Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
The Al-Lah idol, or Hub'Allah repackaged as 'The One' [not Obama], demands slaves. We can now redefine a religion to be a cult which enforces blind obedience and knavery. Free-will, rationality and self-expression, not to mention debate and the scientific method, are to be outlawed. The Koran, or Muhammad's guide book to totalitarian power says so:
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Know they not that Allah accepts repentance from His slaves and takes the Sadaqat (alms, charities) and that Allah Alone is the One Who forgives and accepts repentance, Most Merciful? |
Al-Lah loves his slaves. Especially if his slaves help support the power and health of the Moslem Umma. Charity in Islam, is beneficence bestowed only on Moslems. There is no charity, and no factual evidence whatsoever, that Al-Lah wants Moslems to help Infidels. Zakat is a tax which goes to the Moslem authorities who then procure welfare for the Moslem poor. Jews and Christians need not apply.
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As-Sadaqat (here it means Zakat) are only for the Fuqara' (poor), and Al-Masakin (the poor) and those employed to collect (the funds); and for to attract the hearts of those who have been inclined (towards Islam); and to free the captives; and for those in debt; and for Allah's Cause (i.e. for Mujahidun - those fighting in the holy wars), and for the wayfarer (a traveller who is cut off from everything); a duty imposed by Allah. And Allah is All-Knower, All-Wise. |
Zakat is a political tool to 'attract the hearts of those who have been inclined' to join the cult. Even the act of freeing a slave, is permissible as long as the slave [as quoted above] becomes involved in 'Allah's Cause...fighting in the holy wars.' Again a very specific reference to improving the strength of the Moslem cult.
Sura 9 is of course one of the most violent chapters in the Koran and thus in the annals of cult documentation. Fully 40% of this Sura preaches hate and violence against Infidels who refuse to become the slaves of Muhammad.
“9:30 “And the Jews say: 'Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: Messiah is the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouths. They imitate the saying of the disbelievers of old. Allah's Curse be on them, how they are deluded away from the truth!”
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9:123 “O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who are the Al-Muttaqun (the pious - see V.2:2).”
The Al-Lah idol hates the Jews, Christians, pagans and anyone who opposes Islam. Even being pacifically opposing Islam is a sin in the Koran. The logical conclusion from a violent, jihadic treatise such as Sura 9, is that only good slaves who venerate Muhammad's cult will be tolerated. The 'Other' must be extinguished in this life, or at least tortured and humiliated in the next.