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American ‘scholar’ claims that Islam is ‘the one religion that erases from its society the race problem’

Jun 3, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

In the words of “American scholar” Craig Considine, “America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.”

Considine neglects to mention the slavery of blacks that persists in the Islamic societies of Mauritania, Algeria, Sudan and Libya, and the overall “vulgar racism against Afro/black Arabs” that even Al Jazeera featured. He also forgot to mention the great divide between believers and non-believers in Islam, making it the most intolerant religion in the world.

Author Bruce Bawer writes a telling piece about Considine in FrontPage Magazine, aptly titled: “The Twisted World of Craig Considine“:

Craig Considine, a lecturer in sociology at Rice University in Houston, is full of love – or so he would have us believe. Love, that is, for Islam, its prophet, and its holy book. It’s a love that Considine – a self-declared Christian – can’t stop affirming ….Some apologists for Islam labor to “reinterpret” problematic passages of its holy books. Considine takes an easier route: he simply wills those passages out of existence.

The picture of the “twisted” Considine would be humorous were it not for the fact that he is feeding young minds at Rice University a diet of steady propaganda.

Robert Spencer and others have also discussed Considine’s deceptions several times here at Jihad Watch.

“American Scholar Underscores Islam’s Innate Anti-Racism Amid US Unrest,” by Safaa Kasraoui, Morocco World News, June 1, 2020:

Rabat – The teachings of Islam have throughout the years inspired American scholar Craig Considine, who shared with his social media followers how the religion and its ethics condemn racism and racial discrimination.

On May 31, the scholar took an extract from Malcolm Little, better known as Malcolm X, an American civil rights activist and minister who invited his countrymen to better understand Islam.

Considine shared a saying from Malcolm X’s writings during his visit to Mecca in 1964, reading: “America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.”

Considine said the black Muslim activist was encouraging Americans to consider the “farewell sermon of Prophet Muhammad” on racial equality.

“All mankind is from Adam & Eve an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action,” the passage reads.

In a tweet on May 29, Considine said: “Rooted in both ignorance & arrogance, racism has plagued civilization since the advent of man. Prophet Muhammad addressed this disease of the heart & [mind] from its root cause.”…..

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  1. Val says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 8:06 am

    Nobody needs to understand Islam but everyone needs to understand Muhammad’s behavior. Actions speak louder than words. Muhammad’s behavior speaks louder than all the words he ever spoke.

  2. Antiislamicman says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 8:32 am

    Strange as Muhammad was a slave trader of black people.

    Muhammad said the black man is the devil.

    He also said a black man will destroy the black stone.

    Islam is a lie and it enslaved black people way before the white man.

    • Bala says

      Jun 3, 2020 at 9:49 am

      Your name says it all….have you ever read the Quran or books about the Prophet Muhammad even those written by non-Muslims? One thing is for sure, you’ll never hear a Muslim insult Jesus Christ (Peace be upon him) because we love and respect him more than Christians do.

      • FYI says

        Jun 3, 2020 at 2:43 pm

        “you’ll never hear a muslim insult Jesus Christ”

        Well, that is a laugahble LIE.

        I have regularly heard muslims insult Jesus Christ:stop LYING muslim.
        muslims attack christian street preachers all the time, despite the fact that allah confirms the Gospel{koran 5:46-47}

        Jesus Christ is….JEWISH.

        This is confirmed in the Gospel{John 4 v22} ,a book allah confirms{koran 3:3}

        But the koran says Jews are “to be despised and hated” {koran 2:65}

        Since Jesus Christ is Jewish and the koran curses the Jews…you curse Jesus Christ in islam.And no he is not a muslim.He couldn’t be as He was JEWISH.

        You just revealed yourself to be a typical muslim liar,like your “prophet”.

        your “prophet” muhammed{pbuh,[actual] prophecy be unknown to him}was a FALSE prophet according..

        1]to the Bible{Deuteronomy 18:20}which was why he was killed:for preaching your false god al lah.And no doubt for murdering Jews{Abu dawud 4390}

        2]the koran{..yes that’s right,your koran..}koran 64:11,koran 69:43-44
        {“oh Aisha I feel my throat’s being cut…”}by the manner of his comical death.

        3]to his laughably wrong end time “prophecies” that the world would end 100 years after his death and would be taken over by ..Romans.

        4]to his own admission..
        “I have fabricated things against God and imputed to him thinks he has not said”
        Al tabari 6:111

        Perhaps you muslims should follow your own advice and read your own koran and hadiths.you don’t even know your own koran.And you cannot attack the Bible as allah CONFIRMS it{koran 3:3,koran 10:94}

      • USNavyVet says

        Jun 4, 2020 at 3:13 am

        You are nothing more than a taqqiya lying filthy nejis pig. You probably also support CAIR, the public propaganda garbage mouthpiece for the muslim brotherhood, and its pre-school muslim student association. People on this page need to Google the “Explanatory Memorandum On The Goals Of The Ikwhan (the muslim brotherhood)”, and read the English translation from the arabic, especially page 7 / Section 4 that publicly states openly the actual agenda of islam…

      • S. Francis says

        Jun 4, 2020 at 3:21 am

        Claiming that the “Jesus” of the islamic faith is the same Jesus found in the Christian faith is both ignorant and deceiving. Christians venerate Jesus as the son of god, while muslims declare him to be merely a prophet. The muslim “Jesus” is as different from the Christian Jesus as is the Jesus Malverde venerated by drug cartels in Mexico. It’s quite disingenuous to claim that a muslim will never insult Jesus Christ. A muslim insults Jesus Christ every time he denies that Christ is the son of god. As a side note, if you muslims do indeed love and respect Jesus Christ more than Christians do, why do you not riot and kill people when vile cartoons depicting Jesus are displayed or printed? If he is loved and respected, why do you not violently protect his image by slaughtering infidels when it is displayed, as you do when images of muhammad (virgin boys be upon him)?

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 4, 2020 at 6:49 pm

        Bala wrote, replying to Antiislamicman:

        Your name says it all….
        ………………………

        Notice that Bala is not able to dispute what Antiislamicman wrote re Islam enslaving Black people–he just ignores it. Does he have an actual problem with Muslims enslaving people to this day in Mauritania and Sudan and many other places? *Not so he says*.

        More:

        have you ever read the Quran or books about the Prophet Muhammad even those written by non-Muslims?
        ………………………

        I certainly have–slavery is mentioned in numerous verses of the Qur’an, including the abuse of sex slaves. They, along with the Hadith and Sira, confirm that the “Prophet” Muhammed was a slaver who took slaves, traded slaves, and kept sex slaves. Why would good Infidels be impressed with such horrors?

        And this is just the tip of the iceberg–the “Prophet” Muhammed was also a caravan-raider, pedophile, kidnapper, rapist, and mass murderer.

        More:

        One thing is for sure, you’ll never hear a Muslim insult Jesus Christ (Peace be upon him) because we love and respect him more than Christians do.
        ………………………

        This is grimly hilarious. The Muslim “Jesus”–really, “prophet Isa”–was not only not the Savior and did not die for anyone’s sins, but his only real role in Islam is to slaughter Christians in the last days.

        Pretending these are the same figures is ludicrous. Those like Bala only “respect” Isa as a murderer of Christians.

      • E T says

        Jun 4, 2020 at 8:12 pm

        You need to get off the drugs.

      • E T says

        Jun 4, 2020 at 8:17 pm

        Bala get off the drugs.

    • FYI says

      Jun 3, 2020 at 11:02 am

      “prophet muhammed actively defended Bilal,an Abyssinian from racism.
      muhammed described racists as people stuck in jahiliya{the state of ignorance}
      he even elevated bilal to the position of muezzin
      This is anti-racism in action”

      {craig considine tweet 28 may}

      The Bilal trick…

      Is this muhammed’s ‘anti-racism’ in action…….?

      “And he{muhammed} sold him for TWO of the blacks”
      Sahih Muslim 3901

      muhammed owned,bought,sold and enslaved black Africans.
      It looks like perfect mo was himself stuck in a state of ignorance.
      {But with craig considine,the facts must never get in the way of one of his pro-islam embellished stories}

      muhammed was also the murderer of Jewish men and Boys {Abu Dawud 4390}and raped a little girl{Sahih Bukhari 5:58:236 and{koran 98:6}insists Jews and Christians are the WORST of created beings :he was an antisemitic,antichristian,misogynistic,African slave owning,child-raping,polygamous,murderous,thieving,self-confessed fraud{al tabari 6;111}all of which can be shown from official islamic sources.

      considine should adopt an Arab supremacist name at this stage and admit he is a promoter of islam.He’s very good at lying and i’m sure he is paid well..

      considine’s fraudulent islamic apologetics seems to consist of willfully ignoring islamic sources,sugar-coating unpleasant facts about muhammed and selling it off as the work of a “scholar”

      • FYI says

        Jun 3, 2020 at 11:22 am

        “Racism is an offense against our creator.We are one human family”
        {craig considine Tweet today}

        But we are not ‘one human family’ to al lah the Arab god of islam,muhammed’s sock puppet.

        “lo!Those who disbelieve ,among the people of the scripture and the idolators will abide in the fire of hell.They are the WORST of created beings”
        koran 98:6

        Jews and Christians etc are the WORST of created beings whilst the koran teaches muslims are the BEST community k3:110 in islam’s perverse religious APARTHEID system.

        allah doesn’t see it as ‘one human family’ does he?
        allah sees muslims versus infidels.

        The Jews?
        “To be despised and hated”…for being Jews
        koran 2:65

        Sure craig considine,we are all allah’s children are we not?

        considine seems unable to differentiate between YHWH and allah;and what about islam’s Doctrine of HATE {al walaa wal baraa} and the fact that the 2nd chief commandment of YHWH{and indeed the first} is impossible in islam as you cannot ‘love thy neighbor’ in islam if he is classed as inferior,”to be despised and hated”{=a Jew} or “the WORST of created beings”{=Christians,non-muslims}

        On You Tube
        acts17apologetics muhammed:the white prophet with black slaves

      • AleX says

        Jun 3, 2020 at 1:15 pm

        @FYI
        Thank You. Exactly my thoughts. The worst bandit to claim prophethood – the ugly mohamet – has promoted and encouraged slavery upon religious criteria.
        Oh, the hypocrisy!

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 4, 2020 at 6:50 pm

        Good posts, FYI.

    • Noah Singh says

      Jun 6, 2020 at 2:13 pm

      So true

  3. AnnChristine Renoir says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 9:09 am

    I would say we Christians have read and seen enough of Islam in our lives——There are real Scholars in Christian society——Christians do not need Islam !

  4. Beverly says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 9:38 am

    This man is not a scholar, but a brainwashed moron.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jun 3, 2020 at 3:22 pm

      A brainwashed fool, Beverly.

      I get what you mean, but some of these fools have average or above average IQs…

  5. Halal Bacon says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 9:54 am

    and whaddabout the raisin heads?

    • AleX says

      Jun 3, 2020 at 6:15 pm

      If 72 is the number of ‘raisins’ in Paradise, then by the same wise analogy of mohamet each jihadi would be awarded 72 raisin heads worth dying for.

  6. Bill says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 10:17 am

    As if Jesus never said “love your neighbor as you love yourself “.

  7. SB says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 11:04 am

    Marrying nine year old girls may not be racist, but it is pedophilia, disgusting and very unmanly. What say Considine?

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 3, 2020 at 2:03 pm

      Here’s some apologia on the subject from one of Considine’s books:

      https://books.google.com/books?id=vIm0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=craig+considine+%2B+islam+child+marriage&source=bl&ots=oszBkUZNZJ&sig=ACfU3U2ZK8dqzc7y8ACttghniXYmzgGXsg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjghYr4nObpAhVYIjQIHeZkAVwQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=craig%20considine%20%2B%20islam%20child%20marriage&f=false

      Basically, he just tries to change the subject and imply that this is not real Sharia.

      • James Lincoln says

        Jun 3, 2020 at 3:36 pm

        Yes, gravenimage.

        The absolutely infuriating technique of DEFLECTION / REDIRECTION…

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 4, 2020 at 6:50 pm

          So true, James.

  8. Rarely says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 11:04 am

    Since Jews, Christians, Hindus, etc. (i.e. everyone who isn’t muslim) are not human beings they are fair game for persecution. It’s only human beings (i.e. muslims) toward whom muslims must show no racism. Or something like that anyway.

    • rationalistfaith says

      Jun 3, 2020 at 4:49 pm

      You might be confusing zionism with Islam bud

      • Wellington says

        Jun 3, 2020 at 7:25 pm

        Nope, don’t think so. And in Israel Israeli-Arabs have far more rights than Arabs do in the over twenty Arab nations that exist.

        You will have to do much better than you have. I predict you won’t.

  9. Phil Copson says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 11:08 am

    “…This man is not a scholar, but a brainwashed moron….”
    ————————————————————————–
    I doubt that he is “brain-washed” – he just enjoys doing as much damage to his own society as he can, while shovelling his pockets full of other people’s money for as long as it lasts.

    Like all charlatans, he doubtless despises other people as morons for letting him get away with it.

  10. FYI says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 11:53 am

    “The news tells us that JIHAD means “violence” but that’s not what it means.
    JIHAD is an Arabic word that means “struggle” for self improvement.
    prophet muhammed said the greater struggle is the spiritual struggle against the forces that prevent humans from being humans.FACT”
    dr craig considine

    Spoken just like one of those islamic “scholar” {desperately }fiddling the Arabic{“ah…that’s not what it means”}

    {JIHAD in fact is a classical Arabic word that means ‘a non-violent cuddly pillow fight’ :you see it has nothing to do with “violence”.Alright -I made that up but if considine can,so can I}

    And all this admiration by the ‘scholar’ considine for ‘prophet muhammed’ sounds like the adulation of the convert to islam
    {..the prophet this,the prophet that;allah doesn’t even get a look in..}

    Who knew JIHAD was a ‘spiritual struggle’ for self-improvement?

    considine is a charlatan.FACT

    Self-improvement techniques:
    Yoga,Tennis,JIHAD,pilates….

  11. Wellington says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 12:18 pm

    What a joke. Islam is Arab supremacism in thin disguise. It started out this way and has remained so even to this day. Just look at how people are told about the greatness of Arabic to the extent that reading the Koran in translation is, for all intents and purposes, illegitimate. This is why all non-Arab Muslims are extra foolish, and especially blacks considering the long, sorry-ass record of Islamic slavery which especially adversely affected blacks, including the castration of black male slaves. Mohammed’s own derogatory comments about blacks (e.g., raisinheads), never mind his owning black slaves, only adds insult to this massive injury.

    So, Considine is either amazingly, even stupidly naive OR he is lying. No third option.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jun 3, 2020 at 3:45 pm

      Spot on, Wellington.

      As we all know, Greek opened the New Testament to Gentiles.

      I don’t speak a word of Greek, but I certainly have a good understanding of the New Testament translated into English – especially the King James Version 1611…

      • Wellington says

        Jun 3, 2020 at 4:46 pm

        James, Thomas Jefferson was a master of ancient Greek as he was of Latin—as he was a master of the English language too (fluent in French as well) and a Renaissance man across the board, including agronomy, architecture, fine cuisine and wine—most everything except finance (which might help explain in part why Jefferson and Hamilton were at such loggerheads because Hamilton, brilliant as was Jefferson, most excelled in financial matters—but I digress).

        I convey this because you might sometime want to take a look at the Jefferson Bible. I actually did my Master’s thesis in History on Thomas Jefferson’s religious thinking, which thinking was steeped in knowledge of ancient, medieval and (to his day) modern religious thought as well as the nuances of ancient Greek.

        I’m reminded here of what JFK said very early on in his Presidency when he had all the living American Nobel Prize laureates at a luncheon in the East Room of the White House, to wit, “Gentlemen, such eminence has not dined here since Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

        Sorry for the digression, but it is my wont as you know by now. Hope all is well with you and those you hold dearest to your heart. Take care, my friend.

        P.S. Per your statement, Greek did indeed open up the New Testament to Gentiles and this was due overwhelmingly to Alexander the Great, three centuries before Jesus, spreading Greek culture throughout much of the ancient world. If Alexander had been killed early on in his conquests (e.g., at the battle of the Granicus in 334 B.C.), Greek culture would not have spread throughout the ancient world and no way the New Testament would have therefore been written in Koine Greek. Ah yes, history is a seamless web.

        • James Lincoln says

          Jun 3, 2020 at 8:17 pm

          Wellington,

          Thanks much for the reply.

          The King James Bible will always be my “go to” Bible, but I will definitely check out the Jefferson Bible. Much thanks for the suggestion!

          By the way, you are one smart cookie…

          The very best to both you and yours!

    • Ebra says

      Jun 4, 2020 at 6:12 pm

      I want to ask you white people who claim to love Jesus and Christianity so much which prophet was sent down to your lands name one..all the Prophets came to the Arab lands and one in Africa so your are the people who are contradicting and labeling other religions as not legit when you are the real fake imposters.even God himself dint favour you people by bringing any prophet to your people coz you are deaf ear and a blind eye you will never hear nor see the truth so spend your Little years left on earth and wait for judgment day..if you live many years maybe 80 years thats all you have.so for a wise person think for yourself why follow a religion of which the keepers are not the people who the Prophets were sent to that is enough for a sober mind to understand.no prophet came nor set foot in Italy yet Catholics headquarters Rome and the list is long Anglican England did Jesus even set foot to those countries.wake up to the truth everything is as clear as a day to see good luck.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 4, 2020 at 6:35 pm

        Let’s wade into this morass, shall we?

        Ebra wrote:

        I want to ask you white people who claim to love Jesus and Christianity so much which prophet was sent down to your lands name one..all the Prophets came to the Arab lands and one in Africa so your are the people who are contradicting and labeling other religions as not legit when you are the real fake imposters…
        ………………………

        Where to start? Firstly, Wellington is an ethical Agnostic, not a Christian. Then, the idea that only Christians abhor the horrifying violence of Islam is *quite* false–people of many faiths and none recognize how harmful Islam is, and what a threat it presents to *all* non-Muslims.

        Then, the idea that all but one prophet came to Arab lands is not something that even Islam claims. Islam just claims that all of the Jewish prophets as well as Jesus (“prophet Isa”) were actually Muslim. But it does not claim that anyone save Muhammed himself was Arab.

        Then, this argument is bizarre, in any case, since most Muslims themselves are not Arab. Is Ebra claiming that most Muslims in the world are not real Muslims?

        Then, which Muslim prophet was African? The only figure who even comes close is Bilal, whose ancestors were enslaved by Arabs. But he himself was born in Mecca, not Africa, and he was not himself a prophet, but only a companion of Muhammed. Really, how ignorant is Ebra?

        More:

        even God himself dint (sic) favour you people by bringing any prophet to your people coz (sic) you are deaf ear and a blind eye you will never hear nor see the truth so spend your Little years left on earth and wait for judgment day..if you live many years maybe 80 years thats (sic) all you have.so for a wise person think for yourself why follow a religion of which the keepers are not the people who the Prophets were sent to that is enough for a sober mind to understand.
        ………………………

        Christians and other rational Infidels are not obsessed with ethnicity as Muslims seem to be. We take wisdom from any source, and consider human achievements to belong to all of mankind. Anyone can be a good Christian–his heritage, ethnicity, and nationality are not factors.

        Does Ebra think that no non-Arab Muslims can be good Muslims–even those who wage violent Jihad?

        More:

        no prophet came nor set foot in Italy yet Catholics headquarters Rome and the list is long Anglican England did Jesus even set foot to those countries.wake up to the truth everything is as clear as a day to see good luck.
        ………………………

        In that case, Muslims had better stop trying to spread Islam to the whole world, most of which is non-Arab.

        Doesn’t the witless Ebra even understand where his argument–such as it is–leads? I doubt it–after all, pious Muslims reject rationality and reason.

  12. gravenimage says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 1:49 pm

    American ‘scholar’ claims that Islam is ‘the one religion that erases from its society the race problem’
    ………………..

    Just ludicrous re a creed whose founder called Africans “raisin heads”–but what else would you expect from the witless Craig Considine?

    • GreekEmpress says

      Jun 3, 2020 at 5:01 pm

      Islam is good at “erasing” problems—
      Women, gays, apostates, animals, etc.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 3, 2020 at 5:45 pm

        Grimly true, Greek Empress.

  13. RichardL says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 4:24 pm

    his H-Index is 3. He has not published in a ranked journal. Academically he is a non-entity. He actually gives islamophobia as one of his research fields and he write for the HuffPost. What an embarrassment for Rice.

  14. RichardL says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 4:31 pm

    @Robert Spencer: why don’t you get a Google Scholar profile? It takes but a few minutes and I just browsed your stuff listed on GS and I bet you would have a pretty impressive H- and H10-Index. It is how one’s scholarship is measured these days

  15. SKA says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 5:40 pm

    Behold “Chrislam!”

  16. Kepha says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    Considine is panders to a weary 1960’s meme popularized by Malcolm X. I wonder what he does with the etymology of ‘Abid”, which is used for blacks in the Arab world?

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 4, 2020 at 6:56 pm

      Kepha, ludicrously the only things I have ever seen from Craig Considine re slavery is the absurd claim that Lincoln ended slavery because the Muslim Bey of Tunisia demanded he do so, and the claim that the Irish in America were “enslaved”. (Note that I am in large part of Irish heritage myself, and this is a ludicrous overstatement of the actual bigotry the Irish faced in America).

  17. mortimer says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 8:32 pm

    The Ongoing Fight To Free Thousands Of African Slaves In Yemen

  18. mortimer says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    CONSIDINE KNOWINGLY QUOTES A FRAUDULENT VERSION OF MOHAMMED’S LAST SERMON TRANSLATED BY INDIAN CLERIC SYED FAIZI …

    A writing known as “Muhammad’s Final Sermon”, often used by Islamists and apologists to portray Muhammad as having a universal and peaceful attitude toward other cultures has been revealed to be a pseudo-Islamic hoax which had likely been written and passed off as being genuine hundreds of years ago by an anonymous Indian cleric who wanted to “enhance Islam.”

    The most popular quote from the sermon is as follows:

    “All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action …” (See the full text of the writing.)

    The text surfaced when it was translated into English by Syed F. H. Faizi in 1991, leading to its becoming very popular, while assumed to be real, despite the fact that it was not legitimately sourced. However, research by T. Omar Moros shows the origin of the writing is likely due to it being forged by an anonymous cleric in India sometime during the three centuries of British colonialism in order to “enhance Islam” to help “undermine the racial, ethnic and caste systems that oppressed them.”

    Following are excerpts from Moros’ full article:
    “[ Faizi’s ] version—oddly, there is more than one—is being used today to cast Islam as a universal, peaceful faith, instead of—as critics argue—a violent, deceitful, Arab-centric ideology used by powerful clerics to control the masses.”

    “I was finally able to track down the origin of the translation from a cryptic ‘Faizi 145’ reference; the only one among dozens of postings I checked. … Yet, even Faizi does not provide his source. Highly unusual, considering how popular this version is with modern Muslims.”

    “Faizi gives us as close to a source as he could when he describes in the introduction to Sermons how he translated and published a collection of obscure writings into English…”

    “[ Faizi wrote about his translation: ] ‘… They were not available in the form of Khutbas but have been derived from various books of Ahadith and history. .. the authenticity of the texts thereof is still doubted by ulema. …’”

    “In other words, Faizi said ‘derived’ sermons from various unnamed books not accepted by the ulema (scholarly Muslim clerics). He does not know the original sources, but welcomes readers to help in his search. As a reader of Faizi, I’m happy to take a swag at it. …”

    [ Moros’ theory is as follows: ] “It is well known that over the centuries, especially on the periphery of Islamic civilization, in places like India, a great deal of bogus religious material was generated. Even the Caliphate is known to have generated many bogus ahadith to legitimize its political claims. For more than three centuries while Britain ruled India, anti-colonial Indians, including Muslims, were very interested in finding significant sources of inspiration that would undermine the racial, ethnic and caste systems that oppressed them. This era also saw the black/white racial dynamic and the Arab identity being introduced into language. It is, therefore, no great leap to surmise that an inspired young Muslim cleric would decide to enhance Islam, by writing a bit of historical fiction in order to achieve a practical result. Who in pre-Internet, pre-electric India would know? A complete collection of authenticated ahadith was as rare as a magic carpet in colonial India. It wouldn’t be the first time someone wrote phony Islamic tracts; not by a long shot. Maybe our cleric even thought, ‘Well, if I must be Muslim (apostates are killed), then I’ll make it more suitable to me’–the old ‘change from the inside’ strategy at work.”

    “In lieu of hard evidence, I believe this scenario is more plausible than the fish tales Islamists routinely employ to explain ahadith. … At least two other versions are also used, but do not mention race at all.”

    “Islamists, in keeping with their insecure habit of finding Muslims at the root of every major innovation, including the airplane and golf, market the Last Sermon to the left as the world’s first Charter on Social Justice. Yet the version they most promote, without sources, effectively dates to 1991. In the end, it doesn’t matter when it was published, or if it is a fraud. The proof is in the headlines. Today, as this is written, Hamas killed the leader of a rival jihadist group, a Muslim in Ohio threatened to kill his apostate daughter, the Taliban claimed responsibility for bombing NATO’s Kabul headquarters, and sharia law has failed to deliver equality and accountability to northern Nigeria. Slow day—is it Ramadan?”
    Posted on August 24, 2016

  19. mortimer says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    CONSIDINE QUOTES A FORGED HADITH that appeared recently in 1991.

    The TAQIYYA-MEISTER CONSIDINE provides no reference for it, because he knows it is a fake.

    The text surfaced when it was translated into English by Syed F. H. Faizi in 1991, leading to its becoming very popular, while assumed to be real, despite the fact that it has not been legitimately sourced.

    If you have to ‘prove’ Islam is racially tolerant by quoting a recently-fabricated hadith, then you are DESPERATE INDEED.

    It’s so easy to find a FRAUD LIKE THIS.

    When will the FRAUDSTER CONSIDINE lose his position in academia?

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 4, 2020 at 6:56 pm

      Thanks for those posts, Mortimer–and the link to that video.

  20. Peter says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    No racism in Islam? Really? Abd means “slave” and “black.” Arabs have historically seen themselves as superior to others (Muhammad was an Arab, the language of paradise is Arabic, the Qur’an was written in Arabic, blah, blah, blah). There were reports of Arab jihadis, including Osama bin Laden, looking down on Uzbeks. Clearly, this scholar doesn’t know how to do research. If he did, he would know Ibn Khaldun’s quote about how Africans (black) make the best slaves….. and, he would not be so stupid.

  21. wesley thomas says

    Jun 4, 2020 at 4:45 am

    Our education system needs revived. This brainwashing of our young people has to stop; it`s deplorable to say the least! Everyone knows this is why they want the Government to raise our kids.

  22. Nelson says

    Jun 4, 2020 at 5:48 am

    Well that’s not true ,I have Muslim friends and when we have fair religion arguments they are prone to say fowl words against Jesus Christ and even reduce him to a propaganda prophet, I usually wont have any argument with them because islam lack respect for people with diffent religion and their relations. I will usually shut up, not because I don’t know shit about Muhammad,Being a Christian U know aomething like that is not just right

  23. G179 says

    Jun 4, 2020 at 6:18 am

    “This is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.”

    If by the ‘race problem’ he means the Jews, I can see his point.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 4, 2020 at 6:58 pm

      +1

  24. AnnChristine says

    Jun 4, 2020 at 10:03 am

    These Islamic Scholars all believe in the supernatural!!

  25. jca reid says

    Jun 4, 2020 at 12:00 pm

    Pathetic Academic trying to jump on a band wagon with loads of $$$$$$$$’s on it! No mention of the slavery under Islam. Something like 100 MILLION black Africans taken. Mohammed called them “Raisin Heads”. The East Indians taken from the sub-Continent were in the 10’s of Millions. The White Slave Trade. Shipping captured in the Mediterranean. The raids to obtain slaves from SW England, Southern Ireland & even Iceland! In, their Sex Slave Markets have re-opened.
    In Algeria & Tunisia, Black Africans, who are Muslim, are viewed as 3rd. Class Citizens by the Arab Muslims. Saudi Arabia only closed its last Slave Market in…… 1965. Mauritania in the 1980’s. But, in the last few years. Hitler endorsed Islam as a way of Life. So, that should say it all really. Even for this “Academic”..

  26. unbeliever1 says

    Jun 4, 2020 at 1:48 pm

    How long will it take for him to recite the shahada? My answer is,it’s only a matter of time.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 4, 2020 at 7:00 pm

      This is what Craig Considine said a few months ago on twitter:

      “I’m not a Muslim myself, but I have to say that I’m inspired by the anti-racism of Prophet Muhammad”

      Of course, since the second part of this is just Taqiyya, the first part may be, as well.

  27. OLD GUY says

    Jun 4, 2020 at 11:19 pm

    Craig Considine is an idiot! Oh he’s a scholar, so what, going to school and getting a degree doesn’t make you smart or give you common sense. Islam is racist, sexist and violent and I’am not a scholar’ I just know evil when I see it.

  28. Ren says

    Jun 5, 2020 at 12:51 am

    Islam is the only religion that leads people to hell.

  29. Ade Fegan says

    Jun 5, 2020 at 3:46 am

    and he’s absolutely right !
    islam erases everything that isn’t islamic

  30. teto441 says

    Jun 5, 2020 at 7:09 am

    https://scenearabia.com/Life/Sudanese-Refugees-Egypt-Racism-Violence?M=True&fbclid=IwAR2bA8b7nupsixkWQGAxb6HpzZsVz7SkRvX63Ir6bYSg-mp4K0GDMgVDb-M

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