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A Moustache Could Mean Death in Pakistan

April 10, 2012 by 4 Comments

A mustache against religion?

A Pakistani man discovered that his mustache could cost him his life, when he was abducted and instructed to trim his facial hair because it is offensive or against the rules of Islam. One would think that the religious zealots of Pakistan have better things to do then run around a look for people with fancy facial hair.

This is nothing but a very vivid example of how one religion (in this case Islam) takes over any and every aspect of life, from getting up in the morning till going to bed at night and from choosing the clothes you wear to the choices one makes on grooming ones facial hair Islam is a totalitarian complete instruction set order book for life.

In the west many like to debate the different interpretations of religions, however in this case it is not as refine as that, one religious cleric decides that a long or bushy mustache is not allowed under Islam and others are quick to find and execute his orders on real people in the real world. This is exactly why so many people around the world object to the religion of Islam – because it is of totalitarian origins, and if kept as it is will forever be totalitarian.

Filed Under: Pakistan Tagged With: Islam, Islam and mustache, Islam short mustache, Pakistan man mustache, totalitarian

When Religions Drift Away

December 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment

One of the sad thing about religions is that once they embrace the core principles of the belief they continue to evolve, sometimes creating next to insane ideas on the way. We have already seen that in the case of the Cairo crazed religious leader who simply told females to stop touching cucumbers and other penis like vegetables (check it out on the post don’t touch the vegetables) and on several other cases.

Although this is primarily done in the Muslim world these days one can not say that Christianity and Judaism are lacking on the insanity department, and if we would post each and every time some crazy piece of news regarding some crazed religious guy telling others what they should do we would probably have to post a hundred times a day, so we pick only the ones that are truly spectacular.

And so we get to current day Islam, which is a 1,600 year old religion stuck in the year 2011 (soon to be 2012) and acting as if nothing has changed over the last few hundred years, causing many of its religious speakers to pay a lot of attention on things that are not only irrelevant but also pretty stupid. This time we see a Muslim telling others that just by saying “Happy Christmas” to others they are committing a terrible offense against Islam, he goes on to explain that notion.

However terrible saying something as innocent and banal as “Merry Christmas” one can not think of the really terrible things done by Muslims every day, around the world, to their bothers and sisters (I mean other Muslims) as well as non Muslims, we are talking blood red violence and not just saying a 2 word greeting to someone else, but this is not something many Muslims pay attention to, they rather focus on how to insult their host cultures (in this case it is clearly filmed in the U.K) than to spend an hour discussing why Islam has ended up being the worlds most brutal religion.

Merry Christmas!

Filed Under: Islam Tagged With: Christmas, Islam, Merry Christmas

2011 Personal Daily Journal From the Stone Age

November 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment

While surfing the net yesterday I saw something that really caught my attention, and even though it is not my habit to pick on innocent bystanders but this one really shows the chains of religion on (what seems like) a young man who is trying to understand what is the right thing to do. When you read and understand this you will also understand how it is very possible for believers to murder babies in the name of god, since even their own mother will not escape the harsh religious and cultural sentence.

A link got me to a site called “turn to Islam”, a forum with people discussing many things, but this one looked special, check it out

Haram, My Mom is going to get Stoned

There is no information about this young man, but from the way he uses English I think its a safe bet to say that he is living in the West (“Blow off steam”), and it also seems like his mother has been divorced for a very long time, without it being a huge deal, also an indication that this post is not coming from someone living in Arabia. Even if this person is not living in the West it is still a testimony for the terrible problems that religions causes, in this case Islam, but to be honest it could have easily been any other religion.

“Zina” is a very strong word, it does not translate well into English and it carries with it very strong meaning of fornication and adultery, the punishment for this “crime” is death in some Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran (who knew, right?) and can also be imprisonment and lashing (separately or a combo), the normal procedure in the Arab world is stoning the couple.

This might be a good time to say that views differ on the subject of the punishment, and that it is much more a cultural thing then the actual word of God in the book, however it is done in the name of religion, and in the case before us it is very easy to understand that the writer is above all in a state of overwhelming fear that his mother will be stoned.

Let’s think for a moment about how this could play itself in a modern secular family. A young adult has a reason to believe that his mother is having sex with a guy who he know is still married, he could be concerned about the future, the guy’s intentions, his mother’s feelings etc. He might be brave enough to ask his mother to have a serious talk with him, and he might discover that the guy is getting a divorce, that his wife is actually cheating on him for years, or any other thing that would make the situation look differently. Our believing writer here does not have a chance.

He is torn between fear and the need to show solid evidence against his own mother so that his brothers and sisters come to his help in removing the sex offender from their home and lives, the whole part of him thinking about placing a hidden camera in his mother’s bedroom so he can film her having sex (!) only to show it to all his siblings and go after her with the proof he so desperately needs to save her from stoning.

The totalitarian nature of religion removes that thought of the individual, even of the group, we can see how he has no concern for his mother’s feelings and sexual needs, to the guy’s family or to anyone in this situation, he is obsessed with following the religious process and stamping his mother guilty.

Scroll down and you will see the sound advice other believers give him, “get your brothers and kick him out” is basically it, no one stands to protect that mother, no one gives pause to any kind of human feeling, its all God’s prescribed movements that they are taking, and we should all be very concerned that in November of 2011 this kind of robotic behavior is displayed, because if they care not for their own mothers that will not care for our children.

Filed Under: Atheism blog, Islam, Religions Tagged With: Haram, Islam, Islamic sites, stoning, Zina

Sharia Would Not Work Well for Us

September 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment

One of the things many people living in the West ask when they are told about the Muslim vision of a global Sharia governance is why would they care about it, they wrongly assume that Muslims will set their own law and live with it happily, while letting non Muslims carry on with their normal lives as usual, the truth is not as tolerant and nice going as that unfortunately.

Non Muslims will need to follow Sharia just the same as Muslims, they will also need to pay a tribute to the Muslims and declare Islams superiority over them, and what makes this such a confusing thing to westerners is that it seems very technical to them. “So I will pay a little extra tax for the Muslims and live my life, that is not the end of the world, right?” or “OK, I will say that Islam is better and stronger, and will go on with things as usual” will not do, it is not a technical thing at all.

Imagine you are under Sharia, you’re a non Muslim, you are already used to paying 50% of your earnings to the Muslim government, and do that annual ceremony where you kneel and kiss the feet of Muslim clerics, your daughter is married to a Muslim and had converted, better for her – you think.

One day she knocks on your door, her husband had hit her again, only this time he had broken her hand. You remember the last time you went to report this to the police, and the beating you suffered from them, so you will not go this time, she can stay with you until her husband calms down, her baby girl is with her as well.

A few days pass and your son-in-law knocks on your door, he demands your daughter comes back home to clean and cook for him. She leaves and cries, after a few hours he beats her again and she runs away, she does not want to involve you, so she hides in a park, he finds her, and kills her. It’s his right, there is nothing you can do about it, you have seen this happen many times, its come a long way from the “technical” sharia you submitted to.

*Note – honor killings are not in Islam but they are now deeply rooted in Islamic-Arab culture, you will find many Arab courts defending women killers and beaters with the claim that this is very clearly allowed and advised by God.

 

Honor Killing in Egypt

Filed Under: Atheism, Islam Tagged With: honor killing, Islam, Sharia

Ten Year Old Mistakes

September 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Ten years ago, after the 9/11 attacks, many of the world leaders went out of their way to explain to their people that the actions did not reflect the religion of Islam and everything it stands for, like many obedient citizens around the world I too listened and nodded as they talked about “the religion of peace”, as if out of the three monotheistic religions Islam was the most peaceful one.

If it was not religion what was it? was it something personal all these hijackers had against the city of New York and Washington? of course not. Was it something racial? probably not, ah, there is it – it was a misunderstanding of the holy books of Islam, so not really the religion but the interpretation of it by some religious extremists. I bought it, seems to make sense.

But even with this misunderstanding there must have been something that moved these people into action, and it seemed that the only things that could really do that would be the treatment of Muslim countries by the West and, of course, Israel. The Israeli Arab war and the fact that Israel was so close to the west in its identity and philosophy added a lot of fuel to this fire, with the American weapons support it only made it worst.

So all the pieces fell in together, it all made sense, some radical Islamist had some twisted idea of Islam and decided to punish the US for its arrogant behavior towards the Arab world and Israel. And that worked for a while, but then we started getting the footage from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Gaza and Saudi Arabia, it looked like a lot of people were real happy with this, it looked like thousands actually celebrated 9/11.

So it was not just a few deranged crazy guys, it was much more, it was a culture of anti American sentiments and hatred of the U.S., and only a few years later I finally got a satisfying answer.

This was not a new fight, it was not a new battle and it was not a new sort of feeling that grow in the hearts and minds of many Muslims around the world, in fact it was very old, older then the American nation, much older then the idea of Zionism, it had nothing to do with the U.S. and nothing to do with Israel, September 11th 1683 Islam was stopped at the gates of Vienna and Europe was saved from the Ottoman empire.

The terrorists singnaled a very clear message to us in the west, the war for world domination is up once again, it was stopped for 318 years, and on Septmber 11th, 2001 they have resumed their fight for the world Islamic caliphate. This is a war which is hundreds of years old, it will not end if Israel falls, and it will not end if the U.S. will fall, it will end when the whole world falls and we all submit to Islam, giving away democracy, free speech and many other of the great things the western civilization accomplished.

Battle of Vienna Septmber 11th, 1683

Filed Under: 9/11, Atheism, Islam, Israel, USA Tagged With: 9/11, battle of vienna, Islam, religion of peace, vienna

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