Ban Incitement to Hate, Violence & Intolerance in America? Start with Banning the Quran and Islam!
Dearborn Muslims have come out in
support for criminalizing hate speech and incitement to violence, which
is already there is our legal system. The civilized peace-loving
Americans join voices with the Dearborn Muslims and demand that the US
justice department takes the criminalization of hate speech in our legal
system seriously, and start with banning the Quran, Islamic prayers and
Islam in its entirely, because nothing can be more odious hate speech
and exhortation to racism and violence than Islam.
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Dearborn, Michigan, witnessed another
revolution in recent days, with Muslims demanding an end to incitement
to hatred, violence and extremism.
Coming out of Friday Juma prayers on
September 28, 2012, Dearborn Muslims held a rally, demanding
introduction of new legal measures against hate speeches that incite
hatred, violence and extremism. Said the rally organizer Tarek Baydoun, “There
is a need for deterrent legal measures against those individuals or
groups that want to damage relations between people, spread hate and
incite violence.”
This can be a truly revolutionary moment
not only in Muslim American history but potentially Islam worldwide – a
bold step toward civility for the Muslim people.
In American legal system, “Hate
speech is defined as a communication that carries no meaning other than
the expression of hatred for some group, especially in circumstances in
which the communication is likely to provoke violence. It is an
incitement to hatred primarily against a group of persons defined in
terms of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, sexual
orientation, and the like. Hate speech can be any form of expression
regarded as offensive to racial, ethnic and religious groups and other
discrete minorities or to women.”
Bigotry is defined as complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own especially on religion or race.
Those, who believe in democracy and
freedom, must join with the Dearborn Muslims to bring an end to hate
speech and toleration of intolerance. We must condemn those, who hide
behind Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion to spread their
venomous hatred and intolerance toward others.
Hatred is demeaning to human dignity –
for both the hater and the hated. Yet, abhorrent as hate speech and
bigotry are, they are not necessarily criminal acts. Hate speech that
calls for violence, murdering, terrorizing, enslaving or torturing of
any individual or groups is criminal. Worst hate speeches are those that
claim to be divine teachings of God, but justify, in God's name, all of
the criminal acts listed above.
To their credit, Dearborn Muslims are
calling for criminal sanctions against hate speech and incitement to
violence. The farcical part of it is: such legal measures are already in
place in the American legal system. What is needed is to apply those
legal measures without leniency to anyone. And if the same is resolutely
done, the United States have to censure or ban Islam as a religion.
Why? Here are a list of reasons amongst many:
1) Daily Muslim Prayers are acts of hate speech and bigotry
In their daily prayers, Muslims have to repeat the following from the Quran multiple times (Surah 1, Fatihah): “Guide
us to the straight path, the path of those whom You have favored, Not
of those who have incurred your wrath, nor of those who have gone
astray.”
Here, Muslims are claimed to be God’s
favored, while others (Jews, Christians) have on a wrong path (gone
astray). Such utterance is extremely racist, bigoted and hateful. When
the same is uttered as part of sacred prayers to God, it becomes even
more hateful and worth censuring. And Friday prayers, from which the
Dearborn Muslims came out to demand ban of hate speech, is even more
hateful and racist, because Muslims also have to recite Surah 62 (The
Friday Congregation) and Surah 63 (The Hypocrites). Surah 62
specifically condemns Gentiles as being "in gross error", and Jews are
compared to "a donkey laden with books”. Surah 63 condemns "hypocrites",
namely those who have renounced their Muslim faith as: "They are the enemy. Guard yourself against them."
It is needless to say that comparing a
people to donkey is a worst kind of hate speech and racism. So, Muslim
prayers, whether daily prayers or the Friday congregational one, are
horrible sorts of hate speech, bigotry and racism, which deserves
censure and even ban in civilized societies.
2) Anti-Jewish Hatred in the Quran
The anti- Jewish verses recited by
Muslims in daily prayers is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the
sheer amount of hatred, bigotry and racism in Islam's sacred scriptures
that is directed not only at the Jews but at Christians and other
non-Muslims. Jews are not only compared to donkeys but also to apes and
swine.
From politicalislam.com, the sacred
Islamic texts, the Quran, Hadith and Sunnah, devote 9.3% of its content
to spread hatred, bigotry and even violence and genocide of the Jews,
while Hitler’s proverbial Mein Kampf devote only 7%. The Medinan part of the Quran is worse in inciting hatred and violence against the Jews than Mein Kampf. Here is a small sample of Allah’s divine sanction to hatred of the Jews (For more, see http://www.islamreform.net/new-page-16.htm):
- “Wretchedness and baseness were stamped on the Jews and they were visited with wrath from Allah.” [Quran 2.61]
- “Jews are the greediest of all humankind. They'd like to live 4,000 years. But they are going to hell.” [Quran 2:96]
- “For the wrongdoing Jews, Allah has prepared a painful doom.” [Quran 4:160]
- “God has cursed the Jews, transforming them into apes and swine and those who serve the devil.” [Quran 5.60]
Christians are also hated by Islamic God, Who demands their subjugation or murder. For example, Quran 9:29:
“Fight those who do
not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what
Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth,
out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in
acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.”
Quran 9:29 is pure hate speech and
incitement to violence. The Quran has given the Christians and Jews, the
so-called ‘Peoples of the Book’ of Islam, the choice to submit to the
superiority of Islam and pay the Jiza tax or be attacked, mass-murdered
and enslaved. But its incitement of hatred and violence against the
polytheists/idolaters (Hindus, Buddhists etc.) is even worse. For
example, Quran 9:5:
“Then, when the
sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and
take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each
ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due,
then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.”
There are numerous such verses in the
Quran, calling for attack, enslavement, murder, and even genocide of the
non-Muslims in an open-ended manner until all peoples of the world
become Muslim. Nothing can be greater hate speech and incitement to
violence than such divine teachings. If there is one book in the world
that deserves ban because of hateful and violence-inciting content, it
must be the Quran. If the American legal measures against hate speech
are to be applied resolutely, it must start with banning the Quran and
arresting Muslims, who utter those verses, and shutting down all
mosques.
3) Jihad: The Ultimate Incitement of Hatred and Violence
Jihad is the central Islamic doctrine of
holy war against non-Muslims, until all of them converted are to Islam
or enslaved, or annihilated. Quranic texts, exhorting to Jihad, occupies
9% of all verses, while 24% of those revealed in Medina. Jihad-related
content takes up 21% of the Bukhari material and the Sira devotes 67% of
its text to jihad (For more, see http://www.islamreform.net/new-page-121.htm)
Exhorting Islamic holy war or Jihad for
forced conversion, enslavement or annihilation of people, just because
they follow Christian, Jewish, Polytheistic or other religions than
Islam, is the worst kind of incitement of hatred and violence. Any book
and religion that profess such horrible teachings deserve criminal
prosecution and ban under the US hate speech law.
4) Islam, the worst anti-Woman creed
Islam is a worst anti-women creed that
preaches women to be inferior to men, having lower intelligence and
inheritance rights, are compared to dogs and donkeys, to be subjugated
to polygamy with no right to divorce their husbands, could be
unconditionally beaten by husbands (4:34), and are compared to fields to
be ploughed by men any time and any way they want (2:22). There are
some 151 verses in the Quran dealing with women and 102 or 67% of those
are demeaning to them. While in the Hadiths, 93% of the texts dealing
with women are demeaning to them.
Islamic God’s hatred of women, both
Muslim and non-Muslim, is second only to his hatred of non-Muslim men.
Women compose 50% of humanity and the hatred, repression, subjugation
and sub-humanness anti -women teachings of Islam justifying their
enslavement, beating, torture and murder is hate speech incarnate. (for a
sampling of anti-woman hatred in Islam, see http://www.islamreform.net/new-page-65.htm)
5) Racism and Slavery is Islam
Racism is one of the most odious
attitudes practiced by the human speech. And Islam is also an extremely
racist divine creed, instances of which have been cited above. So is
its sanction of slavery, which is intricately linked with racism. Here’s
an instance of sacred Islamic text, inspiring racism and consequent
slavery (Ishaq, p. 243):
"I heard the Apostle
say: 'Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!' He was a black
man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks...
Allah sent down concerning him: 'To those who annoy the Prophet there is
a painful doom." [9:61] "Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, 'If a black
man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey's.'"
Some 120 million blacks perished
in the Islamic slavery holocaust. 75% of blacks died on the way to
market and those black men who survived were castrated "based on the assumption that the blacks had an ungovernable sexual appetite. (for more on racism and slavery of Islam, see http://www.islamreform.net/new-page-30.htm)
In Sum, Islamic sacred texts are filled
with exhortations to spreading hatred, and practicing racism, violence,
gender apartheid, human rights violation, and even genocide. There are
52 reasons and 22 categories of Islamic murders of
people, just because they follow a different religion or refuge to abide
by the demands of Islam (see http://www.islamreform.net/new-page-96.htm, http://www.islamreform.net/new-page-132.htm). For 691 Quranic verses that would amount to hate speech under American law, see http://www.islamreform.net/new-page-23.htm.
We in America believe in free speech,
but also censure hate speech, and even ban speeches that incite violence
and terrorism. And it is good that Dearborn Muslims have also come out
in support for criminalizing hate speech and incitement to violence,
which are already there is our legal system. The civilized peace-loving
Americans join voices with the Dearborn Muslims, demanding that the US
justice system takes the criminalization of hate speech in our legal
system seriously, and starts with banning the Quran, Islamic prayers and
Islam in its entirely, because nothing can be more odious hate speech
and exhortation to racism and violence than Islam.
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Jake Neuman is the author of “Islam and Sharia Law Are Treason: Jihad Is Treason” and “Prophet Muhammad (AKA ALLAH): Monster of History.” (free download)
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