A Concern About A British Airline Policy - For Chistians Only (Important)!!

[Neverland]

Dear All,

I am very concerned to this type of policy:

British airline bans Bibles aboard planes to avoid offending Muslims

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LONDON , January 12 (CNA) - A British airline has prohibited its employees from carrying Bibles, using crucifixes or St. Christopher Medals, on flights to Saudi Arabia in order “not to offend” Muslims in that country.

British Midland International has also established that female flight attendants should walk two steps behind their male colleagues and should cover themselves from head to toe with an abaya, a traditional Muslim overgarment, the Mirror newspaper of London reported.

BMI officials explained the decision saying the Islamic kingdom’s strict laws – enforced by religious police – prohibit public practice of Christianity and figures of animals.

An airline employee who asked not to be named told the Mirror: “It’s outrageous that we must respect their beliefs but they’re not prepared to respect ours.”

The employee said his grandmother gave him a crucifix shortly before she died that he wears at all times.

“It’s got massive sentimental value and I don’t see why I have to remove it,” he said.
The employees’ union has proposed staff members be able to opt out of the flights, but the airline says the only option is to transfer from overseas staff to domestic flights, which could mean a loss of about $30,000 a year in wages.

About 40 staff members have filed complaints since the route began in September.

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I really need your help, everywhere, to question this policy, which attack personal right to practise religion (in this sense - Christianity). I really do hope we can make our concern heard to this particular Airline.

Neverland

 

[BryPGuy89]

That is rediculous. I understand we shouldn’t provoke hostilities, but to hide one person belonging of their faithis to much. Restraint and avoidance ok, but complete change of appearance is unexceptible. I have to agree with the statement that why should the change be one sided, they’re to respect other religions as it is stated in their Quran as we are too.

 

[eleusis]

BryPGuy89:

That is rediculous. I understand we shouldn’t provoke hostilities, but to hide one person belonging of their faithis to much. Restraint and avoidance ok, but complete change of appearance is unexceptible. I have to agree with the statement that why should the change be one sided, they’re to respect other religions as it is stated in their Quran as we are too.

Here in the West there is a hyper sensitivity to Islamic feelings. Heck even in the major book chains they worry so much about the feelings of Muslims they follow their custom to keep the koran on the top shelf of a bookshelf. These are the same stores that had photo books with the controversial art work photos of “Christ Piss” in them.
Who worries about Christian sensibilities? You can surf porn in libraries for all the world to see and even drive in your mini van watching porn for the enjoyment of other unsuspecting drivers but heaven forbid we should allow the koran to be misshelved, lordy we might have a car bomb out front. And that is the key. Its done because when they disagree they go and KILL the person with whom they disagree or sue them for freedom of speech. Here are a few notes from my research thus far;

•Italian writer Oriana Fallaci sued for her book tying the 9/11 attacks to the teachings of Islam.
•French novelist Michel Houellebecq pronounced Islam to be hateful, stupid and dangerous. Sued by Muslim organizations and the League for the Rights of Man.

•The British Counsel, in an international organization for cultural relations, fired a staff member who published articles in the Sunday Telegraph arguing that the roots of terror and jihad were nourished in the soil of Islam.
•Hitoshi Igarashi - –Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses,
–Stabbed to death in July 1991.

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Ettore Caprioli,
–Italian translator of The Satanic Verses,
–attacked with a knife in the same year, but survived.
•Aziz Nesin,
–Turkisk publisher and writer,
–Printed extracts of The Satanic Verses in a Turkish newspaper,
–Aattacked by a crazed religious mob in 1993.
–They cornered him in a hotel and set it on fire, killing 37 people, but Nesin, an elderly man in his late 70s, escaped.
•William Nygaard,
–Norwegian translator and publisher of Rushdie’s book.
–shot four times in the back in 1993 by an Islamic extremist.

•Naguib Mafouz –
–world-famous Egyptian author and Nobel Laureate.
–An elderly man in his 80s, Mafouz narrowly escaped a knife attack in 1994, after Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahmame, spiritual leader of the armed fundamentalist group al-Gama’a al Islamiyya, issued a death fatwa on his head.
–His “crime”: writing a book decades before that “insulted Islam.”

 

[Neverland]

Guys,

Thanks for all your concern. So we need to act. Just recently I see in a video seller a film with title: GORY GORY HALELUYA.
It’s very interesting how much Christianity can be stepped on again and again, and so far no protest. The writing and the making of Da Vinci Code (which makes one of my friend said that Dan Brown was nothing but a coward - he knew that he would get no harm making controversy to Christianity - and earn him a lot of money).
This policy should stop ONCE and FOR ALL. We have only one voice each. But if we use our VOICES to sound our annoyance for continues ridicule and persecution, I am sure we will get something. I have one for me. How about you guys?
I don’t want my nephews and nieces grow in the circumstance where it is embarassing to be a Christian (Catholic or Protestant) which is now trying to be developed by the media and such.
Enough is enough. If we never do anything, we will be sorry.
I really love to have a help from any british member of this forum to get the email address of this particular airline and we will send letter to show our concern.
We are not hostile groups who will threaten them to death. What we can do is to use non violent mean to do so. I even suggest all of us to decrease or stop using the airline - if it’s confirmed - and tell them the reason why.
Thank you for all your concern. My Evangelis friend told me that we are in a middle of spiritual war - between Christians and the World. I do hope we can win this spiritual war.

Love in Jesus,

Neverland

 

[BryPGuy89]

eleusis:

Here in the West there is a hyper sensitivity to Islamic feelings. Heck even in the major book chains they worry so much about the feelings of Muslims they follow their custom to keep the koran on the top shelf of a bookshelf. These are the same stores that had photo books with the controversial art work photos of “Christ Piss” in them.
Who worries about Christian sensibilities? You can surf porn in libraries for all the world to see and even drive in your mini van watching porn for the enjoyment of other unsuspecting drivers but heaven forbid we should allow the koran to be misshelved, lordy we might have a car bomb out front. And that is the key. Its done because when they disagree they go and KILL the person with whom they disagree or sue them for freedom of speech. Here are a few notes from my research thus far;

•Italian writer Oriana Fallaci sued for her book tying the 9/11 attacks to the teachings of Islam.
•French novelist Michel Houellebecq pronounced Islam to be hateful, stupid and dangerous. Sued by Muslim organizations and the League for the Rights of Man.

•The British Counsel, in an international organization for cultural relations, fired a staff member who published articles in the Sunday Telegraph arguing that the roots of terror and jihad were nourished in the soil of Islam.
•Hitoshi Igarashi - –Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses,
–Stabbed to death in July 1991.

•

Ettore Caprioli,
–Italian translator of The Satanic Verses,
–attacked with a knife in the same year, but survived.
•Aziz Nesin,
–Turkisk publisher and writer,
–Printed extracts of The Satanic Verses in a Turkish newspaper,
–Aattacked by a crazed religious mob in 1993.
–They cornered him in a hotel and set it on fire, killing 37 people, but Nesin, an elderly man in his late 70s, escaped.
•William Nygaard,
–Norwegian translator and publisher of Rushdie’s book.
–shot four times in the back in 1993 by an Islamic extremist.

•Naguib Mafouz –
–world-famous Egyptian author and Nobel Laureate.
–An elderly man in his 80s, Mafouz narrowly escaped a knife attack in 1994, after Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahmame, spiritual leader of the armed fundamentalist group al-Gama’a al Islamiyya, issued a death fatwa on his head.
–His “crime”: writing a book decades before that “insulted Islam.”

I don’t like how you referred to violence in this post. Most Muslims would not turn to such means. I beleive we should respect other beleifs, but not to the point were we have to hinder ours.

 

[Forest-Pine]

Being discussed In The News here:
Air crew ordered not to wear crucifixes on flights to Saudi

 

[BryPGuy89]

Neverland:

Guys,

Thanks for all your concern. So we need to act. Just recently I see in a video seller a film with title: GORY GORY HALELUYA.
It’s very interesting how much Christianity can be stepped on again and again, and so far no protest. The writing and the making of Da Vinci Code (which makes one of my friend said that Dan Brown was nothing but a coward - he knew that he would get no harm making controversy to Christianity - and earn him a lot of money).
This policy should stop ONCE and FOR ALL. We have only one voice each. But if we use our VOICES to sound our annoyance for continues ridicule and persecution, I am sure we will get something. I have one for me. How about you guys?
I don’t want my nephews and nieces grow in the circumstance where it is embarassing to be a Christian (Catholic or Protestant) which is now trying to be developed by the media and such.
Enough is enough. If we never do anything, we will be sorry.
I really love to have a help from any british member of this forum to get the email address of this particular airline and we will send letter to show our concern.
We are not hostile groups who will threaten them to death. What we can do is to use non violent mean to do so. I even suggest all of us to decrease or stop using the airline - if it’s confirmed - and tell them the reason why.
Thank you for all your concern. My Evangelis friend told me that we are in a middle of spiritual war - between Christians and the World. I do hope we can win this spiritual war.

Love in Jesus,

Neverland

Our voices should be heard and sometimes they are. The problem doesn’t liegh with other religions but the splintering of the Christian faith. We can’t collectively agree on subjects and we can’t reach a noteable strength. For the Davinci Code I think it should be avoided. I wouldn’t say it was a spiritual war any more now than in the begining of time, God’s people have always fought a spiritual war with pagans and cultures that condemn the beleifs.

 

[eleusis]

BryPGuy89:

I don’t like how you referred to violence in this post. Most Muslims would not turn to such means. I beleive we should respect other beleifs, but not to the point were we have to hinder ours.

By your post then it appears to me that you would prefer censoring out the violent activities of a religion because they offend your sensibilities or hurt the feelings of the perpetrators?? I didn’t disrespect the beliefs of Islam I just listed the activities of practioners of it. If we practice the censorship you seem to advocate and allow the repression violence to continue in silence then we will have our own faith practices hindered. Sure MOST Muslims don’t practice hate crimes nor do MOST Christians but some do and to ignore them is wrong.

 

[BryPGuy89]

eleusis:

By your post then it appears to me that you would prefer censoring out the violent activities of a religion because they offend your sensibilities or hurt the feelings of the perpetrators?? I didn’t disrespect the beliefs of Islam I just listed the activities of practioners of it. If we practice the censorship you seem to advocate and allow the repression violence to continue in silence then we will have our own faith practices hindered. Sure MOST Muslims don’t practice hate crimes nor do MOST Christians but some do and to ignore them is wrong.

The fact you associate the violence will Islam is what disturbs me. Islam does not condone violence. It is not the acts of the faith these people follow, but the lies and deception of men. Terrorists are not necessarily even associated to a religion, often they are people confused, lost, or deceived. It is bias and ignorance for one to associate Islam and terrorist attacks, yes some were under the impression that they were fighting for their faith, that does not make them Muslims. Terrorist include peole of other faiths just as often as they do Muslim and this is just more proof of the sad anti Muslim sentiment in America.

 

[eleusis]

BryPGuy89:

The fact you associate the violence will Islam is what disturbs me… It is bias and ignorance for one to associate Islam and terrorist attacks, yes some were under the impression that they were fighting for their faith, that does not make them Muslims…

Bry, do you READ what the Islamic Fundimentalists actually write or say about the use of violence?? When a person professes to embrace violence in a effort to achieve their political and religious goals their decision to use violence doesn’t make them less Muslim.

How can the connections THEY make to violence and Islam be bias on my part??

You deciding that a person professing to be Islamic but using violence isn’t really a Muslim because the decision to strap on a vest bomb disqualifies them is ludicrous.

Projecting ones views of what utopia should be on violent criminals is suicidal. We are at war with a radical ideology and those who adhere to it are extreamly dangerous characters despite what a peace loving multiculturalists may ardently wish.

 

[StMarkEofE]

Neverland:

Dear All,

I am very concerned to this type of policy:

I really need your help, everywhere, to question this policy, which attack personal right to practise religion (in this sense - Christianity). I really do hope we can make our concern heard to this particular Airline.

Neverland

It figures. It is not good to be a Christian in this day and time anywhere.

 

[StMarkEofE]

eleusis:

By your post then it appears to me that you would prefer censoring out the violent activities of a religion because they offend your sensibilities or hurt the feelings of the perpetrators?? I didn’t disrespect the beliefs of Islam I just listed the activities of practioners of it. If we practice the censorship you seem to advocate and allow the repression violence to continue in silence then we will have our own faith practices hindered. Sure MOST Muslims don’t practice hate crimes nor do MOST Christians but some do and to ignore them is wrong.

I think without exception you will have found that any time a vicious attack on Muslims that occurs you will find a multitude of western religious leaders who condemn such acts. But if you reverse these situations where Christians are attacked where are the voices of Muslim leadership in their condemnation of such acts???

 

[Toni]

A summary of Andy…
Andy Rooney said on “60 Minutes” a few weeks back:**

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You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.**

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****I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

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****I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.

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****We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

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I don’t hate the rich. I don’t pity the poor.
****I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that’s better, and put your name on the building.

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****It doesn’t take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!"

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****I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don’t pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don’t want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

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**********And if you don’t like my point of view, tough… ****

 

[BryPGuy89]

eleusis:

Bry, do you READ what the Islamic Fundimentalists actually write or say about the use of violence?? When a person professes to embrace violence in a effort to achieve their political and religious goals their decision to use violence doesn’t make them less Muslim.

How can the connections THEY make to violence and Islam be bias on my part??

You deciding that a person professing to be Islamic but using violence isn’t really a Muslim because the decision to strap on a vest bomb disqualifies them is ludicrous.

Projecting ones views of what utopia should be on violent criminals is suicidal. We are at war with a radical ideology and those who adhere to it are extreamly dangerous characters despite what a peace loving multiculturalists may ardently wish.

1)The Quran doesn’t promote violence, religious leaders all over the islamic world condemn and seperate terrorists from their faith. They are in a sence excommunicated and not truly part of that faith. They defy their faith and are not acting in the way of their faith.
2)Connecting Islam and violence is bias because there are activist groups all over the world that do things and I can say there is no majority of terrorist or violent activists that are Muslim. You connect things which have no strong similarity.
3)I would say someone defying their faith’s teachings would no longer be affiliated with the faith, a Catholic who opens their own abortion center could no longr be considered a Catholic.
4)You are talking about a few radicals not a group of people, it’s like saying the Mormon’s beleifs reflect those of all the Christian faiths. That is rediculous. Radicals will always be dangerous, the Revelutionary war was started because of this ideaology, our country’s whole growth likewise, we were built from these ideaologies, yes they are dangerous. We are not at war because you can’t defeat something that is not tangeable.

 

[eleusis]

1)The Quran doesn’t promote violence, religious leaders all over the islamic world condemn and seperate terrorists from their faith. They are in a sence excommunicated and not truly part of that faith. They defy their faith and are not acting in the way of their faith.
2)Connecting Islam and violence is bias because there are activist groups all over the world that do things and I can say there is no majority of terrorist or violent activists that are Muslim. You connect things which have no strong similarity.
3)I would say someone defying their faith’s teachings would no longer be affiliated with the faith, a Catholic who opens their own abortion center could no longr be considered a Catholic.
4)You are talking about a few radicals not a group of people, it’s like saying the Mormon’s beleifs reflect those of all the Christian faiths. That is rediculous. Radicals will always be dangerous, the Revelutionary war was started because of this ideaology, our country’s whole growth likewise, we were built from these ideaologies, yes they are dangerous. We are not at war because you can’t defeat something that is not tangeable.

1. Don’t equate Muslims with Catholics they are not a monolithic religion with a single leader. A muslim cannot be excommunicated ever. Islam is a messy religion at war with itself. Read a good book on that war like Crisis in Islam or get the Number 71 Spring 2003 copy of The National Interest and read the article EuroIslam the Jihad Within? Or the book In the Shadow of the Prophet: the struggle for the soul of Islam.
2. Go to this web site and down load the PDF file on how the Saudi Gov’t is promoting Islam. Saudi as in the seat of Islam. Read it and then say they don’t want to destroy the country that gives you the right to your…views. freedomhouse.org/religion/publications/Saudi%20Report/FINAL%20FINAL.pdf
3. You don’t understand your faith. They will always be Catholic. They may be in mortal sin or guilty of apostasy ect but they will always and forever remain Catholic.
4. A few radicals?? You are showing your ignorance on the subject. I work in the Intelligence Community in Washington DC and have access to sensitive stuff, addressing this issue is my living as I work to defend the USA from terrorists and I can assure you we are not dealing with a few radicals.

You should really expose yourself to a wide range of literature on the subject rather than some snippets of CNN. The future of your country depends on all Americans getting better informed. Like it or not you are a soldier in this ideological war. Just like the passengers of Flight 93 were drafted so are the rest of us, only we have time to prepare where they were taken by surprise.

 

[BryPGuy89]

1) Don’t equate Muslims with Catholics they are not a monolithic religion with a single leader. A muslim cannot be excommunicated ever. Islam is a messy religion at war with itself. Read a good book on that war like Crisis in Islam or get the Number 71 Spring 2003 copy of The National Interest and read the article EuroIslam the Jihad Within? Or the book In the Shadow of the Prophet: the struggle for the soul of Islam.
2) Go to this web site and down load the PDF file on how the Saudi Gov’t is promoting Islam. Saudi as in the seat of Islam. Read it and then say they don’t want to destroy the country that gives you the right to your…views. freedomhouse.org/religion/publications/Saudi%20Report/FINAL%20FINAL.pdf

1. You don’t understand your faith. They will always be Catholic. They may be in mortal sin or guilty of apostasy ect but they will always and forever remain Catholic.
2. A few radicals?? You are showing your ignorance on the subject. I work in the Intelligence Community in Washington DC and have access to sensitive stuff, addressing this issue is my living as I work to defend the USA from terrorists and I can assure you we are not dealing with a few radicals.

You should really expose yourself to a wide range of literature on the subject rather than some snippets of CNN. The future of your country depends on all Americans getting better informed. Like it or not you are a soldier in this ideological war. Just like the passengers of Flight 93 were drafted so are the rest of us, only we have time to prepare where they were taken by surprise.

1. Islam does have aleader below Allah my friend, they have a religious leader, similar to a pope(don’t misinterpret my example), a religious leader who takes place of Mohammeds leadership, there are two main groups who disagree with who should be the leader, in a scence they ae in schism. I didn’t mean literally excomunicated, they are no longer truly part of the faith if they defy its teachings. The fighting isn’t over the faith but the cultural differences in the Muslim countries. What good would it do me to read bias books and speculations.
2. I don’t like the country I get to speak my views, we are a terrible country, full of sin and filth. We have our highlights here and there and that is about it now. We say our freedoms are so great, look were they lead us, from good religious society to whore houses and porn shops on everyother corner. I don’t think we should be annialated but we are in need desperately of reforms.
   3)Very well even if they are they are ignorant of their faith’s beleifs and thus are not part of the faith. Even if they follow what they think is the faith, the faith would not except them, like an active homosexual would probably not be excepted into the church if he openly refused to turn from his actions.
   4)The intelligiance of this country so far has not been to impresive lately I do have to say. In comparison to the amount of practicing Islam population, a small amount of the whole are actually in a militant group. I would call small population a few radicals, just like in France the few radicals that were rioting, not the French people in general but a small group of the whole.
   I do try my best to keep informed for one. I am not in any way a “soldier” against this ideaology, because it isn’t a war, there is and always be a militant group out there, regardless of our actions. I don’t condone terrorists, but as a nation we really can’t condemn it, as it is what created us and many other countries. I don’t like you taking away from those people’s bravery and cheapening it with your militant speach. They did what was necessary to defend themselves and their country, unlike what our nation is doing. Our nation is an imperialistic conqueror trying to secure resources.

 

[exoflare]

1) Islam does have aleader below Allah my friend, they have a religious leader, similar to a pope(don’t misinterpret my example), a religious leader who takes place of Mohammeds leadership, there are two main groups who disagree with who should be the leader, in a scence they ae in schism. I didn’t mean literally excomunicated, they are no longer truly part of the faith if they defy its teachings. The fighting isn’t over the faith but the cultural differences in the Muslim countries. What good would it do me to read bias books and speculations.

But I thought the position of Caliph didn’t exist anymore? Not for either the Sunnis or the Shiites.

 

[Neverland]

Dear BryPGuy89,

May be you should start reading some discussion concerning Islamic belief and verses. Here is the links:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=87242

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=82772

And there are many others.

You may try to read Quran and Hadiths. You may find this Surah 9 interesting to you (Surah 9 is one of the latest Surah, and keep in mind that in moslems’ opinion, Quran is for all season and time):
islamicity.com/QuranSearch/

After that, you can conclude yourself. There is also a very interesting testimony from an apostate of Islam:

(continued)

You may try to conclude yourself.

Neverland

 

[Neverland]

KHALED
When I was a child, I used to go to the mosque every day. I used to go there for praying, reciting the Qur’an, reading ahadith, and studying tafseer.

Our teacher and other Islamic scholars told us that as Muslims, we are the best people in the world. We were also told that Saudi Arabian Muslims are the only true Muslims in the world, and as such, the world must follow us (the Saudi Muslims). Without any question, we steadfastly believed our Islamic scholars and wondered why despite such exhortations the world, by and large, does not emulate us.

We were so proud of being the true Muslims.

But now, I take this to be a lie.

Readers, I would vouch that what I studied in my mosque is exactly what Bin Laden do. You could unmistakably say he is an ideal Muslim. Believe me, almost all our people (in Saudi Arabia ) support him and love him very dearly.

We can’t blame Bin Laden for this; instead, we should blame Islam, the religion of bin Laden, It is because he is simply following his religion to the letter. He is, without doubt, a true Muslim.

My story of leaving Islam started when I was in grad five, I read in sura al-kahf, ayat 86 (18:86), that when Zu-Alqarnain had reached the point of setting of the sun, he found many people there suffering from the intense heat This was because they were so close to the sun. Same thing happened to him during the rising of the sun.

I started thinking: the earth is not flat; it is almost like a ball, so how could he reach the edge of the earth? I asked my teacher this question. He was confused with my question. He didn’t give any answer. He told me just to believe what the Qur’an says.

This was the beginning of my suspicion about the truth in the Qur’an.

Then I had a huge surprise when I found that if I wanted to be a good Muslim I must keep away from non-Muslims. A greater surprise for me was when I discovered that loving any non-Muslims would make me a kafir (non-believer).

Along with many other activities, I like going to movies, listening to music and making friends with athletes, singers—most of whom are non-Muslims. This means, I actually had become a kafir. I was taught that, to be in Paradise, I must unconditionally love Prophet Muhammad, whom I had never seen, more than anyone else, or I will surely go to Hell. I became so perplexed.

I listened to my Imams and was disturbed when they used abusive language to describe the non-Muslims as the grandsons of monkeys and pigs. I thought if anyone commits a sin, this should not be our problem; Allah, in due course, will punish him/her. Why do our Imams have to condemn these people in such a derogatory manner?

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[Neverland]

To my surprise, many of my Muslim friends and our Imams told me that it was my duty to revile and ridicule the non-Muslims, since they are the enemies of Muslims. When I refused to abide by the Islamic tenet of deriding the kafirs, they labelled me as a weak Muslim. They even informed me that a Muslim stranger is better than an old trusted kafir friend.

But I was adamant with my questions—I would not let them go unanswered. The most pertinent question on my mind was: how could a ‘God’ who claims Himself to be filled with mercy, at the same time, asks his people to hate one another? Why God has to threaten that He would burn and torture people who do not believe in Him? Is He really that needy? Is it so important that we consistently worship Him?

I started thinking, very deeply. I searched the Qur’an and found that everyone’s destiny had already been decided by God. God had already determined about who will be in Hell and who will be in Paradise! So, logically, there is no need for humans to pray. When I put this question to my devoutly religious friends, they became angry. They asked me how I could know in advance whether I should go to Hell or to Paradise. I told them that since our destiny has already been decided by God, praying or not praying would not really make any difference.

They thought I was crazy since I have developed doubt about Allah and the Qur’an.

This was my start of hating Islam. But I was helpless. In the society in which I live I was not able to do anything openly which goes against Islam.

In 1999, my mother fell sick and eventually she died. This was a turning point in my life. I thought: we, the Muslims, are not really the best in the world. Just like any other human being, we too get ill and die, after all. I also came to the conclusion that if we worked hard we should be successful, if we did not, we are bound to fail. There is no such thing as ‘Allah’s will’. There is nothing so special for the Muslims.

When I look around the Islamic world, all I find are utter injustice, unabated discrimination against women and kafirs and blatant abuse and violation of human rights, and not to talk of the absolute political corruption in all Islamic countries. In fact, there is nothing good in our Islamic world to talk about. Most of the Islamic world is in deep trouble, whereas there is relative, peace, prosperity and freedom in most non-Islamic countries.

I asked myself, “What is the reason for this?” The only plausible answer to me was Islam. I am now quite certain that Islam is a stupid and wrong religion.
Although my hatred of Islam increased, I was unable to leave it. I could not still bring myself to the reality that Islam could be that bad. I thought it might be that the problem was with the people and not the religion.

But on September 11, 2001, I saw the real face of Islam. I saw the happiness on the faces of our people because so many infidels were slaughtered so easily. I was shocked at the gloating of our people for killing innocent kafirs. I saw many people started thanking Allah for this massacre. Our Islamic people said that Allah gave us our wish, and that this was the beginning of the destruction of kafir countries.

To me, this was sheer inhumanity.

Then, the Imam implored Allah to help the Taliban against the US army. I was angry. I stopped praying.

In 2004, I met my Pakistani manager, who, I believe was anti-Islam. He made me feel human being again. He let me believe that I was, after all, not a crazy person. I stopped visiting the mosque, quit praying and abandoned Ramadan fasting. Last Ramadan I did not observe a single fast.

Now I feel so happy and relieved. Without any guilt or fear, I now can watch movies and listen to music. I feel I am a human being and I am free to do whatever I like.

I shall, from now on, tell as much as I can the truth about this evil religion of Islam.

Thanks to this website, I no longer feel lonely. I know now that I am not wrong.

Thanks & regards;

khaled

Saudi Arabia

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