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Iraqi Christian: Islamic State jihadis blinded me after I refused to convert to Islam

Aug 8, 2015 10:02 am By Robert Spencer

islamic-state-topic-original-1407866105The  Qur’an says that “there is no compulsion in religion,” (2:256), but what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the journalists who were kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam — even though their conversions were obviously coerced, their captors made them say that they were converting freely, and the captors probably believed that themselves. After all, the journos could have chosen to be killed instead.

“Iraqi Christian: IS militants blinded me after I refused to convert to Islam,” MCN, August 7, 2015:

Iraqi Christian Mokhls Youssef Batk was blinded by IS militants after he refused to convert to Islam, he told MCN…

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  1. ich says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 10:14 am

    why not just go along with it , use their own tricks against them

    learn to lie

    Then work on making them all a “nice” dinner

    Bye bye losers

    • Erik says

      Aug 9, 2015 at 6:03 pm

      It’s called taqiyya.

  2. Angemon says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 11:05 am

    Iraqi Christian Mokhls Youssef Batk was blinded by IS militants after he refused to convert to Islam, he told MCN

    I can imagine how him asking for refuge in the US would go:

    – “I’d like to apply for a refugee status”
    – “Sure thing. What’s your story?”
    – “A bunch of terrorists came into my house and demanded I changed my religion to theirs. I refused and they blinded me. ”
    – “That’s terrible. Damn Christian extremists…”
    – “No, I’m Christian”. The terrorists wanted me to convert to islam.”
    – “You don’t say… Well, that’s all we need to know, we’ll let you know of our decision.”
    – “How soon?”
    – “Eventually.”
    – “Is there some sort of refugee cam in the US where I can stay while I wait?”
    – “NO! Go back to wherever you came from, inf… kuf…, erm, ‘applicant’, and wait there!”

    • Falsafa says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 5:18 pm

      The Byzantines used to blind and maim deposed emperors and their blood lines so that they would not be a future threat and retake their throne…oh wait could it be that the this barbarity which is being reported here have its roots in Greek Orthodox Christianity? Such traditions which must have lingered in former Byzantine lands of the Levant may be a better explanation than the spin in this Spencer article which is thrown at the anti muslim mob for their usual daily freeding frenzy! go for it ladies and gents…knock yourselves out!

      • Angemon says

        Aug 8, 2015 at 5:25 pm

        Alfalfa posted:

        “The Byzantines used to blind and maim deposed emperors and their blood lines so that they would not be a future threat and retake their throne”

        Do tell us what Turkish sultans did to their brothers after being elected… Also, it’s outright stated that the guy was blinded by a muslim because he refused to convert to islam – whatever Byzantine emperors did, or not, is irrelevant.

        “oh wait could it be that the this barbarity which is being reported here have its roots in Greek Orthodox Christianity?”

        Are you going to quote scriptures or just toss the idea and hope it sticks? Also, it’s outright stated that the guy was blinded by a muslim because he refused to convert to islam – whatever Byzantine emperors did, or not, is irrelevant.

        “Such traditions which must have lingered in former Byzantine lands of the Levant may be a better explanation than the spin in this Spencer article which is thrown at the anti muslim mob for their usual daily freeding frenzy!”

        Except that it’s outright stated that the guy was blinded by a muslim because he refused to convert to islam – whatever Byzantine emperors did, or not, is irrelevant.

        • Falsafa says

          Aug 8, 2015 at 5:38 pm

          yes ofcourse one can not link byzantine practices to current day barbarity in Syria…the point is that these barbarities committed are criminal acts! so stop spinning this stuff to Relilgion/Faith…your attempts to do so does not resonate beyond the Spencer fan club and will remain so. “there is no compulsion in religion” how may ways do want that to be sliced and diced and rewritten so that you understand?

        • Angemon says

          Aug 8, 2015 at 5:52 pm

          Alfalfa posted:

          “yes ofcourse one can not link byzantine practices to current day barbarity in Syria…”

          Did the Byzantines ever blinded someone for not converting to islam?

          “the point is that these barbarities committed are criminal acts!”

          Yes – and they’re being committed by muslims spreading their religion.

          “so stop spinning this stuff to Relilgion/Faith…”

          Let’s see: “Iraqi Christian Mokhls Youssef Batk was blinded by IS militants after he refused to convert to Islam”

          How am I “spinning” anything in that? A muslim asked a Christian to convert to islam. The Christian refused and the muslim punished him by blinding him.

          “your attempts to do so does not resonate beyond the Spencer fan club and will remain so”

          Again, I never attempted to spin anything – the news spells it out as it is.

          ““there is no compulsion in religion” how may ways do want that to be sliced and diced and rewritten so that you understand?”

          Shouldn’t you be preaching that to you correligionists in the IS? You know, the people trying to force others to convert to their religion… Oh, wait, that verse was abrogated by the verse of the sword…

        • Falsafa says

          Aug 8, 2015 at 6:07 pm

          isis, isil is not my problem…its an american problem which is a direct result of their wars in iraq…stick people in a prison like abu graib and they wont appreciate you very much for it….religion and hate are powerfuly destructive combinations…which isis is using for their perversions…

        • Angemon says

          Aug 8, 2015 at 6:30 pm

          Alfalfa posted:

          “isis, isil is not my problem…its an american problem which is a direct result of their wars in iraq…”

          Most of the people they’re killing are not Americans, and they’re basing their legitimacy on islamic scripture.

          “stick people in a prison like abu graib and they wont appreciate you very much for it….”

          Did bin Laden planned 9/11 as vengeance for being arrested by Americans in Abu Graib? How about the somalis taken in as refugees? And all the muslims worldwide who had a nice life but still decided to forsake and join jihad in Syria and Iraq, on the caliphate, which they see as legitimate.

          No, the islamic state is an off-shot of the muslim brotherhood, who was created precisely to reinstate a caliphate, after it being dismantled by Atatürk. Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the MB, stated that “islam is a perfect system of social organization, which encompasses all the affairs of life”, and therefore it must be the basis for all legislation. Which is exactly what we’re seeing in the islamic state.

          “religion and hate are powerfuly destructive combinations…”

          Islam teaches to hate – no need to combine it with anything else.

          “which isis is using for their perversions…”

          Nope. The islamic state is following standard sunni islam.

        • Westman says

          Aug 8, 2015 at 6:34 pm

          Falsa(false), yes that seems about right. Let’s try the truth on for size.

          The Hadith you quote is subtrefuge, being 3 narrators removed from Muhammad. Let’s look at something more direct:

          “And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful. ” Quran[9:5]

          “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.” Quran[5:29]

          And there are more. We are a bit tired of hiyal, taqiyya or whatever name you prefer for deception. It is still lying. Either you are poorly read in the basic scriptures of your religion, taught deceptively, or a deceiver.

          There is much compulsion in Islam ranging from jizya to death.

          Dad: Son, now you’re older we should talk about your committment to Islam.

          Son: OK.

          Dad: Your mother and I whispered the Shahada in your ear since you were a child and you have been saying it since you could talk. Do you understand what it means?

          Son: Yes, it means Allah is the only God and and Muhammad was his messenger, the last prophet.

          Dad: Then you are a Muslim and if you leave Islam, the penalty is death, by me, a neighbor or a Sharia court.

          Son: What? When did I get this choice?

          Dad: There is no compulsion in Islam.

          Sure ‘nuf.

        • voegelinian says

          Aug 8, 2015 at 6:45 pm

          Falsafa says

          August 8, 2015 at 5:38 pm

          “there is no compulsion in religion” how may ways do want that to be sliced and diced and rewritten so that you understand?

          How about we let Muhammad (SAW… get it? 🙂 ) himself slice and dice it:

          Muhammad says, “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.”

          Those words are recorded in the most canonical hadith collection, Sahih al-Bukhari, 9.84.57.

          http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/084-sbt.php#009.084.057

          Various other canonical hadiths also attest that Muhammad called for death to those who leave Islam. That’s why even today all the schools of Islamic law prescribe death for apostasy from Islam.

      • Jack Diamond says

        Aug 8, 2015 at 5:34 pm

        No, more like how Muhammad treated the men of the ‘Ukil “he ordered for nails which were heated and passed over their eyes, and they were left in the Harra (i.e. rocky land in Medina). They asked for water, and nobody provided them with water till they died (Abu Qilaba, a sub-narrator said, “They committed murder and theft and fought against Allah and His Apostle, and spread evil in the land.”) (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 261). Of course execution, crucifixion and mutilation are called for in sura 5:33 so maybe they were just letting him off easy.

      • Wellington says

        Aug 8, 2015 at 7:54 pm

        You miss the biggest picture of all. Here it is, Falsafa: When Christians did terrible things, even in the name of their faith, they were always violating the theological blueprint of their faith, which calls for no violence to be committed in this world in the name of Christianity. By contrast, so many times when Muslims commit terrible actions in the name of their religion, for instance “slaying the idolater wherever you find him” {Sura 9:5}, they are fulfilling a major tenet of their faith’s theological blueprint.

        HUGE DIFFERENCE!. Couldn’t be any bigger. Wise up, doofus.

        • Joseph says

          Aug 9, 2015 at 3:04 am

          Well put Wellington, by Fartsmella’s logic Mo and his cohorts slaughtered Jews 1400 years ago so Israel has every right to nuke them into oblivion today.

        • Jean Terry says

          Aug 9, 2015 at 3:59 pm

          You are so right. That is the difference between Christianity and the Muslim religion. I guess there are those who are Muslims who don’t believe in this part or think it was for the past? To me it is hard to trust any Muslim because of this. There are many coming to Christ these days, which is a reason to rejoice.

      • Greyhound Fancier says

        Aug 8, 2015 at 9:55 pm

        The Byzantine Emperors could not claim to have followed the example of Jesus when they acted violently. Jesus did nothing but good for others. If you do as Jesus did to others, you’ll never harm anyone, and will do a great deal of good for others.

        Mohammad, on the other hand, gave the personal example of barbarity, mass murder, rape, pillage, pedophilia, torture, and oppression of those who didn’t see him as a “prophet”. Because the pedophile prophet’s followers are asked to consider the creep the perfect man, they are encouraged to do as he did. What a deal – kill, main, rape, rob, pillage, all as a religious duty (therefore guilt and judgment-free).

        • Joseph says

          Aug 9, 2015 at 3:07 am

          Well put also Greyhound Fancier.

      • Buraq says

        Aug 9, 2015 at 4:50 am

        @ Falafel

        You’re a red-nosed, wire-wigged, baggy-trousered clown! IS blinded someone because they wouldn’t convert to the most barbaric belief system ever unleashed on planet Earth. Got it?

        You’re the one who is blind!!

      • Linde Barrera says

        Aug 9, 2015 at 10:22 am

        To Falsafa- The Christian Crusades in the 11th century were a direct response to the demonic actions of the Seljuk Turks from eastern Turkey who swept down into Jerusalam, abusing and killing Christians in Jerusalem. The Crusaders also tried to make a way that was violence-free for Christian pilgrimages to Jerusalem, the Christian holy land. Anjem Choudhary said that the only time there was peace in Europe during the centuries when Muslims were in Spain was when the Muslims and the non-Muslims were living under Sharia law. But he got it wrong, as usual. If the Muslims in Spain were not bothering the non-Muslims, then the Christians and Jews weren’t bothering them. But Christians and Jews fought back if they were being attacked. So it had nothing to do with Sharia law. Twisting the truth is always an Islamist option.

      • JIMJFOX says

        Aug 10, 2015 at 3:00 am

        Nothing like a bit of Muslim moral relativism. But then, two wrongs make a right has always been fine with the religion of peace. Or ANY NUMBER of wrongs, for that matter.

        The Muslim mind [such as it is] is a wonderfully ‘flexible’ organ…

      • pete salveininI says

        Aug 10, 2015 at 3:51 pm

        The origin of this practice is obviously pagan that preceded Christianity, as was the pagan origin of empires. Christianity gradually civilized and eliminated this and other immoral practices by preaching and teaching love of even enemies, forgiveness, humility, etc and had EXEMPLARY examples called SAINTS to show how to do it.(e.g. observe how the Norsemen were turned into civilized Norwegians through first Catholicism.)
        Islam has had 1400 years to get rid of these evils, BUT IT CAN NOT ACCOMPLISH THAT SINCE FROM THE BEGINNING IT INSISTS ON A STATE OF WAR BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND NON MUSLIMS. Jihad was the last testament of Muhammad. The only school of Islam that is NOT buying into the two camps of war and islam are the Sufis, who discovered the Syriac monks in Mesopotamia that one can LOVE God. But then there are only about 30million of them and they are considered heretics for the very idea that love has anything to do with Islam.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 11:06 am

    This heinous action of evil of blinding a Christian man is one of many of the ISIS vicious murderous behavior against Christians. This has been exposed by many sources. As the author Johnniie Moore in his book DEFYING ISIS on page 30 wrote about the wicked and warped thinking and ways of the ISIS fiends.For it reads “They sincerely believe they are doing justice by ridding the word of another generation of Christians.” This is a wicked ,warped ,sick and deluded as a mindset that any person can have. Nevertheless that they way the ISIS villains think. They actually view evil as “good.” Such an outrageous thing as this brings to mind the what the Bible teaches .For it reads “Woe to those to call evil good and good evil…” Isaiah 5:20. This insane evil also is a reminder that the Bible teaches in Ecclesiastes 9:3. “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live ,and afterwards they join the dead.” [N.I.V.] Moreover, the Mr. Moore had, as seen above, wrote about the callous character of ISIS that “They sincerely believe…” This exposes the folly and foolishness of the total falseness of the statement that I once saw a young man wearing on a tee -shirt.. The falsehood of statement was “It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you sincere” That saying is outrageously false. It had been proven false by both the actions of the ISIS fiends as well as by the teachings of Jesus ,John 14:6.

  4. abad says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 11:21 am

    Muslims are possessed by Satan – and that is Satan’s plan, to inhabit as many of his devout believers as possible in the End Times. Revelations 20

    • Charli Main says

      Aug 9, 2015 at 2:30 am

      The filth of islam is a bottomless pit of hate. Every vile and evil corruption imaginable to the mind, is sanctioned by islam as “holy and pleasing to allah”.
      islam is truly the invention of a satanically inspired mind.

  5. Jack Diamond says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 11:48 am

    Compulsion, coercion, submission have something to do with Islam? Only if you are applying intellect, reason and logic, which would be very un-Islamic of you.

    Ibn Hisham, “Biography of the Apostle” p.34 Muhammad sent Khalid Ibn al-Walid to the tribe of the children of Haritha and told him “Call them to accept Islam before you fight with them…if they refuse
    fight them”…they entered Islam by force. (Khalid brought them to Muhammad, who said) “had you not accepted Islam I would have cast your heads under your feet.” But no compulsion in religion.

    In “The Ordinances of Qur’an” (page 50 pt 2), Imam al-Shafi’i says: “The Apostle of God defeated the people until they entered Islam by hook or by crook.” By hook or by crook means exactly that. It should also be kept in mind that ultimately, dar al-harb has no right to exist.

    Islam gave but three options to infidels, embrace Islam or be fought and killed, or if people with a Book, live subjugated (and “humbled”) and pay jizay. The third choice had everything to do with kaffirs being a source of revenue and it was entirely conditional. Even on the technicality that Islam doesn’t force People of the Book to convert (right now) but only to live under Islamic law (therefore there is no compulsion of religion) things are not quite as they seem. So, Muslims making Steve Centanni profess Islam (and to say he does so freely) can invoke this from their own model of conduct:

    “When Muhammad and his followers were about to attack Mecca to subjugate it to Islam, his adherents arrested Abu Sufyan, one of Mecca’s inhabitants. They brought him to Muhammad. Muhammad told him: “Woe to you, O Abu Sufyan. Is it not time for you to realize that there is no God but the only God?” Abu Sufyan answered: “I do believe that.” Muhammad then said to him: “Woe to you, O Abu Sufyan. Is it not time for you to know that I am the apostle of God?” Abu Sufyan answered: “By God, O Muhammad, of this there is doubt in my soul.” The ’Abbas who was present with Muhammad told Abu Sufyan: “Woe to you! Accept Islam and testify that Muhammad is the apostle of God before your neck is cut off by the sword.” Thus he professed the faith of Islam and became a Muslim.”
    –Ibn Hisham, part 4, p. 11 (“Biography of the Prophet’); “The Chronicle of the Tabari”, part 2, p. 157;
    Ibn Kathir, “The Prophetic Biography”, part 3, p. 549, and “The Beginning and the End”

    The late and unlamented Dr. Muhammad al-Buti in “The Jurisprudence of Muhammad’s Biography” says this about that:

    “It may be said, ‘What is the value of a faith in Islam which is a result of a threat? Abu Sufyan, one moment ago, was not a believer, then he believed after he was threatened by death.’ We say to those who question: ‘What is required of an infidel or the one who confuses other gods with God, is to have his tongue surrender to the religion of God and to subdue himself to the prophethood of Muhammad. But his heartfelt faith is not required at the beginning. It will come later.”

    Making the tongue confess is not the same as making the heart believe. Therefore, it is not compulsion of religion. More crook at work.

    • Jack Diamond says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 12:11 pm

      Offensive War to Spread Islam
      http://www.answering-islam.org/BehindVeil/btv2.html

    • ECAW says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 12:19 pm

      Thanks for those highly incriminating quotes.

  6. Beth says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 1:26 pm

    I can not imagine what that man must be going through. To lose your eyesight would be a very hard adjustment. I admire him for his courage. And there I no doubt for me, that such a one would be found worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven.

    Eternal Death awaits the perpetrators. If Hell really did exist – then there would always be room for hope – because one would have to be alive to even know they’re in Hell. But the Bible preaches different. It says eternal death to those who do such things – and that all memory of them eventually perishes. I can’t think of a worse punishment (and more just).

  7. Fr. Basil says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 1:32 pm

    The Lord Jesus Christ said, “The time will come when those who kill you think they do God service.”

    Could He have been talking about today?

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 5:28 pm

      Yes . . . and the previous 1400 years . . .

  8. mortimer says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 3:24 pm

    No Compulsion when Muslims are Weak

    “No compulsion in religion” is strictly a one way affair. You are not compelled by an oath to stay in any non-Islamic religion, hence you may break an oath that impedes your conversion to Islam. However, once you are a Muslim, you are compelled to remain in Islam.

    At the time of the verse, Muhammad was still relatively weak in numbers and power. He could not use force to bring non-believers to Islam. This verse sought to give God’s sanction that it was acceptable to bread an oath to leave a religion and come to Islam, going in ‘the right direction’ as he puts it. However, not too long after this, we find Muhammad as a warlord commanding armies that would bring terror to those who did not accept his message. He frequently uses terrorism and death threats to force people to join Islam against their will.

    Compelling people to join Islam is normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

  9. Jaladhi says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 9:44 pm

    ISIS is purely Islamic and purely evil no matter how hard the Western leaders lie to distance Islam from ISIS or ISIL Western leaders pretend to be experts on Islam while pronouncing Islam , oh the peaceful religion of Islam has nothing in common with them. I don’t know who is buying these totally stupid pronouncements – not Muslims, they laugh at our moronic, stupid leaders and encourage them to keep on saying the same. And lefty libtard MSN join them in their quest to shield Islam.

  10. Jay Boo says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 9:47 pm

    Devil’s advocate
    I kind of feel sorry for the poor delusional Muzzies
    They are caught up in their Muzzie madness..
    I can only imagine the bitter emptiness eating at the core of their poor souls day after day knowing that they can never wash away the filthy stain of Muhammad’s unmitigated disgrace. Instead they must latch on to their self-indulgent pretentiousness like an addict searching in desperation for a next fix.
    No wonder Muslim men carry butcher knives under their Islamic dresses.

    • Charli Main says

      Aug 9, 2015 at 2:35 am

      Infected from birth with the islamo–rabies virus.

  11. Bill Williams says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 10:51 am

    The Muslim religion is a purely Satanic religion. Allah is Satan, plain and simple. These demonic bastards in Hamas, ISIS and any other evil outcrop of that lying bastard Mohammad are just Satans tools.

  12. bill walker says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 4:30 pm

    It is so sad that so many people are willing to kill anyone who doesn’t believe as THEY do.

  13. Uncle Vladdi says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 6:54 pm

    Islam is nothing more or less than the crime of extortion enshrined as “law.”

    In fact, all of the main official sharia manuals like the Hedaya have entire chapters devoted to describing the parameters of legalized “Usurpation” and “Compulsion.”

    After all, Muhammad was really only a con-man and bandit-king, an arch-criminal who always blamed “god” for his own penchant for committing crimes. If Moe got away with committing a crime (and he tried them all, enthusiastically, more than once, but instead of ever showing contrition, bragged about how much fun it was to commit them, and advised everyone else to join in the fun, too), then it was held to be “obvious” that “god” wanted him to get away with having committed those crimes!

    Here’s islam’s “holy Message from god” as exemplified by the collective words and deeds of it’s Founder:

    “I will save humanity by lying to, extorting, torturing, robbing, burning out of their homes, kidnapping and ransoming, enslaving, raping and murdering everyone who even only verbally disagrees with me – and you can, too!”

    – Muhammad –

  14. nasem says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    Diffrences between Jesus and Muhammad.
    Muhammad:
    Said Allah does not love
    those who reject Islam.

    (Qur’an 30:45, 3:32, 22:38)

    Jesus:
    Said God loves everyone. 
    (John 3:16)

    Muhammad:
    “I have been commanded to fight
    against people till they testify that there
     is no god but Allah, and that Muhammad
     is the messenger of Allah”
    (Muslim 1:33)

    Jesus:
    “He who lives by the sword
    will die by the sword.”
    (Matthew 26:52)

    Muhammad:
    Stoned women for adultery.
    (Muslim 4206)

    Jesus:
    “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
    (John 8:7)

    Muhammad:
    Permitted stealing from unbelievers.
    (Bukhari 44:668, Ibn Ishaq 764)

    Jesus:
    “Thou shalt not steal.”
    (Matthew 19:18)

    Muhammad:
    Permitted lying.
    (Sahih Muslim 6303, Bukhari 49:857)

    Jesus:
    “Thou shalt not bear false witness.”
    (Matthew 19:18)

    Muhammad:
    Owned and traded slaves.
    (Sahih Muslim 3901)

    Jesus:
    Neither owned nor traded slaves.

    Muhammad:
    Beheaded 800 Jewish men and boys.
    (Abu Dawud 4390)

    Jesus:
    Beheaded no one.

    Muhammad:
    Murdered those who insulted him.
    (Bukhari 56:369, 4:241)

    Jesus:
    Preached forgiveness.
    (Matthew 18:21-22, 5:38)

    Muhammad:
    “If then anyone transgresses
    the prohibition against you,
    Transgress ye likewise against him”
    (Qur’an 2:194)

    Jesus:
    “If someone strikes you on the right
    cheek, turn to him the other also.”
    (Matthew 5:39)

    Muhammad:
    jihad in the way of Allah elevates one’s position in Paradise by a hundred fold.
    (Muslim 4645)

    Jesus:
    “Blessed are the peacemakers, for
    they will be called Sons of God”
    (Matthew 5:9)

    Muhammad:
    Married 13 wives and kept sex slaves.
    (Bukhari 5:268, Qur’an 33:50)

    Jesus:
    Was celibate.

    Muhammad:
    Slept with a 9-year-old child.
    (Sahih Muslim 3309, Bukhari 58:236)

    Jesus:
    Did not have sex with children.

    Muhammad:
    Ordered the murder of women.
    (Ibn Ishaq 819, 995)

    Jesus:
    Never harmed a woman. 

    Muhammad:
    O you who believe!  Fight those of the
     unbelievers who are near to you
    and let them find in you hardness.”
    (Qur’an 9:123)

    Jesus:
    Blessed are the meek, for
    they shall inherit the earth.”
    (Matthew 5:5)

    Muhammad:
    Ordered 65 military campaigns
    and raids in his last 10 years.
    (Ibn Ishaq )

    Jesus:
    Ordered no military campaigns, nor
    offered any approval of war or violence. 

    Muhammad:
    Killed captives taken in battle.
    (Ibn Ishaq 451)

    Jesus:
    Never took captives.
    Never killed anyone.

    Muhammad:
    Encouraged his men to rape enslaved women.
    (Abu Dawood 2150, Qur’an 4:24)

    Jesus:
    Never encouraged rape.
    Never enslaved women. 

    Muhammad:
    Demanded captured slaves and
    a fifth of all other loot taken in war.
    (Qur’an 8:41)

    Jesus:
    “The Son of Man came not
    to be served, but to serve.”
    (Matthew 20:28)

    Muhammad:
    Was never tortured, but tortured others.
    (Muslim 4131, Ibn Ishaq 436, 595, 734, 764)

    Jesus:
    Suffered torture, but never tortured anyone.

    Muhammad:
    “And fight them until there is no more persecution and religion is only for Allah”
    (Qur’an 8:39)

    Jesus:
    “Love your enemies and pray
    for those who persecute you”
    (Matthew 5:44)

    Muhammad:
    Blessed the brutal murder of a half-blind man
    (al-Tabari 1440)

    Jesus:
    Healed a blind man
    (Mark 8:28)

    Muhammad:
    Ordered a slave to build the very pulpit
    from which he preached Islam.
    (Bukhari 47:743)

    Jesus:
    Washed his disciples feet.
    (John 13:5)

    Muhammad:
    What are the Greatest Commandments?
    “Belief in Allah and Jihad in His cause”
    (Muslim 1:149)

    Jesus:
    What are the Greatest Commandments?
    “Love God and love thy neighbor as thyself.”
    (Matthew 22:34-40)

    Muhammad:
    Demanded the protection of armed bodyguards, even in a house of worship
    (Qur’an 4:102)

    Jesus:
    Chastised anyone attempting
    to defend him with force.
    (John 18:10-12)

    Muhammad:
    Advocated crucifying others.
    (Qur’an 5:33, Muslim 16:4131)

    Jesus:
    Was crucified himself.

    Muhammad:
    According to his followers:
    Had others give their lives for him.
    (Sahih Muslim 4413)

    Jesus:
    According to his followers:
    Gave his life for others.
    (John 18:11 and elsewhere)

  15. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 10, 2015 at 12:26 am

    Intentional maiming of children, blinding, amputations and so on; should be put on par with the murder of adults when bringing to trial Jihad criminals.

  16. medaber_emet says

    Aug 10, 2015 at 2:08 am

    Islam is a disease that the western world must eradicate now before it will be too late

  17. JIMJFOX says

    Aug 10, 2015 at 3:11 am

    Oh you horrible bigoted racist Islamophobes!

    Imam Mufti Sheikh Barry Soetero Hussein [Mohammed?] Obama
    tells you repeatedly it’s “Nothing to do with Islam” and still you
    persist with your lies and hatred against the Noble Koran, the
    Prophet of Islam PBUH and the beautiful Religion of Peace.

    How COULD you???

    • Peggy says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 1:11 am

      Prophet of Islam PBUH and the beautiful Religion of Peace.

      Does PBUH stand for peace be upon him or piss be upon him?

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