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The Noble Quran is the eternal miracle of the Prophet Muhammad because all the miracles of the Prophets, May Allah Exalt their mention, ended with their death, except our Prophet whose miracle is still preserved. This everlasting miracle is The Book of Allah and His Revealed Speech that {Falsehood cannot approach it from before it or from behind it} [Quran 41:42]
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Allah, The Almighty, Confirms this fact, when He Says (what means):
• {And if any one of the polytheists seeks your protection, then grant him protection so that he may hear the Words of Allah.} [Quran 9:6]
Praise be to Allah I from Whom we ask help and pardon, and in Whom we take refuge from the evils within ourselves. Verily, whoever Allah guides has no one who can lead him astray, and he whom He leads astray has no one to guide him. We testify that there is no god but Allah, and we testify that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger. Aug 16, 2014 - “Islam” means “surrender” or “submission”. “Salam” (which means “peace”) is the root word of “Islam”. In a religious context the word “Islam” means “the surrendering of one’s will (without compulsion) to the true will of God in an effort to achieve peace”. #30factsaboutislam #islam #muslim.
• {Those who remained behind will say when you set out toward the war booty to take it, ’Let us follow you.’ They wish to change the Words of Allah.} [Quran 48:15]
Those two verses prove that the Quran is the Words and Speech of Allah, The Almighty, that He Has Revealed to His Prophet Muhammad . Jaabir ibn ‘Abdullaah, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Prophet used to invite people to Islam during the Hajj season and would say, “Who are willing to give me asylum so that I can convey the Speech of my Lord, for the Quraysh have prevented me from conveying the Speech of my Lord.” [At-Tirmithi and Ahmad] Hence, the Quran is the Speech of Allah as unanimously agreed upon by all Muslims.
This fact is supported by several logical and tangible pieces of evidence including the following:
- The polytheists failed to produce a single verse, let alone a single Chapter, or a whole book like the Quran despite the fact that they were utterly determined and extremely motivated to oppose and falsify the call of the Prophet . Furthermore, we must remember that they were the masters of the Arabic language, in which the Quran was revealed. Certainly, this constitutes a definitive proof that the Quran is the Speech of Allah, The Lord of The Worlds, not that of humans.
- The Quran foretold many matters of the unseen and made several prophecies that were all fulfilled exactly as they were foretold. For example, the Persians defeated the Byzantines in one of their battles and the Quran recorded this defeat foretelling that the Byzantines would defeat the Persians within three to nine years and this is what actually happened. Allah, The Exalted, Says (what means): {The Byzantines have been defeated * In the nearest land. But they, after their defeat, will overcome. * Within three to nine years.} [Quran 30: 2-4]
- The Quran includes many miraculous scientific facts that were only discovered fourteen centuries later. For example, the Quran told us about a barrier separating the salty water from the fresh water not to mix with each other. Allah, The Exalted, Says (what means): {He Released the two seas, meeting [side by side]; * Between them is a barrier [so] neither of them transgresses.} [Quran 55:19,20] After about fourteen centuries, modern science confirmed this scientific fact.
- When one reads the Book of Allah, he goes into a state of peace and tranquility unlike the human speeches or writings. Allah, The Exalted, Says (what means): {Those who have believed and whose hearts are assured by the remembrance of Allah. Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah hearts are assured.’} [Quran 13:28]
- The Quran is also a cure and it expels the devils when it is recited. Allah, The Almighty, Says (what means): {And We send down of the Quran that which is healing and mercy for the believers...} [Quran 17:82]
Of course, it is almost impossible to list all the evidences that prove that the Quran is the Speech of Allah in this article; however, we will conclude with the words of Al-Waleed ibn Al-Mugheerah, who was one of the senior leaders of the polytheists of Quraysh, about the Quran. He said, “What can I say? Whether it is about prose or poetry, or the poems of the Jinns, I possess greater knowledge than any other man. By God! The words spoken by this man cannot be compared with any of the others. By God, his words possess a charming sweetness and a particular beauty. The branches of his speech are laden with fruit while its roots are firmly entrenched in the soil from whence it proceeds. It is superior to all other discourses, and it is not possible for any other discourse to show it in poor light. For a surety it will conquer anything that comes under its own influence!” [Al-Haakim and Al-Bayhaqi]
This is the Quran, the Speech of Allah that has been challenging humankind and proving its inability to produce something to its effect as to its eloquence, wise judgments, and authentic news. The challenge is still valid, and the inability of mankind to face that challenge remains. Thus, the Quran will remain the everlasting Argument of Allah, The Almighty, against all opponents and disbelievers.March 25, 2006
What Dr. Habib Siddiqui should have said at Vanderbilt
At an interfaith conference at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Habib Siddiqui delivered a speech on March 11, 2006, titled ’Islam and Coexistence.’ Normally, speeches at universities are sparsely attended, so they do not make an impact outside of the conference room.
However, three days later his speech was published in a Muslim magazine. And on March 17, 2006, it was posted on a large Muslim polemical and outreach website.These postings raise the stakes considerably. Plus, he often writes on a wide range of topics on the web, so he must be challenged.
The speech is intended to explain why Islam promotes peace and love for all peoples and why it can be a bridge builder between Judaism and Christianity, for example. If only we understood this most misunderstood religion, then we would not conclude that it is violent at its core. Instead, we would conclude that everyone could coexist with it.
But is ’peace and love’ the only story in the Quran? Siddiqui quotes extensively from it, but does his choice of verses represent all of it? Does he disclose everything we need to know about original Islam to conclude that it is nothing but peaceful and tolerant?
Though this article pertains to a particular speech on a specific date, it brings up long—range issues about ’Islam and co—existence’ and how to analyze this religion today.
To understand the Quran, it is crucial to know about Muhammad’s Hijrah (Emigration or Flight) from Mecca to Medina in AD 622 (an historical fact that Siddiqui ignores when he quotes the Quran). Muhammad receives revelations in both cities. While he lived in Mecca, traditions say that they came on him in AD 610, and at first he was unclear about their meaning. But most of his fellow Meccans did not like them. However, since he has no raw, physical power in this city, he has to take a docile, submissive attitude towards his opponents.
The Meccan suras (chapters in the Quran) reflect this historical reality. Under persecution he has to leave Mecca behind, and he arrives in Medina. At this major stage, the revelations change in tone. He becomes bellicose. He raises a lethal band of raiders and eventually a large army. Textual reality of the Medinan suras in the Quran likewise reflects this historical reality.
Since Siddiqui’s speech and this article quotes or refers to the Quran often, the readers may see the verses for themselves. This website has multiple translations. At the end of his speech, Siddiqui cites the older translator Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall approvingly, so I use his translation throughout my critique.
Also, space does not permit me to quote Siddiqui’s speech paragraph by paragraph. Instead, I often summarize a section or a Quranic verse. Readers should click on the very first link, above, to view the entire speech for themselves (it’s not long). Finally, I follow Siddiqui’s sections in his speech, but I turn some of them into questions.
Introduction
(1) Siddiqui’s says about the critics and researchers of his religion:
...there is no denying that 9/11 has provided bigots, racists, and self—proclaiming ’experts’ and ’think tanks’ to define Islam in ways that only unmask their level of hatred and bigotry. The ’Islam’ they define is simply unknown to my people.
Analysis: Which source documents of early Islam have ’his people’ read or not read? Is it bigotry to report what the Quran and the hadith (traditions about Muhammad outside of the Quran) say about his Prophet and religion? Is it hatred to report what the early biographer Ibn Ishaq or early historical documents record about the violence in his religion? These sources seem pleased to record it, as we shall see throughout my critique.
Siddiqui is concerned over the definition of Islam that ’his people’ could not recognize. The more important question concerns Muhammad. Would the founder of Islam recognize the following description of Islam, sketched out by Siddiqui, that is exclusively peaceful, or not? The evidence is overwhelming that the original Prophet would not, as the rest of this article will show.
(2) In another paragraph he condemns all forms of violence, and up to a point he is right to condemn this.
Analysis: But Siddiqui makes some errors and omissions. He assumes, for example, that Jim Jones of the Guyana mass suicide and David Koresh of the Waco incineration were Christians, but they were not. They deviated far from the New Testament and its teaching of love demonstrated by Jesus Christ.
Next, he says that there is genocide in Iraq. By whom? The allied forces? Would Siddiqui please be specific? His use of this word is careless, by any objective standards.
Finally, he mentions Christianity’s ’colonization and massacre’ of unarmed civilians across two millennia. But when did Jesus and the first generations of Christians take up arms to kill people or to impose a dhimmi tax on those who refused to submit? For the first few hundred years they did nothing but preach peacefully. Per contra, it is a fact that Islam engaged in colonization and massacres and forced taxes for over 1,400 years of its entire existence—and is still oppressing the Sudanese and other Africans.
This article has a timeline of Islamic aggression up to the European Crusades: The Truth about Islamic Crusades and Imperialism.
(3) Siddiqui locates the violence perpetrated by Muslim youth, not in Islamic theology, but in their:
...apparent inability as a human being to comprehend and/or tolerate monumental hypocrisy and double standards that he sees, plus the mistreatment of his fellow brethren as third—class citizens of this planet. From one continent to another, he sees how his fellow human beings are massacred, maimed and mutilated; how colossal abuses of human rights are routinely carried out against them. And yet there are none, not even their own leaders in the post—colonial nation—states, who speak and take action for them. It is a sad and humiliating experience for them.
Analysis: Here Siddiqui seems to have a strategy of ennobling the cause of Islamic violence, as Muslim youth see the worldwide ’hypocrisy’ and ’mistreatment of his fellow brethren as third—class citizens.’ Again Siddiqui needs to be specific. Does he speak of Guantanamo Prison and the imprisoned terrorists who were shooting at the large coalition that liberated Afghanistan?
The truth is simpler, hiding in plain view. It is Islamic countries that wreak havoc on the world, by dictatorships that kill even Muslims, by the oppression of women, and by the policies that kill anyone who speaks out against Islam or leaves it. Would Siddiqui explain why Christian Palestinians do not volunteer to become human bombs, even though they are as equally ’oppressed’ (his idea) as Muslim Palestinians? What if Siddiqui found one or two who did? Still, why do Muslims make up the overwhelming majority of these homicide—suicide killers? The answer is found in their belief, rooted in the Quran.
The list of other abuses is long, but they come directly from the Quran (see Supplemental material, below). This article analyzes torture in the Quran and early Islam. Islamic theology cannot be excluded from the motive of young people to become human bombs, as this article demonstrates from the terrorists themselves and the Quran itself.
Background information about Islam
(1) In this section of his speech, Siddiqui speaks about the ’class struggle between the forces of light and darkness, good and bad, truth and falsehood.’ It is odd that he blends the Marxist phrase ’class struggle’ with spiritual struggle, but I will let that pass. The more important part is found in these words:
Islam came as a guiding light into a dark world — a world that needed a lightning bolt to wake up from its deep slumber. It came in an age of truth—defying Ignorance when the worship of one True God from China and Japan in the East to Morocco and Iceland in the West was replaced by worship of myriads of demigods. There were false notions of superiority and egotism on the basis of race, color, tribe and ethnicity.
Analysis: The ancient Greeks produced a very high culture (fine arts, literature, philosophy, and architecture), but they were polytheists. In fact, it could be argued that they created a much higher culture than Mecca or Medina did in the first third of the seventh century and throughout history. Further, does Siddiqui believe that it is self—evident that polytheism needs to be destroyed by violence? Is this what he means by a ’lightening bolt’? Muhammad believed this. That is why he and Abu Bakr (his right—hand Companion) forced all polytheists throughout the Arabian Peninsula to die or to convert without the third option of tolerance (Sura 9:1—5, see ’No Monopoly’ below for an analysis). Though I personally am no supporter of polytheism, in today’s world we must tolerate all beliefs, provided they do not perpetrate physical harm on others.
(2) What about Islam lifting people out of false notions of superiority and race and ethnicity?
Analysis: In a verse in Sura (Chapter) 9, probably the last sura to be revealed, Muhammad believes that desert Arabs are the hardest in unbelief and hypocrisy. The Quran in Sura 9:97 says:
The wandering Arabs are more hard in disbelief and hypocrisy, and more likely to be ignorant of the limits which Allah hath revealed unto His messenger.
Why does Muhammad scold the wandering Arabs as being the most stubborn of all peoples in his discrimination and generalization? First, he was a city—dweller, and a natural prejudice built up in them against desert nomads. Second and most important, many of them did not support Muhammad’s wars, either financially or personally as soldiers.
In Sura 9 the peaceful Prophet for humanity takes off the gloves and says that the desert Arabs, his fellow Medinans, and the so—called hypocrites (nominal Muslims who will not jump when he cracks the whip) are either for him or against him in military campaigns and their adherence to Islam. He had just returned from the Tabuk Crusade with 30,000 jihadists to wage war on the Byzantine Christians. He had heard a rumor that they marshaled a large army, but they never showed up. Be that as it may, Muhammad is not the role model for the world about the equality of all humans. People were equal if and only if they joined Islam. If not, then Jews and Christians had to pay a second—class citizen tax called the jizyah. Polytheists were killed.
(3) Siddiqui continues in this section:
Coming into a world that was stained by corruption and disintegration, Islam provided a unique pattern that was unknown in the entire history of mankind. Islam provided three basic elements — faith in one God (Allah), reform of self and reform of the society at large. Islam remained as a religious commitment, a socio—economic—political program, but above all a vehicle for the ’continuous reform’ of the society.
Analysis: Does Siddiqui really believe this? Islam’s ’unique pattern that was unknown in the history of mankind’? Does he ignore Moses and the prophets of the Old Testament? Moses established divine law and the prophets preached reform and fidelity to one God. Jesus was a reformer within Judaism, and eventually his reform movement became a worldwide religion. For the first few hundred years Christianity turned the world upside down without violence.
In contrast, after Muhammad dies of a fever in AD 632, Muslim armies, led by a series of Caliphs who exercised an authoritarian right to rule the world, stormed out of the Arabian Peninsula and conquered societies to the north, east and west—societies that had done no harm to Islam. So what kind of ’reform’ and ’program’ was this, anyway?
See this article that outlines the Islamic invasions of Italy proper and the harsh laws that the rulers imposed, derived from the Quran and reliable hadith.
Further, would Siddiqui please inform us where Islam has produced a beneficial ’socio—economic—political program’ that the world today should adopt? Where is the pattern? Medieval Cordoba, Spain? Muslims invaded this land in the early eighth century and forced its way on to people, complete with pogroms (an apter word than program).
Where is the model for ’continuous reform’? Muhammad did not lead by example. Throughout his life in Medina, he was more than willing to conquer any tribe or city that stood in his way. In AD 630 he conquered Mecca after eight years of Muslim raids and conflicts that hampered its trade. This is an historical fact: in the ten years that Muhammad lived in Medina (AD 622—632), he either sent out or went out on seventy—four raids, assassination hit squads, battles and large wars. Thus, original Islam in those ten years did not know long stretches of peace. Is this what Siddiqui means by a ’socio—economic—political program’? Is this what he means by ’continuous reform’: Muhammad’s continuous conquests that force people to reform (read: conform)?
The Quran in the Medinan suras reflect this historical reality, but he seems too eager to omit these verses from his speech (see Medinan Sura 8 in its entirety for many jihadist verses).
Does Islam reject racism and preach alternative criteria?
(1) Siddiqui in this section says that Islam rejects racism that permits only certain ethnicities and tribes to get into heaven.
Analysis: Islam has the messy problem of storming out of Arabia and conquering people left and right, after the Byzantine and Persian Empires had
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The Noble Quran is the eternal miracle of the Prophet Muhammad because all the miracles of the Prophets, May Allah Exalt their mention, ended with their death, except our Prophet whose miracle is still preserved. This everlasting miracle is The Book of Allah and His Revealed Speech that {Falsehood cannot approach it from before it or from behind it} [Quran 41:42]
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*Cmn Saleen Speech All Islamic Content In One Places
Allah, The Almighty, Confirms this fact, when He Says (what means):
• {And if any one of the polytheists seeks your protection, then grant him protection so that he may hear the Words of Allah.} [Quran 9:6]
Praise be to Allah I from Whom we ask help and pardon, and in Whom we take refuge from the evils within ourselves. Verily, whoever Allah guides has no one who can lead him astray, and he whom He leads astray has no one to guide him. We testify that there is no god but Allah, and we testify that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger. Aug 16, 2014 - “Islam” means “surrender” or “submission”. “Salam” (which means “peace”) is the root word of “Islam”. In a religious context the word “Islam” means “the surrendering of one’s will (without compulsion) to the true will of God in an effort to achieve peace”. #30factsaboutislam #islam #muslim.
• {Those who remained behind will say when you set out toward the war booty to take it, ’Let us follow you.’ They wish to change the Words of Allah.} [Quran 48:15]
Those two verses prove that the Quran is the Words and Speech of Allah, The Almighty, that He Has Revealed to His Prophet Muhammad . Jaabir ibn ‘Abdullaah, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Prophet used to invite people to Islam during the Hajj season and would say, “Who are willing to give me asylum so that I can convey the Speech of my Lord, for the Quraysh have prevented me from conveying the Speech of my Lord.” [At-Tirmithi and Ahmad] Hence, the Quran is the Speech of Allah as unanimously agreed upon by all Muslims.
This fact is supported by several logical and tangible pieces of evidence including the following:
- The polytheists failed to produce a single verse, let alone a single Chapter, or a whole book like the Quran despite the fact that they were utterly determined and extremely motivated to oppose and falsify the call of the Prophet . Furthermore, we must remember that they were the masters of the Arabic language, in which the Quran was revealed. Certainly, this constitutes a definitive proof that the Quran is the Speech of Allah, The Lord of The Worlds, not that of humans.
- The Quran foretold many matters of the unseen and made several prophecies that were all fulfilled exactly as they were foretold. For example, the Persians defeated the Byzantines in one of their battles and the Quran recorded this defeat foretelling that the Byzantines would defeat the Persians within three to nine years and this is what actually happened. Allah, The Exalted, Says (what means): {The Byzantines have been defeated * In the nearest land. But they, after their defeat, will overcome. * Within three to nine years.} [Quran 30: 2-4]
- The Quran includes many miraculous scientific facts that were only discovered fourteen centuries later. For example, the Quran told us about a barrier separating the salty water from the fresh water not to mix with each other. Allah, The Exalted, Says (what means): {He Released the two seas, meeting [side by side]; * Between them is a barrier [so] neither of them transgresses.} [Quran 55:19,20] After about fourteen centuries, modern science confirmed this scientific fact.
- When one reads the Book of Allah, he goes into a state of peace and tranquility unlike the human speeches or writings. Allah, The Exalted, Says (what means): {Those who have believed and whose hearts are assured by the remembrance of Allah. Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah hearts are assured.’} [Quran 13:28]
- The Quran is also a cure and it expels the devils when it is recited. Allah, The Almighty, Says (what means): {And We send down of the Quran that which is healing and mercy for the believers...} [Quran 17:82]
Of course, it is almost impossible to list all the evidences that prove that the Quran is the Speech of Allah in this article; however, we will conclude with the words of Al-Waleed ibn Al-Mugheerah, who was one of the senior leaders of the polytheists of Quraysh, about the Quran. He said, “What can I say? Whether it is about prose or poetry, or the poems of the Jinns, I possess greater knowledge than any other man. By God! The words spoken by this man cannot be compared with any of the others. By God, his words possess a charming sweetness and a particular beauty. The branches of his speech are laden with fruit while its roots are firmly entrenched in the soil from whence it proceeds. It is superior to all other discourses, and it is not possible for any other discourse to show it in poor light. For a surety it will conquer anything that comes under its own influence!” [Al-Haakim and Al-Bayhaqi]
This is the Quran, the Speech of Allah that has been challenging humankind and proving its inability to produce something to its effect as to its eloquence, wise judgments, and authentic news. The challenge is still valid, and the inability of mankind to face that challenge remains. Thus, the Quran will remain the everlasting Argument of Allah, The Almighty, against all opponents and disbelievers.March 25, 2006
What Dr. Habib Siddiqui should have said at Vanderbilt
At an interfaith conference at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Habib Siddiqui delivered a speech on March 11, 2006, titled ’Islam and Coexistence.’ Normally, speeches at universities are sparsely attended, so they do not make an impact outside of the conference room.
However, three days later his speech was published in a Muslim magazine. And on March 17, 2006, it was posted on a large Muslim polemical and outreach website.These postings raise the stakes considerably. Plus, he often writes on a wide range of topics on the web, so he must be challenged.
The speech is intended to explain why Islam promotes peace and love for all peoples and why it can be a bridge builder between Judaism and Christianity, for example. If only we understood this most misunderstood religion, then we would not conclude that it is violent at its core. Instead, we would conclude that everyone could coexist with it.
But is ’peace and love’ the only story in the Quran? Siddiqui quotes extensively from it, but does his choice of verses represent all of it? Does he disclose everything we need to know about original Islam to conclude that it is nothing but peaceful and tolerant?
Though this article pertains to a particular speech on a specific date, it brings up long—range issues about ’Islam and co—existence’ and how to analyze this religion today.
To understand the Quran, it is crucial to know about Muhammad’s Hijrah (Emigration or Flight) from Mecca to Medina in AD 622 (an historical fact that Siddiqui ignores when he quotes the Quran). Muhammad receives revelations in both cities. While he lived in Mecca, traditions say that they came on him in AD 610, and at first he was unclear about their meaning. But most of his fellow Meccans did not like them. However, since he has no raw, physical power in this city, he has to take a docile, submissive attitude towards his opponents.
The Meccan suras (chapters in the Quran) reflect this historical reality. Under persecution he has to leave Mecca behind, and he arrives in Medina. At this major stage, the revelations change in tone. He becomes bellicose. He raises a lethal band of raiders and eventually a large army. Textual reality of the Medinan suras in the Quran likewise reflects this historical reality.
Since Siddiqui’s speech and this article quotes or refers to the Quran often, the readers may see the verses for themselves. This website has multiple translations. At the end of his speech, Siddiqui cites the older translator Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall approvingly, so I use his translation throughout my critique.
Also, space does not permit me to quote Siddiqui’s speech paragraph by paragraph. Instead, I often summarize a section or a Quranic verse. Readers should click on the very first link, above, to view the entire speech for themselves (it’s not long). Finally, I follow Siddiqui’s sections in his speech, but I turn some of them into questions.
Introduction
(1) Siddiqui’s says about the critics and researchers of his religion:
...there is no denying that 9/11 has provided bigots, racists, and self—proclaiming ’experts’ and ’think tanks’ to define Islam in ways that only unmask their level of hatred and bigotry. The ’Islam’ they define is simply unknown to my people.
Analysis: Which source documents of early Islam have ’his people’ read or not read? Is it bigotry to report what the Quran and the hadith (traditions about Muhammad outside of the Quran) say about his Prophet and religion? Is it hatred to report what the early biographer Ibn Ishaq or early historical documents record about the violence in his religion? These sources seem pleased to record it, as we shall see throughout my critique.
Siddiqui is concerned over the definition of Islam that ’his people’ could not recognize. The more important question concerns Muhammad. Would the founder of Islam recognize the following description of Islam, sketched out by Siddiqui, that is exclusively peaceful, or not? The evidence is overwhelming that the original Prophet would not, as the rest of this article will show.
(2) In another paragraph he condemns all forms of violence, and up to a point he is right to condemn this.
Analysis: But Siddiqui makes some errors and omissions. He assumes, for example, that Jim Jones of the Guyana mass suicide and David Koresh of the Waco incineration were Christians, but they were not. They deviated far from the New Testament and its teaching of love demonstrated by Jesus Christ.
Next, he says that there is genocide in Iraq. By whom? The allied forces? Would Siddiqui please be specific? His use of this word is careless, by any objective standards.
Finally, he mentions Christianity’s ’colonization and massacre’ of unarmed civilians across two millennia. But when did Jesus and the first generations of Christians take up arms to kill people or to impose a dhimmi tax on those who refused to submit? For the first few hundred years they did nothing but preach peacefully. Per contra, it is a fact that Islam engaged in colonization and massacres and forced taxes for over 1,400 years of its entire existence—and is still oppressing the Sudanese and other Africans.
This article has a timeline of Islamic aggression up to the European Crusades: The Truth about Islamic Crusades and Imperialism.
(3) Siddiqui locates the violence perpetrated by Muslim youth, not in Islamic theology, but in their:
...apparent inability as a human being to comprehend and/or tolerate monumental hypocrisy and double standards that he sees, plus the mistreatment of his fellow brethren as third—class citizens of this planet. From one continent to another, he sees how his fellow human beings are massacred, maimed and mutilated; how colossal abuses of human rights are routinely carried out against them. And yet there are none, not even their own leaders in the post—colonial nation—states, who speak and take action for them. It is a sad and humiliating experience for them.
Analysis: Here Siddiqui seems to have a strategy of ennobling the cause of Islamic violence, as Muslim youth see the worldwide ’hypocrisy’ and ’mistreatment of his fellow brethren as third—class citizens.’ Again Siddiqui needs to be specific. Does he speak of Guantanamo Prison and the imprisoned terrorists who were shooting at the large coalition that liberated Afghanistan?
The truth is simpler, hiding in plain view. It is Islamic countries that wreak havoc on the world, by dictatorships that kill even Muslims, by the oppression of women, and by the policies that kill anyone who speaks out against Islam or leaves it. Would Siddiqui explain why Christian Palestinians do not volunteer to become human bombs, even though they are as equally ’oppressed’ (his idea) as Muslim Palestinians? What if Siddiqui found one or two who did? Still, why do Muslims make up the overwhelming majority of these homicide—suicide killers? The answer is found in their belief, rooted in the Quran.
The list of other abuses is long, but they come directly from the Quran (see Supplemental material, below). This article analyzes torture in the Quran and early Islam. Islamic theology cannot be excluded from the motive of young people to become human bombs, as this article demonstrates from the terrorists themselves and the Quran itself.
Background information about Islam
(1) In this section of his speech, Siddiqui speaks about the ’class struggle between the forces of light and darkness, good and bad, truth and falsehood.’ It is odd that he blends the Marxist phrase ’class struggle’ with spiritual struggle, but I will let that pass. The more important part is found in these words:
Islam came as a guiding light into a dark world — a world that needed a lightning bolt to wake up from its deep slumber. It came in an age of truth—defying Ignorance when the worship of one True God from China and Japan in the East to Morocco and Iceland in the West was replaced by worship of myriads of demigods. There were false notions of superiority and egotism on the basis of race, color, tribe and ethnicity.
Analysis: The ancient Greeks produced a very high culture (fine arts, literature, philosophy, and architecture), but they were polytheists. In fact, it could be argued that they created a much higher culture than Mecca or Medina did in the first third of the seventh century and throughout history. Further, does Siddiqui believe that it is self—evident that polytheism needs to be destroyed by violence? Is this what he means by a ’lightening bolt’? Muhammad believed this. That is why he and Abu Bakr (his right—hand Companion) forced all polytheists throughout the Arabian Peninsula to die or to convert without the third option of tolerance (Sura 9:1—5, see ’No Monopoly’ below for an analysis). Though I personally am no supporter of polytheism, in today’s world we must tolerate all beliefs, provided they do not perpetrate physical harm on others.
(2) What about Islam lifting people out of false notions of superiority and race and ethnicity?
Analysis: In a verse in Sura (Chapter) 9, probably the last sura to be revealed, Muhammad believes that desert Arabs are the hardest in unbelief and hypocrisy. The Quran in Sura 9:97 says:
The wandering Arabs are more hard in disbelief and hypocrisy, and more likely to be ignorant of the limits which Allah hath revealed unto His messenger.
Why does Muhammad scold the wandering Arabs as being the most stubborn of all peoples in his discrimination and generalization? First, he was a city—dweller, and a natural prejudice built up in them against desert nomads. Second and most important, many of them did not support Muhammad’s wars, either financially or personally as soldiers.
In Sura 9 the peaceful Prophet for humanity takes off the gloves and says that the desert Arabs, his fellow Medinans, and the so—called hypocrites (nominal Muslims who will not jump when he cracks the whip) are either for him or against him in military campaigns and their adherence to Islam. He had just returned from the Tabuk Crusade with 30,000 jihadists to wage war on the Byzantine Christians. He had heard a rumor that they marshaled a large army, but they never showed up. Be that as it may, Muhammad is not the role model for the world about the equality of all humans. People were equal if and only if they joined Islam. If not, then Jews and Christians had to pay a second—class citizen tax called the jizyah. Polytheists were killed.
(3) Siddiqui continues in this section:
Coming into a world that was stained by corruption and disintegration, Islam provided a unique pattern that was unknown in the entire history of mankind. Islam provided three basic elements — faith in one God (Allah), reform of self and reform of the society at large. Islam remained as a religious commitment, a socio—economic—political program, but above all a vehicle for the ’continuous reform’ of the society.
Analysis: Does Siddiqui really believe this? Islam’s ’unique pattern that was unknown in the history of mankind’? Does he ignore Moses and the prophets of the Old Testament? Moses established divine law and the prophets preached reform and fidelity to one God. Jesus was a reformer within Judaism, and eventually his reform movement became a worldwide religion. For the first few hundred years Christianity turned the world upside down without violence.
In contrast, after Muhammad dies of a fever in AD 632, Muslim armies, led by a series of Caliphs who exercised an authoritarian right to rule the world, stormed out of the Arabian Peninsula and conquered societies to the north, east and west—societies that had done no harm to Islam. So what kind of ’reform’ and ’program’ was this, anyway?
See this article that outlines the Islamic invasions of Italy proper and the harsh laws that the rulers imposed, derived from the Quran and reliable hadith.
Further, would Siddiqui please inform us where Islam has produced a beneficial ’socio—economic—political program’ that the world today should adopt? Where is the pattern? Medieval Cordoba, Spain? Muslims invaded this land in the early eighth century and forced its way on to people, complete with pogroms (an apter word than program).
Where is the model for ’continuous reform’? Muhammad did not lead by example. Throughout his life in Medina, he was more than willing to conquer any tribe or city that stood in his way. In AD 630 he conquered Mecca after eight years of Muslim raids and conflicts that hampered its trade. This is an historical fact: in the ten years that Muhammad lived in Medina (AD 622—632), he either sent out or went out on seventy—four raids, assassination hit squads, battles and large wars. Thus, original Islam in those ten years did not know long stretches of peace. Is this what Siddiqui means by a ’socio—economic—political program’? Is this what he means by ’continuous reform’: Muhammad’s continuous conquests that force people to reform (read: conform)?
The Quran in the Medinan suras reflect this historical reality, but he seems too eager to omit these verses from his speech (see Medinan Sura 8 in its entirety for many jihadist verses).
Does Islam reject racism and preach alternative criteria?
(1) Siddiqui in this section says that Islam rejects racism that permits only certain ethnicities and tribes to get into heaven.
Analysis: Islam has the messy problem of storming out of Arabia and conquering people left and right, after the Byzantine and Persian Empires had
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