It not even necessary to mention that Allah plays a central point in Islam and the life of Muslims in all Muslim nations. Muslims without a shred of evidence consider Allah to be the creator of all things in the universe. The Muslims’ God, Allah, occupies the most sanctified place in Islam. Knowing or understanding who or what Allah is, therefore, is critical to the understanding of Islam.
There are great many discussions and views on the origin of this term and its eventual adoption by Muhammad as referring to the creator of the universe.
Long before Islam, Arabs of the greater Arabian Peninsula worshiped, in the broadest sense of the term, the sun, the moon, and the stars. The root word for Allah is Ela, a term used by Yemeni Arabs for god and in reference to the moon. In addition, there were numerous other Ela. Allah is thought to be a compound word composed of al (the) and Ela.
It was Yemeni Arabs who migrated to the present Saudi Arabia who took the concept and the term Ela with them and propagated it. This is the root of the first part of the Muslim profession of faith, La ilah illaAllah, “there is no God but Allah.”
To re-emphasize, before the advent of Islam, the Arabs were idol worshipers. One their own historians, by the name of Vaqqidi, said that the Arabs had 360 gods for each day of the year, and the largest and the main God was called “Allah.” They were pagan, a polytheistic culture. Interestingly enough, not many Muslims want to accept that Allah was already being worshiped at the Ka’ba in Mecca by Arab pagans before Muhammad even appeared.
Many idols existed in Mecca. Each tribe had its own idol they worshiped; they did not reject or denounce other idols. They simply left them alone. Even when at war with one another, they did not desecrate or destroy the opponent’s idols. They just ignored them.
There were four major idols in the Kabeh (known as the house of Allah) of Mecca, three of which had physical representations. The fourth was Allah, who had no physical form. This fourth idol was greatly feared, and reportedly was experienced at night, in the wilderness, and in desolate valleys.
This Allah was believed to have two daughters. Muhammad made Allah a kind of super-god by elevating him above the other three major idols, and said that Allah did not have the two daughters that Arabs believed he had.
These assertions by Muhammad greatly irked the Arabs, and formed one of the reasons for their hostility toward him.
In effect, what Muhammad did was to make the formless Allah into a super-god, proclaimed that there is no other Ela or god than Allah, and took him out of the idolatry of Mecca, shipping the formless Allah to the invisible heavens.
Why did Muhammad elect Allah and make him the super-god? There are all kinds of speculations about that. One plausible theory is that his tribe worshiped the idol Allah. His father was named Abdullah, contraction of Abd-ul-elah (slave of Allah). It also served Muhammad well by making himself the one and only interlocutor between the super-god and the people.
Endless questions arise. For one, is Allah the super-god who created the entire universe, as the Quran claims, by one command word of his mouth “kon va yakoon” (become and became)? The hodgepodge book called the Quran is full of nonsensical, contradictory verbiage that Muhammad claimed to be Allah’s word, perfectly transmitted. This is the very same verbiage that took the same super-god twenty-three years to write in a smallish book, and earned Muhammad the reputation “enaho la shaeron majnoon” (he is crazed poet) from the Meccans of his time.
Why did this supreme being, the personification of all knowledge and wisdom, chose an illiterate hired-hand Arab to serve as his mouthpiece? Why is the “perfect” book he gave him so scrambled and confused?
Sam Younes says
That was a perfect article, very good information some of this info or similar to it was narrated in Mohammad biography.
mortimer says
Some scholars believe the Koresh tribe worshipped the ‘Maiden’ goddess or ‘Koré’, a word borrowed from the Greek. It may refer to either Diana (the goddess of the day) or to Venus of the Mighty Star visible when other stars are not.
The Kaaba is covered in a VEIL as is a FEMALE in the Bedouin culture.
Mohammed reputed father (who died more than three years before Mohammed’s birth) was called Abd-Allah, but some scholars say it must have been Abd-Allat. Mohammed sacrificed to female deities as a young man.
Allat Chabar (the Mighty Goddess) was transformed by early Islam into Allah Akbar (Allah is GREATER than ALLAT … Diana or Venus).
It is likely that early Islam worshipped both Allat and Allah (Dhu Shara).
madpatriot says
In other words there is no truth to what they believe and has nothing whatever to do with the truth, which is Jesus Christ , Father God and the truth of the Bible. It is a satanic cult of totalitarianism governance that subjugates their people into slavery and torture. Why is anyone letting those evil peoples into their country and listening to the drivel the spew causing such harm to many nations of the world??? They need to be rounded up and made to go home to fight it out among themselves and leave the rest of the world alone if they cannot live as civil decent human beings.
J D S says
Unbeknownst to too many Muslims is that most likely that the so called angel who is supposed to have visited muhammad. (IF HE EVER ACTUALLY EXISTED) was most likely one of Satan’s angels and the “allah” that they are hung up on is actually Satan…Must be true…..Because the GOd that I know would not condone the atrocities found in Islam.
NOW on the other side…In old Testament times God ordered many things done that seems awful too us, like complete destruction of nations and it’s peoples and complete destruction of the world he had made (THE FLOOD) and who am I to question God for any of his actions..After all God is God and not the muslims “allah”.
The mosaic COVENANT was mostly replaced (THE 10 COMMANDMENTS ARE STILL THERE) with a living COVENANT in the form of Jesus the Christ…and find anywhere in the New Testament where Jesus tells us to kill anyone or perform any or the atrocious acts found in Islam.
How do Muslims get around this…well they simply say that the Holy Bible has been corrupted….Corrupted??? Great good God in Heaven if there is any CORRUPTION it has been passed to the Koran a book that was written, not by muhammad, he was illiterate, but by people who got their information second, third and even fourth handed from memorizers and writings passed from hand to hand to hand and from sometimes written on anything from pieces of bone to dried leaves to anything available to write on and how many versions of the Koran have been written and destroyed there was even some writings that was destroyed in a battle and lost forever…So don’t speak of CORRUPTION????? of the Holy Bible when the Koran and Hadath and all of is lam is PURE CORRUPTION!. And that awful LAKE OF FIRE awaits those in islam in fact God is probably ENLARGING that firey lake to accommodate more and more unbelieving Muslims.
gravenimage says
Allah and Islam
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Whatever its origin, there is no doubt that the Allah of Islam is conceived as a savage, loveless deity.
Wellington says
Indeed, gravenimage. The Islamic Allah has no sense of true love, including romantic love, especially romantic love. This “entity” is all about power and submission with any mercy attributed to it just a subset of its power. How dismal. Rather like Islam in toto.
My theory about Mohammed’s Allah, for what it is worth, is that it is an amalgam of elements of the Judeo-Christian deity mixed with an assortment of pre-Mohammedan polytheism. It’s a mish-mash of a deity and really just Mo’s own dim-bulb, warped and often self-serving view of what a cosmic supreme being should be. Put another way, Allah is Mo’s hand puppet, his alter ego, his other self. It is the construction of a clever con man who, a la Breakfast at Tiffany’s, wasn’t just a phony but a real phony, i.e., Mo actually probably ended up believing his own BS.
Here completes my theological assessment of Islam’s Allah. May this entity strike me dead tonight if I have offended him or his psychopathic messenger, Mohammed. Hope you are doing well in a world that is getting goofier by the year. Take good care, my learned friend. Will be in contact with you soon unless, of course, Allah does away with me tonight, but that ain’t gonna’ happen. Bet my life on it.
gravenimage says
I would not worry about “Allah”, Wellington–his barbaric followers are a different matter, of course…
Yes, I’m doing well except for the madness of Jihad and sadness over my mother-in-law’s passing away.
Hope you are also well.
Wellington says
My condolences, gravenimage, to you and your husband for your personal loss.
gravenimage says
Thank you so much, Wellington. She was 91, and we knew it was coming–but still very difficult. My husband had planned a trip this month–right now, in fact–but a couple of weeks ago was told that she had taken a turn for the worse and got on a plane before dawn the next day.
I got a call about an hour after he left for the airport, and thought it was him checking in after arriving. Instead, it was Hospice saying she had passed away.
Even in the best lived and luckiest lives there is a great deal of sadness–but no, I do not consider life to be a “vale of tears”–there is a great deal of joy, as well. For instance, I am glad I knew my mom-in-law, and will always appreciate the wonderful job she did of raising my dear husband.
But still–some sadness remains.
This is the main reason I so hate Islam–there is the natural sadness of losing people, and then there is the sadness of human failings and shortcomings–one’s own and that of others.
But what is not forgivable is deliberate cruelty–and Islam is *rife* with this. How much more joy there would be in the world without this vicious creed.
Mari Forever says
In a few weeks, a book by Odon Lafontaine called The Great Secret of Islam will be available for free online in pdf version which you can download. It is the condensed work of a French priest, Edouard-Marie Gallez (who with the collaboration of another priest, a Muslim convert to Christianity) author of La Messie et son Prophète (The Messiah and his Prophet) which is a thesis of 10 years research about the origins of Islam. Lafontaine collaborated with Gallez to write his book which is about 92 pages and is written for people who are like us and for those who have no idea how this religion came about. So go online and check out;
The Great Secret of Islam by Odon Lafontaine. This book will be available to any and everyone as Lafontaine’s wish is to see that the vast majority of people are able to read it.
He does not insult Islam nor Muslims by calling them names at all, he just puts forward the facts that most Muslims will find abhorent because their religion has been researched and many things they believe in are destroyed by the research. Muslims are to believe everything with their eyes closed, this book by Lafontaine tells of the trickery that has been played on them for centuries.
The actual praying to a God or gods whatever religion you belong to, is really quite harmless until that religion or as in Islam, this ideology, threatens everyone who refuses to convert, savagery and torture. I am hoping that the English translation is finished soon as it will be easy to spread all over the net to English speaking people.
Research whether literary or scientific, is forbidden in Islam because basically it was put together quite haphazardly taken Judeo-Nazarean texts. The Judeo Nazareans converted and endoctrinated the Arabs by promising them that the Messiah was coming back soon and would be setting up his kingdom in Jerusalem and rebuilding the Temple. When the Messiah showed no signs of appearing, the Arabs were furious and started pushing the Judeo Nazareans out whilst still keeping some of their texts which were changed to accommodate Islam which was really set up long and the Quran written 200 to 300 years after Muhammad had died…. The book also details the dogma, the story of Muhammad’s life as told to the Muslims.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Mari–I’ll look for that book.
Japetto Danatelli says
Why is the “perfect” book he gave him so scrambled and confused?
…and why did the “all-knowing” and “all-wise” allah act like an ignorant bigot that values supremacy and violence over tolerance and humanitarian love? Simple, because allah is nothing more than a projection of the violent bigot(s) that invented him. Let’s call a spade a spade, allah is a demon, and calling islam a “religion of peace” doesn’t make that fantastical pig any less evil. Islam’s grotesque misrepresentation of the Creator as a morally retarded demon is a hindrance to humanity’s spiritual and temporal progress, it’s been a perennial source of bigotry and discord from day one. Islam is–and always has been–a catalyst for violence, it’s a dangerous religious fraud born of ignorant superstition and it’s time rational humanity put an end to this vile creation of mankind’s worst nature once and for all. If “diversity” means living with and tolerating this kind of evil then to me diversity is worse than Nazism.
jayell says
I wish I could remember the name of the contributor to this site who so perceptively commented that ‘Allah was Mohammed’s glove puppet’ – i.e., a totally spurious marketting tool in Mohammed’s self-promotion campaign, cynically contrived to dupe the masses on the Arabian peninsula for Mohammed’s own criminally avaricious purposes. This would explain why the “all-knowing” and “all-wise” ‘Creator of the Universe’ apparently changed his mind so much, curiously in line with Mohammed’s own changing priorities and learning-curve. I’ve heard it suggested that Moses used the same ploy when he descended the mountain with the famous Ten Tablets of rock, because he knew only too well that it would take a ‘plausible threat from On High’ to persuade the Israelites to behave themselves properly at that time. No one to this day would argue with the Ten Commandments, even if this was a sly move on the part of Moses, because Moses’ motivation would have been entirely honourable. Not so Mohammed, whose only aim was to manipulate people for his own personal advancement and gratification. And it’s a sad comment on humanity that there are still billions around the world who are wilfully in the grip this longest-running scam in human history.
Joe says
Although, the Muslims tell a different story, history shows that Islam was created by several people over several centuries. Mohammed, if he existed, was already dead by the time he became “the prophet”. All the evidence points to this.
For example, Mosques were around before Mohammed’s reported life span. The qiblah in those point to Petra (they still do) which was the early holy city. Petra contain the rocks, or Mosque, that the Muslims worship (or at least bow in that direction).
The ruler of Petra, not Mohammed, rebelled and took the rocks with him to what is now Saudi Arabia. That ruler probably covered up the place of worship before he left. They think they have identified that place with satellite imaging.
The rocks were not initially moved to Mecca, because Mecca didn’t exist. Mecca was probably built to be a holy city. All the maps and other evidence show that Mecca was started around 720 which is a long time after the reported life span of Mohammed.
Then around 690 the Arab who conquered Jerusalem and built the Dome of the Rock, not Mohammed, put the shahada in the Dome of the Rock and something similar to it on the coins. This was probably to show that his “religion” was superior to Christianity and Judaism. This shahada is also the historical introduction of Mohammed. When they were conquered many Christians did an analysis on the religion of the Arabs. These were thorough, but none of them mention Mohammed.
The Koran existed before Mohammed as well. It was (and still is) a group of sayings by different people. Some of it was from Jewish scribes, other parts from a Byzantine emperor, and other phrases and passages they thought were cool. These passages are exact copies, so we know where they come from.
The worst of Islam came around 850 when the ruler of some Muslim empire decided to change the Koran to make it into an assimilation tool. He was taking his cue from Constantine and Charlemagne who both used Catholicism for assimilation.
These changes to the Koran have been constant for over 1,000 years. More than 4,000 changes have been made in the last 300 years. They don’t try to hide them. The idea behind the changes was to make the Koran into a single canonical text which was somewhat accomplished by 1928 or so.
As you can see, the story of Islam doesn’t match that well with historical Islam, but the history of Islam is well documented, because they were the rulers shortly after Mohammed was supposed to have lived. People document the rulers.
jayell says
So islam is a manifestation of some sort of long-established collective evil from around the Arabian peninsula, sanitised and validated by the plagiarism from the texts of genuine contemporary relgious movements? That might explain its apparent wide appeal in that geographical area and worldwide amongst those of dubious psychological tendencies.
Darryl Kerney says
It was Wellington who wrote that allah was muhammad’s puppet…..
IanB says
Oh, I hope I haven’t plagiarized Wellington’s turn of phrase!
gravenimage says
I can’t speak for Wellington, of course, but I think he’d be fine with anyone using a term he’d coined.
Whoever said that first, it is spot on.
Darryl Kerney says
I should have specified, on this discussion page….
IanB says
jayell, I used that phrase in this site when I first began to comment here because it occurred to me it was a highly suitable way of describing Mohammed’s appropriation of the pagan Arab’s moon god.
I may not, of course, have originated the phrase and it may have been first used here by someone else. I do not know how to check. Is there an archive of comments with links to individuals? Gravenimage often comments on a contractor’s previous efforts so perhaps she knows how it’s done. IanB
gravenimage says
IanB, there have at times been archives of individual poster’s comments–that was true with both the old TypePad and IntenseDebate commenting systems that were used in the past here at JW.
I can’t even recall what our current commenting system is called, but I don’t think it has this function–too bad, because it is very useful.
Even with the other systems, though, there is–to my knowledge, at least–no way to search the comments using keywords, so you would have to read through all the posts. For some of the long-term and prolific posters, that would entail tens of thousands of comments dating back years.
I think this term and who first used it are probably lost to us at this point–but if you coined the term or were an early adopter, I salute you. Certainly I agree that “Allah” was an invention of Muhammed’s and at many times a cynically useful one.
Even little Aisha noted this. A Hadith chronicles her saying to Muhammed “I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes and desires.”
Newman says
Great and true post! But every day we see that the real Creator of the Universe is now permitting Islam to destroy itself by the very violence and cruelty, the tit for tat and “eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth” outmoded ethic that Jesus Christ abolished by His dying for the salvation in love of His enemies.
gravenimage says
Islam is not “an eye for an eye”–it believe in poking out the eye (so to speak) of any Infidel who does not submit to Islam.
No Fear says
The laws of Allah are the laws of the universe. Allah is simply a personification of the universe with all it’s violence and horror. Fortunately the Christian testament describes the only begotten son of the universe….i.e. life itself / respiration. Life constantly sacrifices itself to bring about new life. There is no such depiction of the saviour, who is respiration or life itself, in the shitty Quran. All we read about is the personification of the universe, i.e. the violent god Allah, who delights in being a homicidal nutjob.
Maxwell SJ Fenton says
It’s very interesting to observe the absolute deconstruction, mockery and contempt the West, particular Britain and the university education system, hold for Christianity, in contrast to their relationship to Islam.
Their own Judeo-Christian culture is undermined, trashed and written off but the foreign, vile pagan nonsense from a perverse, incomprehensible Arabic warrior is defended, protected and held in some insane unholy alliance with truth and respect.
In this sense, they deserve what’s coming, those who don’t use their heart and minds to seek truth and reasoned thought ought to have them removed. Islam will do this, murder and enslave the lot.
I hope I’m long gone.
mortimer says
Good points, Fenton. Allah is a vicious Bedouin slave-master who demands perfect obedience from his slaves and punishes them atrociously if they step out of line.
The Leftards are disinterested in learning about the IDEOLOGY of Islam, because if they did, they would be unable to exploit Muslims at the polls as a way to power.
If Leftards informed themselves about Islam, they would realize that ISLAM IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION.
Estee Tabernac says
I hope you know why this has happened. Those who despise Christianity do so because they have been hurt or offended. There are many ignorant and poorly educated Christians who have a holier than thou attitude and try to impose their flawed values and interpretation of the Bible on others. The televangelists also destroy Christianity through their corruption and distortion of Biblical truth. Many so-called “churches” are sewers filled with snakes and demons ready to poison the soul of the innocent. I am talking about you, Evangelical America. You are liars and thieves and you have accepted the leadership of the greatest liar and thief, Donald J. Trump. His lies, lechery, adultery, treason and immodesty will be your destruction. You have aligned yourself with the Devil! Enjoy your trip to Hell, suckers!
gravenimage says
I see that “Estee Tabernac” is just as unhinged as always.
In other words, how *dare* you dhimmis try to defend against Jihad?
6woods says
Yuppers. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head re. ‘Estee Tabernac’.
St Ferd III says
Al Lah = the Lord in Arabic.
The Lord of Mecca was Hu’Baal or Baal. The Old Testament moon deity – quite common in the Middle East, an export of Sumerian-Babylonian conquest.
Baa’s cult and shrine were maintained by Mohammed’s family. Hence Allahu Akhbar means Baal is greater than Uzza and Manat.
Allah is not God but Baal. That simple historical and archaeologically proven fact is significant and unknown to leftards and the usual experts, and those that know….
mortimer says
Yes, Muslims use the CRESCENT MOON SYMBOL without realizing it represents DHU SHARA or HUBAL, two gods conflated by the mainly illiterate Arabs.
Dhu Shara was also known as QOS, the god of warfare and the hunt, whose symbol was the BOW (as in bow and arrow).
The bow and the crescent were conflated and the star of Venus is included since Venus and Mars were married at least in Arabia.
Aton says
The two eyes of Horus (the sun and moon) were also called Allah.
Aton
FYI says
allah likes to use the Royal WE a lot in his “perfect” book{the book that muslims say has no errors in it..sure,except for all the the enormous errors in it…}
“And verily WE gave unto Moses the scripture”
koran 2 v 87
Moses the muslim of course,because in k2:65 allah says the Jews are “apes,to be despised and hated.
If Moses was a Jew then,to allah, he would be one of those “apes to be despised and hated”
So muslims have to PRETEND that Moses{and Jesus} were not Jews,but muslims.
allah tells his “prophet” muhammed..
“WE shall make thee read o muhammed so that thou shalt not forget”
koran 87 v 6
which is funny when you realize that muhammed could “neither read nor write” koran 7:157
allah that koran;Read it to me{WE} mo,so thou shalt not forget
mo I can’t read allah,remember?
allah oh..yeah:well TRY..
mo t…th…the…m…me…mean…meaning of..t…th…the..holey…holi..holy…kurannn…
allah Good grief! WE’ll be here all day and WE shall most certainly forget
Darryl Kerney says
Yes i find it very odd that allah the supposedly one and only god so often used the plural WE, he is adamant there are no others, so who is he referring to ?
Indiana Tom says
Moon God.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mr Amil imani has came up with another madness again. Even the orientalists from whose garbages of lies he has been copying never claimed that the tribe of Prophet Muhammad worshipped a chief Idol called Allah and that is why his was named Abdullah (the servant of Allah) . They claimed that the chief Idol among more than 360 placed and worshipped by pagan Arabs at the kaaba was Hubal equivalent to Baal as Moon-god who was Allah. But Hubal Idol Was never referred to as moon-god or Allah, but one of the intermediaries pagan Arabs worshipped to link them with Allah they recognised as the supreme creator of all as they were deceived by the satan to deviate from monotheism taught by Abraham and his son Ishmael who were their ancestors. in the Quran it is explicitly stated that moon or sun or Baal or any other Object shall not be worshipped, but to worship Allah alone who created thém. with this, the bogus theory of moon-god has to fall like a cardhouse.
But, because Mr Amil is intellectually bankrupt he could not trace the genesis of that idiot theory of moon-god concocted by orientalists and mithraist christian evangelist liars debunked by Muslim experts for long,yet he considers himself as a scholar. Ignorant fool!!
H Archyats says
Hi Ibrahim,
How are you ?
We Frank always believe that Allah and Satan is one and the same good since 732 AD and never changed about it.
We see God as the Universal Programmer whom the will is known through western science.
We also believe in the universal love is part of the Universal Programmer will.
Have you got any verse in the Koran to contradict it ?
gravenimage says
More babbling from Ibrahim itace muhammed, I see.
6woods says
Hey Ibby – time to face facts. There is no allah, and you’ve just been eating yourself up with hatred, hatred, and more hatred for NO REASON! Who’s the blind, ignorant fool, huh? Look in the mirror.
WPM says
Nice article on many points on how an illiterate highway robber established a religious cult base on violent slave master mentality , violence and fear as a commandment to spread it around the world. A cobble together abortion of a belief relaying on rejected part of Christian myths , a dose of distorted Jewish practices ,some funhouse mirror children bedtime stories ,and a foundation in large amount to old desert pagan beliefs. All piece together in written form by authors unknown from various sources over 250 years after his death. It turns its followers into ego masturbating idiots who must think they are” the best of people” with no self reflection on any of their violent actions done in this life.
gravenimage says
Good post. And it not just that Islam is a hodgepodge–it is such an *ugly* hodgepodge, having rejected everything that was good and decent in the source material.
WPM says
It is ugly and should have die a long time ago like pagan head hunters and cannibals .It is more profitable and fun to be a raping, stealing , slaving,warlord then to be a common head hunter or cannibal I guess. At less the cannibals , and headhunters do not try to piggy back on Christianity and the Jewish faith to justify their actions.
fred says
In the very first paragraph Robert writes, “Muslims without a shred of evidence consider Allah to be the creator of all things in the universe. The Muslims’ God, Allah, occupies the most sanctified place in Islam. Knowing or understanding who or what Allah is, therefore, is critical to the understanding of Islam.” Exact same thing could be proclaimed about any God of any of the thousands of past or present religions that humans have fabricated over 10,000 years. Which seems more reasonable… that any one of these imaginary Gods actually exists? or None of them exist? If you are certain the Christian God exists then use the same burden of proof you would demand of other faiths to provide evidence of their proposition. The conclusion…. all religious people are in the same boat. Faith is NOT a pathway to reality or truth. A Scientologist has ‘faith’ in the God Xenu and his prophet L.Ron Hubbard. A Hindu has ‘faith’ in Vishnu and his avatar Krishna. A Muslim of course has his God Allah and His prophet Mohammad…. and on and on and on… and guess what? They are all 100% convinced their ‘Holy Book’ is truly ‘holy’ and infallible, and the authentic ‘word of God’. Get real – ALL scriptures are MAN-MADE… and every a word or verse could have been easily written by the ignorant, retrograde, superstitious people living in those times.
eduardo odraude says
The author of the post is not Robert. The author is Amil Imani.
eduardo odraude says
Religion, by the way, is not just about “faith” or “doctrine.” Have you ever heard of William James and his classic The Varieties of Religious Experience?
Furthermore, even if all religion is a pure tissue of fantasy, some “fantasies” (like those of Islam) if followed lead to totalitarian or authoritarian societies, while other “fantasies” (like those of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism) either lead to or are completely compatible with open societies. You fail to make that crucial distinction because you are blinded by your prejudices. When it comes to religion, you are like the racist who thinks all people of a particular race look alike. Similarly, because you know nothing about religion except your hate for it, you think all religions “look alike.” That is just abysmal ignorance, arrogance, and prejudice as bad as any ever evinced by religious people, and that’s saying something, since religious people can be as benighted as anyone. How does it feel to outdo in vice the very groups you so hate?
When you lump all religions together you make the resistance against totalitarian Islam more difficult. What is needed for the sake of freedom is for all non-Muslims, whether atheist, agnostic, or religious, to unite in resisting the spread of totalitarian Islam.
eduardo odraude says
Again, even if all religions are pure tissues of fantasy, Islam’s teachings give rise to a totalitarian expansionist system, whereas the teachings of the central figure portrayed by the New Testament lead to open societies.
There are many reasons for that. I’ll just make a couple of key points. The central figure portrayed in the New Testament is reputed to have said “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, to God the things that are God’s,” and “My kingdom is not of this world.” Because of that and much else in the NT, Christians from the very beginning have tended to believe, albeit in an unclear way for centuries, that society should have two domains: the religious and the secular. It took a long time for the Christian world to develop clarity about where the line should be drawn, and so sometimes kings expanded their power over matters that should have been matters of private religious conscience, and sometimes popes expanded their power over matters that should not have been controlled by religious authority. But ultimately, over the course of centuries, that back and forth dialectic led to the Enlightenment and the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
By contrast, Muhammad, the prime exemplar for Muslims, became Caesar, or at any rate became the ruler of a theocratic expansionist totalitarian state. There is no separation of religion and state in Islam.
In the Christian paradigm, furthermore, human beings are conceived as sons and daughters of God, whereas in Islam they are conceived only as servants or slaves of Allah. The Qur’an insists that Allah has no children.
In the Judeo-Christian paradigm, human beings are made in the image of God. The Qur’an explicitly denies that there is anything like Allah.
Both the Jewish and Christian sacred texts have a golden rule toward people outside the faith. Islam by contrast is dualistic and treats non-Muslims as deserving of equal treatment.
eduardo odraude says
correction:
“treats non-Muslims as deserving of equal treatment”
should be
“treats non-Muslims as not deserving equal treatment”
Cicero says
Hinduism and the other Dharmic spiritual traditions have the Law of Ahimsa ( I.e non- violence ) . Eg I do not wish to be hurt and therefore I must not cause hurt to others . ( around five thousand years ago) In other words ( of biblical reference) “ Do unto others as you wish to be done unto you ) around two thousand years ago aka The Goldn Rule
gravenimage says
Fine posts, Eduardo and Cicero.
fred says
yes… my mistake it was Amil not Robert. I’m all about ‘spiritual’ experiences and the deeper explorations into human consciousnesses. However, for the most part man-made constructed, dogma-filled religions have either dismissed, manipulated, appropriated, or denied transcendent and luminous states of mind UNLESS they could be attributed to, or caused by their favorite God, Messiah, or scripture. That is why Christianity and Islam for instance have a very uneasy disdain and harsh ridicule for Eastern meditation paths, or psychedelic experiences, because ‘exalted’ states of consciousness HAS to be their domain and through their teachings or they label it fraudulent or Satan-influenced. That is the jealousy, bigotry, and pettiness of organized religion, and that is one reason (out of many) why so many aware, intelligent, and critical thinking people reject them. All the spiritual growth and compassion one could attain can be, and often has been realized outside of structured/orthodox religious contexts. You got my narrative wrong. The unverified articles of faith that ALL religions are based on are similar in the sense they have NO EVIDENCE AT ALL for their supernatural claims. However, as far as how these religions behave in the world is very different and vary greatly in destructive tendencies. I agree 100% with Robert Spencer regarding the toxicity of Islam on every level, and with Sam Harris that Islam is the ‘mother-load of bad ideas’ as compared with any other religious ideology in the 21st century – or at least since 1800.
Walter Sieruk says
As for the god of Islam which is the Islamic deity, Allah . Is he real or is he a false god. ? The following three explanations about this Allah might help thing more clear about this Islamic god.
First, many people say that the God of the Bible and the god of Islam are one the same. Is the majority always right? That’s not always the case. As an example the Christian pastor and scholar, Michael Youssef, who is also an Arab in his book entitled JESUS, JIHAD AND PEACE on page 69 informs the reader that “The name Allah comes from pre-Islamic times, and it corresponds to the Babylonian mane Bel or Baal. According to the Middle East scholar E.M. Wherry, pre-Islamic Arabs worshiped gods they called Allah. Both pre-Islamic Allah-worship and Baal –worship involved worship of the sun, the moon and the stars, which is why they are called astral religions. The crescent moon, the symbol of pagan moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam. It is printed on flags of many Islamic countries and placed atop minarets and mosques.” Likewise, a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Dr. Daniel Shayesteh, who used to live in the Middle East but now he lives in America . In his book ISLAM AND THE SON OF GOD. On pages 7,8. Reads “Allah is the generic term for God in many Middle –Eastern cultures. Allah is identified as one of the 360 or so idols worshiped by the Arabian people for centuries before Muhammad was born. Many do not know that Allah was the good god of the Arabians. This explains the crescent moon found on minarets and mosques and the flags of Muslim nations. .. .Historic writings also identify Allah with Baal.” It’s also worth mentioning that the Bible condemns such astral religions. As in, for example, Second Kings 23:5.
Second, the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “ Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.” In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible.
The words in brackets are my own. In addition other some other books that expose this little known truths are WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G..J.O.. Moshay also UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner and THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey . There is also PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett and ANSWERING JIHAD by Mabeel Qureshi
Third, the god of Islam likes it when non-Muslims [Kafirs] die . About the god of Islam ,the television Imam Suliman Satari said “Annihilate the Infidels… Allah count them and kill them, to the last one and don’t leave even one.” Furthermore Imam Abu Hamza Al-Masri said “What makes Allah happy? Allah is happy when Kafiers get killed. [1]
. The above words of these Imams reflect the example of Islam’s prophet and the teachings of the Quran. “Muhammad now fell upon them [the Jews] slew all the men, nine hundred of them…”[2]
Moreover, the Quran reads “When ye encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads, until ye have made great slaughter among them. Verily if Allah pleased, He could take vengeance on them without your assistance, but He commandeth you to fight His Battles.” 47:4
In short, these Imams and their murderous prophet with their bloody Quran show the world what Islam really is. After all, Jesus did teach “by their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. [NKJV]
[1] The disc documentary OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM’s AGAINST THE WEST
[2] THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: THE WHOLE STORY OF MAN by H.G. Wells
Bohunque Picnique says
The article forgot to mention that there were many Christians among the Arabs at the time of the advent of Islam. Over the centuries since then, they converted to Islam. The few remaining hold-out Christians still live in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt.
learning islam says
Chapter 6 verse 101 allah cant have a son because he does not have a girl friend o what a shame a?some sort of god that supposedly created the earth the heavens the people but here is a hod that needs a women to have a child makes no sense what so ever ha ha ha allah cant get a girl friend allah cant get a girl friend ha ha ha more proof allah was a human the foot of allah the shin of allah the leg of allah the face of allah and the hands of allah categorically without a shadow of doubt allah was a man and thats all
Learning islam says
Please Google
Is Allah SATAN? Islam Exposed? (usama Dakdok -www.thestraightway.org.)
• The description of allah and description of satan.allah is man
• The acts of allah and the acts of satan
• The revealation of allah and revealation of satan
• The laws of allah and the laws of satan
The Qur’an’s Deception Passages:
According to the Bible, Allah is Satan.
Qur’an 1:1 indicates that Muslims worship the god of this world who is Satan who is known as the best deceiver and who leads people astray.
Let us look at what both the Bible and the Qur’an say to prove this point.
Qur’an 1:1 states that Allah is the god (lord) of this world:
The praise be to Allah, the lord of the worlds. Allah is Satan as it is written throughout the Qur’an. The Bible states in 2 Corinthians 4:4 that the god of this world is Satan: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Allah got 99 names one of them is “Proud. Allah does not love proud, that means allah hate himself. Q59.23, Q16.23
• Satan becomes proud Q 2.34
Allah is not God because Allah is proud. Qur’an 59:23 states: He is Allah. There is no god except him… the proud.
• But the God of the Bible is meek and lowly in heart. Matthew 11:29 states: Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart….
➤ Muslims are very (((proud))) to be a Muslim!
● “Truly Allah knows what they hide and what they manifest; surely Allah DOES NOT love the (((proud))).” (Qur’an 16:23)
● “He who has in his heart the weight of a mustard seed of (((pride))) SHALL NOT enter Paradise.” (Sahih Muslim Book 1, Hadith 166)
● “Allah the Almighty said: → (((Pride))) ← is my cloak and greatness is my garment, so whoever competes with me regarding these two will be thrown into the Hell-Fire.” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4090)
● “Is there not in Hell an abode for the (((proud)))? (Qur’an 39:60)
● “So enter the gates of Hell, to abide therein. Evil indeed is the dwelling-place of the (((proud))).” (Qur’an 16:29)
What about Christian God
Q16.29, Q39.60, Q25.30, Q22.53, Q17.34, Q10.100 ,Q6.126 ,Q2.59. Q 7.162
Q 3.54 , 8:30. Both verses in Qur’an 3:54 and 8:30 state that Allah is the best deceiver: (islamist in the west falsly translate planner)
And they deceived, and Allah deceived. And Allah is the best deceiver. What does the Bible say about this? Revelation 20:10 tells us: And the devil that deceived them…
Quran 3:54) –
Literal: And they cheated/deceived and God cheated/deceived, and God (is) the best (of) the cheaters/deceivers
(Quran 8:30) –
Literal: And when those who disbelieved deceive/scheme at you to affix/affirm you, or kill you, or bring you out, and they scheme/deceive , and Allah deceives/schemes and Allah (is) best (of) the deceivers/schemers.
( Quran 7:99 ) –
Literal: Did they secure God’s scheme/deceit ? So no(one) trusts God’s scheme/deceit except the nation the losers
Killer allah: Surah 8:17 Those that the Muslims killed were not really killed by them. It was Allah who did the killing. (Moslems believe all that Hateful? shame on you followers of Satan).
Islam calls for eternal war against all non-Muslims “until all religion is with Allah.” {Sura 8:39}
This allah god needs blessing as he cannot stand on his own legs. He is so impotent that he needs to be propped up by Jihadis and stealth Jihadis using taqiyya. Little do they understand that the same allah will lead them their hellfire which they preach tirelessly.
Allaha is hate spreader thus Allah is evil
Allah is hate spreader and Islamic text is doctrine of hate
Koran 40:35 “They [kafirs] who dispute the signs (verses) of Allah without authority having reached them are greatly hated by Allah and the believers (mohammden).” (Note: not just “hated”, but “greatly hated”.)
Q5.14 “And with those who say: “Lo! we are Christians,” We made a covenant, but they forgot a part of that whereof they were admonished. Therefor We have stirred up enmity and hatred among them till the Day of Resurrection, when Allah will inform them of their handiwork.”
Q5.14 * تفسير Tafsir al-Jalalayn
________________________________________{ وَمِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُواْ إِنَّا نَصَارَىٰ أَخَذْنَا مِيثَاقَهُمْ فَنَسُواْ حَظّاً مِّمَّا ذُكِرُواْ بِهِ فَأَغْرَيْنَا بَيْنَهُمُ ٱلْعَدَاوَةَ وَٱلْبَغْضَآءَ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَامَةِ وَسَوْفَ يُنَبِّئُهُمُ ٱللَّهُ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَصْنَعُونَ }
And with those who say ‘We are Christians’ (this is semantically connected to [what follows]) We made a covenant, just as We did with the Children of Israel, the Jews, and they have forgotten a portion of that they were reminded of, in the Gospel, pertaining to faith and other matters, and they [too] broke the covenant. So We have stirred up, We have caused, among them enmity and hatred until the Day of Resurrection, on account of their schisms and differing whims, each sect charging the other with unbelief; and God will assuredly tell them, in the Hereafter, of what they wrought, and requite them for this
Allah mislead 13.17 .Allah is a misleader.
Qur’an:4:88 states: And whomever Allah leads astray, so you will not find for him a way.
But the God of the Bible is a true leader. See Proverb 3:5-6.
Qur’an 35:8 states that Allah leads people astray:
So surely Allah leads astray whom he wills and guides whom he wills. Does God lead people astray? No. Then who does the Bible say wants to lead people astray and keep them from having eternal life through Jesus Christ?
Satan leads people astray. 1 Peter 5:8 tells us that Satan walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, and Revelation 12:9 states: The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray…
schemer , Allah is a schemer. Qur’an 68:45 states:
…surely my scheme is firm. Also Qur’an 86:16 states: and I am scheming a scheme.
Allah is wrathful. Qur’an 2:59 states: So those who were unjust changed the saying to what had not been said to them, so we sent down on those unjust a wrath from the heaven because they were transgressors.
Satan brings wrath
See also Qur’an 7:162.
Allah is abominable. Qur’an 10:100 states:
And it was not for a soul to believe except by Allah’s permission, and he will lay the uncleanness on those who will not understand…
Allah is a seducer. Qur’an 11:34 states: And my advice will not profit you, if I desire to advise you, if Allah was desiring to seduce you….
Allah is a seditionist (subversive/rebellion). Qur’an 25:20 states: and we made some of you to be a sedition to some others…
Qur’an 38:85 and 11:119 both state that Allah desires to fill hell with people:
38:85…surely I will fill hell from you and from those who followed you from among them together. 11.119 …“I will surely fill hell with the jinn and the people together.”
What does the Bible say about people? God wants us to be with Him in heaven. He even sent His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross to pay for our sins so that people can have a way to live eternally in heaven with Him. He does not want any to perish. John 3:16 states:
In the quran and hadiths, it is claimed that Allah predetermines who is and is not going to be a believer yet, inexplicably, He wants believers to horribly punish those whom He decided would be non-believers. He even wants to award those who are believers as though they had anything to do with that fact. Allah is one twisted god who is anything but merciful.
How can anyone be merciful when he is torturing and punishing people for eternity?
allah is the opposite of merciful.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life
The Word Miim-Kaf-Ra is constantly used when referring to Allah
Miim-Kaf-Ra = “To practice deceit or guile or circumvention, practice evasion or illusion, to plot, to exercise art or craft or cunning, act with policy, practice stratagem.”
Read more at http://www.deonvsearth.com/who-is-allah-evidence-discovered-god-of-islam-satan-proof/#f5EfYtEbgec3Mvw8.99
NOT the same — We also find that because ‘Allah’ is a deceiver, this is contradictory to all of his other traits.
Thus presenting multiple unanswered questions regarding the validity of his deity:
Thus presenting multiple unanswered questions regarding the validity of his deity:
Questions:
1.How could a Loving God Plan Evil against mere mortals?
2.How could a Merciful God, Trick and Deceive mankind?
3.How could a God JUDGE the earth for Evil If he himself displays signs of Evil?
The very fact that Allah is a Deceiver. Allah omits the passages where he is said to be Loving, Merciful, and Forgiving.
Ed says
“Muslims without a shred of evidence consider Allah to be the creator of all things in the universe.”
And so how is that different to any other religion?
The problem with citing from the Bible, Talmud, Qur’an which especially shows human nature’s desire to act in some way to control other human beings, is that none of it corroborated by supporting documentation.
For example, Herotodus (484-425 BC) traveled extensively in the Middle East area, claimed by Jewish people as the land they rightly inherited, and made no mention of them along side others he documented. Unless a claim could be made that Herotodus was anti-Semitic, the conclusion would be that either they were insignificant compared to the indigenous populations or not present at all.
Too bad. The burning of the library at Alexandria was a great loss. Maybe Julius Caesar took a bribe.
Manny says
This is great information Mr. Imani. I hope you continue to inform us of the real Islam.
gravenimage says
+1
Chand says
“Why did this supreme being, the personification of all knowledge and wisdom, chose an illiterate hired-hand Arab to serve as his mouthpiece?”
Exactly, Amil Imani.
If an omnipotent God exists, then by definition, God can do anything. He can choose anyone as His Messenger. He can choose a carpenter…..Jesus. He can choose a young shepherd……David.
WPM says
Right Jesus was not a violent raping warlord, who stole money keep women of the right hand , try to deceive others in his daily doings. Jesus treated Jews and non-Jews as equals never preach violence against even sinful evil men .Mohammed was all thing violent and vile in his doings like ,beating women ,raping children, stole, preach violence against un-believers, what is the comparison. Jesus was a carpenter a honest humble trade ,Mohammad was a highway robber a violent man a dishonest proud man who used violence to get his wealth and power .David was a shepherd an honest humble trade also .Comparing Jesus to Mohammad is like comparing an orange to a rock ,one is alive and can feed you the other is dead you must throw it at unbelievers heads to get their attention. I do not think God wants men his children to live in a violent circle of Islam of kill or be killed in his name the Christian God loves his children , I think he gave us the choice of free will that is why I do not think Mohammad was his “mouthpiece”. Pride, violence , lust, envy, angry, greed ,are all weakness that effect every man that should not be held up as virtues to be copied as Mohammad behaved and preach in the 7 century. Who would you rather have living next door to you someone like Mohammad or someone like Jesus??
gravenimage says
Spot on, WPM.