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.
Slavery and its imperative is found in over 10% of the Koran. A rather immoderate amount. Slavery takes 3 main forms within Islamic liturgy:
All humans should be the slaves of Al-Lah and his 'messenger' [alter-ego], Muhammad.
Women are the slaves of Moslem men [both Infidel and 'Believing' females].
Infidels are the slaves of Moslems.
Islam is a cult which merges the themes of violence and slavery, into one totalitarian dogma. It is not a religion.
Sura 40, reviewed here, named 'The Believer', possesses 35% of its text as hate speech against non-Moslems. Surely a civilized amount. This pagan, barbaric violence is married of course to the other great theme of Islam – that of slavery. Sura 40 maintains for example that all Moslems are the slaves of Al-Lah [40:15]; that Infidels will be punished as wayward slaves who rejected their natural master the Al-lah thing [40:31]; omnipotent Al-Lah sees and knows all in regards to his slaves [40:44]; and Jews, Christians and pagans who reject their master [Al-Lah] are condemned to hell [40:48 and 85]. Screams of intolerance and irrationality are now deemed to be 'religious':
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(He is Allah) Owner of High Ranks and Degrees, the Owner of the Throne. He sends the Inspiration by His Command to any of His slaves He wills, that he (the person who receives inspiration) may warn (men) of the Day of Mutual Meeting (i.e. The Day of Resurrection). |
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"Like the fate of the people of Nuh (Noah), and 'Ad, and Thamud and those who came after them. And Allah wills no injustice for (His) slaves. |
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"And you will remember what I am telling you, and my affair I leave it to Allah. Verily, Allah is the All-Seer of (His) slaves." |
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Those who were arrogant will say: "We are all (together) in this (Fire)! Verily Allah has judged between (His) slaves!" |
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Then their Faith (in Islamic Monotheism) could not avail them when they saw Our punishment. (Like) this has been the way of Allah in dealing with His slaves. And there the disbelievers lost utterly (when Our Torment covered them). |
Be a good slave. This is what the Al-Lah moon deity wants. Slavery entails submission, recital [or Koran], blind obedience, irrationality and intolerance. Slaves must fight non-Moslems to spread the cult of Muhammad across the world. Pagans, Jews and Christians are criminals. They worship something other than the Meccan 'ilah, and in the case of Christianity associate a Trinity with the Godhead. This is an unpardonable sin in Islam, punished in the after life by the wearing of a neck-collar, the drinking of boiling water and endless hell-fire [to quote the Koran directly]. This hardly paints a sympathetic picture of those who are outside of the Moslem cult. The whole point of this cult is unthinking obedience to Muhammad and Allah. If you refuse to become a 'slave of Allah' you will be destroyed:
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And not equal are the blind and those who see, nor are (equal) those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah Islamic Monotheism), and do righteous good deeds, and those who do evil. Little do you remember! |
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And your Lord said: "Invoke Me, [i.e. believe in My Oneness (Islamic Monotheism)] (and ask Me for anything) I will respond to your (invocation). Verily! Those who scorn My worship [i.e. do not invoke Me, and do not believe in My Oneness, (Islamic Monotheism)] they will surely enter Hell in humiliation!" |
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Thus were turned away those who used to deny the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah. |
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Enter the gates of Hell to abide therein, and (indeed) what an evil abode of the arrogant! |
Sura 40 is an embarrassment to read. This chapter is of course quite emblematic of the madness and the ravings that one finds in the Koran, all centred around the themes of slavery and violence towards non-Moslems.