4 posts tagged “understand islam”
Muhammad A. Khan (aka M.A. Khan) is the author of the very informative and well documented book entitled, “Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slavery.” The book leans toward the pedantic and there are a few English language grammatical errors; however Islamic Jihad is so incredibly documented that it was leaves little room to criticize the book for the accuracy of the Islamic exposé. So do not tackle this book for reading enjoyment, rather engulf the book to educate your self on the actual nature of Islam’s past to understand its present and predict its future.
Khan is also the administrator of an awesome source website about Islam and its not so peaceful nature at Islam Watch. This website bills itself as “Telling the truth about Islam” and “Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims”.
Consider this an introduction to an essay by M.A. Khan I found on Faith Freedom International. The essay is entitled, “The Journey of a Pakistani from a Muslim to an Ex-Muslim”.
The essay is a bit of mixture of M.A. Khan biography and associated insights into Islam. It is an awesome read!
JRH 6/24/09
Considering the Japanese style sneak attack of Islamic terrorists on 911, it is remarkable that there is not more public information being disseminated to the American public.
The lack of information is remarkable but I do understand the reasoning. The Mainstream Media and a Politically Correct (PC) U.S. government are afraid that if the negative side of Islam is disseminated to the American public that an increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes would increase. Indeed the well financed Islamic-American organizations are also a huge factor in enforcing PC thinking in America. These Islamic-American organizations gravitate toward radical Islam even though publicly they claim to represent the American mainstream Islam. To all the Muslim-Americans that claim to be moderate Muslims eschewing Radical Islam as an aberration of Islam, the existence of Islamist agenda Muslim-American organizations should be sending up red flags. Yet one rarely reads of an influential Muslim-American castigating these Islamist oriented Muslim-American organizations.
I have often read that Islamist/Salafist/Wahhabist Islam statistically only represents 10% of practicing Muslims globally. I am assuming that this statistic is representatively associated with the primary sect of Islam which is the Sunni.
The PC crowd has effectively kept Americans in the dark about the negative aspects of Islam.
An even darker knowledge is that of understanding where Shia Islam resides in the moderate/radical realm of Islam. Shia has had to be radical to survive the dislike of the majority Islamic sect of Sunnis. Thus it is very easy for Shias to radicalize even though there is a “quietist” element which developed to be non-confrontational. Nonetheless, the very nature of Shia (the party of Ali) has to do with the thought that the fourth Caliph after Mo’s death should have been the second Caliph.
Ali was a cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Mohammed. When Ali was defeated and assassinated by his rival, the closest thing to blood descent to the prophet ended. This made a significant portion of Muslims displeased. Thus this portion developed Imams as descendants of Mohammed through Ali as the true heirs of spiritual-political leaders of Islam. The majority of Islam got behind the Caliphate apart from the party of Ali. Thus Shia faired adversely accept in the land that had a traditional heritage of empire and independence. That land was Persia which is present day Iran.
Now I am fairly certain that my brief explanation of Shia would be castigated by an adherent as a weak interpretation. Nonetheless, it is important to understand the roots of Shia to get a grasp of the radical nature of Iran and its radical thinking of a global Caliphate with the Shia perspective rather than the Sunni perspective.
With this in mind I encourage you to read this Hudson Institute publication entitled, “The Paradoxes of Shiism”.
JRH 6/23/09
Gary Johnson, Jr. believes that focusing on what I would the Political Islam nature of Mohammedanism diminishes from understanding the totally of the Theo-political cult. In other words anti-jihadist writers that focus on the Mohammedan dictum of “convert, pay alms or die” does not provide enough understanding of Mohammedanism to demonstrate and/or educate the West of the Islamic Supremacist attitude prevalent among Mohammedans.
Mr. Johnson may be correct in the long run nonetheless I am still convinced that an activism to expose the Theo-political nature of Mohammedanism is the best way to understand the cult’s threat to 21st century Western Civilization that has achieve a high degree of representative democracy, civil rights and human rights. Political Islam would swallow modern Western Civilization into a black hole of Islamic Supremacist repression particularly to those who choose not to convert.
Mr. Johnson uses the wording “convert, pay alms or die.” Paying alms (money or charity for the poor) is not what a non-Muslim is expected to pay in the sense of regarding the poor. Anti-Jihadist would point out the dictum for non-Mohammedans (aka kafir or various similarities) are a repressive tax (jizya) designed to humiliate the kafir for paying for so-called “protection” that their lives are not terminated. A better wording thus would be “convert, pay the jizya-protection tax or die.”
Let me be clear: I am not saying Mr. Johnson is inaccurate. Indeed, a complete understanding of Mohammedanism would provide a greater sense of Western empowerment to overcome the deceptive “political correct” zone the West is determined to maintain. In addition I am hardly an expert on Islam. I am a reader of various experts on Islam. I know the anti-jihadist writers do not agree on everything; however they do agree on one thing – Islam is NOT compatible to the Western way of life.
JRH 12/23/08
Islam Watch is one of those websites a non-Mohammedan can go to receive an understanding of the theo-political teachings of Mohammedanism (better known as Islam).
More and more anti-jihadists and anti-Islamists are beginning to sway to the opinion that Mohammedanism is a religion that is more political and militaristic in ideology than a personal faith in which a human seeks peace with a personal God.
I myself waver back and forth on this opinion because (finally) there are a few Muslims that are eschewing the murderous, lack of rights and intolerance that are indeed inherent in the Mohammedan holy scriptures.
There is a small group of Muslims that have a blog (MuslimsAgainstSharia) with a home site with the same name but a different URL (http://www.reformislam.org/).
Now I am not endorsing a reformed Islam as a faith for I am a devout Charismatic/Pentecostal; however I am also an American. As an American I do believe in freedom of Religion. I wonder how a reformed peaceful Islam would stand against a missionary Christian. I suspect without the threat of violence for becoming an Islamic apostate, the religion of Islam would shrink. Of course that is my Christian opinion. A reformed Mohammedan certainly would have a different opinion.
Nonetheless, without reform Mohammedanism is a deadly theo-political cult bent on intolerant subjection of the globe and the termination of Freedom and Liberty.
Thus you need to read this Islam Watch essay entitled “Why Allah is not God?”
JRH 8/12/08
