This article is more ridiculous than most. Muhammad loved dates, melons and cucumbers and that’s supposed to make Muslims less susceptible to “extremist propaganda”? His non-snoring blowing sound while sleeping is supposed to make Muslims “emphasize charity and respect for other faiths”?
“Hassan argues that if Muslims had more knowledge of how the Prophet Muhammad actually lived and what he taught, they would be less vulnerable to extremist propaganda. Counterterrorism officials — who’ve focused largely on surveillance, sting operations and community policing — would have more success countering extremism, he says, if they supported efforts to deepen religious literacy among young Muslims.”
Yeah? Hard to see how following this man’s example could make someone less vulnerable to “extremist propaganda” — maybe Hassan Lachheb can explain it:
“Narrated Abu Qilaba: Anas said, ‘Some people of ‘Ukl or ‘Uraina tribe came to Medina and its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they went as directed and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away all the camels. The news reached the Prophet early in the morning and he sent (men) in their pursuit and they were captured and brought at noon. He then ordered to cut their hands and feet (and it was done), and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron, They were put in ‘Al-Harra’ and when they asked for water, no water was given to them.’ Abu Qilaba said, ‘Those people committed theft and murder, became infidels after embracing Islam and fought against Allah and His Apostle.’” (Bukhari 1.4.234)
This article is patently disingenuous, because it purports to show Muhammad being an example of charity and respect for other faiths, while never showing how the hadiths actually depict Muhammad behaving toward people of other faiths. So if Hassan Lachheb won’t do it, I will. Much more below.
“Fighting Extremism With Knowledge: Learning The Lessons Of Muhammad,” by Tom Gjelten, NPR, March 10, 2016:
The religion of Islam was founded by Muhammad, the 7th century prophet whom Muslims call “the messenger of God.”
They don’t consider him divine, but they follow his teachings closely. Good Muslims are taught to emulate the prophet in all matters, personal, spiritual and worldly.
Perhaps no time in recent history has it been more important to do as the Prophet Muhammad did — and not as someone says he did.
With terror groups like ISIS now invoking his name, many Muslim leaders say radicals who cite the prophet to justify violence misrepresent his teachings.
Some Muslim leaders argue that young Muslims need a firmer grounding in their own faith and the prophetic tradition, both to equip them better to counter religious propagandists and also to bind them more closely to Islam.
Most of what is known about how Muhammad lived is set down in the Hadith, which consist of recollections of the prophet’s life by his companions, first passed on orally and later put down in writing. Taken together, they constitute what Muslims call the “tradition.”
One effort to promote religious literacy among young Muslims is the CelebrateMercy initiative. Sheikh Hassan Lachheb, a Moroccan-born Islamic scholar from Knoxville, Tenn. — along with a slate of guest speakers — conducts a series of lectures around the country, titled “Portrait of a Prophet.”
He reads selections from the Hadith, some of them apparently mundane stories about how Muhammad lived, and explains what young Muslims can learn from them….
Even what seems like the most trivial detail — what kind of sandal he wore, for instance — serves a purpose: humanizing Muhammad, making it easier for Muslims to emulate him.
Hassan argues that if Muslims had more knowledge of how the Prophet Muhammad actually lived and what he taught, they would be less vulnerable to extremist propaganda. Counterterrorism officials — who’ve focused largely on surveillance, sting operations and community policing — would have more success countering extremism, he says, if they supported efforts to deepen religious literacy among young Muslims.
He cites the abundance of examples from the Hadith that emphasize charity and respect for other faiths.
The tradition associated with the Prophet Muhammad, Hassan says, “has never been radicalized and has always produced beauty, always produced involvement in the community, always produced tolerance.”
Here are a few examples of Muhammad’s tolerance that apparently went unmentioned:
“‘A’isha and Abdullah reported: As the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) was about to breathe his last, he drew his sheet upon his face and when he felt uneasy, he uncovered his face and said in that very state: Let there be curse upon the Jews and the Christians that they have taken the graves of their apostles as places of worship. He in fact warned (his men) against what they (the Jews and the Christians) did.” (Sahih Muslim 1082)
“It has been narrated by ‘Umar b. al-Khattib that he heard the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) say: I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim.” (Sahih Muslim 4366)
“Narrated Abu Hurayrah: The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: There is no prophet between me and him, that is, Jesus (peace be upon him). He will descent (to the earth). When you see him, recognise him: a man of medium height, reddish fair, wearing two light yellow garments, looking as if drops were falling down from his head though it will not be wet. He will fight the people for the cause of Islam. He will break the cross, kill swine, and abolish jizyah. Allah will perish all religions except Islam. He will destroy the Antichrist and will live on the earth for forty years and then he will die. The Muslims will pray over him.” (Sunan Abu Dawood 4310)
“If you’re bypassing all of that to come with a political solution (to extremism),” Hassan says, “I don’t think it’s going to work.”
And if you’re bypassing all of Muhammad’s violent behavior and attempting to convince people that he was tolerant, it may work among the Infidels, but not among the Muslims who are familiar with what the Hadiths really say about Muhammad.
Below are a few lessons from the life of Muhammad.
The Lifestyle Of The ProphetAmong Muhammad’s favorite foods were dates, melon and cucumbers. He enjoyed cool, sweet drinks, including a type of date juice, often mixed with milk and honey. His followers often brought him food from their gardens. He always sent them home with a gift in return.
The prophet is said to have had a thick head of hair and wore it long. It was gray on the sides, and like many men he oiled it with a henna-like product that gave it a reddish tint. The streets were often filled with dust and to keep his oiled hair protected, he often wore a scarf on his head, like a bandanna.
Before going to sleep each night, the prophet would blow on his hands. Even in his sleep, he could be heard blowing. It was not a snoring sound. He normally slept on his right side.A group of young Muslim friends in Washington, D.C., meets occasionally to support each other in their work and discuss the struggles their community faces.
The Significance
The Hadith contain many narrations about the Prophet Muhammad’s personal appearance and habits. Muslims are encouraged to learn about these apparently trivial aspects of his story, because it helps them feel more connected to him.
“One of the things we’re taught is that we should love the prophet, not just intellectually but experientially,” says Dalia Mogahed, a guest speaker at a Celebrate Mercy course held in Maryland recently. “How do we do that without detailed information – the way he walked, the way, he stood, the way he looked. It’s about imagining who he was.”…
Sheikh Hassan uses the story of the prophet’s aversion to profanity to tell his students that “obscenity is not cool. We have to teach our children this,” he said. “I’m sorry, but I’m talking from experience in the immigrant community. Too many think it’s cool to say stuff like the N-word. It’s not fun. We have to combat it. We do have racism in our community.”
Obscenity: “Ubayy b. Ka’b told that he heard God’s messenger say, ‘If anyone proudly asserts his descent in the manner of the pre-Islamic people, tell him to bite his father’s penis, and do not use a euphemism.’ It is transmitted in Sarah [sic] as-sunna.” (Mishkat Al Masabih, English Translation With Explanatory Notes By Dr. James Robson [Sh. Muhammad Ashraf Publishers, Booksellers & Exporters, Lahore, Pakistan, Reprinted 1994], Volume II, Book XXIV — General Behaviour, Chapter XIII. Boasting and Party-Spirit, p. 1021)
Racism: “Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, ‘Listen and obey (your chief) even if an Ethiopian whose head is like a raisin were made your chief.'” (Sahih Bukhari 1.11.662)
A Lesson On Inclusion And Politics
When Muhammad moved to Medina from Mecca, he found it to be a far more cosmopolitan city, with a large and thriving Jewish community. In Medina, the prophet followed many Jewish habits, even if they differed from what the Muslims did. The Jews, for example, wore their hair in a distinctive style, and the prophet changed his hair style in Medina to match theirs.
The Significance
The Prophet Muhammad “wanted the Jews to feel close,” Hassan, the sheikh, says. “They were ‘People of the Book,’ (from the Abrahamic tradition and whose beliefs are based on a holy text).”
Elaborating on the story, Mogahed — who studies Muslim-American communities as director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding — says it showed the prophet “wanted to lessen the barrier between Muslims and Jews. He wanted to connect with them.”…
He wanted the Jews to feel close. He wanted to connect with them:
“Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim 6985)

Angemon says
Oh, yeah, he connected with them – one might even said he clashed with them…
mortimer says
Yes… Mohammed connected with their necks and then DISCONNECTED their heads from their necks.
What a great role model if you are a professional headsman.
mortimer says
NPR’s article is an example of a ‘PHOTOSHOPPED MOHAMMED’
(see article: http://en.europenews.dk/Photoshopped-Mohammed-79604.html)
Quotes:
“Modern Muslims … create an ‘airbrushed’ or ‘photoshopped’ image of Mohammed by leaving out his offensive traits and enhancing any qualities that appeal to our modern concerns for human rights and civil liberties.
A main aim in photo editing is the removal of unwanted objects in the photo. Before photoshopping, this was done by airbrushing. Stalin routinely airbrushed his enemies out of photographs. The term “airbrushed out” has come to mean rewriting history to pretend something was never there.
Contemporary academics have called the process of removing components from an image ‘object removal’. It is considered unethical because it is an intentional misrepresentation of historical facts.”
mortimer says
The ‘objects’ modern Islamists want to remove (in Mohammed’s biography) are Mohammed’s …
…authoritarianism
‘It is not fitting for a Believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger to have any option about their decision.’ Koran 33.36
…megalomania
‘While I was sleeping, the keys to the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand.’ Bukhari:V4B52N220
…misogyny
“Hang up your scourge where your wife can see it.” Kash-shaf (the revealer) of al-Zamkhshari (Vol. 1, p. 525)
…intolerance
“No two religions are to exist in the Arab Peninsula”, The Sira, pp. 50, 51
…compulsion
“The apostle of God defeated the people until they entered Islam by hook or by crook.” “The Ordinances of Qur’an”, Al Shafi, page 50
…supremacism
“Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion shall reign supreme.” K. 8:36
…terrorism
“How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them.” K. 7:4
Ciudadano says
“tell him to bite his father’s penis” That made me laugh. How come people follow this man? I thought I’ve heard everything.
mortimer says
Ciudadano wrote: “I thought I’ve heard everything” (about Islam)
Did you hear about breastfeeding of adult males to allow women to socialize with males outside their families?
Adult suckling in the words of Mohammed:
– Narrated Ibn Shehab: when he was asked about adult suckling he said; Abe Hozaifa one of the companions of the messenger of God has adopted a boy named Salem, then when God descended a verse in his book concerning Zaied Ibn Thabet abating the adoption saying: call them after their fathers (meaning that to attribute those adopted sons to their biological fathers), Salma the wife of Abe Hozaifa came to the messenger of God saying: we had an adopted son named Salem, he was getting into my house while I was wearing one dress, after the adoption was abated, my husband Abe Hozaifa hated to see him getting into my home, while I am in such way, so what do you think? How can I deal with that? The prophet replied to her: Then let him suck from you five times, and then he will be forbidden to you (as it was thought that if one sucks from a woman, he will be like her son)? She said surprisingly: how could I suckle him while he is a full grown man? Then the prophet smiled and said: I know that he is a full grown man
She went out and followed that advice and allowed the man to suck from her, she came back to the prophet saying I suckled him, now I don’t find anything wrong with my husband any more.
Mirren10 says
Oh, yuck ! 🙁
As to this article, what a load of pathetic tripe. They’re really scraping the barrel, aren’t they.
You know, some neo-Nazis could put together a load of personal stuff about Hitler; he was a vegetarian, and a teetotaller, but loved cream cakes, he loved children (Aryan only, of course), and dogs, made jokes about Mussolini, etc, etc.
Would any of the above make Hitler any less of an evil monster ?
Just shows the dismal level of stupidity of mohammedans, especially if they think no-one’s going to read any of the rest of the hadiths.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Sometimes what is most educational about an article like this are the side-remarks. Here, we have a description of Islam’s top two prophets.
[1] Jesus was a red-head: “When you see him [Jesus, a.k.a. Isa (pbuh)], recognise him: a man of medium height, reddish [h]air, wearing two light yellow garments, looking as if drops were falling down from his head though it will not be wet.” (Sunan Abu Dawood 4310)”
[2] Muhammad was a red-head too, but of the Lucille Ball variety: “The prophet is said to have had a thick head of hair and wore it long [like Jesus]. It was gray on the sides [like Mitt Romney], and like many men he oiled it with a henna-like product that gave it a reddish tint.”
To encourage emulation by Muslims, mosques should display posters of these red-headed prophets; simple line drawings will do.
Bill Warner says
Joseph Mayor says
So all I need to do is be a pedophile, torture & murder innocent people, and steal money and property and extremism is dead! WOW!
Adrian says
But once the little future jihadis start to read about Muhammed’s snoring style and love of melons and cucumbers, won’t the little darlings also find on the same pages Muhammed’s endless misogyny, terrorism, supremacist delusions, lies and murders?
Lord Wrath says
I’ve posted this before but somehow it seems quite appropriate now… There is an old Arab saying that says,,, ” For children a woman… For pleasure a boy… For extasy a melon “… I wonder what variety of melon was his favorite…
gravenimage says
NPR touts Muhammad’s example as means to counter “extremism”
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Grimly hilarious. The “Prophet” Muhhammad was a warlord, pedophile, rapist, slaver, caravan-raider and mass murderer.
All Jihad is waged on his model.
The egregious Sheikh Hassan Lachheb has sneered at the idea that Muslims should condemn Jihad terror, asking, “how many condemnations of ISIS would you like?”
He is especially big on slobbering over the violent “Prophet”.
خَليفة says
Mohammed was illiterate. So to follow his example, all good muslims should also be illiterate. If you are a Muslim and reading this, you are not following Mohammed’s example.
Mohammed stated that the sun revolves around a flat, pizza dough shaped earth, as does the moon. Ok he got the moon orbiting earth correct ( so did all early civilizations ) but even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
Funny how Muslims ascribe “the perfect example” to things Mohammed did, but all to often they assign that thing in strange, perverted ways. Example, Mohammed was 50+ when he married 6 year old Aisha. So, is the perfect example getting married at 50+ or marrying a 6 year old, or both together. What about his 1st wife, he was 25 she was 40 – why is this not the “perfect example” for Muslims?
Mohammed had lice. Is this another perfect example? So any Muslim reading this without lice is violating two aspects of Mohammed’s perfect example.
Mohammed also said that eating 7 dates in the morning would keep you safe from magic and poison.
He must have forgotten about that when he died from poison.
Knowing the true details of Mohammed is one of the major reasons Muslims leave Islam. So maybe as a result of this stupid article more Muslims will read bout their false prophet and eventually leave Islam.
Jay Boo says
Obama,
ISIS is not hijacking Islam (They are true Muslims)
NPR — are the ones hijacking Islam
Jay Boo says
BBC World — on NPR gave their admiration to another Hassan.
Their radio eulogy was a lot worse than the printed page link below.
Bin Laden’s buddy Hassan al Turabi of Sudan just died.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35737193
Jay Boo says
about a week or so ago
wallace says
Meanwhile back in dhimmi Britain .A nursery “raised fears of radicilisation over a boy’s cucumber drawing”.Concerns were raised after the four year old boy drew a picture of a man cutting the vegetable,staff told the child’s mother they believed he was saying ” cooker bomb” instead of “cucumber”. Praise Allah that the poor little guy never heard of Muhammeds penchant for cucumbers and decided to do a drawing of him. Clock boy you are old hat a new super hero on the block ” Cucumber Boy”
Kepha says
Oh, my. Maybe the kid’s dad helps make supper–and they like to eat cucumbers
خَليفة says
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/four-year-old-raises-concerns-of-radicalisation-after-pronouncing-cucumber-as-cooker-bomb-a6927341.html
Don’t look like no cucumber I’ve ever seen. I’d be more concerned about the knife.
But this is quite ridiculous.
mortimer says
Agree. Muslims must imitate Mohammed in his behaviors as a pedophile, torturer, conqueror, bigot, genocide, exploiting those of weak minds, purveyor of nonsensical rubbish, spirit-channeller, and sexual pervert. All these behaviors are written about in Islam’s source texts by Muslims and not be the slanderers and enemies of Islam.
Mohammed is slandered by the source texts of Islam. Mohammed is not a role model for the modern world as he was for savage, brutal, illiterate, barbaric 7th century Arabs.
There is nothing we admire about Mohammed in the 21st century. Mohammed is the greatest liability to Islam.
Sheikh Hassan Lachheb mistakenly thinks he can ‘clean up’ Mohammed to make him presentable. He cannot. The Islamic source texts make it impossible.
No sale.
dajjal says
The source texts of Isdamn: Qur’an, hadith, tafsir & exegesis are hagiographic, not slanderous. Ibn Hisham supposedly excised the most embarrising stuf from Ibv Ishaq’s Sira already. By right standards, truth is not slanderous. By Isdamnic standards, slander is “anything the hearer might not like”.
When we read Ishaq, Tabari, Ibn Sa’d and “Ash-Shifa” we discover that Moe was an AssWhole and Isdamn is AssWholliness.
Ibn Sa’d includes a large number of Moe’s extortion letters. Most of them are threatening yet ambiguous. One of them, the letter to the rulers of Ayala; The Jordanian port of Aqaba, leaves little to the imagination. Read it and curse Isdamn, for it is evil: mercenary & martial.
http://www.soebratie.nl/religie/hadith/IbnSad.html#01.2.73.3
Volume 1, Parts II.73.3
They said: The Apostle of Allah, may Allah bless him, wrote to Yuhannah Ibn
Rubbàh and (other) chiefs of the people of Aylah: You are safe. I praise Allah before
you; there is no God but He. I will not fight against you unless I write to you (in
advance). So, join the fold of Islam or [P. 29] pay the jizyah. Obey Allah and His
Apostle and the messengers of His Apostle, honour them and dress them in nice
clothes, other than the uniform of the ghazis. Provide Zayd with good clothes. If my
messengers will be pleased with you, I shall also be pleased with you. The jizyah is a
known thing. If you like that, peace might prevail over the land and sea; you should
obey Allah and His Apostle. You will not be required to pay dues you have been
paying to the Arabs and the ‘Ajamis, and you will pay the dues to Allah and His
Apostle. If you send them (my messengers) back and do not please them, I shall not
accept anything from you, and shall wage war against you and make your young
ones captive and shall stay your elders. Verily, I am the Apostle of Allah to
communicate the truth. I believe in Allah, His Books and His Apostles. I believe in
Masih Ibn Maryam (Messiah son of Mary) who is His word, to be His Apostle. Come
to me before you face the evil. I have given advice to my messengers about your
affairs. Pay three wasag (Wasaq is a camel-loadequal to sixty sa`s, each sa` being
equal to four mudds, and each mudd is equal to 1-1/3 lbs., thus a wasaq is equal to
nearly four maunds of Pakistan.) of barley to Harmalah. Verily, Harmalah has
recommended your case. Had there been no Allah and this (recommendation) I
would not have had any correspondence with you and you would have seen armies
marching against you. If you obey my messenger, verily, Allah is your defender and
(also) Muhammad and those who follow him. Verily, my messengers are Shurahbil,
Ubayyi, Harmalah and Hurayth lbn Zayd al-Tá’i. If they conclude a treaty, I shall
approve of it and you will be under the guarantee of Allah and Allah’s Apostle
Muhammad. Salàm to you. If you obey, you should arrange provisions for the people
of Maqna to go to their land.
Click through and read the other missives. Some of them were written to tribes that submitted; Moe told their rulers that one of their duties was to attack neighboring infidels and divide the spoils. Those missives are clues for the few able to obtain and grasp clues.
Godfrey Johnson says
OK, this may be a dumb question but here goes. Muhammed is called a “prophet,” yes, so what exactly did he prophesy?
Did he foretell stuff like Columbus discovering America? Or our two world wars, the rise of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union? Or maybe the sinking of the Titanic?
What about the discovery of Antarctica and the penguins? Did he predict that humans would find out that the earth is actually round and part of the Solar System? What did Allah tell him that nobody else knew?
Or maybe he prophesied the birth of Al Qaida and Isis. Can anybody enlighten me? Please?
wallace says
Well Godfrey he did predict that Islam would recede between the two mosques, just as the serpent crawls back into it’s hole,.So here’s hoping.
خَليفة says
A lengthy but interesting study on the matter
http://www.answering-islam.org/Responses/Azmy/mhd_miracles.htm
jewdog says
What country is this NPR based in? Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran?
Peter says
Muhammad was a terrorist, according to Islam’s “authentic” tradition:
“I have been made victorious with terror.”
Hadith
Sahih Bukhari (Volume 4, book 52, number 220)
Clearly, Nonsense Propagation Radio (NPR) has no clue. Islamists and Jihadists are in fact applying “The lessons of Muhammad.”
Greyhound Fancier says
This teacher’s class reminds me of ideas like, “Hitler wasn’t all bad. He liked children and loved his dogs.”
More to the point, “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?” So the guy liked sweet drinks. Does that excuse supervising the beheading of hundreds of Jewish men? Does avoiding profanity excuse permission to rape women captured in war, and keeping the women as concubines? Is marrying a six year old no big deal, but the type of sandal worn more important?
Jesus called this type of teaching, “straining at gnats and swallowing camels”.
Greyhound Fancier says
The bizarre sexual practices admitted to by Muslims, including the advice and practices of Mohammed, should be the subject of derision. Yucky!
No wonder Muslims are so sexually screwed up.
davej says
What a load of nonsense!
NPR, like much of American media, has a huge blind spot when it comes to Islam.
They are blinded by their wishful thinking and so don’t realize that Muslim immigrants are actually different than any previous immigrant group in that they have an organized plan to take over our country and either convert or kill the rest of us.
Don’t think any other “religion” has those goals.
Meanwhile another peaceful and not Muslim Sikh temple was attacked by a confused American. Educate yourselves people!
islamriposte says
what they said about Muhammad:
http://religionislam.forumpro.fr/t378-que-disent-ils-sur-mahomet
UNCLE VLADDI says
MADMAN MOE: THE INSANE CAMEL
From Dajjal:
Al-Insan al-kamil is set up by 33.21 and 68.4 as the role model for all Muslims to emulate. He said that he was “raised for Jihad and not for tillage”. He said that his provision was placed under the shade of his spear; look it up in Fath al-Bari if you don’t know what that means. He said that he was “made victorious with terror”. He commanded his followers, speaking for Allah, to “strike terror” and “terrify thereby”. He said that Allah would cover the Muslims with a blanket of disgrace if they abandoned Jihad in favor of trade, commerce and agriculture.
The role model for all Muslims to emulate burned the date trees of one Jewish settlement to terrorize them. He terrorized the Jews of Medina by having Kab Ashraf assassinated. He terrorized one Arab tribe into submission by having Asma bint Marwan assassinated. He sent extortion letters to regional rulers threatening to kill them and enslave their children if they did not submit. That is what Islam is; what Muslims do.
The few who will read 8.67, 109.2 and Sahih Bukhari 4.52.164 will know that Allah is not God.
Islam has a standard: Qur’an & Sunnah. Its what Moe said and did according to the oral traditions of his companions. 2.85 prohibits dividing the Qur’an, its all or nothing. 2.216 ordains Jihad for Muslims. 8.39 commands perpetual war against pagans until Allah has a global monopoly. 8.57 & 8.60 command terrorism. 8.67 requires “great slaughter” as Moe’s price of admission to Allah’s celestial bordello. 9.120 promises Brownie Points for any “step” taken to “injure or enrage” disbelievers. 9.111& 49.15 define believers as those who fight in Allah’s cause. 33.21 sets up Moe as a role model for Muslims to emulate. Read the TOC of “The Life Of Muhammad” to see what he did. One attack every six weeks for the last decade of his life.
A Muslim who does not support Jihad including terror as a battle tactic, is a hypocrite, 4.89, not a believer as described in 8.1-5, 9.111& 49.15.
3.110 makes Muslims out to be the “best of peoples for the people”. Sahih Bukhari 6.60.80 explains that they are the best as they drag us to Islam with chains on our necks.
Is Muhammad representative of Muslims? Got a clue what he did? Got a clue what he said about terrorism? Got a clue what Allah said about it?
If they sincerely denounce terror, they are hypocrites or apostates, not Muslims. I direct your attention to “Reliance Of The Traveller” o8.0–8.7 which specifies the death penalty for any of a list of 20 attitudes and actions including denial of any part of the Qur’an. In this case 8.12, 57 & 60; 9.111, 120; 33.26-27 & 59.2.
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Islam is never going to tolerate us and we are never going to tolerate the dictum that we must be killed for not being Muslims.
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Re: “they have the right to believe what they want”…!
Is there a right to attack, kill, enslave, rape and plunder? Islam entails those actions; it is not possible to properly practice Islam without engaging in them.
It is not possible that there can be a right to believe that “only Allah has the right to be worshiped” ~ a right which Muslims are obligated to enforce.
It is not possible that there is a right to believe that we are najis things, whose blood and property are not sacred to Muslims; open season.
Islam is wrong, not right!
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When anyone believes that he has a divine mission to kill or enslave us for not sharing his superstition, we have every right and obligation to mock and expose him as a real and proximate threat to our security.
dajjal says
Well done, Unk, Thanks! The inordinantly curious reader can find several pdf files containing the citations and quotes with links to source texts in “Islam 101 For Poiliticians” to which I link. They will find “Islam’s Mercenary Mission”, “What’s Wrong With Islam & Muslims?” and the piece on terrorism ending in “In a Pig’s” to be the most fruitful.
Zub says
I wish I knew ahead of time NPR was going to publish this crap. I would have loaded up on whitewash futures and made a fortune. They must have used a whole super tanker’s worth to cover over the truth.
More Ham Ed says
Leftists and jihadists (lowercase be upon them) have this in common among other things, a fantasy-based wild imagination of some kind of “paradise on earth” in our time.