Answer to Apostates of Islam
Assertion on the Internet site: www.apostatesofislam.com:-
Who we are:
We are ex-Muslims. Some of us were born and raised in Islam and some of us had converted to Islam at some moment in our lives. We were taught never to question the truth of Islam and to believe in Allah and His Messenger with blind faith. We were told that Allah would forgive all sins but the sin of disbelief (Quran 4:48 and 4:116). But we committed the ultimate sin of thinking and questioned the belief that was imposed on us and we came to realize that far from being a religion of truth, Islam is a hoax, it is hallucination of a sick mind and nothing but lies and deceits.
What we believe:
Some of us have embraced other religions but most of us have simply left Islam without believing in any other religion. We believe in humanity. We believe that humans do not need to follow a religion to be good. All we need to follow is the Golden Rule. All we have to do is to treat others they way we expect to be treated. This is the essence of all the goodness. All good religious teachings stem from this eternal principle. This is the ultimate guidance humanity need. This is the Golden Rule.
Why Mohammed was not a prophet:
One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad's life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives and their "right hand possessions" (Quran 33:50) He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way. Muhammad was a narcissist like
Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.
Why Quran is not from God:
Muhammad produced no miracles and when pressed he claimed that his miracle is the Quran. Yet a cursory look at the Quran reveals that this book is full of errors. Quran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities, grammatical errors and ethical fallacies. It is badly compiled and it contradicts itself. There is nothing intelligent in this book let alone miraculous. Muhammad challenged people to produce a "Surah like it" or find an error therein, yet Muslims would kill anyone who dares to criticize it. In such a climate of hypocrisy and violence truth is the first casualty.
What is our goal?
We are apostates of Islam. We denounce Islam as a false doctrine of hate and terror. However we are not against Muslims who are our own kin and relatives. We do not advocate hate and violence. Muslims are the main victims of Islam. Our goal is to educate them and let them see the truth. We are against Islam and not the Muslims. We strive to bring the Muslims into the fold of humanity. Eradicate Islam so our people can be liberated, so they can prosper and break away from the pillory of Islam. We would like to see Islamic countries dedicate more time to science and less time to Quran and Sharia. We would like to see them prosper and contribute to human civilization. We would like to see the draconian laws of Islam eliminated and people are treated humanely. We strive for freedom of beliefs, for equality of gender and for oneness of mankind.
Mankind's biggest challenge:
Today the humanity is facing a great danger. Islamic fundamentalism is on the rise and the hatred is brewing in the minds of millions of Muslims. This hatred must be contained or there would be disastrous consequences. We believe that the education is the only answer. Muslim intellectuals must realize that Islam is a false doctrine and they must let the rest of Islamic world know the truth. Islam is a religion that thrives on the arrogant assumption that it is the most logical, the most scientific and the most perfect religion. While the fact is that it is the stupidest doctrine - the most backward and absurd belief. Once the truth about Islam becomes common knowledge, it will be weakened and the Islamic fanaticism will lose its fangs. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being expended to combat Islamic terrorism, yet no effort is made to contain the ideology behind this terrorism. It is our belief that Islamic terrorism will not be eliminated unless and until the ideology behind it is exposed and eradicated. This is what we intend to do.
Comment:-
You too have blind beliefs.
There are, of course, all kinds of views about all subjects. Islam, like most other movements, had hostile opponents from the very beginning, but made progress nevertheless, and still does. Obviously, Muslims are Muslims because they do not see Islam in the same way as you do, but in the exact opposite way. What you see as Islam is not the same thing as Islam as they see it. What you see and criticise is not Islam but is your own distorted view. There are many sites on the Internet that will tell you what Muslims believe and why. Do people like you ever read these or merely cling to your own bitterness, based perhaps on some traumatic experience.
Your views appear to be based on superficial, selective, and out of context readings of the Quran and Hadith. As such they reflect your own mentality rather than anything objectively true about the subject. They are just repeating common prejudices that usually circulate among the uneducated of low intelligence. You also confuse Islam which is a teaching and Muslims who are people and understand and practice the religion to different degrees or not at all. Islam is for sinners who wish to improve, but you have ignored this aim, its teaching and its techniques, and done nothing to help and dispel misunderstandings and malpractices.
In view of the dominance and conditioning affect of Western secular thought, education and way of life, based on self-centredness, commercialism and materialism, it is not surprising that many people have abandoned religion (Islam is not the only one), especially when it is taught in an ignorant manner to uneducated people who do not, or cannot think objectively, and who usually have a vested interest in denying it because it interferes with their self-indulgence. It is known that the Western system places emphasis on external environmental matters and this has caused an erosion of inner awareness of motives allowing excuse making and false rationalisation to flourish unchecked.
If instead of following what someone else you have chosen said you had studied the Quran you would have known that you were required to think, understand and apply the Quran for yourself rather than follow your own conjectures and prejudices. You would have known that "blind faith" is not required:-
"And follow (or pursue) not that of which you have no knowledge; verily, the hearing, the sight, and the heart, of all of these it shall be asked (to give an account). And walk not on the earth proudly (insolently); verily, you can not rend the earth asunder, nor can you stretch to the height of the mountains." 17:36-37
"Obey not him whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance, and who follows his own lusts (prejudices, fantasies, superstitions), and whose affair has been abandoned." 18:29
"But most of them follow naught but conjecture (suspicion, fancy, guesswork, speculation); verily, conjecture can by no means take the place of (or avail against) truth. Verily, Allah is Aware of what they do." 10:37
It is, of course, impossible that persons who have a negative attitude can learn and understand Islam or any other system of ideas.
But there are many people who think more deeply and have a greater understanding and awareness than you do and there are also people who convert to Islam.
It can be argued that it is better that people who do not understand Islam should leave it and that people who come to understand it should join it rather than having a community of people who are simply conditioned by tradition or undermine it from within it.
It is likely that the desertion of a religion is a good thing in that it makes way for a revival and return to a much more sophisticated understanding. Improved reconstruction requires previous destruction of what is failing. Doors and windows must be opened to let the light in.
I note that you wish to propagate Humanism as an alternative to Islam. But we know that human beings are made of good and evil and Humanism would therefore, confirm them in the rut in which they are. Human development requires that there is differentiation between Good and Evil, between God and Satan, and that people align them selves with God and oppose Satan. You, on the other hand, are doing the very opposite.
The negative task you have undertaken, namely to eradicate Islam, is an impossible one, tried by many both from outside and inside, as it is upheld by more intelligent people and Truth eventually and inevitably triumphs.
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