Moina Shaiq is a Muslim who migrated from Pakistan to the United States in 1978 with her family, taking full advantage of the freedoms and opportunities that this country offered. After the San Bernardino massacre of 2015, she decided that she had to do something to bring the truth about peaceful Islam to Americans “before prejudice set in.” She placed an ad in her local paper, in Fremont, California, inviting people to come to a local coffee shop to “Meet A Muslim” and ask whatever questions they wanted. “‘Meet a Muslim’ events hope to dispel misconceptions,” Associated Press, August 13, 2017:
The ad offered ideas for questions: Are women oppressed in Islam? What is the Islamic view of terrorism? How does Islam view other religions?
To her surprise, about 100 people turned out that day, and her “Meet a Muslim” program was born.
“It was over overwhelming,” said Shaiq, a mother of four and a grandmother. “Fremont is so diverse, you will see women in hijab on the streets all the time. I didn’t think people here would be interested or even need to know about Muslims.”
Shaiq has since spoken about being Muslim and answered questions at dozens of libraries, pizza parlors and coffee shops in the San Francisco Bay Area. She recently expanded Meet a Muslim to churches, service clubs and private homes, and traveled to Arizona and Atlanta with the program.
Since that article appeared in the Associated Press in August 2017, Shaiq has appeared at many more events — as of May 2018, a total of 150 — and she shows no signs of slowing down.
She appears to believe that the true Islam, the faith as rightly understood, and presented by her, has nothing to do with terrorism, and that mere prejudice, and the effect of such sinister islamophobic websites as Jihad Watch — a site for which she has repeatedly expressed a particular animus — explains the widespread hostility to her faith. She can apparently find no other explanation. Might that hostility have something to do with the more than 33,500 attacks by Muslim terrorists since 9/11/2001? Could that critical attitude toward Islam, where it exists, have been a result of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Fort Hood, Little Rock, Orlando, San Bernardino in this country, or the Muslim attacks in Europe, in London, Manchester, Paris, Toulouse, Nice, Madrid, Barcelona, Brussels, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Malmö, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Beslan? Might non-Muslims have taken note of the killings of Christians by Muslims in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia, sometimes by well-publicized fanatics — groups such as ISIS and Boko Haram — and sometimes by perfectly orthodox Muslims, as those, for example, in Egypt killing Copts and blowing up churches, appear to be? Isn’t it just possible that the observable behavior of Muslims, and not blind prejudice, explains the growing unease about Islam?
Determined to do something about these misunderstanders of Islam, the indefatigable Moina Shaiq has been feeding her unwary listeners a highly misleading version of Islam. Her deceptive presentation consists of the following:
First, to show the peaceful and non-violent nature of Islam, she quotes the Qur’anic verse 5:32, but fails to read, much less elucidate, the whole of that verse. 5:32 says that “On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person – unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land – it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.” Moina Shaiq does not explain that the verse was intended not for all mankind, but only for the Children of Israel. When she quotes the verse, it becomes “whoever kills an innocent [“slew a person”], it is as if he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind.” This verse, lifted from the Jewish text of the Mishnah, sounds good. But it is the part that is left out by Moina Shaiq that is most important. For that part of the verse makes an exception to the rule of not-killing, and says that such killing is merited as punishment either for ‘“murder“ or for “spreading mischief [corruption, fitna] in the land.” “Spreading mischief in the land” means disobeying Allah.
Another deliberate lapse; Moina Shaiq does not follow 5:32 with the key verse, 5:33, that immediately follows and makes clear the real meaning of 5:32, which is not to condemn all killing, but to note when it is allowed. 5:33 describes the proper way to kill those who “make war upon Allah and His messenger”: “The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land.” Who “makes war upon Allah and His messenger”? It’s the non-Muslims, of course, and it is they who should be “killed or crucified.”
Mike says
What about deception it clearly states using it in the quran
Elisha says
Correct:
Whoever disbelieves in Allah after his belief… except for one who is forced [to renounce his religion] while his heart is secure in faith. But those who [willingly] open their breasts to disbelief, upon them is wrath from Allah , and for them is a great punishment – 16:106
Jihad by stealth forces muslims to lie about the true meaning/goals of islam. As in the following:
Let not believers take disbelievers as allies rather than believers. And whoever [of you] does that has nothing with Allah , except when taking precaution against them in prudence. And Allah warns you of Himself, and to Allah is the [final] destination. – 3:28
It is prudent for them in regards to stealth jihad to call you friend, as this lying snake of a woman does.
Regarding sura 5:32-33, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND EVERYONE TO WATCH THE FOLLOWING:
Obama’s Big Dilemma [with Sam Shamoun & David Wood]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1xWbOL33Rw
Link to Ibn Kathir’s commentary on sura 5:33
http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=784&Itemid=
Meaning of “mischief”:
http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=436&Itemid=
PAY VERY SPECIAL ATTENTION! They attack us because we “oppose and contradict”! This means that merely being a “kafir” gives them permission to kill!
Please, DO NOT let any muslim deceive you with their oily charm. You have the proof right here of their treachery and evil intentions.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. – Hosea 4:6
Ned kelly says
She was SO( lucky she was brought up in a western culture, where she wasnt banned from leaving home without a male relative to escort her, where maybe she was allowed to use contraception, instead of having 20 children, where her husband would have been jailed if he beat her or, as many doctors in UK see at births, the women are covered in bruises + cigarette burns. In most Islamic countries, she would be canned or killed for wearing pants, as she is in this photo, or makeup, or having even a bit of her hair showing.
BC says
What is best is for people to read Islam for themselves and understand what it says completely. I would not trust any Muslim to interpret their religion for me. Only an ex Muslim like eg. Nonie Darwish whose books I cannot recommend too highly. R Spencer’s Life of Mohammad is also highly recommended
mike9a says
For the start(ers):
(1) Muslim women have to wear the veil, no choice!
(2) Islam encourages wife beating.
(3) The woman inherits only half what a man can inherit.
(4) The woman’s testimony is equal only to half of the man’s testimony.
(5) Muslim woman cannot have jobs outside their homes.
(6) Polygamy is strongly recommended.
(7) Men status is higher than that of the women.
(8) Muslim Women cannot have education.
(9) Women cannot share in the political life in their communities.
(10) Women cannot pray, fast, do Hajj or Ummrah during menstruation.
(11) Women are stoned to death for Adultery.
(12) Muslim women cannot marry Jewish or Christian men.
(13) Muslim women do not have the right to divorce their husbands.
(14) Compensation for the murder of a woman is half the going rate for men.
(15) For a woman to prove rape, four adult males of “impeccable” character must witness the incident.
(16) The legal age for girls to marry tends to be very young.
(17) Female circumcision, also called female genital mutilation.
(18) Muslim women are not allowed to drive.
(19) Typically, fathers win custody of boys over the age of six and girls after the onset of puberty.
(20) Women must be segregated form men in public, work and places of worship.
(21) “Honor killings” of women: Murders by husbands or male relatives of women suspected of disobedience, usually a sexual indiscretion or marriage against the family’s wishes.
(22) “Morality Police” keeps control on the behaviour mainly of women.
(23) Women cannot travel freely except in the company of a male relative, “mahram.”`
(24) Women are assumed to have only HALF of the intellect and only HALF the moral character of men.
(25) Mohammed called women ‘domestic animals’ and ‘prisoners’ (of men) in his final and unimpeachable and universally binding last sermon which has the force of law in Islam.
mortimer says
SOME QUESTIONS FOR Moina Shaiq about the MISOGYNISTIC HADITHS …
The hadiths of Mohammed, Islam’s false prophet, that insult and degrade all women:
– I think that women were created for nothing but evil
– Women have ten ‘awrat (vulvas). When she gets married, the husband covers one, and when she dies the grave covers the ten (of her shameful parts)
– A straw mat in the corner of the house is preferable to a barren woman
– Women are toys, so choose (your ‘toys’)
– The woman is a toy, whoever takes her, let him care for her [or do not lose her]
– Had it not been for women, God would have truly, truly been worshipped
– Men perished the day they obeyed the women
– Obedience to a woman’s advice causes regret
– Consult women and act contrary (to it)
– Sneezing, drowsing, yawning in prayer, also menstruation, vomiting and nose-bleeding are from Satan
– When…your affairs are in the hands of your women, the interior of the earth (hell) will be the better for you than its surface
– If a woman offered one of her breasts to be cooked and the other to be roasted, she still will fall short of fulfilling her obligations to her husband. And besides that if she disobeys her husband even for a twinkling of an eye, she would be thrown in the lowest part of Hell, except she repents and turns back
– Mohammed asked some women, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half that of a man?” The women said, “Yes,” He said, “This is because of the deficiency of the woman’s mind.”
– I have not seen any one more deficient in intelligence and religion than you (women)
– I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers are women.
– Bad omen is in the woman, the house and the horse
– After me I have not left any affliction more harmful to men than women
– Don’t wear false hair for Allah sends His curse upon such ladies who lengthen their hair artificially
– Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur’an
– Women, slaves and camels are same
– Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman
– If you relax the woman’s bridle a tiny bit, she will take you and bolt wildly. And if you lower her cheek-piece a hand span, she will pull you an arm’s length … Their deception is awesome and their wickedness is contagious; bad character and feeble mind are their predominant traits
– “[A man’s wife] fears him, while he fears her not, a kind word from him satisfies her, where nothing of hers has importance in his eyes, it is she who must tolerate the presence of concubines, and it is she who worries when he is ill whereas even her death would leave him indifferent
– If a man calls his wife to his bed and she refuses, and he spends the night angry with her, the angels curse her until morning
– Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals [awan] with you and do not possess anything for themselves. You have taken them only as a trust from God and you have made the enjoyment of their persons lawful by the word of God, so understand and listen to my words…
– Muhammad’s last words on women during his farewell speech:
– God allows you to put them in separate rooms and to beat them but not with severity. If they refrain from these things they have the right to their food and clothing with kindness. Lay injunctions on women kindly, for they are prisoners with you having no control- of their persons. (Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated in English by A. Guillaume. First published by Oxford University Press, London in 1955)
FYI says
And if I may add…some simple questions for Moina…..I don’t imagine any cogent answers..
1)Why does allah say the koran confirms the Bible {in koran 3:3} when it doesn’t?it CONTRADICTS the Bible.it TOTALLY contradicts both the Torah and the Gospel.
Since k3:3 is a demonstrably FALSE statement,how can 1}the koran be “perfect” or 2}true or 3)the word of God?Good luck.
2)Why does allah claim he gave the Gospel to Jesus {koran 5:46} when the completed Gospel did not even exist at the time of Jesus but came AFTER and was written by humans in any case..so it cannot have been written by allah himself..?
3)Given that Moses and Jesus are Jews,explain allah’s antisemitism of k2:65 and k9:30.See if you get the Irony…an antisemitic god with JEWISH prophets who he pretends.. are muslim..
4)In defiance of God’s 2nd chief commandement{Found in Judaism and Christianity}allah says the complete opposite “oh ye who believe”Take not the Jews and Christians for friends” k5:51.
Why is there no LOVE in islam?How did allah miss those essential two CHIEF commandments?
5}given that there are FALSE statements in the koran k{3:3}Why should any muslima be obliged to wear a hijab or listen to allah’s MISOGYNY K2:282{a woman’s testimony =half that of a man etc}?
You see,if k3:3 is FALSE then you really don’t need to wear a hijab……
6}Why does allah,in his “perfect” koran, get Christian Theology completely wrong?If allah says he wrote the Gospel then how come allah DENIES what he wrote in the Gospel?
7}Why does the koran teach CONTRARY to Exodus 20?What part of “thou shalt NOT kill” {6th commandment}does the islamic brain just not understand??
8}Christians are monotheists,yet due to allah’s inability to understand theology{koran 4:157,koran 4:171}
muslims wrongly thing Christians are guilty of shirk.Explain allah’s EPIC theology fail.
9}muhammed,amongst other things like being a polygamist and child rapist and a thief{stole from the Jews…}was a mass-murderer of Jews{Abu Dawud 4390}and a slave seller{sahih muslim 3901}
How exactly does that constitute the “perfect man”?
How on earth did he miss those Commandments?what the hell sort of “prophet” is that?
10)”We shall make thee read o muhammed so that thou shalt not forget”
koran 87 v 6
But in koran 7v 157 it is said that muhammed “can neither read nor write”
Did allah forget that muhammed couldn’t read?
11)”Above it are nineteen”
koran 74:30
Nobody knows what that means.Nobody
Nineteen what?camels?Pineapples?of Mr Spencer’s most excellent books?Explain it…..
A statement from allah that nobody understands:So how exactly is the koran “perfect”??
tedh754 says
Why is she telling this to non-muslims? She needs to be speaking to ISIS and let them know they have it all wrong.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Precisely! My standard response to anyone who tells me that the killers misunderstand or corrupt Islam is to say, “Why are you trying to convince me? I’m not the one doing the killing. Have you spoken to ISIS, Boko Haram, Al-Shabab, Al-Qaida or any of people supporting them?” Their response to that is to accuse me of “Islamophobia.”
gravenimage says
*Exactly*, ted.
James Lincoln says
tedh754,
My guess is that she is afraid to go anywhere near ISIS – even though she is actually helping them.
rubiconcrest says
IVery good question. I hope someone gets an answer from her soon. Put it on Youtube!
mortimer says
MORE INTERESTING QUESTIONS FOR MOINA SHAIQ …
THE MOST UNACCEPTABLE THINGS in Islam:
1 No Golden Rule 2 No free speech 3 No democracy 4 Jihad – holy war of supremacism 5 Honour killings 6 Taqiyya – sacred lying 7 Taqlid – group think 8 Circular reasoning 9 Misogyny – repression of women 10 Rape of kafirs as jihad prizes 11 Genocide 12 Ethnic cleansing 13 Al-Walaa wal-Baraa – Islamic apartheid 14 Torture 15 Plundering 16 Cruel and unusual punishments 16 Backwardness – stagnation 17 Violence against women 18 Slavery 19 Discriminatory Sharia law 20 Hatred of the arts 21 No music 22 Pedophilia disguised as child marriage 23 Fifty generations of cousin marriage and genetic defects 24 Cruelty to animals 25 Extortion tax to humiliate disbelievers 26 No historic basis 27 Anti-intellectual obscurantism 28 FGM 29 Arab racism 30 Theocratic totalitarianism 31 Vigilantism 32 Amoral, opportunistic character of Mohammed that all Muslims must imitate 33 Hatred of non-Muslims as an essential doctrine 34 History of Islam includes the genocidal murders of 270 million non-Muslims in Islamic holy wars, terrorism, persecutions and enslavement directed against non-Muslims. 35. Holy books of Islam contain more calls for violence than all other foundational religious texts.
Renate says
Judging by news reports just about every day, I’d say too many people already have met a Muslim, and not in a good way.
gravenimage says
*Spot on*, Renate.
JW_Reader says
I was talking to a old Irish lady. She commented, “the more I know about Islam, the less I like it.”
revereridesagain says
Does anyone knowledgeable ever show up with the irrefutable quotes from Quran, Hadiths, etc., to confront this propagandist, or are they all just leftists who want to believe the lies anyway? Most regular readers of JihadWatch could leave her taqiyya cake out in the rain in five minutes flat. But if people do show up to confront her, are they allowed to stay and to ask such questions?
As for the 4 offspring and all the grandkiddies, are they making their own contributions to spreading the “It’s a religion of peace” message? And how nice to know that headbags are in bloom on the streets of Fremont. Our immigration policies bearing fruit down the years…
gravenimage says
Good questions.
Marina says
She is lying through her teeth. Instead of letting her deceive the kuffars year after year an ex muslim or a knowledgeable kafir should debate her about the violent teachings of the unholy koran
Berengaria says
No Moina, We, Non-Muslims, Do Not Need to “Meet a Muslim”, we already met Muslims on 9/11/2001 & that was enough to “Sour me on the Whole Darn Barrel of Muslims”.
San Bernardino & all the other Attrocities, committed by Muslims, have reinforced our knowledge of Allah, Mohammad & their Hairy Followers(male & female).
So Moina does Not need to fret about “Prejudice Setting In”, We Non-Muslims have progressed way Past Prejudice & we now see the TRUTH of your Vile Cult, & we loathe it.
Go Gather up GW Bush, if he’s still hanging around with his pals at the DC Islamic Center & both of you Apologists for Islam, Beg God for Forgiveness, because we are not listening to your LIES, ANYMORE.
gravenimage says
Meet A Muslim: Moina Shaiq (Part One)
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This foul Taqiyya is going on in my own region–I live just two towns north of Fremont.
More:
After the San Bernardino massacre of 2015, she decided that she had to do something to bring the truth about peaceful Islam to Americans “before prejudice set in.”
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Funny that Moina Shaiq didn’t decide to speak to her coreligionists who thought that mas slaughtering co-workers at a holiday party was perfectly Islamic…
More:
The ad offered ideas for questions: Are women oppressed in Islam? What is the Islamic view of terrorism? How does Islam view other religions?
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Of course, any *truthful* answers to these questions are quite horrifying to civilized people. Every Muslim I have spoken to in depth eventually admits that women have second-class status and that they want to see Israel destroyed.
nicholas tesdorf says
She should go over to ISIS and set them straight on this as they seem to have misunderstood all of the books of Islam, which they keep on quoting.
Norger says
And those “misunderstanders” of Islam who belong to ISIS quote those authoritative Islamic texts both confidently and accurately.
This is one of the my main issue with “moderate” Muslims. They either don’t know or refuse to be candid about Islam’s articles of faith.
simpleton1 says
Mohammad to be part of his deceit as Mohammad taught and can be seen in his sayings, actions and deeds.
Taqiyya , permissible lies, deceit to hide such deeds.
Tawriya , appearing to agree but muslims are in their minds on another subject, inshallah.
Kitman omission lying, by quoting peaceful verses, though they know they are abrogated by commands of violence verses.
Muruna , by appearing contrary, like drinking, to hide a muslims real intentions.
plus other variations that are adapted for Mohammad’s purpose.
Tu quoque You or they, did it too.
Squirrels , introduce a new topic
James Lincoln says
There is another Islamic propagandist who writes extensively for the Portsmouth Herald, a New Hampshire newspaper. He also runs “Ask a Muslim Anything” talks / forums, with more of the same propaganda.
His name is Robert Azzi. He just won the 2018 Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications First Amendment Award.
Look up some of his past articles in the Portsmouth Herald, a very liberal newspaper. It would be a full-time job to carefully refute his articles with evidence-based fact. There are occasional letters to the editor but it is an uphill battle.
The general public is being severely misled.
Someone with the expertise necessary should take this on.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
His name is Robert Azzi. He has been discussed at Jihad Watch here: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/hugh-fitzgerald-what-to-ask-at-robert-azzis-town-hall
it would be very useful if those living in New Hampshire were to attend his Ask-A-Muslim events, and ask those very questions.
And those same questions — with Qur’anic verses given — could be included in letters to the Portsmouth editor.
The usual topics could be discussed: the 109 jihad verses in the Qur’an (e.g. 2:190-194, 4:89,8:12,8;60,4:89, 9:5,9:29,47:4.
Aspects of Muhammad’s life: consummating the marriage to Aisha when she was nine; taking part in killing the 600-900 bound prisoners of the Banu Qurayza; his satisfaction at learning of the killings, by his followers, of Asma bint Marwan, Abu ‘Afak, Kab bin al-Ashraf; his ordering the torture, and then the killing, of Kinana of Khaybar; his owning of slaves; his explanation that the testimony of a woman is worth half that of a man’s “because of the deficiency in their intelligence.”
Then there are the verses telling Muslims not to take Christians and Jews as friends (5:51) for “they are friends only with each other”: the verses that claim that Muslims “are the best of peoples” (3:110) and Non-Muslims ‘the most vile of creatures”(98:6).
Finally, just two quotes from the Hadith of al-Bukhari (cite the number): “War is deceit”and “I have been made victorious through terror.”
Ideally those hoping to disrupt, through telling the truth, Azzi’s practiced performance in deceiving unwary and usually ignorant Infidels, should go in groups, so that now one, and now another, can ask Azzi one unanswerable question after another. What he does not want is anyone showing up who actually knows something.
And the same Qur’anic verses and hadith could be included in letters to The Portsmouth Herald.
James Lincoln says
Much thanks for all that you do, Mr. Fitzgerald!
And great advice…
Mark Berlinger says
Any woman who has read and understands Sura 4 and is okay with it, truly has a mental disorder.
Qur’an 4:34 “… and those [wives] from whom you fear desertion, admonish them, leave them alone in bed, and beat them.”
“Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.”
Translations intended for Western sensibilities sometimes water down the word ‘beat’, but it is the same one used in verse 8:12 and clearly means ‘to strike’.
Sahih Bukhari (72:715) – A woman came to Muhammad and begged him to stop her husband from beating her. Her skin was bruised so badly that it is described as being “greener” than the green veil she was wearing. Muhammad did not admonish her husband, but instead ordered her to return to him and submit to his sexual desires.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/wife-beating.aspx
Ned kelly says
She was lucky she was brought up in a western country, where she didnt need to have a male relative escort her if she left the house, where she isnt stone or caned for wearing pants, as in many Islamic countries (Ive seen many videos of this) or makeup, or having a bit of her hair showing. Many doctors in UK are seeing muslim women giving birth, who are covered in bruises + cigarette burns, + constant videos of Imams telling men woman are worth less than a dog , which they despise. Either she is delusional, or full of it.
Daniel Silvan says
Interesting how no other religion requires meetings with the general public to inform them how non-lethal their religion is.
jewdog says
It’s much easier to tell people what they want to believe than to tell them the ugly truth. As Julius Caesar once said – “The People love to be deceived”.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Why do we need any bronze-age superstitions?
Carolyne says
Why do we need any superstitions?