Muslim Friends
August 27, 2010
When you read the comments section of an article about Islam, you will see the
argument: I have some Muslim friends and they are good people. The conclusion:
good Muslims mean that Islam is good. If the talk is face-to-face, the person
may ask: Do you have any Muslim friends? There is a hidden implication that
if you do not, then you don’t really know anything about Islam and you
could be a bigot.
What is actually going on? The Kafir (non-Muslim) with Muslim friends does
not know any real facts about Islam and wants to move the argument to feelings,
not facts. If the Muslim friend is nice, Islam is nice. There is no need to
know any facts about Islam. And, if Islam is nice, then speaking against it
is bigotry.
It is amazing how much people can talk about Islam and never mention a single
fact. It is easy to tell if someone is speaking about Islam factually. A fact-based
discussion will include the Koran and the Sunna, which means that the words
Mohammed and Allah will be heard. If there is no Mohammed or Allah, then the
discussion is not about the facts of Islam; it is about opinions that come from
the media, authorities and the web.
Here are questions to ask people with Muslim friends.
· Do you have any Muslim apostate friends?
An apostate is one who has left Islam and under Sharia law may be murdered.
Who would know more about the true nature of Islam than someone who knows it
at the core of their being? The apostate knows both sides of the story.
Here are other questions to ask those with Muslim friends:
· Do you have any Christian friends from the Middle East?
· Do you have any Armenian, Serbian or Coptic friends?
These people have suffered cultural and religious annihilation by Islam over
the past 1400 years, shouldn’t you also meet them? About 60 million Christians
have been murdered over the last 1400 years, and Armenians, Serbians, Copts
(Egyptians) and the rest of the Christians of the Middle East furnished the
body count. Doesn’t it make sense to talk to who has personal experience
in engaging Islam?
There are other questions to be asked. There are 13 verses in the Koran that
say that a Muslim is not the friend of a Kafir. How can this not be talked about?
According to Islam, we are Kafirs. Why can’t friends talk about such things?
Koran 4:144 Believers! Do not take kafirs as friends over fellow believers.
Would you give Allah a clear reason to punish you?
What this means is that a Muslim may be friendly with a Kafir, but if a Muslim
has a choice between favoring a Kafir or a Muslim, he will favor the Muslim.
Why can’t this be discussed among friends?
Now to the most critical question: Is a Muslim ever really the friend of a
Kafir? Any Muslim who fully accepts the doctrine of Islam cannot be the true
friend of a Kafir—friendly, yes, but not a true friend. If he is a true
friend, then he is not obeying the Koran and not following the Sunna of Mohammed.
The difference between friendly and a friend is that a Muslim who is true friend
will sometimes choose the Kafir’s side in a dispute about it. A friendly
Muslim will be pleasant, but will always choose Islam’s side in any politics
or dispute about Islam. A Muslim friend who is a true friend will listen to
reasonable criticisms and occasionally tell you that you have a point there.
The Muslim Arabic FBI translators who cheered on 9/11 were quite friendly, but
chose Islam over the Kafirs on 9/11.
This does not mean that a person, who calls himself or herself a Muslim, cannot
be a real friend. They may see the Golden Rule as more attractive than Islam’s
dualistic ethics. If they can see the other person as not being a Kafir, but
a human being, then they can be a true friend.
It is important to see that these ideas concern implications about the practical
application of Islamic doctrine. In this case the Islamic doctrine of friends
is examined. These ideas are not about any particular person who calls themselves
a Muslim. Generally, to be a Muslim, you must act according to Islamic doctrine.
However, the term Muslim has come to mean anybody with any degree of adherence
to Islamic doctrine, however if such a person adopts the Kafir Golden Rule then
they can be a fine person and a fine friend.
This friend business is perhaps one of the worst parts of the Islamic ideology
and shows how great the divide is between Islam and all other doctrines.
Bill Warner,
Director, Center for the Study of Political Islam
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