Solsticewitch13's BOS: Found! Peaceful Islam

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Found! Peaceful Islam

Soon after 9/11 we began to hear about Islam, the peaceful religion. The whole
concept seems so ludicrous, but it filled the media. Can you imagine someone
calling Buddhism, the peaceful religion? It is like saying circles, the round
figure. Yes, but isn't it what you would expect?

When scholars use the term, it is usually in quotes, "peaceful Islam",
to express the irony of the name. However, in working with the manuscript of
my work-in-progress, Waging Ideological War, I was realized that there actually
was a peaceful Islam without the quotes.

The Sira is Mohammed's biography (sira is an Arabic word that means biography, but Sira
is reserved for Mohammed) and has three versions by three authors. The most
definitive is by Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah, translated by A. Guillaume as
The Life of Muhammad. It is a difficult book to read and that is why Mohammed
and Unbelievers was created so that the content would be available to the average
reader. The Sira is the only thing that allows us to understand the Koran, since
it allows us to sort out which verse in the Koran is earlier or later.

Today, the home of Mohammed has the most intolerant political system in the
world. Jews have not been in Saudi Arabia for 1400 years. Christians are allowed
to pray in their homes, but there cannot be any public display of their faith,
such as wearing a cross or carrying a Bible in public. Practically speaking,
Arabia is a religious apartheid state. But before Mohammed, the Arabs of Mecca
had 360 religions in the city. It is the inherent nature of polytheist religions
to be tolerant, so when Mohammed came along with his new religion and new god,
the Meccans could have cared less. Tolerance had been their way since the beginning
of time.

Islam is not only a religion, but a complete civilization. Not one thing inside
of Islam is identical to kafir civilization. Thus, the process of becoming Islamic
means that the most fundamental basis of a civilization must change. Tolerance
was the door that Mohammed came through and closed behind him. Tolerance in
Arabia vanished after Mohammed.

After Mohammed announced he was a prophet, there were no problems in Mecca.
Mohammed was quiet and spread his message to friends and family. There were
no problems with anyone. The Sira devotes 13 pages of text to this peaceful
stage of his being a prophet. The Sira is an 800-page book, but the actual material
devoted to Mohammed as the prophet of Allah is 577 pages. Do the math; 13 pages
out of 577 pages are 2% of the Sira.

On the 13th page, a Muslim picks a weapon during an argument with a Meccan kafir
and bloodies him with a blow to the head. So much for peaceful Islam. For the
next 163 pages, 28% of the text, Mohammed argues on a daily basis. It is not
that Mohammed is right, but all kafirs are wrong about everything. He even tells
the Meccans that their parents are burning in Hell because they did not submit
to Islam. He threatens the Meccans, "I will bring you slaughter."
Mohammed is pushy, belligerent, argumentive and rude. He is relentless. On a
daily basis, he is down at the kabah, a social as well as a religious center,
and is constantly in the Meccans' face.

The Meccans wanted to harm Mohammed, but he was protected by his powerful uncle.
But when his uncle died, the Meccans drove him out of town. In Medina, the next
phase of the Sira deals with jihad, killing kafirs. That takes up 401 pages,
70% of the text.

Based upon the Sira, Islam is 2% peace, 28% argument and threats, and 70% jihad.
If the Sira were a two-hour movie, then the peaceful part would last for nearly
3 minutes, the fist fights, brawls, arguments and threats would last 34 minutes
and the killing would take up 83 minutes. But the movie ends with the beaten
kafirs saying that they will do whatever Mohammed wants, if he will only stop
the jihad.

So remember, actually Islam is peaceful, a full 2% peaceful, and if we're good
dhimmis, we won't mention the other 98%.