Haroon Moghul subtitles this cynical and deceptive piece of Islamic dawah “The prophet was an outsider. Just like me.” Poor little “Dwayne”! Moghul, a professional whiner who is obsessed with portraying himself and other Muslims as perpetual victims, so cowers in fear of “Islamophobic” coffee servers that he says his Starbucks name is not Haroon, but “Dwayne.” My Starbucks name, meanwhile, is “Haroon.”
Moghul is not really a victim, however; he’s a dishonest propagandist who traffics in malicious defamation, likening me to jihad mass murder mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki, blithely ignoring the inconvenient facts that I have never called for violence, approved of violence, exhorted anyone to commit terror acts, or assisted in the planning of any terror acts. He is flagrant in his dishonesty, discounting the reality of jihad terror while magnifying the fiction of “Islamophobia,” and frequently takes advantage of his audience’s ignorance about Islam to invert reality, portraying Muslims as victims of a cruel “Islamophobic” machine, instead dealing with the reality of non-Muslims threatened by the global jihad.
That this disingenuous huckster spreads his lies in the New York Times is an indication of how far the Times has fallen from any actual journalistic standards. Moghul says: “I’d memorized Muhammad’s life story in Sunday school, cramming facts, dates, lineages into my head as if I was preparing for an A.P. exam, a good Muslim like my parents wanted me to be.”
If that is true, then Moghul knows that what he has published in the New York Times is a beginning-to-end tissue of lies. But if it fools a few Infidels into complacency regarding the jihad threat, then it will have accomplished its purpose.
Much more below.
“Happy Birthday, Muhammad,” by Haroon Moghul, New York Times, November 20, 2018:
Tuesday is the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday. It’s the 12th of Rabi al-Awwal, the day most Muslims believe he came into the world some 1,400 years ago….
I’d memorized Muhammad’s life story in Sunday school, cramming facts, dates, lineages into my head as if I was preparing for an A.P. exam, a good Muslim like my parents wanted me to be. But it had thus far been so much data — cold, abstract and inhuman.
In Medina I realized I actually believed all the stories about him. That he buried the least loved of his fellow Arabs with his own hands. That he put two of his fingers together and promised that he and the orphan would be that close in the life to come. That he so loved the vulnerable that God loved him in turn….
Here are a few statements attributed to Muhammad in hadiths that are considered reliable by Islamic scholars. They give a slightly different picture of the man:
“I have been made victorious through terror.” — Sahih Bukhari 4:52.220
“Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them…. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them.” — Sahih Muslim 4294
“I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah, and he who professed it was guaranteed the protection of his property and life on my behalf except for the right affairs rest with Allah.” — Sahih Muslim 30
“May Allah curse the Jews and Christians for they built the places of worship at the graves of their Prophets.” — Sahih Bukhari 1.8.427
“I looked into Paradise and I saw that the majority of its people were the poor. And I looked into Hell and I saw that the majority of its people are women.” — Sahih Bukhari 3241; Sahih Muslim 2737
When asked about this, he explained: “I was shown Hell and I have never seen anything more terrifying than it. And I saw that the majority of its people are women.” They said, “Why, O Messenger of Allah?” He said, “Because of their ingratitude (kufr).” It was said, “Are they ungrateful to Allah?” He said, “They are ungrateful to their companions (husbands) and ungrateful for good treatment. If you are kind to one of them for a lifetime then she sees one (undesirable) thing in you, she will say, ‘I have never had anything good from you.’” — Sahih Bukhari 1052
And in another hadith: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) went out to the musalla (prayer place) on the day of Eid al-Adha or Eid al-Fitr. He passed by the women and said, ‘O women! Give charity, for I have seen that you form the majority of the people of Hell.’ They asked, ‘Why is that, O Messenger of Allah?’ He replied, ‘You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religious commitment than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.’ The women asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what is deficient in our intelligence and religious commitment?’ He said, ‘Is not the testimony of two women equal to the testimony of one man?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Is it not true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her religious commitment.’” — Sahih Bukhari 304
Moghul doubtless knows about such passages and many more. But he doesn’t bother to reveal them to his New York Times audience, even to explain them away. Now, why is that?
Moghul continues:
He was an outsider like me. Being an orphan from age 6 in a very patrilineal, very patriarchal and very tribal society must have been a social death sentence. Muhammad could have reacted by seething with resentment and lashing out at the world. He could have turned on himself. Instead he became a paragon of compassion.
There are numerous passages in the hadith and sira literature in which this paragon of compassion orders the murders of people who have insulted him. These include Abu Afak, who was over one hundred years old, and the poetess Asma bint Marwan. Abu Afak was killed in his sleep, in response to Muhammad’s question, “Who will avenge me on this scoundrel?” Similarly, Muhammad on another occasion cried out, “Will no one rid me of this daughter of Marwan?” One of his followers, Umayr ibn Adi, went to her house that night, where he found her sleeping next to her children. The youngest, a nursing babe, was in her arms. But that didn’t stop Umayr from murdering her and the baby as well. Muhammad commended him: “You have done a great service to Allah and His Messenger, Umayr!” (Ibn Ishaq 674-676)
Then there was Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf. Muhammad asked: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” One of the Muslims, Muhammad bin Maslama answered, “O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?” When Muhammad said that he would, Muhammad bin Maslama said, “Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab).” Muhammad responded: “You may say it.” Muhammad bin Maslama duly lied to Ka’b, luring him into his trap, and murdered him. (Sahih Bukhari 369)
When he first proclaimed prophecy, even his own uncle laughed at him, but he never laughed back. His followers were reviled, beaten and killed. He didn’t strike back. Rather he ran from one town to another, like Hagar at Paran, desperate to find his people refuge. Twelve years into his religious mission, in the year 622, he was forced to flee his native Mecca and arrived a refugee in Medina — but the people who chased him there didn’t leave him be. Not long after finding safe harbor, he was forced to take up arms, time and again, to defend his faith, his community, and himself.
In reality, the vast majority of battles that Muhammad fought in were offensive, and after his death, his followers, emulating him, attacked and conquered the Middle East, North Africa, Persia, Spain, and much of India with astonishing rapidity. None of this was defensive warfare. Just consider: Muhammad began waging violent jihad in Medina, one city of Arabia. By the time of his death he was master of all Arabia. That’s a most impressive defensive action! And likewise, when he is supposed to have died, in 632, the Muslims controlled only Arabia. By 100 years later, in 732, their empire stretched from Spain all across North Africa and the Middle East to Persia and India. They defended themselves all the way to conquering nearly half of the known world? Pull my other leg.
But even as he did, he remained dedicated to building a society that would provide the inclusion he (and his followers) had been deprived of….When terrorists struck New York and Washington in 2001 I was horrified, scared and bewildered. The Muhammad I revered bore no resemblance to the Muhammad they claimed. In their view, Muhammad was a conqueror first, a politician and a general second, and a man of faith last, and least.
9/11 was hardly the first act of violence committed by Muslims acting in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings. As I show in my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, violent jihad has been a constant of Islamic history. If Moghul is to be believed, then Muslims for 1,400 years, everywhere Muslims have gone, have misunderstood Islam and outraged the memory of Muhammad. And this mass apostasy took place at the very top, as the violent jihad was led by the caliphs and other Muslim rulers who were, by their own accounts, endeavoring to emulate Muhammad and put his teachings into practice.
This is a gross misunderstanding of his life, and an inversion of the message he actually preached. When he had nowhere else to turn, when he couldn’t find anyone to protect his community, then — and only then — did he take up arms to defend his faith.
But the politics he attempted are instructive. In one of his first pronouncements in Medina, he pledged that the Muslim community would defend the native Jewish community from any of its enemies, and declared Medina to be one nation of two faiths, a profound and unusual gesture of pluralism and tolerance….
Moghul doesn’t tell you what happened next: Muhammad exiled two of the three Jewish tribes of Medina, and massacred the third. Then he went to the oasis of Khaybar, where the two Jewish tribes he exiled had gone from Medina, and massacred them. On his deathbed, as I quoted above, he vowed to expel all Jews, as well as Christians, from Arabia.
Haroon Moghul almost certainly knows that what I am writing here is all true. He will take no notice of this article, of course, and will hope that you won’t see it, because the question arises inevitably: what does Moghul make of the abundance of material, only some of which have I quoted above, found in canonical Islamic texts, that contradicts his picture of Muhammad? Why doesn’t he discuss this material and offer some explanation for it? Or is he just hoping that we don’t know about it, and that his vilification of those who point it out as “Islamophobes” will suffice for his readers to dismiss it?
Whatever the explanation, Haroon Moghul is a dissembler and propagandist of the most cynical type. And the New York Times is his eager and willing accomplice.
Krishna says
Muhammad isn’t born today he was born on April 22nd
Gerard says
It wouldn’t be the only factual inaccuracy in that propaganda piece. I like how my comment, where I delineate all of the lies in the piece-starting with the belief that Mohammed was a font of compassion-didn’t merit a “Times Pick,” but all of the lemming-like, NPC applause was pushed to the front of the queue.
Kathleen Wallace says
I’m sorry but I’m having a little trouble wrapping my head around the idea that Muhammad was compassionate. Having sex with a 9 year old girl showed his compassion? Beheading Jews who opposed him was showing compassion? Killing others who spoke against him was showing compassion, etc.? The old grey lady is now run by a bunch of imbeciles.
No Muzzies Here says
Funny this comes right during the Holidays, three celebrations based on Christian beliefs, right in a row. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
The Times has given its full support to Islam from day one, and is not ashamed to show its hatred for Christianity.
Renate says
More fake news.
mortimer says
There are SIX DIFFERENT WAYS of deception that are permissible in Islam:
1•Taqiyya (Shia) or Muda’rat (Sunni): tactical deceit for the purposes of spreading Islam.
2•Kitman: deceit by omission.
3•Tawriya: deceit by deliberate ambiguity.
4•Taysir: deceit through facilitation (not observing all the tenets of Sharia by ‘making things easier’).
5•Darura: deceit through necessity (to engage in something “Haram” or forbidden such as drinking alcohol to exploit non-Muslims).
6•Muruna: ‘flexibility’ or temporary suspension of Sharia to make Muslim migrants appear ‘moderate’ and blend in until Muslims are numerically strong enough to enforce Sharia.
Muslims imitate Allah ‘THE BEST OF DECEIVERS’.
Allahu khayru l-makireena – Koran. 3:54; cf. 8:30
– “Taqiyya permeates almost all the activities and dealings of Muslims with non-Muslim societies…” – a former sheikh Sam Solomon
NYT editors need to learn the word ‘TAQIYYA’.
Wellington says
Ah, where to begin?
Robert Carrillo says
A message from Minnesota:
Please don’t confuse me with the facts.. It hurts too much to become an adult..
Walter Sieruk says
The man who was the founder and prophet of religion of Islam of whom the New York Times actually called a “paragon of compassion” has again disproven and discredited itself as a reliable and truth printing newspaper. For the history of the behavior and actions of Muhammad reveals that the prophet of Islam as a man cruel murderous violence. Likewise the religion Muhammad started and founded which has the Qur ‘an [the Koran] is the entire foundation of this religion instructs on the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. Furthermore, it may be illustrated that if Islam is represented as a tree then the fruits then the fruits of that tree are the many brutal, violent and deadly jihad terror entities. Such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, al Shabaab , Hamas, Hezbollah, P.I.J. etc. With this statement, the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus may, very much, apply to this subject. For Jesus taught “Ye do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:16, 17, 18,.20. [K.J.V.] In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13,20.
mortimer says
There are SIX DIFFERENT WAYS of deception that are permissible in Islam:
1•Taqiyya (Shia) or Muda’rat (Sunni): tactical deceit for the purposes of spreading Islam.
2•Kitman: deceit by omission.
3•Tawriya: deceit by deliberate ambiguity.
4•Taysir: deceit through facilitation (not observing all the tenets of Sharia by ‘making things easier’).
5•Darura: deceit through necessity (to engage in something “Haram” or forbidden such as drinking alcohol to exploit non-Muslims).
6•Muruna: ‘flexibility’ or temporary suspension of Sharia to make Muslim migrants appear ‘moderate’ and blend in until Muslims are numerically strong enough to enforce Sharia.
Muslims imitate Allah ‘THE BEST OF DECEIVERS’.
Allahu khayru l-makireena – Koran. 3:54; cf. 8:30
– “Taqiyya permeates almost all the activities and dealings of Muslims with non-Muslim societies…” – a former sheikh Sam Solomon
ciudadanocr says
Well, readers tore down that piece of propaganda in the comments section. Not even liberals buy into that bullsh*t about “compassionate” Mohamed. The disconnect between liberal media/politicians and the people is abysmal.
Walter Sieruk says
The New York Times needs to have its writers investigate the real history of the actions and teachings of Islam’s prophet Muhammad , to have a “reality check” to understand the awful cruel character Muhammad actually was . As the religion Muhammad had started is reflects his violent and malicious nature As for staff of the New York Times in earlier issues of the newspaper also had claimed that “Islam is a peaceful and non-violent religion .” To those people the first and supreme Ayatollah, who was the very head Imam this current Islamic regime of Iran knows better stated about how he feels about those naive Westerns .For he declared “Islam grew with blood….Islam is a religion of blood for the infidels” He also said “Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1]
So If Ayatollah Khomeini was still alive and well in this year of 2018 he would spit on the staff of the New York Times
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM, pages 336,339.
common sense says
NYT were and still are holocaust deniers so this stupidity it makes sense.
Norger says
A “paragon of compassion?!” Are you f…ing kidding me?!!! How many “Pinocchio’s” does “Dwayne” get for that bit of shamelessly brazen dishonesty? And no one at the NYT (or elsewhere in the MSM) will call him out on this. I think I’m going to throw up.
FYI says
Read the comments section of the NYT….the ignorance of the Truth about this “prophet” is astounding!!
Haroon claims he memorized Perfect muhammed’s life story.
So did he miss the following?
muhammed was a..
MASS-MURDERER of Jews Abu Dawud 4390
polygamist bukhari 1:5:268
thief{stole from the Jews}/Ibn Ishaq764
self -confessed fraud al tabari 6:111{at least before allah conveniently cancelled out his statement}
pederast sahih muslim 3309
cross dresser sahih bukhari 2442
Camel pee drinker sahih bukhari 8:82:794
Slave owner Sahih muslim 3901
NOT one commandment of God{see Exodus 20} OBEYED it seems by this murderous “prophet”,a
serial adulterer and fraud!
muhammed and his god allah are OK with murder k2:191,adultery k4:24,stealing k48:20,bearing false witness…polygamy,child brides….all abominations and sins AGAINST GOD!muhammed and his god are Ok with using women as sex slaves{“what the right hand possesses”}and raping captive women.
No TRUE prophet of God lives an immoral life violating ALL of God’s moral commandments like muhammed did.
A FALSE prophet bears FALSE WITNESS and often happily indulges in theft,polygamy,adultery,pederasty,lying,murder etc:ALL of which is recorded in islamic teachings about …muhammed.
muslims are taught to follow the example or Sunnah of this “perfect man”:to emulate his example would require breaking ALL of God’s Commandments{see Exodus 20}.That is not a morally good path!
Lydia Church says
Mohammed was the paragon of evil, sin, blasphemy, and perversion.
Jesus is the model of compassion.
It’s like………………… duh.
But the new normal is: whatever the truth is, they deny it, whatever the reality is, they claim the opposite.
That is the new modus operandi of the mainstream media.
I have already gotten used to it.
Jaladhi says
I can’t believe NYTimes could sink to such depth of evil pit!
Jay says
So much blather. Thanks to JihadWatch and many other hard working groups, we already know islam is really pure evil. We should do our best to neutralize it and block everything it does or attempts to do, worldwide. Outlaw it, dismantle mosques, and prevent islam being taught to innocent little tiny kids. Declare total war against islam, worldwide.
Angemon says
Huh, “Dwayne”? Head’s up or your neck’s up:
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/1027/celebrating-birthdays-is-not-allowed
Mark Swan says
Mr. Haroon Moghul, has the infamous Muslim knack for making
absurdly ridiculous statements with complete and utter nerve.
mortimer says
Haroon Moghul should be charged with false advertising.
WPM says
Ask Haroon Mogul if any Moslem majority country has freedom of speech, how many churches or Jewish Temples remain in any Moslem majority countries? How many Hundi Temples destroyed before the British took over India in the 19 century, and millions of Buddhist Hundis ,Jews, Christians were killed by compassionate Moslems following Mohammad instructions? The New York Times has been on the wrong side in reporting on Communist in the 1920s ,Nazis in the 1930s and now Islam in 2018.What does all this reporting fake news have in common ,if it anti Christian ,anti Jewish, anti standard Western culture it must be true and right! The progressive NYT has editors with their heads so far up anti Western cultures ass of pro-Islam writers they cannot see the daylight of truth! Lets see if next April they have a writer ,writing about the misunderstood Hitler on his birthday?
infidel says
Certainly financed by the petro-dollars..for sure..
infidel says
Cheating and throwing wool over the eyes of the infidels
beyondculturewars says
Haroon Moghul is a very dangerous character because he speaks for a whole generation of American muslims who says that he really wants his cake (the Western lifestyle and a real relationship with a woman) and to eat it too (parental approval and religious affirmation).
He suffered an existential breakdown after his early attempts to reconcile his faith and his western upbringing….He wrote a book, recovered, and is rebuilding his career as an apologist and dawahist, relying more and more on taqiyya and kitman.
It’s millennials like this that mis-educate and deceive the next generation of Americans into believing Islam can be reformed and sharia is only about muslim families.
Once they realize they cannot reconcile sharia law with American liberties, will they just turn on non-muslims or will they assimilate????
Haroon’s continued taqiyya articles and You Tubes don’t bode well for his assimilation within American culture or his peaceful coexistence with his fellow non-muslim Americans.
Garfield says
has anyone sent this article to the times? If so what was the response?