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 Koran demands slavery. A good Moslem is one who is totally submitted to the cult of Muhammad. Over 500 verses discuss slavery in some aspect out of a total of 6236. No religion worthy of the name would be so fixated on human bondage and supine devotion to an unknowable, wrathful, free-will denying celestial idol.
Sura 20 reviewed here, has about 25% of its text devoted to hate speech and violence against the hated non-Moslem. Some poetic examples include:
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Whoever turns away from it (this Qur'an i.e. does not believe in it, nor acts on its orders), verily, they will bear a heavy burden (of sins) on the Day of Resurrection, |
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They will abide in that (state in the Fire of Hell), and evil indeed will it be that load for them on the Day of Resurrection; |
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The Day when the Trumpet will be blown (the second blowing): that Day, We shall gather the Mujrimun (criminals, polytheists, sinners, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, etc.) Zurqa: (blue or blind eyed with black faces). |
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And if We had destroyed them with a torment before this (i.e. Messenger Muhammad SAW and the Qur'an), they would surely have said: "Our Lord! If only You had sent us a Messenger, we should certainly have followed Your Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), before we were humiliated and disgraced." |
How loving. Reject the Ayat and proof provided by Muhammad, namely the Koran, and the Al-Lah thing's divine guidance and especial concern for Muhammad's rule and power; and you will be labelled as a criminal, tormented, destroyed and consigned to Hell. Post-modern 'experts' and Moslems call this a religious doctrine. The rest of us name it the Manichean ravings of a cult.
Sura 20, like much of the Koran, mentions slavery and the fact that the most exalted of Moslems are slaves of the Al-Lah. Supine knaves are the true believers of the Meccan moon deity. No free-will, rationality or individual responsibility is needed. The Koran never mentions such concepts, anyone who states otherwise is simply a liar.
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And indeed We inspired Musa (Moses) (saying): "Travel by night with Ibadi (My slaves) and strike a dry path for them in the sea, fearing neither to be overtaken [by Fir'aun (Pharaoh)] nor being afraid (of drowning in the sea)." |
So Sura 20, as so many do in the Koran, tries to convince the reader that Moses was a Moslem, and that the exodus of Hebrews from Egypt, back to their Canaanite lands, was aided by the helping hand of the Al-Lah idol. The Hebrews are the Ibadi or slaves of Al-Lah. This oft-repeated Koranic nonsense tries to achieve a number of objectives. First, it destroys the validity of Judaism by appropriating one of its main architects as a disciple of Muhammad. Second, it conflates Yahweh with Al-Lah – these two ideas of monotheism have nothing in common of course, but the allusion that Yahweh is really Al-Lah serves to de-legitimize the Jewish 'god'. Third, it baldly states that Jews are really Moslem slaves to be guided by the Messengers or Prophets of Al-Lah. This legitimizes Muhammad's prophet-hood and 'right' to rule over the Jews, and force them back to the 'sharia' or right path via the cult of Al-Lah.
Sura 20 should be read by all Jews who maintain, without any proof, that Islam is a branch of Judaism, or that Islam is similar to the doctrines cantered around the Torah. Nothing more ridiculous can be proposed, than the self-loathing Jewish tendency to dismiss Islam's inbred hatred of the Jews with the claim that 'it is similar to our monotheism'. Islam and the Old Testament theologies have nothing in common. Indeed Jews are marked out for destruction as this Sura makes clear. If the Jews do not become 'good slaves' of the Al-Lah thing, their annihlation is assured.