I came across an article written today on Blogcritics Magazine that ended up making a commenter out of me. I wasn’t even looking for something to write on this afternoon — I’m a little drained and even I require a day off now and again (wink, wink) — but this deserved it. Below are excerpts from the article in question and my responses, just as I commented originally:
“In Islam there is technically no priesthood. There was never meant to be. Muhammad clearly saw their destructive influence in both Christianity and Judaism. So he never set up a priesthood.”
You know his mind? Where is evidence of this? The entire Qur’an is a patriarchal testimony to misogyny and you are trying to make Muhammad out to 1) be believed 2) be a wise man and 3) not a pretender and heretical usurper from both Christianity and Judaism for his own personal gain.
Muhammad had no need for a Priesthood because he was the sole ruler of Islam! Why would he create his own hierarchy of potential rivals in his own lifetime?
“However, as he lay dying (in the 11th year of the Hijarah) on May 25, 632 AD, it was reported he wished to lay out certain matters. It is reported/claimed (among Shiites) that he wished to name his successor, (whom they felt would certainly be Ali). But there was some delay on the part of those present in obtaining pen and parchment (and here is where the blood-letting begins that still plagues the world nearly 1,400 years later).”
What Muhammad did manage to do you leave out — he called for the removal of all religions from Arabia except for Islam. Just a small detail.
“In the West, where individual freedom is prized above all else, we are utterly lost in understanding why anyone, in their right mind, would strap on explosives and willingly stand in a crowd of THEIR OWN PEOPLE and blow themselves up.
Many of those who know Islam have stressed that this is absolutely contrary to the teachings of Muhammad. And it is.”
If it’s so contrary to Islam, then why is death while waging jihad the only sure means to enter Paradise according to the Qur’an? Seems that the daily suicide bombers of Islam seem intent on it being a meaningful death — or are they all wrong? If that is so, then where are the Fatwas against the suicide bombing? Where is the outcry? Instead we see Muslims sending gifts and money to the families and putting children on television and asking them questions like “How many Jews did mommy kill?”
I could go on but, really — if you write this then you won’t pay attention to real knowledge of Islam and the threat of Sharia.
Resources are available everywhere, but it’s not profitable to tell the truth, so the lies continue.
Addendum
And then the writer, one Marlowesbeef, goes on to finish his article with this gem of Dhimmitude and ignorance of Islam:
The only way to stop the violence in this region is to realize that the war we must fight is to call attention to this warping of the very values they hold dear. To remind them of what their own holy book says. To ask them to look closely at these supposed “holy men” and ask: do their actions and words match to spirit of the Qu’ran?
To do this, we will have to be patient, educated, and above all, we will have to show them that yes, we too are aware of the flaws in our own Western axiology. That the world will be a better place if we ALL turn to the true message of our respective prophets. To remember that all the prophets had one central message: Peace.
I guess I’ll have to blog a little harder on Monday knowing that these kind of vapid thoughts are seeping into a few minds just a hope, skip and a jump across the Blogosphere. Someone has to pick up the slack.
Here’s a very good place to start any education on Islam — Dr. Gregory Davis’ recent contribution to Jihad Watch, ‘Islam 101′.
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This fool asks for patience? The world has been patient with Islam for 1400 years now-how much more patience will be necessary? And as for that baloney about Islam’s prophet having a message of peace he must have taken it to the grave because Islam has nothing but a history of violence and bloodshed-both within the ummah and without.
Sometimes I am astounded by the sheer ignorance of Islam after so many good books on the subject have been written in the last six years. That, and the fact that there are dozens of sites like this very one that are around to educate (and warn) about Islam.
Sad but true.