The Quran: The Ultimate Weapon Against Islam – Part 1

By Bill Warner

After reading these two pages you will be able to answer the following questions:
Is islam just like other religions? Is it a peaceful and tolerant religion?

1. ISLAM, QURAN, HADITHS AND SUNNA

Islam is a religious, political and judicial system initiated in the VIIth century by Muhammad, who claims to be the last prophet, and therefore THE prophet to whom Allah transmitted his precepts through the angel Gabriel. These precepts are compiled in the Quran. The Quran, fixed, unchangeable, that cannot be interpreted, comprises of 114 chapters called suras, and each sura is composed of phrases called verses. The suras and verses have been numbered in a standard way since 1923.

For instance, [4:34] means verse 34 in sura 4. It should be noted that Muhammad heard the words of the angel Gabriel during mystical episodes! “Witnesses say that he (Muhammad) had seizures during which he drooled and roared like a young camel” (Mizanu’l Haqq, p. 345 can be checked at http://answering-islam.org/Books/Pfander/Balance/p344.htm).

In addition to their holy book, muslims also hold Muhammad as an example, drawing inspiration from his words and deeds, recounted between the VIIIth and Xth centuries by the traditionists including Bukhari, Muslim, Daoud and others, in the hadiths (the sayings), which compose the Sunna (tradition).

Our purpose is to prove, based on the hadiths and a Quran widely accepted by English-speaking-muslims, the Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s quran, that islam was violent from its origin, that it is inegalitarian and discriminatory towards women, non muslims, homosexuals, etc., and that in fact, islam rejects and fights everything outside itself. In fact, when we look for a “reference” Quran, we are always offered a trio : Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Mohammad Pickthall, a British convert, and M. H. Shakir. But there is a controversy about Shakir, so we will only consider the two others you can read on this site http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/.

Clicking a verse displays all three translations simultaneously. It’s an ideology that exploits religion with the aim to subdue all the world’s non-muslims, either through persuasion or by the sword. Indeed, in Arabic, islam means submission, and muslim means submissive. Obviously, muslims don’t share this analysis, hence this document that aims to counter them using their own Quran, thus demonstrating that islam is incompatible with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (article 3 : right to life, article 4 : prohibition of slavery, article 18 : right to change one’s religion. To verify these allegations go to http://www.lexilogos.com/declaration/index.htm), which forms part of the constitutions of occidental countries.

2. TACTICS AND DIALECTICS (GENERAL OVER VIEW) AGAINST ISLAM

a) A fundamental point. Never be baffled if a muslim lies, actively or by omission, or conceals or falsifies, because this is prescribed by the Quran. Anything goes when the goal is to spread islam. Taqya (dissimulation) is a duty for believers in an inferiority (= minority) situation. By contrast, as soon as the balance of power has shifted, the muslim can consider aggression : [Quran 47:35 ] Be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace, when ye should be uppermost: for Allah is with you, and will never put you in loss for your (good) deeds.

b) When confronting a muslim who suggests that islam is a religion of tolerance, peace and love, by quoting a few violent, misogynist, anti-christian or anti-jewish suras, when he runs out of arguments he will eventually say that “in order to understand the Quran, one has to read it in Arabic”.

The answer is simple: if that was the case, then an English-speaking convert, unless he read Arabic, which has to be extremely rare, would be a person who converts to a religion while being unable to grasp a single word from its holy book! This is not tenable, therefore the muslim has to implicitly admit that some translations into English that are acceptable to a Mahometan do exist, if only the one from Abdullah Yusuf Ali, which can be checked at http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran. All that is left then is to contradict him using the suras from “his” Quran.

c) It is also necessary to refute the recurring argument, used by muslims who, in many cases, have not read the Quran, as well as by English ignoramuses who don’t know anything about islamology, that islam is a religion like any other, and that muslims therefore have the same rights as the followers of other religions. This assertion must be countered by stating that the Quran features numerous verses that incite murder (see paragraph 4 for examples), or by reading the hadiths where the messenger of Allah, Muhammad himself, instigates numerous murders. Islam cannot, therefore, be considered as being like any other religion.

d) With regards to the long list of quranic verses that clearly call for the murder of unbelievers, muslims always claim that they were only reacting, defending themselves against attacks from “nasty” polytheists. One can already recognize, back in those times, the muslims’ “victim posturing”. So we should believe that the arab/muslim people conquered immense territories, in the name of Allah, only by defending themselves, because other peoples were attacking them.

It’s enough to read the letters the warlord Muhammad sent to various leaders or kings, to “invite” them to embrace islam, to become convinced of his arrogance and aggressivity: to the Arab tribal leaders, the kings of Byzantium, of Persia, of Abyssinia, etc. Here is the “invitation” letter to the people of Oman: “Peace be upon him who follows the straight path! I call you to islam. Accept my call, and you will be safe.

I am the messenger from Allah sent to humanity, and the annoucement will be made to the unbelievers. If, then, you identify with islam, I shall grant power upon you. But if you refuse to accept islam, your power shall disappear, my horses will camp out on the extent of your territory and we shall reign in your kingdom. Signed: “Muhammad, messenger of Allah”.

e) It should also be noted that while 2 verses may contradict each other, Allah, all knowing and infallible as he is, has planned for everything. For such cases, he has developed the doctrine of abrogator verses (nasikh) and abrogated verses (mansukh), which states that the most recent verse cancels the oldest one, and therefore that a Medina, or post-Hegira verse, can, in case of a contradiction, cancel a Mecca or pre- Hegira verse. The Hegira is the period when Muhammad was chased from Mecca and took refuge in Medina. To demonstrate the aforementioned, one can quote the two verses:

[Quran 2:106] None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar: Knowest thou not that AllahHath power over all things?

[Quran 16:101] When We substitute one revelation for another,- and Allah knows best what He reveals (in stages),- they say, “Thou art but a forger”: but most of them understand not. To know if a verse is pre-Hegira or post-Hegira go to http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran.

Every sura is indicated as revealed at Mecca or Medina. Therefore, do not be baffled when a follower of Allah quotes a tolerant verse, because it is probably abrogated and rendered obsolete by a Medina verse. Otherwise you could always counter it with numerous violent verses. If islam was peaceful there would not be a single violent verse un the Quran… yet it contains dozens of instances of words such as “kill”, “fight” or “slay”.

f) When the apologists of islam struggle to conceal the warlike and intolerant nature of the Quran, they often try to “dilute” reality, pretending that islam is open to numerous “interpretations”. The violence of islamic societies and muslim terrorists would stem from a “mistaken interpretation”. By saying this, they conceal the fact that the Quran itself, (seconded by some hadiths), condemns interpretation (it should be noted that many Western politicians also take part in this pathetic farce).

[Quran 3 :7] He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book: In it are verses basic or fundamental (of established meaning); they are the foundation of the Book: others are allegorical. But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is allegorical, seeking discord, and searching for its hidden meanings, but no one knows its hidden meanings except Allah. And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: “We believe in the Book; the whole of it is from our Lord:” and none will grasp the Message except men of understanding.

3. CHOOSING A QURAN

We have already highlighted the benefit, to us, of choosing an English language Quran approved by muslims themselves. It is, therefore, the Abdullah Yusuf Ali ‘s Quran, to the exclusion of any other, that will serve as a reference from here on. Important notice about the Quran: the Quran (“recitation” in Arabic) is not so much a text as it is the Arabic recitation of that text. For non Arabic-speakers, it is therefore a long succession of sounds, learned by rote in “quranic schools” (madrassa, where muslims are taught to hate the West).

It therefore is a genuine example of brainwashing, that a muslim is often subjected to from as young as the age of 4!

To Be Continued …

Related Video Search

Category: Islam