clothes for a living, Dr Das who treated my childhood illness and taught me how to be "patient" about wanting to make changes in the world, Mr PV Kulasingam my fearful headmaster, Miss Chan my favourite Maths teachers who suddenly became angry at me a day after the May 13, 1969 riots, Miss Yap and Mr Ambrose my English teachers who taught me to love the language when I was struggling with other subjects, and countless other "non-Malays non-bumis"
I have come to be indebted to – those who have contributed to the "subjectivity" of what I am as a "cultural being living in an everchanging and evolving world of shifting cultural constructs." In short, I ask the question – what have this nation done to the children and grandchildren of these people through the policies we create to alienate each other?Because in my profession as an educator, questions are more important than the answers, I present them as such below:After this Merdeka, celebrations will we all be called the "new bumiputeras"? Will the false dichotomy of "Malays" versus "non-Malays" and "bumiputeras " versus "non-bumiputeras" be abolished? Will we come together as "true blue Malaysians" that will progress through the guiding national development philosophy crafted by the principles of scientific socialism,> multiculturalism, affirmative action and meritocratic principles in a balance, and the respect, cultivation, and preservation of indigenous cultures that sustain the dignity of each race? Will more financial aid be given to the deserving students of all races?Will more scholarships be given to "non-Malays" or "non-bumiputeras" so that they too will enjoy the fruits of labour of the parents and grandparents who toiled for this nation? Will more deserving "non-Malays" be given the much needed aid to study abroad and to come home and serve, so that they will take pride in building the nation that has been kind to them?
Will this new preferential treatment cure the ill-feeling and silent animosity over the awarding of resources amongst the different races? Will the children and grandchildren of great Malaysians – Soh Chin Aun, V Arumugam, Santokh Singh, (the grand-daddies of the real Beckhams of the Malaysian cultural iconoclasm) and Andre Goh, M. Jegathesan, be given scholarship they deserve? Will preferential treatment be given to those born after the Aug 31, 1957 to their children and grandchildren as well?It will be a shame to the hard work of the "founding fathers" of Merdeka if we do not work towards providing equality, equity, and equal opportunity to the children of all races. It would kill the spirit of Merdeka.Our Merdeka gone astray?This Merdeka, we have gone astray. Race-politics has reached its boiling point. It is predictable as a consequence of the outgrowth of politics in a pluralistic nation. Scholars who write about the difference between nationalism and socialism have predicted the bankruptcy of the former, in an age of globalisation and mass consumption – in an age wherein blind nationalism has become a blinder for the politics of plunder. This Merdeka, let us extend our special rights to all who deserve to live a life of dignity, based on the principles of universal declaration of human rights. In a nation wherein the three major races help build the nation, the nation must now belong to the children of all these races.
It is the logic of the brighter side of Social Darwinism – that all must be made fit to survive, not through natural selection but through an inclusive philosophy of developmentalism. It is an antidote to racial discrimination based on a sound philosophy of peaceful evolution. We cannot continue to alienate each other through arguments on"social contract" that is alien from perhaps what Jean Jacques Rousseau the great wrote about some 300 years ago – a philosophy that inspired the founding of America, a nation of immigrants constantly struggling (albeit imperfectly) to meet the standards requirements of equality, equity, and equal opportunity especially in education. How do we come together as Malaysians, as neo-bumiputeras free from false political-economic and ideological dichotomies of Malays versus non-Malays, "bumi" versus "non-bumis' and craft a better way of looking at our political, economic, social, cultural, and psychological, and spiritual destiny – so that we may continue to survive as a specie of Malaysians the next 50 years?As a privileged Malay and a "bumiputera", I want to see the false dichotomies destroyed and a new sense of social order emerging, based on a more just form of linguistic play designed as a new Merdeka game plan.
Think Malaysian - we do not have anything to lose except our mental chains.There is still a reason to celebrate.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Young Muslims begin dangerous fight for the right to abandon faith
David Charter in The Hague
A group of young Muslim apostates launches a campaign today, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, to make it easier to renounce Islam. The provocative move reflects a growing rift between traditionalists and a younger generation raised on a diet of Dutch tolerance. The Committee for Ex-Muslims promises to campaign for freedom of religion but has already upset the Islamic and political Establishments for stirring tensions among the million-strong Muslim community in the Netherlands. Ehsan Jami, the committee’s founder, who rejected Islam after the attack on the twin towers in 2001, has become the most talked-about public figure in the Netherlands. He has been forced into hiding after a series of death threats and a recent attack.
The threats are taken seriously after the murder in 2002 of Pim Fortuyn, an antiimmigration politician, and in 2004 of Theo Van Gogh, an antiIslam film-maker. Speaking to The Times at a secret location before the committee’s launch today, the Labour Party councillor said that the movement would declare war on radical Islam. Similar organisations campaigning for reform of the religion have sprung up across Europe and representatives from Britain and Germany will join the launch in The Hague today. “Sharia schools say that they will kill the ones who leave Islam. In the West people get threatened, thrown out of their family, beaten up,” Mr Jami said. “In Islam you are born Muslim. You do not even choose to be Muslim. We want that to change, so that people are free to choose who they want to be and what they want to believe in.”
Mr Jami, 22, who has abandoned his studies as his political career has taken off, denied that the choice of September 11 was deliberately provocative towards the Islamic Establishment. “We chose the date because we want to make a clear statement that we no longer tolerate the intolerence of Islam, the terrorist attacks,” he said. “In 1965 the Church in Holland made a declaration that freedom of conscience is above hanging on to religion, so you can choose whether you are going to be a Christian or not. What we are seeking is the same thing for Islam.” Mr Jami, who has compared the rise of radical Islam to the threat from Nazism in the 1930s, is receiving only lukewarm support from his party which traditionally relies upon Muslim votes.
His outspoken attack on radical Islam has led to a prelaunch walk-out from fellow committee founder Loubna Berrada, who herself rejected Islam. She said: “I don’t wish to confront Islam itself. I only want to spread the message that Muslims should be allowed to leave Islam behind without being threatened.” There have been suggestions that Mr Jami might defect to the right-wing Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, the most outspoken politician in the Netherlands, who has called for the Koran to be banned. But Mr Jami said: “I have respect for Wilders but we do not have the same ideology. I am for the freedom of religion. “Banning something is not going to help. I am the opposite – everyone should read the Koran.” Mr Jami is being compared to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali refugee who became a prominent Dutch politician campaigning for the reform of Islam but who left eventually for an academic career in the United States.
Jannie Groen, a writer for De Volksrant newspaper, said: “[Among Muslims] he is getting the same reaction as Ayaan Hirsi Ali that he is too confrontational but you are seeing other former Muslims now coming forward. So he has been able to put this issue of apostasy on the agenda, even though they do not want to be in the same room as him and he has had to pay a price.”
— 14 passages in the Koran refer to apostasy
— According to Baidhawi’s commentary, Sura 4: 88-89 reads: “Whosoever turns back from his belief, openly or secretly, take him and kill him wheresoever ye find him, like any other infidel. Separate yourself from him altogether. Do not accept intercession in his regard.”
— The hadith, tradition and legend about Muhammad and his followers used as a basis of Sharia, tells of some atheists who were brought to “’Ali and he burnt them. The news of this reached Ibn Abbas who said: ‘If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostate forbade it . . . I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Apostate, ‘Whoever changed his [Islamic] religion, then kill him’.”
— According to hadith, a special reward in Paradise is reserved for the killer of apostates
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2426314.ece
A group of young Muslim apostates launches a campaign today, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, to make it easier to renounce Islam. The provocative move reflects a growing rift between traditionalists and a younger generation raised on a diet of Dutch tolerance. The Committee for Ex-Muslims promises to campaign for freedom of religion but has already upset the Islamic and political Establishments for stirring tensions among the million-strong Muslim community in the Netherlands. Ehsan Jami, the committee’s founder, who rejected Islam after the attack on the twin towers in 2001, has become the most talked-about public figure in the Netherlands. He has been forced into hiding after a series of death threats and a recent attack.
The threats are taken seriously after the murder in 2002 of Pim Fortuyn, an antiimmigration politician, and in 2004 of Theo Van Gogh, an antiIslam film-maker. Speaking to The Times at a secret location before the committee’s launch today, the Labour Party councillor said that the movement would declare war on radical Islam. Similar organisations campaigning for reform of the religion have sprung up across Europe and representatives from Britain and Germany will join the launch in The Hague today. “Sharia schools say that they will kill the ones who leave Islam. In the West people get threatened, thrown out of their family, beaten up,” Mr Jami said. “In Islam you are born Muslim. You do not even choose to be Muslim. We want that to change, so that people are free to choose who they want to be and what they want to believe in.”
Mr Jami, 22, who has abandoned his studies as his political career has taken off, denied that the choice of September 11 was deliberately provocative towards the Islamic Establishment. “We chose the date because we want to make a clear statement that we no longer tolerate the intolerence of Islam, the terrorist attacks,” he said. “In 1965 the Church in Holland made a declaration that freedom of conscience is above hanging on to religion, so you can choose whether you are going to be a Christian or not. What we are seeking is the same thing for Islam.” Mr Jami, who has compared the rise of radical Islam to the threat from Nazism in the 1930s, is receiving only lukewarm support from his party which traditionally relies upon Muslim votes.
His outspoken attack on radical Islam has led to a prelaunch walk-out from fellow committee founder Loubna Berrada, who herself rejected Islam. She said: “I don’t wish to confront Islam itself. I only want to spread the message that Muslims should be allowed to leave Islam behind without being threatened.” There have been suggestions that Mr Jami might defect to the right-wing Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, the most outspoken politician in the Netherlands, who has called for the Koran to be banned. But Mr Jami said: “I have respect for Wilders but we do not have the same ideology. I am for the freedom of religion. “Banning something is not going to help. I am the opposite – everyone should read the Koran.” Mr Jami is being compared to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali refugee who became a prominent Dutch politician campaigning for the reform of Islam but who left eventually for an academic career in the United States.
Jannie Groen, a writer for De Volksrant newspaper, said: “[Among Muslims] he is getting the same reaction as Ayaan Hirsi Ali that he is too confrontational but you are seeing other former Muslims now coming forward. So he has been able to put this issue of apostasy on the agenda, even though they do not want to be in the same room as him and he has had to pay a price.”
— 14 passages in the Koran refer to apostasy
— According to Baidhawi’s commentary, Sura 4: 88-89 reads: “Whosoever turns back from his belief, openly or secretly, take him and kill him wheresoever ye find him, like any other infidel. Separate yourself from him altogether. Do not accept intercession in his regard.”
— The hadith, tradition and legend about Muhammad and his followers used as a basis of Sharia, tells of some atheists who were brought to “’Ali and he burnt them. The news of this reached Ibn Abbas who said: ‘If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostate forbade it . . . I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Apostate, ‘Whoever changed his [Islamic] religion, then kill him’.”
— According to hadith, a special reward in Paradise is reserved for the killer of apostates
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2426314.ece
What A Joke
I spoke to my sister today and supposedly the Malaysian government has someone running around stating that the Bible has been changed and the Koran is the correct one. What a ludicrous joke! Wait... let me laugh and get that out of the way because I cannot possibly laugh and type at the same time. Thanks Malaysia for being what you are so good at - STUPID!
If the Koran is so accurate, then why did Mohammad keep correcting himself. When he was in Mecca (and a lowly man since he was not that popular even among his own tribes, he preached about living in peace with people of the book, had just one wife and could be found meditating (or so he thought) in the caves(?). When people chased him out of Mecca, he escaped to Medina, got together an army and then came back (not in peace) but solely to kill, plunder, rape and acquire more and more wives.
He broke every of the 10 commandments. He lied, stole, killed, raped, lusted after his own adopted son's wife (eventually marrying her). How can a man so perfect be terribly un-perfect. How can God constantly give him conflicting messages. His God must have Alzheimers! Because my God is ever so constant. His God also conveniently gave him revelations to get him out of difficult situations like the time he got caught by his wife having sex with Mary the Copt who was his slave. First he promised to stay away from Mary and begged his wife not to tell anyone. When his wife told on him to his favorite wife Aisha (the one he married when she was 6), he said that God told him to go ahead and break his promise so that he can continue to have sex with the slave.
Boy! now I know why God sometimes does not have time to answer my prayers. He is constantly busy worrying about Mo's sex life.
If the Koran is so accurate, then why did Mohammad keep correcting himself. When he was in Mecca (and a lowly man since he was not that popular even among his own tribes, he preached about living in peace with people of the book, had just one wife and could be found meditating (or so he thought) in the caves(?). When people chased him out of Mecca, he escaped to Medina, got together an army and then came back (not in peace) but solely to kill, plunder, rape and acquire more and more wives.
He broke every of the 10 commandments. He lied, stole, killed, raped, lusted after his own adopted son's wife (eventually marrying her). How can a man so perfect be terribly un-perfect. How can God constantly give him conflicting messages. His God must have Alzheimers! Because my God is ever so constant. His God also conveniently gave him revelations to get him out of difficult situations like the time he got caught by his wife having sex with Mary the Copt who was his slave. First he promised to stay away from Mary and begged his wife not to tell anyone. When his wife told on him to his favorite wife Aisha (the one he married when she was 6), he said that God told him to go ahead and break his promise so that he can continue to have sex with the slave.
Boy! now I know why God sometimes does not have time to answer my prayers. He is constantly busy worrying about Mo's sex life.
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