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Women and Islamic Law
Taliban morality police replace women's ministry
The reviled Ministry of Vice and Virtue is back; the Women's Affairs Ministry is out... During the Taliban rule in the 1990s, the ministry forced strict Islamic rules and harsh restrictions on women.
BBC Sept 17, 2021
Women and the Koran
Paperback, 123 pages
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Afghan women to have rights within Islamic law, Taliban say.
BBC August 17, 2021
What does women’s rights “within Islamic law” mean?
I have revamped Women and the Koran in the hope that more of you will seek to understand what life is like for women and girls living under Islamic law, of which the Koran is the foundation. I have included in this edition additional hadiths, sayings and examples of the Prophet Muhammad, which have a forceful impact (no pun intended) on women and girls in a world governed by the Sharia, i.e., God’s law.
Afghanistan and Badr
Taliban march into Kabul’s airport to declare victory as last U.S. troops leave Afghanistan
Reuters August 31, 2021
Afghanistan will inspire militants everywhere like no other victory since the battle of Badr.
Question Answered
On August 8, I asked the question: "Will the Taliban again stop the music?"
Afghan folk singer taken from his house and killed by the Taliban.
CNN August 30, 2021
Playing musical instruments and singing are 16th and 17th respectively on Islam's greatest sins hit list, and the Taliban, from which we get Students of the Koran, are sticklers about what God considers sins and what should be done with sinners. Men may sing in public as long as it is a cappella and what they are singing about is worshipping Allah and such.
Biden's Betrayal II
Last U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war
The Associated Press August 30, 2021
Biden's betrayal has left behind a revitalized Al-Qaeda and Islamic State whose viciousness recognises no boundaries.
Preventing the Inevitable
“We will hunt you down and make you pay,” said Biden following the August 26 bombing at Kabul airport which killed 13 American service members.
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Our aim is not to fight you. Accept Islam the peaceful way, and you will be safe. If not then clear our way to the people so that we may explain this beautiful way of life to them…
If you do not accept any of these conditions then the only alternative is the use of the sword. Before deciding on the third alternative you should keep in mind that I am bringing against you a people who love death more than you love life.
From a letter by Khalid Ibn Al-Walid, the leader of the Muslim armies invading Persia, to impose "the beautiful way of life" by force, to the Persian General Hormuz before the battle of Kadima.
Promising to kill people who have a death wish is not a deterrent but an incentive. The 9/11 hijackers expected a medium-size harem as reward for killing three thousand innocent men, women and children. What kind of out-of-this-world reward could the ultimate suicide bomber; the bomber with the BOMB expect? How could he resist killing a million unbelievers or more? How do you stop them?
If the United States decides that the only retaliatory target that could have a dissuading effect on Islamic terrorists detonating one or more nuclear device on U. S. soil is Mecca, it may be in everyone's interest, including Islamic militants, for the Americans to make the threat against the city explicit. It is not outside the realm of possibility that elements within the military, with nuclear weapons at their disposal, would seek revenge for a devastating nuclear attack on the homeland and incinerate Mecca, and maybe Medina for good measure, with or without Presidential approval.
Ending the Scourge of the Gullible Martyr
Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover.
The Associated Press, August 26, 2021
We could seriously suppress the scourge of the gullible male martyr if we told them the truth about what should be a deal-breaker: sex in Paradise is a semenless experience.
As to young women contemplating martyrdom in Allah's Cause, it's not worth it. And, if you are a teenaged girl enamored with the idea of sharing a bed with the ultimate bad boy, read the following first:
What Every Prospective Jihadi Bride Should Know
Women as Wages
The almost unspeakable fear is for girls and women. Taliban workers will soon go door-to-door to collect the names of all girls and women between the ages of 12 and 42. They will be "married" to Taliban fighters. Women are the "gifts of holy war.”
National Post, Aug 20, 2021
Females are not so much gifts as wages. A holy warrior’s pay is largely made up of the promised booty, i.e., the possessions of the men they killed or subjugated including their wives and daughters.
8:68 But for a prior ordinance of Allah, you would have been afflicted on account of what you have taken (an ordinance which made it lawful for Muslims to take spoils and captives) by a terrible punishment.
Allah made booty legal for the believers, and the believers only, because, according to Muhammad, ”Allah saw our weakness and disability, so he made booty legal for us."
Bukhari 53.353
In the seventh century, especially for a prophet without a vast treasury to fund a holy war, the promise of booty is how you got people to fight on your behalf; and that is still true today for many who fight and kill in Allah’s Name. For holy warriors, it’s a win-win situation.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "Allah guarantees to the person who carries out Jihad for His Cause and nothing compelled him to go out but the Jihad in His Cause, and belief in His Words, that He will either admit him into Paradise or return him with his reward or the booty he has earned to his residence from where he went out."
Bukhari 93.549
1,001 Sayings and Deeds of the Prophet - Booty and the Believers
Biden's Betrayal I
As the Taliban retakes Afghanistan, Canadian military veterans look on with frustration and sorrow
Globe and Mail August 14, 2021
In Afghanistan our soldiers fought and died for a sometimes obscure notion of liberty, freedom and human rights with no guarantee of an interesting sexual afterlife, or any afterlife at all.
Their opponent kill and die for the type of reward promised in the note of encouragement left behind by the leader of the 9/11 terrorists, Muhammad Atta: "Know that the gardens of paradise are waiting for you in all their beauty, and the women of paradise are waiting, calling out."
Can a so-called civilization which produces men who will cause so much death, suffering and destruction on a god's promise of an eternity of nonstop debauchery be compared with one whose young people selflessly give their lives to protect It, and us, because it is the moral and ethical thing to do?
Our soldiers were betrayed by a man who lost sight about what this fight is all about.
Early Signs of an Incipient Global Holocaust
Exiting Afghanistan will go down in history as Joe Biden’s big blunder
The geopolitical fallout from the Taliban’s success in forcing out America will extend far beyond Afghanistan. By signifying U.S. defeat, it will energize and embolden other terrorist groups in the global jihadist movement.
Brahma Chellaney Special to The Globe And Mail, August 12, 2021
Ignoring the Taliban is like ignoring the Nazis
We are watching the methodical advance of the gruesome Taliban in Afghanistan and as a collective, again, the world twiddles it’s thumbs — just as it did between 1933-45 with the Nazis.
Rev. Ron Grossman in a letter to the Ottawa Citizen, August 5, 2021
Know Your Enemy!
The Taliban have rejected international calls for a ceasefire in Afghanistan, as they push for new territory.
BBC August 9, 2021
47:35 So do not weaken and call for peace, while you have the upper hand and Allah is with you. He will not stint you your actions.
The Major and a Cardinal Rule of Warfare Ignored
Will the Taliban Again Stop the Music?
Orchestras and artists of Afghanistan insist Taliban won’t stop the music
Less than two and a half years ago the Zohra orchestra was dazzling audiences around Europe and receiving a standing ovation at the British Museum. The concerts’ appeal lay not just in the originality of hearing the English folk song Greensleeves performed with tambours, tablas and an Afghan twist but the exuberant smiles of the girls who had overcome enormous challenges to play their music.
Sunday Times, August 08 2021
The last time the Taliban ruled Afghanistan (1996 to 2001) not only were both music and girls education banned, but a woman venturing outside unaccompanied by her husband or a close male relative and not covered from head to toe in a tenth-like garment, e.g., the burka risked summary execution.
Playing musical instruments or listening to music is 16th on Islam's greatest sins hit list, and the Taliban, from which we get Students of the Koran, are sticklers about what God considers sins and what should be done with sinners. Say goodbye to music and more girls. So sad...
9/11 and Afghanistan
President Joe Biden agreed on Monday to formally conclude the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, another step toward winding down the two prolonged military engagements that began in the years following the September 11 terror attacks.
CNN Mon July 26, 2021
9/11 was just another victory in a very old war; Afghanistan will be just another in militant Islam's on-going war to make the world one barbaric Islamic caliphate.
Dead Girl Walking
French court convicts 11 people of cyberbullying teen who criticized Islam in online posts. Globe and Mail, July 8, 2021
According to French newsmagazine L'OBS, (formerly Le Nouvel Observateur), Mila "may have received up to 100,000 messages threatening her with rape, beheading, burning her with acid…“ Many of the threatening messages reminding her of the beheading of professor Samuel Paty for using mostly innocent cartoons of Muhammad as a teaching aid.
Teenaged boys of her generation did not spare her, quite the opposite. No surprise there! In a television interview, even with police protection, the now 18 years old teenager said she expected to be murdered before her 23rd birthday.
The inevitable may occur sooner rather than later brave Mila. Your age, when you said those words you now regret, will not save you from those who take their cue from the Prophet of Mercy.
What she said and Charlie Hebdo's response.
ISLAM
Books, Essays & Comments
Any study beside that of the Quran is a distraction, except the Hadiths and jurisprudence in the religion. Knowledge is what He [Muhammad] narrated to us, and anything other than that is the whispering of the Satan.
Al-Qaeda
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking 1942-2018
THE INDISPENSABLE FOUR
The world desperately needs to have an honest conversation about Islam (as I try to have in my books) starting with an unfettered dialogue on the Koran, if we are to allay the fear of the other and foster a trust in the other that is sadly lacking and a reason to fear that the worst is yet to come. The following four books could facilitate such a discussion:
LOVE, SEX & ISLAM
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If I am able convince believers contemplating martyrdom not to be in such a hurry to get at those houris only to be disappointed, then the almost twenty years I have dedicated to the study of the world's fastest growing religion will not have been in vain.
Excerpts: Falling for Uzza | The Broken Condom | Mary | Anne Part 2 | Cancer Girl | A Semenless Experience | Sex by the Numbers
REMEMBERING UZZA
If Islam Was Explained to Me in a Pub
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Remembering Uzza is meant to make learning about Islam a mostly pleasant experience while not sugar-coating or leaving out the nasty bits. And, is there a better place to get acquainted with a religion that has everyone talking than in the relaxed atmosphere of a favourite pub, in the company of friends and a troubled but engaging young woman to give you an insider's perspective?
First quarter excerpts:
Acknowledgment | No Scarf, No Service! | A Shirley Temple, Anyone? | The Enemy Within | The First Holy Homicide | Remember the Alamo | Home School | Critics Are for Killing | The Medium and the Message | Archie Loses It!
CHILDREN AND THE KORAN
The End of Empathy
Paperback, 136 pages
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"It is only by teaching children to question the validity of scriptures that we protect them from being influenced by fundamentalist doctrines. It is precisely the lack of critical thinking (when it comes to scriptures) which leads to radicalism."
André Gagné, Professor Theological Studies, Concordia University
Excerpts: The End of Empathy | Getting Kids To Feel Nothing | Lessons in Cruelty | Little Boys Learning To Hate Little Girls and Little Girls to Hate Themselves
LET ME REPHRASE THAT!
Your Layman's Guide to Abrogations - Second Edition
Paperback, 100 pages
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2:106 Whichever verse We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring instead a better or similar one. Do you not know that Allah has the power over all things? | 16:101 And if We replace a verse by another – and Allah knows best what He reveals – they say: “You [Muhammad] are only a forger.” Surely, most of them do not know.
Excerpt: Preface | Introduction | A Harvest of Contradictions | One Abrogating One
Parting Observations
Should any of the Indispensables find an audience, violence will inevitably find me and my government, and apologists for those who follow Muhammad's example when it comes to dealing with critics will say that I had it coming. With that in mind, some final thoughts, pun intended.
Tolerance
Tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually know something about whomever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.
Stephen Prothero, author of the NY Times bestseller Religious Literacy
Islamophobia
Gerry: So you agree that Islamophobia is real.
Uzza: A fear of Islam is real, and it is not a phobia, as Islamists and their patsies would have you believe.
Gerry: By patsies, you mean politicians?
Uzza: And well-meaning people who don't know any better. A fear of Islam is a legitimate fear. Fear is what non-believers who get close and personal with the Koran and Allah’s unrestrained visceral hatred and cruelty for their kind will experience, for that is the intent.
It is a fear nourished and amplified by the Author’s demands of believers when it comes to dealing with those for whom He has nothing but contempt: from avoiding them, to enslaving them, to killing them. Fear is what terrorism in the name of Allah is all about.
Instead of dealing with this fear in a forthright manner, Western governments preferred spreading the Islamic slander that a fear of Islam is an irrational fear, that of Islamophobia, or worse, racism, as if Islam was a race and not a religion.
From The Enemy Within, Remembering Uzza - If Islam Was Explained to Me in a Pub:
Islamophobia can also be described as a rational fear of the irrational. The most visible manifestation of this fear inducing irrationality is the believer who seeks martyrdom in suicidal attacks because of what is written in a book in Paradise whose contents were revealed by a man who claimed to be an intimate of the Author.
Freedom of Speech and Scriptures
As human beings we have a right, and as citizens of a democracy an obligation, to express an opinion on issues affecting our lives and the lives of our countrymen and women. That right, that obligation must include questioning religious dogma.
Of all human endeavors religion has the greatest potential to change our lives for better or for worse. By giving all citizens the freedom to question the authenticity, the relevancy, the meaning and application of scriptures we guard against the worst.
Looking At Scriptures in a Different Light
2:2 This is the Book which cannot be doubted and is a guidance to the God-fearing.
Uzza remembers what Nehru said.
It's Not Only About People
On the Ritual Slaughter of Animals
Dogs Gone
Islam almost led to a mass extermination of dogs, all because Muhammad blamed a puppy for the angel Gabriel skipping a scheduled meeting. Could it happen again? If scriptures pertaining to dogs still hold sway, man's best friend, in an Islamic future, will be a lot less so.
A child on Canada Day, in his simple gesture of petting a dog, and a black one at that, showed that hatred, whether it be for an animal or a person, to paraphrase Sohrab, is a learnt behaviour. What is learned can be unlearned. Better still, why not avoid teaching hatred altogether.
A Willful Ignorance
In my writings on the Koran, Muhammad and Islam I have tried to explain the seemingly complicated in terms we can all understand in what has become, with Lucette's passing, a solitary campaign against the willful ignorance that will be our undoing.
Stopping the Draining of the Light
Post-mortem
I have, in my last will and testament, instructed my executor to transfer all my published and unpublished material, including cover art, into the public domain. Just give credit where credit is due.
