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Is Islam Misrepresented?
05-Apr-2008
Decades ago Marshall Mcluhan observed, “The medium is the message.” As the print and electronic media penetrate more and more every aspect of life, their influence increases greatly in shaping views and behavior of the public. The power of the media is a mixed blessing. On one hand, it can serve to expose injustices, wrongdoings, and flaws. On the other, it is able to propagate misinformation and outright disinformation.
Manipulation and control of the media is of critical importance to the rule of totalitarian states. Free societies, although less subject to laundered information, are still at considerable risk of being selectively informed or misinformed outright. The public can be deceived more easily by the overlords of the media when political correctness is used as subterfuge for promotion of certain ideas.
A case in point is the media’s portrayal of Islam, articulated by politicians and pundits—the talking heads on television and radio, as well as the analysts who write for newspapers and magazines. Time and again we hear and read that Islam is a religion of peace, in spite of the fact that Islam has been a religion of violence from its inception to the present. This mantra, “Islam is a religion of peace” is repeated so often that it has become an indisputable statement of fact in the minds of many.
Even President George W. Bush on several occasions has repeated the mantra and attributed the horrific violence committed under the banner of Islam to a small band of extremists. The President’s assertion is either based on ignorance of the facts about Islam or his attempt at political correctness. Perhaps the President’s reticence to speak on the true nature of Islam was due to his desire to avoid inflaming the already charged feelings of many about Islam. In any event, truth is sacrificed and the public continues to cling to the false notion that Islam is a peaceful religion. People who dare to disclose the true nature of Islam run the risk of being castigated as bigot and hatemonger.
Even a cursory examination of Islam’s history and Islamic texts conclusively proves the exact opposite of peacefulness. Islam was, and continues to be, a movement of unbridled violence.
The Arabs who sallied out of the Arabian deserts did not fan out to the outside world with the Quran in one hand and flowers in the other, preaching love and peace from street corner to street corner, thereby capturing the hearts and minds of the people. Islam was forced upon every people at the point of the sword and the imposition of backbreaking jazyyeh (special taxes) levied on those who were spared death and allowed to retain their religious beliefs. In spite of paying heavy Jazyyeh, the non-Muslims were treated, at best, as second class citizens in their own homelands.
The abominable persecution of non-Muslims in Islamic countries is a standard operating procedure. In many Islamic countries non-Muslim marriages are not recognized as legal unions and the children of the couples are stigmatized as bastards. Never mind Saudi Arabia, the cradle of barbarism, and even Egypt, the more civilized Islamic country and recipient of billions of dollars in U.S. aid, treat non-Muslims as second class citizens and deprive them of their legitimate human rights.
The pundits, the analysts and the politicians are doing a great disservice to the public, each segment for its own expedient reasons, by parroting the mantra regarding the peaceful nature of Islam. As a matter of fact, the so-called small band of Islamic extremists is the true face of Islam. Admittedly, from time to time and place to place, Muslims have shown a degree of tolerance for the non-Muslims. This tolerance dates back to the very early years of Muhammad himself. Early on Muhammad was meek and proclaimed, “For you, your religion, and for me, my religion.” This assertion lasted but a few years until Muhammad’s movement gathered strength and Islam became the only alternative to death or heavy taxation. The imposition of Jazyyeh was a clever ploy for filling the Islamic coffer to support its armies and to finance its further conquests.
A longstanding Islamic practice is to be meek while weak and assume despotic intolerant power as it gains strength. Recent migration of Muslims to non-Islamic lands began as a seemingly harmless, even useful, trickle of cheap needed labor. Before long, greater and greater numbers of Muslims deluged the new territories and as they gained in numbers—by high birth rate as well as new arrivals—Muslims began reverting to their intolerant ways by, for instance, demanding legal status for Shariah (Islamic laws), the type of draconian laws that for most part resemble those of humanity’s barbaric past.
Islam is indeed misrepresented. Islam is not misrepresented by its “detractors.” It is misrepresented by Islamic mercenaries: organizations and individuals generously funded by states as well as wealthy believers who are making billions of dollars pumping and selling oil at astronomical prices. Prestigious universities in the West, always looking for handouts, are tripping over one another to establish Islamic studies programs staffed by professors who sing the praise of Islam. Newspapers are routinely intimidated by Islamic an association if they dare to print the truth about Islam. Legions of lawyers, both Muslims as well as hired guns, are on the look out to intimidate and silence any voice speaking the truth about Islam. The media that fall in line may receive generous advertising and other incentives from Islamic lobbyists.
Hence, it is a fact that Islam is misrepresented. It is misrepresented very effectively by non-Muslim individuals and institutions who are generously rewarded by the modern day Islamic conquerors. This time around the Muslims are using the immense petrodollar they extract from the addicted non-Muslims. The sword is temporarily replaced by just as deadly a weapon—petrodollar. Before long, the Muslims aim to add a more deadly modern version of the sword—the Islamic bomb. With the bomb on one hand and the other hand on the oil spigot, the non-Muslim world will be brought to its knees by the religion of peace and brotherhood.
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Jamshid, I hate to tell you ...
by Anonym (not verified) on Sun Apr 06, 2008 09:06 PM CDTI really hate to tell you that the only ones angry on this blog are the anti-Islam and moslem hating individuals like this author and his supporting bunch including yourself.
Sounds like you guys are fooling yourselfs and getting really desperate.
Also stop calling people that don't like your ideas Islamist, it's really low.
Holy Bible, more passages for non believers....
by iraj khan on Sun Apr 06, 2008 05:40 PM CDTI had a few minutes to kill, so here are a few more passages from holy bible:
Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)
Kill people For Working On Sabbath
The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: 'Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever. It helps you to remember that I am the LORD, who makes you holy. Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)
Kill Sons of Sinners
Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21 NAB)
Kill Men, Women, and Children
"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)
A badge of honor...
by jamshid on Sun Apr 06, 2008 04:56 PM CDT... for any writer that succeeds in angering Islamists. It is always a pleasure to watch angry Islamists with their eyes bulging out from anger while vomitting their opinion.
AMIL YOU NEED PROFESSIONAL HELP ...
by amirkabear4u on Sun Apr 06, 2008 03:37 AM CDTReading this is like reading NAZI propaganda. Sure and misguided with little logic.
Hope Jesus guides you.
A few passages from Bible
by iraj khan on Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:42 PM CDTNow that Islam is exposed,
by the great thinker (Googler) Mr Imani,
It's time to mention a few passages of the other great book called Bible.
Here we go:
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
(Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
Kill Followers of Other Religions.
If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
Infidels and gays should die:
They are fully aware of God's death penalty for those who do these things, yet they go right ahead and do them anyway. And, worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too. (Romans 1:24-32 NLT)
There is more but why waste time.
I am noticing all these posters below have one
by Mehrazar (not verified) on Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:41 PM CDTtrait in common and that is suppression of free thinking by usual unfounded accusations.
All you guys are siding with repression.
Do you see your offer of threat and attack? Luckily, you can not physically injure or kill over internet!!!
Mr. Imani: Would it not have
by Anonymousmm (not verified) on Sat Apr 05, 2008 07:00 PM CDTMr. Imani: Would it not have been much lucrative and much safer for you to use your pen in praising the Islamic Republic and receive generous rewards from the Islamic Republic? Just imagine;
You wouldn't have to live your life in hiding and you wouldn't have to worry about being killed by the true believers. Instead, you would've been a much loved "celeberity" among Northern California Iranian pseudo-reformists and pseudo-intellectuals...Does you life really mean anything to you???? Why don't you just choose the easy way and live happily ever after....lol
Re: Mola Nasredeen
by Anonym (not verified) on Sat Apr 05, 2008 05:33 PM CDTI also told Anonymous-2; Don't waste time trying to talk logic to this author and his supporting bunch. All they know is anger and hate. I liked your logical analysis regarding the purpose of the article.
5. Do you get a paycheck for your writing? Then find another jo
by luciferious (not verified) on Sat Apr 05, 2008 04:25 PM CDTThe Person is all right if the answer is yes. Why not? Every body must have the possibility to earn her/his living. No matter how disgracefull the job is. And the job which is performed hier is by no means harmfull. specially not to poeple who have a neutral point of view. and the ones with heart full of hate and mind most strongly depressed, well these individuals MUST juast have the possibility to get the proove the hate intheir heart is logically justifeid. Then they are relaxed a little bit and wait for the next article. If there were no such articles in "IRANIAN" it were then rather boring. Likewise articles show how empty the arguments-reserviore against Islam and Moslems is. I find: they are just nice to read. In all over the world one finds likewise personalities who earn their daily bread with likewise articles. Sometimes one gets the impression: they are copying each other. Or the articles are written centrally and sent around.
Is Islam Misrepresented?
by Faribors nmaleknasri M.D. (not verified) on Sat Apr 05, 2008 04:02 PM CDTEven President George W. Bush on several occasions has repeated the mantra and attributed the horrific violence committed under the banner of Islam to a small band of extremists.
COMMENT: IN fact this subject may have said so. But he is not the first american VIP who has noticed what horribel things are going on in the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of IRAN. The first one was th nuts merchant named Carter. He noticed at once, in early 1979, that what was hppenuing in the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of IRAN was not Islam-conform. Shortly thereafter the british Ambassadore Sir XY in the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of IRAN went to Home secretary of the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of IRAN in Tehran the capital city of the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of IRAN and made clear: What was happening in the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of IRAN is not Islam-conform. Shortly thereafter he had to left. The hollywood Cowboy artist Reagan, Bush senior, the Jober Clinton and so many other gentlemen, and ladies too, have had explained the same idea. But unfortunately the real Islam Scientists and so many Greate Ayatollahs, the only beings who are authorised to decide what is islam-conform and what is not islam-conform are too stuborn i should say and do not get the teachings. 1,5 Billion other Moslems in all over the world, from Indonesia to Andalusia are even more stuborn and do what the Ayatiollahs say and do not what the bushy bushys advise. Alone in the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of IRAN live 7ty million such fanatic and extremist Akhunds. They do not give even one drop oil, not even 1 ccm natural gas whithout get paid for it. And even worth: They do not claim only an accaptabel prise. She/He who wants something must demonstrate Respect for the country. Example: Switzerland wanted Oil and gas, Switzerland has got them but only with scarf. I wonder, what a stubornness! These Mullahs. just imagin. Greeting
P.s. It must be added hier: may be the Moslem world would hear to the words of wisdom of the named gentlemen if they would perform their daily body hygenie in a Islam-conform manner. so lang as they do not do so they tray a specific name. The honourable, respectable Iranian Nation knows how likewise beings are named in Farsi/Parsi.
Parthian: Is Christianity misrepresented?
by Mola Nasredeen on Sat Apr 05, 2008 01:23 PM CDTFor that matter Is Judism Misrepresented?
Is Buddhism Misrepresented?
Exhale, you don't own the truth about the religions of the world.
Now go and get this video:
For the Bible Tells Me So" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15439571.
I have to go back on the road
mola on the road
Some of the dumbest replies to blogs by Molla...
by Parthian on Sat Apr 05, 2008 01:12 PM CDTI guess you are living up to your name.
Taking Molla's argument:
1 person proved earth was actually not flat, he should have not said anything, because it angered the whole world.
Shiite make up around 10% of muslim population, yet they think they have the absolute righteous path to eternity! Why anger the 1.4 billion sunni muslims.
Muslims intellectuals, if there is such a thing, find every excuse, and justification to unburden Islam's philosophical teachings from the actions of Islam's followers. And indeed, this is the biggest flaw in their argument. It would be like excusing Nazism, or communism because Hitler, or Stalin was a bad guy. Simply nonsense.
Khodadads, and Qs of the world go to great length to portray the critics of Islam as hate mongers! They accuse those who criticize islam as manipulating the masses in Europe and else where, or misrepresenting the religion. Again, nonsense! Ducth politician turned movie sponsor is perhaps not leading the discussion, but tapping to the already existing perception of truth within a population with regards to Islam.
I have not seen the movie, but I know that Islamic societies are some of the most barbaric societies in the world. I don't need a movie to tell me this. So I have a challenge for you Islamists, and Islamofascists like Molla.
I will go to a church, take a camcorder, and in the middle of a sermon yell: Fuck Jesus, He was a politicians who was Jealous of Rome's power, he just wanted all the power to himself, Jesus is a dumbass who was way over his head, and I condemn him! I will also post this on the net with my picture and identity.
I want you muslims to publish on the net: While Mohammad was a great person, some of his actions like sleeping with a 9 year old girl, or attackinig the caravans was misguided.
I like to see how many death threat we get? I wonder if you say that in a mosque, will you come out alive? I very much doubt it. Do all muslims have propensity for violence? of course not, but far more of them do, and that is because of the underlying philosophical teachings of Islam, and the culture it propagates.
See, I don't need all the b*llsh*t analysis, and abstract cloacking that Khodadad goes through to prove to me that Islam is really a peaceful religion. His article is well written, but lacks substance completely. He shades the lack of substance with a perceived complex analysis that in reality does not exist. All I need as an ordinary person is to do simply experiment as mentioned above. Now which one of you good muslims are ready to take up the challenge? I bet none, you are scared sh*tless just contemplating doing something like that......
A few questions...
by Mola Nasredeen on Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:31 PM CDTLet me guess what could be the porpose of your article?
1. Is it to enlighten moslems? If this is the goal then you are barking at the wrong tree. Practicing moslem will hate you for your writing.
2. Is it to preach to moslems who are non practicing moslems? then you are wasting your time. They don't care anyway. But they'll resent you for your hateful comments about the religion they were born into.
3. Is it to enlighten the believers of other religions about Islam? Then you are on the wrong website.
4. Is it to vent your anger against a religion with 1.5 billion followers? Then maybe you should seek professional help to deal with your anger.
5. Do you get a paycheck for your writing? Then find another job that is less harmful to the well being of others.
6. And by the way watch the new documentary that just came out. It is called "For the Bible Tells Me So" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15439571. Hopefully, it will enlighten you about Christianity.
moal on the road
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