As-Salamun-Alaikum
I received this as an email from CAIR.NET(Council for American Islamic Relations)
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the
Merciful CANADIAN NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHES HATE-FILLED ATTACK ON ISLAM-----ISLAM ALLOWS FOR NO OTHER FAITH
By: J. Craig, The Winnipeg (Canada) Free Press, 1/13/2001 http://205.200.191.20/cgi-bin/LiveIQue.acgi$rec=38603?search
Or search the “Faith” section of http://www.winnipegfreepress.com.
…the core doctrine of Islam allows for no other faith to exist peacefully
alongside it. The key factor in understanding Islam is to realize that
it must be examined in the religious and cultural context of seventh-century
Arabia. Mohammed, its founder, raised the seventh-century Arabian culture
to the status of divine law.
In reality, Islam is the deification of seventh-century Arabian culture. Islam
imposes this culture in its politics, family affairs, dietary laws, clothing,
religious rites and even its language. In Mohammed’s Arabia, the sheik or chief
of the nomadic tribes had absolute authority and that is why Islamic countries
today are inevitably ruled by dictators or despots…
…Muslims claim that Allah is the same God as Christians and Jews worship, but
that is false. Allah is a purely Arabic term referring to the Arabian moon god.
It was one of the many deities that already existed in Mecca, Arabia before
Mohammed, and it was represented by a black stone. When he
later took control of Mecca he destroyed all the idols in the Kaaba (the
holy place in Mecca) except the stone deity, the moon god Allah. The symbol
of its worship in pre-Islamic Arab culture was the crescent moon that is
also on the flags of every Islamic nation today. Mohammed, the prophet
of Islam was born in AD 570 in Mecca and died in AD 632. At the age of
40, he supposedly started receiving revelations from the angel Gabriel,
but in the Muslim ‘Bible’, the Koran, there are four different contradicting
accounts of what happened. These revelations were: that there was no god
but Allah; that mankind were slaves of God; that people would be judged
or rewarded eternally based on their deeds; and, later, he was told to
rob passing caravans nearby. The Koran and history report that he fought
over 66 battles killing tens of thousands of people, including the beheading
of 1,000 captured Jewish men at one time…
…Concerning the Koran itself, historian Edward Gibbon has described it as “an
incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which sometimes
crawls in the dust, and sometimes is lost in the clouds”…
…Another reality in Islam is that women are considered mere property in the
more fundamentalist sects. Perhaps as many as 75 per cent of Muslim
women suffer female circumcision which is a most barbaric and painful ritual
designed to make them obedient and docile. Islamic law today includes
torture, political assassination, the cutting off of hands, feet, ears,
tongues, heads and the gouging out of eyes, all because these kinds of
atrocities were part of the seventh-century Arabian culture. In conclusion,
while the devout Muslim believes that the doctrines of Islam were sent
from heaven, Middle East scholars have shown beyond all doubt that every
belief and ritual can be traced back to pre-Islamic Arabian culture. Therefore,
the religion of Islam is false, yet it is the fastest-growing religion worldwide
and it is the second largest, too – and within Europe, as well. This
reality is an ominous threat to our western way of life and this was chillingly
revealed in a statement released by Reuter’s news service in October of
1999 where a Muslim leader told Roman Catholic Archbishop Bernardini of Izmir
of Turkey that: “Thanks to your democratic laws, we will invade you. Thanks to
our religious laws, we will dominate you.” ACTION REQUESTED:
(As always, be firm but POLITE. Hostile responses can and will be used
to further harm the image of Islam and the Muslim community.)
Contact the Winnipeg Free Press to express your concerns about this hate-filled,
INACCURATE and offensive attack on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
Demand a public apology and the dismissal of any editor involved with the
decision to publish this article.Contact: Mr. Rudy RedekopPublisher
The Winnipeg Free Press 1355 Mountain Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R2X 3B6
E-MAIL: [email protected]
COPY TO: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
FAX: 204-697-7412TEL: 204- 697-7292 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/send_letters/index.html-----CAIR
Council on American-Islamic Relations 453 New Jersey Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003 Tel: 202-488-8787 Fax: 202-488-0833 Page: 202-490-5653
E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.cair-net.org ----- TO SUBSCRIBE:
Join CAIR-NET by sending the message “subscribe cair-net” (without
the quotation marks) to [email protected]. TO UNSUBSCRIBE:
Leave CAIR-NET by sending the message “unsubscribe cair-net” (without the
quotation marks) to [email protected].
NOTE: If you have difficulty unsubscribing, send a message to
[email protected] with the subject line “Manual CAIR-NET Unsubscribe.”
Wa-Salamun-Alaikum-Wa-Rahmatullahi-Wa-Barakatu