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Note: DO NOT BLAME MUSLIMS! -
but critique the evil and evil elements of the ideology of Islam.

The Critiques of Islam versus Muslim Apologists


After a serious study the scriptures of Islam (Qur’an, Sahih Hadith, Sira, the Four Jurists, and most renowned Tafsir) and from reviewing Islam's 1400+ years of history, it is quite obvious the ideology of Islam (Shar’ia), is uncompromising toward non-Muslims – inherently malignant, hateful, violent, and evil in its core ethos. Considering this evidence, we must recognize that Islam Ideology is a disease that causes an unrelenting evil plague upon the earth that will not rest until the all religion is Islam alone. Islam has "good" elements but that is confined to Muslims only.

When critiqued, Muslims and Muslim apologists will resort to all sorts of deflections, rhetoric, bad logic, amateurish arguments to portray Islam is a peaceful religion. The purpose of this deception (Taqyah) is to prevent hostility from unbelievers (to placate unbelievers) as Islam cleverly carries out its perpetual Jihad (physical, political and social) against all unbelievers and their nations and laws, with the ultimate goal of bringing the world under Shar’ia.

A summary of points related the above can be found in this thread and is summarized below;
Do Not Bash Muslims

A. Premises and argument of The Critiques of Islam

To justify why the ideology of Islam at its core is inherently uncompromising and violent to non-Muslims consider the following sequential premises:

1) The main focus/purpose of Islam Jihad is to make Islam the only religion on earth, with Sharia replacing all infidel law and culture. This Jihad objective is historically rooted in Islam's core Scriptures [imperative upon all Muslims] with an inherently malignant, evil and violent ethos. All non-Muslims are to be fought and subjugated simply because they refuse to believe in the religion of Islam. . .

Qur’an 61:9 He [Allah] it is who hath sent His messenger with the guidance [HDY: hudā] and the religion [wadeeni i.e Islam] of truth, that He may make it conqueror [ZHR: liyuẓ'hirahu; prevail] of all religion [alddeeni] however much idolaters [l-mush'rikūna: infidels] may be averse [kariha: dislike].

Qur'an 9:29 Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

2) This evil and violent ethos is supported by the loads of evil and violent elements within a core strategy of Jihad in stages until the whole world is one religion - Islam. Historically, Jihad includes the subjugation, enslaving, pillaging, destruction or conversion of unbelievers (infidels), with the goal of Shar'ia replacing all infidel laws and culture.

3) These evil and violent elements of Jihad against unbelievers “had,” “has” and “will” influence and compel a critical 'SOME' of evil prone Muslims to commit terrible evil and violent acts upon non-Muslims. The motive or reward for Islamic Jihad are
  • the divine promise of eternal reward to satisfy basic sensual pleasures,
  • temporal prestige and reward of riches and sex slaves.
In essence, this Islam Ideology of Jihad caters to the basic instincts of the human sin nature for sex, hate, vengeance, pride, riches, and reward - this is glaringly evident.

4) There is a natural percentile of evil prone Muslims [conservatively 20% to probable 80%] who are born with an active tendency of a range of degrees to commit evil and violent acts.

What is ‘evil’ is any act that is negative to the well being of the individual and humanity.
Evil acts come in range from low [petty crimes, lies] 10/100 to high [genocide] 90/100.​

5) The percentile of Evil prone Muslims [they have professed their faith via shahada] are essentially Muslims. Based on the concept of Takfir, no Muslim can accuse another Muslim as an disbeliever except for what a devout Muslim perceives as hypocrisy.

Takfir or takfeer (Arabic: تكفير‎ takfīr) .. denoting excommunication, as one Muslim declaring another Muslim as a non-believer (kafir).-wiki

6. The Evil prone Muslims [ point 4, 5], when exposed to the core teachings of traditional Islam’s [2] scriptures, will naturally be triggered to commit terrible and range of evil and violent acts as a religious duty in the name of Islam. The consequences are glaring and evident within Islam’s 1400+ years of history. To this day we see large numbers of terror, evil and violent acts committed by evil prone Muslims around the world, i.e. those of Al Qaeda, IS, Boko Haram, others, lone wolf(s) who justify their acts by quoting verses from their scriptures.

7) The evil and violent ethos of Islam (rooted in Islam’s Core Scriptures) [1] and the consequential and potential terrible evil and violent acts are a threat to humanity at present and in the future… Islam’s Core Scriptures are, therefore, the destructive force behind the ideology of Islam with its universal strategy of Jihad against all unbelievers.

8) Therefore primary attention must be directed to the ideology of Islam to resolve the potential threat of evil and violence to humanity.

Islam’s Core Scriptures are the foundation for the violent ideology of Islam against all unbelievers, apostates, and hypocrites - a universal and everlasting worldwide Jihad until Islam is the only religion.


B. The Muslim and Muslim Apologist’s counter the above with the following premises;

1. Muslim Apologist: The terrible evil and violent acts are not attributable to Islam and ordinary Muslims but only to the extremists.
[this is debunked, re Dr. Bales and others]. JosephZ had agreed with this but very conditionally.

2. Muslim Apologist: The extremists are not practicing Islam.
[this is debunked by Islam's core scriptures of which all Islam's Caliphs, and main Jurists and Tafsir clearly utilize as their authority to carry out worldwide Jihad against unbelievers, hypocrites and apostates throughout Islam's 1400 + year history].

3. Muslim Apologist: What is Islam is practiced by the majority of Muslims who do not commit evil and violent acts upon non-Muslims.
[debunked re ad populum fallacy]. The majority are merely devotees and lay-Muslims who are ignorant of what is truly Islam in accordance to its core scriptures.

Note:
We have no idea how many Muslims in the West are supporters of Jihadists.
Many other Muslims are presently being fundamentally indoctrinated in Mosques and terrorist supporting Islamic Organizations being installed all over the USA and Europe for the past 50 years at least.
Many Muslims (and the numbers are increasing due to re-indoctrination) are presently just biding their time (silent supporters) until the next Caliph arrives to order them to fight – A silent Jihad army within our walls waiting to be commanded.

4. Muslim Apologist: Who is a Muslim is self-defined by anyone who claim to be a Muslims and not one who must adhere 100% to the core scriptures.
[this contradict the definition of Allah's definition of Who is a Muslim in the Quran] Point is a person is a Muslim as long as he has professed his faith via the Shahada and make the attempt to practice the 5 pillars of Islam to the best of his abilities.

5. Muslim Apologist: Critics of Islam like Robert Spencer, Bill Warner, David Wood, Christian Prince, and others always rely on anti-Islam propagandist sites. These sites has been listed as hate sites by the SPLC. It is evident these serious critiques of Islam relied on the original scriptures of Islam, the tafsir by Islamic scholars and experts.

The SPLC is a very bias site and will label any views they disagree with as anti-Islam. They had even labeled Majid Nawas, a Muslim reformist as anti-Islam and was sued and they lost.

6. Muslim Apologist: Islamic related terrorist acts represent a small % of ALL terrorists acts around the world.
The Muslims apologist will often deflect the issue to only terrorists acts that are notable but overlook the whole range of evil and violent committed by the evil prone Muslims.

7. [Edited To Add]Muslim Apologist: All the warring verses are meant to be historical and confined to the specific period, i.e. in the 7th century.
The Quran is meant to be an eternal guideline for all Muslim to apply in similar situations at any time offensively and defensively. Most Muslims at the least agree they are for defense purposes at anytime.

The above is only summary of the points raised, the details are posted in the other thread.
Do Not Bash Muslims

As can be seen above, the Muslims and Muslim apologists do not have any defense to insist the ideology of Islam is peaceful to non-Muslims.
There are many verses in the Quran that exhort Muslims to do good, but those are only for the Muslims themselves and not applicable to non-Muslims.
There are some verses [Mecca] which are seemingly peaceful to non-Muslims but these very few rare verses are conditional and abrogated by the more evil and violent verses from the Medinian period.

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The Critiques of Islam versus Muslim Apologists


After a serious study the scriptures of Islam (Qur’an, Sahih Hadith, Sira, the Four Jurists, and most renowned Tafsir) and from reviewing Islam's 1400+ years of history, it is quite obvious the ideology of Islam (Shar’ia), although containing some good elements for Muslims only, is uncompromising toward non-Muslims – inherently malignant, hateful, violent, and evil in its core ethos. Considering this evidence, we must recognize that Islam Ideology is a disease that causes an unrelenting evil plague upon the earth that will not rest until the all religion is Islam alone.

When critiqued, Muslims and Muslim apologists will resort to all sorts of deflections, rhetoric, bad logic, amateurish arguments to portray Islam is a peaceful religion. The purpose of this deception (Taqyah) is to prevent hostility from unbelievers (to placate unbelievers) as Islam cleverly carries out its perpetual Jihad (physical, political and social) against all unbelievers and their nations and laws, with the ultimate goal of bringing the world under Shar’ia.

A summary of points related the above can be found in this thread and is summarized below;
Do Not Bash Muslims

A. Premises and argument of The Critiques of Islam

To justify why the ideology of Islam at its core is inherently uncompromising and violent to non-Muslims consider the following sequential premises:

1) The main focus/purpose of Islam Jihad is to make Islam the only religion on earth, with Sharia replacing all infidel law and culture. This Jihad objective is historically rooted in Islam's core Scriptures [imperative upon all Muslims] with an inherently malignant, evil and violent ethos. All non-Muslims are to be fought and subjugated simply because they refuse to believe in the religion of Islam. . .

Qur’an 61:9 He [Allah] it is who hath sent His messenger with the guidance [HDY: hudā] and the religion [wadeeni i.e Islam] of truth, that He may make it conqueror [ZHR: liyuẓ'hirahu; prevail] of all religion [alddeeni] however much idolaters [l-mush'rikūna: infidels] may be averse [kariha: dislike].

Qur'an 9:29 Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

2) This evil and violent ethos is supported by the loads of evil and violent elements within a core strategy of Jihad in stages until the whole world is one religion - Islam. Historically, Jihad includes the subjugation, enslaving, pillaging, destruction or conversion of unbelievers (infidels), with the goal of Shar'ia replacing all infidel laws and culture.

3) These evil and violent elements of Jihad against unbelievers “had,” “has” and “will” influence and compel a critical 'SOME' of evil prone Muslims to commit terrible evil and violent acts upon non-Muslims. The motive or reward for Islamic Jihad are
  • the divine promise of eternal reward to satisfy basic sensual pleasures,
  • temporal prestige and reward of riches and sex slaves.
In essence, this Islam Ideology of Jihad caters to the basic instincts of the human sin nature for sex, hate, vengeance, pride, riches, and reward - this is glaringly evident.

4) There is a natural percentile of evil prone Muslims [conservatively 20% to probable 80%] who are born with an active tendency of a range of degrees to commit evil and violent acts.

What is ‘evil’ is any act that is negative to the well being of the individual and humanity.
Evil acts come in range from low [petty crimes, lies] 10/100 to high [genocide] 90/100.​

5) The percentile of Evil prone Muslims [they have professed their faith via shahada] are essentially Muslims. Based on the concept of Takfir, no Muslim can accuse another Muslim as an disbeliever except for what a devout Muslim perceives as hypocrisy.

Takfir or takfeer (Arabic: تكفير‎ takfīr) .. denoting excommunication, as one Muslim declaring another Muslim as a non-believer (kafir).-wiki

6. The Evil prone Muslims [ point 4, 5], when exposed to the core teachings of traditional Islam’s [2] scriptures, will naturally be triggered to commit terrible and range of evil and violent acts as a religious duty in the name of Islam. The consequences are glaring and evident within Islam’s 1400+ years of history. To this day we see large numbers of terror, evil and violent acts committed by evil prone Muslims around the world, i.e. those of Al Qaeda, IS, Boko Haram, others, lone wolf(s) who justify their acts by quoting verses from their scriptures.

7) The evil and violent ethos of Islam (rooted in Islam’s Core Scriptures) [1] and the consequential and potential terrible evil and violent acts are a threat to humanity at present and in the future… Islam’s Core Scriptures are, therefore, the destructive force behind the ideology of Islam with its universal strategy of Jihad against all unbelievers.

8) Therefore primary attention must be directed to the ideology of Islam to resolve the potential threat of evil and violence to humanity.

Islam’s Core Scriptures are the foundation for the violent ideology of Islam against all unbelievers, apostates, and hypocrites - a universal and everlasting worldwide Jihad until Islam is the only religion.


B. The Muslim and Muslim Apologist’s counter the above with the following premises;

1. Muslim Apologist: The terrible evil and violent acts are not attributable to Islam and ordinary Muslims but only to the extremists.
[this is debunked, re Dr. Bales and others]. JosephZ had agreed with this but very conditionally.

2. Muslim Apologist: The extremists are not practicing Islam.
[this is debunked by Islam's core scriptures of which all Islam's Caliphs, and main Jurists and Tafsir clearly utilize as their authority to carry out worldwide Jihad against unbelievers, hypocrites and apostates throughout Islam's 1400 + year history].

3. Muslim Apologist: What is Islam is practiced by the majority of Muslims who do not commit evil and violent acts upon non-Muslims.
[debunked re ad populum fallacy]. The majority are merely devotees and lay-Muslims who are ignorant of what is truly Islam in accordance to its core scriptures.

Note:
We have no idea how many Muslims in the West are supporters of Jihadists.
Many other Muslims are presently being fundamentally indoctrinated in Mosques and terrorist supporting Islamic Organizations being installed all over the USA and Europe for the past 50 years at least.
Many Muslims (and the numbers are increasing due to re-indoctrination) are presently just biding their time (silent supporters) until the next Caliph arrives to order them to fight – A silent Jihad army within our walls waiting to be commanded.

4. Muslim Apologist: Who is a Muslim is self-defined by anyone who claim to be a Muslims and not one who must adhere 100% to the core scriptures.
[this contradict the definition of Allah's definition of Who is a Muslim in the Quran] Point is a person is a Muslim as long as he has professed his faith via the Shahada and make the attempt to practice the 5 pillars of Islam to the best of his abilities.

5. Muslim Apologist: Critics of Islam like Robert Spencer, Bill Warner, David Wood, Christian Prince, and others always rely on anti-Islam propagandist sites. These sites has been listed as hate sites by the SPLC. It is evident these serious critiques of Islam relied on the original scriptures of Islam, the tafsir by Islamic scholars and experts.

The SPLC is a very bias site and will label any views they disagree with as anti-Islam. They had even labeled Majid Nawas, a Muslim reformist as anti-Islam and was sued and they lost.

6. Muslim Apologist: Islamic related terrorist acts represent a small % of ALL terrorists acts around the world.
The Muslims apologist will often deflect the issue to only terrorists acts that are notable but overlook the whole range of evil and violent committed by the evil prone Muslims.

The above is only summary of the points raised, the details are posted in the other thread.
Do Not Bash Muslims

As can be seen above, the Muslims and Muslim apologists do not have any defense to insist the ideology of Islam is peaceful to non-Muslims.
There are many verses in the Quran that exhort Muslims to do good, but those are only for the Muslims themselves and not applicable to non-Muslims.
There are some verses [Mecca] which are seemingly peaceful to non-Muslims but these very few rare verses are conditional and abrogated by the more evil and violent verses from the Medinian period.

Views?

Loving the muslim and realising Islam is a faith of propoganda, and provocation.
If you read the haddith you realise it is so vast you get lost in the detail.
Every conversation with muslims is always a long drawn out affair.

Their failure is in love and justice. The create an unjust society that oppresses its
people and creates dictatorship, especially of women.
A lot of good work has been done on the Koran and its invalidity.


Jay Smith puts it very well.

Islamic culture has historically rejected truth as an objective reality, and believed
the Koran defines everything of merit, and you cannot question the authority of
clerics. It is hard to get ones head around, a man who studies Islam becomes the
dictator of meaning in Islamic society.

This creates the injustice and corruption we see so rife in islamic countries.
It is why Israel functions and Pakistan fails. There is no love or ethic of love and
justice in the faith, so a vacuum is created which is filled by oppression and violence.
So it becomes acceptable to murder women for being independent an able to have
a job as a religious duty. Once you get a society to wake up to the propoganda machine,
it will be thrown off.

In a sense you cannot take propoganda on as rational, you have to demonstrate what
is actually happening to people and how it needs to be addressed. Islam is irrelevant
and gets in the way of good people doing good things. God bless you.
 
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Loving the muslim and realising Islam is a faith of propoganda, and provocation.
If you read the haddith you realise it is so vast you get lost in the detail.
Every conversation with muslims is always a long drawn out affair.

Their failure is in love and justice. The create an unjust society that oppresses its
people and creates dictatorship, especially of women.
A lot of good work has been done on the Koran and its invalidity.


Jay Smith puts it very well.

Islamic culture has historically rejected truth as an objective reality, and believed
the Koran defines everything of merit, and you cannot question the authority of
clerics. It is hard to get ones head around, a man who studies Islam becomes the
dictator of meaning in Islamic society.

This creates the injustice and corruption we see so rife in islamic countries.
It is why Israel functions and Pakistan fails. There is no love or ethic of love and
justice in the faith, so a vacuum is created which is filled by oppression and violence.
So it becomes acceptable to murder women for being independent an able to have
a job as a religious duty. Once you get a society to wake up to the propoganda machine,
it will be thrown off.

In a sense you cannot take propoganda on as rational, you have to demonstrate what
is actually happening to people and how it needs to be addressed. Islam is irrelevant
and gets in the way of good people doing good things. God bless you.
Good points. I have listened to many of Jay Smith's videos.

LightLoveHope wrote:
If you read the haddith you realise it is so vast you get lost in the detail.
Every conversation with muslims is always a long drawn out affair.
Correct.
The Ahadith were compiled by a few imams >200-300 years after the death of Muhammad.
Bukhari collected > 700,000!!! sayings of Muhammad and filtered them to 7000+ deemed authentic. It the same with the other hadiths of the other imam.
This is more like collecting postings from our current blogs all over the internet and forums [like this] on the subject.
The veracity of these supposedly genuinely hadiths as claimed to be spoken by Muhammad is definitely questionable.

Some of the hadiths deemed genuine are very perverted. Note the hadith on 'suckling by strangers' and others. The sayings in the Ahadiths are so embarrassing that some Muslims reject the Ahadith totally.
Quranism - Wikipedia

Quranism (Arabic: القرآنية‎; al-Qur'āniyya) comprises views that Islamic law and guidance should only be based on the Qur'an, thus opposing the religious authority, reliability, and/or authenticity of hadith literature. -wiki​

My personal view is, the sole and final authority of Islam is the 6236 verses of the Quran [perfect and directly from God] and whatever is referred from the Ahadith must align with the doctrinal principles within the Quran.
 
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Good points. I have listened to many of Jay Smith's videos.

LightLoveHope wrote:
If you read the haddith you realise it is so vast you get lost in the detail.
Every conversation with muslims is always a long drawn out affair.
Correct.
The Ahadith were compiled by a few imams >200-300 years after the death of Muhammad.
Bukhari collected > 700,000!!! sayings of Muhammad and filtered them to 7000+ deemed authentic. It the same with the other hadiths of the other imam.
This is more like collecting postings from our current blogs all over the internet and forums [like this] on the subject.
The veracity of these supposedly genuinely hadiths as claimed to be spoken by Muhammad is definitely questionable.

Some of the hadiths deemed genuine are very perverted. Note the hadith on 'suckling by strangers' and others. The sayings in the Ahadiths are so embarrassing that some Muslims reject the Ahadith totally.
Quranism - Wikipedia

Quranism (Arabic: القرآنية‎; al-Qur'āniyya) comprises views that Islamic law and guidance should only be based on the Qur'an, thus opposing the religious authority, reliability, and/or authenticity of hadith literature. -wiki​

My personal view is, the sole and final authority of Islam is the 6236 verses of the Quran [perfect and directly from God] and whatever is referred from the Ahadith must align with the doctrinal principles within the Quran.

Sounds like you are a muslim.
After many years of discussing Islam with them, I came to a simple conclusion, corruption.
It is easy to be general in ones positions, dismissive, to hold to certain loyalties while never reaching a proper point or conclusion. The Koran does this all the time, scatting over things, not layering or defining anything, but leaving it like a mist.

Jesus worked very differently and was always specific and focused on various issues.
Love and action matter, repentance and change, transformation are His path.

It is interesting Muhammed chose to destroy the authority of scripture by this one word corruption. But the problem is, Muhammed himself could be the corruption, the source of everything that is unclear and badly advised. My list is simple
1. Killing for apostacy
2. Killing for blasphemy
3. Killing for non-belief

Unfortunately this means anything the murderer deems as justifiable reasons to kill another can be defended and the society will not take action. So any psychopath can take over and feel empowered by such a philosophy. You can take the worst in ones community, give them the right ideas and words and just point them at the people you hate, and there you are, problem solved.

This ability to switch from peace to complete violence makes this idiology flawed, meaningless and an self fulfilling dictatorship of any community. Put simply, if you are born into the faith, you can never leave it. This prison cares nothing about its prisoners, only the conformity to the rules.

Jesus brings freedom and choice, love and hope, purity and righteousness to all relationships. You cannot get a starker difference between the messages of the two positions. God bless you
 
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Sounds like you are a muslim.
After many years of discussing Islam with them, I came to a simple conclusion, corruption.
It is easy to be general in ones positions, dismissive, to hold to certain loyalties while never reaching a proper point or conclusion. The Koran does this all the time, scatting over things, not layering or defining anything, but leaving it like a mist.

Jesus worked very differently and was always specific and focused on various issues.
Love and action matter, repentance and change, transformation are His path.

It is interesting Muhammed chose to destroy the authority of scripture by this one word corruption. But the problem is, Muhammed himself could be the corruption, the source of everything that is unclear and badly advised. My list is simple
1. Killing for apostacy
2. Killing for blasphemy
3. Killing for non-belief

Unfortunately this means anything the murderer deems as justifiable reasons to kill another can be defended and the society will not take action. So any psychopath can take over and feel empowered by such a philosophy. You can take the worst in ones community, give them the right ideas and words and just point them at the people you hate, and there you are, problem solved.

This ability to switch from peace to complete violence makes this idiology flawed, meaningless and an self fulfilling dictatorship of any community. Put simply, if you are born into the faith, you can never leave it. This prison cares nothing about its prisoners, only the conformity to the rules.

Jesus brings freedom and choice, love and hope, purity and righteousness to all relationships. You cannot get a starker difference between the messages of the two positions. God bless you
I am not a Muslim - see my profile on the left of my post.

I think you inferred 'sound like you are a Muslim' from the first line, "Note: DO NOT BLAME MUSLIMS!"
I have edited the OP and added 'but critique the evil and violent elements of the ideology of Islam.
The point is, for all the terrible evil and violent acts by Muslims, the primary and critical root cause is the ideology of Islam.

I agree with the rest of your posts.
 
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I am not a Muslim - see my profile on the left of my post.

I think you inferred 'sound like you are a Muslim' from the first line, "Note: DO NOT BLAME MUSLIMS!"
I have edited the OP and added 'but critique the evil and violent elements of the ideology of Islam.
The point is, for all the terrible evil and violent acts by Muslims, the primary and critical root cause is the ideology of Islam.

I agree with the rest of your posts.
Ok sorry. It can be hard sometimes to see the argument being made and which is the Muslim view and which the commentator.

My sadness is the far right have taken the anti Islam agenda and the far left the pro-agenda. It is stunning how Islamic propoganda justifies abuse of women as their protection, restricting human rights as stopping evil, repression of free speech as stopping corruption. It matches all extreme idiologies, so a common enemy creates brothers in arms.

We need a good approach to reach people who suffer under this mind set without allienating them. God bless you
 
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