The Toronto Sun had an interesting article which we posted here the other day on an Afghan man who blamed his own brain as if somehow that absolved him, for the near decapitation of his wife. A rather interesting comment thread developed under the article and I found myself in a conversation with a certain ‘Mahdi’ defending Islam and it’s values in Canada.
I formulated a reply which took a certain amount of time and effort and DISCUS refused to publish it, probably more to lingering code in a clip and paste of Koran than for content. DISCUS and the Toronto Sun are both pretty good about not censoring comments so I am pretty confident it is some technical issue with DISCUS.
In any case, I thought I would offer his comment and my answer here and perhaps I will paste this link over at the site so he can read it should he choose to.
The first post is from Mahdi to me:
vladtepesblog: Interestingly Islam does use that the way others use it…
1. We don’t have the right to use any and all means to advance supremacy in the land of unbelievers. And Terrorism is forbidden in Islam including the killing of innocent by-standers.
2. You know nothing of Mohammad PBUH and his history besides some video you probably watched. He never pirated so your claims are silly and he never murdered as fighting in the battlefield is not murder.
The reply that DISCUS rejected:
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Mahdi: Koran 2:216 “Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is
possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing
which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.”Not only does this verse establish that violence can be virtuous, but it also
contradicts the myth that fighting is intended only in self-defense, since the
audience was obviously not under attack at the time. From the Hadith, we
know that this verse was narrated at a time that Muhammad was actually trying to motivate his people into raiding merchant caravans for loot.This covers both the pirate comment as well as the defense comment.
I also like this one:
“Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find
them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using
every stratagem of war.” Qur’an:9:5That one is pretty easy to interpret. It means,
‘Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find
them…’Then we have the fact that
Mohamed commanded his gang of pirates and thugs to murder the Jewish tribes of Banu Koriza.Islam teaches that Mohamed murdered over 700 captives, meaning unarmed and prisoners and no threat to anyone, with his own sword.
That covers the mass murderer remark.
What I should have added was serial rapist as he then went and raped a Jewish woman after killing her husband and son right in front of her.
Few women are turned on by that as a rule. So it’s pretty safe to call it rape. Not to mention the whole, ‘all the women that your right hand posses’ business.
Mohamed of course used rhetorical tricks, much as you do, all the time to get away with what were plainly crimes. So calling a caravan you raid for loot or slaughtering a village full of farmers to take their stuff and rape their women a battlefield is a lot like the trick of attacking people who refuse to convert and calling that, ‘defending Islam’.
Yep, can’t say old Muhammad the paedophile had any redeeming qualities at all… God I wish I could travel back in time and throttle that little turd…
How charming and reassuring. The nasty little sods.
In a facetious mood today – so here goes. (Mainly for Don L. who cracks me up).
The derogatory term “Towel Head” for persons of Middle Eastern origin, is both inaccurate and inappropriate. These people wear turbans, which are actually small sheets of cloth, wrapped in a certain way into their hair. We therefore propose that they henceforth be known as “Little Sheet Heads”.