This is just sickening!

The only heartening thing was that the folks I spoke with about it today all said it was *that rude word pertaining to excrement* and asked who did they think they were kidding?
The trouble is, they were trying to kid everyone. They… I really mean him; the president of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand, Mr Javed Khan.

The Dominion Post newspaper yesterday morning did a large full-page feature “Debunking the Myths” regarding Islam. Now if any Kiwis reading this Journal have also just read this feature, please be warned that most of it is a spin-doctoring account that debunks the truth and perpetuates the dangerous myth that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. The article is peppered with outright lies. To someone who does know the truth about Islam, I was utterly dismayed that this piece of writing was published. Doesn’t our newspaper’s editor know anything - anything? This piece of writing flies right in the face of hard factual evidence quite to the contrary. I will mention some of the lies that it told…

1. “The most negative and damaging stereotype that some people hold is that Muslims are terrorists and a security threat to the countries in which they live… These atrocities have absolutely no sanction in Islam, and there is never a justification in our religion for taking innocent lives.
It is galling that militant extremists have hijacked the name of Islam and used it as a cover for their grotesque actions. They have exploited a twisted notion of religion to recruit those who are victims of oppression, inequality and exploitation.”

Yes, it is a very negative and damaging “stereotype” but it is absolutely true that it is Muslims who have perpetrated terrorist acts in the name of Islam, Allah, and jihad following the instructions that are found very clearly written in the Qur’an. There is no “interpretation” required of the verses in the Qur’an which set out in no uncertain terms how Muslims are to behave towards non-Muslims in the name of Islam, Allah and jihad. This is no “hijacking” of Islam - this is what the real Islam is about, as defined by the Qur’an. The Qur’an absolutely does sanction these atrocities and how one defines “innocent” has to be in accordance with Islam - the infidel are not innocent until they submit to Allah.

2. “Let me be clear about this: Islam does not preach violence.”

There are no less than 149 overt surahs in the Qur’an that unequivocally preach violence toward the infidel. To claim that Islam does not preach violence is an absolute denial of fact. It is an out-and-out lie. Please see my page “Just what is it about Islam?” for references and links to credible supporting evidence of this fact.

3. “Islam is a religion that espouses peace.”

Islam defines “peace” as being that state when universal submission to Allah has been achieved. This is the kind of “peace” that Islam espouses. It is not peace as most of the rest of us understand it. There will be no peace until this Islamic agenda has been achieved. Quoting my friend, Mark Alexander… “Muslims believe that Islam is the perfection of religion for man for all time. They call it ad deen al kamal, the perfect religion. People, in their eyes, who have not yet submitted to the will of Allah, are in a state of pre-Islamic chaos, a state known to them as Jahiliyyah! To Muslims, all Muslims, the whole world is classified in two parts: that part of the world which has submitted, and is therefore in the Islamic state, known as Dar al Islam, and that part of the world which has yet to submit, and is therefore in a pre-Islamic, chaotic, jahiliyyic state, known as Dar al Harb, or the House of War!”
Peace comes about only when the entire world has submitted to Allah.
The Islamic concept of peace.

4. “Another common stereotype is that Muslims don’t integrate into NZ society, and that we are opposed to Western values.”

In 1980 the Islamic Council of Europe issued guidelines for Muslims living in predominantly non-Muslim countries and made clear statements of how they were to conduct themselves. To read a copy of this statement please refer to my dedicated page on Islam as mentioned above. The extent to which Muslims in NZ have integrated may be variable, and it is true that they are behaving peaceably and contributing skills and labour in a way that does not set them apart from the rest of the population. However, it cannot be forgotten that Islam proposes a strategy based on the principle of taqiyya - or holy hypocrisy - which keeps agendas well hidden and has it’s people living in such a way that does not arouse suspicion. This entire feature article may well be an example of that! Western values include government by democracy. Islam is a totalitarian ideology that does not separate politics and religion, and it rules as a theocracy - from the word of Allah (the Qur’an) down to the people. This major fundamental difference immediately puts it at variance with Western values that include the freedoms we value so dearly.

The rest of the article gave answers to ten most commonly asked questions about Islam. Again, the answers showed evidence of taqiyya, an effort to make the truth palatable to Westerners.

1. Muslims believe in God - they call Him by the Arabic name “Allah”.

They call him Allah but his resemblance to the Creator Father God of the Jews and Christians is seriously deficient. There is a list of attributes where many are seen to reflect “the God of Abraham” who revealed Himself in Jesus Christ, but in terms of character, Allah is a totally different being to God as we know our deity. In pre-Islamic times, Allah was the moon god who had three daughters, a supreme god but one of a pantheistic bunch of them. Muhammad cleverly used “Allah” to convince the Arabs that they were still worshipping one of their own gods, but he spruced him up (removing the three daughters and elevating him to Creator status) as an attempt to convince the Jews and Christians that he was talking about their God, the God of Moses and Abraham, also. The Jews saw through this, as did the Christians, and refused to be taken in by this con. Allah is not a personal god, and he is definitely not (in his Islamic form) a father. To call him such is, to Muslims, nothing short of blasphemy. Therefore many Christians would call him a false god and an idol, some even say the anti-Christ. At very least, Allah is a serious misrepresentation of God, a skewed perception, one distorted by the errant fantasies of Muhammad.

2. Muslims believe in the prophets - Moses, Abraham, John the Baptist, and Jesus.

But what they believe about them is something quite else. There are a number of significant discrepencies between the Qur’anic version of the lives of these people, and that recorded in the Judeo-Christian scriptures. They believe that it was Ishmael, not Isaac, whom Abraham went to sacrifice. They do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God (Allah not being a father), nor that He was crucified on the cross, nor that He was resurrected - the all-important fundamental beliefs of Christianity. They claim that someone who just looked like Jesus was crucified instead. Muslims also believe that the Jews and Christians distorted and rewrote the Scriptures, and that God changed Jews into pigs and apes.

3. Muslims see Muhammad as their role model for how they are to live their own lives.

But the behaviour of Muhammad towards others, as described in the aHadith and as indicated in the Qur’an, is absolutely terrifying to most people - this is nightmare territory.

4. The Qur’an was reported not to condone terrorism - that terrorism is a perversion of Islam.

As mentioned earlier, this could not be further from the truth and besides the 149 overt surahs commanding torture and slaughter of the infidel - submission to Allah by way of the sword - this is not a perversion of Islam but the only possible meaning that can be derived from the words of the Qur’an.

5. Within Islam equal rights are given to all human beings, both male and female.

Completely untrue. Women are considered deficient in intelligence and it takes the witness of two of them to equal the witness of one man. Allah has instructed men to abuse their wives verbally, emotionally and physically if they do not obey them. A female inherits only half of a male's portion. For more examples of how Islam regards women: The Veil of Equality and Justice. Islam regards all non-Muslims as “dhimmies” or second-class citizens and they must pay an extra tax intended to subjugate them, and they are not afforded any rights and privileges that Muslims will have in an Islamic society. This is intended to humiliate them. Muslims are instructed in the Qur’an not to befriend an infidel.

The information that Mr Javed Khan has provided about Islam is either a classic example of taqiyya (holy hypocrisy) or is a “secular Islam” that is not true to form. It is true that secular Muslims may not be particularly literate in their own faith and so do not practice it according to the Qur’an. These Muslims will be called apostates by those who do practice true Islam, and they will not be regarded as true Muslims. They will also be slayed by the sword if they resist the call to practice fully.

When the NZ census figures were collected back in 1901, there was only one Muslim recorded as living in this country. Today there are about 40,000. Our total population is just over 4 million. Muslims are still proportionately a very small number, and therefore it is required that they live peaceably here. Only when the ratio changes in future to a much higher percentage will there be a call to assert more influence on the government towards elements of sharia-facilitating legislation. It is critically important that we know the real threat of Islam - the real Islam - and take all measures possible to minimize the risk of it developing to the situations now presenting in Britain and Europe.