David Wood offers a marvelous evisceration of Islamic apologist Craig Considine’s dawah in Newsweek in this video. Meanwhile, would Newsweek ever publish an article about how Christian principles can help protect one from the coronavirus? Not on your life.
“Can the Power of Prayer Alone Stop a Pandemic like the Coronavirus? Even the Prophet Muhammad Thought Otherwise,” by Craig Considine, Newsweek, March 17, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments and news sources to provide the most accurate and helpful advice to the world’s population, as the disease is indeed global in reach. Health care professionals are in high demand, and so too are scientists who study the transmission and effect of pandemics.
Experts like immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci and medical reporter Dr. Sanjay Gupta are saying that good hygiene and quarantining, or the practice of isolating from others in the hope of preventing the spread of contagious diseases, are the most effective tools to contain COVID-19.
Do you know who else suggested good hygiene and quarantining during a pandemic?
Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, over 1,300 years ago.
While he is by no means a “traditional” expert on matters of deadly diseases, Muhammad nonetheless had sound advice to prevent and combat a development like COVID-19.
Muhammad said: “If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague outbreaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place.”
He also said: “Those with contagious diseases should be kept away from those who are healthy.”…
Mobuyus says
He’s right in a way those who have contacted islam should be kept away from those who are healthy.
mortimer says
Look, Mobyus, Muslims are humans who have wrong information. They can be talked out of Islam. Millions are actually leaving Islam every year.
Naildriver says
Actually, I’d bet most Muslims cannot be talked out of Islam, and many would hurt you Mortimer, or even kill you, if you tried.
You for all your good facts don’t seem to understand religious faith, and a person’s almost genetic adherence to what ever he or she is served at an impressionable age, be it voodoo, Catholicism, Hinduism, Islam or Satanism.
Sure people will leave Islam but as many more are pulled into it like blacks enticed by racism or justification for felonies against whites, in prisons; and Islam appeals to thugs of any race, as it’s a men’s entitlement program, and appeals to lazy minds that enjoy full expression of limbic impulses — that Mob mentality; and, of course, it’s literally pushed by Western governments as equal to Western faiths, as Obama so infamously declared in Egypt.
It’s a serious enemy; and Islam is going to be a bloody plague upon mankind till war is waged against it.
Michael Copeland says
“The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust:
to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature…”
John Quincy Adams,
6th president of the United States
Mural says
@ Naildriver, you nailed it.
TruthWFree says
When your religion calls for fighting, slaying, and subjugating unbelievers, why would adherents of that religion do any innovation beneficial to mankind? One billion plus Muslims have contributed little to science and medicine for the betterment of mankind. 15 million Jews in the world have contributed far more to benefit mankind. Islam from the start was based on plunder and taking sex slaves, something that appeals to the worst base desires in humans…thugs. Muhammad’s religion only grew after he moved to Medina and started robbing caravans, taking plunder and sex slaves. He had 150 followers from 610 AD to 622 AD, 12 years, when he went to Medina. In Medina, his thuggery grew so that by 630 AD, 8 years, he fielded a 10,000 man army to march into Mecca and took the city. (Per Robert Spencer, “The Truth About Muhammad”.)
gravenimage says
Mortimer, allowing Muslims to flood into the West to rape and murder us is actually a *very* bad idea. Mobuyus is right.
Even if your claim that Muslims are all being magically “deprogrammed” by living in the West were correct–which is pretty iffy–it certainly isn’t happening fast enough to stop more and more Muslims victimizing us.
Peter35 says
Morty, normally I like your sensible comments, so what the hell happened here? You know as well as I that moslems are inbred, filthy, sexually driven sub-humans.
6woods says
“Millions”? Citation, please.
Giacomo Latta says
What’s the chance that you will be able to get a sufficient number of words out of your mouth in order to de-Islam a muslim according to your master plan when you meet one before a knife magically finds its way blade first across your throat?
Dieks says
I usually like your posts comments & pov, but you’ve got this one all totally ass backwards Mortimer and this comes from someone who has lived his whole childhood nextdoor to the ‘so-called’ rop!
TruthWFree says
Any Muslim leaving Islam can be killed by any “real” Muslim. That’s the “glue” that holds weak Muslims in Islam.
Jim says
Great point. That at least partially explains why Muslims in the West never condemn, en masse, the terrorist attacks by their co-religionists in our countries, while we go out and rally to protect Muslims from “Islamophobia” after each attack.
Re your earlier post: “One billion plus Muslims have contributed little to science and medicine for the betterment of mankind.”
You’re right, but the media, academics and politicians have been trying to tell us for years that Western Civilization stole all the great advances in history from Islam. This lie is being foisted upon our young, especially, and I suspect Considine, judging by his photo, was one the early indoctrinated.
CleaningCrew says
Join me in emailing Dr. Considine and asking him how much the Brotherhood paid him to publish such drivel. We need to expel the corrupt from of U.S. universities. This idiot needs to be called out. And he calls himself a “researcher.” Pathetic.
craig.m.considine@rice.edu
SKA says
So the Tablighi’s in India who are spitting in and licking Indian rupees in the hope of infecting “kuffar” with coronavirus are actually contradicting Mo? Apostasy! They need to be made aware of their “error.”
Lydia Church says
Perfect analysis!!!
And in both cases it’s sort of a ‘no-brainer’.
And yes, the power of prayer alone CAN stop the coronavirus. But ONLY if God so chooses to answer in such a way. That is NOT to say that you shouldn’t practice good hygiene, etc.
Somehow I don’t think that will be the answer at this point, no matter how many times you wash your hands, or don’t, or how hard you pray. It’s past that time already. The end time dominoes are falling too fast.
The video above is a must see!!!
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TruthWFree says
Good point! 🙂
CogitoErgoSum says
I think Muhammad had a warped sense of humor. He was the type of person who enjoyed making fools of people and so he did it whenever he could. This writer is doing the same thing with his opinion piece.
mortimer says
CES, disagree, there are almost no indications of a sense of humor in Mohammed in the hadiths. The only time Mohammed is reported as laughing hilariously is when he heard of the death of his enemies. Is that humorous or sadistic? Mohammed was such a narcissist that he compulsively manipulated people. He was driven to control and dominate. As his mental illness increased, he was finally assassinated by his closest companions.
CogitoErgoSum says
Well, he would have never let people see that he was laughing at them. But I visualize him smirking to himself every time somebody drank polluted well water or double dunked a fly into their cup of camel urine. He probably laughed to himself every time he came up with a new verse from Allah. He was a narcissist, a bully, a liar, a murderer, a rapis, a pedophile. Pick any bad character trait you want and Muhammad displayed it. Calling him the perfect man is an entire joke on its own.
FYI says
Given the manner of the ‘holy’ prophet’s death I suspect the Actual God YHWH must have laughed..
muhammed ,a mass murderer of JEWS{Abu Dawud 4390}killed thanks to the culinary ingenuity of an enslaved JEWISH woman whose poison took out the ‘holy’ man{from which he suffered in agony for several years.Aisha said she never saw anybody suffer so much.Poor, Perfect mo…}
But WHY was muhammed murdered,and WHY such a prolonged agony?
It seems too much of a coincidence:
muhammed{PBUH,actual Prophecy be unknown to him}was a mass murderer of the JEWS,the Children of Israel ,killed by an enslaved JEWISH woman whose family he had massacred,thus exposing him to be… a false prophet.
“But if any prophet dares to speak a message in my name when I did not command him to do so,he must die for it,and so must any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods”
Deuteronomy 18:20
Given that he murdered innocent Jews..
“I will avenge those who were killed.I will not spare the Guilty” because “They attacked the land of Judah and killed its innocent people” JOEL 3 19-21
All TRUE prophets are called by YHWH/God and have the gift of prophecy and preach in the name of God
A FALSE prophet appoints himself to the position ,does not have the gift of Prophecy and preaches a false god:in muhmmed’s case he appointed himself a prophet,preached a false god al LAH the Arab god of islam and he could not have had the Gift of prophecy{which comes from the Holy Spirit:something which doesn’t exist in islam!}:and look at how muhammed dies!
muhammed:oh allah the greatest of all deceivers{k3:54}let me, your ‘holy’ prophet into paradise!Look at all the Jews I killed for you.
YHWH/God “allah”?Wrong god.I see you missed the “greatest of all deceivers” bit.And a ‘holy’ prophet?You are joking right?
gravenimage says
Muhammed did laugh at the poor girl he raped the night after he murdered her father, brothers, and husband. Not sure that qualifies as a sense of humor, of course.
ELI says
“Muhammad said: “If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague outbreaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place.”
He also said: “Those with contagious diseases should be kept away from those who are healthy.”…”
That’s just sound advice, I am not sure why it’s so hard to accept that this man could have given sound advice.
Do you think he wanted his followers to get sick?
6woods says
Yes, this just proves what a kind, warm, caring and sensible individual mo was. Rape, murder, pedophilia, looting, burning, and general mayhem are no big deal compared to this sage advice.
mortimer says
ELI, you have obviously not read this article nor have you watched the video by David Wood … and yet, you comment on something you do not understand.
Mohammed’s comments are pure FATALISM. Look it up, pal. And then tell us if you LEARNED something.
FATALISM IN ISLAM.
(ELI … repeat, repeat, repeat, memorize, repeat may be Islam but it isn’t LEARNING.)
Keep reading JIHAD WATCH, Eli, because if you do, eventually you be so DEPRESSED by the actions of Muslims, you will no longer want to be a Muslim yourself.
ELI … stay at Jihad Watch, please. You will lose your faith.
Carpediadem says
Mortimer –
Eli is being very sarcastic.
Learn to read the signs.
gravenimage says
Carpediadem–with all respect–ELI is *not* being sarcastic. His only purpose ever since he’s been here is to spout apologia for Islam and to imply that the ‘filthy Infidels’ are as bad as Muslims. I’ve asked him point blank half a dozen times now if he will condemn the horrors of Jihad terrorism, but he won’t.
6woods says
Duh. ELI is a muzzie. Full stop.
A. Nonymous says
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Doesn’t mean you should rely on it!
mortimer says
OK, Mr. AN, he is MISSING THE POINT entirely, so he is *NOT* correct. Mohammed did NOT mean ‘quarantine’ or ‘isolation’ in the quoted hadiths. Mohammed’s doctrine in the hadiths is ISLAMIC FATALISM.
So you don’t have to do any WORK … I will provide the definition: (you’re welcome)
The concept of fatalism as commonly used in Islamic philosophy and Persian literature denotes the belief in the pre-ordained Decree of God (qażā wa qadar), according to which whatever happens to human beings or in the whole universe has been pre-determined by the will and knowledge of the Almighty, and that no changes or transformations in it can be made through the agency of the human will. The advocates of these tenets claim support for their views in the Koranic references to “The Tablet” (lawḥ) and “The Pen” (qalam; Koran 68:1, 85:22) and maintain that whatever happens in the world has been written down by God with the Pen of the Divine Will (qalam-e mašīyat) on the Tablet of the Eternal Decree (lawḥ-e qażā). The Tablet of the Eternal Decree, being “safely preserved” (maḥfūẓ, Koran 85:22), is immutable. Moreover, once the Pen of the Divine Will had written down the decrees on the Tablet, it dried up. What has been set down cannot therefore be altered. The prophetic Hadith referring to the drying up of the pen (jaff al-qalam) is mentioned in Persian poetry, including the Maṯnawī (Forūzānfar, p. 38).
Thus human destiny is pre-determined and whatever happens in the world follows a pre-ordained course which cannot be altered except by the will of God (Faḵr al-Dīn Rāzī, XXX, p. 78, XXXI, p. 129; Meybodī, X, pp. 186-87, p. 446). This belief, couched in a variety of ways, is reflected in many aspects of Persian culture including literature, mystical writings, folklore, and popular expressions. The reliance on auguries, religious vows and pledges and supplicatory gifts, can be regarded as strategies for ameliorating the inherent harshness of such beliefs and the paralyzing effect they can inflict on human endeavor, making any effort or struggle appear futile and worthless.
gravenimage says
Will ELI be following all his “Prophet” Muhammed’s advice? I can get him a deal on camel urine and diseased fly wings…
And don’t forget that eating seven Ajwah dates each day protect from toxins and magic!
Mural says
Nope. His followers are sick to begin with. Sick in the mind.
Good to see you taking a break from licking currency notes and gracing us with your idiotic post.
FYI says
muhmmad also famously said “Don’t forget to wear a face mask and wash your hands thoroughly.and Don’t forget to take your Vitamins and eat lots of fruit.Rely on science especially the incredible scientific knowledge of the koran and use the internet when necessary”
Or at least he might possibly have said it:if craig considine can make up stuff about muhammed,so can we..
No Muzzies Here says
He had such good advice, that it spawned a fanatical quasi-religious movement that sees itself spreading throughout the entire inhabited world through violence.
Wellington says
Every time you think Leftism can’t stretch absurdity and an apologia for evil anymore than it has, Leftism winds up doing so. As here.
Listen up, you colossal fool, Craig Considine. Mohammed was a bandit, a killer, a narcissist, a fraud, a pedophile and a psychopath (among other deficiencies). He’s one of the most malevolently influential persons in all of history, perhaps THE most malevolently influential person in all of history. So what if he did anything right. Hitler had the Autobahn built, the Volkswagen too, and put millions back to work. Care to praise Adolf as well?
You make me sick, Craig Considine. You are exactly what Ayn Rand warned against, an apologist for evil and thus you only prolong evil.
And I have to wonder what you really know about Islam. Know what the terms “kitman and “muruna” mean? Know who Kinana was? Could you name even one major school of Islamic theology? What do you know and think about Sura 4:89 in the Koran? Do you even know the difference between the terms “Sura” and “Sira?” What do you think about Bukhari Hadith 4.52.220? Do you even know what the hadiths are?
You’re a useful idiot par excellence. Just like many were for Nazism and Communism. If truth prevails, herein lies your richly deserved legacy.
James Lincoln says
A well written and correct analysis, Wellington.
My compliments…
mortimer says
Craig Considine is a professional whitewasher of Islam. He should be forensically audited.
FYI says
The Craig Considine approach to islamic apologetics is to find some nice cuddly story about muhammed,polish it and sell it.By ignoring awkward facts about muhammed {..which we here at JW are familiar with:the mass murdering of Jews Abu Dawud 4390,the black African slave trading Sahih muslim 3901,his pederasty and polygamy,his admission to being a fraud al Tabari 6:111.. }Considine can promote muhammed to the gullible and the easily deceived.
These apologists for islam are even more dishonest than islamic “scholars”.
Imagine writing a book about hitler,ignoring all the evil he did,but regaling us with stories of his vegetarianism,love of animals etc and making him out to be a humanitarian:that’s what folk like considine are doing with muhammed.
The Newsweek article says he is a “scholar,professor,global speaker and media contributor at the Dept of Sociology at Rice University.He is the author of ‘the Humanity of muhammed: a Christian view”
The “Humanity of muhammed”?
What humanity?
muahmmed was a Mass-murderer of Jews {Abu Dawud 4390} and the owner,buyer and seller of black African slaves{Sahih muslim3901}?
Shouldn’t that be the INHUMANITY of muhammed?
somehistory says
He didn’t cite the verses that supposedly quote the mass-murdering, raper of children, psychopathic liar. Since he didn’t cite chapter and verse, there is no reason to believe a word of what he wrote that the filthy mass-murdering, raper of children, psychopathic liar “said.”
And, furthermore, since the mass-murdering, raper of children, psychopathic liar told his followers to drink the bodily fluids of camels, and after instructing them on how to use the toilet in a way to glorify satan, he didn’t admonish them to sterilize their hands, there is no reason on God’s green earth to believe that he was so intelligent regarding viruses.
In the Bible, the Jews were told how to be “clean” when using their “toilet,” and what to do when someone had leprosy. They were admonished time and again about being clean and that they would receive a “blessing” from doing these things according to the Law. Part of the “blessing” being good health.
so, if the mass-murdering, raper of children, psychopathic liar eve had a “healthy” thought…which is not likely, then he may have heard about the moral and physical cleanliness of the Jews and Christians and their “good health” (Acts 15:29)
mortimer says
Craig Considine is a secret Muslim apologist pretending to be a Christian, so as to infiltrate into Christian groups and inject his whitewashed version of Islam.
Real scholars see Considine’s Islamist deceptions immediately. Considine’s subterfuges will backfire on him.
Craig, you need a shower. You will wake up with fleas.
, says
Wealthy Muslims are bribing the NYT and Newsweek.
FYI says
Notice that most of the comments under the Newsweek article are from muslims..praising their “holy” prophet..
Jack Cade says
Mohamed also said the sun goes down in a muddy pool and that camel piss is medicine.
Scheherazade Smith says
Considine is not only on the payroll of the Saudis, he also has an Arab boyfriend. He claims to be a Christian theologian, but his pocket, heart, and other bodily parts belong to Islam.
carpediadem says
Well, the Jews’ approach to quarantine measures predated ol’ Mo by several thousand years.https://forward.com/culture/441195/what-does-the-bible-say-about-quarantine/
gravenimage says
Newsweek uses the coronavirus pandemic to promote Islam
………………
Oh, gag me. The “Prophet” Muhammed also thought that camel urine and diseased flies were medicine.
As for the idea that he invented the idea of quarantine, nothing could be more absurd. The ancient world broadly understood the concept of quarantine, and it is found in Leviticus in the Bible, which dates to the 7th century bc or even earlier.
That Newsweek is flogging this stupid Da’wa is disgusting–but does not really surprise.
FYI says
Amazing stories about muhammed..
One day muhammed{peace,blessings,cuddles and cheerful felicitations be upon him},the holiest man that ever lived, was visiting the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem{which certainly existed then as is scientifically proven from the koran} when he saw two old men.Smiling{.. the Prophet loved to smile..}at them he thought he would do something lovely.After parking buraq,his winged flying donkey with a woman’s face,he gave one of the men $500 dollars. This shows us how unbelievably generous muhammed was.
{The other man was Jewish and didn’t qualify for alms giving,zakat,so he doesn’t count}
One day muhmmed saw a bird with a broken wing.He picked it up lovingly,took it home and put it in the cooking pot.And so we see that muhammed was eco-aware.
muhammed smiled a lot.On day,one of his black African slaves fell down the stairs and the baggage fell on top of him injuring him for life.muhammed laughed “stupid abdool!”
And that shows us how humane muhammed was,always smiling in the midst of difficulties{well,for others undergoing misfortune at least..}
muhammed was a humanitarian,eco-aware,convivial friendly man:he regularly recycled glass at the recycling depot in mecca.
These stories are islamically true{=made-up like the koran} but they COULD be true if we pretend they are and use the Craig Considine method of islamic apologetics.
Gbox says
The entire world in the 7th century would have been very happy if the Muslims had practiced social distancing.
gravenimage says
+1