Tancredo Proposes Anti-Sharia Measure in Wake of U.K. Certification of Islamic Courts

“This is a case where truth is truly stranger than fiction,” said Tancredo. “Today the British people are learning a hard lesson about the consequences of massive, unrestricted immigration.”

Tom Tancredo, (R. CO) is proposing very important legislation to keep America Democratic, free of Sharia Law. This is important to you and to me… You may think that sharia cannot apply to you, but you could be dead wrong! As of last week, Sharia courts are now in Britain. If Sharia courts become established in the U.S., I predict that Muslims will look for ways to drag non-muslims into their courts. A non-muslim can be accused of a crime against a muslim.  It is not fair to Free Thinkers who wish to remain Sharia-free. It is not fair to a former muslim who wants to convert to another religion, or simply does not want to practice Islam. It is equally not fair to an immigrant woman from the Middle East who wishes to live in a democratic society! I am an American with Islamic experience. If Sharia were in America, my ex-muslim husband could drag me into a sharia court. I practiced Islam to learn my husbands religion and help him assimilate. My reversal back to Christianity makes me an apostate to Islam. I could also be falsely accused of adultry during the marraige that ended 20 years ago!  This is real folks…Sharia courts in Britain are very disturbing. Please read about the common sense legislation to help keep America free!: “Jihad Prevention Act” would deny U.S. visas to advocates of ‘Sharia’ law, expel Islamists already here. -MCL

Tancredo Proposes Anti-Sharia Measure in Wake of U.K. Certification of Islamic Courts

By T.Q. Houlton
September 18, 2008 

( WASHINGTON, DC ) – Amid disturbing revelations that the verdicts of Islamic Sharia courts are now legally binding in civil cases in the United Kingdom, U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) moved quickly today to introduce legislation designed to protect the United States from a similar fate.

According to recent news reports, a new network of Sharia courts in a half-dozen major cities in the U.K. have been empowered under British law to adjudicate a wide variety of legal cases ranging from divorces and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.

Sharia law, favored by Muslim extremists around the world, often calls for brutal punishment – such as the stoning of women who are accused of adultery or have children out of wedlock, cutting off the hands of petty thieves and lashings for the casual consumption of alcohol. Under Sharia law, a woman is often required to provide numerous witnesses to prove rape allegations against an assailant – a near impossible task.

“When you have an immigration policy that allows for the importation of millions of radical Muslims, you are also importing their radical ideology – an ideology that is fundamentally hostile to the foundations of western democracy – such as gender equality, pluralism, and individual liberty,” said Tancredo. “The best way to safeguard America against the importation of the destructive effects of this poisonous ideology is to prevent its purveyors from coming here in the first place.”

Tancredo’s bill, dubbed the “Jihad Prevention Act,” would bar the entry of foreign nationals who advocate Sharia law. In addition, the legislation would make the advocacy of Sharia law by radical Muslims already in the United States a deportable offense.

Tancredo pointed to the results of a recent poll conducted by the Centre for Social Cohesion as evidence that the U.S. should act to prevent the situation in Great Britain from replicating itself here in the United States. The poll found that some 40 percent of Muslim students in the United Kingdom support the introduction of Sharia law there, and 33 percent support the imposition of an Islamic Sharia-based government worldwide.

We need to send a clear message that the only law we recognize here in America is the U.S. Constitution and the laws passed by our democratically elected representatives,” concluded Tancredo. “If you aren’t comfortable with that concept, you aren’t welcome in the United States.”

http://tancredo.house.gov/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=1386

Suicidal Truck Driver

I needed a good laugh…Thanks Judy!!!

 I was depressed last night so I called Lifeline… Got a call center in Pakistan… I told them I was suicidal… They got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck:\

This is precious! …Sometimes that is all people can understand…Like a kid (or spouse) cannot “hear” you when you scream at them. They get all confused and upset, and block you out and do exactly the opposite of what you want. We need more funnies like this.. !

Legislation to Prevent Sharia in America!

Tom Tancredo, (R. CO) is proposing very important legislation to keep America Democratic, free of Sharia Law. This is important to you and, to me personally. You may think that sharia cannot apply to you, but you could be dead wrong! As of last week, Sharia courts are now in Britain. Once Sharia courts become established there, I predict tht Muslims will be looking for ways to drag non-muslims into their courts. A non-muslim can be accused of a crime against a muslim. 

It is not fair to those who wish to be free of Sharia, such as a muslim child who wants to convert to another religion, or simply does not want to practice Islam. It is equally not fair to a Middle Eastern woman who wants to live in a democratic society!

I am an American with Islamic experience. If Sharia were in America, my ex-muslim husband could drag me into a sharia court. I practiced Islam to learn my husbands religion and help him assimilate. Now I can be accused of apostacy! I could also be falsely accused of adultry during a marraige that ended 20 years ago!  This is real folks…Sharia courts in Britain are very disturbing. Please read about the common sense legislation to help keep America free!: 

http://tancredo.house.gov/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=1386

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Muslims in the Workplace

Praise the Lord! Ramadan is almost over. Soon American and European employers  won’t have to be intimidated by hungry, hollow-faced, dry-mouthed, weak employees in the workplace. Those of you who were intimidated into being politically correct enough to allow your employees to work in such dire circumstance (it would be inhumanely cruel if you demanded they not eat, drink, or smoke for 12 hours) can take heart. You do not even have to endure it for the rest of the month. Read this and decide if it was worth it after all.

Most reputable organizations desire to balance corporate, client, and employee needs. In light of such considerations, special interest groups within organizations may wish to take advantage of a modern employer’s goodwill policies. While efforts are usually made to grant reasonable requests, some desires can be unsettling and counterproductive. Muslims are special interest groups who often ask for special favors in the workplace with regard to but not limited to prayers and fasting.  Further desires for evaluation could be relevant to wishes regarding gender segregation, food preference and availability, client involvement, personal hygeine, and product handling.

 

Once procedural precedent is set, Muslim employees within other organizations will attempt to follow suit, and the demands for special privileges will increase promptly and proportionally throughout our country’s policies, institutions, and organizations.

 

 I practiced Islam for a few years and learned that Muslim prayer times are not obligatory when work, circumstances, or other situations make it inconvenient or otherwise inappropriate. Therefore, Muslims are not required to pray during the work hours. It is quite acceptable and very common for them to make up missed prayers at home, even in the Middle East. Unperformed Muslim prayers can accumulate days upon days if necessary. Muslims simply cannot do them in advance of their prescribed times. Indeed, Muslims may choose to go to great lengths to pray in out of the ordinary places because of peer pressure and prestige. It is a good way to separate themselves from the other employees, gain special recognition, demonstrate piousness, and set precedent for Sharia Law.

 

 Spending several months in the Middle East as a practitioner of Islam, I neither saw nor heard of a public, or private for that matter, “footbath.” Interestingly, a Muslim can even use dirt instead of water to wash before praying if water is not available.

With regards to fasting, a Muslim does not have to fast for similar reasons as above. Fasting, unlike to praying, does not have to be made-up.

An organization should carefully weigh what is in its best interest in relation to permissiveness, expenses, safety, client needs, and compatibility with regards to employee, customer, and community responsibilities. 

 

 Footbaths may cause an organization to spend unnecessary money on superficial needs, while prayer time and space may require inconvenient expenses and scheduling. Gender segregation can cause expensive design considerations, while workplace procedure and product handling inadequacies can be offensive to a valuable and diverse base of customers, clients, and employees.

 

 With regards to fasting during Ramadan, the break-fast time is at sunset. This actually means that food, beverages, smoking, and sexual activities can only be enjoyed during the hours of darkness. It does not mean that one must eat at sunset. It means they cannot indulge in the aforementioned during the daylight hours, or prior to sunset. Another feature of fasting is waking early to eat a meal before the sun rises, which can lead to fatigue and weakness later in the day.

 

 An organization must determine if it is productive to accommodate employees who are weak with hunger and thirst, and drowsy from rising before sunrise to eat. Faithful employees who do not require special needs may be justifiably resentful by the granting of such gratuitous “requests.” And most significant and overlooked is the reality that special concessions can become dangerously irreversible, potentially leading to demands, once initial  indulgence is made. 

 

 Since the promulgation of Islam is an unspoken objective behind most Muslim special interest wishes, employees and organizations should carefully anticipate the outcome and the necessity of requests that are merely an effort to gain further ground for the ambitious totalitarian ideology.

 

 Omar Ahmad, the founder of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, said “Islam is not in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant.”

Host country’s lack of knowledge about Islam allows incoming and existing Muslims to ask for special policy, procedure, and concessions that are not genuinely necessary for religious practice, while the actual reason for special requests is to expedite Islam’s ‘peaceful’ growth and spread Islam within the benevolent host society. Though employers may strive for workplace amiability, giving in to Muslim procedural requests for special privileges is dangerously irreversible. A concession is perceived as a victory for Islam, and history shows that Islamic victories lead to larger, less diplomatic and more comprehensive victories. Once gained, a new victory is not easily lost. Therefore, any decision for reversal provides Muslims an assumed ’right’ for retribution.

JBS Swift Muslim Workers Protest Ramadan Reversal

Somali Workers at Swift

By Chris Casey
September 9, 2008

Muslim employees of Greeley’s JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant congregate Monday at Lincoln Park, 10th Avenue and 9th Street in Greeley, to hear the compromise reached by the Somali Muslim community leaders and the executives at Swift. The workers are asking the company to allow them to have their break at 7:30 p.m. to break their fast of Ramadan.

SARA LOVEN/gtphoto@greeleytribune.com

More than 150 Muslim workers didn’t report to their meatpacking plant jobs Monday in the wake of what they called JBS Swift & Co.’s sudden reversal of accommodation for their religious fasting during Ramadan.

The workers initially planned a two-mile march from downtown Greeley’s Lincoln Park to the plant, but a gathering that formed mid-morning never left the park. Throughout the day, several Greeley police officers watched from the park’s edge.

Company officials met with several workers Monday afternoon at the plant, and Somali representatives later spoke with workers in downtown Greeley.

Graen Isse, a Swift worker and group spokesman, said the workers would not discuss details of their grievances, which were supplied to Swift in writing, until the company responded. He said he expected to hear from Swift Tuesday morning.

“I believe (the workers) will be back to their jobs,” Isse said.

Asked what would happen if the workers didn’t get what they wanted, Isse said, “That’s another question. We’ll pass on that.”

The workers, mostly Somalis but many also from several other East African nations, said they were told by Swift management on Friday to not report to work Monday until the matter of changing break times to accommodate their Ramadan fasts was settled.

On Friday, about 300 Muslim workers left work mid-shift — about 9:30 p.m. — when they say they were told not to break at 7:30 p.m., when their roughly 12 hours of daily fasting for Ramadan ended. Earlier in the week, the workers negotiated with Swift to get an earlier break to allow them food and water after their fast.

Several Somali workers said Monday the company had fired as many as six employees on Friday, but a Swift official said Monday afternoon that was not true.

“No one has been terminated at this point,” said JBS Swift spokeswoman Tamara Smid.

Mohammed Osman, a Swift worker, said three women Muslim workers were fired after they went into an employee locker room to pray in the early evening Friday.

Omar Clarke, who described himself as “a white-and-black” Muslim but not Somali, said workers at 7:30 p.m. Friday were told not to leave their work lines. He said the company then locked bathrooms to stop workers from going to them.

“At 7:30 Friday they did not accommodate us on our religious beliefs,” he said. “After they told us we couldn’t pray, we all walked out.”

Ramadan is one of the most important parts of the Muslim calendar. The fasting, which lasts a month, is one of the five pillars of the Muslim religion. The month, based on the Muslim lunar calendar, requires Muslims to fast from sunrise until sunset. The fast is a method of purification, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Swift has hired hundreds of Somalis — as well as Ethiopians, Eritreans, Sudanese, Cameroonians and Congolese — in the past two years. The company’s recent addition of 1,300 jobs on a second shift opened the door to the African refugees who are legally in the United States. The Somalis — about 1,085 came to Colorado in the last year — have come to the United States under the United Nations resettlement program for refugees.

Smid read a company statement late Monday afternoon: “Friday evening, a group of employees left work without proper authorization. The matter was discussed with their union representatives and the company took appropriate action. JBS Swift desires to accommodate the religious practices of all employees, which includes its Muslim employees, provided it can do so reasonably, safely and without undue burden.

“JBS Swift works closely with its employees and their union representatives to accomplish this balance of reasonable accommodation and operational requirements,” the statement concluded.

Smid said she could not elaborate on the size of the group that left work and what the company’s “appropriate action” might entail.

The workers said they didn’t know if they would return to work Tuesday. Many said they were waiting to hear from Swift management.

Friday afternoon, about 150 non-Muslim Swift workers protested the company’s break-time accommodation of the Muslims. They said that the change was unfair to workers of other religious beliefs who don’t receive similar concessions.

Brianna Castillo, a non-Muslim JBS Swift worker told the Tribune Friday, “The Somalis are running our plant. They are telling us what do to.”

Aziz Dhies, who doesn’t work at Swift but said he is a local representative of the Somali community, said the Somalis are peacefully trying to get what they consider a rightful concession to their religious beliefs.

“We are very peaceful people. We don’t hate anybody,” he said. “We love everybody here.”

On Friday, JBS Swift’s global human resources director Jack Shandley said U.S. law requires companies to “make reasonable accommodations” for religious observances.

Shandley said the company was working quickly to address worker complaints on both sides of the issue.

We’re working with all parties to try to reach a reasonable accommodation,” Shandley said. “We think we’re reaching that to balance the needs of everybody.”

Manny Gonzales, spokesman for United Food Commercial Workers Local 7, the union that represents production workers at Swift, said Monday that the union was “filing the appropriate grievances over the matter” and working to negotiate a resolution.

Greeley police spokesman Joe Tymkowych said Monday morning that the Somali workers had notified the police they would march to the plant. As of early afternoon, the workers were meeting peacefully in the downtown park and not causing a disturbance, he said.

Meanwhile, at about 3:30 p.m. Monday, about 30 East African workers walked into the plant for the evening work shift. Isse said they were brand-new hires reporting for their first day of work.

Joe Rios, a day-shifter for nine months at Swift, said he felt the Somalis were asking for special treatment and “taking advantage of our kindness” in America. He said “most of us” at Swift are Catholic and observe a month of Lent each year without seeking work concessions based on religion.

“I think it’s either you want to make money and work and put your prayers aside or you stay home,” he said.

Rios said he’d heard that some disgruntled Muslim workers damaged property in the Swift parking lot Friday.

Tymkowych said police, who responded to the release of workers Friday night, didn’t encounter any vandalism. “If it happened inside (the plant), they didn’t tell us about it,” he said.

Obama Freudian Slip

Is the Islamization of America is Underway?

JBS-Swift Employees

A supervisor at the JBS-Swift & Co. plant, green hat, instructs workers protesting Friday to return to their job or face possible termination. The workers were protesting the decision Swift managers made on Wednesday to move the second-shift lunch break to about 7:30 p.m. to accommodate Muslim workers who needed the earlier break to end their fast as part of the observance of the holy month of Ramadan. -Chris Casey, The Tribune, Sept. 6, 2008

SARA LOVEN/gtphoto@greeleytribune.com

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Muslims do not have to break their fast at a particular time, they just may not break their fast prior to sunset. It is not Swifts decision that they are fasting in the first place. No one is forcing them to fast…Furthermore, Muslims are not required to fast if it interferes with a work duty or schedule. It is a religious observance that should be practiced if possible. Muslims often say… “there is no compulsion in religion”. If that is really as true as they claim, their decision to fast and request a special break time is a non-hospitable, aggressive observance decision. The special break time infringes on the other workers right to break at their required time. Latinos and Catholics are upset because the new schedule forces the second shift to work more consecutive hours after their break.
There used to be a popular saying in America that I have not heard in a long time; “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”"

I for one, am going to contact Swift and tell them what I think.-MCL

STOP THE ISLAMIZATION OF AMERICA!

JBS Swift & Company^™
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Greeley, CO 80634
970.506.8000
emailus@jbsswift.com

My Story with the Quran and Losing My Religion

Bye-bye :>

By Mumin Salih
September 8, 2008 

“Without raising an eyebrow, I also read about Mohammed’s genocide of the Jewish tribe of Bani Quryza. I had developed the concept that committing Islamic genocides against the Jews are no more disturbing to an Arab than slaughtering a herd of cattle.”

I was reluctant to write the story of my departure from Islam, because it lacks any of the moral elements of the kind mentioned in some of the touching testimonies published on the Internet. I cannot claim that I wasn’t aware of Mohammed’s assassinations of his adversaries, because I read about it and accepted it as a justifiable action against the enemies of Allah. Neither I can claim that I wasn’t aware of Mohammed’s pedophilic marriage to Aysha because I knew about it and accepted it as a perfectly normal practice during Mohammed’s time. Without raising an eyebrow, I also read about Mohammed’s genocide of the Jewish tribe of Bani Quryza. I had developed the concept that committing Islamic genocides against the Jews are no more disturbing to an Arab than slaughtering a herd of cattle.

 My problem with Islam was mainly about the Quran which seemed to continuously require external human boasters in the form of interpretations and reinterpretations and endless justifications for much of the Quran’s inanities. For a person with a free mind and good knowledge of the Arabic language, it is a fierce struggle with the mind to accept anything about the Quran; its language, style and contents. The Quran is only convincing for those whose knowledge in Arabic is nonexistent or poor, which is the case in the vast majority of Muslims including the Arabs. It is especially true for those who are conditioned to read it year after year with only one thing in their minds- to earn hasanat that helps them to avoid hell fire. For decades, I belonged to the second group, but although my starting point was the false assumption that the Quran is absolutely correct, as all Muslims do, I found it increasingly harder to accept all that collection of nonsense as my knowledge of Arabic developed over the years.

I am afraid that in my case, the language and logical absurdities of the Quran sent a louder alarm than the cruelties of Mohammed. I rejected the Quran because I expected from Allah a much better book!

 A Muslim Child

I was brought up in a small village in southern Syria in the early 1950s. My parents were ordinary farmers with simple education. Like the rest of the villagers, they performed the prayers and observed Ramadan fasting, which were more of a social and cultural duties. Like the rest of the children in the village, I was taught to recite some of the Quranic verses by heart well before the school age. It is still customary for the Middle Eastern parents to teach their young children to recite at least the first sura of the Quran, known as alfatiha. Some parents begin to work on this from the moment their children start to talk!

That was my first encounter with Quran but by no means the only one; the Quran was always around me whatever I did and wherever I went. In the background, there was always that voice of the Quari who reads the Quran in a distinguished tajweed style that spreads an atmosphere of gravity and fear. Such recitations seemed to go forever; they came from the mosque’s loud speakers as well as from the radio and other audio devices. No ceremony or gathering or activity could start, or finish, without reciting some verses from the Quran. It is not only that I could hear the Quran all the time, but also I could see it all the time. Wherever I turned my eyes I could see some verses of the Quran written in special calligraphy and framed on the walls of every house or every shop, even means of transport were decorated with Quranic verses.

I attended the village’s only school, which was an ordinary government school that had no particular emphasis on religious education. In the beginning of every school year, children were handed the relevant books for that particular year. Those books kept changing year after year except for one book-the Quran, which we called mushaf. The Quran was a truly intimidating book to any child; it was so intimidating to me that I couldn’t even express my feelings towards it. Children dare not say anything negative about the Quran. I even didn’t dare to allow any negative thoughts about it to surface in my mind for the fear of extreme punishment from Allah. I was taught to respect the book and do the Islamic washing ritual before even touching it, and never to hold it with my left hand. I was told to kiss the book immediately after I hold it and touch it with my forehead as a sign of respect. I was also taught of the special ritual of how to finish reading from the book. I mustn’t stop reading before finishing the verse; even if it was a long one. After finishing the recitation I had to say in Arabic sadka allahu alazeem meaning ‘Allah told the truth’. Then I was allowed to close the book respectfully and place it on top of the other books. I wasn’t allowed to place any book on top of the Quran.

The Quran, a difficult book to readIt didn’t escape my notice that the Quran was not a reader friendly book and certainly not a child friendly one, but I attributed that to the greatness of the book! It had no pictures at all and no titles or paragraphs and not even spaces between its verses or chapters; just a continuous writing from the beginning to the end. Its verses cannot be considered full sentences or paragraphs; they are just collections of words. A sentence may start in a verse and end in another one! If you take away the numbering of the verses, the whole Quran would look like one very long paragraph!

As I progressed in school, I became more talented in reading in Arabic, but I always had problems in reading the Quran. My consolation was that I was not alone; all the other children had the same problem. The only chapters I read easily were the ones I already know by heart or the ones I read before many times. Reading a new chapter was always a struggle, but, at the time, I never worked out why.

Even today, I still believe the Quran is not a particularly easy book to read for a first timer. I do not think it is possible for a person to read a page from the Quran for the first time without making many mistakes. The only way to read a chapter from the Quran without making mistakes is actually to read it many times before hand to become familiar with that chapter. Once you become familiar with a chapter, reading it becomes more of a reminder of what you already know (or nearly know ) by heart.

The Muslim scholars have deliberately made the Quran a very difficult book to read. The Quran is deliberately scribed in a way that violates all the writing protocols of the Arabic language. The Muslim scholars are keen on this bizarre practice to ensure that the Quarn is well wrapped in a thick and dark coat of mystic ambiguity, which is the Quran’s fiercest defense.

How can anybody read a book where the standard punctuation marks are not used at all? To confuse the reader even more, the Quran contains what appear to be scriptural errors in every verse. These deliberate violations to the Arabic writing protocols are peculiar to the Quran. As an example the word salat (prayer) is deliberately written like salowat and the word zakat is written like zakowat. Then every letter in every word is surrounded by coded pronunciation marks that are special to the Quran, to describe how that particular letter, in that particular position, should be pronounced. To add to the confusion, those pronunciation marks often look like smaller versions of the normal Arabic letters. Just in case all the above is not enough to confuse the reader, they add to every word the tajweed marks because every letter in the Quran has to be pronounced in a special way, according to its position in the word and sentence, to give a special sound effect, called tajweed, which is the Quran’s musical note, as we may put it.

The Quran, a difficult text to hear or understand
Hearing and understanding the Quran were other tortures that my Islamic mind had to put up with. I could listen to the radio for ten minutes and all the Quari has done was to read only few verses that he repeated many times with many pauses in between, which only helps to distract the listener. Reading the interpretations or tafseer books is a true torture. Some tafseer books, especially the modern ones, are massive in volumes and interpreting one word can take many pages.

Such excessive writings intimidate the ordinary readers, which explains why not many people bother to read them, but also follows an imbedded psychological definition for intellectuality as perceived by many Arabs. There is a common misconception among many Arabs that a highly intellectual person is expected to produce highly complex writings. Many Arabs think it is all right if ordinary people cannot understand the complex and lengthy writings of the highly intelligent authors. Many Arabs may become impressed and speak highly of a scholar who writes many pages, or speak for hours explaining one word in the Quran, even though they did not understand a word of it! Simplicity, as some Arabs understand it, is only for the simple people.

Al Mutanabbi (915-965), one of the most talented Arab poets, reflected on such unusual misconception in one of his poems. He described his intelligence by claiming that he says what he wants to say then sleeps well, but the rest of the world spends the night trying to understand it! Almutanabbi said what some Arabs wanted to hear, and reflected a common cultural misconception. To be fair to the man, all his poetry is clear and powerful, but he reminds us with another author who prides himself that he alone can understand what he writes.

“Q.3:7. …but none knows its meanings except Allâh….”

The Quran and black magic 

The above intensive and continuous brainwashing process that starts from the moment a child is born to a Muslim family, results in a state where Muslims are unable to consider the Quran in an objective way. The Muslims’ minds are never free when it comes to anything to do with the Quran. The fact is that the Quran never looked to Muslims as normal, never sounded as normal and was never understood as normal.

Muslims have been conditioned to think of the Quran in a mystical environment, which reminds me with the way the magicians set the seen to perform their tricks. The stage magicians do not do anything supernatural, but they make the audience believe the do. They dress in dark colours and choose a dark background; they distract their audience’s attention by using sound effects and by saying irrelevant words or making irrelevant movements.

Nowadays, black magic is a thriving business in the Middle East, as it had always been. Black magicians perform their tricks by saying some very strange words that do not make any sense. Such strange sayings have no meaning, even to the black magicians who compose them, but it is that ambiguity that serves to stun the confused client. Mohammed has used a lot of these abracadabra-like words in the Quran and the trick seems to work on Muslims! Many chapters in the Quran begin with a random arrangement of letters, sometimes even one letter! Indeed, some entire verses are composed of only few randomly arranged letters!

any person with sanity receives a ‘clear’ message that reads H. M. h/she would reject it but Muslims accept it and consider it a miracle! As a matter of fact, the above two letters make the first verse of some suras in the Quran like sura 44. The interpretation books refer to this verse as a miracle! Muslim scholars say that nobody knows the meaning of the verse except Allah, which raises the question of why send a message that cannot be understood by the receiver? The irony is that the very next verse in sura 44 (i.e. 44:2) says “the clear book”! Muslims have been reading such verses for centuries without making any sense of them, their only response is to say with amazement: subhan allah!

The use of strange words does not stop at using random letters; the Quran did actually incorporate strange or foreign words in a similar fashion to the practice of the black magicians. If we refer to the interpretations books to find the meanings for words like ababil(105:3), sijjeel (105:4), ghesleen (69:36) and dozens others we find that they do not agree to a clear meaning, which indicates that such words had no clear meanings to the early Arabs. Mohammed probably used them just to make an impression. The Arab black magicians are known to use foreign or distorted words or even coin new ones that have no meaning at all other than making an impression in the minds of their stupid audience.

A high school lesson

I still vividly remember how one day in the high school, after the teacher spent a long time explaining the wonderful eloquence of the Quran, one of the pupils asked a question about one of the verses discussed that day, which was verse 49: 9

” وإنْ طائفتان من المؤمنين اقتتلوا”49:9.

And if two parties or groups among the believers fall to fighting, then ….

In the above verse, the Quran uses the word iktatalu (translated above as fall to fighting) in a place where it should be iktatala. The question was why? I didn’t think the pupil meant to be critical or had any other intentions more than asking a simple grammar question. The question surprised me, but surprised the teacher more. The teacher told the pupil off and warned him that he should be careful and respectful when it comes to discussing the Quran. It was obvious to me that the teacher noticed the above error for the first time; he struggled to find an answer and to demonstrate the non-existent eloquence of the verse. He concluded that the early Arabs were amazed by the Quran, so who are we to disagree.

Verse 49: 9 have an obvious grammatical error that cannot be denied or explained. Muslim scholars go round and round, they twist the rules and change the meanings and go to any length to tell us that the mistake is not only correct, but also is a miracle! This is the verse that was the subject of the question: The Quran has many other grammatical errors, but the one that comes to my mind is in verse 22:19 because it is very similar error to the one above:

” هذان خصمان اختصموا”22:19.

These two opponents dispute with each other …

In the above verse, the Quran wrongly uses the word ikhtasamu (translated above as dispute with each other) in a place where it should be ikhtasama

It didn’t matter to me, that day, how the teacher explained the error, I only wanted to know that there is an explanation. I satisfied myself with the usual Islamic response that is designed to deter the mind from thinking too much about these things, which I still hear from Muslims nowadays. If you bring up the issue to Muslims, you hear their classic response “Do you think all those great Arabs of the past did not notice this? Do you think you are the genius of your time? Are you sure you understand the verse well?”

A liberal Muslim

As a university student, I was a fairly open minded Muslim, as I preferred to describe myself. The only prayers I used to perform were the Friday prayers but that was an acceptable average for university students those days. By the time I started my university education I had already discovered many areas in Islam that I didn’t feel comfortable with. My response was to reject most of the ahadith and commit myself only to the Quran. I considered myself to be a true logical Muslim who is truly convinced of Islam and not just inherited it, a claim that I regularly hear from Muslims nowadays.

Deep in my mind, I realized that Mohammed’s sira (life story) and his ahadith were too embarrassing to accept or justify. Therefore, to maintain my allegiance to Islam I had to reject them, or most of them, and build my own beliefs around the Quran. This may look bizarre because the Quran is just as bad as ahadith. The reality was that the Quran is an easy ride for a person with good command of Arabic. Its ambiguity and contradictions cater for all tastes, you just say what you want and you can find some words in the Quran that you can use to justify your case. I simply picked what I wanted and explained as I wanted and then turned a blind eye to the rest. That was the reality of my feelings that I managed to suppress all my Islamic years because my Islamic mind couldn’t face it.

I practiced islam in a very liberal way, I neglected many of my Islamic duties, sometimes sinned and justified all that from carefully selected verses from the Quran. I decorated the wall of my room with a calligraphy poster of a Quranic verse, which I selected carefully and kept for years. It was verse 39: 53, which used to be one of my favorites because it is one of the few verses that project Allah as a kind and forgiving god.

39: 53. Say: ‘O my slaves who have transgressed against themselves despair not of the Mercy of Allâh…’

I had a reputation among my friends to be a fan of the classic Arabic and to have special sensitivity to language mistakes in formal writings or readings. I must have read the above verse thousands of times without ever noticing its obvious error! The verse contains an outrageous language and logical mistake.

Allah is supposed to be talking to Mohammed and asking him to tell Muslims (Allah’s slaves) not to despair, but the existing wording implies that Muslims are Mohammed’s slaves! The above verse should start like this: ‘Say: O Allah’s slaves….’

I still find difficult to explain how I read the above verse days and nights for many years without ever noticing such an evident mistake, which I only noticed when I read the Quran with a critical mind some years later. But I am not alone; in fact I never came across an Arab Muslim who noticed the error, although they all would try hard to justify it. It is sad that Muslims are never free when it comes to anything to do with the Quran. Muslims are continuously subjected to an intensive indoctrination process that leaves them with impaired senses and dysfunctional minds. Muslims, under the influence of Islam, are incapable of reading the Quran in an objective way.

I was amazed by the number of blunders, of all kinds, that started to appear as I started to read the Quran in an objective way. Removing the divine halo that surrounds the Quran reveals a very different book that doesn’t require any interoperations to understand because all its mysteries are solved by one word- nonsense.

The above verse is not a one off error; actually the Quran is full with them. It is a common practice in the Quran for Allah to suddenly move from the third person to the first person or vice versa with no reason at all. In verse 6:99, such a poor usage of language implies that Allah talks about a different god who sends down rain from the sky while He is responsible for the vegetations:

6:99. It is HE who sends down water from the sky, and with it WE bring forth vegetation of all kinds…

But my favorite example of the Quran’s lack of clarity is verse 6: 151, which is a list of the forbidden things that Muslims must avoid. The verse, in theory, should be one of the easiest verses to compose; it is just a matter of listing things one after the other, which the Quran failed miserably to do:

6: 151. Say: “Come, I will recite what your Lord has prohibited you from: Join not anything in worship with Him; be good and dutiful to your parents; kill not your children because of poverty – We provide sustenance for you and for them; come not near to Al-Fawâhish whether committed openly or secretly, and kill not anyone whom Allâh has forbidden, except for a just cause….

The above verse lists the forbidden things that all Muslims must avoid. The verse lists being good and dutiful to parents as one of those sins. Muslim scholars say that ‘being good to parents’ is not part of the list and we also sincerely hope it not. But why did Allah insert it in that position of the verse then rely on human commonsense to figure out that it is not part of that list? Is there a good writing style in the above verse? Would such writing be acceptable from any writer, past or present?

And my story with the Quran continues..

Vote Keep America Alive (Safe from Islamism)

Thanks for your great article and your endeavors Amil! May God keep you safe and free! Vote Keep America Alive By Amil Imani Monday, 14 January 2008

America is a nation and an ideal, birthed by a group of visionaries that gave it the Constitution to nurture it and protect it. What makes America, America the Beautiful, more than just a blessed land is our legacy, the Constitution. Sadly, the Constitution also makes for America the Vulnerable by enshrining freedom that enables the malevolent to subvert and destroy America from within. You, the voter, are the guardian of the Constitution. Your vote determines the health and survival of America.America is defined by the last phrase of our national anthem: The land of the free and the home of the brave. Freedom, in all its forms, is our greatest legacy, which this nation has bravely fought many wars on many fronts to preserve against the unceasing assaults of totalitarianism of all stripes. Time and again, the flowers of our nation bravely sacrificed their lives to protect freedom and liberty.In the not too long ago past, we fought and defeated Nazism and Fascism in Europe and Imperialism in the Far East. Before the nation could have a respite, the flame of international Communism raged, consumed many parts of the world in its wake, and posed a great threat of scorching our land. Yet, we did not waiver, did not appease, and did not surrender. We stood and fought the scourge of Communism on multiple fronts. Once again, the forces of freedom succeeded in reducing the Communist menace to little more than a nuisance.Now, we are faced with the insidious, multifaceted, and most deadly threat of Islamism. Since Islam has been around for centuries, there is a tendency to ignore or even deny the threat it poses to humanity. Various concessions are made, some of them as good faith offerings and some in the hope of placating the Islamists. Yet, concessions to threats are appeasements. And appeasements have never solved any problems. They only whet the appetite of the aggressor, give it more power, and make it even more dangerous.And appeasement comes in many forms. When our leaders, for instance, call Islam a great religion, they are appeasing, if not lying outright. We the people elect our leaders and we hold them accountable to be honorable: using their voice to call a great religion a most deadly threat to everything we cherish as a great religion legitimizes Islamofascism, on the one hand, and infuses the rest of us with a false belief.Go by the facts on the ground and not by rhetoric: Islam is not a great religion. It is a dangerous cult of hate and violence, intent at ruling the world under the Ummeh with its barbaric shariah laws.Calling Islam a great religion and misrepresenting it is not simply a harmless gesture of goodwill and peacemaking. This is flaming the fire that has every intention of consuming us. Therefore, it is imperative that we choose the chief custodian of our constitution, the President, with great care. We must entrust the helm of our nation to the hands of a person of impeccable integrity who is unconditionally loyal to the constitution, who does not sacrifice principles and truth at the altar of expediency, and who is not shirking from what he must do to ensure our nation’s survival in the face of internal and external assaults.In a democracy called America, citizens exercise their power through the ballot box. Hence, when you vote for America, you vote for our freedom as well as for the aspiration of all people who yearn to free themselves from the yoke of secular or religious totalitarianism.Once again, it is the election season. Once again, the slick easy-answers politicians are doing all they can to get our votes. The Democrats promise us everything and more. They will bring the troops home and will give us a raft of goodies, so they promise. But, when the Barbarians are at the gate, it is suicidal to run and hide in the cellar. That’s what Obama and his ilk tripping over each other, promise us. Islamists are not at the gate. They already have breached the fortress America in significant numbers. They are waiting for the opportunity to open the gate fully to their co-cultists and make the land of the free a graveyard of Islamic slavery.First things first. Our highest priority is the preservation of this nation of the free. We have done what it took in the past and we must do what it takes now and in the future to safeguard liberty. Defeating the encroaching Islamism is this generation of Americans greatest challenge. We must meet the threat and defeat it. The alternative is to suffer the fate of the Europeans, many of whom are voting with their feet: fleeing to other lands and abandoning their ancestral homes to the Islamists.Don’t be fooled by the accusations that the incurably sick leftists at home and America’s ill-wishers abroad level at this country. America is not perfect. Yet, it is the very best hope for a humanity struggling to find its humanness. America is worth defending. Vote for the candidate who is not going to cut and run in the face of Islamic Jihadists.