Ten Questions for the Muslim Next Door

"clash of ignorances"

I've encountered this apologist catch-phrase a couple of times recently. Apologists must be reading from the same playbooks.

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Kamala,

Nice work. Much appreciated.

Muslim apologists are unable to defend their religion as it is, so they persist in describing their religion as they would like it to be. What a lovely religion it would be if were peace-loving, a model of kindness and consideration toward women, and of course, fully egalitarian with those of other faiths since its inception.

I purchased my copy of "Stealth Jihad" from a bookstore across the street from Stanford.

A copy of the "Muslim Next Door" was promently displayed there, so I sat down with a copy.

It looked to be an utterly worthless excerise in reassurance that she would never hurt you, so don't worry, be happy.

Critics of the Koran just don't understand how complex it is, and the Verse of the Sword should understood in its entirity, and within context.

Believe me, it is nothing you haven't heard before, over and over again.

Islam with a Happy Face.

Rubbish.

I wish Muslims would stop lying.

"If a Muslim changes their religion from Islam, then kill them".- Mohammad, the warlord founder of "Submission" [Islam].

Deathcult, plain and simple.

The rest is merely mendacious misinformation to mislead the stupid sleepwalking infidels.

This veilless chick reminds me of when it was reported that the klan had dumped the white sheets for business suits to seem more modern and less threatening. Just lipstick on a pig.

The fact that Muslims continuously lie - to us, to the media, to themselves even - is probably the single thing that I hate the most about Islam, and there are many. Muslims are never to be trusted. Either they lie to you like this chick, they lie to themselves like Irshad Manji, or they're like Anjem Choudhary and they threaten our lives. How can you trust people like that? How can you respect people like that?

The 10 quesions:
1) How is Islam different from all oher religions? Ans: It's more violent and hateful.
2) What can Islam do for you? Ans: It can get you killed.
3) What has Islam done for non-Muslims? Ans: It can get them killed.
4) What has Islam done for civilization? Ans: Destroy it.
5) Who was Mohammed? Ans: A pedophile, rapist, thief and mass murderer.
6) Why is Islam so widespread? Ans: Through conquest, aggressive proselytizing and demographics (ie reproduction).
7) Is Jihad an Inner Struggle? Ans: In Bukhari's Haditha, statistics show that Jihad as Inner Struggle is 3% vs 97% for Jihad as Conquest.
8) Is Islam anti-Jewish? Ans: No, so long as Jews live as Dhimmi, or second class citizens in Muslim countries.
9) Is Islam anti-Chrisian? Ans: No, see previous answer.
10) Does Islam support terrorism? Ans: No, if Muslims are attacked.

I'll bet that Ali-Karamali believes what she writes. That would mean that either she's apostate (her views are not mainstream Islam) or deceived. Hardly one who can speak with authority.

Instead of trying to deceive the unbelievers, I wish she'd spend her time trying to convince her more conservative brethren that they are wrong. But her scholarship will need to improve first.

I wish Muslims would stop lying.
Posted by: jewcat

then muslims would be mute. these appologists can win some of the battles, but they cannot keep hiding the facts that most if not all of terrorism are caused by islamists.

Thanks to Robert and JW , Karamali's book means nothing, zilch, zero to me. Nothing she says can convince me otherwise, since all Muslims read the same Qur'an, the book that tells them to destroy infidels. Yes, many Muslims may prefer to convert infidels rather than kill them, but to a Christian (or Jew) conversion to Islam is tantamount to death!

I just followed the link to Kamala's 'revuse' page and read the whole thing.

Brilliant! Ladies and gentlemen, fellow jihadwatchers: bookmark it; copy and save the text in full, so you can print it out and have it handy in your handbag and back pocket so that if you encounter any poor deluded souls who have read 'The Muslim Next Door' and have bought the lady's snake-oil, you can have a go at shattering their illusions.

By the way: paging all new readers: the same very Kamala, at Revuse, who has demolished Ali-Karamali, also provides a masterly deconstruction of the slick, pretty and infinitely deceitful 'Discover Islam' propaganda pamphlets/ posters that you will almost certainly encounter at any mosque 'open day' or other such da'wa exercise.

http://revuse.wetpaint.com/page/Discover+Islam

If you haven't read this, do: make a cup of coffee, allow a leisurely half hour to an hour and enjoy.

Which other religions have to sit down nonbelievers and say to them "we believe in PEACE, our religion is about PEACE, we are PEACEFUL people, _____ means PEACE". None. Other religions don't have to do that because they prove they are peaceful people by their actions. Islam is the exact opposite, yet they wonder why they have a bad PR image.

Further observations.

If you click on the link to Kamala's text in full, it includes a reproduction of the cover picture, showing Ms Ali-Karamali in her best Western getup, sans hijab, mugging for the camera.

The image screams 'stealth jihadist!' 'Stealth jihadist!'

And let's consider, very thoughtfully, her CV:

"...she has a law degree from the University of California, Davis in addition to her undergraduate degree from Stanford,

and *a graduate degree in Islamic law* {emphasis added - dda:things that make you go hmmmm} from the University of London...she practiced corporate law in San Francisco."

Legal jihad, betcha. It might be very interesting to research what cases she's worked on. And if she has "a graduate degree in Islamic law from the University of London" she damn well ought to know what's been written on the subject by Joseph Schacht, Fagnan, and Antoine Fattal, as well as the contents of assorted Islamic scholars past and present, such as the 'Reliance of the Traveller'...and if she does, then everything she says in her book, is a lie.

jdamn - what do you think of the cover photo of 'The Muslim Next Door'? Because I took one look at it and it gave me the creeps. It made my toes curl and the hair on the back of my neck stood up.

That smile is SOOO fake. It reminds me of the verse in Lewis Carroll's Alice through the Looking Glass:

"how doth the little crocodile
improve his shining tail
and pour the waters of the Nile
on every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin
how neatly spreads his claws
and welcomes little fishes in
with gently smiling jaws!"

And to my fellow Infidels, gazing upon Ms Ali-Karamali, I offer this advice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnlOS5cnavY

Never smile at a crocodile
No, you can't get friendly with a crocodile
Don't be taken in by his welcome grin
He's imagining how well you'd fit within his skin
Never smile at a crocodile
Never dip your hat and stop to talk awhile
Never run, walk away, say good-night, not good-day
Clear the aisle but never smile at Mister Crocodile
You may very well be well bred
Lots ot etiquette in your head
But there's always some special case, time or place
To forget etiquette
For instance:
Never smile at a crocodile
No, you can't get friendly with a crocodile
Don't be taken in by his welcome grin
He's imagining how well you'd fit within his skin
Never smile at a crocodile
Never dip your hat and stop to talk awhile
Never run, walk away, say good-night, not good-day
Clear the aisle but never smile at Mister Crocodile ".

Final note: I'd argue that this lady is a shapeshifter. The smartest Muslim jihadists, having realized that some among the Infidels are becoming Suspicious, are superficially assuming the appearance of their prey - us - in order to inveigle us into letting down our guard.

Tariq Ramadan is one such shapeshifter. In Australia, Waleed Aly is another. His book of soft soap is entitled 'People Like Us'; he's playing exactly the same game as Ali-Karamali is doing in 'The Muslim Next Door' - "we're just regular folks, honest!!! would I lie to you??"

Somebody needs to take that image of Ali-Karamali, from the cover of her book, and use it as illustration for the following (from an article, 'Islam's Doctrines of Deception', that Raymond Ibrahim wrote for Jane's Intelligence Group - you will have to go to Jane's and look up the September edition of 'Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst' to read the whole thing; the original unedited version was posted on jihadwatch on 10 November 2008 but then pulled because of copyright issues).

"Al-Tabari’s (d. 923) famous Tafsir (exegesis of the Koran) is essentially a standard reference work in the entire Muslim world.

'Regarding 3:28, he writes:

“If you [Muslim] are under their [infidels’] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them, with your tongue, while harboring inner animosity for them…. Allah has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels in place of believers—except when infidels are above them [in authority]. In such a scenario, let them act friendly towards them.”

'Regarding 3:28,” Ibn Kathir (d. 1373, second only to Tabari) writes,
“Whoever at any time or place fears their [infidels’] evil, may protect himself through outward show.”

'As proof of this, he quotes Muhammad’s companions: Abu Darda said “Let us smile to the face of some people while our hearts curse them”; while al-Hassan said, “Doing taqiyya is acceptable till the Day of Judgment [i.e., in perpetuity].”

The above formed part of an article on al-Taqiyya, strategic dissimulation, that Mr Raymond Ibrahim wrote for Jane's

Here's the Ibn Kathir material Raymond cited, at more length, as given on the comments floor in another jihadwatch thread concerning al-taqiyya:

"Ibn Kathir's tafsir on Qur'an 3:28:
"Allah said next,

[إِلاَ أَن تَتَّقُواْ مِنْهُمْ تُقَـةً]

(unless you indeed fear a danger from them) meaning, except those believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers.

'In this case, such believers are allowed to show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly.

'For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda' said,

'We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.'

Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, 'The Tuqyah is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.' "

This passage may be seen in its entirety at
http://www.tafsir.com/default.asp?sid=3&tid=8052

Posted by: Papa Whiskey at July 4, 2008 10:34 AM:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021625.php#c555180

That whole thread

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021625.php

bears re-reading in conjunction with the discussion of Ali-Karamali's book.

And now for a member of Ms Ali-Karamali's academic fan-club, "Dr. Carole Hillenbrand, Professor of Islamic History at the University of Edinburgh".

Dr Carole Hillenbrand is not unknown here at jihadwatch.

"And who, you ask, is Professor Carole Hillenbrand? She became the first non-Muslim winner of the King Faisal Prize for "services to Islam," in 2005, for her book that tells the story of the Crusades "from the Muslim point of view."...

Posted by: Hugh at January 16, 2008 4:31 PM

Now click on this

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/005607.php

and scroll down to this,

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/005607.php#c80764

and this

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/005607.php#c80815

and then I think you will know all that you need to know about Professor Carole Hillenbrand of the University of Edinburgh, and you will know exactly how much credence to give to her glowing recommendation of Ms Ali-Karamali.

Here's the other jihadwatch/ dhimmiwatch discussion of Dr Carole Hillenbrand.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/004711.php

Be sure to scroll down and read all the comments, some are very useful - especially, of course, Mr Hugh Fitzgerald's scathing assessment.

Dr Carole Hillenbrand is a grovelling dhimmi, bought, sold, and paid for.

Listen guys -- all you American readers -- you must sit down and write to the publishers of this book, outlining thedamn lies. You should then threaten to go public with it citing headlines like "Book of Lies:Muslim writer misleads readers" etc. Get a journalist you know to do a piece on it. This is a good chance to catch one of them at it, in black and white. With enough fuss made, the book might go the same way as Norma Khouri's "Forbidden Love"

Great work Kamala! Why do these women who get educated in schools like Stanford try to be stealth jihadists? After knowing the women's rights (wrongs) written in Quran, how these women can still portray the religion as similar to Christianity or any other religion?

I doubt it, jewcat. Taqiyya is an industry. It has entire satellite channels and multi-million-dollar spokesmen. It's got people in government, in the media, and all over academia covering up the fact that Sharia-state imports are all unqualified to attend our universities an dimporting them en masse.

And yeah, DDA, her smile does creep me out, but not that much. It's fake voices that just make my skin crawl, and the fake little-girl voice disease seems to infect all Muslim women and even most apostates, no matter how educated, respectable, whatever. Wafa Sultan would be the exception to this. It doesn't seem to affect Arab Christians, but even Nonie Darwish and Ayaan Hirsi Ali do it. Then again, much as I love her, Ms. Ali never once identifies the real source of Islam's obsession with virginity in 'The Caged Virgin,' which I just finished (it's pedophilia and I was grossly disappointed to hear her de facto apologize for it). It's pandering to pedophilia and reducing oneself to subhumanity. A fake smile is more benign, as is her bad nosejob. Then again, I'm a sarcastic bitch.

Look forward to news of Dinesh D'Souza sporting a well-thumbed edition of her book around. I'll look forward to seeing it in the IUB library where Dr. Bostom's books should be.

Apparently Ali-Karamali was invited to speak at a public Palo Alto, CA High School students just this past Friday!

http://voice.paly.net/view_story.php?id=7495

So much for separation of church and state...

Here's an article about her talk:

http://voice.paly.net/view_story.php?id=7533

"What do Muslims really look like?" Ali-Karamali asked. "If you saw me walking on the street, would you think I was a Muslim?"

Ali-Karamali left this question up for consideration as she concluded her talk. Afterwards, Kellerman encouraged students to visit the library to find out more about books like The Muslim Next Door.

2. Which Islamic or Arabic scholars have translated the word "Islam" as "peace"?

POTUS/Commander-in-chief/Saudi-puppet: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html

So far it has 5 stars on Amazon and an astounding array of praises. I think we should all post a back-to-reality review to balance things off.

I wonder if the over-estimate of Muslims as 3% of the US population doesn't have something to do wit the fact that 3% is the usual figure for the percentage of Jews?

Young western Muslims deny Aysha's age no matter what the hadith say. Apparently Bukhari and Muslim are only authoritative when they are not embarrassing. My former professor Dr. al-Faruqi was not so squeamish as I blogged below:

Why Aisha is Important

“Dr. Al-Faruqi,” asked my I-refuse-to-be-a-dhimmi Jewish classmate one day when we were learning about the “ideal relationship” between the Prophet and his favorite wife, “Wasn’t Aisha only nine years old when Muhammad married her?”

It was the only time I ever saw my Professor look flustered. He cleared his throat a few times and then replied slowly, enunciating almost every word, “You must remember that in the Middle East women mature younger than in the West.”

Dr. Al-Faruqi knew Islam. Among his many academic achievements was the translation into English of Muhammad Haykal’s “The Life of Muhammad”. He was well aware of how old Aisha was when she left the swing at her mother’s home to go to the house of the Prophet where she and her friends played with dolls on his floor.

Thanks to the internet, you can now know almost as much about the child bride in a few minutes as Dr. Al-Faruqi learned in a lifetime. Just google “Aisha” or “Ayesha” and read the results. Information that was available about her in Arabic for over 1200 years is there for you to see. You can read the numerous hadith in the Sahih Al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim collections that refer to her engagement at the age of six and the consummation of the marriage three years later. You can read the stories about her swing and her dolls that I noted above.

Not only Dr. Al-Faruqi, but many other Islamic scholars regularly acknowledge the young age of Aisha. So why do modern, young, Western-educated Muslim writers such as Reza Aslan and Ed Husayn tell us differently? In “No god but God” Reza states that she “did not consummate her marriage to Muhammad until reaching puberty”. He gave no evidence for that conclusion, probably realizing that few of his Western readers would even question the assertion. In a London debate with Aayan Hirsi Ali, Ed addressed the issue as follows, “Something that you and others talk about repeatedly is that the Prophet married a girl who was nine years old. He didn’t, and I hope that somehow tonight it’s rectified and it’s not repeated again. In the Battle of Badr, which took place after the Prophet and his Companions moved to Medina from Mecca, Aisha took part in that battle. Those who took part in the battle were all adults, post-pubescent. There’s a very strong narrative to say that this girl, who the Prophet allegedly married, was not nine, but may very well have been post-pubescent, perhaps 15 or 16.”

Follow Ed’s thinking:
1. Aisha was at the Battle of Badr that occurred within a year or two of her marriage.
2. Only people fifteen or older could take part in Muhammad’s battles.
3. Aisha therefore must have been a young adult.

That is the logic of, “All bananas are yellow, this is yellow, so this is a banana.” The more unpalatable probability for Western Muslims to accept is that Aisha was at Badr not as a teenage Ninja warrior but as a much younger nighttime companion to her husband. She herself gives evidence of this in Ibn Ishaq’s “The Life of the Prophet”. On p. 494 he records Aisha saying, “When the apostle intended to go on an expedition, he cast lots between his wives which of them should accompany him. He did this on the occasion of the raid on Beni Al-Mustaliq and the lot fell on me, so the apostle took me out.” Aisha then went on to explain that in these situations the wives would not eat much, so they would not be overly heavy and a burden to the men who had to lift their howdah onto the camel. The clear image given is not of her and Muhammad’s other wives accompanying him as warriors, but as companions.

It’s easy to understand why Reza and Ed deny the young age of Aisha. Not being Muslim, I’m not sure what they think of a 54-year old religious Prophet ejaculating into a nine-year old girl, but they certainly know that it makes many Western non-Muslims feel very uncomfortable

First of all, how many people have muslim neighbors? This lying, deceitful muslima failed to mention that muslims flock together, far away from the prying eyes and evil influence of infidels. They huddle together in secluded enclaves, often obscured with high fences and security guards, which are re-creations of typical Middle Eastern or Somalian environs. In their isolated religious enclaves, muslims pretend that they are still in their beloved homelands and live as if they were, begging the question: why do they leave?

In the rare instances that muslims do not join the local islamic commune and instead live in a regular neighborhood, they usually keep entirely to themselves and are probably doing surveillance work for a future terror attack. I realize that previous ethnic groups established enclaves in large cities but they learned English and began assimilating immediately instead of remaining completely detached from mainstream society like muslims.

This book, and others like it, are the anodyne many seek to assuage their fears or reinforce their beliefs that islam is harmless, just another religion. The author has the requisite credentials and the perfect demeanor to deceive the fools who buy this book. As typical in islamic apologist screeds, what is omitted speaks volumes but the average reader won't know that and won't take the time to find out. She is even more dangerous than the islamic scholars and other spokemen for islam because she appears Westernized, has a Western education, and understands the ethos of her target audience. She is as deadly as a rattlesnake.

I live in Silicon Valley, a few miles south of Stanford University. I've lived in this area for most of the past forty years. I was one of the 40% of this area who voted for Arnold and was rediculed for it in discussions. You know...this area is very inlightened...and I must be a neanderthal. The other day at one of the area's watering holes where the valley intelligentsia congregates I was castigated for rendering a mildly skeptical opinion about Obama. The guy stood up, called me an idiot over and over again and almost frothed at the mouth. Mind you this is one of those tolerant liberal multicultis that espouses broad acceptance of everything...and everything is beautiful. Unless, of course, you have a differing opinion.

So, if the author from Stanford writes a much lauded book full of warm and fuzzies about Islam whether founded in fact, or not, should be no surprise. After all...whoever disagrees is of lower intelligence!

Il Toscano

Women in the Middle East do not mature earlier. First of all, prior to Islamization, Arabs were white, as white as Greeks or Sicilians, so it's not a racial argument, which would be false anyway. What causes women to mature younger is eating food with hormones in it and being overweight. Secondly, Africans don't mature younger, but black Americans, who are by and large overweight, do. Thirdly, given the diet back then and there it is unlikely that girls would experience menarche before 17 or 18 at the earliest. He was a pedophile. He lusted after a baby in a diaper.

'In the rare instances that muslims do not join the local islamic commune and instead live in a regular neighborhood, they usually keep entirely to themselves and are probably doing surveillance work for a future terror attack.

That's exactly how I think about the one house with jilbabed/hijabed women now living on our street. And yes, curtains are always drawn, the back-yard is "veiled" from view, securely gated and locked, and one rarely catches glimpses of them coming or going.

Creepy.