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Islamic Cultural Attitudes
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Islamic Cultural Attitudes

With the Blessings of AllahMuhammad did not emancipate women.
Islam has historically considered females a corrupting influence; a harmful and
inappropriate distraction for men. But in spite of the low position of women this did not
prevent the prophet from having at least ten wives, and by some estimates, as many as 14.
While it was necessary for women to remain modest, the prophet was known to have perfumed
his body, painted his eyes, and dyed his hair.  (Source: See Will Durant, "The Age of Faith"
1950)
False Notion that Jews were Treated Well by Muslims.
"At various times, Jews in Muslim lands were able to live in relative peace and thrive
culturally and economically. The position of the Jews was never secure, however, and changes
in the political or social climate would often lead to persecution, violence and death. Jews
were generally viewed with contempt by their Muslim neighbors; peaceful coexistence between
the two groups involved the subordination and degradation of the Jews." (Michell Bard,"The
Treatment of Jews in Arab/Islamic Countries")

"When Jews were perceived as having achieved too comfortable a position in Islamic society,
anti-Semitism would surface, often with devastating results: On December 30, 1066, Joseph
HaNagid, the Jewish vizier of Granada, Spain, was crucified by an Arab mob that proceeded to
raze the Jewish quarter of the city and slaughter its 5,000 inhabitants. The riot was
incited by Muslim preachers who had angrily objected to what they saw as inordinate Jewish
political power." (Bard)

"Similarly, in 1465, Arab mobs in Fez slaughtered thousands of Jews, leaving only 11 alive,
after a Jewish deputy vizier treated a Muslim woman in "an offensive manner." The killings
touched off a wave of similar massacres throughout Morocco." (Norman Stillman, The Jews of
Arab Lands, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979)

"Other mass murders of Jews in Arab lands occurred in Morocco in the 8th century, where
whole communities were wiped out by Muslim ruler Idris I; North Africa in the 12th century,
where the Almohads either forcibly converted or decimated several communities; Libya in
1785, where Ali Burzi Pasha murdered hundreds of Jews; Algiers, where Jews were massacred in
1805, 1815 and 1830 and Marrakesh, Morocco, where more than 300 hundred Jews were murdered
between 1864 and 1880. (Maurice Roumani, The Case of the Jews from Arab Countries: A
Neglected Issue, (Tel Aviv: World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries, 1977)

"Decrees ordering the destruction of synagogues were enacted in Egypt and Syria (1014,
1293-4, 1301-2), Iraq (854859, 1344) and Yemen (1676). Despite the Koran's prohibition,
Jews were forced to convert to Islam or face death in Yemen (1165 and 1678), Morocco (1275,
1465 and 1790-92) and Baghdad (1333 and 1344)." (Bat Yeor, Louis Gardet, La Cite Musulmane:
Vie sociale et politique, (Paris: Etudes musulmanes, 1954)

"It would not be difficult to put together the names of a very sizeable number of Jewish
subjects or citizens of the Islamic area who have attained to high rank, to power, to great
financial influence, to significant and recognized intellectual attainment; and the same
could be done for Christians. But it would again not be difficult to compile a lengthy list
of persecutions, arbitrary confiscations, attempted forced conversions, or pogroms." (Bat
Yeor, Louis Gardet, La Cite Musulmane: Vie sociale et politique, (Paris: Etudes musulmanes,
1954)

"The situation of Jews in Arab lands reached a low point in the 19th century. Jews in most
of North Africa (including Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Morocco) were forced to live
in ghettos. In Morocco, which contained the largest Jewish community in the Islamic
Diaspora, Jews were made to walk barefoot or wear shoes of straw when outside the ghetto.
Even Muslim children participated in the degradation of Jews, by throwing stones at them or
harassing them in other ways. The frequency of anti-Jewish violence increased, and many Jews
were executed on charges of apostasy. Ritual murder accusations against the Jews became
commonplace in the Ottoman Empire." (Bernard Lewis, The Jews of Islam, (NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1984)

"The attitude of the Muslims toward the Christians and the Jews is that of a master towards
slaves, whom he treats with a certain lordly tolerance so long as they keep their place. Any
sign of pretension to equality is promptly repressed." (Middle Eastern Studies, (1971), p.
232.)

"The danger for Jews became even greater as a showdown approached in the UN over partition
in 1947. The Syrian delegate, Faris el-Khouri, warned: "Unless the Palestine problem is
settled, we shall have difficulty in protecting and safeguarding the Jews in the Arab
world." (New York Times, (February 19, 1947)
The written version of the Koran dates from the time of Caliph Othman, who was Mohammed's
third successor and twenty years after Mohammed's death which like the New Testament, which
also was written later than the events described, and therefore both instruments as
documents have been greatly diminished in value as reliable historical sources. Never the
less, the Koran is our guide to everything which concerns the birth of Islam, just as the
New Testament is the definitive guide (even with all it's contradictions) of the life of
Jesus.

At the time in the early seventh century, most of the people in the great Byzantine and
Persian empires were Bedouin tribes of nomadic people who lived patriarchal lives, practiced
circumcision and worshipeed stone gods, the best known being the black stone shrine, the
Kaaba, at Mecca. Mohammed was born in 570 according to the Koran at Mecca.
Like many prophets of that time, Muhammad had visions and his came to him in his forties
when he received his revelation from Archangel Gabriel in the form of an order in the name
of God to bring the message of Allah. He preached in Mecca from 612 to 622 and only
recruited in all that time a few dozen followers but he was mostly mocked by the other
people of Mecca. He moved his followers to Medina, a city a few hundred miles to the north
and populated mostly by Jews. He was successful there and won over many converts to his form
of monotheism. But it is written that while he would seek approval from the Jews he was less
successful with them who were skeptical and contemptuous of him. He was by then powerful and
he expelled some of the Jews - WITH THE BLESSINGS OF ALLAH, and he massacred all the rest.
And, thus Mohammed demonstrated his disdain for the Jews and his followers were to emulate
their prophet - that is, they were glorified in some respects but denounced also and Mecca
was alternatively established as the place to direct prayers and not to Jerusalem and Ramada
was to coincide with Yom Kipper and a replacement for it for the Muslims. Mohammed then
proceeded to become the theocratic leader of all of Arabia.

Muhammad was Delusional

"The campaign of death waged by the Islamist-jihadist, be he a puppet or a puppeteer, is
energized by the belief of delectable rewards that await the faithful implementer of
Allah’s dictates. Through a highly effective indoctrination, the jihadist has come to
believe firmly in Islam’s grand delusion. He believes that Allah is the one and only
supreme creator of earth and heavens; that it is his duty and privilege to abide by Allah’s
will and carry out his plans at all costs; he believes firmly in a gloriously wonderful
immortal afterlife in paradise, for which a martyr’s death is the surest quickest
admission. Although the dominating theme of the delusion is quasi spiritual, the promised
rewards of the afterlife awaiting the martyr are sensual and material. All the things and
activities that the jihadist desires and cannot attain or practice, and rejects in his
earthly life will be purified and proffered to him in the paradise of the next life. Thus
goes the delusion." (_Amil
Imani_)
Today if someone talked to angels and had visions they would be prescribed lithium. In
Muhammad's day they made him a prophet. Muhammad had hallucinations; he was delusional and
1.400 years later his sermons are a religion with a over a billion misguided, delusional,
Jew-hating followers.
Hank Roth

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