Islam the three stages of Jihad, Part 2

Putting Islam Under the Microscope

Americans, unfortunately, are woefully ignorant about the so-called ‘religion’ of Islam. First, it is not merely just another religion like Christianity, Judaism, or Buddhism. It is much more. Islam is a political, militaristic, and religious system. Second, the intent of Islam is to eventually rule, to subjugate the entire world. The video that will be the focus of this series of articles is called, “Three Stages of Islam.” It was created by AnsweringMuslims.com. It is extremely insightful and educational. It lays bare the purposes and the schemes of this cruel and insidious fascist system. It is every bit as pernicious, threatening, and evil as communism.

I would encourage every American to educate himself or herself on this vital subject. The fact is that Islam is the enemy of the United States. Like Marxism and secular humanism that have crept into our culture and taken over many of our institutions, including our education system and has corrupted it beyond recognition, Islam is the second battlefront we face. It is one we must engage. Islam has begun to infiltrate our culture and to indoctrinate Americans as to its real purpose and intent.

Watch and listen carefully to this video and read the transcripts of the video as they are presented here. You will be better equipped to confront the evil and to curtail its advance in this nation. Today we examine the first of the three stages of Jihad. You can see the first part of this series here.

Transcript 2:40 –9:18 minute mark on the video:

Barack Obama is quoted, “The partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t.”

STAGE ONE – STEALTH JIHAD

When Muslims are completely outnumbered and can’t possibly win in a physical confrontation with unbelievers, they’re commanded to promote peace with non-Muslims and to preach a message of tolerance.

For instance, when Mohammed and his followers were a persecuted minority in Mecca they criticized the beliefs of the polytheists, but they did so peacefully. The revelations Mohammed received during this time proclaimed a future judgment for unbelievers. Allah will one day punish those who rejected Mohammed, but in the meantime to each his own. Live and let live, co-exist.

A characteristic chapter from this period is

Qur’an 109 – Say: O unbelievers! I do not serve that which you serve, nor do you serve Him whom I serve: Nor am I going to serve that which you serve, nor are you going to serve Him whom I serve: You shall have your religion and I shall have my religion.

Muslims in the West point to passages like this, as evidence that Islam is inherently peaceful. But we know from Muslim sources that while Mohammed was calling for religious tolerance in Mecca, he was already planning to conquer the world in the name of Allah. He even tried to lure pagans to Islam by promising them victory over the non-Arabs. Let’s look at a passage. One day some of his Mohammed’s tribesmen went to his uncle Abu Talib because they wanted to arrange a truce with Mohammed. They wanted Mohammed to stop criticizing their beliefs. Watch what happens.

At Tabari, Volume VI, p. 95 – Abu Talib sent for the messenger of Allah, and when he came in he said, “Nephew here are the shaykhs and nobles of your tribe. They have asked for justice against you, that you should desist in reviling our gods and they will leave you to your god.” “Uncle,” he said, “shall I not summon them to something which is better for them than their gods?” “What do you summon them to do?” he asked…

He replied, “I summon them to utter a saying through which the Arabs will submit to them and they will rule over the non-Arabs.” Abu Jahl said from among the gathering, “What is it, by your father? We will give you it and ten like it?” He answered, “That you should say, ‘There is no deity but Allah.”

Think about this for a moment. Mohammed is walking around Mecca calling for peace and tolerance. But behind closed doors, he tells the guys, ‘join me, and we’ll rule over the non-Arabs (Jews, Christians, Persians, etc.) These groups aren’t attacking Mohammed at all, and he is already planning to conquer them.

What does he need to subjugate the non-Muslims? He needs an army. So he asks his tribe to convert to Islam.

Now, how many times have we seen Muslim groups in the world today, calling for tolerance in public, but saying something completely different in private? It goes back to Mohammed.

One of the key features of Stage One (Jihad) is TAQIYYA – CONCEALING ISLAM’S TRUE INTENTIONS IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY. This was eventually made explicit in Surah 3:28.

Qur’an 3:28 – Let not the believers (in Islam) take disbelievers as friends in preference to believers. Whoso doeth that hath no connection with Allah unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them, taking (as it were) security.

Muslims are not allowed to be friends, unless they are outnumbered and they feel they are in danger from a stronger adversary. That’s when Muslims are told to pretend to be friendly. One of Islam’s greatest scholars Ibn Kathir comments:

Ibn Kathir – “In this case, such believers are allowed to show friendship outwardly but never inwardly.”

Abu Darda, one of Mohammed’s companions put it this way:

Abu Darda – “We smile in the face of some people althouh our hearts curse them.”

Another key feature of stage one is ‘victim status.’  Muslims like to pretend that Mohammed and his followers were persecuted in Mecca simply because they were Muslims. Total nonsense, they were persecuted for antagonizing the Meccans by mocking their beliefs. We read in

At-Tabari, Volume 6, pg. 93 – The messenger of Allah proclaimed Allah’s message openly and declared Islam publically to his fellow tribesman. When he did so, they did not withdraw from him or reject him in anyway … until he spoke of their gods and denounced them. When he did this, they took exception to it and united in opposition and hostility to him, except for those of them whom Allah had protected from error by means of Islam.

Notice that the pagans of Mecca had no problem with Mohammed preaching Islam. They became angry when he began attacking their beliefs and they had to put up with quite a bit. Listen to this description of what the pagans went through in their own words:

At-Tabari, volume 6, pg. 101 – “We have never seen the like of what we have endured from this man. He has derided our traditional values, abused our forefathers, reviled our religion, caused division among us, and insulted our gods. We have endured a great deal from him.”

Mohammed was condemning their beliefs and their values. He was causing division in the city. Not too extreme from a Western perspective. What’s interesting is that when the people of Mecca responded in kind and mocked Islam. Muslims said, “Oh, they’re persecuting us. What evil people, attacking us because of our beliefs. Double standards, one of the goals of the stealth Jihad stage is to give Islam a privileged status above other religions.

But Mohammed’s constant antagonism toward the Meccans did lead to actual persecution. And this persecution of the early Muslim community was the best thing that ever happened to Islam. When people heard of poor defenseless Muslims were being mistreated, they rushed to Mohammed’s aid. The Christians as Abyssinia, the Jews of Medina and various pagan groups all agreed, at one time or another, to protect Muslims from the mean bigoted Islamaphobes in Mecca.

Now keep in mind, Mohammed was already planning to conquer all of these people. But they did not know that, all they knew was that Muslims were being persecuted and they wanted to help.

Once Mohammed and his followers had formed enough alliances and were no longer at the mercy of the Meccans, the message of the Qur’an suddenly changed.

To be continued                  

Tomorrow we will look at the second stage of Jihad – Defensive Jihad

Islam the three stages of Jihad, Part 1

Putting Islam Under the Microscope

Americans, unfortunately, are woefully ignorant about the so-called ‘religion’ of Islam. First, it is not merely just another religion like Christianity, Judaism, or Buddhism. It is much more. Islam is a political, militaristic, and religious system. Second, the intent of Islam is to eventually rule, to subjugate the entire world. The video that will be the focus of this series of articles is called, “Three Stages of Islam.” It was created by AnsweringMuslims.com. It is extremely insightful and educational. It lays bare the purposes and the schemes of this cruel and insidious fascist system. It is every bit as pernicious, threatening, and evil as communism.

I would encourage every American to educate himself or herself on this vital subject. The fact is that Islam is the enemy of the United States. Like Marxism and secular humanism that have crept into our culture and taken over many of our institutions, including our education system and has corrupted it beyond recognition, Islam is the second battlefront we face. It is one we must engage. Islam has begun to infiltrate our culture and to indoctrinate Americans as to its real purpose and intent.

Watch and listen carefully to this video and read the transcripts of the video as they are presented here. You will be better equipped to confront the evil and to curtail its advance in this nation. Today we look at an introduction to the three stages of Jihad.

Transcript 0:00 – 2:40 minute mark on the video:

Islam can be a little confusing. You meet a Muslim at the grocery store, the nicest person in the world, cute kids, loves America. Later that day you turn on television and wait a minute, some other Muslim just blew up the grocery store!

What is going on here? Who represents Islam, the peaceful Muslim buying tomatoes, or the violent Muslim bombing tomatoes?

You’d like an answer so you open up the Qur’an, you read in Surah 2:256:  “There is no compulsion in religion.” That sounds peaceful and tolerant. I guess the peaceful Muslims are the true followers of Islam.  Then you go to Surah 9:29:  “Fight those who do not believe in Allah.” That’s not nice, now it seems that the violent Muslims got it right.

The evidence points in different directions. So, what are you supposed to believe?

Barack Obama quote:  “The partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t.”

If you ever wondered why there are both peaceful and violent passages in the Qur’an? If it has ever bothered you the Muslims DEMAND religious tolerance in the West, while Christians and Jews cannot build Churches and Synagogues in Saudi Arabia. If you have never quite grasped why organizations like (the Council on American Islamic Relations) C.A.I.R. or (the Islamic Society of North America) I.S.N.A. claim that Islam is a religion of peace, while they support terrorism behind the scenes. Welcome to the most important video you’ll ever watch. You can’t understand Islam in the world today without understanding one fact – JIHAD PROCEDES IN STAGES.

(Just) As the tiny tadpole grows into the bellowing bullfrog, or the lowly acorn becomes the mighty oak, or as adorable Parent Trap Lindsey Lohan transforms into whatever she is now … So also the tolerant toddler of peaceful Islam eventually goes through puberty, that’s when we find out about full blown Jew-hating, church burning, wife beating, apostate killing, Akbar yellin’ Islam is really like in all its blood spattered glory.

Whether you look - at the life of Mohammed, or the early Muslim community, or the Qur’an, or the hadith, or the Surah literature, or classical Muslim commentaries, or modern Muslim scholarship, or the spread of Islam in the world today - you’ll find the exact same pattern.

There are three stages in the call of Jihad, depending on the status of Muslims in a society. And if you understand those three stages, you’ll understand Islam, 14 centuries of Islamic history, and the situation that we are in right now.

To be continued 
                    

Tomorrow we will look at the first stage of Jihad – Stealth Jihad.

                

This is Jihad Awareness Month, Part 1

Here is another educational video revealing more truth about Islam’s core beliefs and America blindness toward them.  This is the first of a brief series that explores the video’s content. Hat tip again goes to www.AnsweringMuslims.com, where I first saw this timely and informative presentation. I will transcribe a portion of this video.

The transcript for this first part starts at 1:37 on the video below, at the point where President Obama speaks about his commitment to:

Islam's Defender
“And I consider part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”

David Wood notes, “In the Art of War ancient Chinese General Sun Tzu said, “Know your enemy.” In the Art of Dumb President Barack Obama declares, “Knowledge is your enemy!”

“Our greatest enemy of course is KNOWLEDGE OF ISLAM! Knowledge of Islam is to President Obama, what knowledge of human rights is to President Ahmadinejad. It’s an obstacle to downward ‘progress.’ Knowledge of the Qur’an is bigotry. Knowledge of Mohammed is racism …”

Here’s another quote from our illustrious Islam-loving President, “The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.”

David Wood continues his commentary, “After receiving complaints from CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) and other (Islamic) terror-linked Muslim Brotherhood front groups, the Obama Administration has decide to bring all government training materials into rigorous conformity with the demands of stealth jihadists hell-bent on destroying Western Civilization from within.

“No surprise, because that’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from the Pied Piper of Islamo-pandering political correctness. Nothing says tolerance like forcing lobotomies on the agents who protect us from [Islamic] terrorists.”

More Obama appeasement talk,

“We will convey our deepest appreciation for the Islamic ‘faith,’ which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world.”

“Obama’s spokesman for the latest upgrade to his lemming approach to National Security is Dwight C. Holton, who said of the new strategy,

“I want to be perfectly clear about this: Training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they are offensive, and they are contrary to everything that this president, this attorney general and Department of Justice stand for. They will not be tolerated.”

David Wood: “Well Mr. Holton, if you’re going to eliminate all training materials that portray Islam as violent, I guess you’ll be eliminating the Qur’an, he hadith, the surah literature, and all classical Muslim commentaries from your required reading list? But Just in case someone accidentally brings up actual Muslim source in one of your training sessions, I suggest getting a (big) bottle of WhiteOut so you can cover up things like:

Qur’an 9:29 – Fight those who believe not in Allah.

Qur’an 9:73 – O Prophet, strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them.

Qur’an 9:123 – O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness.

Qur’an 5:51 – O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other.

Qur’an 47:35 – Be not weary and fainthearted, crying for peace, when ye should be uppermost.

Qur’an 48:29 – Mohammed is the messenger of Allah, and those who with him are severe against disbelievers, and merciful among themselves.

Sahih Muslim 33 – The messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people until they testify that there is no god but Allah.

Sunan An Nasa’i 3099 – The prophet said: “Whoever dies without having fought or having thought of fighting, he dies on one of the branches of hypocrisy.

Sunan Ibn Majah 2763 - – The messenger of Allah said: whoever meets Allah with no mark on him (as a result of fighting) in his cause, he will meet him with a deficiency.

Sahih Muslim 4366 – The messenger of Allah said: I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and not leave any but Muslims.

Sahih al Bukhari 6922 – Allah’s messenger said, “If anyone changed his Islamic religion, then kill him."

“Now we obviously cannot let government agents know about these passages. If they find out Islam’s commands, they might be able to predict what Islamic terrorists are going to do and someone could end up preventing the next Fort Hood Massacre. We can’t have that, our diversity is too important.

“Tell me how bland and boring would the U.S. Military be without enlisting a few jihadists to spice things up by slaughtering their fellow soldiers?”

So far this video really shows the foolishness of the president's political correctness policy, which is a high priority of President Obama. I ask myself, why hs he made this such a high priority since the beginning of is reign of terror? Isn’t getting a handle on the debt and deficit, demanding that Congress produce a budget, the economy, and isn’t jobs far more important? The President is leading us down a path to our destruction when he refuses to recognize that Islam is the enemy.  

He and his administration are foolhardy to think and to be TelePrompted in saying that Islam is merely another religion. It is not. It is a political-social-militaristic-religious system. It seeks to control the world and to subjugate world to its perverse ideology. One can only conclude that the President is either a complete dupe, or he is participant in the plot to ultimately destroy this country. His actions speak volumes ...

To be continued

Shoddy Reporting on the Religion of Islam by ABC News, Part 12

I came across a critique of the ABC News 20/20 program, “Islam: Questions and Answers.” That program originally was broadcast a year or so ago. A recent YouTube exposé points out 20 errors in the hour long supposed ‘news’ program. This is a twelfth of a series of posts series of posts that will delve into the various errors made by Diane Sawyer, Bill Weir, and guests on this program. I am not quite sure whether this was just a case of very bad or sloppy reporting, or merely a succumbing to political correctness, or outright lies about the so-called ‘religion’ of peace.

Here is the video, “Whitewashing Islam – 20 Errors on 20/20 (ABC News).” Following the video is a transcript of the next errors found in the ‘news’ production.

Error #17

[Transcription below for above video beginning at 19:16 on the video] 

Irshad Manji continues to lie through her pearly white ‘but false’ teeth:

“The Qur’an is very, very clear that in the eyes of (the Islamic) god men and women have equal rights and equal responsibilities.”

David Wood quote three clear passages from the Qur’an in retort to Miss Manji’s deliberate misstatement of Islamic teaching, “Surah 4:32 says that men can marry up to four women have the right to marry up to four men? No.

Wood continues, “Surah 4:24 says that Muslim men can have sex with their female captives and slave girls. Do women get to have sex with their male captives and slave boys? No.  Surah 4:34 says that men can beat their wives into submission.  Do women get to beat their husbands into submission? No.

Wood concludes, “So do men and women have equal rights and responsibilities in the Qur’an? No. Men and women are about as equal as hammers and nails in the Qur’an!”

Error #18

[Transcription below for above video beginning at 20:02 on the video] 

Irshad Manji continues to revise Islam history:

“As the prophet Mohammed’s ‘beloved’ first wife, Cadiga, was a wealthy self -made entrepreneur.”

David Wood comments on the statement just uttered by Miss Manji, “Now Irsad Manji is correct when she said Cadiga was a wealthy entrepreneur. So that is not the error. The error is that Irsda uses this to prove that men and women are equal in Islam. Cadiga was a wealthy entrepreneur BEFORE Islam, BEFORE she married Mohammed, and BEFORE Mohammed received his first revelation!

“So what does her status as a businesswoman tell us about Islam? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

“If we want to learn something about women in Islam let’s listen to someone with a little more experience of life with Mohammed. In Sahih al-Bukhari 5825 Mohammed’s child-bride A’isha says, “I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women.”

“According to A’isha, the mother of the faithful, the believing women, the Muslim Women, were suffering more than the pagan women. And, by the way, the context of this quotation is that the Muslim man has beaten his wife until her skin turned green! A’isha was complaining about Muslim women being brutally beaten by their Muslim husbands. She realized that non-Muslim women were much safer because their husbands didn’t have a revelation from (the Islamic) god advocating spousal abuse!

“But this doesn’t matter at all to ABC because Mohammed 15 years before he declared himself to be a prophet married a rich old widow. I guess that settles things!”

I am beginning to see more and more evidence that the god of Islam and the God of the Judeo-Christianity are not the same. Islam, with all its trappings, is dangerous and is a threat to the United States. Sharia Law can never be tolerated without abridging individual freedom.  It is a boldfaced lie for this moderate Muslim Manji to say that in Islam men and women are equal. She is either herself blinded from the truth and is deceived, or she is trying to blatantly deceive naïve Americans with her malicious statements! I firmly believe that it is the latter.

Shoddy Reporting on the Religion of Islam by ABC News, Part 11

I came across a critique of the ABC News 20/20 program, “Islam: Questions and Answers.” That program originally was broadcast a year or so ago. A recent YouTube video exposé points out 20 errors in the hour long supposed ‘news’ program. This is a eleventh of a series of posts series of posts that will delve into the various errors made by Diane Sawyer, Bill Weir, and guests on this 20/20 program. I am not quite sure whether this was just a case of very bad or sloppy reporting, or merely a succumbing to political correctness, or outright lies about the so-called ‘religion’ of peace.

Here is the video, “Whitewashing Islam – 20 Errors on 20/20 (ABC News).” Following the video is a transcript of the next errors found in the ‘news’ production.

Error #15

[Transcription below for above video beginning at 16:27 on the video] 

ABC News now spotlights Reza Aslan, author of “No god, but God,” who spouts more nonsense:

“A FATWA is nothing more than just one cleric’s opinion. You could issue a FATWA that Coke is evil and that you should drink Pepsi. FAWAS are a dime a dozen. They are meaningless.”

David Wood responds to Mr. Aslan by asking and then explaining, “‘FATWAS are meaningless?’  No more than opinions?

“FATWAS are rulings by Muslim scholars based on Mohammed’s teachings. They don’t carry any additional weight beyond the quotations from Mohammed and the Qur’an.  But they are definitely not meaningless. They contain the commands of Allah and Mohammed."

Error #16

[Transcription below for above video beginning at 17:05 on the video] 

A viewer to the 20/20 program asks the question,

“Does the Qur’an teach the practice of TAKIYYA – lying to non-Muslims to advance and protect Islam?”

Disappointedly, in answer to the viewer’s insightful question, Bill Weir incredibly asserts,

“According to the ‘experts; an OBSCURE law called TAKIYYA did allow EARLY Muslims to deny their faith but only under the threat of persecution.”

David Wood comment on this glaring deception, “Recall the woman’s question, “Does the Qur’an teach the practice of TAKIYYA deceiving non Muslims?” Unlike ABC News, I’ll actually quote the Qur’an for you.

Qur’an 3:28 – Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Who so doeth that hath no connection with Allah unless (it be) that you but guard yourselves against them, taking (as it were) security.

“According to this verse, which uses a form of the word TAKIYYA, meaning concealment, in order to guard yourself. Muslims are not allowed to be friends with non-Muslims, unless they are outnumbered and they feel like they’re in danger from a stronger adversary. That is when Muslims are allowed to pretend to be friendly. One of Islam’s greatest scholars Ibn Kathir comments,

Ibn Kathir – “In this case, such believers are allowed to show friendship outwardly, but never inwardly.”

“Abu Darda, one of Mohammed’s companions put it this way,

Abu Darda – “We smile in the face of some people, although our hearts curse them.”

“As for ABC’s claim that TAKIYYA is ‘just an obscure law for early Muslims, Mohammed’s companion Al Hasan said,

Al Hasan – “TAKIYYA is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.”

“So Muslims have a choice, they can either go with the Qur’an and Mohammed, and Mohammed’s companions and Islam’s greatest scholars and deceive us by smiling in our faces while cursing us in their hearts, or they can go with ABC’s Bill Weir, who although he knows next to NOTHING about Islam does do a remarkable impression of putty from Seinfeld …”

Just a note, the man quoted above, Reza Aslan, in a recent tweet commented,

@rezaaslan Sample Reza Aslan [tweet 12/2/2011]

Perfect! Trump moderated GOP debate proves once and for all this is not a nomination but a reality show filled with clowns & media whores.
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Not only does Aslan seem to be pro-Islam, he practices TAKIYYA in lying about FATWAS, and he also insults America in the above tweet. I would not be at all surprised if he is doing all he can to advance the cause of Islam including the subversion and eventual destruction or subjugation of the United States for his god. By the way, I don’t believe that the god Muslims worship is the God of the Judeo-Christian scriptures. The God I know is not a self-absorbed, hateful, vengeful, as the Qur’an paints the god of Mohammed and Islam.

Shoddy Reporting on the Religion of Islam by ABC News, Part 10

I came across a scathing critique of the ABC News 20/20 program, “Islam: Questions and Answers.” That program originally was broadcast a year or so ago. A recent YouTube exposé points out 20 errors in the hour long supposed ‘news’ program. This is a tenth of a series of posts series of posts that will delve into the various errors made by Diane Sawyer, Bill Weir, and guests on this program. I am not quite sure whether this was just a case of very bad or sloppy reporting, or merely a succumbing to political correctness, or outright lies about the so-called ‘religion’ of peace.

Here is the video, “Whitewashing Islam – 20 Errors on 20/20 (ABC News).” Following the video is a transcript of the next error found in the ‘news’ production.

Error #14

[Transcription below for above video beginning at 15:18 on the video] 

Bill Weir of ABC News spouts more nonsense:

“Dictators combine that resentment with a PERVERTED version of Islam and manipulated their people with a ‘holy’ hated of America.”

David Wood rejects this lie, “‘Dictators use a PERVERTED version of Islam to incite hatred against America.’  Let me break this down for you, because a drugged monkey could figure this one out. Listen to the Qur’an:

(Surah) Qur’an 5:33 – The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified, or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides, or they should be imprisoned.

“Here we have various penalties for making mischief in a Muslim land depending on the severity of the offense. The worst form of mischief-making is bring a non-Muslim military into a Muslim country. Has the United States done that? Yes. What is the penalty, according to the Qur’an? Death. Do Muslim leaders need to pervert Islam in order to fuel hatred against America? No. They is just needs the Qur’an!”

Based on this teaching of Mohammed, Representative Ron Paul is correct when he says America’s physical presence in the Middle East incites and causes the violence that has been unleashed on the U.S. and its military. But Bill Weir is wrong when he calls the current interpretation of Mohammed’s clear teaching “a perverted form” of Islam. No, it is the ‘pure’ and intentional interpretation of Islam. The teaching itself and not its application by dictators, I would argue, is perverted.

Moreover, the Islamic principles applied by dictators, like King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, or President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or by any other Islamic terrorists, or even by subversive, seditious Imams ‘serving’ in American mosques or prisons, are just being true and obedient to Mohammed’s dictates. Therefore, there is no perverted version of Islam, it is what it is, Islam.

Shoddy Reporting on the Religion of Islam by ABC News, Part 9

I came across a critique of the ABC News 20/20 program, “Islam: Questions and Answers.” That program originally was broadcast a year or so ago. A recent YouTube exposé points out 20 errors in the hour long supposed ‘news’ program. This is a ninth of a series of posts that will delve into the various errors made by Diane Sawyer, Bill Weir, and guests on this program. I am not quite sure whether this was just a case of very bad or sloppy reporting, or merely a succumbing to political correctness, or outright lies about the so-called ‘religion’ of peace.

Here is the video, “Whitewashing Islam – 20 Errors on 20/20 (ABC News).” Following the video is a transcript of the next errors found in the ‘news’ production.



Error #12

[Transcription below for above video beginning at 10:26 on the video] 

Bill Weir introduces Tawfik Hamid, Senior Fellow with the Potomac Institute:

“He says best sellers, like “The Way of the Muslim,” are often quoted in place of the Qur’an and contain ‘dangerous’ ideas.”

Tawfik Hamid comments,

“…which means the blood money or compensation for killing of the disbeliever is half of the blood money of the Muslim man. When you devalue the life of the non-Muslim that is the root cause of the problem. Terrorism is the last step.”

David Wood responds, “Now this is just hilarious. Radical Muslims are quoting books in place of the Qur’an! And they’re using these modern books to justify killing. What is the real source of terrorism? Devaluing the lives of non-Muslims by saying that the blood money for killing a non-Muslim is half as much as the blood money for killing a Muslim. How do these modern Muslim authors ever come up with such a horrible teaching? THEY GOT IT FROM MOHAMMED!

Sunan Abu Dawid 45:27 – The value of the bloodwit in the time of the Apostle of Allah was eight hundred dinars or eight thousand dirhams, and the bloodwit for the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) was half that for Muslims.

“Are you catching this? According to ABC News the real source of jihad and terrorism isn’t Mohammed’s teachings. No, the violence springs from modern books from modern Muslim authors, who as you just saw, are getting their views directly from Mohammed’s teachings!

Error #13

[Transcription below for above video beginning at 14:42 on the video] 

ABC’s Bill Weir makes another fantastic assertion:

Radicals have used these murder and martyr myths…

David Wood disagrees using Islamic texts to refute this obvious falsehood, ““Murder and martyr myths,” all this talk about jihad and fighting unbelievers and martyrdom it is all based on MYTHS. I guess that is why Mohammed said in

Sahih al Bukhari 2797 – By Him in whose hand my soul is! I would love to be martyred in Allah’s cause and then come back to life again and then get martyred and then come back to life again, and then get martyred and then come back to life again and then get martyred.

“Just myths?”

Apparently ABC News and its assorted ‘experts’ like Mr. Hamid are trying to divert attention away from the real and root cause of jihad and terrorism.  They’ll blame modern day authors and they even try conjure up the notion that martyrdom in Islam is a myth. Wow, afraid of the truth, are we? Mohammed’s clear and adulterated teachings are the source and the driving motivation of Islamic terrorism in the world today. Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood, and many subversive Imams in American mosques today, all embrace the teachings of the prophet of Allah.

Isn’t this sort of like the current occupier of the White House blaming his predecessor, blaming the tsunami in Japan, blaming ATMs, blaming Congress, blaming the GOP for the economic crisis? When, truth be known and faced, he had such a great part in expanding, in worsening. He refuses to take any responsibility for his failed economic policies and actions which contributed so greatly to the problem. Likewise, the appeasers of Islam such as ABC News ‘reporters’ refuse to acknowledge that the teachings and doctrines is Islam are flawed, fomenting, and often fatal for unbelievers.

to be continued