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FAREWELL POSTINGS

Scared Children and When They Should be Killed  

April 29, 2025

Almost six years on, and I still often wakeup in the middle of the night thinking of Lucette and needing her advice. Last night it was about adding an excerpt that would add more pages to an already lengthy text. As mentioned early on, Lucette planned her passing after becoming aware that the first draft of Remembering Uzza was complete.

Actually, there is a bit more to it than that. After 460+ pages she said it was enough and to end it. I ended it and a short time later she arranged her assisted suicide. Since what I want to add will keep the pages below what I consider her threshold, I think she will be okay with it.

The excerpts that I have chosen to include here, after talking it over—yes, it was a somewhat a one-sided conversion, but a conversation nonetheless—contains revelations where Allah brags about scaring children white and killing children whom you fear will grow up to question His Revelations (Moses and Khidr). I thought it important to include these excerpts in my Farewell Postings because of a claim you will hear from apologists for Allah allowing children to be killed in massacres on His behalf, that He only wants what is best for them, like He did on December 16, 2014.

On that day, six Taliban entered a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and slaughtered 141 people, including 132 children between eight and eighteen years of age. How a Taliban supporter justified the killing of the children:

Human life only has value among you worldly materialistic thinkers. For us, this human life is only a tiny, meaningless fragment of our existence. Our real destination is the Hereafter. We don’t just believe it exists, we know it does. Death is not the end of life. It is the beginning of existence in a world much more beautiful than this.

As you know, the [Urdu] word for death is “intiqall.” It means transfer, not end. Paradise is for those of pure hearts. All children have pure hearts. They have not sinned yet…

They have not yet been corrupted by [their kafir parents]. We did not end their lives. We gave them new ones in Paradise, where they will be loved more than you can imagine. They will be rewarded for their martyrdom. After all, we also martyr ourselves with them. The last words they heard were the slogan of Takbeer [Allah U Akbar].

Allah Almighty says himself in Surhah Al-Imran [3:169-170] that they are not dead. You will never understand this. If your faith is pure, you will not mourn them, but celebrate their birth into Paradise.

Sam Harris, Islam and the Future of Tolerance, Harvard University Press, 2015, p. 86

SCARING CHILDREN WHITE

(Excerpt from Alice Visits a Mosque to Learn about Judgement Day, Boreal Books)

Alice: Rejoicing, getting pleasure from watching another of our kind who has never harmed us in any way, or wished us harm, in excruciating pain! If it wasn't for the sadism, that would be so childish!

Imam: It is not being childish! Allah is not a child or a sadist and neither are the people of Paradise, the believers! Enjoying seeing wicked people getting what they deserve is not sadism, it is celebrating the triumph of good over evil and there is nothing wrong with that. And as to children, they too will not be spared the terror of Judgement Day. Allah said:

73:17 So, how will you guard, if you disbelieve, against a Day which will make children white with fear?

Alice: Children being scared white! How awful! What kind of god takes pleasure in scaring children? I thought Jesus was one of Allah’s Messengers and Jesus loved and was very protective of the innocent; he even said that the Kingdom of Heaven was theirs?

Imam: Yes, Jesus was a Messenger of Allah, but not His son. That is a lie told by Christians to diminish the Compassionate. To associate other Gods with Allah is the sin of shirk. There is no greater sin, and every time Christians say Allah has taken a son they commit the greatest sin of all.

Alice: What about Jesus saying that the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to children?

Imam: HE WAS WRONG! It belongs to Allah. It was to correct such miscommunications that Allah sent the perfect human being, the perfect communicator, His Greatest Messenger, the Prophet Muhammad, the peace and blessings of God be upon him, to correct lesser, less capable Messengers like Jesus.

Alice: Still, it is difficult to believe that Jesus was the Messenger of a God who would brag about scaring children to the extent that blood will drain from their faces.

Imam: How many times do I have to say it, Allah loves children, and they will be welcomed in His Paradise if they behaved and feared and worshipped Allah and only Allah when told to do so. Allah on Judgement Day will treat children fairly, just like the adults who submitted, and just like their mothers and fathers, they will appear before him to be judged alone. Allah said:

31:33 O people fear your Lord and beware of the Day when no father shall stand for his child and no infant shall stand for his father in the least. Allah’s promise is true, so let not the present life delude you or let any deceiver delude you regarding Allah.

Alice: O MY GOD! The poor children appearing before the same person who scared them almost to death, by themselves [wipes away a tear].

Imam: Do not refer to God as a person. He is Allah the Wise, the Magnificent, the All-Powerful.

Alice: I am sorry [regaining her composure], you are right; no person that I know or have known is capable of what He is capable of.

Imam: Allah is capable of everything; He is Allah!

Alice: Is it possible that Allah's scaring of children has anything to do with Him making an orphan of His Greatest Messenger when he was only six years old, and wanting to make amends for depriving the Prophet of a normal childhood by getting back at children who grew up with one or both parents?

Imam: Allah does not make amends; Allah does not need to make amends. Have you not considered that Allah's scaring of children is done for the same reasons He frightens adults, so that they will be scared of Judgement Day and therefore remain loyal, and on the strait path that leads to Paradise?

Alice: I just think that if the Prophet Muhammad had grown up with a loving father and mother he would have at least tried to temper Allah's terrorist side when it came to children [sniveling].

Imam: ALLAH IS NO TERRORIST!

Alice: Of course; it is not what I meant.

Imam: What people mistake for terrorism is simply a caring god acting in the best interest of His loyal followers, making sure they remain loyal by letting them know what is in store for them if they betray His Trust, and humiliating, and yes, scarring their common enemy, the unbelievers; BUT THAT DOES NOT MAKE HIM A TERRORIST

MOSES AND KHIDR

(Abbreviated from Shared Prophets, Boreal Books)

Moses and Khidr is about an expedition to the Red Sea during which Moses will be joined by a mysterious fellow by the name of Khidr. During their time together they will encounter a boy whom Khidr will kill without any hesitation or apparent provocation. The story of Moses and Khidr begins with Moses determined to find where the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez meet. Why Moses would want to do this is not mentioned.

18:60 And [remember] when Moses said to his servant (he is believed to be Joshua): “I will not give up until I reach the confluence of the two seas (the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez in the Red Sea), or else walk on for years.”

18:61 Then, when they reached their confluence, they forgot their fish, and thus it slipped into the sea unhindered.

18:62 But when they had passed on, he said to his servant: “Bring us our food; we have been exposed in our travels to a lot of fatigue.”

 18:63 He (the servant) said: “Do you see; when we repaired to the rock, I forgot the fish. It was only the Devil who made me forget it; and so it slipped away into the sea in a strange way.”

18:64 He (Moses) said: “This is what we were seeking”; and so they turned back retracing their steps.

On their way back they encounter Khidr, a servant of Allah who knows God’s mind.

18:65 And so they found one of Our servants whom We had accorded a mercy of our Own and had imparted to him knowledge from Ourselves.

What happened next requires little or no explanation.

18:66 Moses said to him (Khidr): “Shall I follow you so that you may teach me of the good you have been taught.”

18:67 He (Khidr) said: “You will not be able to bear with me.”

18:68 “And how will you bear with what you have no knowledge of?”

 18:69 He (Moses) said: “You will find me, Allah willing, patient and I will not disobey any orders of yours.”

18:70 He said: “If you follow me, do not ask me about anything, until I make mention of it.”

18:71 So, they set out; but no sooner had they boarded the ship that he made a hole in it. He (Moses) said: “Have you made a hole in it so as to drown its passengers? You have indeed done a grievous thing.”

 18:72 He (Khidr) said: “Did I not tell you that you will not be able to bear with me?”

18:73 He (Moses) said: “Do not reproach me for what I have forgotten, and do not overburden me with hardship.”

18:74 Then they departed; but when they met a boy, he (Khidr) killed him. Moses said: “Have you killed an innocent person who has not killed another? You have surely committed a horrible deed.”

18:75 He (Khidr) said: “Did I not tell you that you will not be able to bear with me?”

18:76 He (Moses) said: “If I ask about anything after this, do not keep company with me. You have received an excuse from me.”

18:77 So they went on, until they reached the inhabitants of a town. Whereupon they asked its inhabitants for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. Then, they found in it a wall about to fall down, and so he (Khidr) straightened it. He (Moses) said: “Had you wished, you could have been paid for that.”

It is after they reach the town mentioned in Revelation 18:77 that Khidr explains why he sunk a ship drowning everyone on board and why he killed a seemingly innocent boy.

18:78 He (Khidr) said: “This is where we part company. [Now] I will tell you the interpretation of that which you could not bear patiently with.

The reason given for sinking the ship would justify the taking of innocent lives if it means denying your enemy a sought after prize.

18:79 “As for the ship, it belonged to some poor fellows who worked upon the sea. I wanted to damage it, because, on their trail, there was a king, who was seizing every ship by force.

As for the killing of the boy:

18:80 “As for the boy, his parents were believers; so we feared that he might overwhelm them with oppression and unbelief.

18:81 “So we wanted that their Lord might replace him with someone better in purity and closer to mercy.

For Allah, protecting the believers by killing unbelievers with whom they might come into contact and who might inadvertently lead them astray, even their children, is an act of mercy. The boy murdered by Khidr may not have been actively trying to convert his parents, but his normal familial contact with his mom and dad meant his parents were regularly exposed to other beliefs and other points of view. Better to kill a seemingly wayward child, or for some else to do so, and not risk Hell’s Fire.

In Islamic traditions, Khidr continues to guide the perplexed and those who invoke his name. Some believe he is an angel who functions as a guide to those who seek God; others that he is a perfect Wali, one whom God has taken as a friend, a Saint.