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assalamualaikum,
the so called "freethinkers and humanist with islamic
roots" who wrote verses of AlQuran to justify Islam
as a non tolerant religion is merely throwing a bait
to many of our muslim brothers and sisters to take.
they are actually non-believers who do not understand
AlQuran and are merely picking verses fron English
translation of AlQuran without understanding the
meaning of these verses. Muslims should be extra
careful with them as they could be a christian group
working to undermine muslims solidarity.
there is no need to have a dialogue with them as they
have no intention of finding the truth. if you should
receive such e-mail please ignore them.
wassalam
--- MEtalWoRkS ClUbmAn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: MEtalWoRkS ClUbmAn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:27:32 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: Re: [alternatif-net] Fw: [SecularIslam] A
> Call to the Muslims of the World
>
> hello there
>
> if it is SOOOOOOOOOO TRAGIC, then what do you think
> about the Palestinian war? Kashmir war? Acheh?
> Chechnya?
>
> These wars have been happening for a long time. And
> there's no mentioning about it anywhere. And the
> pampered American suddenly is at war, and make a big
> fuss of everything. So childish! I guess it's time
> for
> them to taste the cake huh?!
>
> You seem to really like bashing Muslims right? Well
> I
> really think it's naturally you now.
>
> I'd like to emphasize here, that THERE IS NO PROOF
> WHATSOEVER that it is OSAMA BIN LADIN who did it.
> And
> yet the bashing continues. It's like what we have
> here
> in Malaysia, the proof come alot later after the
> accusing, and bad proof too.
>
> Stop thinking like an American, stop thinking like a
> FREETHINKER (there is no such thing as a
> freethinking
> Muslim!) and think like a true Muslim now.
>
>
> --- Evolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A Call to the Muslims of the World
> > from a Group of Freethinkers and
> > Humanists of Muslim Origins
> >
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > The tragic incidents of September 11 have shocked
> > the world. It
> > is unthinkable that anyone could be
> > so full of hate as to commit such heinous acts and
> > kill so many
> > innocent people. We people of Muslim
> > origin are as much shaken as the rest of the world
> > and yet we
> > find ourselves looked upon with
> > suspicion and distrust by our neighbours and
> fellow
> > citizens. We
> > want to cry out and tell the world that
> > we are not terrorists, and that those who
> perpetrate
> > such
> > despicable acts are murderers and not part of
> > us. But, in reality, because of our Muslim origins
> > we just
> > cannot erase the "stigma of Islamic Terrorism"
> > from our identity!
> >
> > What most Muslims will say:
> >
> > "Islam would never support the killing of innocent
> > people. Allah
> > of the Holy Qur'an never advocated
> > killings. This is all the work of a few misguided
> > individuals at
> > the fringes of society. The real Islam is
> > sanctified from violence. We denounce all
> violence.
> > Islam means
> > peace. Islam means tolerance."
> >
> > What knowledgeable Muslims should say:
> >
> > That is what most Muslims think, but is it true?
> > Does Islam
> > really preach peace, tolerance and
> > non-violence? The Muslims who perpetrate these
> > crimes think
> > differently. They believe that what they
> > do is Jihad (holy war). They say that killing
> > unbelievers is
> > mandatory for every Muslim. They do not kill
> > because they wish to break the laws of Islam but
> > because they
> > think this is what true Muslims should
> > do. Those who blow-up their own bodies to kill
> more
> > innocent
> > people do so because they think they
> > will be rewarded in Paradise. They hope to be
> > blessed by Allah,
> > eat celestial food, drink pure wine
> > and enjoy the company of divine consorts. Are they
> > completely
> > misguided? Where did they get this
> > distorted idea? How did they come to believe that
> > killing
> > innocent people pleases God? Or is it that we
> > are misguided? Does really Islam preach violence?
> > Does it call
> > upon its believers to kill non-believers?
> > We denounce those who commit acts of violence and
> > call them
> > extremists. But are! they really
> > extremists or are they following what the holy
> book,
> > the Qur'an
> > tells them to do? What does the
> > Qur'an teach? Have we read the Qur'an? Do we know
> > what kind of
> > teachings are there? Let us go
> > through some of them and take a closer look at
> what
> > Allah says.
> >
> > What the Qur'an Teaches Us:
> >
> > We have used the most widely available English
> text
> > of the
> > Qur'an and readers are welcome to verify
> > our quotes from the holy book. Please have an open
> > mind and read
> > through these verses again and
> > again. The following quotes are taken from the
> most
> > trusted
> > Yusufali's translation of the Qur'an.
> >
> > The Qur'an tells us: "not to make friendship with
> > Jews and
> > Christians" (5:51), "kill the disbelievers
> > wherever we find them" (2:191), "murder them and
> > treat them
> > harshly" (9:123), "fight and slay the
> > Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in
> wait
> > for them in
> > every stratagem" (9:5). The Qur'an
> > demands that we fight the unbelievers, and
> promises
> > "If there
> > are twenty amongst you, you will
> > vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, you will
> > vanquish a thousand
> > of them" (8:65).
> >
> > Allah and his messenger want us to fight the
> > Christians and the
> > Jews "until they pay the Jizya [a penalty
> > tax for the non-Muslims living under Islamic
> rules]
> > with willing
> > submission, and feel themselves
> > subdued" (9:29). Allah and his messenger announce
> > that it is
> > acceptable to go back on our promises
> > (treaties) and obligations with Pagans and make
> war
> > on them
> > whenever we find ourselves strong
> > enough to do so (9:3). Our God tells us to "fight
> > the
> > unbelievers" and "He will punish them by our
> > hands, cover them with shame and help us (to
> > victory) over them"
> > (9:14).
> >
> > The Qur'an takes away the freedom of belief from
> all
> > humanity
> > and relegates those who disbelieve in
> > Islam to hell (5:10), calls them najis (filthy,
> > untouchable,
> > impure) (9:28), and orders its followers to fight
> > the unbelievers until no other religion except
> Islam
> > is left
> > (2:193). It says that the "non-believers will go
> > to hell and will drink boiling water" (14:17). It
> > asks the
> > Muslims to "slay or crucify or cut the hands and
> > feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled
> from
> > the land
> > with disgrace and that they shall have a great
> > punishment in world hereafter" (5:34). And tells
> us
> > that "for
> > them (the unbelievers) garments of fire shall
> > be cut and there shall be poured over their heads
> > boiling water
> > whereby whatever is in their bowels
> > and skin shall be dissolved and they will be
> > punished with
> > hooked iron rods" (22:19-22) and that they
> > not only will have "disgrace in this life, but on
> > the Day of
> > Judgment He shall make them taste the
> > Penalty of burning (Fire)" (22:9). The Q! ur'an
> says
> > that "those
> > who invoke a god other than Allah not
> > only should meet punishment in this world but the
> > Penalty on the
> > Day of Judgment will be doubled to
> > them, and they will dwell therein in ignominy"
> > (25:68). For
> > those who "believe not in Allah and His
> > Messenger, He has prepared, for those who reject
> > Allah, a
> > Blazing Fire!" (48:13). Although we are
> > asked to be compassionate amongst each other, we
> > have to be
> > "harsh with unbelievers", our Christian,
> > Jewish and Atheist neighbours and colleagues
> > (48:29). As for him
> > who does not believe in Islam, the
> > Prophet announces with a "stern command": "Seize
> ye
> > him, and
> > bind ye him, And burn ye him in the
> > Blazing Fire. Further, make him march in a chain,
> > whereof the
> > length is seventy cubits! This was he that
> > would not believe in Allah Most High. And would
> not
> > encourage
> > the feeding of the indigent! So no
> > friend hath he here this Day. Nor hath he any food
> > except the
> > corruption from the washing of wounds,
> > Which none do eat but those i! n sin." (69:30-37)
> > The Qur'an
> > prohibits a Muslim from befriending a
> > non-believer even if that non-believer is the
> father
> > or the
> > brother of that Muslim (9:23), (3:28). Our
> > holy book asks us to be disobedient towards the
> > disbelievers and
> > their governments and strive against
> > the unbelievers with great endeavour" (25:52) and
> be
> > stern with
> > them because they belong to Hell
> > (66:9). The holy Prophet prescribes fighting for
> us
> > and tells us
> > that "it is good for us even if we dislike
> > it" (2:216). Then he advises us to "strike off the
> > heads of the
> > disbelievers"; and after making a "wide
> > slaughter among them, carefully tie up the
> remaining
> > captives"
> > (47:4). Our God has promised to "instil
> > terror into the hearts of the unbelievers" and has
> > ordered us to
> > "smite above their necks and smite all
> > their finger-tips off them" (8:12). He also
> assures
> > us that when
> > we kill in his name "it is not us who slay
> > them but Allah, in order that He might test the
> > Believers by a
> > gracious trial from Himself" ! (8:17). He
> > orders us "to strike terror into the hearts of the
> > enemies"
> > (8:60). He has made the Jihad mandatory and
> > warns us that "Unless we go forth, (for Jihad) He
> > will punish us
> > with a grievous penalty, and put others
> > in our place" (9:39). Allah speaks to our Holy
> > Prophet and says
> > "O Prophet! strive hard against the
> > unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern
> against
> > them. Their
> > abode is Hell - an evil refuge indeed"
> > (9:73).
> >
> > He promises us that in the fight for His cause
> > whether we slay
> > or are slain we return to the garden of
> > Paradise (9:111). In Paradise he will "wed us with
> > Houris
> > (celestial virgins) pure beautiful ones"
> > (56:54), and unite us with large-eyed beautiful
> ones
> > while we
> > recline on our thrones set in lines (56:20).
> > There we are promised to eat and drink pleasantly
> > for what we
> > did (56:19). He also promises "boys
> > like hidden pearls" (56:24) and "youth never
> > altering in age
> > like scattered pearls" (for those who have
> > paedophiliac inclinations) (76:19). As you see,
> > Allah has
> > promised all sorts or rewards, gluttony and
> > unlimited sex to Muslim men who kill unbelievers
> in
> > his name. We
> > will be admitted to Paradise where
> > we shall find "goodly things, beautiful ones, pure
> > ones confined
> > to the pavilions that man has not
> > touched them before nor jinni" (56:67-71).
> >
> > In the West we enjoy freedom of belief but we are
> > not supposed
> > to give such freedom to anyone else
> > because it is written "If anyone desires a
> religion
> > other than
> > Islam (submission to Allah), never will it be
> > accepted of him; and in the Hereafter He will be
> in
> > the ranks of
> > those who have lost (All spiritual good)
> > (3:85). And He orders us to fight them on until
> > there is no more
> > tumult and faith in Allah is practiced
> > everywhere (8:39).
> >
> > As for women the book of Allah says that they are
> > inferior to
> > men and their husbands have the right to
> > scourge them if they are found disobedient (4:34).
> > It advises to
> > "take a green branch and beat your
> > wife", because a green branch is more flexible and
> > hurts more.
> > (38:44). It teaches that women will go
> > to hell if they are disobedient to their husbands
> > (66:10). It
> > maintains that men have an advantage over
> > the women (2:228). It not only denies the women's
> > equal right to
> > their inheritance (4:11-12), it also
> > regards them as imbeciles and decrees that their
> > witness is not
> > admissible in the courts of law (2:282).
> > This means that a woman who is raped cannot accuse
> > her rapist
> > unless she can produce a male
> > witness. Our Holy Prophet allows us to marry up to
> > four wives
> > and he licensed us to sleep with our
> > slave maids and as many 'captive' women as we may
> > have (4:3)
> > even if those women are already
> > married. He himself did just that. This is why
> > anytime a Muslim
> > army subdues another n! ation, they call
> > them kafir and allow themselves to rape their
> women.
> > Pakistani
> > soldiers allegedly raped up to 250,000
> > Bengali women in 1971 after they massacred
> 3,000,000
> > unarmed
> > civilians when their religious leader
> > decreed that Bangladeshis are un-Islamic. This is
> > why the prison
> > guards in Islamic regime of Iran rape
> > the women that in their opinion are apostates
> prior
> > to killing
> > them, as they believe a virgin will not go to
> > Hell.
> >
> > Dear fellow Muslims:
> >
> > Is this the Islam you believe in? Is this your
> Most
> > Merciful,
> > Most Compassionate Allah whom you
> > worship daily? Could Allah incite you to kill
> other
> > peoples?
> > Please understand that there is no terrorist
> > gene - but there could be a terrorist mindset.
> That
> > mindset
> > finds its most fertile ground in the tenets of
> > Islam. Denying it, and presenting Islam to the lay
> > public as a
> > religion of peace similar to Buddhism, is to
> > suppress the truth. The history of Islam between
> the
> > 7th and
> > 14th centuries is riddled with violence,
> > fratricide and wars of aggression, starting right
> > from the death
> > of the Prophet and during the so-called
> > 'pure' or orthodox caliphate. And Muhammad himself
> > hoisted the
> > standard of killing, looting,
> > massacres and bloodshed. How can we deny the
> entire
> > history? The
> > behaviour of our Holy Prophet as
> > recorded in authentic Islamic sources is quite
> > questionable from
> > a modern viewpoint. The Prophet was
> > a charismatic man but he had few virtues.
> Imitating
> > him in all
> > aspects! of life (following the Sunnah) is
> > both impossible and dangerous in the 21st century.
> > Why are we so
> > helplessly in denial over this simple
> > issue?
> >
> > When the Prophet was in Mecca and he was still not
> > powerful
> > enough he called for tolerance. He said
> > "To you be your religion, and to me my religion"
> > (109:6). This
> > famous quote is often misused to prove
> > that the general principle of Qur'an is tolerance.
> > He advised
> > his follower to speak good to their enemies
> > (2: 83), exhorted them to be patient (20:103) and
> > said that
> > "there is no compulsion in religion" (2:256).
> > But that all changed drastically when he came to
> > power. Then
> > killing and slaying unbelievers with
> > harshness and without mercy was justified in
> > innumerable verses.
> > The verses quoted to prove Islam's
> > tolerance ignore many other verses that bear no
> > trace of
> > tolerance or forgiveness. Where is tolerance in
> > this well-known verse "Alarzu Lillah, Walhukmu
> > Lillah." (The
> > Earth belongs to Allah and thus only
> > Allah's rule should prevail all over the earth.).
> >
> > Is it normal that a book revealed by God should
> have
> > so many
> > serious contradictions? The Prophet
> > himself set the example of unleashing violence by
> > invading the
> > Jewish settlements, breaking treaties he
> > had signed with them and banishing some of them
> > after
> > confiscating their belongings, massacring others
> > and taking their wives and children as slaves. He
> > inspected the
> > youngsters and massacred all those
> > who had pubic hair along with the men. Those who
> > were younger he
> > kept as slaves. He distributed the
> > women captured in his raids among his soldiers
> > keeping the
> > prettiest for himself (33:50). He made
> > sexual advances on Safiyah, a Jewish girl on the
> > same day he
> > captured her town Kheibar and killed her
> > father, her husband and many of her relatives.
> > Reyhana was
> > another Jewish girl of Bani Quriza whom
> > he used as a sex slave after killing all her male
> > relatives. In
> > the last ten years of his life he accumulated
> > two scores of wives, concubines and sex slaves
> > including the 9
> > year old Ay! esha. These are not
> > stories but records from authentic Islamic history
> > and the
> > Hadiths. It can be argued that this kind of
> > behaviour was not unknown or unusual for the
> > conquerors and
> > leaders of the mediareview world but
> > these are not the activities befitting of a
> peaceful
> > saint and
> > certainly not someone who claimed to be the
> > Mercy of God for all creation. There were known
> > assassinations
> > of adversaries during the Prophet's
> > time, which he had knowledge of and had supported.
> > Among them
> > there was a 120 year old man, Abu
> > 'Afak whose only crime was to compose a lyric
> > satirical of the
> > Prophet. (by Ibn Sa'd Kitab al Tabaqat
> > al Kabir, Volume 2, page 32) Then when a poetess,
> a
> > mother of 5
> > small children 'Asma' Bint Marwan
> > wrote a poetry cursing the Arabs for letting
> > Muhammad
> > assassinate an old man, our Holy Prophet
> > ordered her to be assassinated too in the middle
> of
> > the night
> > while her youngest child was suckling from
> > her breast. (Sirat Rasul Allah (A. Guillaume's
> > translation "The
> > Life ! of Muhammad") page 675, 676).
> >
> > The Prophet did develop a 'Robin Hood' image that
> > justified
> > raiding merchant caravans attacking cities
> > and towns, killing people and looting their
> > belongings in the
> > name of social justice. Usama Bin Laden is
> > also trying to create the same image. But Robin
> Hood
> > didn't
> > claim to be a prophet or a pacifist nor did
> > he care for apologist arguments. He did not
> massacre
> > innocent
> > people indiscriminately nor did he profit
> > by reducing free people to slaves and then trading
> > them.
> >
> > With the known and documented violent legacy of
> > Islam, how can
> > we suddenly rediscover it as a
> > religion of peace in the free world in the 21st
> > century? Isn't
> > this the perpetuation of a lie by a few
> > ambitious leaders in order to gain political
> control
> > of the huge
> > and ignorant Muslim population? They
> > are creating a polished version of Islam by
> > completely ignoring
> > history. They are propagating the same
> > old dogma for simple believing people in a crisp
> new
> > modern
> > package. Their aim: to gain political
> > power in today's high-tension world. They want to
> > use the
> > confrontational power of the original Islam
> > to catalyse new conflicts and control new circles
> of
> > power.
> >
> > Dear conscientious Muslims, please question
> > yourselves. Isn't
> > this compulsive following of a man who
> > lived 1400 years ago leading us to doom in a
> > changing world? Do
> > the followers of any other religion
> > follow one man in such an all-encompassing way?
> Who
> > are we
> > deceiving, them or ourselves? Dear
> > brothers and sisters, see how our Umma (people)
> has
> > sunk into
> > poverty and how it lags behind the rest
> > of the world. Isn't it because we are following a
> > religion that
> > is outdated and impractical? In this crucial
> > moment of history, when a great catastrophe has
> > befallen us and
> > a much bigger one is lying ahead,
> > should not we wake up from our 1400 years of
> slumber
> > and see
> > where things have gone wrong?
> >
> > Hatred has filled the air and the world is bracing
> > itself for
> > its doomsday. Should we not ask ourselves
> > whether we have contributed, wittingly or
> > unwittingly, to this
> > tragedy and whether we can stop the
> > great disaster from happening?
> >
> > Unfortunately the answer to the first question is
> > yes. Yes we
> > have contributed to the rise of
> > fundamentalism by merely claiming Islam is a
> > religion of peace,
> > by simply being a Muslim and by saying
> > our shahada (testimony that Allah is the only God
> > and Muhammad
> > is his messenger). By our shahada
> > we have recognized Muhammad as a true messenger of
> > God and his
> > book as the words of God. But
> > as you saw above those words are anything but from
> > God. They
> > call for killing, they are prescriptions
> > for hate and they foment intolerance. And when the
> > ignorant
> > among us read those hate-laden verses,
> > they act on them and the result is the infamous
> > September 11,
> > human bombs in Israel, massacres in
> > East Timor and Bangladesh, kidnappings and
> killings
> > in the
> > Philippines, slavery in the Sudan, honour
> > killings in Pakistan and Jordan, torture in Iran,
> > stoning and
> > maiming in Afghanistan and Iran, violence in
> > Algeria, terrorism in Palestine and misery and
> death
> > in every
> > Islamic country. We are respon! sible
> > because we endorse Islam and hail it as a religion
> > of God. And
> > we are as guilty as those who put into
> > practice what the Qur'an preaches - and ironically
> > we are the
> > main victims too. If we are not terrorists,
> > if we love peace, if we cried with the rest of the
> > word for what
> > happened in New York, then why are
> > we supporting the Qur'an that preaches killing,
> that
> > advocates
> > holy war, that calls for the murder of
> > non-Muslims? It is not the extremists who have
> > misunderstood
> > Islam. They do literally what the Qur'an
> > asks them to do. It is we who misunderstand Islam.
> > We are the
> > ones who are confused. We are the
> > ones who wrongly assume that Islam is the religion
> > of peace.
> > Islam is not a religion of peace. In its
> > so-called "pure" form it can very well be
> > interpreted as a
> > doctrine of hate. Terrorists are doing just that
> > and we the intellectual apologists of Islam are
> > justifying it.
> > We can stop this madness. Yes, we can
> > avert the disaster that is hovering over our
> heads.
> > Yes, we can
> > ! denounce the doctrines that promote
> > hate. Yes, we can embrace the rest of humanity
> with
> > love. Yes,
> > we can become part of a united world,
> > members of one human family, flowers of one
> garden.
> > We can dump
> > the claim of infallibility of our
> > Book, and the questionable legacy of our Prophet.
> >
> > Dear friends, there is no time to waste. Let us
> put
> > an end to
> > this lie. Let us not fool ourselves. Islam is
> > not a religion of peace, of tolerance, of equality
> > or of unity
> > of humankind. Let us read the Qur'an. Let
> > us face the truth even if it is painful. As long
> as
> > we keep this
> > lie alive, as long as we hide our head in the
> > sands of Arabia we are feeding terrorism. As long
> as
> > you and I
> > keep calling Qur'an the unchangeable
> > book of God, we cannot blame those who follow the
> > teachings
> > therein. As long as we pay our Khums
> > and Zakat our money goes to promote Islamic
> > expansionism and
> > that means terrorism, Jihad and war.
> > Islam divides the world in two. Darul Harb (land
> of
> > war) and
> > Darul Islam (land of Islam). Darul Harb is
> > the land of the infidels, Muslims are required to
> > infiltrate
> > those lands, proselytise and procreate until
> > their numbers increase and then start the war and
> > fight and kill
> > the people and impose the religion of
> > Islam on them and convert that land into Darul
> > Islam. ! In all
> > fairness we denounce this betrayal. This is
> > abuse of the trust. How can we make war in the
> > countries that
> > have sheltered us? How can we kill
> > those who have befriended us? Yet willingly or
> > unwillingly we
> > have become pawns in this Islamic
> > Imperialism. Let us see what great Islamic
> scholars
> > have had to
> > say in this respect.
> >
> > Dr. M. Khan the translator of Sahih Bukhari and
> the
> > Qur'an into
> > English wrote: "Allah revealed in Sura
> > Bara'at (Repentance, IX) the order to discard
> (all)
> > obligations
> > (covenants, etc), and commanded the
> > Muslims to fight against all the Pagans as well as
> > against the
> > people of the Scriptures (Jews and
> > Christians) if they do not embrace Islam, till
> they
> > pay the
> > Jizia (a tax levied on the Jews and Christians)
> > with willing submission and feel themselves
> subdued
> > (as it is
> > revealed in 9:29). So the Muslims were
> > not permitted to abandon "the fighting" against
> them
> > (Pagans,
> > Jews and Christians) and to reconcile
> > with them and to suspend hostilities against them
> > for an
> > unlimited period while they are strong and have
> > the ability to fight against them. So at first
> "the
> > fighting"
> > was forbidden, then it was permitted, and after
> > that it was made obligatory" [Introduction to
> > English
> > translation of Sahih Bukhari, p.xxiv.]
> >
> > Dr. Sobhy as-Saleh, a contemporary Islamic
> > academician quoted
> > Imam Suyuti the author of Itqan Fi
> > 'Ulum al- Qur'an who wrote: "The command to fight
> > the infidels
> > was delayed until the Muslims become
> > strong, but when they were weak they were
> commanded
> > to endure
> > and be patient". [ Sobhy as_Saleh,
> > Mabaheth Fi 'Ulum al- Qur'an, Dar al-'Ilm
> > Lel-Malayeen, Beirut,
> > 1983, p. 269.]
> >
> > Dr. Sobhy, in a footnote, commends the opinion of
> a
> > scholar
> > named Zarkashi who said: "Allah the
> > most high and wise revealed to Mohammad in his
> weak
> > condition
> > what suited the situation, because of
> > his mercy to him and his followers. For if He gave
> > them the
> > command to fight while they were weak it
> > would have been embarrassing and most difficult,
> but
> > when the
> > most high made Islam victorious He
> > commanded him with what suited the situation, that
> > is asking the
> > people of the Book to become
> > Muslims or to pay the levied tax, and the infidels
> > to become
> > Muslims or face death. These two options,
> > to fight or to have peace return according to the
> > strength or
> > the weakness of the Muslims." [ibid p.
> > 270]
> >
> > Other Islamic scholars (Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi,
> Ga'far
> > ar-Razi,
> > Rabi' Ibn 'Ons, 'Abil-'Aliyah, Abd
> > ar-Rahman Ibn Zayd Ibn 'Aslam, etc.) agree that
> the
> > verse "Slay
> > the idolaters wherever you find them"
> > (9:5) cancelled those few earlier verses that
> called
> > for
> > tolerance in the Qur'an and were revealed when
> > Islam was weak. Can you still say that Islam is
> the
> > religion of
> > peace?
> >
> > We propose a solution.
> >
> > We know too well that it is not easy to denounce
> our
> > faith
> > because it means denouncing a part of
> > ourselves. We are a group of freethinkers and
> > humanists with
> > Islamic roots. Discovering the truth and
> > leaving the religion of our fathers and
> forefathers
> > was a
> > painful experience. But after learning what
> > Islam stands for we had no choice but to leave it.
> > After
> > becoming familiar with the Qur'an the choice
> > became clear: It is either Islam or humanity. If
> > Islam thrives,
> > then humanity will die. We decided to side
> > with humanity. Culturally we are still Muslims but
> > we no longer
> > believe in Islam as the true religion of
> > God. We are humanists. We love humanity. We work
> for
> > the unity
> > of humankind. We work for
> > equality between men and women. We strive for the
> > secularisation
> > of Islamic countries, for democracy
> > and freedom of thought, belief and statement. We
> > decided to live
> > no longer in self-deception but to
> > embrace humanity, and to enter into the new
> > millennium hand in
> > hand with people ! of other cultures
> > and beliefs in amity and in peace.
> >
> > We denounce the violence that is eulogized in the
> > Qur'an as holy
> > war (Jihad). We condemn killing in
> > the name of God. We believe in the sanctity of
> human
> > life, not
> > in the inviolability of beliefs and religions.
> > We invite you to join us and the rest of humanity
> > and become
> > part of the family of humankind - in love,
> > camaraderie and peace.
> >
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