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 Christianity Etc › Extinguishing Allah’s Light With Truth by chosengocap(op): 9:20am On Oct 09, 2017 |
On June 2, 2016, a Christian woman was brutally murdered by a Muslim mob in Kano, Nigeria, for allegedly “blaspheming prophet Muhammad.” Eye witnesses said her “crime” was preventing a Muslim man from performing ablution at the entrance of her shop. The man ran into the market to call band of irate Muslims that she had blasphemed their prophet, and within a short time, a mob of Muslims rushed to the scene and had her murdered. Her husband narrowly escaped. Some Nigerian online news media quickly used the victim’s ethnicity to whip up a virulent ethnic war on social media – after all, the narcissistic bent to get many “likes” and “retweets” clouds objective reporting. Many commentators questioned a religion that defends the reputation of its god and prophet by murder. Some Muslims condemned the actions, but most of them justified it: “ She deserved to be killed islamically, the punishment is perfectly perfect” “Good! this should serve as a lesson to others. We will not take the blasphemy lightly… anybody who did it will face a death sentence .” “[ I]n Islam for the record whoever make bad comment to holy prophet … should be beheaded.” “To all non Believers who have the idea of doing Blasphemy to our Prophet, please dont ever try it in Kano. I swear to Almighty Allah, if you do so then your life too will end in HELL .” If you are naïve about Islam, these remarks could make your hairs stand up on end. But those familiar with the evil teachings and examples laid down by Muhammad can’t be shocked by such. In fact, to Christians living in the Islam dominated northern Nigeria, this is just one of many stories that managed to filter out to the media. Excluding the wholesale massacre of Christians in that region, in 2004, three Christian students were expelled from a university in Bauchi State with one murdered in cold blood for “blaspheming” Muhammad with a Gospel tract. In early 2006, many Christians were killed in different states because of the Danish cartoons. At that period, 20 Christians were also killed and churches burnt in a state because a Christian teacher had “defiled” the Quran by touching the book in a classroom. Few months later, a Christian woman was stoned to death in Niger State for witnessing to Muslims. Muslims claimed she left a blasphemous tract in their mosque. As the discussions of the Kano tragedy raged on over the weekend, one argument I found Muslim “moderates” repeating was that the murder was “unislamic” simply because Muhammad prohibited the killing of women. Let’s examine this claim. In the hadith: “It is reported on the authority of Sa’ad Jathama that the Prophet of Allah when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during night raid, said ‘they are from them [i.e the pagans]'” (Muslim 19:4321). With this response, Muhammad sanctioned the murder of non-Muslim women and children. In the Sirat Rasulallah, it was recorded: “we went with the apostle on the raid of Dhatu’l Riqa of Nakhl and a (Muslim) man killed the wife of one of the polytheists” (The Life of Muhammad, p. 665). When a Jewish woman, Asma bint Merwan, criticised Muhammad with her poems for his evils, he said to his followers “Who will rid me of Merwan’s daughter? ‘Umayr bin Adiyal Khatmi who was with him heard him and that very night he went to her When Muhammad conquered Mecca, he said: “There are four persons whom I shall not give protection” He identified them as the “two singing girls of al-Maqis; one of them was killed and the other escaped and embraced Islam” (Abu Dawud, 2684). In another account, “six men and four women were killed” during this invasion. The crime of these women was that they mocked him when he was in Mecca (Ibn Sa’ad, Tabaqat, 2:168).In the morning, he came to the apostle and told him what he had done and he [Muhammad] said ‘You have helped Allah and his apostle Umayr!” (Ibid, 675-676) When Muhammad conquered Mecca, he said: “There are four persons whom I shall not give protection” He identified them as the “two singing girls of al-Maqis; one of them was killed and the other escaped and embraced Islam” (Abu Dawud, 2684). In another account, “six men and four women were killed” during this invasion. The crime of these women was that they mocked him when he was in Mecca (Ibn Sa’ad, Tabaqat, 2:168). Muhammad regarded his critics as the greatest threat to his religion because he knew he couldn’t defeat their logic. He had to kill them to establish his ideology. Allah was no different: “They (the disbelievers, Jews and Christians) want to extinguish Allah’s light (which Muhammad has been sent – Islam) with their mouths , but Allah will not allow except that his light should be perfected even though the kafirun [infidels] hate it.” (Q 9:32) The truth that Christians speak are capable of extinguishing Islam because it’s a religion of deception, that has to be “perfected” by bloodshed. Lies are always afraid of truths, but truth never fears a lie. Islam is like a balloon filled with air. It may look big and intimidating, but it’s just filled with air, and all it takes to deflate it is a needle. Armed with God’s Truth, we will continue to deflate and extinguish the lies of Islam for souls to escape from its clutches. (Credit- Victor Ayeni Salvador) |
| Islam › Re: Produce A Sura Like It? by chosengocap(op): 10:43pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
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| Christianity Etc › Re: The Heavenly Playboy Mansion by chosengocap(op): 8:51pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
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| Christianity Etc › Re: Zamzam Well: Digging Up Bare Bone Facts by chosengocap(op): 8:42pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
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| Christianity Etc › Zamzam Well: Digging Up Bare Bone Facts by chosengocap(op): 6:14pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
The Zamzam well is located within the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, about 20m east of the Kaaba (the black stone Muslims dance around and kiss). Millions of pilgrims visit Zamzam well to drink its water during the pilgrimage. The Quran says nothing about the well – pointing to the fact that it wasn’t part of the rites observed by early Muslims. In the Hadiths collected 250 years after the Quran, we are told that when Hagar and Ishmael were in the desert and Ishmael was thirsty, he scraped the sand and water was generated from that point. So, the hadith is saying the wild kicks of an infant dug a 98 ft well in a desert within seconds! Another version of the story says the well was dug by an angel’s foot. In another version, the angel dug it using his wings. [1] In a bid to redact the Biblical account of Hagar and Ishmael to support Islam’s myths, the hadith ends up nailing itself. One, Abraham, Ishmael and Hagar were never in Mecca and historically have no link with Zamzam well. Two, it’s incredulous to accept that an oasis morphed into a deep well without changing its course or affected by climatic factors for over a millennia. Some historians point out that Mecca probably didn’t exist as a city before 4 BC when Yemenite immigrants colonized it. There’s no way Zamzam well would date back to the time of Abraham. To make the myth more appealing, Ibn Abbas ostensibly quotes Muhammad saying: “The best water on the face of the earth is Zamzam. In it is food for nourishment and healing for illness.” [2] In 2011, a team of scientists established that the water from Zamzam well contained high levels of nitrate, potentially harmful bacteria and arsenic at levels 3 times the legal limit in the UK. This could result in cancer. [3] This research blew the prayer caps off the heads of the clerics in Saudi Arabia. Eventually, they managed to find their own “scientists” to tell them what their ears of faith wanted to hear. From the earliest biography of Muhammad, the truth about Zamzam unfolds. Muhammad’s grandfather, Abdul Muttalib, was said to have had a dream while sleeping in a ‘sacred’ enclosure in which he was instructed to dig a well at a slaughter place of the Quraish tribe, between two idols – Isaf and Naila. In the dream, he was told to re-dig a Zamzam well which the Jurham tribe had filled up when they left Mecca. When Abdul Muttalib embarked on his well project, he faced much opposition. He even vowed to sacrifice his son if he succeeded and the divination lot alarmingly fell on his favourite son, Abdullah (Muhammad’s father). But after consulting a sorceress, he was told to sacrifice camels to Allah/ Hubal in place of his son, Abdullah. The Zamzam well became a religious site drawing more pilgrims to the Kaaba. [4] Indeed, the Zamzam well was part of pre-Islamic pagan rites and was dedicated to twodeities – Isaf and Naila. Arab scholar, Fahd T., says that Isaf and Naila were “a pair of gods worshipped at Mecca before Islam. Several orientalists of the past century … saw in them, not unreasonably, replicas of Baal and Baalat. Indeed Isaf and Naila do display the essential characteristics distinguishing this pair of gods from the many avatars known in the various Semitic religions: physical representations by two sacred stones erected close to each other, or by two parallel hills…” [5] It’s possible that the same fertility deities of the Zamzam well were also represented by Safa and Marwa – the two “sacred” hills Muslims run through during the hajj. During pre-Islamic days, many pagans came to Mecca for pilgrimage. The Kaaba shrine at the time had about 360 idols whose names the pilgrims (who were often stark naked) would chant as they circulate the stone. Although Muhammad threw away the images of the idols and stopped the nude aspect of the rite when he took over the Kaaba, he retained most of the pagan rituals. Today, Muslim pilgrims wear the Ihram clothing as they ignorantly offer worship to ancient Arabian pagan deities (now disguised as “monotheism”). An Indian author even asserts that from certain similarities, the Kaaba was originally a temple of Shiva. He says that “the Shankara stone which Muslim pilgrims reverently touch and kiss in the Kaaba” is an emblem of Shiva and “wherever the Shiva emblem is, the Ganges must co-exist. True to this association, a sacred fountain [Zamzam] exists near the Kaaba.” [6] While this claim may be farfetched, in any case, there’s nothing ‘sacred’ about the Zamzam well anymore than the black stone idol. (Credit- Victor Ayeni Salvador) NOTES 1. Sahih Bukari, 3113 2. Mu’jam Al-Kabeer, 11011. 3. BBC News May, 5, 2011. 4. Sirat Rasul Allah, translated by Alfred Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad, 1955, 66-68. 5. Encyclopedia of Islam, second edition. Available online. 6. Purushottam Oak, Was Kaaba a Hindu Temple? 1 Like 1 Share |
| Islam › Re: Produce A Sura Like It? by chosengocap(op): 5:38pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
enilove:Very true. The truth must be said. He who has an ear should hear. |
| Islam › Re: Produce A Sura Like It? by chosengocap(op): 5:35pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
hersarhn:you cant compare wailing and saying the truth. |
| Islam › Produce A Sura Like It? by chosengocap(op): 10:55pm On Oct 07, 2017 |
Whenever we present the many blunders in the Quran to Muslims, their favourite reply is that their Quran is a divine book because no one can produce a book like it. At times when I ask why this is so, they will say “because the Quran says so!” Well, that is a fallacy of circular reasoning which proves nothing. Such an assertion can only be accepted by those who have already assumed the divine origin of the Quran. Here is what the Quran itself says on the issue: Sura 2:23 “And if you (Arab pagans, Jews and Christians) are in doubt concerning that which We have sent down (i.e the Qur’an) to Our slave [Muhammad], then produce a Surah (chapter) of the like thereof and call your witnesses (supporters and helpers) beside Allah…” Sura 17:89 “If the whole of mankind and Jinns were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur’an; the could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support.” These were Muhammad’s “defenses” against the critics of his time and they are still the same verses Muslims like to trot out today. Demolish these “defenses” and the divine origin of the Quran along with the integrity of Muhammad go down the tubes. This line of argument fails at least 3 major tests. 1. The Test of Logic The claim that there can’t be a book like the Quran begs the question because every book is unique. Every human being is unique and different. In fact, no two people are exactly the same. Even in writing or other abilities, each person’s style is different and unique. For instance, there is a particular way I write, which could also be linked to the way I think. Even if you read what I read, you can’t write exactly like I do. So when someone then says “until you write a book like the Quran you can’t beat it” such a line is puerile and silly. We don’t need to write a book like the Quran. Muslims claim Al-Quran is beautiful and eloquent that no one can produce its like. This is a fallacy of irrelevance. First of all, beauty or elegance is subjective and cannot even be a measure of truth. You can look at a book and call it beautiful while I see it as ugly. That is why we are unique. If a man says “find a lady as beautiful as the one I love,” hardly can his challenge be met because his love for her blinds him to her defects. The same thing applies here. Muslims have blindly believed the Quran as divinely inspired and have refused to see the many absurdities in it: they even call them “beauty.” In reality, no book can match the Quran in its confusion and negative influence. 2. The Test of Textual Stability. When Muhammad was alive, the texts of the Quran he was reciting were anything but stable. He would recite a verse today from Allah and edit or change it the next day. This raised the suspicions of many of his people, then ‘Allah’ explained: “When We (Allah) substitute (or change) one revelation for another (in place of another)- and Allah knows best what He reveals- They say ‘Thou art a forger’: But most of them understand not.” (Sura 16:101) “Such of our revelations as We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring (in place) one better or like thereof. Knowest thou not that Allah is able to do all things?” (2:106) These verses are quite revealing. They show that Muhammad came under so much fire from the people that he had to find a way to excuse the constant changes in his recitations. You can see that his listeners rightly dismissed him as a forger for this. Though they were illiterates, they would not be taken for a ride. They knew that a supposed divine revelation that keeps changing must be a fraud. Muhammad had to do some damage control- “most of them understand not “– understand what? That God swallows His words? He says they don’t know that “Allah is able to do all things“– Really? Changing verses like a failed redactor? What kind of god is that? Wait a minute, why would the all-knowing God be bringing “a better verse?” Why didn’t Allah save us the confusion and lengthy explanations by giving a better verse from the start? Obviously, if Muhammad had lived longer, with the way his “revelations” kept changing, the Quran wouldn’t be what it is today. Perhaps, it would have been a bigger book with a different content entirely. Islamic biographers even admit that Satan spoke some verses through the prophet praising the pagan deities (daughters of Allah) mentioned in Sura 53:19-20 (see Bukhari 2:19:177 and Sirat, 165-166). If Satan can also produce a sura like the Quran, then the challenge has been met and that makes the Quran quite cheap. 3. The Test of Originality. There is simply nothing new in the Quran. Allah revealed nothing that had not been unknown in older religions or Scriptures. The only “new” thing the Quran said is that Muhammad is the prophet of God. There is simply no shred of originality in the Quran. Many of the stories and ideas relayed in it were slight modifications of Pagan, Jewish and Christian legends and some stuffs Muhammad gleaned from the Bible. For example, the story of Abraham being thrown into the fire of a wicked king (Nimrod) in Sura 21:69-71was an old Jewish legend found in Midrash Rabba. The two angels “Harut and Marut” mentioned in Sura 2:102 were the very names of two idols mentioned in Talmudic fairytales. The idea of seven heavens and seven hells in Suras 15:44 and 17:44 were adopted from the Jewish Hagigah and Zohar. The story of the 7 sleepers in the cave which kept Allah at the guessing table was an old Christian fairy tale found in the writings of Jacob Sarug (d. 521 AD). The idea of the bridge of Sirat over hell was stolen from Zoroastrianism. They called their bridge “Chinavad.” The so-called “99 names of Allah” was a patent plagiarism of the “75 names of Ahura Mazda” in the Avesta. The idea of balances weighing the works of the dead in Sura 101:5-6 was stolen from a Gnostic work called the Testament of Abraham and the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Is it really a hard work to collect old stories from different religions, modify them and use them to build your own fiction? As if repeating something over and over magically makes it true, the editor of the hadith Mishkat’ul Masabih wrote: “It [the Quran] repeatedly challenged the people of the world to bring a chapter like it, but they failed and the challenge remains unanswered up to this day…” (Vol III, p 664). We cannot blame them for this mulish mentality. If the Quran is a challenge, how come Islamic leaders today get violent and issue death penalty whenever it is criticized or challenged? Is that not a sign of weakness? Even after Muhammad told the people to write a sura like it, he quickly adds: “But if ye cannot and of a surety ye cannot [produce a sura like it]- then fear the fire whose fuel is men and stones- which is prepared for those who reject faith” (Sura 2:24). On one hand they were told to “produce a sura like it” and at the same time, he said those who cannot do so must surely burn in Hell. This was a psychological weapon because no one would want to “produce a sura like it” since Muhammad has attached a clause to it. Smart old Mo. No, the Quran has never “repeatedly challenged” the people of the world. These are just empty, propagandist, cliches meant to psyche the naive Middle East scholar, Canon Sell agrees: “Men can produce its like in eloquence and arrangement. A man, named Nadir ibn Haritha, was bold enough to accept the challenge, and arranged some stories of the Persian kings in chapters and Suras and recited them.” (Studies in Islam, Diocesan Press, London, 1928, 208). Credit- Victor Ayeni Salvador. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › The Heavenly Playboy Mansion by chosengocap(op): 10:12pm On Oct 07, 2017 |
“What motivates these suicide bombers and jihadists to carry out these acts?” a friend once asked me. In my witty style, I answered, “they want to make it to Allah’s paradise of sex and wine.” Her eyes widened like saucers “What! Are you kidding me?” She was shocked again when her Muslim neighbour proudly confirmed that according to the Quran, a sex heaven awaits all Muslim warriors. One way to understand a god is to examine his heaven. To know who the Allah of islam is, first look at his heaven. The Quran clearly states that those who fight for islam are entitled to paradise. “Those who have left their homes…and have fought and were slain – Verily, I will blot out their iniquities and admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing beneath…” (3:195) “Did you think ye would enter heaven without God testing those of you who fought hard [in his cause] …” (3:142) Al-Quran describes this heaven as a place with “rivers of milk and rivers of wine…and rivers of honey” (47:15), “fruit and meat” 57:22), “gushing water” (3:15) “clustered plantain” (56:29) “enclosed gardens and grapevines” (78:32) and “fowl meat” (56:21). Now, all these goodies may sound so nice and delightful to some bunch of sun-scorched 7th century Arab desert men, but to a modern man they are pablum banality. These were simply all the stuffs Muhammad’s desert home in Medina lacked. What’s exciting about them today? In this paradise are also “bashful virgins whom neither man nor jinns will have touched before… virgins as fair as corals and rubies” (Q 55:54-58). These are the “houris” – voluptuous, alluring, “wide- eyed” nymphs (apparently adopted from Persian mythology). These sex dolls are reserved for Muslim warriors. “Thus (shall it be) and We [Allah] shall wed them with houris pure, beautiful ones” (Q 44:54). “We created the houris; and We made them ever virgins dear to their spouses, of equal age with them…” (56:35-38). They are heavenly whores, specially created by Allah. They are “maidens with swelling breasts of like age” (78:33). Ibn Kathir’s commentary says that these “maidens will [have] fully developed breasts… fully rounded and not sagging, because they will be virgins equal in age.” I think this exposes the human origin of the Quran. Muhammad couldn’t see into the 21st century where there are strip clubs, adult vacation parties, wild stag dos, porn and free sex to cater to man’s baser instincts. He couldn’t see beyond his time. A promise of a heavenly brothel of wide-eyed girls no longer sells. Even Hugh Hefner has this sort of “paradise” right here on earth. There will also be boy slaves “as fair as virgin pearls” (34:24); boys “graced with eternal youth who to their beholders will seem like sprinkle pearls” (76:19), perhaps, in case the men are bored with women. Note: pederasty was common among 7th century Arabs. A hadith says the lowest a Muslim will get over there is 72 virgins and 80,000 servants (Mishkat al-Masbih, 1204). This is what Muslim jihadists want to die to have. There is really no stated reward for Muslim women. The men get 72 whores, the women get nothing! Zilch! Nada! Female suicide bombers are going to be in for a rude shock over there! Who knows, maybe Allah will make them into lesbians over there or they will have to share their old husbands with 72 houris, that is if he even has their time. So much for women’s rights in Islam! The islamic heaven obviously emanated from the mind of a sex pervert. According to Sura 33:50, Allah gave Muhammad alone the right to marry as many women as he wanted (this included his slaves, cousins and any Muslim woman who offers herself to him). What other type of heaven would be convenient for such a man? Muhammad never experienced the presence of God where there is “fullness of joy” (Ps 16:11). The only joy he knew were the pleasures of sex, wine and food. Islam is not about getting to Heaven to worship an unknowable Allah, rather Allah wants to sit on his throne and watch Muslim men having sex orgies and getting drunk while nodding to the rhythm of their moans. That’s his own joy. What a false deity and a false heaven! For Christians “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him” (1Cor 2:9). The real heaven is beyond what Muhammad or any man could imagine or describe. The joy there “is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Rom. 14:17). Jesus Christ plainly stated that “At the resurrection people will neither marry, nor be given in marriage…” (Mt 22:30). Definitely, He was not speaking of the playboy mansion paradise Muhammad imagined for his followers. Its sad to think that suicide bombers and jihadists are going to be in for a very shocking disappointment after death. I pray God open their eyes before its too late. (Credit my friend Victor Ayeni) |
| Christianity Etc › Is Islam Repackaged Paganism? by chosengocap(op): 11:31am On Oct 06, 2017 |
Islam is said to be a revealed religion. This implies
that all its beliefs and practices were sent from
heaven. The Quran itself claims its heaven-sent: “We
[Allah] have sent it down during a Blessed
Night.” (44:2)
The Arabic word for “sent down” is tanzeel, which is
derived from the word nuzool- meaning descent or
movement from a higher place to a lower one. This
means all the beliefs or practices of Islam shouldn’t
have any earthly, let alone pagan origins. But there
are several places in the Quran where Muhammad’s
critics pointed out that his teachings were recycled
ancient myths:
“When Our Signs are rehearsed to them, they say:
‘We have heard this (before): if we wished, we could
say (words) like these: these are nothing but tales of
the ancients” (8:31)
“[A]nd none cries lies to it but every sinful
transgressor: who, when our signs are recited to him
he says ‘Fairy tales of the ancients” (83:12-13)
It’s either Muhammad’s critics made up these
slanders because they couldn’t discredit his claims,
or they actually brought up legitimate charges –
which Muhammad himself couldn’t deny – which
destroy the very idea of Islam being a divine religion.
If you read the Quran, you will observe that its author
doesn’t explain any of its rites or beliefs. Nowhere
does it define or explain words like Allah, Kaaba, jinn
or pilgrimage. Why? Because Muhammad’s listeners
were already familiar with these beliefs and
practices, so he didn’t need to explain them. They all
grew up as pagans, and they fully understood the
pre-islamic pagan concepts he was making
references to:
“We have been told that the apostle of Allah once
mentioned Al-Uzza saying ‘I have offered a white
sheep to al-Uzza, while I was a follower of the
religion of my people.” (Ibn Hisham, Kitab al-Asnam,
[The Book of Idols], 17)
A comparison of pre-islamic Arabian pagan religion
and Islam shows that most of what Muhammad
claimed to have received as revelations from heaven,
were already believed or practiced by the pagans
before him. They believed in sacred stones, the
constellations, jinns, curses, fetishes and magic etc.
According to a historian:
“They used to perform pilgrimages to Kaaba where
they put on the Umra and Ihram. They also perform
the tawaf [circumambulating the stone], running at
Mt. Safa and Marwa and casting stones … solitary
contemplation and they performed circumcision and
cut the hands of thieves” (Abu’l Fida, History Ante
Islamica, ed. Fleischer, 180).
Prof. Arberry in his work, Religion in the Middle East,
notes that Islam is a “peculiarly Arabian religion.”
Islam is basically a deification of 7th century Arab
culture, politics, ideology and religion. Thus several
Islamic practices and beliefs were simply carryovers
from pre-islamic Arab paganism:
I. The Kaaba
The kaaba (from the Arabic word for cube) is the
black stone in Mecca to which Muslims face in
prayer. During the hajj, they circumambulate this
stone 7 times. The stone was a pagan temple where
most pre-islamic merchants who visited Mecca
deposited their local gods. When Muhammad
conquered Mecca, there were a total of 360 idols
deposited at the kaaba. Even before then,
Muhammad went there for pilgrimage:
“And when the apostle of God had finished his period
of seclusion and returned [to Mecca], in the first
place he performed the circumambulation of the
kaaba as was his wont” (Alfred Guilaume, The Life of
Muhammad, 1955, 10)
II. Kissing the Stone
During the hajj, mllions of Muslims – including those
infected with Tuberculosis or Hepatitis – converge to
kiss this black stone. This pagan practice was
endorsed by Muhammad as Umar bin Khattab said:
“By Allah! I know that you are a stone and can
neither benefit nor harm. Had I not seen the Prophet
touching (and kissing) you, I would never have
touched (and kissed) you.’ Then he kissed
it…” (Bukhari 2:26:671)
A similar gesture was offered to Baal, a pagan deity
in the Bible (1Kings 19:18). A true prophet of God
would not endorse idolatry. It’s interesting to note
also that Muslims dance around their stone 7 times
just the same way Hindus dance around their deities.
There is simply no difference.
III. Safa and Marwa
The pre-islamic pagans regarded two mountains –
Safa and Marwa – as two deities. One of their rites
was to run between them 7 times. Muhammad
retained this pagan practice when he recited: “Verily!
Safa and Marwa are among the symbols of Allah . It
is therefore no sin for him who performs the
pilgrimage to the kaaba to perform Umra to perform
Tawaf before them’ [Q 2:158]” (Bukhari 2:26:710).
IV. Pilgrimage
For centuries, the pagans regarded the kaaba and
other sacred stones as shrines where they visited for
pilgrimage. All the rituals performed at the kaaba
were retained till date.
“After the pilgrimage in pagan times, the pilgrims
used to gather in assembles in which the praises of
ancestors were sung. As the whole of the pilgrimage
rites were spiritualized in Islam, so the aftermath of
the pilgrimage was also spiritualized.” (Quran
Commentary Appendix XVI)
The pilgrimage also had a lucrative side to it.
Through it, merchants made more sales which in turn
enriched the tribe that was the custodian of the
kaaba. Today, many Muslim pilgrims deprive their
nation’s economies by paying heavily into the Saudi
treasury during the hajj. In 2014, Saudi Arabia made
US $18.6 billion from pilgrimages alone.
Strip Saudi Arabia of all the myths weaved around it,
and what you have left is a fallible human society
where all sorts of vices persist. This “fifth pillar” is
as inane as Russians making up a law for religious
devotees to visit the Red Square or the Chinese
compelling people to visit Hong Kong at least once in
their lifetime in order to “receive blessings.”
V. The Constellations.
Commenting on pre-islamic Arabian pagan worship,
Yusuf Ali noted that:
“A few individual stars did attract the worshipper’s
attention e.g Sirius the Dogstar, the brightest fixed
star in the heavens with a bluish tingle in its light … It
is probably Sirius that is referred to as the fixed star
in the Parable of Abraham (vi. 76) … It will be noticed
that the sun and the moon and the five planets got
identified with a living deity, god or goddess with
characteristics and qualities of its own. Moon
worship was equally popular in various
forms” (Quran: Translation and Commentary, XIII,
1620-22).
That sura 6:76-78 says Abraham worshipped the
sun, star and the moon as “My Lord” before he
became a Muslim. Muhammad was trying to tailor
Abraham along the line of Arab paganism. There are
also several places where the writer of the Quran
swears “by the stars when it goes down” (53:1), “by
the sun and his glorious splendour; by the moon as
she follows him” (91:1-2), “by the heaven, and al-
Tariq”(86:1) and “so verily I call to witness, the
planets that recede” (81:15). Since a person swears
by a being higher than himself, Muhammad was
acknowledging the power of other Arab deities beside
Allah. If Allah was the one inspiring him to swear by
the constellations, then Allah is not the greatest
afterall. God didn’t swear by His creations and He
forbade worship of the constellations in His Word.
VI. Ruqya
Auf b. Malik Ashja’i reported: “We practiced
incantation [ruyqa] in the pre-islamic days and we
said: Allah’s Messenger, what is your opinion about
it? He said: Let me know your incantation and said:
There is no harm in the incantation which does not
smack of polytheism” (Muslim 26:5457)
Ruqya was an incantation accompanied by spitting,
used to supposedly heal sickness, diseases, snake
bites or insect stings. Muhammad adopted it from
the pagans – as it was done in Allah’s name. After
all, Allah was one of the many pre-islamic pagan
deities).
The hadiths contain accounts of Muhammad
allegedly healing people through his spit. He allowed
ruqya be done for non-Muslims in exchange for
money, banned it and later endorsed it again. This
art is still practiced by many Muslims around the
world, though, the majority prefer to go to the
hospital for treatment, rather than waiting for
someone to spit on their foreheads for “healing.”
VII. The Evil Eye
This is believed to be a curse placed on a person (or
an animal) by an evil stare from an envious person.
It is believed to cause injury, misfortune or diseases.
The pagans believed beautiful (or handsome) folks
were often its target. Aisha reported that Muhammad
“commanded me that I should make use of
incantation for curing the influence of an evil
eye” (Muslim 26:5445).
In Islam, some magic words are chanted to
supposedly ward off an evil eye. Most Muslims
would say “Masha Allah” or recite Sura 113:1-5
where Muhammad said:
“I seek refuge with the Lord of Dawn; from the
mischief of created things; from the mischief of
Darkness as it overspreads; From the mischief of
those who practise secret arts. And from the evil of
the envier when he envies.”
This sura was allegedly “revealed” to Muhammad
when he came under a spell and began to imagine
having sex with his wives – since that was his
obsession anyway (Bukhari 7:660). To a critical eye,
these verses reflect 7th century pagan superstitions.
The fact that Muhammad’s “lord of the dawn”
couldn’t protect him from the effects of a spell and
the poison which led to his death, proves that he
sought refuge in a false god. And if Muhammad was a
true prophet, he wouldn’t be rehashing pagan myths
and superstitions disguised as revelations from
heaven. God doesn’t need such nonsense to
compose a book.
This is why Arab scholar, Nazar-Ali concluded:
“Islam retained many aspects of pagan religion.”
Islam was not “sent from heaven,” its an earthly,
man-made, revamped pagan religion. “God
overlooked the times when people didn’t know any
better. But now commands everyone everywhere to
turn to Him” and turn away from such false worship.
(Acts 17:30) |
| Christianity Etc › The God Of The Bible And The Allah Of Islam by chosengocap(op): 11:21am On Oct 06, 2017*. Modified: 8:05pm On Oct 08, 2017 |
For many years it has been assumed by many thatChristians and Muslims served the same God, that its only in the mode of worship or language involved that they differed. That belief is however being challenged today by the upsurge of islamic attacks and persecution of the Christian faith in many parts of the world. Logically, when there are two opposing religious views, both cannot be true and cannot be from the same source. Perhaps in an attempt to evade this chasm, Muhammad tried to psyche the Christians and Jews of his time “…Our God is the same as your God, and we are surrendered unto him” (sura 29:45). But elsewhere, this gnomic claim is quickly thrown aside where he says to Christians “…the Law and the gospel and all the revelation that has come to you from YOUR LORD” (5:68). A way to approach the issue is to compare the God revealed in the Quran with the God who has revealed Himself in the Bible. The God of the Bible is called Yahweh nearly 9,000 times but Allah is not called by that name even once in the Quran. While God is referred to as Elohim more than 2,500 times in the Bible, the word never appears for Allah in the Quran. God revealed Himself to Moses as “the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” and He told Moses “this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations” (Ex 3:15). But Allah was never addressed as this even once. The God of the Bible is called “the God of Israel”. He calls the Jews His chosen people. He says they are “the apple of [My] eye” (Zec 2: and gave the land of Israel to them as an inheritance forever as the Bible shows. But the Allah of Islam has a special hatred against the the Jews. In Sura 5:51, muslims are warned: “Take not the Jews and Christians as friends…” In Sura 98:6, Jews are called “the worst of creatures” and “the vilest of animals in Allah’s sight” (8:55). Sura 5:78 also says the children of Israel are cursed by the tongue of David and of Jesus. Would Jesus curse His own brothers in the flesh blessed by God? No. Allah can’t be the same as the God speaking in the Bible. In several places in Scripture, God chose Jerusalem as His holy city. Forty times He calls Jerusalem “the city of David” and repeated promised that the Messiah will be descended from David and rule on David’s throne in Jerusalem over the world (2Chr. 6:6, 33:7, Ps 89:3-29). Never does the Bible refer to Mecca or Medina, whereas Jerusalem is mentioned 800 times. The God of the Bible has a Son. Psalm 2:12 says “Kiss the Son…” Proverbs 30:4 says of God “What is His name and what is HIS SON’S name…?” Angel Gabriel told Mary that Jesus is “the Son of the Highest” and “the Son of God” who will sit on “the throne of His father David” – a throne that is definitely not in Mecca (Lk 1:31-35). But Allah says: “They say Allah has a son? NEVER!…”(2:116) “…Far be it that he should have a son” (4:171). Concerning Christians who insist that Jesus is the Son of God, the Quran says: “Allah’s curse be upon them! How they are deluded away from the truth!” (9:30). Allah can’t be the God of the Bible. God revealed Himself as a Father. But no where in the Quran is Allah called a “father”. He is not a father, he has no Son and he is not a Spirit. While man was made in God’s likeness (Gen 1:25-27), the Quran says there is nothing in Allah’s likeness (Q 112:4). In the Bible, God revealed Himself to Abraham (Gen 18), Jacob (28:13), Moses and the 70 elders of Israel (Ex 24:10) and in the Person of Jesus Christ. He desires all men to know and love Him. But Allah has never manifested himself or spoken to anyone. He is a remote and unknowable deity. While the God of the Bible is the essence of love (“God is love…”1Jn. 4: , nowhere is Allah called love. The name “Allah” is not the Arabic name for God. The name cannot even be translated into French as Dieu or Spanish as Dios. Some modern Muslims use “God” in place of “Allah” in their speech, but that still does not make Allah the same as the God revealed in Scripture. We could both be calling someone “Mike” yet not referring to the same person. People ask: “what about the name ‘Allah’ in the Arabic Bible?” The Arabic Bible was a translation made around 900 A. D. which was 3 centuries after Islam emerged. The translators used that name for God due to political pressure because this was the name the people had been familiar with for long. But no writer of the Bible ever called God by that name for it was neither a Hebrew nor Greek name for God. Many Arab Christians today prefer to use the Persian name “Khoda” for God. Even Hausa Christians now use the name Uban-giji and not Allah for God. Muslims in Malaysia have even convinced the government to ban the non-muslim use of the name “Allah”. Allah is not the God of the Bible, but a false god. (Credit-Victor Ayeni Salvador) 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: Oby Ezekwesili: "Buhari's Independence Day Speech Is Divisive & Uninspiring" by chosengocap: 9:13pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
Oracle16:Copied/ Shared/BREAKING: Catalonia has won the right to become an independent state. Results: 2.264M votes YES 90% NO 7.8% NULL 2.2% Biafra own uploading... 1 Like |
| Romance › Re: I Tested Her With A Small Slap Before Our Wedding And She Called It Off - Man by chosengocap: 2:23pm On Sep 30, 2017 |
Vivly:the potential wife beater. |
| Politics › Re: Kanu: Why FG Can’t Hold Abaribe, Others Responsible - NewTelegraphOnline by chosengocap: 4:47pm On Sep 24, 2017 |
mazimee:"We can't close down Radio Biafra London. Nnamdi Kanu and Biafrans have freedom of expression"- UK "We aren't funding IPOB, and we deserve the prove of your accusations"- France "IPOB isn't a terrorist group and we condemned the human rights violations of Biafran people"- EU "IPOB isn't a terrorist group"-US The Nigeria is standing alone. The battle is now at international politicking. # Nigeria # HumiliationFallOnYou ! Nze Okechukwu Henry 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Politics › Re: Kanu Violation Of Bail Conditions: Abaribe, Others Risk Imprisonment- Presidency by chosengocap: 4:28pm On Sep 24, 2017 |
sarrki:"We can't close down Radio Biafra London. Nnamdi Kanu and Biafrans have freedom of expression"- UK "We aren't funding IPOB, and we deserve the prove of your accusations"- France "IPOB isn't a terrorist group and we condemned the human rights violations of Biafran people"- EU "IPOB isn't a terrorist group"-US The Nigeria is standing alone. The battle is now at international politicking. # Nigeria # HumiliationFallOnYou ! Nze Okechukwu Henry |
| Politics › Re: Military Operation In Southwest: Go & Dance In The North-East- Afenifere To Army by chosengocap: 9:13pm On Sep 22, 2017 |
stephanie11: 1 Like 2 Shares
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| Politics › Re: Ask Abaribe, Others If You Are Looking For Nnamdi Kanu – Garba Shehu by chosengocap: 10:59pm On Sep 21, 2017 |
zcee:Boko Haram with SO MUCH BLOOD in their hands: "Misguided brothers" because they are Northerners. IPOB with NO BLOOD in their hands: "Terrorists" because they are Igbo. |
| Politics › Re: Ask Abaribe, Others If You Are Looking For Nnamdi Kanu – Garba Shehu by chosengocap: 10:57pm On Sep 21, 2017 |
omenka:generalbush where are you? 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Ask Abaribe, Others If You Are Looking For Nnamdi Kanu – Garba Shehu by chosengocap: 10:46pm On Sep 21, 2017 |
kokozain:Boko Haram with SO MUCH BLOOD in their hands: "Misguided brothers" because they are Northerners. IPOB with NO BLOOD in their hands: "Terrorists" because they are Igbo. |
| Politics › Re: Ask Abaribe, Others If You Are Looking For Nnamdi Kanu – Garba Shehu by chosengocap: 9:19pm On Sep 21, 2017 |
generalbush:generalbush slayer of omenka. bros na correct shatap you do am. bros you bad! 5 Likes 3 Shares |
| Politics › Re: Ask Abaribe, Others If You Are Looking For Nnamdi Kanu – Garba Shehu by chosengocap: 8:50pm On Sep 21, 2017 |
abbaapple:You are the nonsense. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: NNPC Begins Oil Exploration In The Sokoto Basin by chosengocap: 9:29am On Sep 21, 2017 |
activistjohnny:Femi Fani-Kayode You condemn the killing of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar yet you slaughter Igbo Christians and Shiite Muslims in Nigeria and you turn a blind eye as your Salafist Fulani kinsmen and herdsmen butcher northern and southern Christians. You declare support for the establishment of a Palestinian state yet you reject the idea of Biafra. You condemn N. Korea's dictatorship yet you have proved to be the most ruthless dictator that Nigeria has ever known. Your speech at the United Nations was pitiful, shameless and uninspiring. It was a cocktail of contradictions, deceit and mendacities. |
| Politics › Re: PYTHON DANCE II: Ebonyi Rejects, Snubs Military Medical Aid by chosengocap: 9:07am On Sep 21, 2017 |
Yyeske:Very pathetic, you can't even understand simple English. Go school you no gree? |
| Politics › Re: Why I Can’t Dethrone Nnamdi Kanu’s Father – Governor Ikpeazu by chosengocap: 8:29am On Sep 21, 2017 |
Theakthedream:then your faher is lie mohammed |
| Politics › Re: PYTHON DANCE II: Ebonyi Rejects, Snubs Military Medical Aid by chosengocap: 8:15am On Sep 21, 2017 |
Yyeske:Lies, lies, lies... "France & the U.K are frustrating our efforts in fighting IPOB" --- Nigerian govt Efi n'enweghi odudu, Chi ya na-achuru ya ijiji. 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Why I Can’t Dethrone Nnamdi Kanu’s Father – Governor Ikpeazu by chosengocap: 2:58pm On Sep 20, 2017 |
msylva2147:Netanyahu could not stop speaking about his country. To the extent that he even talked about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He talked about where they were buried. He talked about the Bible. Everything that represents Isreal was not too little to neglect. He even told the world he reads the Bible. He didn't mind that some are not Christians. You will say Isreal is too proud. I call it confidence. Your president, that one who got everything going for him not through merit but through recommendation by his school principal talked about Muslim persecution. Not even Nigerian Muslims (of course he knows he represents persecution in Nigeria) but Muslims in other countries. He should be ashamed that those he called terrorists protested in front of the UN building. He is the only president whose citizens rallied round to tell the world how wicked he can be. Yet all you have to do is post a picture of that guy standing before empty sits and tag it, "Pride of Nigeria". You think you are doing me. You are doing yourself. Ifeyinwa Onyeabo |
| Politics › Re: FG To Block IPOB Funding Sources - Lai Mohammed by chosengocap: 2:56pm On Sep 20, 2017 |
SenorFax:Netanyahu could not stop speaking about his country. To the extent that he even talked about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He talked about where they were buried. He talked about the Bible. Everything that represents Isreal was not too little to neglect. He even told the world he reads the Bible. He didn't mind that some are not Christians. You will say Isreal is too proud. I call it confidence. Your president, that one who got everything going for him not through merit but through recommendation by his school principal talked about Muslim persecution. Not even Nigerian Muslims (of course he knows he represents persecution in Nigeria) but Muslims in other countries. He should be ashamed that those he called terrorists protested in front of the UN building. He is the only president whose citizens rallied round to tell the world how wicked he can be. Yet all you have to do is post a picture of that guy standing before empty sits and tag it, "Pride of Nigeria". You think you are doing me. You are doing yourself. Ifeyinwa Onyeabo |
| Politics › Re: FG To Block IPOB Funding Sources - Lai Mohammed by chosengocap: 2:32pm On Sep 20, 2017 |
nairavsdollars:Lai Muhammed is so far away from reality. He is such a disgruntled old man..... Shared: *MeritReporters:* ICC SET TO PROBE THE *WAR CRIMES* AGAINST THE BIAFRAN AGITATORS: Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu Outsmarts Nigeria As A Nation Again The Python has walked into the trap set by Nnamdi KANU. I told you and I told you earlier that force will never work in this situation. Now a petition will be filed against Our Nigerian Military and Government. You do not break a glass cup because it is easy for you to throw it on the rock. However, you might need the glass cup sooner than later. President Buhari has made a hero out of Little Nnamdi Kanu. Even if he is assassinated as he has alleged, he will become a Martyr. Nnamdi kanu arrived Nigeria 2 years ago and informed DSS about the hotel where he was lodging, DSS operatives later went to the hotel and picked him up and he was illegally detained for about two years. There was no tangible evidence to persecute him in the court, Nnamdi Kalu was released into the Nigerian milieu. Everything has worked as Nnamdi Kanu planned before he left London about two years ago. He started causing palaver for the Nigerian Government and he could not be nabbed. The most recent trap of Nnamdi kanu was perfected during his visit to Arochukwu where he said that he will go to Abuja in October 17 during his next court date with two million Biafrans and that he will come back with Buhari’s head. Mr. Nnamdi kanu was very crafty about his state in a way that it cannot be used against him, this state statement and other once some analyst believe is well calculated to force the Government to act irrationally, the North and his military loyalist could not take it anymore. President Buhari walked into the trap of Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB movement with his Operation Python Dance. The high spirited Nigerian soldiers who just came back from Sambisa fighting Islamic terrorist Bokoharam were drafted to kill peaceful IPOB members struggling for self- determination in the Biafra People. Many unarmed civilians were tortured and killed. The Python has walked into the trap and cannot continue to dance. Federal Government on the bid to dance the python dance Proscribing IPOB as a terrorist group. The international community will not agree with that term because IPOB has been peaceful. Nnamdi kanu carefully calculated this move in other to trade the small local political support which he no longer trust because of the desperation of the politicians that will want anything to disrupt their business with the global political support and it is paying off. Following the Mr Jean-Claude Junker European union president on the brutal and inhuman video of the Nigerian army against the invasion, terrorism, and killings of IPOB members, which has been going viral over the internet. The president of the EU commission Mr Jean-Claude Junker has openly made a serious touching statement as well as warning the Nigerian security personnel against their ill hearted and unprofessionalism in handling democratic issues and the rights of the people… Junker directed a serious caution towards the Nigerian Military chiefs stating that they must employ every democratic tenet in handling issues that concerns disgruntle and agitations. “It is the people’s right to agitate and make a request from their government, self-determination is a right enshrined in the United Nation Charta. The people of BIAFRA have every right to request for a referendum, they have been in this struggle for a while now they have never killed or shot a bullet instead they are the victims of attacks and murder. The entire EU hereby condemn the brutal attack on IPOB members and leadership under the pretentious disguise of a military exercise (Operation Python Dance) Nigerian military is warned to adopt democratic tenets in handling citizens. The EU will not sit and watch things go undemocratic in the largest economy of the West African region. Furthermore, Mr Junker has promised to raise the issues concerning the people’s request for a REFERENDUM among the caucus of the EU. He further stated that the Biafra request for a referendum is no different from that of the Catalonians and the Britain. Nigeria government must rise above insubordination and handle issues with every tenet of maturity and democracy. This have also influence the heavy Biafra presence in the United Nations 72nd section which started on 15 September 2017 and will for sure influence the sense of judgment of the world leaders that have started gathering in New york. This was believed to be the plan of Nnamdi kanu which Nigaria could not see through, like Nnamdi kanu or hate him outsmarted Nigeria the first time during his arrest and he have done it again he knows that trading the Governors of South East and South south to get the support of European uinion is like trading Rangers football club of Enugu to get Manchester united of England in a matter of this nature. The question is who plays next and the likely game to be played let keep our hands cross as we pray for God to prevail and also for those in power to learn to respect the will and wish of the people and always remember that the beauty of democracy is the strength of the will of the people. Thank you! |
| Politics › Re: Why I Can’t Dethrone Nnamdi Kanu’s Father – Governor Ikpeazu by chosengocap: 7:05am On Sep 20, 2017 |
msylva2147:All alayes are militants. Brain fall on you. |
| Politics › Re: Why I Can’t Dethrone Nnamdi Kanu’s Father – Governor Ikpeazu by chosengocap: 10:27pm On Sep 19, 2017 |
sarrki:Radio Biafra wrote: I am a terrorist without gun. I am a terrorist without weapon. I am a terrorist because I need freedom. I am a terrorist for fighting for my people I am a terrorist for being peaceful. I am a harmless terrorist. I am a terrorist without explosion. I only terrorize Nigeria with truth. I only terrorize them with a peaceful protest. If am a terrorist what is Boko Haram? Am proudly IPOB terrorist. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: Why I Can’t Dethrone Nnamdi Kanu’s Father – Governor Ikpeazu by chosengocap: 10:10pm On Sep 19, 2017 |
sarrki:"Muhammadu Buhari's UN speech is watery, unpresidential, uninspiring... he pretty much talked about every other country except his own. It shows lack of focus" ~ Aljazeera 10 Likes 2 Shares |
| Politics › Re: Why I Can’t Dethrone Nnamdi Kanu’s Father – Governor Ikpeazu by chosengocap: 10:08pm On Sep 19, 2017 |
Theakthedream:"Muhammadu Buhari's UN speech is watery, unpresidential, uninspiring... he pretty much talked about every other country except his own. It shows lack of focus" ~ Aljazeera 27 Likes 6 Shares |
