KEYS TO
UNDERSTANDING ISLAM
A
FACT-BASE APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND AND TALK ABOUT ISLAM
To
understand and talk about Islam we have to develop:
· A rational study
of Islam
· A precise
language that breaks the PC/Bigot barrier.
· Easy to
understand
· Fact-based.
· A way to
separate religion from religion.
· Complete
approach.
The
absolute foundational statement that everyone agrees upon concerning what Islam
is based on:
“There is no god be
Allah and Mohammed is his Prophet”
This
is the beginning and foundation of Islam, everyone agrees. So, where do we learn about Allah? The
Qur’an?
1st Key to understanding Islam: There are
actually two distinct Qur’ans under the same binding of a single book.
· One written in
Medina (36%)
· One written in
Mecca (64%)
These
2 Qur’ans are radically different: the Mecca Qur’an (earlier one) states (Sura
109:1), “You have your religion, I have mine”; the Medina Qur’an (later one)
states (Sura 8:12), “I shall cast terror into the hearts of the Kafir
(unbelievers). Strike off their heads, strike off the very tips of their
fingers!”
NOTE: The Doctrine
of Abrogation regarding the Qur’an: “The later verse is stronger than the
earlier verse.” In Islamic logic, 2
things can contradict each other and still be true.
2nd Key to understanding Islam: There are 5
Pillars of Islam which every Muslim must follow; yet there’s not a single verse
in the Qur’an that talks about how to do them.
However, there are 90 verses in the Qur’an that tell the Muslim he must
imitate Mohammed’s life and deeds. The
life and deeds of Moham-med are not found in the Qur’an, but in the Sira (biography of the Prophet Mohammed)
and the Hadith (traditions, the
things Mohammed said, and things he performed).
3rd Key…:
There are three lies you’ve been told
about Islam.
· It is a
religion.
· It is a religion
based on the Qur’an.
· Islam is so
difficult to understand and so intricate and subtle that you can never really
understand it.
The
truth is:
· Only about 14%
of the textual doctrine of Islam is actually found in the Qur’an.
· Put together,
the Sira (biographical stuff about
Mohammed) and the Hadith (traditions
formed around the person of Mohammed) contain 86% of the textual doctrine of
Islam.
Therefore,
Islam is 14% Allah and 86% Mohammed. What
this means is that we can know a tremendous amount about Islam without knowing
hardly anything about Allah!
Thus
everyone talks about Islam, but nobody can really tell you what it is - Islam. Here is what Islam it is:
“Islam is the political/religious doctrine found
in the Qur’an, Sira, and Hadith.”
What
is found in the Trilogy of Islam is what Islam is; what is not found there is
not Islam.
4th Key...: What we discover from the Trilogy of Islam is that
it is far more concerned with the Kafir (unbeliever—“Infidel”) than the true
believer.
· 64% of the
Qur’an is devoted to who are the Kafir and how they are to be treated. In every case the Kafir are to be treated
badly.
· 81% of the Sira
is devoted to Mohammed’s war and treatment of the Kafir.
· 31% of the
Hadith (traditions) are devoted to the unbelievers (Kafir).
5th Key…: Islam is not a religion, it is primarily a political doctrine. How do we know this?
a. The Kafir are completely outside of
Islam and can have no part in it.
b. 60% of all doctrinal writings of
Islam deal with “political” disposition of Kafir.
c. Therefore, Islam is primarily a political
doctrine, not a religious
one.
“Political
Islam is the Islamic doctrine that deals with the Kafir” (unbelievers).
6th Key…: Understanding Jihad. How much of the Qur’an is devoted to Jihad?
· Meccan Qur’an –
0%
· Medinan Qur’an –
24%
· Sira – 67%
· Hadith – 21%
Trilogy – 31%
How
much of Islamic doctrinal texts are related to Jews?
Mohammed’s
message can be trusted, the Muslim will say, because he got it from Allah
through the Angel Gabriel—and Gabriel is the same Angel who spoke to the Jewish
prophets.
Mohammed
cast himself in line with the prophets of the O.T.—the scriptures of the
Jews. So, the Meccan Qur’an has stories
about the Jewish figures from what we know as the Old Testament of the Bible (The Book,
as the Muslims refer to it).
No
Jews lived in Mecca, but Medina’s population was 50% Jewish when Mohammed when
there. These Jews rejected Mohammed as
one of their prophets. As a result, the
Medinan Qur’an becomes anti-Jewish. In the Trilogy, here is the breakdown of
the anti-Jew content:
· Meccan Qur’an –
1%
· Medinan Qur’an
–17%
· Sira – 12%
· Hadith – 8.9%
Trilogy
– 9.3% overall is devoted to Jew-hatred.
By comparison, Hitler’s Mein Kampf
devotes on 7% to Jew-hatred.
7th Key…: Knowing how successful Mohammed was
from a business perspective. Looking at
the Islamic growth curve, we discover it has 2 very distinct growth regions.
· Flat for the 13
yrs. Mohammed was in Mecca.
· Exponential
growth during his 23 yrs. during Medinan Jihad.
· Averaging a
bloody campaign of expansion every six weeks for the last 9 yrs. of his life,
Mohammed saw every Arab become Muslim.
Had Mohammed
never become a politician and a warlord, there may have been only a few hundred
Muslims in the world at his death.
Conclusion:
The “religion” of Islam was a total failure; whereas the “politics” of Jihad
made Islam a massive success.
Summarizing
the 4 fundamental facts about Islam:
1.
Two Mohammed’s emerge from history—the peaceful religious leader in Mecca; the
warlord politician in Medina.
2.
Contradictions in the early and later Qur’an are solved (ostensibly) by the
Doctrine of Abrogation (later texts overrule earlier texts).
3.
In Mecca, no Jihad; in Medina the Qur’an is filled with Jihad.
4.
Hatred of the Jew is missing totally from the Meccan texts; but a central theme
in the Medinan texts of the Qur’an.
These
4 contradictions give us the true insight into Islam, because these things are
all true at the same time. Islam is profoundly dualistic (perhaps even mildly
to severely schizophrenic).
· Islam always has
two contradictory things to say on almost every topic it addresses.
· It is religious;
it is political—this gives it a stealth coating.
v Religious cover
for its politics.
v Peaceful
religion to cover its Jihad.
v Acceptance of
Jewish prophets to mask Jew-hatred.
· Which Islam is
the real thing? Both! And there is
nothing you can do about it.
This
is Islam greatest strength, for it keeps equitable-minded people off
balance—“It is peaceful; or, is it Jihadist?”
8th Key…: Understanding Islamic Ethics. Islam does not have a “Golden Rule”
Instead, it has a dual ethic system: one for believers (fellow Muslims); and
one for the unbelievers (Kafir).
· How are Muslims
to be treated? From the Hadith 1) a Muslim never cheats a fellow Muslim in
business, 2) a Muslim never touches another Muslim’s wife, 3) a Muslim does not
deceive another Muslim.
· How are the
Kafir to be treated? In two ways: 1) as a friend, or 2) as an enemy—and both
ways are equally ethical in Islam.
· Islam practices taqiyya—“sacred deceit”—deception that
advances Islam. This means, practically speaking, a
non-Muslim cannot expect a Muslim to honor any negotiated treaty or settlement
since lying to a Kafir to advance the Islamic agenda is
perfectly acceptable—in fact, positively laudable. Can anybody say President Obama.
How
many people have be killed as a result of the Islamic doctrine of Jihad? Here is a breakdown from available historical
data:
· 60 million
Christians
· 10 million
Buddhists
· 80 million
Hindus
· 120 million
Africans
Total
victims of Islamic doctrine of Jihad (colloquially known as “Kill the
Infidels!”) is a whopping 270 million Kafir over 1400 yrs.
9th Key…: Law of Islam saturation. In short, Muslims slowly moving into a
country until their numbers reach political potency, and then taking over the
country. Startling examples:
· In 600 years,
Turkey went from being a Christian nation to being nearly 100% Muslim.
· This is true for
Egypt, a formally Christian nation—remaining Christians are currently being
further marginalized by burning their churches, homes, schools, etc. by members
of the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
· N. Africa, Iraq,
Syria, Lebanon all formally Christian.
· Afghanistan was
once largely Buddhist.
· Pakistan and
Bangladesh were at one time completely Hindu.
10th Key…: Islam’s treatment of woman. The breakdown of Qur’anic verses dealing with
women looks like this:
· 15% of the
verses hold women in high esteem (that is as mothers, and only as mothers);
· 23% of the
verses speak of women as equal to men (but in full submission to her husband);
· 71% of the
verses say women are held in low esteem.
The
same can be said of the verses about women in the Hadith. In fact, Mohammed once said he had a vision
of hell and it was overwhelmingly populated by women. When asked why, he said, “Because they were
not submissive to their husbands.”
11th Key to understand Islam in recognizing
what Dr. Warner calls the “Grand Lie”—that there is only one interpretation
of Islam and that is the one offered by the Muslim.
In fact, there are three interpretations
of Islam: a) the Believers view; b) the Kafir view; c) the Apologists view.
Bottom line: There are only
two valid opinions about Islam. One is
the opinion of Allah and the other is the opinion of Mohammed. Everything else is just commentary. Islam is found in three historical
sources. Ranked according to volume of
words, these are: the Hadith, the Sira, and the Qur’an. If it is not found in these books, then,
quite simply it’s not Islam. From this
we can confidently say Islam is more Mohammed than it is Allah.
