Dear Ali Sina,

I would like you to shed some of your marvelous knowledge on issue regarding spirits, jinns or demon procession in your Alisina.org site.

After reading a lot regarding concept of God in your Alisina.org section i came to view that you are right that we have to search our own light.

It’s hard to deny and accept God, but at the same time this spirits possession issue confuses me.  If there is no life after death, how comes there are jinns?

I want to know your idea on this matter.   Let me know if you are in doubt about after life or God then how you will face this problem of spirit. Will you then believe there is life after death or God?

If you believe in spirits then for sure there is life after death and God must be there because spirits are like souls.  And many people who do exorcisms take bible and Quran’s help and they succeed in curing the patient.  If that is true does it mean spirits believe in God and religions, so that proves there is God and religion.

Please shed some light in this matter so we people who are now thinking rationally can answer other people and save them from superstitious beliefs.

Thank you…

Yasin

The answer to this question is going to be long. I apologize a priori. I can’t shorten it but I will do my best to make it entertaining.

I will break down my answer in four parts.

In Part I, I will discuss the logical absurdity of the belief in demons and will explain why, if God exists, the belief in demon-possession and exorcism is an insult to God and a blasphemy.

In Part II, I will show that exorcism is a sham and exorcists are con artists and swindlers. I will expose one of the most renowned charlatans in this field.  You will then have no doubt that his man is lying.

In Part III, I will answer the million dollar question. Why sane people get sucked into this scam, behave like a loony and cooperate with the exorcist to deceive others.  The answer to this question is an eye opener and unveils a fascinating and bizarre facet of our human psychology.

In Part IV I will talk about the danger of exorcism. This is not a harmless feel good exercise. It is a serious threat to the well-being and mental health of the victims.  This demonic practice (pardon the pun) must be banned and the con artists practicing it must be exposed.

Part I

Is exorcism a godly practice?   

At this point I am not going to discuss the existence or non-existence of God.  Let us assume that God exists.  I would like to argue that if God is real, exorcism is blasphemy. It is the biggest insult to God, as it undermines His fairness and His sanity.

I am also not going to argue whether spirits are real or not. This article is about demons and demon possession. My goal is to prove demons don’t exist and demon possession and exorcism is a sham.

Religions tell us that God is the creator of everything and that Satan and demons are also creations of God. As the story goes, God created them good and they rebelled and became fallen angels.

Here is where things get problematic. According to religions Satan and his cohort of demons are left free to deceive people and make them go astray. We are also told that these demons are given the power to snatch the bodies of people, enter them and use them as a vehicle to do their mischief. At the same time we are assured that God is all-knowing, all-wises, benevolent, just, compassionate and merciful.  The problem is that these two narratives don’t add up.  They are mutually exclusive.

Let us say you have many children. You have also a venomous snake in a cage. Will you let the reptile loose in the house? Will your responsibility end by just telling your children to be careful?  If you do such thing you can’t claim to be a good parent.  If someone reports you or if one of your children is hurt, you will not only lose the custody of your children, you will be also sent to jail for endangering their lives.  This would be a crime.

Those who believe in exorcism and think demons are given the power to possess people, accuse God of this very crime.  In fact God is even guiltier than the criminally negligent parent in the above example. God created Lucifer, knowing fully well that he will rebel.  Why would he do such thing?

Let us say I manufacture toys for living. My products are not fully guaranteed. Under certain condition, say, when the temperature rises above 40 degree centigrade, they explode causing death. Can I then claim innocence when children are killed while playing with my products?  Of course not!

But that is not all. Let us say I receive an order from a hot country where I know the temperature exceeds 40 degrees.  I know that my toys will explode and will cause the death of those handling them.  In that case I am no longer criminally negligent, but a criminal, period. This is premeditated murder.

The proponents of exorcism who claim they love God accuse Him of this very crime. Didn’t God know that Satan will become a fallen angel? Why He created him? Why did He allow Satan roam on Earth and seduce humans? This is not criminal negligence, it’s  crime pure and simple. Does a God like that deserve to be praised?

But wait! Things get even worse. God gave humans a brain and a rational mind. But everything he does is irrational.  He then says we should ignore our reason and believe in things that appear as nonsense.  If really God is this crazy, He is not worthy of worship.  Such a cynical and malevolent god deserves our scorn.

What is the origin of human reason? Does it come from Satan or from God? If from God, why should we be punished for using it and if it comes from Satan, maybe Satan is the real God and this other fellow we call God is the big deceiver. A god that builds a torture chamber and barbeques humans for not just millions or billions or trillions of years, but for eternity is a sick sadist being. He can’t possibly be the real God.

But wait! We have not even scratched the surface. This so called loving god is so evil that he allows demons to enter our body and use us as they wish.  Who gave them such power?  Who else but God?   Why would He do such thing?  According to my limited human reason this is very evil.  A loving wise God should know better.  Well I have only human reason.  Can those endowed with divine reason lower themselves and explain to us mortals God’s reason behind this apparent insanity?  How can the creator of the world, design us in such a fashion that demons can easily enter our body and take control over us?

Before anyone say, we let it happen by something we did, let me remind you that many victims of this so called demonic possession are children.

I don’t buy this bovine stool. You see! I am afraid that God may actually exist and that I may have to face him one day.  How will I answer Him if he asks me, “Ali, why did you attribute insanity to me? Didn’t I give you a brain to distinguish right from wrong and truth from falsehood? Wasn’t this brain the tool you used for your everyday life?  Why did you ignore it when it came to the most important thing which is finding me?  You shelved your reason, my biggest gift to you, and blindly followed charlatans?  That is what I fear. If God asks me these questions, I wouldn’t know how to answer. I would melt in shame and disappear in the cracks of the earth.  That would be hell.  The pain caused by shame can be far more tormenting than that caused by fire.

The very notion that a loving and wise god would allow evil spirits take control of humans, belies his wisdom and his sanity. It would make Him an unjust and evil God.  The belief in demon and/or spirit possession is an insult to God.  Those who believe in God must know that attributing evil and insanity to Him is blasphemy.

Part II

 Is Exorcism Real?

I hope by now you are convinced that the belief in Satan, demons and demon possession is an insult to God’s sanity and omnipotence. Now let us explore whether exorcism is real and whether ghosts exist.

I have not seen an exorcism in live but there are plenty of videos on Youtube. Subjects behave as if they are demon possessed. Grownup people act like crazy. They shout, swear, throw themselves to the ground, make faces, curse, etc.  If they are not possessed why would they do such thing?  In this part we will see whether what they do is genuine or they are putting up an act.  But first you need to watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvU4f07sHE

Bob Larson is a renowned exorcist.  He travels all over world performing exorcism and videotaping them.  He has made a name for himself and is respected by those who believe in this craft. The woman in the above video, Veronica, is not a paid actress. She believes that she is demon possessed and has come for help.

Larson asks Veronica about her children and after finding out that she has a twin out of wedlock, he announces they are under the curse of illegitimacy.

Really? Does the wise, loving and compassionate God curse innocent children born out of wedlock? What fault they had in this? Could they avoid being conceived? Is this not ascribing injustice to God? What this man is saying is blasphemy. But let us proceed.

Larson asks about the ethnicity of Veronica and when she reveals her Honduran and Mexican background he says, so you have both Aztec and Mayan curses.

Okay. Now we know that anyone with Aztec or Mayan ancestry is under curse. That is only the benign of the list. According to Larson everyone who is born in a religion other than the one he belongs to is under curse. Muslims worship Allah, a false god. They are definitely under curse.  Of course if you ask a Muslim exorcist he will tell you that all non-Muslims are under curse.  But we don’t want to split hair.  The question we’d like to ask Larson is whether this woman had any say in the choice of her parents. Didn’t God make that choice for her?  So why would He curse her for what only He is responsible? If being born to non-Christian parents brings the curse of God, shouldn’t God be cursed for making that happen?

Here comes the fun part. Larson orders two persons to hold Veronica and IMMEDIATELY she acts as if she is demon possessed. She was okay until a second ago, acting perfectly normal. There was no sign of demon possession in her. But as soon as Larson tells the folks to hold her, a demon jumps in her, in no time, so Larson can expel it. She becomes hysterical and starts hissing, cursing and shouting. “Get away from me,” she growls.  Is she really possessed? She sure acts like it. If not, why is she behaving in this fashion? We will get to that in Part III.  In this part we are going to expose the exorcist.

Larson asks one of the ancestors of Veronica to come forward and speak through her.  He specifies, “The one who is angry.”  As soon as Larson utters the word angry Veronica acts angry.  What a rude ancestor! What happened to your manners spirit? Instead of saying, hi, how do you do, I am so and so, what can I do for you, this spirit greets Larson with wild eyes and screams. Oh come on. Take it easy spirit. Larson is here to help your descendant.  Don’t you want to thank him?

Veronica has millions of ancestors. Just do the math.  She has 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents, 32, great great great grandparents. Go back ten generations and you can count over 1000 of her ancestors. Go back 20 generations and you can find over 1,000,000 ancestors. If you go back 30 generations, give or take 700 years, the number of Veronica’s ancestors exceeds one billion.  Let us stop here. If we go further we will find that her ancestors are the same ancestor of all of us, including Larson’s. They walked out of Africa some 30-40 thousand years ago and yes they were pagan. Has Larson broken the curse of his own ancestry? If not he better hurry or he may become possessed, if he is not already.

The most extraordinary part of this exorcism is that all Veronica’s ancestors have come to possess her. They are all there ready to jump into her body. As soon as Larson says he wants to talk to the angry one, that ancestor’s spirit snarls. How did this spirit know that he is the angry one of all? Among all the billions of ancestors, was he the only one who had anger problem?

Larson addresses the angry spirit.  “What did they do to you?” He asks authoritatively. “I don’t know,” responds Veronica’s ancestor through her.

Come on spirit. You could easily identify yourself among all the billions of ancestors as the angry one and responded in a fraction of second with your rumble and you don’t know what they did to you?  Larson will reveal your little secret. He knows everything.

“You don’t know, or you don’t want to tell? What did they do to you?” Larson shouts.

The spirit looks confused. He does not know what to say. He stares at Larson, bewildered. Okay Bob, tell him what they did to him.

“I know what ultimately they wanted to do is sacrifice you,” Larson informs the spirit. “Did they get the job done?”  The spirit does not know. It seems this is the first time someone told him what they did to him. “Did they spill your blood?” asks Larson scornfully and then answers his own question. “They took your heart; offered it to the god,” he whispers.  The spirit hisses. “First they break you,” explains Larson. “But there is a God in heaven. Stay focused here (pointing at his own eyes), not the god your people worship. He’s in my eyes. He is in me. He wants to help you. Say I want this god.”

Veronica is subdued. She is on the verge of breaking down in tears. She softly repeats I want this god.

But wait a minute. Now it is me who is getting confused. I thought Larson was talking to the spirit of the ancestor.  If this ancestor is possessing Veronica’s body, how come she is responding? Or are the spirit and Veronica one and the same?

Larson asks Veronica to repeat after him, “I want peace.” She repeats with her broken voice. Larson then asks her to say I am angry.  Suddenly Veronica disappears and the spirit comes in hissing and snarling.   This seems to be a bit confusing. Who is who?

The only explanation I can find is that Larson asks Veronica to say I am angry. She misunderstands him and thinks she has to act angry, which leads to believe Veronica and spirit are one and the same.

When Larson asks Veronica to say I am filled with anger and murder, she acts like the angry spirit that possess her and when he asks her to say I want to be at peace she suddenly becomes Veronica, the woman who is pained.  She acts out everything Larson says.

Larson makes Veronica to repeat after him, “The God who gave his son to die for me will give me peace, if I forgive those who sacrificed me.”

Okay, now it becomes clear that Larson was talking to the angry spirit of Veronica’s ancestor all along. It was Veronica’s mistake in thinking that he is talking to her. Good. Now everything is clear. The spirit is saved and he is told to go in peace with Jesus to heaven. Jesus must be standing behind the door waiting.  He goes happily, finally set free. After so many centuries of torment Larson restores his peace in just two minutes.  Neither Jesus could do that nor God. Veronica is also set free. Nothing brings more tears to my eyes than a happy ending.

This poor ancestor was a victim of a barbaric religion. They sacrificed him and took his heart offering it to their god.    The ancestor himself did not remember any of that. Larson was kind enough to remind him. How did Larson know about all this? Maybe that is the secret of his trade so we won’t ask.  What we want to know is why Veronica’s ancestor was condemned when he was a victim and why was he haunting his descendant? Why he was not given salvation after suffering such a gruesome death?  I don’t understand how justice works with God.  He punishes innocent people for sins of their parents and ancestors. He sends people born before Jesus to hell.  Muhammad said that those born before him will go to hell. But let us ignore him.  He was just an impostor. Let us listen to what Larson says.  Do people who had no chance to meet Christ because they died before he was born go to hell? Is this justice?  How can we reconcile the fact that all the Aztecs, Mayans, Hindus, Buddhist, Taoists, animists and pagans go to hell with the repeated claim that God loves everyone?

Larson then calls Veronica. The spirit has left her and now she is back in her body. He instructs her to say, “The Aztecs and the Mayans, all of them are blood coveters.” Veronica says the first part but reacts angrily when her ancestors are demonized. She howls.  Is it she or is the ancestor back?  There does not seem to be coordination between the exorcist and the subject.  This is an act you improvise as you play it.  She is not supposed to act angry as Veronica. Veronica is the victim. It must be that pesky ancestor again.  Why did he come back? Wasn’t he saved and didn’t Jesus take him to heaven? Why would he part company with his savior and return to pester his descendant? That must be a crazy ancestor.

Larson bangs the Bible on Veronica’s head.  He points his finger menacingly at the spirit possessing her and commands, “I told you to stay out of the way. Go down.”

Go down? But Mr. Larson, I believe you handed him to Jesus to take him up.  Did you lie to him? Is that why he came back? Or are you ad libbing and making the whole thing up?

Larson then calls on Veronica to come back and say with him, “I break the curse of the bastard on my children.” Veronica repeats the words, but the spirit jumps back in her and makes menacing faces at Larson.  I am not a woman, but if I were and had bastard children and someone said they are cursed I will not make menacing faces at him. I will kick his ass and throw him out of the room. That is when I am not possessed. When I am possessed I will smash his nose and break his balls. How can innocent children born out of wedlock be cursed? What kind of sick god would curse children for a sin they had no part in it?  Who assigns souls to fetuses? If it is God then shouldn’t He be cursed?  Einstein said two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity; and I am not sure about the universe.

Veronica and the spirit switch their positions back and forth. Veronica is subdued and pained while the spirit is defiant and angry. At one point Veronica says that her grandpa murdered her grandma. But the voice is that of the angry spirit.  She is supposed to use her own voice. This tragedy happened to her not to the spirit possessing her.  If what she says is true this woman has all the reasons to be haunted. But she is not haunted by demons or spirits. She is haunted by the tragic event that took place in her family. She needs a psychotherapist, not an exorcist, to get over her psychological pain.

Veronica is finally set free from her ancestor. Everyone cheers and Larson glorifies God. He asks Veronica who did this for you, who gets the glory and who has the power to set you free. Veronica responds, Jesus, the Lord and the Lord alone, my God, my great God. This is only the appearance. In reality it is Larson who is claiming all the credit. All this theatrics is false modesty. Remember that he claimed, God “is in my eyes. He is in me.” He is claiming all that glory that comes with being an instrument of God for himself.

The video has more theatrics. Larson has made many other videos that are available on Youtube.  Let us study one more. I invite you to watch his other videos and analyze them with the same critical mind. Analyze the videos of other exorcists and you’ll find they are all charlatans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLz3oS_GG_s

In the above video a woman named Jennifer, says she feels nothingness and she does not feel God. She then says she does not have any bad memories, except that last year her childhood girlfriend told her that she had memories that her neighbor might have molested her when she was 4 years old. This made Jennifer think that maybe she too had been molested, but she does not remember this happening. She remembered going to her girlfriend’s house playing and the guy, but did not remember anything about being sexually molested. The fact is that if she does remember, it is very likely that it has not happened. Sexual molestation of children leaves a deep scar that cannot be easily forgotten.  Some women make such claims even if it is not true.  They do it to portray themselves as victims for attention and sympathy.

Larson tries to make Jennifer remember that she was molested. “I want the child who knows the truth to come to me.” He says.  What child? That child is now a grown up woman. He says to be an exorcist. His expertise is allegedly in call on the spirits and demons. Split personalities of one individual are all the same individual so there is no spirit of a child in Jennifer. There are no different spirits for each stage or year of our life.   “I want the child who knows the truth to come to me,” is sheer nonsense.

Jennifer goes into trance and starts acting like a little girl. Larson hugs her and says, “Come on sweet heart! Who hurt you?” Jennifer becomes hysteric. Larson encourages that behavior. “That is okay,” he says. “I want angry Jennifer.” He grabs Jennifer by her neck. “Look at me. Are you protecting the 4 year old?”   Who are you talking to dear Bob? Are you talking to Jenifer or to a ghost that you have met in her?

Jennifer switches from one personality to another – sometimes acting as herself, sometimes as a 4 years old child and sometimes as an angry ghost that growls, snarls and curses.  She looks confused as to which personality she should have.

Larson treats Jennifer roughly. He has to treat the bad ghosts roughly, not the poor victims. But Larson knows what he is doing.  He wants to shock his subjects so they become angry and start putting up the show for him.  Jenifer looks frustrated. She says, “She (the little child) doesn’t know.” This is what she said in the beginning. She said she has no recollection of being molested. But Larson wants her to say that she has been molested. “You know!” he tells her commandingly. “Now tell me what happened. Do you know who did it?” he shouts.  Jennifer is angry. “Nothing happened to her,” she shouts back. But Larson is not going to give up. “That is a lie.” He yells. “That is a lie and you know it.”

How do you know this is a lie Bob? Where you there or a ghost inside you has told you about it?  How can you be so sure she is lying?

Larson places the Bible on Jennifer’s head and yelps, “Who are you? Who are you? [What is] your name? Your name? Your name spirit? Who are you?” Jennifer growls and wiggles acting as if she is possessed. Finally, she utters a word.  It is incomprehensible. Larson recognizes the spirit. He knows all the billions of spirits who have lived in the last hundreds of thousands of years (or is it 6,000 years?) and knows who is who, and recognizes them only by their first name. The occupant of Jennifer happens to be the ghost of someone who lived 150 generations ago (roughly 3500). Larson wants to know how the ghost got into Jenifer. “Witchcraft,” reveals the ghost through Jenifer.

Larson then asks the name of his chief. Jennifer does not know it and therefore her ghost remains silent, sneering at Larson.  As usual Larson knows the answer to his question. He puts his face close to the face of Jennifer and derisively says, “Hello Jezebel. We meet again. You know! It gets a little tiresome to see your ugly face.” Only Larson can see Jezebel. We can only see Jenifer, who is not ugly. Jennifer is offended and retorts “me too.”

The cleverest con artists often commit the dumbest mistakes. Here is Larson’s big blunder. He names Jezebel as the spirit possessing Jenifer when we never hear the name Jezebel coming out or Jennifer’s mouth. How did he come to that conclusion? There are only two ways he could have known it. He either has a personal demon that informs him the secrets of the unknown or he is lying.  He commits another mistake when he says how he feels about meeting Jezebel’s ugly face.  How can he see the ghost’s face when the only way the dead spirits communicate is through the possessed subjects?  And ff Jezebel is using Jennifer to communicate, why all information about her comes from Larson and not from the mouth of Jenifer?  It is not difficult to spot a conman.

Who the hell is Jezebel anyway? Jezebel is a biblical character from 9^th century B.C. She was a princess identified in the Book of Kings as the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Tyre (Phoenicia) and the wife of Ahab, king of north Israel- a very powerful woman.  She pertains to the time of the divided kingdom.  The Israelites had formed two kingdoms. The northern kingdom was called the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) and the southern kingdom was known as the Kingdom of Judah.

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Rivalries between the two kingdoms were rife. Each had its own god and religious book and tried to discredit the god of the other in order to undermine their legitimacy.  Jezebel and Ahab glorified Baal. In the Kingdom of Judah, Jehovah was worshiped as god. The fact that Jews worshiped different gods and different religions casts doubt on the authenticity of Moses. Some Biblical scholars have concluded that Moses is a myth. Whether he was a myth or a real person, there is little doubt that the stories attributed to him are mythical and his so called books, the first five chapters in the Bible, are apocryphal, written centuries after his death.  (See Who Wrote the Bible by Richard Elliott Friedman)

Jezebel was an Arab. This was 15 centuries before Islam when Arabs and Jews intermingled and intermarried.  The irreconcilable enmity between these two people starts with Muhammad and will end ONLY when Islam is discredited and eradicated, or as Muslims wish, the Jews are exterminated.  Anyone telling you otherwise is too ignorant of Islam.

After Ahab’s death the prophet Elisha plotted to overthrow his house.  He killed his two young sons and bribed his officials to murder Jezebel. The corrupted officials threw their queen out of a window and left her corpse to be eaten by dogs. Jezebel became associated with false prophets and false gods.  History is written by the victor.  Had it been the other way round, Elisha would have been remembered as a false prophet and Baal would have become the chief god of the Jews.  Far from being a holy man Elisha was a murderous priest very much like Khomeini.  The world knows the truth about Khomeini, but in Iran he is promoted as a holy imam.  People go to his grave and pray for their cures.  Imagine if the future was only left with the Iranian version of history.  Then everyone would have thought that that mass murderer was a holy man.

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Baal found worshipers among Arabs and finally became their chief god in Mecca.  He was known affectionately by his title, al ilah (the god) or simply allah. His symbol, the crescent, became the symbol of Islam.

Larson now has identified his favorite nemesis, of course without any help from Jenifer who never said anything about Jezebel.  What is the point of all these interrogations if Larson knows the answer to his questions? If you watch his videos and pay attention to him and not the the acts of his subjects, you’ll see when he asks a question, he also provides the answer.  His subjects play along and put up a show pretending to be possessed.  Jezebel seems to be ubiquitous in Larson’s exorcisms. She is in most his female subjects.

At this point Jenifer can no longer hold her laughter. Larson also laughs. This is a very telling moment. They both know they are putting up an act and there is no Jezebel. But they also know that the game must be played. Jezebel is like the emperor’s invisible cloak. Both Larson and Jenifer gain something from this farce.  What is in it for Jenifer?  That is the subject I will discuss in Part III.

Larson asks, “What is so funny.” “I don’t know what you are doing,” responds the giggling Jenifer.  Who is the speaker here? It can’t be Jezebel because, as we learned, the angry she and Larson share a long story together to the extent that they are tired of each other’s ugly faces. Jezebel wouldn’t say “I don’t know what you are doing.” She has been through this with Larson time and time again.  So it must be Jennifer. She is the one who is new to this game and confused. Also the voice that utters these words is not the angry voice of a mad spirit. It is the sweet voice of Jenifer.  But Larson addresses his imaginary invisible rival.

“O rly? Let’s get this,” responds Larson now looking serious, into Jenifer’s eyes. “You are a demon. I am a real exorcist. This is not the movie.” Come on Bob. Let’s get serious. Jezebel was a human, not a demon. If you know her for such a long time how come you don’t know what she is?

Also can you please tell us what Jezebel has to do with Jennifer’s alleged child molestation? There are billions of dead souls that according to you are going around haunting people. How come you always find Jezebel in most of your female subjects?

More theatrics follow. Larson shouts at the ghost of Jezebel and orders her to get out of the 4 year old child and out of the angry Jenifer. We already discussed that there is only one Jenifer.  We don’t have a different spirit for every year or every day of our life. Larson then places the Bible on Jenifer’s head and she shakes and wiggles and screams and screeches and finally releases herself from the claws of the evil Jezebel.

What is really going on? If Jezebel is only a fiction why does Jenifer act in this way?  Why she and other Larson’s subjects cooperate with him when apparently they are not paid actors and seem to be genuine? That is the million dollars question that I’ll answer in part III.

Part III: Psychological Disorders Explain Demon Possessions

In part one of this article, I explained why the belief in demons and specially demon possession is denying the wisdom and fairness of God and attributing insanity to the maker of the universe.  In part two, I analyzed two cases of exorcism performed by Reverend Bob Larson, one of the leading exorcists in America with ministry in over 100 countries and showed that he is not getting any information from his subjects or the alleged spirits that possess them. The information comes from him. The subjects merely put up a show that validates what he says.

In this part I will explain the mental cases that are misinterpreted as demon possession why people act is such a fashion.  The answer to this question is in psychology, not in demonology.

Each case is different. Several psychological disorders can explain the behavior of the so called demons possessed.

Histrionic Personality Disorder

People suffering from this disorder have an excessive need for attention and engage in inappropriate attentions seeking behavior. They feel unappreciated when they are not the center of attention and do everything to draw attention to themselves. They may do something dramatic, exaggerate and create scenes. They can be sexually provocative beyond what is appropriate for a social context. Their emotional expressions, although intense, is shallow. They maybe excessively concerned for their appearance and phish for compliment and are easily upset by critical comments about how they look.  Please note in the above video how Jennifer retorts saying “me too” when Bob Larson tells her how he is tired of seeing her ugly face.  Another important feature of people with HPD is their high degree of suggestibility. Their opinions and feelings are easily influenced by others and by current fads. They may be overly trusting, especially of strong authority figures whom they see as magically solving their problems. They have a tendency to play hunches and to adopt convictions quickly.  Histrionic people often use somatic symptoms (of physical illness) to garner attention.

Somatization Disorder

Those with this disorder suffer from many clinically significant pains that cannot be explained by any known general medical condition and is not a direct effect of a substance. The patient can suffer from a variety of ailments but no cause can be detected through X ray.  They seek help from several doctors who can find no cause for their sickness. They can also have hallucination. People suffering from somatization disorder may come to believe that they are possessed.

Psychosis

Psychosis is a broad term to describe severe form of psychiatric disorder, during which the individual may experience hallucinations, delusions and impaired insight. It is a mental state in which the patient loses his or her grip of reality. A psychotic person may go through catatonic experiences of schizophrenia and bipolar 1 disorder.   Bipolar 1 disorder differs from Bipolar 2 because of its severity and is generally accompanied with manic episodes.

Catatonic Disorder

Catatonia is described by DSM IV (American Diagnostic and Statistics Manual 4^th edition) as motoric immobility or excessive motor activity, extreme negativism or mutism, peculiarities of voluntary movement, echolalia (involuntary repetition of either ambient sounds or of vocalizations made by another person), or echopraxia (involuntary repetition or imitation of another person’s action). Catatonia is the direct psychological consequence of a general medical condition.  Catatonic sufferers express extreme negativism and resist all instructions or maintenance of rigid posture against attempts to be moved.  A typical voluntary movement of the patient is evidenced by posturing, stereotyped movements, prominent mannerisms, or prominent grimacing that are typically behaviors of the so called demon-possessed.

Schizophrenia:

Schizophrenia can count for extreme cases of demon possessions. Schizophrenia is delusional thinking. It involves distortion of perception (hallucination) language and thought process (disorganized speech), along with disorganized and catatonic behavior.

Delusions are erroneous beliefs that involve a misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences. The individual may have persecutory delusions, believing that someone or a group or people are after him to hurt him. Muhammad, for example, was haunted by the delusion that Jews and Christians had found out that he is the promised one in their books and had been after him since he was a child in order to kill him. The absurdity of this delusion is evidence of its schizophrenic nature. Persecutory delusions are most common in schizophrenic patients. The person believes he or she is being tormented, followed, tricked, spied on, or ridiculed.  The individual said to be possessed believes he is being watched and controlled.  Delusions can be shared. Shared Psychotic Disorder is the presence of a delusion in an individual or a group of individuals who are influenced by someone else who has a longer-standing delusion with similar content. The delusion of being tormented, persecuted, victimized and ridiculed is common among all Muslims. All these riots and demonstrations to demand the world to respect them is the sign of Muslims’ shared psychosis with their prophet. According to DSM IV, “the difference between a delusion and a strongly held idea is sometimes difficult to make and depends in part on the degree of conviction with which the belief is held despite clear contradictory evidence regarding its veracity.”

Hallucinations may be auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory and tactile. The auditory hallucination is by far the most common. The person can hear voices that are perceived as distinct from the person’s own thoughts. According to DSM IV, certain types of auditory hallucinations (i.e., two or more voices conversing with one another or voices maintaining a running commentary on the person’s thoughts or behavior) have been considered to be particularly characteristic of Schizophrenia. If these types of hallucinations are present, then only this single symptom is needed to satisfy Criterion A.”

Schizophrenia does not account for all those who are said to be possessed. It however explains the severest forms of such cases.  In the severest cases of schizophrenia visual hallucination is also present. The patient can see the entity that torments him.

Interestingly, there are a few hadiths that are clear examples of Muhammad’s visual hallucination.

Bukhari (7: 71: 660) reports a hadith from Aisha who narrated,

Magic was worked on Allah’s Apostle so that he used to think that he had sexual relations with his wives while he actually had not (Sufyan said: That is the hardest kind of magic as it has such an effect). Then one day he said, “O ‘Aisha do you know that Allah has instructed me concerning the matter I asked Him about? Two men came to me and one of them sat near my head and the other sat near my feet. The one near my head asked the other. What is wrong with this man?’ The latter replied he is under the effect of magic The first one asked, Who has worked magic on him?’ The other replied Labid bin Al-A’sam, a man from Bani Zuraiq who was an ally of the Jews and was a hypocrite.’ The first one asked, What material did he use?’ The other replied, ‘A comb and the hair stuck to it.’ The first one asked, ‘Where (is that)?’ The other replied. ‘In a skin of pollen of a male date palm tree kept under a stone in the well of Dharwan’

Based on DSM IV, this hadith alone is enough to diagnose Muhammad with schizophrenia or as he himself had originally thought, with demon possession.

Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a disease traditionally linked to spirit and demon possessions. It  is a neurological disorder (brain illness) characterized by seizures.  The causes of such seizures include brain trauma, strokes, brain cancer, and drug and alcohol misuse among others.

Temporal lobe seizures produce complex visual hallucinations of people, scenes, animals, as well as distortions of visual perception.

The horror movie Exorcism of Emily Rose was based on the real story of Anneliese Michel. At the age of 17 Anneliese started having seizures. Her body would tighten and shake and she also heard voices and had visual hallucinations. When she was taken to hospital a neurologist diagnosed her with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. However, an older woman convinced Anneliese’s parents that she was demons possessed.  They called a priest who performed exorcism on her for eight months, during which the young girl’s health deteriorated. To get rid of her “demon” Anneliese did not eat or drink for several days. She eventually died of starvation and dehydration.

TLE has no cure but it can be controlled with medication and the patient can live a relatively normal life without seizures.

Tourette syndrome

Tourette syndrome is a tic disorder, characterized by multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic.  TS is an urge to exclaim obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks (coprolalia). Tourette is often associated with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD).

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative Identity Disorder DID, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder is defined by DSM IV as the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of behavior.  Each personality state may be experienced as if it has a distinct personal history, self-image and identity, including a separate name. Usually there is a primary identity that carries the individual’s given name and is passive, dependent, guilty and depressed. The alternate identities frequently have different names and characteristics that contrast with the primary identity (e.g., are hostile, controlling and self-destructive). Particular identities may emerge in specific circumstances and may differ in reported age and gender, vocabulary, general knowledge, or predominant affect.

Factitious Disorder

A factitious disorder is fabricating or exaggerating the symptoms of mental or physical disorder.  Factitious Disorder differs from Malingering in that the motivation in the symptom production in Malingering is external, such as avoiding school, whereas there are no external incentives in producing and exaggerating sickness in Factitious Disorder. A person with Factitious Disorder may believe to be sick and act that way for a variety of benefits including attention, nurturance and sympathy.  I heard of a woman who was bedridden for decades while her aging mother took care of her. When her mother died and there was no one to take care of her she got out of the bed and resumed a normal life.

The above is a short list of some mental disorders and illnesses that ignorant people misinterpret as spirit possession.

In this video we see a woman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, for being sexually molested by her babysitter, some 50 years ago. She has recurring thoughts of death and suicide. She can be helped by a mental health provider who is familiar with Eye Movement Desensitization and Processing – a simple technique that would take between four to six sessions.

Exorcism does not relieve people from their psychological trauma. At best it gives them false hope.  Larson is performing hypnosis on his subjects. Hypnosis works if done properly by a trained procreational.  Larson is a con artist, a charlatan who is after money and name. He has not qualifications to perform hypnosis.  The feeling of relief in his subjects is a placebo effect and short lived.  People suffering from mental disorders need to  visit a trained psychologist or a psychiatrist not a demagogue quack.

Dear Mr. Ali Sina

I am Ex-muslim Libyan young, and I would like to thank you to your great efforts to fight and expose Islam, and planting the seeds of doubt in the hearts of Muslims about Mohammed son of slut. The Islam must be eliminated by all means, why? Because it is a danger to U.S., Israeli, western culture and all humanity. My colleagues and I, for example, our attention related to exposing Muslim woman who allege chastity, and make her a slut for western and Jewish man, and publish on the internet, and this is what we do every week.
Please accept me as a follower and a soldier to you in Libya.

With Best Regards

Name: Imad
Origin: Arabic
Country: Libya

Hi Imad,

Great to hear from you. I am glad that there are free thinking people  in Libya and I hope there will be more soon.  If Libya falls into the hand of Islamists it will be disaster for the people.  It is up to people like you to save your country.

All the best

Ali Sina

 Dear Mr. Ali Sina

I am very happy to receive your response, and you should know, Sir, that Libya will not fall into the hands of terrorists, this promise me. My colleagues and I in a race against time in order to break the hearts of Muslims in Libya to leave Islam, by making their wives a sluts in the West with a non-Muslim man, and so will break the resolve of the Muslim men, and know that their wives love Westerners and hated in Islam. We seek to promote the culture of pornography among Muslims to leave their religion, and the women are half of the society, and this means that half of the population will be in a row our leader Mr. Ali Sina.

Well Imad, I did not understand you at first. Now I do.  I cropped the above picture from your site. I am afraid I have to disagree with you. Not only your plan is not going to work it will actually backfire and will make Muslims want to cling to Islam even faster.

In order to get rid of Islam we have to promote a culture that is based on high human values, family values, morality and decency. Most humans are attracted to these noble human values. Islam promises to deliver them and that is its lure.

Of course, like all promises of Islam this too is a lie. Islam promotes pedophilia calling it marriage. It promotes promiscuity in the name of polygamy. It promotes prostitution in the name of muta or temporary marriage.  Islam does not bring any morality. It legitimizes immorality. The reason people want to cling to religion is because they are afraid of losing their moral basis. Any doctrine without morality is doomed. A minority is always attracted to such doctrines, but they often repulse the majority.

Family is the foundation of human society. Conjugal loyalty is the glue that holds the family together. Sexual libertinage destroys the family, without which the society crumbles.

Morality is not a religious construct.  Religions have been the custodians of it and as such we must be grateful to them. However, morality is an evolutionary imperative. It is not ordained by a god. It is a human invention. The reason we invented it is because it is a necessity for our survival. It is what keeps the family and consequently the society together.

We are very different from other mammals and primates.  Human children have psychological needs that are not significant for the survival of other mammals and primates. We are a lot more complex creatures than gorillas and chimpanzees – our closest cousins. A human child needs two parents, a mother and a father, for at least 18 years. He also needs siblings. This means that human couples must remain committed to each other for at least 25, 30 years until all their children grow and leave home.  That is why we have monogamy. That is why we have invented human morality. It is to protect our future generation. Children are the reason behind human morality.

So my friend, if you think the solution to get rid of Islam is pornography and prostitution of Muslim housewives, I am afraid you cannot be more mistaken.  You will pave the road for the Islamization of your country like no one can. No rabid mullah can be more effective in making Islam succeed than you.

If this is the path you have chosen, please do not mire my name. I don’t subscribe to your plan and don’t agree with your strategy. You trade with sex. You are a pimp, not a freedom fighter.

Many people blame me for not criticizing all religions. The reason I don’t is because I don’t want to throw out the baby with the bath water. Religions offer something atheism does not and that is morality.  It is not that morality and atheism are mutually exclusive, but there is no specific injunction in atheism that encourages morality.  We can reason that morality is better than immorality but such intellectual discussion is not for the consumption of the masses. The masses need specific guidelines. Atheism does not have them. That is why I believe that masses are better off with a religion that promotes morality than with atheism.

I can’t tell you what to do with your life.  I am fighting for a world where everyone is free to do as their conscience dictates as long as they don’t violate the freedom of others.  Of course freedom, like anything else has a side effect. There wouldn’t be any plane crashes if there were no air travels. Cell phones can cause brain tumor. But no one suggest we get rid of airplanes and cell phones.  What you do is the side effect of what I strive to achieve.  Pornography is the side effect of freedom.  We don’t get rid of freedom just because some people abuse it.

Please do not consider me your ally. I regard your profession a vice – something that leads to the destruction of family and the society, and considering that you operate from an Islamic country, I see you as an obstacle in my way to set Muslims free. My goal is to wean Muslims from Islam and this cannot be done unless we offer them an alternative that is better while it satisfies their basic needs for morality.

I pray that you realize the damage that you are causing to not just my cause and to your country, but also to countless lives and innocent children. By commercializing Libyan housewives as sex object you destroy families. You destroy future generations –something that is morally reprehensible and unforgivable.

I don’t know about your background, your upbringing and your psychology. Perhaps you belong to that category of people who don’t mind to share their wife with other men. Maybe you come from a broken family and possibly your mother was a whore.  You could be a sociopath with no conscience. If any of these is true, I don’t blame you for the path you have chosen. You are a victim of your circumstances and don’t know better. However, what you do harms people. You are a negative influence in the society.

Please do not call yourself my ally.  My allies are Christians, Hindus, and peoples of other faiths that know morality is the foundation of the society and strive for the spiritual betterment of the individual and the world. People in pornographic industry and sex trade are not my allies.

 My younger brother suddenly surprised us by declaring that he has already converted to Islam in order to marry his Malay girlfriend. His future in-laws organized his wedding on this Apr 20. My mother almost fainted.

Please help advise them the danger of Islam.

Eric

Dear Eric,

Your brother is committing a huge mistake and he will live to regret it.  Irrespective of whether Islam is right or wrong anyone who forces you to change your religion does not have much respect for you and without respect love is meaningless. Marriage must be based on love and not on blackmail.  This marriage is doomed.  Unfortunately, love blinds and reason becomes the casualty.

A conditional love is not love.  This Muslim woman does not love your brother.  Someone in love would never force the person she loves to recant his religion in order to please her. By virtue of following a narcissist Muslims are incapable of loving anyone in the true meaning of the word.

The main thing that distinguishes humans from animals is empathy. Empathy is the ability to feel the pain of others. It literally means being in suffering with someone else. All animals can create a loving bond with other animals of their kind or different species through interaction and familiarity. That is not empathy. Empathy is when one cares about strangers. Vegans refuse to consume meat and animal products because they do not want to cause pain to animals. This is one sign of empathy.

To determine wither you have empathy take a look at the following picture. What do you feel?  Does it look funny or sad? If you think it is funny or feel indifferent you lack empathy. If you are disturbed by it and feel sorry for this helpless animal you have empathy.

Muslims love their own children and those close to them.  They are however, unable to feel the suffering of those outside their pack. Empathy is absent in animals. sociopaths and in Muslims.  Other ideologies of hate, such as Nazis, communism, fascism and KKK also discourage empathy. The history of Islam is full of tales of Muslims raiding and butchering innocent people and a few moments later standing for prayer. Not only they did not feel guilt for their atrocities they praised their god for giving them the chance to inflict pain on others.  Islam dehumanizes people and destroys their empathy.

The same lack of empathy exists in Muslims today.  If a Muslim kills a Jews, the majority of Muslims rejoice.  Exceptions are few.  However, if in any conflict a Muslim is hurt all Muslims want revenge.  The majority of Palestinians want the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jews.  Muslims all over the world are supportive of them and their cause.  Wherever there is a conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims, whether it is Israel, Kashmir, Chechnya or in any part of the world, Muslims take the side of Muslims. The question about who is at fault is never raised. Such question is irrelevant. Muslims take the side of Muslims, without hesitation.

This pack mentality is common among animals. What makes humans different, and I would say superior from the evolutionary point of view, is our ability to empathize with those who don’t belong to our pack, our race, our religion, or our species.  Spiritually evolved humans take the side of the wronged one and the oppressed, irrespective of religion or race.  This human quality is not nurtured in Islam. It is discouraged. Muhammad said, the polytheists are unclean (Q. 9:27), and fight those who don’t believe in Allah and the Last Day (9:28).  He urged his followers not to associate with their fathers and brothers if they don’t convert to Islam (9:23) and warned them against taking Jews and Christians as friends. He said whoever takes them as friend is one of them, meaning a kafir (5:51), which means he should be killed (9:5) and treated harshly (9:73).

All these fit Muhammad’s narcissistic character. By following their prophet Muslims have become like him and collectively show signs of narcissism.  I invite everyone to read the sixth edition of my book Understanding Muhammad (it is available in Kindle format from Amazon.com) as well as in hard copy. In this book I have shown that Muhammad suffered from a malignant form of narcissistic personality disorder and how his followers, by virtue of thinking like him and emulating him have become narcissist.  Islam is folly en masse.

As narcissists, Muslims are incapable of true love.  If this woman loved your brother she would have respected his independence and choice of belief and would not have forced him to convert to please her or her parents. It is clear that your brother is not her priority. Her parents, relatives, friends and her community are more important in her estimation than the man she is planning to marry.  This is a bad foundation for marriage.  The chance of such marriages failing is extremely high.

I am afraid, there is a lot of heartache and calamity in store for your brother that he is neither aware of nor prepared for.  We lie in the bed we make. Some people learn from the mistakes of others and others learn it from their own.

There is another important factor that will result in the failure of this marriage that has nothing to do with Islam.   Women are attracted to manly men.  Some of the attributes of a manly man are leadership, strength and integrity.  A man who changes his religion to appease his woman sends a clear message that he is weak, needy and insecure – not a leader but a follower – one who has no integrity and will step over his own convictions to gain acceptance from others.  In other words he is a wimp, a wuss, which women find extremely unattractive.

A man who is not manly cannot get respect from any woman. This is ingrained in women’s psychology. Women find strong men attractive and are repulsed by weak men. Although on the surface your brother’s girlfriend may express her joy for his conversion, deep down inside, at a sub conscious level, she is disappointed.  She sees that your brother lacks strength. He is not someone that can be leaned on and trusted. A man who betrays his conviction to gain acceptance from a woman is hardly a dependable man that any woman can find attractive.

The subconscious mind is much stronger than the conscious mind.  It is often compared to the hidden portion of an iceberg.  You can only see the tip of the iceberg. Its massive size is under water, hidden from the view.  Likewise, the largest portion of our consciousness is our subconscious. Our conscious mind is the product of our upbringing, education and culture. It is a superstructure, like a façade that covers the subconscious mind. The sub-conscious mind, which is the foundation of our consciousness and its skeleton, is formed by millions of years of evolution.  It is an evolutionary imperative that women are attracted to strong men.

The subconcious mind is the dominant part of human consciousness.

Sadly, your brother has failed his test of manhood.  He has demonstrated to be weak and has devalued himself irreparably in the eyes of his future wife.  This forebodes disaster. She has no control over her feelings.  Just as a man who does not find a woman attractive, can’t be talked into it, a woman who loses respect for a man because he is a wuss, cannot change her views about him.  Your brother has diminished his value in the sight of this woman without redemption.  The first cracks in their marriage will start to show when the honeymoon is over, and from there things will go from bad to worse.  She can’t respect him and that is something she has no control over.

Children born to this couple will pick up the negative vibes that their mother sends and they too will not be able to respect their father.  An emasculated father figure is a bad role model for his children. The psychological effects of such a dysfunctional family will spread to the future generations and many lives can be affected as the result. This is more than what your brother has bargained for.

You have done your duty to help your brother. You contacted me and sought my counsel. I also have fulfilled my responsibility by writing this article and informing him about his mistake.  Ultimately, each person is responsible for his own actions. Countless people commit the same mistake, marry a Muslim and their lives is destroyed. Your brother’s life is no more precious than theirs.  He is an adult. He has the right to err and pay for his errors.  Wish him well and leave him alone.  You are not your brother’s keeper and cannot care about him more that he cares about himself. As Persians say, if you are the bowl, don’t be hotter than the soup.

SIR,

What are your views on the Kashmir issue? We have had numerous wars, spent extremely valuable resources, and we’ve got nothing in return. Because of it being Muslim-majority state, there is so much of extremism and insanity. We lose soldiers every day. Just yesterday 5 CRPF Jawans were killed. Its citizens are also not loyal to the country. When a Pakistani militant beheaded a Jawan from the Indian Army (his head is still missing) they were no protests from Kashmiris. Pakistan also has a part of Kashmir. But when a terrorist named Afzal guru (who attacked the Indian Parliament) was hanged, these people took to the streets and attacked the police and threw stones at them. Kashmir is also provided with some special privileges that no other state enjoys. In a poor country as ours, how practical is it to be spend so much for some citizens whose minds are so corrupted and distorted that freedom and liberty are an alien concept to them? Kashmiri youth engage in jihad against the country actively.

I understand if India gives away Kashmir, the other states with high concentration of Muslims will also make similar demands. But why on earth should we do anything for a people who want separation and are disloyal to the nation?  What can be done of these people? How long should our soldiers keep dying for these bastards who don’t recognize freedom that we have given them? Shouldn’t we just hand them over to the Taliban and let them live the Islamic life that they so covert to live?

How can we counter this issue? The Jawans who die are usually the sole-earning members of their families who live in extremely pathetic conditions in rural India. When these youths are killed their family is destroyed.  Besides, India has too many poors.  We have a whopping 68% of our people living below 2 US $ a day. How does it make sense to spend so much on these people who do not identify themselves as Indians but rather as our enemies? Besides, they commit atrocities on Hindus in the Valley. About 400 Pandits were murdered and 400,000 forced to leave. Why should we be sustaining all this bullshit?

Sir, kindly post this as an answer on your website

Krish

Dear Krish,

This is not an easy question to answer. So please bear with me as I am going to use an analogy in the hope to make myself clear.

If you have a headache, sometimes all you need is an aspirin pill and you’ll feel fine again. But if you have a major health problem such as cancer, a pill will not do the trick. The cure is neither cheap nor guaranteed. Cancer changes the the cells is a way that they turn against the body. Good healthy cells, once become cancerous, start working against the body.  They infect other cells and grow until the individual can no longer live.

Think of Islam as a cancer in the body of humanity and of every Muslim as a cancerous cell. Muslims cannot be loyal to any country that does not practice the Sharia law or they would be going against their own faith. Like cancerous cells they work against their country. And like the cancerous cells that spread by infecting the neighboring cells, every Muslim proselytizes and tries to convert others.

The countries of the world suffer in direct proportion to the percentage of Muslims in their population. Where Muslims are more there are more problems. Where they are the majority, life is hell, for everyone,  including for Muslims themselves.  Look at Islamic countries. You can’t say they are healthy. All of them suffer from all sorts of social ills, such as dictatorship, corruption, lawlessness, violations of human rights, abuse of women, discrimination against minorities, lack of individual freedom, lack of productivity, poverty, terrorism, and a myriad other ills.  They are all dying societies.  If left to themselves, they will annihilate each other.

So what shell we do? There are no easy answers.  But cancer is curable and so is the Islamic problem. To cure cancer first we have to understand what causes it. Cancerous cells grow when the body is not enough oxygenated. Cancer is caused by an anaerobic fungus. There are two forms of lives, aerobic and anaerobic. The cells that make us humans and other animals are aerobic. They need oxygen to survive.   Anaerobic organisms are very primitive form of life and they don’t need oxygen for their survival. They may even die when exposed to oxygen. Many varieties of fungi are anaerobic. They grow in damp places where there is little flow of fresh air. When a person’s body is not oxygenated properly, it becomes a fertile ground for the growth of a special microscopic fungus that causes cancer. The cells react to this fungus and mutate. The tissue then is deformed and becomes cancerous.

The cure for cancer, suggested by orthodox medicine is expensive and debilitating. The patient goes through chemotherapy, radiology, bone marrow transplant, surgery and sometimes amputation and the rate of recovery is also very low.

The problem is that even when these methods cure the cancer in one place, it may recur in another part of the body in a few years.  The reason is that these protocols do not address the underlying problem that causes the cancer. The focus of the orthodox medicine is on removing the symptoms. As the result the cancer will recur.

To make the body resistant to cancer it has to be oxygenated. This can be done in a variety of ways. Eating raw, fresh and preferably organic fruits and vegetables makes the body more alkaline. Alkalinized bodies are more oxygenated. Meat, dairy and all sorts of animal products, and wheat make the body acidic and less oxygenated.  (Those interested can see this chart about alkaline and acidic foods)

There are several remedies that cure cancer, such as oxygen peroxide, cesium chloride, bicarbonate, and many other cheap natural remedies, that are often found in any household. These remedies make the body alkalized, rather than acidic.  When the body is slightly more alkalized, anaerobic organisms can’t grow in it. Hence, the cancer causing fungi and the cancerous cells die and the cancer is cured, sometimes in matters of weeks.

The orthodox medicine does not recognize this therapy. Pharmaceutical companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to test new drugs. Then they recover 100 fold when the drugs seem to work partially. Trillions of dollars are made through drugs. Cancer is a lucrative business. Patients often spend their life savings on medicines.  Considering that four out of every ten people may develop cancer sometimes in their life, you can imagine the money that the drug companies maker from this disease.  But how can they recover their investment when they prove that cancer can be cured with some cheap, not patentable household products?  So there is no interest in testing these products. In fact they stand to lose hugely.  These alternative cancer remedies work, because people get cured and the logic behind them is simple and sound. You oxygenate your body and the cancer cells die. Of course the best remedy is prevention. So eating more alkaline foods and less acidic foods is the best way. Exercise also increased the oxygen in your body. Remember that processed foods, like canned foods become acidic even if they were alkaline in their raw state.

How this analogy applies to your question?  If Islam is the cancer and Muslims are the cancerous cells, the cancer casing fungi represent the lies that are told to promote Islam and oxygen represents the truth.  Where truth is suppresses and freedom of speech is curtailed, lies can spread fast.  I was in UK last month and I saw buses carrying big ads saying Muhammad the Prophet of Mercy. But in UK you can go to jail if you say this is not so. How can a mass murderer be called the prophet of mercy? In UK, lies are allowed and truth is suppressed.  It’s the same in most countries where criticism of Islam is banned and punishable by law.  Austria, Netherlands and several other European counties have the same anti truth policies, only when it comes to Islam.

India is worse. India was the first country to ban the book of Salman Rushdie and the speeches of Taslima Nasrin. Indians are terrified of speaking against Islam. Some Indians tell me they would like to support my sites, but they are afraid of sending donations to my Paypal account. This fear is entirely baseless. However, it shows how they have been intimidated.

What happens when truth is suppressed? Reduced oxygen in the body makes it a fertile ground for the growth of anaerobic fungi which in turn convert healthy cells into cancerous cells. Likewise, suppression of truth gives lies a ground to grow. With lies, good people are deceived and become attracted to Islam and this cancer becomes more widespread.

I hope this analogy makes thing clear. India is besieged by the Islamic cancer.  Sooner or later Kashmir has to be amputated because it is no longer viable to hold onto it. The secession of Kashmir will embolden Muslims all over the world, and not just those of India. There will be a renewed wave of terrorism worldwide.  Any victory for Islam, anywhere, boosts the morale of all the Muslims who will then join the jihad to hasten Islam’s world domination.

So what shall be done? Just as we have to oxygenate our body to prevent the growth of cancerous cells. We have to spread the truth to prevent people falling into the trap of Islam.  Truth will not only inoculate non-Muslims against Islam it also helps Muslims to recover and become loyal citizens again. Millions of Muslims have left Islam in recent years thanks to the spread of truth through the Internet.

The cure for cancer is simple and so is the cure for Islam. But the truth about both is suppressed. Pharmaceutical companies stand to lose their lucrative business if people learn the truth about cancer. The politicians can’t go against them as these companies finance their campaigns and provide huge taxes.  The truth about Islam is also suppressed and the governments are accomplices. Politicians depend on Muslims vote. In India, without the Muslims’ vote most politicians can’t hold to their seat.

We know how to defeat Islam and how to do it fast. Islam is founded on lies. Tell the truth and lies dissipate. Without lies Islam will fall. It is that simple. However, as it turns out telling the truth is not that easy.  People don’t want to hear the truth. They have been brainwashed with political correctness.  Even non-Muslims can be vicious in preventing you from speaking the truth about Islam.  Laws are put in place to suppress any criticism of Islam. You can be charged with spreading hate and even go to jail for telling the truth.  This is the problem, not defeating Islam.

I have dedicated my life to spread the truth about Islam and there are others that do the same. We have collectively raised the veil on Islam for millions. But it is not enough. We need to take this truth to masses. People who read our blogs are those who already know there is something wrong with Islam. Now we have reached a point that we are preaching to the choir.  We need to get our message to the kids in colleges, to the factory workers, to office workers and to soccer moms. We need a medium that can reach the people who otherwise will not heed to us and are not interested in this topic.

I have thought about that for many years and since a couple of years I have been working on it. Now the draft is ready. We need to make an epic movie about Muhammad.  There are already a couple of very good movies on Islam, such as Obsession and Fitnah. But that is not the kind of movie I am talking about.  Those are documentaries that interest only a certain people.  The average people don’t watch documentaries. They want to be entertained. That is the kind of movie I have in mind.

I have condensed the life of Muhammad in five hours.  (can be be shown in parts)  I have picked the most salient episodes of his life. It contains humor, tragedy and love story. It makes you laugh and it makes you cry. It makes you mad and it makes you sad. It plays with your emotions. It has  songs that have to be done masterfully so they can be played in radios, like the songs of Les Miserables, because they are just beautiful. If we make this movie with good cinematography and good acting, I think we will have tens of millions of viewers, not just because of its historic value, not just because of the controversy that will inevitably surround it, but because it is a work of art. I want people to come and see it for its artistic and entertainment value and be informed meanwhile.

This is how to defeat Islam.  We need to tell the truth and tell it so loud that no one can pretend he did not hear it.  A movie like that will create a worldwide debate.  An honest debate about Muhammad will put an end to Islam. He is not portrayed as a devil, but as a human being with the strength and weaknesses that we all share. I want people to empathize with him and more than anything else understand him.

That is the key.  Many people have heard about Muhammad, much of what they have heard are lies. Muslims have read a lot about him, but they don’t understand him. Once he is understood and the veils of mystery that enshroud him are removed, Islam can no longer exist. It will vanish in just a few years.  It is not foolhardy to say Islam can become extinct in our own lifetime.

How many trillions of dollars we spend to fight Islamic terrorism? How many lives are being lost every day, month and year? The solution is not in military or in aids to Muslim countries. The solution is in telling the truth.

The government of India, like governments in most non-Muslim countries with a sizable Muslim population, has adopted appeasement policies towards Muslims. It makes more concessions to Muslims than it makes to other citizens.  The Indian government even subsidizes the hajj of Muslims when no Islamic country does that. This costs the Hindu tax payers more than $150 million dollars annually.  That money can feed half a million poor children, clothe them and educate them. Muslims see this as weakness and increase their demands.  It is clear to anyone that Indian government is afraid of its Muslim population.  Pouring more money to Islamic provinces will only make the cancer of Islam grow faster.

I have not found enough financing to produce the movie yet. I am not giving up. I know this is the solution. I know there are no other solutions. Telling the truth to the world is our only option and nothing can tell it better than a well written and well-made movie.

If you know of someone who can help, tell them about it. The project will also produce money for the investors. It could be one of their best investments.  Considering the subject matter, it is possible that it could become one of the most seen movies ever made.  This is a golden opportunity that should not be missed.

I’m sorry to be bothering you but I have been reading your stuff online. God I feel horrible for going behind my husband’s back but I can’t live like this anymore. What you wrote make sense to me but i can’t figure out how to make him see it.

Let me start from the beginning. I am a Christian woman. 24yrs old. I didn’t listen to my family or friends and I married a Muslim man. I had him promise to go to church with me, to let me take the kids to church–and he promised it all before we married. We live in the US. But then after we got married he said he lied. We fight all the time. I cry now all the time and it is not me. I used to laugh and be happy and get in trouble for it but now I cry so much that my health is failing fast. But I still love him to bits.

It gets worse his father is dying and instead of helping his ma find a job and be able to support her other kids, he told me that when his father is going to die he’s going to leave with his mother and go to his Arab country and stay there with her. That I can either come with him or our marriage is over.

His mother is against me and hates me and he wants me to leave everything I love behind, move to his country and live in his mother’s house.

He already told me that I won’t get on well there because I am Christian and they are all Muslims. He never stands up for me. Every time I hear his father is in the hospital I get so scared, my heart starts to hurt and I know that this might be the day when he leave me for his mother because “because the heaven is under the mothers feet.”

I want to save my marriage but i don’t want to give up my happiness and my family. He already told me not to see my best friend of 14yrs again. He never wants to socialize with my side of the family. He told me I will only have what he is willing to give and he isn’t willing to give me anything cause he has to give it to charity. God will love him and bless him. He told me that I’m materialistic cause I want to make a home with him and a future and be stable so i don’t have to worry for any future kids.

Please help me. I really want to save my marriage. And I know you don’t have time but I have to try. So please any help. I will greatly appreciate.

Emma

Dear Emma,

I understand you want to save your marriage. But my dear, you don’t have a marriage.  Why people marry? They marry so they can be happier. You were happier before. You used to laugh and were a carefree girl. Now you cry all the time to the extent that your health is deteriorating fast. And you still say you love this man to bits?

He lied to you. He deceived you. He cheated you. Now that you are married, he ignores you. He does not stand up for you. He abuses you emotionally. He is telling you that you don’t matter to him and that if you don’t obey him and don’t do what he says he will divorce you.  His mother hates you and he still wants you to move to his country and live in her house, under her control.

If you do that your life will be a thousand times worse than what is today.  If he is not beating you now, he will, once you are in his country.  You will have no rights over your children with him. A woman in Islam is nothing more than an embryo incubator. There are no such things a maternal rights as we know them in the civilized world.

In his country you will be in an alien land among a people who hate you simply for who you are. Some women convert to Islam in the hope to appease their husband and his family and be accepted. That is vain hope and delusional thinking.  To Muslims you are an inferior being and not even your conversion will change that. Arabs are very racist.

What is between you and this man, is not love. It is co-dependency. It is sadomasochism. Muslims are all narcissist and narcissists are sadist.  First they throw a lure at you, like a fisherman trying to catch a fish. Once you bite, they will pull the line a bit and release it, but each time the line become shorter and you lose more of your freedom, until you are in his grip., Eventually, you lose all your freedom and your life as you knew it is over.

And I am afraid you are somewhat a masochist. How can you love a man who abuses you to such an extent that puts your health in peril? If you don’t enjoy being tormented and abused why do you stay i this toxic relationship?  Leave him!  You can do it now with ease, but you won’t be able to do it without huge sacrifices later. And I suggest you meet a therapist.  Even if you come out of this unhealthy marriage, you may fall for another abusive man.  That is why I suggest you see a therapist.

I have said this many times. A Muslim man is incapable of loving a woman in the true sense of the word. He does not know the meaning of love. Love is an art that you learn.  Muslim men don’t love their wives (See my previous article).  So their children don’t get to learn this art and if you marry a Muslim man he is incapable of loving you. He will want to possess you, but he can’t love you. His values are very distinct from yours.  Muslims belong to a different species. They are not compatible with us.

The relationship of this man with his mother is also troubling. But this is typical in Middle Eastern families. She controls him and she will control any women he marries.  It’s going to be hard even for a Muslim woman to marry this man let alone for you who are not used to that sick culture.

This man you call husband is emotionally a child. He has not yet cut his umbilical cord from his mother.  His relationship with her is symbiotic.  I am afraid your hope that he may one day leave her, the way an adult young man ought to, and chooses you as his life partner is wishful thinking.  He can’t have a healthy marital relationship with you or with any woman because he is still a child who needs to hide under his mother’s skirt. Even after her death he will want a mother for a wife. This man can never function as a husband and a father.  He is an abused child and a misfit human being. This is an added problem about him, apart from him being a Muslim.

When a man ignores his wife, as is often the case in Islamic marriages, the son may move in to become his mother’s surrogate spouse. He acts as her protector. This kind of unhealthy mother-son relationship is far too common in Muslim households and it is something that battered mothers encourage.  Having virtually no husband to support them emotionally, they form an emotional bond with their sons.  These women will be jealous of their daughter in laws and see them as rivals and competitors for their son’s affection. Any woman marrying such men will have a miserable life.   When you marry a Muslim man, it is very likely you marry a mama’s boy.

You ask me to help you save your marriage. What marriage? You don’t have a marriage. You are in an abusive relationship.  All I can tell you is, open your eyes and get out of it now, not tomorrow or the next hour. Pack and go as soon as you read this email. Go to your parents and ask them to shelter you until you get your legal divorce from this excuse for a husband.  Do you really want this man to be the father of your children and raise them with his twisted values?

There is no point to talk to him and I don’t think any therapist can help him.  First of all he does not think there is anything wrong with him and he will not listen to a therapist. Secondly,  his unhealthy relationship with his mother is only one part of the problem. The main problem is that he is a Muslim and hence lacks conscience. He does not believe in the Golden Rule, the very thing that makes us people human.

Charity!? What charity? He is talking about helping Islamic terrorism. There is no charity in Islam in the sense that you understand it. Charity for Muslims means supporting jihad with money and with their lives. Jihad means two things:  taqiyah (lying) and terrorism. You have already become a victim of his lies. He deceived you to marry him and now he is abusing you to convert to Islam.  This is for him his jihad. Your children will be Muslims. This is how Islam has advanced “peacefully” where sword was not used.

You are still young. From your email I gather you don’t have a child. Rejoice! It means your child will not be suffering from your mistake. You can undo your mistake and put this ordeal behind you.  Even if you had children, my advice to you is the same. This man is not a good marriage package and he will never be one.  He cannot be a good husband or a good father. He is not a mature person. He will only destroy your life and will bring you no happiness. Your marriage with him will not last. So end it now that you don’t have a child yet.

He does not love you and you don’t love him. He wants to possess you, and what you feel for him is not love. You are enslaved by him. Love will make you happy and free. If you loved him you would not have written to me asking for help.  Have you heard of Stockholm syndrome?  Please check it out and read about it. That is what you have.

Read the stories of other women in this blog. It is all the same.  The details vary but the theme is the same in all of them. They meet a prince charming who turns into a frog. They marry a Dr. Jekyll who transforms into Mr. Hyde. We have to make the world know that Muslims are not like us or more innocent people will suffer. They don’t have the same human heart as we have. They don’t have the same conscience that we have.  They are all narcissists. We are dealing with 1.5 billion psychopaths.  They are sick to the extent that they emulate their prophet.  Do not trust them. Do not be fooled by Muslims even if they appear to be kind and loving. Yes there are good people among them but why take the risk? You never know when they will decide to turn to their god and transform from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde.

You live only once my dear  and you deserve to be happy. Don’t chose the life of living death. Why should you when you can throw this excuse of a husband out of your life and find happiness with someone that is mature enough and is able to love a woman like a man should?

Twenty Four is too young for marriage. You have another 10 to 15 years to find a good man. Even after that the doors are not closed.

Be well

Ali Sina

I wrote the following in response to Shaida, a new commenter in this blog. But then I decided to publish it as an article. I had fun writing it and I hope you’ll have fun reading it.

Shaida, replied to Sara, a women from Australia who asked “How can I divorce my Muslim husband?” Sara complained that after 14 years of marriage with an abusive Shiia man, she finds it difficult to get a divorce from him. She wrote, “All the sheiks here won’t give me one [divorce] because it has to come from my husband, and what he says goes.”

Sara has three kids and gets no support from her husband, but he wants to make her life a hell. He has vowed to never divorce her just to ruin her life and prevent her from finding love and happiness with another man.

Shaida wrote to console Sara. It is amazing to see how Muslims are so ignorant of their religion.  Here are a few samples of what she wrote and my replies to her.

This man was just playing with your heart a true Muslim man will love and respect his wife

This is not true.  A true Muslim man is required to beat his wife if he fears she may disobey him. A true Muslim man cannot love his wife because he is always looking out to find a second and a third and a fourth wife. Marital love is exclusive.  How can a Muslim man love multiple wives? A true Muslim man does not even understand the meaning of conjugal love.

In Islam women are regarded and treated like animal. You don’t have to believe me. Just read what the greatest Islamic luminaries of all times,  al Ghazzali and Rumi said about women.  A true Muslim man cannot respect a woman when in his view she is nothing but an animal, deficient in intelligence and in faith. These pejorative adjectives are not mine. They are stated by none other than Muhammad himself.

Shaida wrote,

also in terms of divorce a Muslim woman can divorce her husband if she is able to prove that he did not fulfill his duties as a husband towards her.

A Muslim woman needs to prove her husband has failed his duties, and she needs an approval from a religious judge to divorce her husband. Then again, as Sara has found out, whatever he says goes.  But a Muslim man can simply utter divorce and he is divorced. It’s that simple! He does not have to explain it to anyone. He does not even have to explain why he beats his wife. The Prophet said: A man will not be asked as to why he beats his wife. [Dawud, 11:2142]

 The guidelines are there to protect the dignity of women.

What guidance? Can any Muslim tell us what guidelines are there in Islam to protect the dignity of women? What dignity is left of her when she is beaten like an animal?  Even beating animals is forbidden by law in many civilized countries. And here the Quran, the ultimate book of guidance to mankind, which claims to be valid until the Day of Resurrection, allows men to beat their wives.  What dignity are we talking about?

The blinded Shaida continued,

As a woman i feel your pain to be in a loveless marriage to a man who used your ignorance of Islam to justify his own agenda.

The man used his knowledge of Islam to justify his agenda. Islam allows the man to abuse his wife.  What rights does a woman have in Islam that Sara has been deprived of and the mullahs have not told her? She has no rights. Her abusive husband is within his rights not to grant her the divorce and he is not doing anything that is not sanctioned by the sharia law.  Living in Australia, he fears beating her. Muslim women in Islamic countries get beaten and bruised and they have nowhere to turn except endure or commit suicide.

Shaida then encouraged Sara to “empower herself with the knowledge of Islam and the rights of women” [in Islam].   I can’t agree more. I encourage all Muslim women to get the facts and see for themselves how they have been denied their basic human rights. If women know the truth they will not remain Muslim nor will they marry a Muslim man.

Shaida continued,

I admit it is not as easy for a Muslim woman to divorce a man.

Finally a word of truth from a Muslim!  Yes it is not easy for a Muslim woman to divorce her husband. And this does not raise a red flag for you? Doesn’t it occur to you that some injustice is being done to women?  But it is way too easy for a man to divorce his wife.

I advice that you gain knowledge of the rights of women in islam my sister.

Well she came here to get that knowledge. What about you? Do you have any knowledge about how women are denigrated and abused in Islamic law? I doubt you do or you would not use the word “empowerment” as a Muslim woman. The laws of Islam do not empower women. They belittle them, cheapen them and dehumanize them.

Please do not listen to these idiotic people who are totally ignorant of the beauty of Islam.

“Beauty of Islam?” What beauty? Is wife beating beautiful in your opinion? Is marriage to children beautiful? How about female genital mutilation, honor killing, stoning, hand chopping, eye gauging, beheading? Are these beautiful? Is polygamy beautiful? Is wanton divorcing of one’s wife beautiful? Is raiding non-Muslims, killing the men and enslaving and raping their women beautiful? Is imposing jizyah tax on non-Muslims beautiful? Is silencing any voice of dissent and killing anyone who criticizes Islam beautiful? Tell us what is beautiful in Islam?

The Christian law is not that great neither as if you want to divorce your partner you have to prove you have separated and spend years in court which is expensive and soul destroying.

Yes divorcing through courts is expensive and takes a long time. Do it the Islamic way. If you are a man just say divorce and it’d done. Can’t be simpler than that! But be careful not to repeat it three times because if you say divorce trice your wife becomes haram to you until she marries another man and sleeps with him. Only then, after he has fully ravished her and if he does not decide to keep her, he can divorce her and you can remarry the mother of your children. How great!  If she is really a hot woman, good luck because the man may just keep her.  You can then  F yourself a million times for opening your mouth in rage and uttering the D word three times.

Some mullahs are very kind. They can help you for a fee. If you pay them they will marry your wife temporarily and have sex with her for a few weeks and because they are men of God they will divorce her so you can remarry her. How nice of them! What a divine wisdom!. How could an illiterate Arab devise such an amazing law on his own? .

If you are a woman, be patient dear sister.  The life in this world is transient. It’s just a test.  Pray so inshaallah it will end for you soon and you will be set free. The real life begins after you die. Maybe Allah will reward you. In this world there is not much recourse for you. But cheer up, because in the next world you will get 72 well-endowed hunks. They will gang bang you and “enter” you like a tilt, from wherever you like, just as the Quran 2:223 says.

What? N o 72 hunks  for Muslim women? Okay I get it.  In Islam women are worth half of the men.  They inherit half of their brothers, their testimony is worth half of  a male witness. Also their value as human being is half.  In Saudi Arabia, where the Sharia is the law, if you kill a man by accident you pay 100,000 Riyals as qisas, but if you kill a woman by accident, you pay half of that.  So I assume that their reward in paradise must be also half.  Men get 72 virgins and  women 36 lovers. I think most women will be happy with 36 lovers.  No! They don’t get 36?  What about seven? Not even seven? How many will she get? Can we settle for just one loving male companion who does not beat them? No? Not even one? Muhammad said the majority of women will go to hell because they are ungrateful to their husband [Bukhari, 1: 6: 301]. But I am talking about the few obedient ones who were grateful to their husband for beating them. What do they get?

Women ungrateful to their husband will be punished in hell for eternity.

Nothing!? Only their present lousy husband!? You mean obedient wives who go to paradise will end up with the same man with whom they were married, only this time to share him with six dozens of voluptuous hurs?  Is that the reward for being obedient?  It seems women in Islam are screwed in this world and screwed in the next. No pun intended!  No wonder Muslims feel so disappointed when they have daughters. Wouldn’t you?

What about those women who never married and died virgin? What do they get? They did not have a husband to disobey and screw up their chance of going to paradise.  Nothing!? Oh dear!  The only fun in Allah’s Paradise is sex and they are not going to get any action, while watching men having manage a soixante trios with 72 gorgeous perpetual virgins. There are no libraries, no theaters, no concerts, no museums or art galleries in Allah’s paradise. There is no mention of the Internet either. Are there any shopping malls?    How does one kill one’s boredom? Apart from having sex I mean?  Allah’s paradise seems to be a large brothel. The only pleasure he and his messenger knew about concerns the stomach and the genital. You get plenty of debauchery and a lot of sex. Allah knows that Muslims have no brain. So anything that has to do with mental stimulation is excluded from his Paradise. But you can eat and screw as much as you want – kind of living like a pig. This makes me wonder why Muslims so hate pigs when their highest aspiration is  to live like them eternally.

This picture shows only one third of the virgins every suicide bomber martyr gets.

It is not fair that woman get no action. Don’t worry dear sis.  Your husband may get 72 virgins, but you will have a filed of of all sorts of vegetables.  No one can beat the veggies of paradise.

Good luck if he has time for you. With all those high bosom, black eyed, fair skin, forever young virgins, I doubt that after the first 100 years he will remember your name. Who can blame him?   How about becoming lesbian?  After all it is Paradise and as Muhammad described it, it seems that all the vices are permitted. Doesn’t Allah promise men “boys of everlasting youth, whom, when thou seest, thou wouldst take for scattered pearls?” (Q. 76:19). Obviously there must be some Muslim men who salivate over this verse, or why would Allah promise that as a reward? I think it is disgusting, but what do I know? I am not a Muslim and excluded from their paradise.

P.S. If any Muslim thinks this article is vulgar, they should read their Quran. All this filth comes from your own book. I only illustrated it so you can digest it better and haply become ashamed of what you hold sacred and love so much.  Islam is not from God. It is the fantasy of a very sick man. There must be some limit to stupidity. Or is there?

Hi guys,

I am a former Muslim convert married to a Muslim man. He has no idea I do not believe in Islam any more. And I have no idea how to tell him… He is so happy and excited about his religion… Every little staff proved by modern science that had been mentioned in Islam, is a miracle for him. Do you imagine?

Yesterday he read an article that some parasites of pubic hairs are nearly extinct thanks to depilation. Then he made me a lecture, that in Islam it is obligatory to get rid off female pubic hairs bcs they have their periods and it is dirty and very dangerous for health, and favours the parasites and now the science proved it… Then he kept on saying “la illaha il la laa” and “allahu akbar” I am really sick of it, it is so stupid. Allahu akbar for depilation of pubic hairs.

I am sure he is a good guy deep-down, but he has few really disgusting habits. As I started to read the Quran really carefully and critically, I see where they come from. If I do not agree with him, he accuses me that I am stupid, or unbeliever, or that it is impossible to explain me anything bcs I will not understand… I hate it. What is more, in 3/4 of cases it showed out that I was right and he never apologized.

I left Islam, after I decided to break my husband’s conviction and I read criticism of Islam in secret. I found Sina’s site and I was shocked. Every unanswered question I had about Islam was answered on this site. I verified ahadith and quranic verses published, they were real. I could not believe how I let fool myself.

But I really do not know what to do about my husband. I love him; I would like him to wake up. If I question anything about Islam, he gets furious and tells me: you do not believe in god? You do not believe in his prophet? Why that stupid question? Also, he will never read your site, I am sure. If I point out some issue (cutting off right hand and left foot by terrorists in Mali is according to Islam), he tells they are Khawarij and stops the discussion. He does not read the Quran as I do (from the start to the beginning), in fact most of verses he has never read. I read it often in front of him so that he should join me and see it’s stupid. Sometimes he read one verse, then he is blubbering “la illaha illa laa”. He stokes me (?) because he likes me reading Quran and turns on his TV.

Please help me. I am scared to tell him directly, because the day I converted, he told me that there is no way back. That it is forever and I can never change my mind ever. I feel I have to make him believe it is his idea.. his doubts… his questions…  What should I do?

PS: Please do not use my name from my email address. It is a nickname, but I am writing articles against islam on one blog in that name. I do not want them to be connected. Sign it “Lucy”.

Dear Lucy,

You did not say whether you have children with this man or not. That changes everything. Also you did not say whether you live in his Islamic country or in your country. That too affects your options.

If you live in a non-Muslim country and have no children, you are in the position of power. You can tell him you have a serious matter to discuss with him and set a time when both of you are free and the TV is not on.  Then tell him the truth. Tell him you have read the Quran and the articles on alisina.org and have come to the conclusion that Islam is a lie.  You don’t have to tell him that you don’t believe in God because the belief in God has nothing to do with Islam. In fact one cannot believe in God and be a Muslim at the same time. The god Muslims worship is the incarnation of everything is said about Devil. He is not the God worshipped by other religions – the God of love, the God of mercy, the God of reason, the of forgiveness and of compassion. The Quran claims its god is merciful and compassionate. But when we read that book and examine the actions of Muhammad, we can see that claim is false.

Every criminal has a high opinion of himself. Most criminals, if not all of them, are narcissist. A narcissist truly believes he is the best of humanity even if his actions are despicable. He projects his own vices on others while idealizes his own attributes. Muhammad was a narcissist and by extension all his followers are also narcissist. They hold the same narcissistic view of their prophet that he held of himself, and incidentally, they hold the same narcissistic views about themselves too. They believe that Muhammad was the best of creation and that they are the best of people. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Muhammad was the worst man ever walked on Earth and Muslims (the true ones – the ones who follow Muhammad to the letter) are the vilest and the most despicable people.  No they are not Khawariji (Gone out of the faith). They are the true Muslims who put into practice the Quran to the letter.  Even the original Khawarijs had not gone out of the faith. They wanted to practice the real Islam.

According to Quran 3:110, Muslims are the best of people.

Al Capone, the legendary Chicago mobster and ruthless murderer, in his trial said, beneath this coat beats a heart full of compassion and love. While serving his jail sentence in Alcatraz, he composed a love song, which according to Rich Larson, one of his present day fans, who helped line up musicians and singers to record it, “is a beautiful song, a tearjerker.”  The gangster who orchestrated the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, in which his henchmen pulled machine guns from violin cases and butchered seven people, incidentally, was also a religious man. The song might be about the Virgin Mary, or perhaps his wife whom he remained loyal to until his death.

There is a saying in English: “Actions speak louder than words.” Muhammad was a mass murderer, a rapist, a pedophile, an assassin, a slave maker and trader, a ruthless thug.  If Al Capone massacred seven mobsters in one day, Muhammad massacred 700 to 900 innocent Jews in one day and he sold their wives and children as slaves.  But he claimed to be the mercy of God to mankind, the best of the creation and the perfect example to follow.  Muslims must be ashamed for following such an evil monster. But they are not.  They don’t want to think or hear any bad thing about their prophet.  They prefer to hide their heads in the sand (or maybe somewhere more handy) than listen to what could awaken them. To say Muslims are stupid is a compliment to them.  Islam is beyond stupidity. It is beyond inanity. This cult is Devil worship.  Only by understanding this inconvenient truth can we understand the evil that is in the heart of Muslims and why they behave in such a despicable way.

Now, let me answer your question.You say you are afraid of your husband and also say you love him. I don’t understand this.  Love and fear are two different things.  You can’t love a person whom you fear and vice-verso.  If you fear this man, you don’t love him. You fear that he may leave you and you don’t know what to do. Your relationship with him is co-dependency, not love. There is no fear in love.

If you live in a non-Muslim country and you have no children with this man, arrange a meeting with him and set a time when both of you are free. Unhook the phone and the TV. Then tell him you love him as a man, but there is a problem that is important to you and you can’t ignore it. Tell him you have no problem believing in God. However, you have a problem with Allah and Muhammad.  Now, he has two options. He can study Islam with you, answer your questions and convince you that it is a true religion, or you want out of the marriage.  Tell him shouting, threatening, intimidating, shaming, insulting, bullying and other uncivilized inane behaviors that is the hallmark of Muslims will not work with you. If Islam cannot be proven logically it is not a religion of God and you don’t want to waste your time following a lie and raise your children in a lie. But if it is a logical religion then he should have no problem discussing it with you and showing its truth.

The numerous claims that Islam is scientific are all bogus claims and self-deceptions. Not a single one of those claims are true. We have debunked every one of them, or at least most of them, because there is not a day that some Muslim somewhere does not claim he has found something in the Quran that science discovered later.  Muslims are desperate to fool themselves. None of them asks why despite all the sciences in the Quran only the kafirs who don’t give a damn about that book and don’t read it make all the discoveries and win all the Nobel prizes and Muslims don’t.

This sounds logical but be prepared for his tantrum. Muslims are not used to logical arguments. Islam has advanced through threats, intimidation and bullying. So he may naturally resort to the good old Islamic tactics. For that you have to be prepared.  It means you have to be ready to walk out of the house and have a place to go. Your luggage should be ready and a car should be standing by.

I understand that you love this man and he might be a wonderful person.  If he loves you the same way that you love him he will come after you and will agree to follow your suggestion. After all it is his duty to show you the truth of Islam and remove your doubts. He just does not know how. He knows how to trick you and how to lie about his religion. He has used that tactic already on you when he convinced you that Islam is a true religion. But now you are wiser and he can’t play that game again. The only other option left for him is to bully you. But if you show him that you are ready to move out of his life, he will have no other choice but to agree to study Islam with you.

If he agrees to that, you have won half of the battle or even more. Then I suggest you get hold of a copy of my book and study it with him and ask him to prove I am wrong.  He can get help from any imam and I would be happy to debate with any scholar he convinces to debate with me and both of you just read the debate.  I want to make it easy for him so he does not need to even read my book.

Now, what if he does not agree to study Islam with you or refuses to find an imam to debate with me and remains adamant that you either submit to him or go your way. Well, why would you need such a man as your husband and father of your children? A man who is so dumb does not deserve to be either.  Walk out of that marriage and start again. If he is a true Muslim he will do what true Muslims do and that includes being abusive to his wife and children and to cheat on you. A Muslim man does not have the same sense of undivided loyalty to his wife that non-Muslims are required to have. Islam allows and even encourages polygamy. He does not feel any remorse or pang of conscience for cheating on you. He considers it to be his right.

I was in UK last week and my brother in law who is a psychiatrist was telling me that one of his patients is a very high class, educated and wealthy Arab lady. She complained to him that although she loves her husband and he is a great man, he cheats on her and this is something that disturbs her. But when my brother in law asked the man about it, he said, but Doctor, this is normal for us Arabs. I am an Arab and she is an Arab. She knows this is our culture. If she wanted a husband completely devout to her she should not have married an Arab.

Of course by Arab he meant Muslim. There are other Arabs who are not Muslim and they are not notorious for being disloyal. A Muslim man does not even think he is cheating. He is following the footsteps of his prophet and it’s all good and dandy.

My advice to all women is to stay away from Muslim men, unless you are a masochist and enjoy being abused and mistreated. Also non-Muslim men should stay away from Muslim women. Just leave Muslims to themselves.  There is something in their thinking and upbringing that will cause you unnecessary hardship. Unless they leave Islam, sincerely, keep your distance from them. Don’t befriend them, don’t date them and don’t fall in love with them. Muslims are damaged goods.

They can lie to you and say they are not practicing Muslims and that they are not religious people. Don’t fall into that trap. They all say that at the beginning. This is part of their taqiyyah game.  Don’t believe in them unless they say they spit at Muhammad and call him a pig. I am sorry to say this but Muslims lie very convincingly and you have to go the extra mile to find out whether they have really left Islam or just are doing their taqiyyah.

I am not saying you should shun Muslims.  One of the biggest influences in my awakening was a couple of elderly Italians who adopted me like their son and showed me kindness and love when I was a young man in Italy. They shattered my prejudices against the westerners. A lot of Muslims can see your kindness and can be affected by it, but a lot of them are so damaged that they take everything from you and then stab you in the back – literally. There is an account of one such case in my book Understanding Muhammad and Muslims.  My point is that you should not be too close to them.  Be kind to them, but always keep your distance.  Don’t put yourself in a situation that you could be dependent on them. If they are good Muslims they may take advantage of your vulnerability and hurt you when you least expect. Many years ago, before the 9/11, a pregnant Jewish woman was stopped at the airport in Israel> Explosives were found in her suitcase. They were was set to go off in midair.  The explosives were placed in her luggage by her Palestinian boyfriend, the father of her unborn child. You can never know to what debt of depravity Muslims are capable of descending. When a person gives up his rational mind to a psychopath and takes a criminal as his prophet, there is no end to his wickedness. No human can descend as low as a cultist. No cult is more evil than Islam.  No human can be more wicked as a true Muslim.  The more they follow their pedophile prophet, the more evil they become.

Now, what if you don’t have children, but live in an Islamic country? In that case I suggest you get out of that country ASAP and then write to him what I told you.  You can study Islam together through email. That is even better, because he won’t be able to bully you.

If you have children with him, things are different. Then you are responsible for the wellbeing of your children. In that case I suggest you keep your secret to yourself and just bear with him. Make sure he does not contaminate the minds of your children. Expose them to the truth and when they are mature enough ask them to read my articles or even better, my book. Time plays wonders. Did you know that as we age, women start producing more testosterone while men stop producing it? What this means is that women become more assertive and domineering and yes some actually grow beard (some facial hair). On the other hand men become more docile. This happens after the age of fifty to both genders. So be patient. Gradually you will become the boss in your household and that would be the payback time. Nature has its own funny ways. My advice to all men is, be kind to your wife while you are still the macho. Time turns the table and when you become the underdog you will be at her mercy. Ouch!

Respected Ali Sina!

Sir, as you yourself admit, humans sometimes commit such horrible crimes which are unbelievable. Recently the gang rape of a girl in Delhi who later died is one such example. It is understood that mere laws cannot keep a person away from these crimes.

You say that humans have moral consciousness because of evolution and Muslims are diseased humans because of their religion. If Muslims are diseased, what happened to other people who are evolutionary healthy?

Isn’t there a need of strong belief in the life after death because all people will not keep away from evil merely thinking that they are humans and they should not fall to the level of animals or even lower. Isn’t the call of conscience a proof of some creator and life after death?

Dear Nissar,

Laws alone are not enough to deter people from committing crime. They must also have an inner moral compass. This compass is a product of human evolution.

Our morality, like our intelligence, is a function of our brain.  How do you make people smarter? You need a good mind and good training. If the brain is physically defective, for example, if a person has Down syndrome or has some other form of learning disability, it is not easy for that person to become an Einstein.  He may become a prodigy in music or other arts, but his IQ will be low.

The next factor is training.  If Einstein had been born in an Islamic country where instead of science books, which he was given at the age of ten, he was given the Quran, he would have become another idiot mullah and not the genius that he became.

You may compare the brain to a computer: both the hardware and the software must work property for the computer to do its work.

Morality works in much the same way as intelligence does. You need both a healthy mind and a good moral education to develop a high moral quotient.  People suffering from certain emotional disorders, such as narcissists and sociopaths don’t have empathy.  Empathy is a Greek word. It translates as “in suffering”. It is the ability to feel the pain and suffering of others.  Narcissists and sociopaths cannot recognize the feelings and needs of others. “This deficiency renders them emotionally and cognitively crippled. They exploit, manipulate, and abuse other people because they are unable to relate to them otherwise.” [From the book "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" by Sam Vaknin - Click on this link to purchase: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/thebook.html]

Vaknin compares narcissists to robots or machines. “In many important respects they are forms of alien and artificial intelligence. They lack the ability to empathize, that quintessence that makes us human in the first place. Consequently, they regard others as mere instruments of gratification to be used, abused, and then contemptuously discarded.” That is exactly what those men did to that young girl in New Delhi.

Crimes such as what you mentioned happen everywhere.  Sociopaths love torturing and abusing others.  They get a high from it. They can’t feel remorse because they can’t relate with the pain that they cause to others. Inflicting pain on others excites them. They need to see the agony of their victims to satisfy their sadistic craving. By destroying others, crushing them, torturing them, raping them and dismembering them they feel empowered. No amount of education and preaching will help. There is no solution except removing them from the society. They are damaged humans, beyond repair.

The question is how these people became damaged in the first place and what we can do to prevent that happening to others.  Psychology, not religion, provides the answer.

Abused children are more likely to develop one form or another of mental disorder. Patriarchal societies are abusive towards children and towards women. Misogyny results in lowering women’s self-esteem. These women become mothers and pass that low self-esteem to their children. As the result everyone in patriarchal societies is damaged.

Low self-esteem results in depression, paranoia, borderline, dependent, histrionic, obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic, antisocial, and other forms of personality disorders.  It is no secret that these disorders are more prevalent among Muslims than among Europeans.  It is far more likely that Muslims resort to aggression to resolve their conflicts than Canadians.  Most Muslim women suffer from depression.  Most Muslim men suffer from narcissism.  These disorders are the result of patriarchy that has afflicted Muslim families and Muslim societies. No patriarchal society can produce emotionally healthy individuals, whether it is Islamic or not. Although sociopaths exist in all societies, there are more of them in male dominated patriarchal societies.

We cannot get rid of crime by imposing more stringent laws. The laws of Islam are draconian and yet there is more rape, more homicide and more crimes of all sorts in Islamic countries than in non-Muslim countries.  The punishment against homosexuality in Islam is death, and yet almost all Muslim Arabs are gay. An apostate friend of mine living in a Persian Gulf state  said her fiancé’s car broke and a nice Arab man stopped to help. He gave them a ride to the town and first dropped her English fiancé. As soon as he was out of the car, this nice gentleman started talking about sex, saying how Arab men are better at sex than the whites. He said he is married but still likes to have sex with other women and also men. He told her about Filipino male prostitutes acting as masseuse and said everyone does it.  There you have it.  I want to be conservative, so I say 90% of Arab men are gay. Has the death punishment stopped it?

When Muhammad promises young pearly boys to pious men in paradise, the message is that this is something divine that you get only as reward. If that is such a wonderful think then how can you prohibit it in this world?

Alcohol is prohibited in Islam. Don’t Muslims drink? They don’t eat pork, but had Muhammad promised pork in heaven Muslims would have eaten it secretly.  The stupidity of Muhammad is beyond belief and the stupidity of so many educated people who think that narcissist was a prophet is even more astounding.

You can reduce petty theft by introducing a draconian law such as chopping the hand of the thief, but you can’t get rid of white collar theft.  Why would otherwise politicians and the ruling mullahs be so rich?  If you steal a loaf of bread you lose your hand but if you steal millions and billions, you are okay.

Then again, is the morality be based on fear moral? Can a cat who does not steal your food because he is afraid of you be called a moral cat? The moment you turn your head he’ll steal your food.  Moral is one who has an inner control.  If you put a gun on someone’s head you can make him do anything.  You can ask for his valet and even his shirt and he’ll hand it to you.  Can we then conclude that this person is a generous person? Of course not! A person who gives you money under threats cannot be called generous, moral or virtuous.  These higher qualities that define our humanity become relevant through freedom.  If I don’t steal from you because I fear you I cannot be called an honest man. Only when I don’t steal even when you are not watching and I can get away with it, I can be called an honest person.  The morality based on fear is not moral at all.

Religious morality, and here my emphasis is on Islam, is based on fear.  Not just fear but also greed. In Islam the concept of doing something right for the sake of it does not exist.  The motivation is either reward or punishment.  Everything a Muslim does is either for the greed of reward or for the fear of punishment.  You can’t call this ethos morality.

In Islam, humans are deemed to be like animals that can only respond to either stick or to carrot. The question is why. To find the answer you have to revisit my theory about Muhammad’s narcissism.

A narcissist projects his own values on others.  Since he lacks morality and will do anything when he knows he can get away with it, he believes everyone will do the same. He disdains others because he disdains himself. Deep down inside he knows that he is a wretched person. He is motivated only by greed and deterred by fear.  When the narcissist becomes a cult leader, (as all of them try and often succeed forming a mini cult, which may consist of a co-dependent partner) they keep their followers in leash through fear and empty promises of rewards. This is the only value system they are familiar with.

Muhammad’s hell and his heaven are the products of his narcissistic mind. He could not understand why anyone would do anything without the greed for a reward or the fear of a punishment.  An emotionally mature person does not need any reward or punishment to do the right thing. They do the right thing because it is the right thing to do.

A child may become motivated to study if he is promised a reward or if he fears failing his grades. Adults don’t need such motivations to learn. They go after learning because they love it. The learning is the reward in itself.

How we judge others boils down to who we are. If you are Muhammad or a follower of him, you see others the way you are.  This is called projection. You are not motivated to do anything without reward or punishment. Therefore, when you become the law giver, your laws reflect your own sick personality and will be based on either fear or greed.  That is why Muhammad’s laws are the way they are.

This is not how morality is defined. We cannot say any Muslim is a moral person.  We can call them moral only if they do the right thing without the fear of a hell and greed of a heaven, in other words, when they are no longer Muslims.

As for the crime in Delhi, the man who injured the girl by pushing an iron rod into her vagina which caused her death was a Muslim.  Apart from being a sociopaths  he grew up listening to the mullahs telling him how the unbelieving women are sluts and how the prophet allowed Muslims to rape them. Not all Muslims do such thing but all Muslims approve of what Muhammad did and said. All Muslims defend that fiend’s crimes. All Muslims praise that monster. All Muslims promote the sunnah of that evildoer. How then can you call them innocent?

 During the current year thousands of Muslims were butchered for a fault of a few though the killers belonged to Buddhism, which you call a good religion. Why did they fall so low although they were not the followers of a bad religion?

If I cared about people’s approval, I would have said I condemn all acts of violence from whichever side it may be. That sounds like a cliché and everyone says it. Even Muslims say it, though disingenuously.  But that would make me a hypocrite like them. I rather receive approval from my own conscience than receive it form others.

I don’t condemn the violence of the Buddhist against Muslims.  Now this is an outrageous thing to say – something my foes will love to quote to portray me as a war monger.  So why do I say such thing?

Yes it is very sad that innocent Muslims are killed by Buddhists. But I don’t condemn it, because if the Buddhists don’t stop the Islamic invasion today they will lose their country and then they will be slaughtered just as we Persians were slaughtered and the Copts are being slaughtered.

There should be no tolerance towards Islam. We know what Islam teaches and what Muslims do.  The Quran gives three choices to non-believers, accept Islam, or get out of your land because it now belongs to us, or we will kill you.  I cannot force Muslims to denounce this teaching. But I can encourage others to adopt it.  Why it is so wrong for Buddhists to do to Muslim invaders in their country what Muslims do to others all over the world?  Why when these things are said in the Quran they are deemed to be divine and when I approve of them they become evil?  Why it is okay to kill the Copts in Egypt and it is wrong to kill Muslims in Burma.  The Muslims in Burma are invaders, while the Copts are the original inhabitants of Egypt. Why so much hypocrisy?  I will not condemn the killing of Muslims in Burma until the killing of Copts in Egypt ends, until the killing of Hindus in Kashmir ends, until the abuse of the Hindus in Pakistan and in Bangladesh ends. Until the Muslims in Philippine stop their terrorism against the Christians, until the Muslims in Nigeria stop their violence against the Christians.  Enough with hypocrisy!  If the Burmese let the Muslims, soon they will be the persecuted ones in their own country. The Muslims in Burma came from Bangladesh, from where they exterminated the Hindus. Let them go back to where they came from. Who said the life of a Muslim is worth more than the life of non-Muslims? Yes Muslims think that way but they are wrong. If we don’t value our lives and don’t defend it while we still can they will butcher us like they do sheep and cattle during their Eid al-Adha.

Anyone who has read my articles knows that I don’t promote violence. I value life, all life, including the life of animals. I don’t believe a stone, or a building or a book to be sacred. They are just things. But I believe life is sacred.  So why would I say such thing?  Because I want to highlight the hypocrisy of Muslims! I want them to condemn me as a hate monger for echoing what they believe to be the word of God.

If what I say is evil, (and it is) let Muslim condemn the Quran first before they condemn me. Let them denounce these evil teachings and the evil man who said them first.  Tolerance is a two way street. You can’t expect everyone to be tolerant to Muslims and ignore the fact that Muslims are intolerant of everyone.

The Buddhists in Burma are giving Muslims a taste of their own medicine. Yes innocent people also get killed. But Muslims are waging a war of conquest and domination. In a war you don’t ask who is innocent and who is not. You ask on whose side you are.  We (the free world) nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killed thousand s of innocent people including children, but I don’t condemn it because that bombing ended the war and saved millions of lives. We bombed Berlin and destroyed that city, killing as many as we could, but I don’t condemn it, because it demoralized the belligerent Germans and made them surrender. Had the war continued millions more would have been killed.

The Germans and the Japanese had a fanatical belief that they will never be defeated.  This unrealistic belief made them so cut off from reality that they continued the war even when it was clear to everyone else that they will not win. They needed an awakening and only then they accepted defeat and stopped their insane attacks. Remember that they were the aggressors. They started the war.

Muslims have the same fanatical belief. They think they will be victorious. As Muhammad assured them in the Quran, they think they can win armies that are ten times superior to them. That is why they continue this war and push their plan to conquer the world through ghazwa (terrorism) and taqiyyah (deception).

If we don’t stop Muslims now, the whole world will be lost and billions of people may be killed.  We have no other choice.  We cannot submit to Muslims. And since dialogue for Muslims is out of question the only thing left for us is to fight them.

The attacks on Muslims started when a few Bengali Muslims assaulted and brutally butchered a Buddhist girl.  This sparked the violence and led the Buddhists to kill the Muslims.  The question is why Muslims think Buddhists girls are legitimate target? The problem is that this kind of barbarity is sanctioned in the Quran. That son of the bitch Muhammad did it so his followers do it. Are you still telling me Muslims are innocent? No there is no such thing as innocent Muslim. Anyone who agrees with Muhammad’s crimes and strives to emulate that criminal is not innocent.

Innocent Muslim makes as much sense as innocent Nazi. Yes of course there were innocent Nazis or just plain Germans who followed the orders.  It does not matter whether your enemy is innocent or not. He is the enemy and if you don’t kill him he will kill you. This enmity is not instigated by me. It is instigated by Muhammad who has repeatedly warned his followers not to take as friends the unbelievers, even if they are their brothers and father.

How can a person who believes in the Quran that says slay the unbelievers wherever you find them, cut their throats from above their necks, crucify them and chop their finger tips, be harsh with them, they are filthy, don’t befriend them and other delightful things such as these be called innocent? No Muslim who thinks non-Muslims should be slain can be innocent. Let us call a spade a spake and drop this stupid politically correct nonsense talk. If you are a Muslim it follows you believe in the Quran. Then you approve all that hate and violence against me and everyone who is not a Muslim.  So how can you be innocent? You are guilty as sin. There is no such thing as innocent Muslim. There are ignorant Muslims and terrorist Muslims .  If you are ignorant here is the truth. Open your eyes and learn what your religion says. If you disagree then leave Islam as most of us have. But if you still want to remain a Muslim don’t pretend to be innocent.

My plan is to awaken Muslim with my writings. If it fails we have no other choice but to stop them with force.  We should give them the same three choices they give us. Leave Islam, or leave our countries or face our wrath. We don’t want your religion, take it away and shove it where it belongs.  Go back to where you came from. We have no tolerance for a religion that does not have tolerance.

When the masses wake up and see the plot and how their leftist governments have betrayed them and how their treasonous liberal media have lied to them they will rise and Muslims will find no peace in Europe and in America. It would be brutal, it would be bloody and ugly, but it would be far worse if we did nothing.  Islam is a cancer. This tumor must be removed before it is late.

My work is like therapy.  I hate bloodshed and that is why I am doing everything I can to rescue Muslims from their madness and make them see Muhammad was a mentally sick man. He lied. We are brothers not enemies. But if I fail the bloody alternative will be inevitable. And yes I approve it, because if we wait billions could perish and human civilization could be lost.  I am a man of peace, but not a pacifist. I am also pragmatic.  There is a time to talk, a time to reason., a time for peace, a time for tolerance and a time for war.

In one article you wrote that even after death ‘I’ remains there. What does that mean?

We survive through our work.  We all survive though the impact that we make on others and the changes that we bring to the world.  When you throw a stone on a pound, the stone will sink and will disappear but the ripples that it generates survive and keep expanding.  Muhammad is living in all the evil, violence and bloodshed that he left behind.  Still people are killed because that evil soul lived.  Galileo is living through the enlightenment and progress that he brought to the world. Hitler is living through all the pain that he caused to mankind.  Mother Teresa is living through all the lives that she enriched and the legacy of love that she left behind.  My grandmother, an illiterate unknown woman, lives though the love she had for her children and for me.  I too will survive, just as you and everyone else will.  How we survive depends on what we leave behind. I hope to leave enlightenment and a world with less violence and less hate.  I will survive in the lives of the children and grandchildren of all those whom I helped to leave Islam, who will now go after science and improve their lives instead of wasting in in a religion of hate and obscurantism.  I will be living in the lives of millions, even when they don’t know my name.

Whenever a man suffers he calls his God even if he has never been a worshiper. Doesn’t it point that there is some Listener otherwise why is this belief engraved in our psyche. It is said that the greatest atheist also remembered God at the time of death. Please throw light.

Only believers in God say such thing. I have stopped praying a long time ago. I don’t say that God does not exist. I don’t know. But what I am certain of is that no one is listening. You might was well pray to a wall.  The chance that the wall may answer your prayer is just the same as God will answer it.

The foundation of this world is based on injustice. If really a conscious being created this universe the way it is, making some sentient creatures to be food to others, that being deserves our scorn not our praise.

We live in the age of science and enlightenment. The more we discover the secrets of the universe the more a creator becomes irrelevant.

New addition Jan 20, 2013

 Respected Ali Sina,  Sir, Although I am not a scholar to argue with yet I would not hesitate to point towards your extremism. I would request you  to just have Google search of ‘comparison between crime rate in KSA and USA’. I think by resorting to exaggeration against Islam and Muslims, you make your arguments weak.  Saying that 90% of Muslims are gay is far from reality.  You have yourself been a Muslim and many of your relatives will be still Muslims. I myself am living in Muslim dominated society and I acknowledge that many Muslims indulge in criminal activities but your saying that Muslims are at top of crime is only because of your extreme hatred and by resorting to misinformation you would damage your own cause.  your saying ‘enemy is enemy whether innocent or not’  is very unfortunate. There is a difference between war and rioting. It is true that in a war innocent people can get killed in spite of great care but that does not make lawful for a  majority to go and burn innocent people of minority.   There have been riots in India not only against Muslims but against Christians also and in which Christians were burnt alive and nuns raped. The extremist Hindus accuse Christians of converting Hindus to Christianity.What do say there?

Dear Nissar,

Most crimes in Saudi Arabia are not even reported.  No woman dares to report the crime of rape. The laws are stacked against her. If she cannot produce four male witnesses, she could be beaten for making false accusation but her claim can be uses as confession which can incriminate her of adultery.  What to an American is considered crime to a Saudi is normal.  It is very unfair to claim the KSA is better than USA and it has less crime.

I am afraid the 90% is not too exaggerated.  Persians have grown out of that to a great extent. But Arabs and Afghans have not. I said 90% but this Arab gentleman said everyone.  As for Persians, yes I am afraid this was true one day.  We have the poetry of our celebrated poets to prove this was the case.  Enlightenment entered Iran at the beginning of the 20^th century and my country was changed drastically.  Don’t judge Iranians by the Islamic revolution. That is not what people wanted. It was a mistake. However, as I am told homosexuality is still rampant among the clerics in Iran.

Extremism breeds extremism. Take the example of Europe. Since after the war, European countries have strived towards tolerance and have been the most liberal and free countries in the history of mankind. But lo and behold, all that is gradually changing.  People are becoming restless and laws are being proposed and implemented to stop the flow of immigrants and ban some of their activities such as wearing hijab and building mosques.  This is called backlash. The Europeans are becoming less tolerant as the result of the abuses that take place in their countries.  This is inevitable and it would be foolish to condemn it. Anyone has the right to self-defense. Defense of our values and cultures is part of it.

Problems must be solved from where they originate. Band Aid solutions don’t solve the problem.  Blaming both side is not smart but very foolish. In every fight one person is guilty. We should not condemn both.

Look at what happened in Yugoslavia. On the surface it seemed that the Serbs were persecuting the helpless innocent Muslims. But when you dig deeper it becomes clear that they were only reacting to centuries of Muslim abuse.

In the 15^th century, the Ottoman Turks, without provocation, invaded and conquered Christian  Albania, the Romanian kingdoms (Wallachia and Moldova), Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia, southern Croatia, what is now Greece, and most of Hungary. Albania fell after a heroic resistance by the Christian Albanians under Gjergj Skanderbeg. Bosnia fell by 1485 with little difficulty. Serbia put a heroic and famous series of revolts against the invading Muslims in the fields of Serbia’s Kosovo in 1389 that left the Ottoman sultan Murat slain, and Belgrade (1456). Despite their heroic resistance to unprovoked conquests of the mighty Ottomans, the Serbs fell and became subjects of the Ottoman realm like their Bosnian brothers for the next 400 years.

Under the Muslims, the Serbs and Bosnians enjoyed no freedom of religion. The ancient lands of the Serbs and Bosnians were taken, their great palaces and treasures becoming the property of a hated and very foreign enemy. The conquest of these free peoples was not provoked. Christians lived as second-class citizens in their own homelands, unable to enjoy political franchise unless they either betrayed their nation and families by converting to Islam and fighting their own countrymen and fellow Christians in the Ottoman armies (the Janissaries). A blood tax called devshirme forced Christian European mothers to give up every few male family members (varies by population census) to be forcibly conscripted into the Janissary elite in Istanbul after forced conversion to Islam, with many returning to their nations to fight against the villages of their birth. The majestic wealth and education the Islamic world had to offer at this time of Muslim conquest was often quite appealing to many families for their sons instead of death or starvation. Their options were to adopt Islam or, in many cases, starve to death. Many families under Islamic rule professed submission to Islam solely to inherit the benefits, but instead practiced the faith of their heritage in private to avoid persecution or death. Apostasy was punished by death. The Christian natives also paid inordinate taxes. Balkan subjects, often prone to famine and underproduction of grain at this time, were barely able to survive, let alone pay large taxes.  [Read more here]

The Janissaries. Christian children taken to Istanbul and forcefully converted to Islam.

When in 1805 the Serbians rebelled, the Muslims quashed their rebellion and massacred them ruthlessly. To warn others from doing the same they erected a tower with the Serbian sculls.

This is just one example where on the surface it appeared that the non-Muslims were persecuting the innocent Muslims. Everywhere, where there is a conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims, even when Muslims look as victims and the underdogs, they are the culprits. Muslims are always the guilty party.  I hate the word “always”.  Logically, there should be exceptions to any rule, and I would love to find that exception. If anyone can help I’d be grateful. Show me one case where Muslims are victimized without provocation.

You mentioned the persecution of the Christians in the hands of Hindus.  I could also bring other cases such as the crusades and the inquisition where on the surface Islam had nothing to do with them.  But that is only on the surface.

Hinduism is not a religion. It is a spiritual tradition of Indians consisting of many philosophies. Most of these philosophies, if not all, are peaceful and tolerant. However, Hindus have witnessed how their country was destroyed and partitioned by Muslims and this has made them sensitive to foreign influences. They can’t do much about Islam anymore but they want to prevent a similar takeover by the Christian. So it is really because of their bitter experience with Islam that they have become intolerant of any alien ideology.

In my book I have also explained how Islam influenced the Catholic Church and how the crusades and the Inquisition are the Church’s version of jihad and mihnah. It may sound strange, but it is a fact that if the Christians burned witches, it was because the Church had become Islamized.

It may sound extremism and only a few years ago I would have thought the same way as you do. Now, I understand Islam better. Now I know that this religion is the most evil influence in the world and much of the violence and intolerance that we witness among non-Muslims is the backlash or the copycat of Islamic violence.

This sounds so radical and so extremist that I don’t expect you to accept it, but just keep it in your mind and wherever you see Muslims are victimized, dig deeper and try to find what started it.  Eventually, you will agree that what seems extremism is the correct view.

Think about it logically. Can an ideology invented by perhaps the most evil human who ever disgraced this planet, that promoted so much hatred, that glorified violence, deception, even rape and murder have no negative influence on its followers?  It is inevitable for those who follow Islam to do evil things to others without provocation. And it is inevitable that their victims respond in kind.

If you expect me to tell the victims of Islam to be patient and tolerant, I am not going to do that. Islam grew because of this misplaced tolerance.  The bully understands one language alone and that is the language of violence.  He speaks that language and respects it.

Humanity has no other choice but to get rid of Islam. This cult is a disease. It must be removed. Muslims must pull their fingers out of their ears and listen. The message is that Muhammad was a con man and they are misguided. They must abandon that evil cult and stop spreading hate in the world.  They must denounce the violent verses of the Quran, which consist of most of it, if they want to co-exist with the rest of mankind in peace. You can’t be my friend when you believe that I am filthy and it is your duty to slay me whenever you can. Denounce these evil teachings and I am here ready to embrace you like a brother.

If Muslims ignore this and continue their invasion, their raids and their deceptions, we have no other choice but to stop them.  Jihad means war. Personal jihad is a deception. Greater jihad is a charade.  Jihad is only one thing and that is fighting with body and wealth, slaying and being slain, to advance Islam.  Any other definition of jihad is a lie.

When your enemy is an extremist you need to become an extremist. My objective is to wean Muslims from Islam and help them to come to our side. I want to break the walls of hate and make them see we are one people, that Muhammad was a liar. Like Hitler and Marx he was only a prophet of hate. But if all fails, I want the rest of the world to be ready and stop the advancement of Islam.

We are always ready to embrace you. As soon as you drop your sword and remove your hatred, as soon you denounce that Quran that calls for our murder, we are ready to be your friend. How can we be friends when every day you recite verses that tell you I am the worst of creatures, that you should not take me as your friend even if I am your brother or father, that you have to hate me in your heart even though you smile on my face to deceive me, and other delightful things like these?

Yes it is extreme, but is it unreasonable? Am I asking too much when I say do not teach your children that I am a filthy kafir and that he will be rewarded if he kills me? Can we possibly be good friend when you believe the fastest way for you to go to heaven is to slay me, that my wife is yours to enslave and to rape?

Let us be honest my friends.  We cannot accept Islam and we cannot accept you as long as you hold unto its evil teachings. Let us end this hypocrisy. If you want to be my friend, denounce the Quran. We can’t have it both ways.  If you still want to hold to that demonic book of hate, then it is clear that you are my enemy and I will deal with you as such.

I am not promoting hate. I am tearing down that veil of deception. I want to truth to be known. Both Muslims and non-Muslims must realize what is at stake.  I am sure many Muslims don’t hate the non-Muslims as it is expected from them.  I want them to know the truth about their religion and to leave this cult of hate.  But those who still want to cling to their faith, are not our friends. We should know them and never turn out back to them or they will stab us the moment we least expect, just as Muhammad Ali al-Ayed stabbed and killed his friend Sellouk.

Al Ayed was a 23-year-old Saudi millionaire’s son living in America, one August evening, in 2003, called Sellouk, his old Jewish Moroccan friend and suggested they get together.  The two had drinks at a bar before going to Al-Ayed’s apartment about midnight.  There he took a knife, stabbed, and nearly decapitated his friend.  Al-Ayed’s roommate told police the two were not arguing before Al-Ayed killed Sellouk. The reason for this cold-blooded murder was “religious differences,” said Ayed’s attorney.

As long as you are a Muslim, we cannot and we must not trust you. Anyone who does so, does it at his own peril.

Pamela Geller is a brave woman at the forefront of our fight against the encroachment of Islam on western civilization. She is the person who raised the attention of the Americans about the Islamic ploy to build a victory mosque only a block away from the ground zero where the WTC twin towers stood and stopped that project. Pamela is also the one who saved Rifqa Bari, the young American Pakistani girl who converted to Christianity and was threatened by her parents that if she does not revert she would be killed.

Among other thing Pamela has also founded the www.leaveislamsafely.com. Periodically people from all over the world write to her enquiring how they can leave Islam without losing their lives.  Pamela forwards some of these emails to me which I am glad to respond. This is what one person writes from Pakistan

 

I am [name remove]  from Pakistan. I want to be free i want to live a happy life I am reading many books about religions and I recognized that Islam is a fake religion, totally based on hatred. I visited yours link www.leaveislamsafely.com. I don’t know what to do. Do you have any suggestions?

Stay safe

My first and foremost advice to anyone wanting to leave Islam is to stay safe.  We don’t want you to be a hero and our cause does not require martyrs.  We need you to stay alive and we want to see you live a long, happy, free and productive life.

If you live in an Islamic country, we cannot provide any safety for you. Assuming there were people who could help you there we would not be able to introduce them to you as this would put their lives at risk.  So you are on your own.  You have to take care of your safety. What we can do is give you some commonsense tips and suggestions.

Don’t reveal your thoughts to anyone, including your family and your best friends.  I receive numerous emails from new apostates who say they thought it is safe to talk to their non-practicing sibling or friends. They were shocked when these people turned against them. Muslims don’t’ care whether you practice Islam or not. But they do care that you stay a Muslim, even if it is by name. The least practicing Muslim can turn violent if you tell him you no longer believe in Islam.

What to do now?

One of the most frequently questions asked, when someone decides to leave Islam is, what they should do now. The answer is nothing. You don’t have to do anything to leave Islam. Islam is a belief. Once you stop believing you are no longer a Muslim. There are no rituals to perform and no membership cards to sign. The bondage of Islam is mental. Once you break that bondage you are free.

I know we humans need symbolism and rituals. This is a psychological need. A friend of mine who left Islam went to a church and baptized. He also changed his name from Hussein to Cyrus. I asked whether he is a Christian. He said no, but that he needed to do this little ceremony to make it official, at least in his own mind, that he is not a Muslim anymore.  I did not need any ceremony to prove to myself that I am not a Muslim. I did not change my so called Islamic name. The fact is that Ali is not an Islamic name at all.  Abu Talib who named his son Ali, was not a Muslim and he never accepted Islam. Another person named Ali was the son of Ummayh ibn Khalaf, who was killed by Bilal, his father’s ex- slaver, along with his father, treacherously.

If you really need a ceremony, recite to yourself, I testify that Allah is no God and Muhammad was a mentally sick man.  That should do.

When you leave Islam you don’t pay the zakat. Zakat finances Islamic jihad. This so called charity is never used for charity. It is used to build mosques and madrasahs and to promote Islam.  Even if it is used to build orphanages, the idea is always to raise children as fanatical Muslims and soldiers of Allah. The most vicious and the most inhumane protectors of the mullahs in Iran are known as basijis. They are mostly children of the Iranian soldiers who were killed in the Iran Iraq war and raised as orphans by the Islamic regime to become their henchmen. They are brainwashed killing machine. The regime has turned them into monsters. They have no qualm butchering the people to protect the mullahs. These were orphans raised by the mullahs. Muslims don’t do charity works without any strings attached. Once you stop paying zakat you are not financing Islamic terrorism.  Do your charity personally where you can see how the money is used.

Also don’t go to the mosque. Your attendance only strengthens Islam in the same way that the attendance of ordinary Germans in Hitler’s rallies made him stronger. If more people don’t give their support to this cult of death, Islam will become less relevant.

Support

You need support, but unfortunately this is hard to get when you live in an Islamic country.  I suggest you join an online community of apostates. You can find many people in your situation. Those who have left Islam can share their experiences with you.

If you live in a non-Muslim country, particularly in a European or American country, there are organizations that can provide temporary shelter for those people whose life are in danger. Young women particularly are in danger.

Should you join another religion?

This is a very personal choice that only you can make. Many apostates of Islam choose to remain irreligious. Some still believe in God and some don’t and some become agnostic. Others join a different faith. Each person has a different need and so are our choices. Whatever you do, don’t join another fanatical faith. You don’t want to come out of the frying pan to fall into the fire. Follow your reason. Even if you go wrong, you can correct it.

Good luck

Sina, There is no fun in Masturbating with one’s own brain

I acknowledge that terminal diseases are plaguing a portion of Muslim minds, societies & countries, particularly the mindless killings and exploitation of women.
Without counseling, medication and cure the diseases are devouring them & women and also people belonging to other religions.

Have few questions for you Sina:

(1) There is violence and heinous crimes being committed by people belonging to other religions. I mean no disrespect to anyone but even today people worship bizarre things, feed on dead bodies of human beings (also feed on snakes, frogs etc.), have sex with dead bodies of human beings, have sex with animals [evidence is available on Internet and Newspaper reports]. In spite of all this, if these people are unable to forego their respective religions it’s naive to plot a mission asking Muslims to forego their religion.

There are several aspects of the religion which are built on rock and Muslims do reflect on those aspects. No amount of slander or attack can shake their faith; no doubt there will be exceptions with a portion of Muslims.

(2) If you go from one end of the west tunnel to the other end of it, you will observe that most people are soggy and dripping in free Porn, Sex and Pedophile activities. People are drenched in lap dances in nude bars; US Senators, Finance Market regulators and government service staff watch porn while on job; Military Chiefs have extra-marital sex with colleagues, Government Intelligence team sent to a south American country to guard their President instead engages in brothel work, Several Male soldiers rape their female colleagues; One of the Presidents of US had extra marital sex in White House; One of the Prime Ministers of UK had sex on terrace of public transport bus; One of the Prime ministers of Italy used to regularly arrange sex parties in his official residence; The church Priests either molested or had sex with underage male and female worshipers alike; At the sex hub of the globe – California where porn is produced, packaged and exported to various countries across the globe, here you find 2 types of sex film sets one where males use cover and the other where there is no cover used by male punks; some people of these societies engage in group sex, swap their spouses with others, no wonder AIDS is one amongst the most prevalent terminal diseases in their societies; Mobile brothels, sex toy shops are as common as any department store. Alcohol binge inevitably leads to more violence and sex assaults on females in their societies.

Any reason what has gone wrong with these people of so called liberated culture ? I am asking this because you have nightmare about only 1 ‘doom’ what about these other ‘dooms’ ?

(3) About the people of so called liberated culture, any thoughts why their soldiers always get caught burning/urinating on holy book of other religion, urinating on dead bodies of enemy combatants, why have their people turned themselves into rapists? It seems like you & your allies are not bothered about these evil cultures as i do not see even a single protest against it on your website. Your whole & sole 1 sided focus unmasks your and your allied collaborators actual intentions?

(4) As you seem to have conducted extensive surveys, for the benefit of people who visit here, can you publish the number of human killings plotted and executed until recently by people of various religions including atheists?

(5) Do you have any recommendation as to which is the most effective religion today that one can follow or do you advise people to be apostates/atheists without a guideline for life?

(6) You have referenced various Hadith book sources, publicly quoting its text and displaying the names of the authors in your website and emails, as a mark of courtesy to the Hadith authors who have recorded the events without fear and not having concealed anything out of shame, Can you also let know which top 100 individuals, corporates, governments and non- governmental organizations are funding you, IT infrastructure in your online campaign? Can you share the investors full name, % fund contribution made, their religion and Nationality ?

best wishes
Abdul

Humans are defective creatures and we have always done despicable and shameless things.  In the past this was even more.  I don’t have a panacea to all the ills affecting mankind.  You only scratched the surface.  There are more ills that you did not mention.

All this is red herring. Imagine someone being tried as a serial child molester and in his defense he enumerate the countless crimes that have happened, whose perpetrators have not been caught. Would any judge buy that as a defense? Does giving a laundry list of other people’s crimes reduce the culpability of the defendant?  Of course not! Likewise, by enumerating the sins of others you can’t reduce the crimes of Muslims and Islam.

No one is following the footsteps of the criminals, child molesters, thieves, pimps and prostitutes.  These are mishaps of the society. They have always existed and they may always exist.  Muslims follow the examples and the teachings of a criminal. They think Muhammad, a psychopath, a mass murderer, a rapist and a pedophile was a holy man and try to be like him.

Many Muslims will not follow Muhammad if they knew the truth about him.  Criminals go after crime because it is their nature. We can’t do much about that. They know what they do is evil and still choose to do it. Many Muslims are decent people who will not choose crime and vices naturally. They follow Muhammad thinking he will lead them to salvation and they are misled.  They do evil thinking they are doing good. They follow Satan believing to be following God.  Unlike the criminals who choose evil consciously, Muslims do evil thinking they are doing God’s work. This means a criminal may one day repent, because of his awareness. A Muslim will never repent because of his lack of awareness.  Many criminals have turned their lives upside down because of the guilt. Muslims can butcher many innocent people and an hour later stand in prayer thanking their god to have given them the privilege of being a ghazi, a raider, a murderer. We see that happening in the life of Muhammad and his biographies are full of tales like this.

Now if you are content to do evil because when you read the newspapers you see there are many other criminals and perverts in the world, then you should stay a Muslim.  Islam is the religion of criminals and perverts. But I am sure there are many Muslims who have no clue that Islam is a deception. They think they will go to heaven if they follow Islam.  But Islam is a path to hell.  I am writing for them.  If you are among these people then read more. If not, ignore what I write and keep comparing yourself to perverts, pedophiles, the pimps and other lowlife thugs.  I am sure you’ll always find someone worse than yourself.

As for urinating on the Quran and burning it, why would you consider it to be such an egregious act? It’s just a book made of paper and ink.  What is so sacred about them? If you are concerned about the content of its message, it says slay the unbelievers wherever you find them; don’t take them as friends  even if they are your brothers and father; they are filthy; they are wost than animals; I will strike terror in their hearts; they will go to hell; chop their heads from above their necks and other hateful things.  Why should an unbeliever have any respect for a book that insults him and incites so much hatred against him?

What would Muslims do with a book that says these things about them? Would you still respect it? The sacred books of the Ahmadis and Bahais mention Muhammad with highest respect and yet you Muslims have no difficulty burning them just because they say there is another messenger after Muhammad.  Not only you burn their books, you persecute their followers and kill them too.

What about the Bible that allegedly Muslims claim to be the word of God? Well that book is banned in most Islamic countries. You can go to jail in Saudi Arabia if you are caught with a copy of the Bible entering the country. Only a few days ago Saudi Arabia arrested 41 Christians for “plotting to celebrate Christmas” While in the west Muslims demand privileges that are not given to any other religion, in their countries they deny the basic human rights to non-Muslims. Indonesia’s top Muslim clerical body said a few days ago that it is best for Muslims to avoid saying greetings such as “Merry Christmas” to others, until they decide whether celebrating Christmas in a Muslim country is halal or haram. How much hypocrisy and double standard is enough?

The Quran is a book of hate and violence. It does not deserve any respect, especially from those that are the object of its hate, which is everyone who does not believe in it. The non-Muslims countries must ban it and adherence to it should be punished as treason.

I am not prescribing any religion. I have chosen none for myself, but each person has to find his own way.  I’d say any religion is better than Islam.  No one can find justification for killing others in the New or Old Testament, the Vedas, the Dhamma, the Avesta or any other sacred book, while the Quran is full of incitements to hate and to kill.

So who is masturbating with his brain? You Muslims or I?  You think eating frogs and snakes is gross while see nothing wrong in slaughtering camels, cows and goats during your most sacred festivity and rejoice spilling blood of innocent animals that are much more evolved and far more closer to us humans than snakes and frogs.  I know of no country allowing sex with dead corpse except the Islamic country of Egypt whose newly elected Islamic parliament passed a law legitimizing men to have sex with the corpse of their wives.  I know of no law allowing bestiality and having sex with animals and  infants  except the Sharia law that defines and regulates these despicable acts (Read the book of Khomeini).

You are a Muslim and as such blind to the evils of Islam.  While evil things happen everywhere, Islam is the only religion that canonizes evil and prescribes it. A Muslim can’t see the beam in his own eye while he can see the mote in the eyes of others.

No one is funding me. A group of friends and I work as volunteers and most of the cost of maintaining my sites come from my pocket. I do receive some donations from readers, for which I am very grateful, but those donations cover only a fraction of the cost of the server and technical needs. We are dedicated to this cause just as Muslims are to Islam.

Hi Mr Sina,

I haven’t seen anything on your site about Imam Hussain and his war against Yazid fought at Karbala. Did Imam Hussain sacrifice himself and his clan in vain or was he really trying to save Islam.  Please answer

Regards
Sharib

 

After caliph Othman was assassinated, some Muslims chose Ali as their caliph and others who did not like him pledged their allegiance to  Mu’awiyah son of Abu Sufyan.  Mu’awiyah was a cousin of Othman  and had been appointed by him as the  governor of Syria..   This division among Muslims caused many wars and bloodshed that lasted until the assassination of Ali. In the reason for the assassination and Ali and the failed attempt at the life of Mu’awiyah was to end the fratricide war between the Muslims.

When Ali was assassinated, his followers picked his son Hassan as his successor. However, Hassan was reluctant to fight against Mu’awiyah. He agreed to renounce his claim to caliphate for a large sum of money. Hassan was a womanizer and loved luxury and easy life. Hence, Mu’awiyah became the only caliph of Muslims.

Upon Mu’awiyah’s death, his son Yazid became his successor.  At that time Hussein ibn Ali was in Medina and Walid ibn Otbah ibn Abu Sufyan (a cousin of Yazid) was the governor of Medina. Walid called Hessein to come and offer his allegiance to Yazid. Hessein told the messenger to go back and that he would come a little later. He then escaped and went to Mecca where he had his clan and many supporters.  Meanwhile, people of Kufah sent a message to Hessein saying they dislike Yazid and have not offered their allegiance to him and if he comes to Kufah they will make him their caliph.

Husssein sent his cousin Muslim ibn Aqeel to investigate the situation.  When Muslim went to Kufah 18000 inhabitants of Kufah pledged their allegiance to Hussein.  Muslim informed Hessein and he decided to go to Kufah.

The news reached Yazid. He asked his cousin Abidulah ibn Ziad who was the governor of Basrah to go to Kufah and deal with the problem.  Abidullah, like his father, was a fearless and ruthless man. He went to Kufah with a handful of his men and threatened the people of the consequence of their betrayal if they turn against Yazid. He warned them that treason against the caliph is treason against Allah and his messenger and their punishment will be severe both in this world and the next. Note that his is the Sharia.  Muhammad had devised laws that brought the death of his grandson over 50 years later.

Ibn Aqeel was a guest of one of the dignitaries of Kufah by the name of Hani.  Abidullah captured Hani, beat him and beheaded him in the market in front of his people. No one intervened.   Although Abidullah was one man with a handful of protectors, the entire population of Kufah was so scared of him that they let him kill their leader Hani and abandoned Ibn Aqeel altogether.  Ibn Aqeel was in a mosque leading them in prayer. When he finished the prayer he did not find anyone behind him. He went into hiding in a house of a woman who took pity on him, but her teenager son reported his whereabouts to Abidullah who sent people to capture him and spill his blood.

Meanwhile, Hussein, disregarded the counsel of his well-wishers in Mecca who advised him not to go or at least not to take his family along. He went to Kufah with his women and children.  On his way he met a caravan coming from Yemen going to Syria carrying some goods for Yazid. He took passion of it but did not kill the men. He told the caravan men he is now the Caliph and they are free to join him or go.

When Muslim ibn Aqeel was in hiding, he sent a second message to Hussein informing him of the betrayal of the people of Kufah asked him to return. Hussein received that message when he was four stations away from Kufah but disregarded it. He said his fates is in the hand of Allah.  Meanwhile Amro ibn Sa’id, sent his son Yahya and Abdullah ibn Ja’far, a cousin of Hussein with a letter warning him of the danger of going to Kufah. Hussein ignored their counsel too. He said that he had a dream in which he saw the Prophet who encouraged him to go to Kufah, He did not reveal the details of that dream.  On his way to Kufah he met a man named Hur ibn Yazid Tamimi who asked Hussein about his destination and when learned he was going to Kufa told him not to go and told him that Muslim was killed.

Hussein’s faith in his dream was so great that he ignored all the warnings and proceeded into the mouth of death.  The soldiers of Abidullah, confronted him and and his companions and killed them all.

Tabari says upon receiving the news of the death of Muslim, Hussein wanted to return but Muslim’s father Aqeel and his brothers who were with him said they are not going back until they had taken their revenge, and Hussein said he will not abandon them and carried on.   That was a foolish decision.  They could have returned and took their revenge when they had a better chance of winning. No sane person goes to war carrying with him his wives and children. Hussein was killed because of his stupidity.

The story is more detailed, but as you can see Hessein did not go to kufah to save Islam but to gain the caliphate that his brother Hassan had sold to Mu’awiyah. Lacking political sagacity and his blind trust on his dream made him ignore the danger which resulted in his death and the death of 145 members of his family and companions.  He was obviously, as inept as a general as was his father, who brought nothing but war and fratricide upon Muslims.

Did Allah trick Hussein with a false dream?   Was this dream sent to him by Satan and Allah and his messenger failed to warn him in time? Whatever may be the case, this shows that Allah did not care for or could not save Hussein.  He laid his trust and fate in the hands of Allah and Allah ignored him or could not help him. Most likely Allah did not know because what was going on because Allah does not exist.

Even when Hussein was surrounded, Abidullah invited him to offer his allegiance to Yazid and spare his and his people’s lives. Hussein said he would rather fight. He either had a death wish or had placed too much faith on his dream of victory.

So who is responsible for his death and the death of his family?  No one but him. And  1300 years later the Shiites still beat themselves for his death. Hussein died because he was stupid. Had he become a caliph, probably more people would have been killed.

The struggles between different factions of Muslims throughout the history were never over saving Islam. They were always over power.  However, they all claimed to be the defender of Islam. Islam has always been used as a political tool. Even today, the feuding factions in the Muslim world claim to be defending Islam.

Hope this brief explanation answers your question.

Well, my name is C. I am married to a Muslim Arab man. I was born and grew up in the United States . I was 22 when I met my husband through a mutual acquaintance. Our relationship started online for 3 months until we finally met in person in Rome.

When I went to meet him, I did not tell my mother whom I lived with because I knew she would not approve of me meeting a strange Muslim man. Honestly, I don’t know what I was thinking. Here I was, only 22, and running away from my home, telling my family I was going to work when really I was getting on a plane to meet a complete stranger.

To make a long story short, I ended up falling for him and I eventually traveled with him to his country and later married him, despite hearing stories of guys using girls for their passports and everything. I felt these ladies who got used were older or unattractive. Here I was, a little younger than him and I always considered myself to be a pretty girl. Growing up, lots of guys liked me. Plus, being that I am light and blondish, I felt I was exotic for him so that’s why he was attracted to me.

Anyway, as fate may have it, I ended up filing for him and he came to the USA. Prior to him coming here, I was having doubts about Islam. My Roman Catholic background was just way too strong. My relationship with Jesus has always been a very personal one and I will even go so far to say, growing up I was the most religious person in my family, always praying and listening in church. Still, Islam felt exotic and different. I admired how Muslims seemed so devoted and unshaken, so I was quick to marry him in a mosque and accept a Koran from his family which was given to me the minute they met me.

I pretended to embrace the religion for him, but deep down, I saw how racist these people were. I grew up believing all people were equal, regardless of religion. For them, they feel all non-Muslims are dirty. As an animal lover, I also couldn’t accept how they seem to despise animals, which are God’s creatures and as a Catholic woman, I also admired San Francesco and San Francesco di Paola for all they did for the animals. I can go on and on about the reasons this religion and life style turned me off.

I started to have vivid dreams of Jesus. The summer before he came to the U.S.A., I was miraculously reunited with both people who baptized me when I was a baby. A few months ago, I also went to Europe and prior to leaving, I happened to have a dream where I was told to pray to Saint Augustine. I really knew nothing about Saint Augustine, so I googled him as soon as I woke up from that dream. To my surprise, I just so happened to have this dream on the same night that Saint Augustine is celebrated. Again, I knew nothing about St. Augustine or when his saint’s day was!!! After reading about his life, I was moved to tears. For me, it was too big of a sign that I just so happened to dream about a saint from an Arab country, prior to Islam in Algeria.

To make matters stranger, after a long time of not being in church, I walked into a church and the priest just so happened to be quoting Mark 7:18, which is about Jesus making all foods clean. All these things just felt like signs to me that this life of Islam is not for me.

At one time, I believed my husband loved me. I still love and care about him deeply, but I feel he might never change. He never defended me to his family who treated me terribly, especially his mother who humiliated me by putting on my wedding dress and mocking me after I wore it. He never even defended me against his friends. It’s almost as if they came first because they were his same culture and religion, while I was just a dirty Western girl.

Things are so complicated now. He was an angel when he first came here, sometimes working 3 jobs for me in a day to make money for me. Some days, when I was sad, he would even cry with me. Then, he changed after he met this old Syrian Alawi man (btw, my husband is Sunni, not that it really matters). Anyway, this old man sexually harassed me several times even asking me perverted questions about my mother. My husband just laughs with him. He blamed me for the sexual harassment and says I am just saying this because I don’t like him.

Recently, he has moved to another state where this crooked old Syrian guy offered him a business opportunity to manage a taxi cab company. This Syrian man had several businesses in my state, but the City shut down all his businesses so he moved to another state and my husband followed him. My husband still visits me, but I can’t believe if I was his wife and he loved me that he would leave to run a business with a man in another state. He keeps saying he couldn’t get a good job here. Worse yet, he pretty much makes it seem like he wants me to break up with him now. He keeps giving me ultimatums that he wants Muslim children and if I don’t move to Ohio our relationship is over.

I am going to start Med school, so moving to another state is not possible at this point in my life. He does not even have a place there and I know his relationship with this old man is not solid, because this guy had also employed other young Arab guys who were friends of my husband and then he fought with them and kicked them out of his life.

All the same, I told my husband before he came to the U.S.A., I could only stay in this state and that I was still a student. He agreed. As for the Muslim kids, I just can no longer agree to this. I told him, even though before our marriage I agreed to appease him, this was before I knew the truth about Islam. Now I know, I can’t raise my kids to hate me and my culture and religion, while being close to him and his family who hate me.

For a while, he seemed open to the idea that kids should be what their mom is. He even said for a while to let them decide and he even would listen to me when I talked about Jesus. Now, this has all changed. His Arab friends as well as being in contact with his family again have destroyed our relationship more.

I’m hurt because I really felt I was starting to change him and he became a gentler person. Either way, I’m lost now. I have nobody and I’m severely depressed. I feel this is the end of my relationship.

My family supports me, but they don’t want to hear me talk about my problems with him. They feel I made my bed, so now I should lie in it. I alienated them so much by marrying him secretly. I also have no close friends. Do you know of a group for women like me, currently married to Muslim men or ex-wives of Muslim men? I just want people to talk to.

I am only 24 now and I feel like life is over. My two year wedding anniversary is coming up and I know everything is over. I need some comfort without people judging. I cry all day long. Some days, I can’t sleep or eat. My husband acts annoyed by me instead of comforting me. His ultimatum about Muslim kids has hurt me beyond belief. He knows I won’t accept.

My only hope is that this man will convert to Christianity. I know it’s close to impossible. Do you have any suggestions for talking to Muslims? I just want some peace, even if him and me leave each other tomorrow, I care about him and want him to see the truth one day. Sorry for this long email. Thanks for reading and for allowing me to vent. Please write back and let me know what you think.

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Sorry to bother you again. I just feel so compelled to write to you because I know you were Muslim at one time and I appreciate what you do to expose Islam. I am also trying to find out what the turning point was for you. My husband does not even like to admit there are apostates in Islam! He dismisses it as they are liars or trying to get U.S. nationality or be spies for Israel.

Anyway, today was a rough day. My husband was visiting me for the past few days and this friend of his kept calling, so I screamed while my husband was on the phone and this prompted him to recite talaq. We are still married on paper. Islamic marriage means nothing to me. Still, I know it means something for him, so I am very depressed he would say it after 2 years.

Anyway, from what I understand, you are not practicing any religion right now. I am not sure if you are agnostic or atheist or if I’m wrong and you are into some type of religion, but may I ask, did you always have doubts about Islam or were you at one time devoted? What made you finally see the flaws in Islam? How old were you?  I am obviously Christian and even if I can’t get my husband to convert to my religion. Is there any way I can get him to see the faults with Islam?

Every time I try to have conversations with him to discuss the violence in Islam and the hate Muslims have for non-Muslims, he accuses me of being racist or tells me if I respect him I wouldn’t talk about his religion. For a while, it seemed he welcomed my conversations. Now, his friends have changed everything as well as pressure from his family. Very frustrated. I wish there was a forum or an outlet to meet other women in my similar situation.

Dear C,

One thing I can tell you is that life is not over and things are not as gloomy as they appear to you now.  In fact as I see it from my vantage point I think you are in the best time of your life even though you can’t see it now.

This man is not right for you.  Your marriage with him was a mistake and it will bring you nothing but sadness. You cling to him and desperately hope the impossible. The truth is that the best thing for you is to get out of this so called marriage.

You are only 24.  This is the beginning of life.  You have 70 more years ahead of you. Yes you made a mistake, as if no one does. Sometimes mistakes are so innocent and yet the consequences are so severe that it seems unfair.  Imagine you drive a car. You become distracted for a second and an accident happens that leaves you crippled for life.  That is a big price to pay for such a tiny mistake. That is life.

In your case your mistake was huge, but fortunately its consequence is not that big, at least not yet. You don’t have a child, which means you can end this abusive relationship today and forget it completely.  Yes it hurts. But the hurt will go away soon and once you meet another guy.

I am not a religious person. You may say I am agnostic, but for all practical purposes I am an atheist.  I don’t discard the possibility that there might have been some sort of intelligence behind the laws of physics, but I don’t believe in any god intervening in the affairs or the design of the world.  However, I know about the power of faith.  People believing in Jesus and God can see miracles happen in their lives.  I am against fanaticism, not against belief. If you can believe in Jesus this is the moment that your faith can come to your help and pull you literally out of this nightmare you have put yourself in.

All those dreams and those spiritual experiences you are having are telling you that you need to get away from this abusive relationship.  You can believe that God is sending you subtle messages. A rationalist may say those are the voices of your subconscious mind.  In either case you must listen to them.  You must get out of this abusive relationship. This man does not beat you, at, least not yet. But he is emotionally abusing you and these abuses become more intense as you become more dependent on him emotionally.

Islam transforms the psychology of its followers. Muslims are not emotionally healthy people.  They are narcissists, all of them, and to the extent that they follow their prophet. The insanity of one man is bequeathed to his followers and they all show the symptoms of malignant self-love.  That included me when I was still a believer.

The reason your husband and his family and friends disdain and belittle you is because they are narcissists. They can’t help it. It is by demeaning others that Muslims can feel good about themselves.  You can see that in the comments they leave in this blog. They behave like savages – are abusive, violent, arrogant, bully, misogynist, dictatorial and backward and yet all their comments are about how bad are the western countries. Even after America has sacrificed so much to bring democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan, a great majority of Muslims hates America and accuses Americans of killing Muslims. The concept of fairness is alien to these people. They are genuinely incapable of fairness.  Fairness is one of the most important faculties that make us human, distinct from animals.  Muslims lack fairness.  The evolution of humanity in Muslims has not yet happened and as long as they follow a psychopath there is no hope that it will ever happen.

After Americans left,  Iraq is ‘drowning’ in terrorist attacks  American solders were defending the people against the terrorists but since the terrorists were Muslims all Muslims hated the Americans.  This insanity is unique to Muslims and its root is in the Quran and the mental illness of its author.  Muslims can’t tolerate a non-Muslim killing a Muslim even if that Muslim is a terrorist who murders them and rapes them.  This sounds unbelievable, but it is true. If you save the life of a Muslim by killing another Muslim who was about to kill him. The person whom you saved will hate you for killing a Muslim and may want to kill you for  it. There is no logic in this that you and I can understand, but this is the insanity of the Muslim mind.

There is a story of a man who went to Muhammad after hearing he wanted to kill his father. This young man, the son of Abdullah ibn Ubay, begged Muhammad that if he wants to kill his father, allow him to do it. He reasoned that if another Muslim kills his father, as a dutiful son, he will have to take his revenge and kill a Muslim for a kafir, which would mean he would go to hell. But by killing his father  he will not be tempted to sin. This is Islam for you.

Muslims are the dirtiest people and call others dirty.  This dirtiness is a different kind of dirtiness. It is associated with belief.  You can be the cleanest person but if a drop of rain falls from your clothe on a Muslim he believes that you have defiled him.  Because of your faith you are considered to be najis, untouchable. This is not something ignorant mullahs have made up. This teaching comes from the Quran. The Quran says unbelievers are najis.

Muslims project their own undesirable traits on others and despise them for what they don’t like in themselves. But their hypocrisy is such that while they disdain and disparage the west and believe the non-Muslims to be najis, they do everything they can to become refugees in the kafir countries that they hate.

You ask about the turning point in my life that made me see the light and hope to make that happen for this man you love.  This is not something that happens outside you. It is something that happens inside you. To see the light you need to have conscience, be fair and have empathy. When I was a child (10 years old) we lived in a village.  My mother kept a few chicken. They laid eggs which we ate.  One day my father said he invited a guest and asked my mother to kill one of the hens. I hugged the hen selected, hold her to my chest and cried, begging my mother not to kill her. I had seen her grow, and fed her. I could not bear the cruelty of killing her just so our guest can eat chicken. When I was 11, one day of spring, when I was coming back from school I found a little bird fallen from the tree. I could not find his nest. I took him home and tried to nurse him. I gave him minced meet but he could not digest it and died. I buried him and sat next to his little grave crying for hours.  I had a compassionate heart when I was a child.  Cruelty and injustice to others pained me. They still do. I could not understand why Eid Qurbai, the day Muslims sacrifice animals and spill the blood of innocent beasts is the most joyous day for them. How can the sight of blood make them happy?

Don’t expect miracles. There is something missing in the psyche of Muslims.  They don’t have empathy. They don’t have conscience. They have no idea of fairness. These are faculties we expect in evolved or spiritual people.  Muslims don’t have them. Their spiritual faculty is underdeveloped.

Muslims do good deeds, which really is not good deed but mere following the Islamic rituals, for reward. That is all their spiritual evolution allows them to do.  They don’t do any act of goodness for the sake of feeling good about it. It must be for rewards. This alone tells you they are spiritually midgets. We kafirs don’t do good deeds because we expect a return. We do it because it is the right thing to do and makes us feel good. That is not the case with Muslims. It is all about Allah seeing, writing it down and paying you back 10 fold when you die. If this is not pathetic what is?

I know it sounds outrageous and many ignorant people will call me hate monger for saying these things, but the truth is that Muslims are not fully evolved humans.  I don’t give a damn what ignorant people think about me.  I am telling the truth from my perspective, whether people like me or not.  People with conscience exist among Muslims, but they are not the majority and they end up leaving Islam when they learn about it.

Your parents are right in washing their hands and telling you to lie in the bed you made for yourself.  People have to learn from their mistakes.  However, if you were my daughter I would tell you leave this man today.  He already pronounced talaq, which although to you means nothing to him it means divorce and that is final. The legalities are just formalities for him.  If I were you I would jump up and down with joy.  File for divorce and get out of this abusive relationship with this neanderthal now. Kick him out of the house and change the locks or even move to another place where he can’t find you.

It is possible that once he realizes he is going to lose you, and if he still thinks he needs you and has not taken full advantage of you, he may come begging you to take him back.  Don’t be fooled again.

Young people give too much importance to love. The truth is that love is very transient.  You will feel sad for a few days but it will pass sooner than you think. Go out and find friends. Join dancing classes, cooking classes, or become a volunteer. Just don’t sit at home.  Get out and do something.  Twenty four is too young for marriage.  You have plenty of time to find your soul mate and create a happy family.  Ten years from now, when you have a career, a loving husband and a couple of adorable children you may think about now and smile, thanking God for pulling you out of this mess.

Write in the comments. There are other women who have been in your situation. They will leave their comments and you won’t feel lonely.  I am also going to revive the forum of faithfreedom.org where we had a section dedicated to women married to Muslim men.

Be happy.  Getting rid of this man is the best thing that could have happen to you. Don’t worry about helping him.  You can’t help those who don’t want to be helped.  Go to your church when no one is there, sit on your knees and say, Jesus, I have come back to you, please accept me..  Then walk out with confidence and assurance that you are in safe hands.   Go to your parents or call them and tell them you made a mistake and now you have come to your senses and want to walk in the light.

Finish your studies first.  There is no rush to get married. Muslim men shatter the confidence of their women. This is the first thing they do to control them.  Regain your confidence.  Future is all yours.

Today, Imran Firasat, a Pakistani ex-Muslim living in Spain released his Youtube video, titled, The Innocent Prophet. The idea of making a movie came to him after the attacks in Benghazi where four Americans were butchered and the riots that ensued in many Islamic countries.

Imran wrote to me and asked for my support. I asked him about his intention. I told him if his intention is to spread the truth the story must be accurate and it should be presented in a tasteful way. If the idea is to insult Muhammad and incite Muslims, anything will do.

Not everything everyone does to fight Islam is helpful.  Take the example of Pastor Terry Jones’s infamous Quran burning incidence.  I applauded him when he announced he plans to burn the Quran and then said he won’t do it. I thought that was a brilliant stunt. He raised the awareness about the Muslims’ violence, but did not provoke them and no lives were lost. I was shocked when he went ahead and burned the damned book. That resulted in the death of at least 30 people, including seven UN workers, and injury to other 150 people.

What was the gain? Nothing!  Anyone can burn a book. That does not prove the book is evil. Who is responsible for those victims? Muslims committed those crimes, but are they responsible?  You can’t expect responsibility from savages. Everyone knows and agrees that the bar of humanity for Muslims is set very, very low. In fact Muslims riot and demand that it be set even lower.  They have shown, time and again, that they are irresponsible and rash. Whether Jones accepts responsibility or not it was his senseless act that brought the death of those people. We have to fight Islamic menace, but there is a right way and a wrong way.

Another example is the movie Innocence of Muslims made by the Coptic American Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. This movie was blamed by Obama for the terrorism in Benghazi.in order to cover up his behind-the-door arms deals with the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya. But once the apology was made, Muslims, all over the world went on riot to demand more concessions.  This is the typical behavior of Muslims. You want them to riot? Apologize to them for hurting their religious sensitivity, and millions of them will come to the streets, foaming in their mouths, shouting, burning and killing others. Obama, born a Muslim and still a Muslim knows about it just as much as I do. The riots led to hundreds of injuries and over 75 deaths. Again there was no gain in that movie.  It was full of inaccuracies and slanders and it did not change anyone’s view about Islam.

These two examples (and I am not going to include the insanity of Anders Behring Breivik among them) demonstrate that not every move will advance our cause. Anyone who knows about war strategies, or has played chess, knows foolish moves can make one lose. Let us give these people the benefit of doubt and assume they had good intentions. As the proverb goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Good intentions are not enough. One must also act with wisdom.

I asked Imran about his intentions. I asked whether he was banking on the hope that there will be riots so he can make a name for himself, or does he really want to spread the truth. Looks like Dr. Jones and Imran are hoping that their movie will have the same impact as the Innocence of Muslims, which means they look forward to much riots and mayhem for publicity. The truth is that the Innocence of Muslims had no impact at all. No one changed his mind about Islam due to it. We have obviously different understanding of what we mean by impact.  Is making Muslims go nuts, riot and kill people an impact? I believe impact is when we convince them that their faith is misplaced. This cannot be done by making baseless claims about their prophet.

I told Imran I doubt a riot will be in the cards.  As explained above, the riots in 9/11/2012 were not about Nakoula’s video but they were instigated by Obama. However, if his intention is genuine, a cheap movie will not help. He should either do it right or don’t do it.  A cheap movie will only muddy the waters and will make people lose interest when a real movie about Muhammad comes out.

Imran’s much promoted movie is finally out. However, despite all the hype it is not a movie, but a slide show. There are other slide shows about the life of Muhammad that are a lot more accurate and better done. Here is one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKvgTUOqKS8

And the best in my opinion is The Biography of the Prophet Illustrated by Abdullah Ibn Abi Sarh.  http://www.prophetmuhammadillustrated.com/

This is a masterpiece. It is full of beautiful drawings and is very much accurate. It is a joy to look at those drawings and you’ll learn about Muhammad.

Imran’s slide show is replete with inaccuracies and false claims. Apart from the fact that the pictures are unrelated to the story,  the story is his personal opinion, not supported by facts.  The arguments made against Muhammad in this video are straw man fallacies.  The fact that someone is an ex-Muslim does not make him an expert on Islam. Not even one in a thousand Muslims knows the Quran and far fewer have read the original biographies of their prophet.

Not only Imran’s facts are inaccurate, his interpretation of the life of Muhammad is also incorrect. He does not know the history of Muhammad and does not understand his motives. Muhammad was not a common criminal as Imran claims. He was not abused by his aunt. He did not leave the house of Abu Talib at the age of 20 to from a band of criminals. Where did he get all these and so many other details about the life of Muhammad that don’t exist in any book of history?  Imran does not have the needed understanding of the man he purports to describe and demystify. He claims his goal is to tell the truth, and expose the facts, but he hasn’t bothered to read the books of history to learn those facts.

Before its release a few news sites in Europe made too much ado over this video. If publicity was Imran’s goal, he has attained it. However, there is nothing in this video that deserves much attention. The fact that it is poorly done is forgivable but the fact that it is not truthful is not.

The video is 72 minutes long. Watch it if you suffer from insomnia. It may help. But don’t expect to learn anything from it nor be entertained.

I am not against making movies about Muhammad; I am working on one. I am against making up facts and assuming everyone is also ignorant of the history and will buy whatever you say as fact.  I have watched only half of the video so far. None of the things Imran says in this video is true.  This video is fiction. It has nothing to do with Muhammad.  It seems he does not care about facts. He is hoping for a Muslim backlash and the more outrageous his video, the more is likely that they will react.

I finally saw the entire video. I have not heard so much nonsense from anyone other than a Muslim. Imran made up the entire story of Muhammad. Sadly few people know that story and  I hear so many people praising him.

We haven’t been hacked or anything like that. The site is just fine, and undergoing a much-needed server upgrade.

Here’s the basic story why it’s not up and running yet.

We purchased a new more powerful server with the same hosting company. Since we don’t have a system administrator we paid the technicians of the company to migrate the data from the old server to the new server.

They moved a few minor sites including alisina.org but neglected to move the files for the faithfreedom.org site. For few days we tried to figure out why that site was not working and they gave us instructions to follow. At the end it became clear that they had not migrated all the data. But by then, the old server was cancelled and they would not restore it unless we paid again. The backup that was also on the old server was corrupted.

Now, this is utterly unethical but I had to pay anything they asked or say goodbye to faithfreedom.org with its 4000 external links. Being in no position to bargain I greed and this month I am paying for two servers. It still took them sometime to move the data.

Finally they said the migration is complete. But as our web master found out, it is not. They have not moved the php files and as the result most of the sites on faihtfreedom.org domain don’t work yet. We’re waiting for them to move the php files and then our webmaster has to do some work to make the site work properly.

We really need a system administrator . I used technicians from odesk to do some administrative and web design work.  I’ve spent thousands of dollars so far and as everyone can see we still don’t have a decent template and much of the features don’t work. Odesk is a fast way to lose your money and get nothing in exchange. Few people over there know their trade.

Sorry for all this. We are doing our best. Please be patient. A few months ago we had a similar problem with this server provider. They are not really a hosting company. They lease servers. Their servers are great and powerful but their clients are mostly hosting companies who have their own sysadmins. In our case we are at their mercy.  Until a couple of years ago we had volunteers who took care of our servers.

Faithfreedom.org will be back and hopefully with our new server that has  Intel Core2Quad Q9550 core, 8GB DDR2 RAM and   1TB Enterprise SATAb Hard Drive, we should be able to sustain the load for a couple more years.

It would be nice to find a new sysadmin volunteer. This site is not a commercial site. I pay the cost of the server from my pocket and donations have pretty much dried up.  I will still keep these sites as long as I can afford.

And a Muslim child’s prayer.

Dear Ali Sina,

I have created havoc in my area against Islam, and disturbed their mind a lot. But I don’t have the answers for few of the questions Muslims raise. I would be very thankful to you please answer them.

If Mohammed was a fake, then what he used to do in cave Hira?

Muhammad was a narcissist. As such he was uncomfortable to interact with others as equal. Narcissists can only interact with others as superior, when they are venerated, obeyed and respected.  That is why they always try to create a cult. If they fail to create a cult, they retreat from the society and become loners.  As the Sira tells us, after Muhammad formed his cult and was able to gather his narcissistic supply from his votaries, he stopped going to the cave.

The Unabomber was very smart man – a child prodigy, who was accepted into Harvard University at the age of 16, where he earned an undergraduate degree, and later earned a PhD in mathematics. But as a narcissist who could not create a cult he lived in a hut away from the society. He took his vengeance from other intellectuals by sending them bombs.  He was a loner not because he loved contemplation, but because he was unable to interact with others as equal.  The reason Muhammad spent his time in a cave was the same.

If Mohammed was a looter, why he did not leave any property behind him? When he died there was nothing precious found in his house?

Muhammad left a huge amount of wealth behind. Where do you think the entire wealth of the Bani Nadir and Fadak went? It all went to him. In addition 20% of all the loot became his personal property. Tabari counts the wealth of Muhammad after his death. He had several slaves and hundreds of camels. A hadith tells us that in one occasion Aisha manumitted 40 of her slaves as expiation for breaching an oath. How many slaves she had to afford manumitting 40 in one day? Aisha was only one of Muhammad several wives and all his wives received equal share from the spoils of wars.

The Shiite/ Sunni divide was caused over Fadak, a town Muhammad took as his personal property after he raided Khaybar. When he died, his daughter Fatima claimed the town is her inheritance and should be given to her. Abu Bakr objected and said everything Muhammad owned belongs to Baitulmal (public treasury). This created a rift between Ali, Fatima’s husband and Abu Bakr that caused many wars and bloodshed and divided Islam in two sects.

The claim that nothing was found in Muhammad house is ridiculous. First of all he had nine houses, one for each of his wives and he had also a garden with a house in it outside Medina where Mariyah, his Coptic sex slave lived, away from his wives. He had hundreds of camels, horses and a lot of equipment of war and tremendous amount of money that he had looted in his 78 raids.

Why he kept quiet for first two years about his revelation, if he was an imposter?

The question should be why he kept quiet about his revelation if he was not an imposter. If he was sent from God he should have told everyone. But he told only to a few close ones to test the waters and only came out when he felt safe and secure.

Why there are so many spiritual saints or Wali  under the banner of Islam who practiced Islam’s Kalima’s and verses form Quran?

There are no spiritual saints in Islam.  These people Muslims call saint are a bunch of charlatans.  I cannot show you the dead ones, but I can show you the ones that are living, Watch this video and see the veneration Muslims show to this man. His name is Maulana Ajmal Qadri. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P19OfllEj_c

Now read the debate I had with him.
http://alisina.org/blog/2010/12/13/maulana-ajmal-qadri-vs-ali-sina/

Does he sound like a saint? The greatest saint of Islam was Rumi and he too was an ignoramus. He was a great poet, but not an enlightened one. I wrote about him here.

There are some good people among Muslims, but they are ordinary people who don’t know much about Islam. They are good because they follow their conscience and not Islam. No person can follow Muhammad and remain a good person. It is not possible. True Muslims are evil and they become more demonic the more they follow Muhammad.

Why Mohammed used to wear torn and old clothes, used to put on his own shoes with his own hands in spite of slaves, if he was a narcissist?

It is funny that Muslims contradict themselves so easily without even noticing. In the same sentence they that claim Muhammad was poor and wore torn and old cloths and also admit that he had several slaves. How can a poor person own several slaves?  Muslims are incapable of thinking about simple things like this.

Anyway, Muhammad was poor when he came to Medina. He had wasted the wealth of Khadijah and had become penny-less again. The stories about his poverty are about this period. Later he started raiding and looting and became the wealthiest man in Arabia.

Muhammad was not a modest man but as a narcissist he made a show of it.  Narcissists project an image of holiness and like to be perceived as holy, detached and other worldly people.  This is the mask they wear. They live behind this false self.

Why he was a so humble with everyone even with his slaves?

This is a lie. Muhammad was never humble to anyone. He made a show of it but in reality he expected everyone to love him and prefer his life to their own. He considered himself superior to all mankind and there are hadiths that show this. In one hadith he claimed when he was a child two men dressed in white came and opened his chest and pulled out his heart and opened it and from it they throw away a clogged blood and then washed it and put it back and sew him up. Then they weighed him against 100 people and he was heavier. Then they weighed him against 1000 people and he was still heavier. Then one of the men said to the other, leave him because if you weigh him against all mankind he will be still heavier.

I don’t want to talk about the ridiculousness of this story. It however shows he really thought of himself to be superior to everyone. That is not what humility looks like.

Why so many people get illumination and wisdom for reading Quran, in spite of showing the evils in the Quran and Islam, they still say they got illumination from it?

People can think they get enlightened, but in reality they are not. Those who convert to Islam and then leave it admit that they had been fooled without knowing it.

Where are the enlightened Muslims? I have debated with thousands of them and have exposed their ignorance. If Muslims become enlightened they should be able to make us see that light.  Why can’t they?  Their enlightenment is all subjective. Once tested with reason it becomes clear what they call enlightenment is nothing but ignorance and self-deception.

If Sufism also not true or pure spirituality, then why there were so many great wali and enlightened people, who even do miracles in living and even after their death, people get help from them (Tomb & Relics)?

I already answered this question. There are no miracles in Islam and in any religion. Those who claim performing miracles are charlatans. They trick people with cheap magic. Magicians are honest artists. They tell you from the outset that what you see is not real. But these impostor religious conmen lie to you and say it is miracle.  Anytime you hear someone has performed a miracle know that that person is an impostor.

When Muhammad was asked to perform amiracle he said he can’t do it and the only miracle he is given is the Quran. If Muhammad could not perform miracles how can his followers perform it? Miracles are a lie. As Einstein used to say, the greatest miracle is that there are no miracles and that the universe is governed by predictable laws.

Still from some Quranic verses people get cured some troubles are solved and evil spirits are warded off( I know faith helps, faith does everything but why evil spirits from house or buildings are removed from Quranic verses… though it sounds silly to atheists,  I myself is an atheist but…….)

Evil spirits don’t exist.  Evil people do and Muhammad and many of his followers are among them.   But faith heals. If you believe in something strongly you get result. You can pray to a chair and if you really believe the chair can cure you, you get the result. This is a known fact. It is being used as standard procedure to test the efficacy of a new drug. New drugs are tested against placebo.  The reason is that a lot of healing take place as the result of one’s expectation of getting better. Let us say 25% of people get cured simply by expecting to get cured. People who trust their doctors will get better even if the doctor gives them a sugarcoated starch tablet. If a drug then cures only 25% of patients, that drug is considered to have zero effect. If it cures 75% of the patients it is said that the drug is 50% efficient.

Everyone knows Khomeini was a truly evil man. But those who believe in that monster and pray in his mausoleum get cured. Khomeini must be in hell but the faith of his followers in him heal them from their diseases.

It is the faith that heals not the healer.

Etymologically spiritual means anything that relates to spirit or soul and not to physical nature and matter.

For a Christian, spirituality means having an intimate and personal relationship with God who exists outside of the creation and has revealed himself in the form of a man in the person of Jesus Christ, like sun shining in a mirror.

Non-religious, secular people define spirituality in a humanistic term. They emphasize on morality and qualities such as love, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, responsibility, and concerns for others, and “aspects of life and human experience which go beyond a purely materialist view of the world without necessarily accepting belief in a supernatural reality or divine being.” 1

So a basic definition of spirituality is the quality of one’s sensitivity to the things that are not of material and corporal nature.  Eating, drinking, physical comfort and sex are functions of the body, whereas love, fairness, compassion and kindness are faculties of the spirit. These are qualities that cannot be directly perceived by our senses but they can be felt powerfully and whose effects can be deduced or inferred by our observations.

For most people, spirituality means focusing on “the inside of life.” This definition is more or less accepted by people of all faiths and no faith.

Basic to this understanding is the premise that we regard humans, and perhaps the rest of creation, as something more than just matter. It presupposes that there is a reality in every living being that is immaterial, invisible and beyond our present knowledge. There is something in us more than what we can perceive with our senses.  We are not the same person as twenty years ago. Every cell and every atom in our body is changed and yet I am still the same person and you are the same. There is something constant in us. That is what we call “I.” The attributes of this “I” change, but the “I” itself does not change.

Will this “I” perish after our body stops functioning or will it survive it?  Is it a function of the body, like light in a lamp, or a component of it, like electricity? If it is a function then it is fair to say that the function ceases when the instrument stops working. But if it is a component, one can argue that it can survive even when the instrument is no longer working.  Electricity exists even when the lamp is burned. Let us not get into this subject now. Firstly because it is complicated and secondly because I don’t know the answer.  And let us say this “I” is our spirit.

What Spirituality Is Not

I don’t expect to understand spirituality in a rational way. If spirituality is defined as love, compassion, tolerance and sacrifice, there is little room for reason to explain it. A person who jumps into an icy river and risks his own life to save the life of a stranger is not acting according to reason. This person’s action can only be understood spiritually.

James Martin in his book “My Life with the Saints,” published in 2006, narrates a story about Mother Theresa. A man saw her cleaning the wounds of a leper and said, “I wouldn’t do that for a million dollars,” Mother Teresa replied, “Neither would I.”

Mother Theresa’s action cannot be explained rationally. But it can be understood spiritually. She did this for love. She said to the man, “But I would gladly do it for Christ.” She saw Christ or God in that leper.

There is no way to explain this rationally, but it cannot be dismissed either. It inspires us, uplifts us, moves us and makes us better.

In his first letter to Corinthians (2:14) Paul wrote, “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

If this passage is to explain the love of Mother Theresa for the leper, it makes perfect sense. What she did can only be understood though spiritual discernment. But if we take this passage as a license to believe in any gobbledygook, any absurdity and nonsense then that is not spirituality. It is foolishness plain and simple.

Let us take the example of the story of the creation in the Genesis. The literal interpretation of that book goes against science, reason and commonsense. It is foolishness to accept that explanation as how the world has come to be. That story is proven wrong. Love and sacrifice, although cannot be explained rationally, don’t go against it. So let it be clear that by spirituality we don’t mean stupidity.

If we were to accept anything that goes against reason “spiritually”, meaning. uncritically and blindly, then how can we distinguish truth from falsehood?  How can we reject the absurd claims made by Muhammad, or any other impostor? Shall we believe in his Mi’raj, or his other absurd claims? If not, why not? If every nonsense claim is to be accepted “spiritually” we are left with no tool to separate the wheat from the chaff and differentiate between truth and falsehood.  Belief in absurdity is not spirituality. There is nothing spiritual in being stupid.

Is Spirituality in Harmony with Reason?

True spirituality is never contrary to reason. You need to have an understanding of art and beauty in order to appreciate a symphony or a painting. Likewise, you have to have spiritual awareness in order to perceive the harmony of the universe.

Human’s great minds were often spiritual people.  In his book, Einstein: His Life and Universe the author Walter Isaacson writes, “It may seem logical, in retrospect, that a combination of awe and rebellion made Einstein exceptional as a scientist. But what is less well known is that those two traits also combined to shape his spiritual journey and determine the nature of his faith. The rebellion part comes in at the beginning of his life: he rejected at first his parents’ secularism and later the concepts of religious ritual and of a personal God who intercedes in the daily workings of the world. But the awe part comes in his 50s when he settled into a deism based on what he called the “spirit manifest in the laws of the universe” and a sincere belief in a “God who reveals Himself in the harmony of all that exists.”

Einstein’s Jewish parents had become completely Germanized and secularized. They did not keep kosher or attend synagogue. His father, Herman, referred to Jewish rituals as “ancient superstition.” So when it was time for Albert to go to school, they sent him to one that was closer and did not care that it was a Catholic School.

As the only Jew among the 70 students in his class, Einstein took the standard course in Catholic religion and it was then that he fell in love with Jesus. Decades later he said, “I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.”

When he was 10, someone gave him science books which he read with breathless attention. By the age of 12 he rejected God altogether. He later wrote, “Through the reading of popular scientific books, I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of free thinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression.”

Einstein did, however, had a profound faith in, and reverence for the harmony and beauty of what he called the mind of God as it was expressed in the creation of the universe and its laws.

In a dinner party, when Einstein had turned 50, a guest expressed a belief in astrology. Einstein ridiculed the notion as pure superstition. Another guest stepped in and similarly disparaged religion. Belief in God, he insisted, was likewise a superstition.  At this point the host tried to silence him by invoking the fact that even Einstein harbored religious beliefs. “It isn’t possible!” the skeptical guest said, turning to Einstein to ask if he was, in fact, religious. “Yes, you can call it that,” Einstein replied calmly. “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.” (Isaacson)

When asked whether he believes in God, Einstein responded, “I’m not an atheist. I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.”

I call myself an atheist. It is not that I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in the god that is being taught to us. When Galileo rejected the geocentricity of the universe, he did not reject the universe; he rejected people’s understanding of it. Likewise, I reject peoples understanding of God. In reality, my god is not much different from the god of Einstein, although I believe I am more of a pantheist. I don’t seek God in religious texts, in churches and temples. I seek IT in the melody of life – in the faces of little children, and not just human children, children of all creatures. God for me is in anything that emanates love. IT is not in the skies; it’s right here inside every person and every animal. To quote Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Babies are the source of my spirituality. I see God in children of all kinds

Like the rays of sun shining in different objects and reflecting back differently, everyone is born as a manifestation of God reflecting IT’s light differently. I see God in every living being and because of that I value life. I think respect for life is an essential ingredient of spirituality. In one interview, Bill Maher was asked how he can reconcile his support for abortion, which is a liberal cause with his support for death penalty, which is a conservative cause. He said, life does not have much value, even dogs can do it (give birth to living beings). I wish I could ask him whether he thinks that his life also has no value or is it just the lives of others that are worthless.

For me life is the most precious thing that exists. Look at the vastness of the universe and the small size of the Earth in it. As far as we know, the Earth is the only place where life can exist. Anything which is rare is precious. Nothing is rarer than life. There are dead suns that are made entirely of diamond.   I am not talking about mountains of diamond. The whole damn star is made of diamond. Other dead stars are full of heavy metals including gold, platinum and silver.What is scarce is life.

People often misunderstood or perhaps deliberately misinterpreted Einstein’s religious beliefs. So in the summer of 1930 he composed a credo titled, “What I Believe.”  He explained: “The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man.”

This did not satisfy those who wanted a straightforward answer as to whether Einstein believed in God or not. Orthodox Jewish leader in New York, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, send a very direct telegram to Einstein: “Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid. 50 words.” Einstein used only about half his allotted number of words. It became the most famous version of an answer he gave often: “I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”

Although he rejected the orthodox interpretation of God, Einstein was consistent in rejecting the charge that he was an atheist. “There are people who say there is no God,” he told a friend. “But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.”

Unlike many atheists of his time and our time, Einstein never denigrated those who believed in God; instead, he tended to denigrate atheists. “What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos,” he explained.

“In fact, Einstein tended to be more critical of debunkers, who seemed to lack humility or a sense of awe, than of the faithful,” Writes Isaacson. “The fanatical atheists,” he wrote in a letter, “are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who–in their grudge against traditional religion as the ‘opium of the masses’– cannot hear the music of the spheres.”

To avoid any misunderstanding, he also emphasized, “The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religion and of science lies in this concept of a personal God.”

Einstein, did not believe in supernatural. “For some people,” writes Isaacson, “miracles serve as evidence of God’s existence. For Einstein it was the absence of miracles that reflected divine providence. The fact that the world was comprehensible, that it followed laws, was worthy of awe.”

Spirituality in Islam

Now that I gave a brief description of spirituality it becomes clear that Muhammad had no understanding of it. He had no appreciation for life. He killed anyone who was not useful to him. If they did not believe in him, if they did not help him to conquer and loot, or if they  did not work for him as slaves and dhimmis, he got rid of them.

His celebrations of festivities require spilling the blood of animals. What kind of god is this that demands blood to be pleased?  I respect Hinduism because it respects life.

Islam’s diabolic rituals known as Eid. These are the occasions Muslims rejoice.

Muhammad’s afterlife is this-worldly.  In his paradise, people are rewarded with carnal pleasures such as gluttony, debauchery and coition.  There are no libraries, museums or art centers in his paradise. The poor man could not envision the joy of reading and had no understanding of finer things in life. He was only aware of the sensations in his penis and his belly.  His hell is also a physical place where his detractors are tortured and roasted and are made to eat pus.  The words spiritual and spirituality do not appear in the Quran, not once.  Isn’t that incredible? Muslims seek spiritual guidance from a book that does not mention that word at all.  Imagine you want to learn golf, and buy a book that does not mention golf anywhere.  I don’t know how much you Muslims want to fool your selves, but that is what you are doing. The concepts of love, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and responsibility were also alien to Muhammad. He could only understand obedience. He was indeed a man with a very underdeveloped and primitive mind.

For the Sufis, this represented a problem. Instead of accepting the fact that Islam is completely bereft of spirituality, they claimed that the Quran has two contradictory meanings. One its outer meaning, (the shell) which is its apparent meaning and the other, which is entirely different, is its inner meaning (the pith) that can be understood only by those who are spiritually purified.

This of course became another source of power and self glorification for some to teach others how to interpret the hidden meanings of the Quran. They formed schools, collected disciples and called themselves saints and holy men – men specially endowed with insights that ordinary people did not possess.  In reality they were a bunch of charlatans deceiving others. There is no secret knowledge in the Quran.

The Sufis were opposed and rejected by the majority of Muslims as heretics. They were accused of twisting the meaning of the Quran.  The argument presented by the Sufis is flatly rejected by the Quran itself, which repeatedly claims to be a “clear book” (5:15) “easy to understand” (44:58 , 54:22 , 54:32, 54:40) “explained in detail” (6:114), “conveyed clearly” (5:16, 10:15) and with “no doubt” in it (2:1).  The author of the Quran wanted it to be read and understood literally. Any interpretation of the Quran that is not consistent with its apparent meaning is to be rejected.  Sufism is not Islam. It is a heretic faith and a deception. If Muhammad were alive, he would have burned the Sufis just as he burned his followers in the mosque of Dhu Awan because someone told him they are interpreting the Quran in their way and don’t believe in Jihad.

Spirituality is therefore, many things. It can be the sense of awe vis-à-vis the universe (Einstein), or it can be reverence for life (Jainism). It can mean communion with God (Christianity) and it can mean service to fellow beings (Mother Theresa). And it can mean nurturing love, compassion, kindness, forgiveness, responsibility, sacrifice and fairness (Buddhism and humanism). Being spiritual means being an evolved human.  It means being aware of good and evil and choosing good over evil. Attaining spirituality should be the main goal of every person. As a spiritual person you transcend names and can see good wherever it occurs.

Richard Dawkins believes no one who believes in God should be elected as the president of the United States. He prefers Obama, despite him claiming to be a Christian and believing in God, because he knows that Obama’s faith is a fake like his birth certificate.  Dawkins prefers a conman, one who will bankrupt America and bring chaos to the world to a good Christian even though the Christian is more qualified.   Qualifications don’t  matter, says Dawkins, it is the belief, or rather disbelief that matters. This is not spirituality to me.  This is Islamic thinking that I rejected a long time ago and will not accept it in the guise of atheism. If you are not fair, you are not spiritual. If you can see goodness in others and appreciate their value irrespective of who they are, their belief, their gender or race,  then you can call yourself spiritual – an evoled human.

There are many paths to spirituality. Islam is not one.  Anything that makes you a better person is a spiritual path. The more you immerse yourself in Islam the darker your soul becomes. Born to carry the light of God, once you start following Muhammad, you become evil.  Your thoughts become demonic. The hatred of your fellow being fills your heart, leaving no room for love. You become the manifestation of Devil. Even the faces of the very devout Muslims show that evilness. Amazingly people become ugly when they become devout Muslims.  I don’t know how to explain this rationally but it is an observable fact.  Just look at the faces of the terrorists. These are the most devout Muslims.  Or look at the faces of the leaders of Islamic parties. There is something very evil in their eyes.  Islam is an anti-spiritual creed. It does not make you a better person. The more you follow it the worse you become.  It is a creed that makes monsters out of angels.  If I believed in Satan I would say Islam is Satan’s plot to destroy this world and take everyone to hell.

A friend from Indonesia requested that I write a book answering in simple terms the most common myths about Islam. He came up with a few myths and I have thought of some more. I list them below.

I think I’ll call it 101 Myths of Islam. Each myth will be dispelled with less than 1000 words.

The number of false arguments Muslims make to prove Islam is true is limited. If we can answer them all or at least most of them and compile those answers in one volume, that book will serve two goals. It will help the Muslim who reads it to see the fallacy of all Islamic arguments and it can also be used as a handbook for anyone who engages in debates with Muslims.

I’d like to request your help in giving me ideas of the most common myths (questions or arguments) Muslims bring up. Here are the myths we have identified so far. If you can help me complete the list I will be very grateful.

This book will not address the scientific or miraculous claims made about the Quran.

I am trying to write one myths per day, so hopefully the book should be ready in about four to five months.

Please don’t engage in discussions in the comments section of this article. This post is temporary. Once I have the list I will remove it.

Thank you for your help.

Ali Sina

 101 Myths of Islam

I have so far answered the myths written in red font.

1. Islam mean peace.
2. Muhammad is “rahmatan lil alamin” (a mercy to the worlds).
3. There is no compulsion in Islam.
4. The Quran 109:6 says “Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion,” which proves  Islam promotes religious tolerance.
5. The Quran says whosoever kills one person, is as if he has killed mankind.
6. Islam is the only religion that gives guidance and rules over all aspects of human life. It is the most complete and perfect set of heavenly rules for the world.
7. Islam is the fastest growing religion.
8. Islam is the only pure monotheistic religion.
9. Allah is the same god of the Bible.
10. Muhammad is mentioned in the scriptures of other faiths?
11. Musa and Isa of the Quran are the same Moses and Jesus of the Bible.
12. Allah is the actual name of God?
13. Islam respects women and teaches modesty. That is why so many women are converting to Islam.
14. Jihad means ‘internal struggle’. Islamic terrorists misunderstand Jihad!
15. Jihad is only allowed as a self defense.
16. Islam is compatible with democracy.
17. Islam can be reformed.
18. Islam is a perfect religion that does not need reform.
19. Islam promotes high morality.
20. Islam promotes family values.
21. Islam is an ethical religion.
22. Islam is a natural religion. Everyone is born Muslim
23. There are many interpretations of Islam, not all Muslims should be painted with the same brush.
24. Islam is the continuation of the same message brought by Jesus.
25. The Quran is a masterpiece that cannot be reproduced.
26. The Quran is a book without contradictions.
27. Unlike other sacred books that are corrupted the Quran is preserved.
28. Islam is against idol worship.
29. Islam encourages kindness to animals.
30. Islam encourages learning.
31. Islam promotes reason and rational thought.
32. Muhammad married mostly widows out of charity.
33. Prior to Islam Arabs used to bury their daughters alive.
34. Prior to Islam Arabs were constantly fighting with each other, Muhammad united them.
35. Prior to Islam women had no rights. Islam elevated their rights.
36. Islam respects all religions.
37. In Islam women are treated like queen.
38. In Islam the consent of the woman is a prerequisite to the validity of the marital contract.
39. A Muslim woman has the right to divorce her husband.
40. Jesus and all prophets before him were Muslim.
41. All Muslims are considered equal. In Islam there is no discrimination.
42. The Quran is clear and easy to understand.
43. Muhammad paid a visit to the Jewish woman who used to throw garbage at him when she became sick.
44. Islam has been hijacked by extremists.  Terrorism is all politics and about Israel.
45. Fasting is good for health.
46. The Quran cannot be translated in other languages.
47. Muhammad was insan-e kamel, the perfect role model.
48. Islam is against slavery.
49. The “golden age of Islam.”
50. There is less crime in Islamic countries.
51. Quran is uncorrupted while the Bible is corrupted.
52. Mecca is the center of the world.
53. Sharia banking is the best banking practice.
54. Hijab is symbol of modesty.
55. Hijab is cultural. It has nothing to do with Islam.
56. Hijab  prevents rape against women.
    
57. The Sharia law has the solution to all human problems.
58. Under Islam the dhimmis can live freely.
59. Muhammad was known as an honest man in Mecca prior to his “revelation.”
60. Honor killing is cultural not an Islamic practice.
61. Muhammad forgave those who persecuted him in Taif and in Mecca
62. Muhammad killed the Jews, because they did had violated their signed treaty.
63. Muhammad treated all his wives equally.
64. Muslims respect all religions.
65. The Quran is inimitable (no sura like this)
    
66. A Muslim woman can freely choose her husband and has the right to divorce.
67. Mohammed’s wars were all defensive
68. Islam prescribes kindness to animals
    

Thank you. We now have 61 myths. 40 more to go.

If I am not adding your suggestion to this list, it is either because it is already included with a different wording or because I don’t have a clear understanding how to explain it.  They also may not be a myth at all, such as Islam was born in the full light of the history. This is a fact not a myth. Those who challenge this fact engage in conspiracy theory.

Asalaam,

You all may know me from the title of M Y, i posted my apostasy in your ffi column i which i got lots of motivating response.  Still i see my post in your web in front home page.

Yes this is true i left Islam for good after 7 yrs of being in your site and with facts of rationality that you have did hard work to prove that Islam is lie.

I found that when you prove Islam is all lie, its so interesting to read and to accept because you convince with rationality not with pocket words.

Problem comes in reality.  I don’t know about you and many but there are people like me too who needs faith.

In short after leaving Islam , i looked after many faiths like Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and humanism (although its not a faith).

Because i was one time practicing Muslim who loved his sweetness of faith, therefore i did not found any sweetness in other faith like Islam.

No matter on what foundation its based on but still i believe the one who is born with any religion become his/her part of life.

You were in in canada when you left Iran, so you can practice your humanism without going to mosques, praying, fasting and all Islamic pillars.

But i stay in a country where we used to enjoy Ramadan, eid , praying going to mosques , its not only environment but its all culture which matters.

You just  cannot throw easily a religion and culture which you have born with.  I am not hypocrite whatever i do i do not by pretending.

Maybe you can pray behind your uncle just to show him and make him happy as he is the old man, but i cant do.

In short i learned lot from your site that at least being Muslim i will never force my religion on others and believe in humanity but i cant stop namaaz,   and all islamic duty.

If there is no GOD so no problem i love my faith i will follow it and if GOD who is not ALLAH then why did he made me born with Islam ?, if he don’t like it.

Anyway i know you say the problem with Islam is that does not bring peace but hate and its religion of shaitan because its forces people.

Mr Sina i have seen people dying with cancer who were believers and non believers at end everyone remembers there god, there faith.

And i come to believe that’s what it counts leaving all doubts behind.

I don’t wish but what if you got cancer and your pain is unbearable and you are about to die will you not remember GOD forgetting your all doubts ?.

Many people have tried to reform Islam let us do too, forgetting her past history we can make our religion now of peace by joining other faiths in unity.

No one is perfect you will always find one good thing in person following humanity and one bad thing too like-vise in any person following Islam.

It will not cost you to keep your faith Islam with you as long as you believe in peace not in violence .

In bible too there are lots of verses of violence but most Christians follow humanism.

I know you will not like this but i am back to my new reformed Islam where i love sweetness of my faith.

You can leave your life and can convince others but know that its different in real word you cannot pretend every time there is guilt felling too.

And don’t forget death which we all have to face one-day, so let everyone believe with whatever they are born with and thats a humanity too..

Take care.

 Dear Yasin,

I empathize with your feelings. I went through the same processes.  In fact I wrote a long article about my journey from belief to enlightenment, which I titled Seven Valleys From Faith to Enlightenment.

Your feelings are legitimate. Our emotions have a much stronger hold on us than our rational thoughts.  Our prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for our focus, planning, abstract thought, empathy, judgment and insight, is very new.  It first appeared in primates and culminated in human brain.

Hominid brains have evolved and grown from 400g in just 3-4 million years, to their present size of 1400g (1.4kg).  Homo sapience, i.e. us, is believed to have emerged only 100,000 years ago.  The Homo erectus, who lived 1.7 million years ago and had a body not much smaller than us, had a brain half of the size of our brain.  Most of the growth of our brain has taken place in our prefrontal cortex. That is where our rational thoughts are generated.

Our emotions are generated in the limbic system. The limbic system can record memories of agreeable and disagreeable experiences.

The limbic system emerged in the first mammals.  The first mammals evolved from therapsids (“mammal-like reptiles”) at the end of the Triassic period.  That is about 248 to 206 million years ago. Yes mammals co-existed with dinosaurs, but of course they were tiny in size, like mice, so they were in no danger by those giant beasts.

This old limbic system is the seat of the value judgments that we make, often unconsciously, that exert such a strong influence on our behavior.

Our prefrontal cortex is what questions, judges and evaluates the truth and falsehood of a belief and accepts or rejects it on a rational level.  However, this is only true if the belief is not rooted in our emotions. For example, a scientist may hold a belief about an area of science and he may have dedicated the best part of his career to prove a theory. But once that theory is refuted, sometimes by the scientist himself, he will readily toss it away and will no longer hold unto it.

Religious belief is deeply rooted in emotions. It brings to mind memories of joy, euphoria, friendship, of waking up in early mornings to eat and pray, the moment of iftar which was more than just eating but of expectation and reunion. The fuzzy feeling of having obeyed God and attaining his pleasure. Memories of childhood and of Ramadan, of friendships we formed in the mosque. All these feelings are generated in our limbic system.  This is a much more ancient brain than our impersonal, calculative and rational prefrontal cortex and therefor it is stronger.

Which memories are more enduring and more significant in your life? The ones pertaining to your childhood, when you were shown love and affection or perhaps abused and mistreated or when you learned how to calculate the root square of a number? Of course memories that involve our emotions are more significant to us.

Religion has very little to do with reason and a lot to do with emotions. It affects our limbic system more than it does our prefrontal cortex. And our limbic system has a greater hold on us than our rational mind.

Feelings are stronger than reason.  But not for long! Eventually reason overcomes emotions. In Aesop’s story of the race between rabbit and turtle, rabbit is faster but at the end the turtle wins the race, because he is more steady and persistent. Emotions are like the rabbit and reason is like the turtle. Reason never relents. It is very stubborn. At first emotions seem to be winning, but eventually reason wins the race.

If you think you miss the emotional fuzziness that you used to receive as a believer go ahead and immerse yourself in Islam. It is my belief that after sometimes you will give up. That is my experience. After the initial shock that I received when I learned the truth about Islam, I tried my best to cling to my faith. I prayed more fervently. I wanted to regain my faith.  After two years of dismal failure I realized I am only trying to fool myself and gave up trying. It took me two years to accept I am not a believer anymore.

I compared this period to when Adam ate from the tree of knowledge and his eyes were opened. He could see the truth that he was naked and as the result he was kicked out of the paradise. That paradise was the paradise of ignorance. Once you eat from the tree of knowledge and your eyes are opened, you can no longer stay there. He saw himself naked because everything he thought to be true was not.  He saw himself as the emperor  with the invisible clock and the deception of it all.

I clung to those closed gates for two years until I accepted the reality that I can’t go back.  I had to find my own way and earn my living with the sweat of my brow. In other words seek knowledge through my own efforts and not rely on someone providing it for  me.

When you are a believer, you don’t have to search for the truth. All the answers are provided for you in a book. To understand how the world came to be, you consult that book. To decide how to treat other humans you read that book. To find how to run your daily life and the best way to govern the society, you read that book. Islam goes even further and tells you what to eat and what not to eat, how to dress, how to brush your teeth, how to defecate, urinate and copulate. When you leave your religion, you have to rely on science, on conscience and on commonsense to find the answer to your questions. This is the interpretation of the metaphor of earning your livelihood with the sweat of your brow.

The movie Matrix depicts the same story in a science fiction film. You and I have taken the red pill. We have seen the truth. Not knowing the truth was more pleasant, but it is too late for us.

So go ahead and give your best shot and see if you can go back. See if you can unlearn what you have learned.  I tried for two years and failed.  I know others who did the same and they too failed. Let me know if you succeed. Once a child is born he cannot go back to the womb again.

Do I miss the belief in God? I confess that I do. This is now 18 years that I am an atheist. But I would not hesitate to become a believer if God if only I could. About three years ago my sister called and gave me a terrifying news. She said, she may lose her daughter. A tumor had been found in the fourth ventricle of my beautiful 22 years old niece. This is a cavity between cerebrum and brain stem – the most sensitive place in human body. Her father is a psychiatrist and knows about the brain. He told my sister to be prepared for the worst. You can imagine the devastation that this news caused to everyone. My sister said, please pray. I said, to whom? She said Ali, I need to believe or I will go mad..

I went out and walked by the sea with a huge pain on my chest.  I wanted to do something, but there was nothing I could do. If I believed in God I could pray and satisfy myself that I did what I could. That is when I realized how lucky the believers are.  The feeling of helplessness is overbearing. The belief in God is a fantasy, but it is a beautiful fantasy that helps us overcome hardships, gives us hope and a sense of belonging.

(The operation was successful and the tumor was benign. My niece is perfectly fine.)

Belief in God can help patients live longer.  According to a new study, post-operative patients with religious faith have a better survival rate than those without such beliefs.

Daily Telegraph  reported A research  found that people who were actively “seeking God” fared better than those who did not hold religious faith, regardless of which faith they held.   Even patients who did not attend church were up to three times more likely to survive by having a “strong religious connection.

Dr Franco Bonaguidi, who led the study, said the study found patients with “high religious coping” who actively sought “God’s help” and trusted their beliefs had a “more prolonged post-transplant survival than patients with low religiosity. We found that an active search for God, (where) the patient’s faith in a higher power rather than a generic destiny, had a positive impact on patient survival,” he said. Dr Bonaguidi added that it was, “the personal relationship between the patient and God, regardless of religious creed rather than formal church attendance that positively affected survival.” The specific religious beliefs held by a person did not appear to matter.

I don’t believe in God because I can’t. Muhammad would say my heart is sealed. I believe my eyes are opened. Whatever the case I know that I can’t become a believer and that is despite my wish.  I envy the believers. I have never tried to persuade others to give up belief in God. I am not an atheist crusader. Furthermore, I don’t see atheism contributing any improvement in human conduct. It does not make us more ethical or more moral. It is more rational. Reason is important, but there are other factors that are also important, such as love, altruism, hope and friendliness. Different religions emphasize on these factors differently. In Islam there is not much love and altruism, and friendliness is limited to fellow believers. But there is hope – the hope for the afterlife. This hope may be a fallacy but it is still hope and hope is good.

If you can and want to believe in God, I suggest you choose a god that is a god of love. Follow a religion that promotes altruism, is inclusive and not exclusive, and does not advocate the hatred of the outsiders. Islam does not fall into that category. Islam is a religion that promotes hatred and violence against non-believers. The word kafir is derogatory. It means one who covers. In fact “cover” and “kafir” are etymologically connected. Kafir is one who knows the truth and hides it. This is an insult. It is stupid to believe people know the truth and reject it. Narcissists think like that. Since Islam is the brainchild of a narcissist, it denigrates the disbelievers and calls them kafir.  You did not become a kafir when you found the truth about Islam and left it. But now that you know that truth and try to cover it, you have become a kafir. (What I say is true, but I am only teasing you).

It is true that it is easier for one who lives in the west to leave Islam. I could go to churches and I did. I had read the Bible and it did not appeal to me, specially the Old Testament. I was not going to churches in the search of truth. I knew I can’t find the truth in any church, synagogue or temple.  I needed human contact and company. I found a Mennonite church, which was great. After the highly lively sermons, the music and the choir there was lunch. I paid just the cost of the food, very little money, and had as nice meal that I could eat in the company of others. Each week I sat at a different table and met new people.  In the evenings there was youth activity, music and songs. And sometimes they organized outings, such as hiking and sport. There were Bible studies. Since I knew the Bible better than others I often explained it to them. I never told them I don’t believe. I was not going to spoil their fun and I also enjoyed seeing the joy in their faces. Then I moved to another city and did not look for another church.

Unfortunately, living in an Islamic country you can’t have that kind of experience. Yes there is a lot of sweetness in other faiths too.  You can’t taste them because you approach them rationally, while your approach to Islam is emotionally.

Going back to the mosque is your only option.  Go ahead. Eventually you will accept that you don’t belong there.  This can take a few months or a few years. When the time is right for you, you’ll resign to that fact.

One day, when standing for prayer, I paused and told myself, what the hell are you doing? Who are you trying to fool? From thereon, I realized I can’t go back.

There is another very important point that you must remember. Many Muslims are terrorists. They kill innocent people all over the world.

Yesterday the Taliban Muslims shot Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-old girl activist and nearly killed her. Her crime was to expose the Taliban’s atrocities and advocate for girls’ education. Malala was shot in the head and neck.

Who is responsible for this crime? The Taliban? No! the Taliban are practicing the true Islam. You and other Muslims who go to the Mosque and keep this religion of hate alive are responsible. The Taliban see this and believe Islam is the fastest growing religion and hence they conclude that it must be true. If it is true why not practice it the way Muhammad intended it to be practiced?

If people stopped going to the mosque and mosques become empty, these fools will lose their steam and will not be so eager to kill innocent people.

Any time Islam is perceived as strong Islamic terrorism (jihad) becomes virulent.  Any time you go to the mosque remember you are indirectly promoting Islam and have a share in the spread of Islamic terrorism. If after this you can live with your conscience, go ahead and pretend to be a Muslim.

What made Hitler strong? It was the huge masses who went to listen to his speeches. if these people did not go and by their presence did not show their support of that madman, would he have dared to start the war and kill so many people?  Hitler was a madman.  You can’t expect responsibility from a madman. The ultimate responsibility was on the people who supported him.

When the Islamic revolution happened I was not in Iran. But I met many people who had escaped after the revolution. They said they did not know a thing about Khomeni and the revolution. They were not interested in politics at all. They just went to the streets because it was fun. It was a novelty. They sang a few taboo slogans which in itself was exiting and there was no danger, because the Shah had ordered his soldiers not to shoot at the crowd.  Without knowing, they made that revolution happen and not only they paid for their stupidity, their children are still paying for it.

Any time you go to the mosque, you are supporting a terrorist cult. What you feel inside does not count. Your presence is evidence of your support for Islam and an encouragement for the Taliban and other terrorists.

Hi Mr Sina,

Few months back in the famous city of Lagos here in Nigeria, a certain mysterious news filled the pages of newspapers. It was said that a baby was born holding the Quran.  People rushed in their numbers to visit the venue where the incidence occurred. A few weeks later, another baby was said to be born in Ogun State (a south western state in Nigeria) holding the Islamic rosary.

Muslims claim both incidences confirm that Islam is the true way to God.   What is your opinion about these claims? Is it possible to implant these objects in the uterus and put them in the hands of babies before their birth or could this be the proof that Islam is true?

Dear Emmanuel,

These stories are not true. No child is born holding a Quran or a rosary in his or her hand. These are lies Muslims concoct to promote their religion. They have been doing this since 1400 years. Islam cannot be proven with logic and facts. It is a very irrational faith and it is very easy to prove that it is false. So Muslims resort to their favorite trick, deception, to advance their faith.  They shamelessly lie. You have to understand this and keep it in your mind any time you listen to a Muslim preaching his faith, because they lie.

A few years ago many Internet blogs and even the media reported a child in an Islamic village in Russia whose skin reproduced the verses of the Quran.  The benighted Muslims had no difficulty gobbling this claim. This was no miracle. The child had a skin disorder known as dermatographic urticarial.

A few days ago I received this video in the mail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9X5zkMWKzI&feature=g-vrec

As long as there are fools who believe in any nonsense, there will be people who will come forth with these fake miracles to grab attention.  Isn’t it pathetic that a child can fool a television station and a whole nation? The reason is because Muslims want to be fooled.

There are thousands of such claims that Muslims make daily. They have no shame lying for their faith. In fact they believe lying is a good thing to promote Islam.

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A couple of days ago someone asked me about another claimed miracle regarding the Pharaoh being mentioned in the Quran. Muslims claim that when in 1974 the mummified body of Ramses II was brought to Paris, because a fungus was causing its rapid degeneration, the scientists discovered salt in his lungs and someone pointed out the verse of the Quran that says after Pharaoh chased Moses he was drowned in the sea.   However, in the last moment he became a believer and Allah told him because you were a mischief-maker we are not going to save you but we will save your body so you may be a sign to those who come after you. (Quran 10:90-92).

The fact is that the Old Testament does not say the Pharaoh’s body was saved to be a sign for the posterity. Exodus 14:28 says “And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them. Psalm 136:15 confirms that Pharaoh and his army were perished in the sea. The same confirmation is made in Exodus 15:19.

Muslims claim that Muhammad knew something that the Bible had not mentioned, i.e., the body of Pharaoh was saved, so this proves the Quran is from God and this miracle caused the conversion of one of the scientists examining the mummy.

Just like all other miracles that Muslims claim this one is also a deception. Ramses II lived c. 1303 BC – 1213 BC. As for when Moses lived Jerome’s Chronicon (4th century) gives 1592 for the birth of Moses, the 17th-century Ussher chronology calculates 1619 BC (Annals of the World, 1658). Therefore, Ramses II and Moses were not contemporary.

Furthermore, Ramses II was not drowned in the sea. He lived to be 90 years old and as the autopsy of his mummy revealed he died of arthritis, a typical disease of the old age affecting people who eat too much meat and animal products and not enough fresh veggies. (Go vegan!)  Consequently, the story stated in the Quran that the body of Pharaoh was saved after drowning cannot be true.

But why would Muhammad say such thing?   He must have heard the biblical story of the drowning of the Pharaoh and his men from the Christian preachers and the Jews many times.  In those days people had no other book but the Bible and that is what they talked about all the time. However, Muhammad had also heard about the mummification of pharaohs from other storytellers.  He thought pharaoh is the name of one king and so the only way he could reconcile these stories was to assume that Pharaoh’s body must have been saved after being drowned and then mummified. And why would he body be saved?  Well maybe because he finally became a believer. Thus our genius solved the puzzle.

This made sense to him, except for the fact that pharaoh is not a proper name. It is a title, like king and president. An estimated 332 pharaohs ruled Egypt belonging to 30 dynasties.  Assuming the Biblical narrative of the Red Sea opening and closing to drown the Pharaoh and his army is true, Ramses II could not have been that drowned Pharaoh.

If the story in the Bible is a myth, then the claims made in the Quran rehashing this myth are nonsense. If the story is true, the Quran is wrong because it contradicts the Bible and makes an unsubstantiated and false claim that the body of Pharaoh was saved.

All these errors in the Quran prove one thing and that is Muhammad was indeed an illiterate man. Although he could read and write a little, it is clear that he had not read a single book in his life and most certainly he was very ignorant about the content of the Bible.

One thing is a fact that from among thousands of miracles that Muslims claim to evidence the truth of their faith none is true.  They are all deceptions and lies.

There is no miracle in the Quran. There is only confusion that point to the fact that the author of this book was an ignoramus.