How did he, when he was a Muslim, miss all the teachings of jihad as a spiritual struggle? Is he another "racist Islamophobe"? Will no one in authority confront the possibility that he may know whereof he speaks? From California's Paradise Post, with thanks to Ali Dashti:
A former Muslim spoke at the Ridge Southern Baptist Church on Sunday evening to explain the "True Under-standing of Islam."Pastor Mujahid el-Masih had been Muslim for 14 years before he converted to Christianity in his native country of Pakistan.
Armed with a power-point presentation and a slew of quotes, he now travels around the United States as a part of The Voices of Martyrs.
"I came from a country where there is no freedom of speech and no freedom of religion," el-Masih said.Very little was said about el-Masih's conversion to Christianity.
Instead, el-Masih focused on the teachings of the Quran and how they relate to the political climate today.
"The best source of the truth of Islam is the Quran," el-Masih said.
The speech was peppered with anecdotes and references were cited from the Quran through out the lecture, as well as the resounding "Amen" when the energy of the congregation seemed to lull.He also asked that his picture not be taken due to the fact that he still had Christian family members in Pakistan, which is predominately Muslim.
First and foremost, el-Masih refuted any claims that Islam was a peaceful religion.
"The main theme of jihad is the murdering of Christians and Jews," el-Masih said.
According to el-Masih, Allah, the Muslim God, told Muslims to go forth and spread the religion through out the whole world by any means. Therefore, Muslims justify warfare as a means to spread the religion.
Any arguments such as passages in the Quran of tolerance for other religions were also quickly dismissed by el-Masih. He claimed that Mohammad had said the passages of tolerance before Muslims started having any clout. Once the Muslims gained some power, they rejected the idea of tolerance for other religions in favor of conquering a nation and telling them to either convert to Islam, pay a tax or be put to death.
"Muslims are allowed to lie when they are in danger," el-Masih said as an explanation for the turn around.
IMPORTANT UPDATE here.
people with a surname ending in Masih are Christians because this is Arab for Messiah.
The Arabised word for Yashuah (Jesus is the Helenised) is Isa.
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http://www.infidels.org/wire/cats.shtml#islamism
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any bets as to whether Naseem will offer any of her famously cogent comments on this story?
Ali Dashti
You're a gem.
Setanta
If anyone wants to know the true agenda of Islam, Mr. Spencer,Dr. Pipes, Mr. Emerson and a host of others provide it and inform us. A great addition to this are apostates from Islam, as they too are a wonderful source of information.
Wow,that's a real revelation,just last month
Jihadwatch post the comment by the president of an Islamic group in Canada that "All Israelis over 18 are valid targets for killing by suicide bombers because they're part of Israels Army
through the draft system".
The weasel is up on a "hate-crime" charge for saying this on Public TV and re-affirming it
two days later,he's now resorted to the "Taken out of context" fefence that Muslims love to use.
Here's the weasel website and the Islamic Org.'s excuse for not firing him.
BTW the way,I watched both airing of the show and there was no misunderstanding that that was his opinion and not that of Palestinians as he claims. Although,few palestinians seem angered by his comment about killing Israelis over 18.
http://www.canadianislamiccongress.org/mc/media_communique.php?mcdate=2004-10-27
paradise has many older people -- some of them russians from the old country. this is the california i know and love. the no-nonsense look reality in the eye. the place where speakers like this speak with the freedom of america as the promised land. too bad san fran & l.a. have swung so far left that their populations have drowned out the political voice of the california of realism. every now and again, the true california still shines through -- that's why we had ronald reagan, and why davis was thrown out and schwarzenegger given a shot
ala-sux-
We've got a weasel like that right here in the US - Dr. Ghazi Khankan, a spokesman for CAIR:
http://www.anti-cair-net.org/
Here's an excerpt from the article below. Sound familiar?
At an interfaith event shortly after September 11, CAIR-NY's Ghazi Khankan started with the obligatory disclaimer that "those who attack civilians are wrong," but then he explained that any Israeli adult was a "soldier" and thus not a civilian.
Mr. Khankan rationalized as follows: "Anyone over 18 is automatically inducted into the service and they are all reserves. Therefore, Hamas, in my opinion, looks at them as part of the military."
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040316-085118-1135r.htm
There's some good stuff on Ibrahim "al-taqiya" Hooper in there as well.
There is a good reason Muslims hate Jews and Israel. They can't compete, they can't even come close to the accomplishments and contributions of Jews and the state of Israel to all of mankind. They are eaten up by bitterness and envy because like a Timex, "we take a licking and keep on ticking" What have they given mankind? Terror, oppression, jihad, death, mutilation -- what a legacy! I'm proud to be hated by them!
A capsule of accomplishments you may not be aware of.
The Middle East has been growing date palms for centuries. The average tree is about 18-20 feet tall and yields about 38 pounds of dates a year.
Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can lay claim to the following:
Israeli trees are now yielding 400 pounds/year and are short enough to be harvested from the ground or a short ladder.
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel. The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in Israel.
Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
Israel has the fourth largest air force in the world (after the U.S, Russia and China). In addition to a large variety of other aircraft, Israel's air force has an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16's. This is the largest fleet of F-16 aircraft outside of the U.S.
According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline industry's most impenetrable flight security. U.S. officials now look to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.
Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people -- as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the U.S.(3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world -- apart from the Silicon Valley, U. S.
Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the U.S.
Outside the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.
Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East. The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK.
On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech startups.
Twenty-four per cent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees, ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland and 12 per cent hold advanced degrees.
Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at Risk in Ethiopia, to safety in Israel.
When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
When the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day -- and saved three victims from the rubble.
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship -- and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world.
Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.
Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because this was achieved in an area considered mainly desert.
Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
Medicine... Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in U.S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.
Israel's Givun Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.
Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the heart's mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category as well.
A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct -- all without damaging surrounding skin or tissue.
An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in
southern California's Mojave desert.
All the above while engaged in regular wars with an implacable enemy that seeks its destruction, and an economy continuously under strain by having to spend more per capita on its own protection than any other country on earth.
I hope Pastor Mujahid el-Masih is taking precautions.
Any muslim, and I mean any passing muslim, has a divinely sanctioned right to murder a non-muslim. If that non-muslim is an apostate, then the rewards in paradise are even higher. I really dont know by what fraction the rewards go up, but I'm sure the cognescenti will come up with an appropriate figure.
Kemaste:
You could also add to your list of positive achievements that this year's crop of Nobel Prize winners included two Israelis who shared the prize for chemistry with an American "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" the exact implications of which I do not recall.
And, Jews, globally, also account for a fairly disproportionate number of Nobel prizes -- probably over 130 at this point. Not too shabby for a religious/cultural community that numbers about 12 million all told. Contrast that with the 9 or 10 awarded to Muslims (when you include Albert Camus who was a convert), a religious denomination that constitutes about 20% of the world's population (or more, perhaps, depending on whose numbers you want to use).
Kemaste
Thanks for that truly enlightening and amazing post. All that from a country of five million people. No wonder the hatred spite and jealousy of one billion Muslims is focused on your wonderful country.
Israel makes mistakes. But you should make no mistake. Compared to the decrepitude it lives amidst, it is a shining light and a jewel.
God Bless Israel.
(Please teach me how to say that in Hebrew) :-)
Waterdragon25
Albert Camus was a convert to Islam?
Really?
Do you have a reference for that?
regards
Lip stick tubes for Israel!!
If I read this story right this is a brave man I have seen others on some Chirstian shows the word is getting out!!
It does take Brave to be the Paul Revers of our time the Enemy we have Are Monsters in sheeps clothing?
They don't only hate Jews but all and in their book treadys mean nothing and will break them and kill the People any way the only way to stop this is to speak out and warn the people!
First and foremost, el-Masih refuted any claims that Islam was a peaceful religion.
"The main theme of jihad is the murdering of Christians and Jews," el-Masih said.
I will class this man as a Paul and include him in my Prayers!
When the People know what Evil is against them and their Children they will stand and Fight we do belive in protecting our own!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Sight,Wisdom and Courage to stay the course to Destory ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat Amen
This man's observations on the true nature of jihad prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Islam is essentially, irrevocably a reconstituted human sacrifice cult disguised as an 'Abrahamic' faith.
The Judeo-Christian deity Yahweh has outlawed killing for all-time through the 10 Commandments (some say 613) issued to Moses on Mt. Sinai. Butat that time, throughout the Middle East, human sacrifice cults had been practicing ritualistic slaughter of humans in the name of human-manufactured deities (such as Al-lah or Baal) for thousands of years. The kaaba itself was actually once used as an alter for conducting human sacrifices. So, what does 'Thou shalt not kill' do to human sacrifice? it paralyzes and attempts to abolish it of course.
What would human sacrifice practitioners do to societies that attempt to outlaw human sacrifice? Most likely, since they have lost all inhibitions concerning murdering innocents they would start attacking and killing those who would dare oppose their practice of human sacrifice. You'll notice that this is exactly what Islam does through the practice of jihad. Perfectly. Armies of Muslims killing those who have attempted to thwart killing. Islam cannot hide its true identity--it does exactly what a human sacrifice religious sect would have to do survive.
In the Qur'an, Muhammed instituted all this killing and hid it by introducing plagiarized verses from the Torah and Christian bible and switching gods (from Yahweh to al-lah and thereby permitting all the middle East's human sacrifice cults to be brought into use).
As mentioned by many observers and apostates of Islam, honesty means nothing to Islam. That too gives its dark identity away. What else would Islamic leaders feel so compelled to hide from the world?
OT
Locas in Eygpt??
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Sight,Wisdom and Courage to Destory ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat Amen
Yep, that's the way I view jihad. One only has to see the many disgusting examples of it worldwide. Claiming it's an "inner personal struggle" is rubbish. Taqiyya. Telling us what we want to hear, especially since there's so many of us who don't want to hear the harsh reality. Many in the West who are gullible enough to believe anything that instead blames their favourite things to hate: the US, Israel, Jews, Christianity. Anything but placing the blame squarely where it belongs: Islam.
This Pastor sounds very much like our Pastor Danny Nalliah here in Oz. He spoke the truth about Islam to his church, but he said it in a much less 'in your face' manner. He got dragged before the Victoria Anti-Villification gestapo. Pastor el-Masih should thank his lucky stars his state doesn't have the same bunch of speech & thought control fascists. Like we in Oz thank our lucky stars Labor didn't win the last election or else we'd have a nationwide ban on criticizing Islam.
Kemaste: Note as well that slightly more than half of Israel's Jews descend from the Muslim world from Morocco to Bukhara (I think their defense chief was born in Iran). Yet, unlike the fourth-generation descendants of the "disaster" of 1948, these are no-questions-asked Israelis, rather than stateless refugees.
Kepha1:
Shaul Maufaz, Israel's Chief of Defense is Iraqi-born, but yes, more than half of Israel's Jewish population are Sephardic, Yemenite, Turkic, Ethiopian and Persian.