Hindus demand "media watchdog" to monitor media bias against European Roma

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Hindus have demanded immediate setting-up of an independent "media watchdog" by European Union to monitor the frequent media discrimination and bias against Roma people in Europe, who reportedly face apartheid like conditions.

image Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, alleged that instead of highlighting their plight, media of Europe often strengthened the deeply embedded prejudice and social exclusion against Roma by recycling the stereotypes, thus leading the public to believe that they were some kind of sub-humans.

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, said that this proposed "media watchdog" should see that media acted responsibly and ethically on Roma issues. Did the fairness ideals taught in journalism schools only apply to non-Roma population in Europe, he asked.

Rajan Zed further says that it is like an undeclared apartheid in Europe where Roma reportedly continue to face institutional discrimination and severe maltreatment and everybody admits it and knows about it except the media. Media has apparently failed in their moral obligation to bring the continual sufferings of Roma to the desired limelight.

Zed argues that on the other hand, real Roma issues appear to be non-subjects for the European media and there is apparently excessive under reporting or selective reporting. Media often dehumanizes them, treating them as social outcasts undeserving the same treatment and respect as due to other Europeans, and is many times hostile.

Moreover, media being powerful and capable of creating stereotypes in the minds of some audiences, European media persons should be retrained to handle Roma related issues, which should be dealt with very carefully. European Union should support Roma media and staff of media outlets should at least reflect the percentage of European Roma population, Rajan Zed stresses.

Zed suggests that media instead needs to help and highlight the plight of Roma, who reportedly regularly face racism, substandard education, hostility, social exclusion, joblessness, rampant illness, inadequate housing, lower life expectancy, unrest, living on desperate margins, language barriers, stereotypes, mistrust, rights violations, discrimination, marginalization, appalling living conditions, prejudice, human rights abuse, racist slogans on Internet, unusually high unemployment rates, etc.

Rajan Zed points out that European media should work to end the centuries of severe discrimination and abuse of Roma and attempt at achieving their social inclusion. It is simply immoral to let this around ten million population of Europe continually suffer and face human rights violations. Media should show more responsibility in handling complex Roma issues. Their alarming condition is a social blight for Europe and the rest of the world.

It is moral obligation of European media to take care of its frequently maltreated population of Roma people who unfortunately reportedly continue to suffer from brazen structural discrimination, Zed adds.

 

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1. 13 yr old Hindu girl

1. 13 yr old Hindu girl speaks out against Anti-India forces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ8QSVvu2bw&feature=email
2. My Take:
This 13 year old girl is Certainly a Live-Wire. She is more than capable ( after a short-training ), of hitting the soft underbelly of both Islam & Christianity.
3. But the problem of the Hindu is Hindu selfishness. The problem is way too deep, it is in his genes. Hindu will not abandon it, just because somebody tells him to do so.
4. Working around the problem ( Smartly ) is the Only way, to build Hindu-Power.
Surinder Paul Attri

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Subj: BARBAD CHAMAN 1.

Subj: BARBAD CHAMAN

1. AADARNEEYE ARYA BANDHUON, NAMASTE, AAJ DUKHI MAN SE LIKH RAHE HEN JO DEEKH RAHA HE VEH SANKET KARTA HE.......... EK HEE ULLOO KAFEE THA BARBAAD CHAMAN KARNE KE LIYE. HAR SHAKH PE ULLOO BETHA HE ANJAAME ARYA SAMAJ KYA HOGA, PARMESH AUM HAME SHAKTI DE KI MAHARISHI DAYANAND KA YEH BRIKSHA BACHA RAHE. AUM TATSAT. ANANDSUMAN

2. My Take:

Quote: EK HEE ULLOO KAFEE THA BARBAAD CHAMAN KARNE KE LIYE.

COMMENT: Pretty cute, but highly true.

3. Quote: HAR SHAKH PE ULLOO BETHA HE ANJAAME ARYA SAMAJ KYA HOGA,

COMMENT: Right again.

4. The ULLOO here is the Selfish-Hindu, and there is No cure for the selfishness of the Hindu.

5. Quote: PARMESH AUM HAME SHAKTI DE KI MAHARISHI DAYANAND KA YEH BRIKSHA BACHA RAHE.

COMMENT: Swami Dayanand has no cure for Hindu's selfishness. It is an incurable problem.

6. A perceptible individual is one who, does not butt his head against the problem, but works around it.

Surinder Paul Attri

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Subj: Response to the

Subj: Response to the message of Mr. James Treibert
1. Hello Surinder Paul Attri
Thanks for your comments. It seems as I grow older I am realizing that Chrisitianity especially Protestant sect is not what it seems to be. Too much dogmatic principles and I heard of scams in Christian Charity organizations. I wish to learn more about Hinduism and possible to grow with it. Zoroastrianism predates Chrisitainity and it seems Christianity either borrowed or stolen its principles. I am actually confused following the readings of Chrisitanity. I am a educated man. Hope to hear more from you on this group
James
2. My Take:
Hello to you also, Mr. James Treibert, and thanks for your good message to me.
3. Quote: It seems as I grow older I am realizing that Chrisitianity especially Protestant sect is not what it seems to be.
COMMENT: Jim: This is the type of cognizance that is needed, for the emancipation of Christians of the world. This cognizance is also mandatory, to challenge the church's established-authority. Yes, Sir, you are absolutely correct that, Christianity is Not what it seems, or what it claims to be.
Regarding themselves as Jehova's Army ( Christian-God's army ), Christians are out to straighten out the Non-Christian Infidels, who they regard as Devil's Troops, and whom they label as the Pagans & Heathens.
4. Quote: Too much dogmatic principles and I heard of scams in Christian Charity organizations.
COMMENT: Jim: Like Islam, Christianity is also a religion ( ideology ) of Exclusivity . It believes that it alone has the truth, all other religons are false & flawed, it wants to exterminate all Non-Christian religions from this world.
What can be more dogmatic or domineering than that ?
It bears emphasizing that like Islam, Christianity is a gospel of hate. It also needs to be noted that, Islam & Christianity are two sides of the SAME coin.
5. Quote: I wish to learn more about Hinduism and possible to grow with it.
COMMENT: Jim: Hinduism is Exact-Opposite of Islam & Christianity. Hinduism is a religion of Inclusivity. Hinduism NEVER NEVER says that, any body who is not a Hindu, is headed for Hell.
This also should establish for you, Hinduism's spirit of Tolerance & Hospitality.
6. Quote: Zoroastrianism predates Chrisitainity and it seems Christianity either borrowed or stolen its principles.
COMMENT: Yes, Zorastrianism definitely predates Christianity.
Regarding Borrowing & Stealing: Jim: Christianity both borrowed & stole plenty of Zorastrianism, but Not directly, but via Judaism.
Prophet Zarathushtra ( AKA Zoroaster ) of Zoroastrianism was the first to conceive the idea of two entities, A Good-Guy/God ( Ahur Mazda ) and a Bad-Guy/Devil ( Ahriman ). Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion of Iran, and Iran ruled over several parts of Arabia, for centuries. The Jews living in Arabia ( as slaves ), pondered quite a bit, about their evil-fate. Their prophet Moses had told them that they ( the Jews ) are:
" God's Chosen People. "
How can this kind of calamity befall God's Chosen People ?

When the Jews of Arabia came in contact with the Zoroastrians over there, the idea of Ahriman as a causative factor for their tough luck & hard times, made a lot of sense to the Jews. In other words, the Jews were READY for the idea of Ahriman.
NOTE: Before this event, there was no such thing as the Devil in Judaism.

7. Now comes Christianity, and it swallows wholesale the idea of Ahriman. In fact, Jesus Christ becomes the Biggest-Racteer of Exorcism ( driving out the Devil from people ). Of course, Jesus Christ did Not know what the hell he was doing. He had no notion that, he was driving out a Totally-Imaginary creature out of people.

8. Even now Christian-Clergy expends considerable time & effort, whip-lashing this Imaginary creature ( Devil/Satan ), so much so that Christianity now is:
" A DEVIL'S RELIGION. "
Not only that,
Christian-Clergy regards Devil as the biggest enemy of Christianity. Actually, Devil is the Biggest Friend of Christianity. If there had been no Devil, Christianity would have disappeared centuries ago.

9. The preponderance of Devil ( a creature of no-existence ) in Christianity, clearly-corroborates that:
THE BIGGER THE LIE, THE BETTER IT SELLS.

Surinder Paul Attri

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Subj: Marseille Memorial (

Subj: Marseille Memorial ( for Veer Savarkar )

1. July 8, 2010 will mark the centenary of the attempt by Veer Savarkar to escape from S.S. Morea when the ship was anchored at Marseille (France)for refuelling. I understand plans were devised to erect a suitable memorial in Marseille to mark this event some years ago but that the current federal givernment in India is dragging its feet from actively supporting the project. As a result, it is not certain if the memorial will come up on July 8, 2010. Are there any private plans to mark this event?

S.Tilak

2. My Take:

To carve & chisel a memorial at Marseille, France, in honor of Great ( and Gutsy ) Veer Savarkar, is a most Fitting Idea. It is very decent & decorous to all those amongst us, who love liberty & dignity.

Surinder Paul Attri

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Subj: Film set in Iran,

Subj: Film set in Iran, examines death by stoning
By Christine Kearney

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Iranian woman is framed for adultery, then bound, gagged and buried to her waist in dirt before being stoned to death in a bloody and harrowing sequence in a new film in U.S. cinemas this week.

The movie, "The Stoning of Soraya M.," is a dramatization based on the bestselling book of the same name by a French-Iranian journalist about a woman's death in an Iranian village in 1986.

The film opens in U.S. cities on Friday, amidst an international furor over protests and bloodshed in Iran over its disputed presidential election. Its director, Cyrus Nowrasteh, said the timing was not planned.

The film aims to give a dramatic condemnation of the practice, which still occurs in countries including Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia, Nowrasteh told Reuters.

"This is overdue and it has been too long suppressed as an issue for open discussion," said the U.S.-born director, who is of Iranian descent and spent part of his childhood in Iran. "Fundamentally this film is about injustice."

The film was shot in Jordan and stars exiled Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, whose character tells a passing journalist the story of her murdered niece, who was framed for infidelity by her divorce-seeking husband.

"Those who say the stoning in this film is graphic should see a real one," Aghdashloo said.
Aghdashloo, who received an Oscar nomination for "House of Sand and Fog," called "Stoning" effective in "opening people's eyes to what is going on behind the curtains in certain areas, especially in rural societies in the Islamic world."

COMMENT: This film exposes the fiction & hypocrisy of Islam, Quran, and their Allah, as the ambassador of :
Equality & Human Love.
In fact, Hazrat Mohammad himself divided humanity into, Moslems & Kafirs (Non-Moslem Infidels ). He raised the superiority of Moslems sky-high. and a corresponding inferiority of hateful-Kafirs. According to Mohammad's categorization, Moslems are the rulers, and the Kafirs are to be ruled ( and converted to Islam ) through the yoke of Islamic Jehad.

Surinder Paul Attri

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Subj: Caste Injustice 1.

Subj: Caste Injustice
1. Quote:
Wakter,

You are as usual attempting to shift the blame from the root cause of Christian discrimination of non Christians including converted Dalits, Blacks and Red Indians. By cutting their cultural roots, dreams, aspirations, and self-esteem they lost their innate abilities to transcend injustice imposed on them by their slave masters (The Christian Church)

Freedom, justice and fairness are mere mechanical abstractions prevalent in Christian thought. Christianity erroneously thinks that converted Hindus, Dalits, Blacks and Red Indians automatically enjoy economic freedom, justice and upward movement. How can they grow once their life sustaining roots are cut. Christian freedom and liberalism are catch words only to protect the Christian aristocrats and the fat Church. Christian thought is only a rationale for perpetuating privileges for the church. instead of an ideology (Justice) of radical change, upper class Christians in India made freedom and justice an end in it self not a means toward liberating Dalits.
Suseelan

2. Quote
Walter,

Instead of addressing the root cause of the sufferings of Dalit Christians who are forcefully converted from their cultural roots, you are playing the blame game. Christian Churches in India have been hiding behind a thick wall of denial. You are not an exception. Understanding precarious conditions and discrimination faced by Dalit Christians by the Church requires the Church leaders remain aware of their fallacies and discriminatory policies. A mechanical notion of "justice", and "Human Rights" keep the subject matter safely and squarely within the Church. It is a crude way of keeping an intellectual distance from the pressing problem (Discrimination of Dalits by the Church).
Suseelan

3. Quote:
Babu

I am not blaming anyone but am only speaking of injustice that all of us have committed and are continuing to commit in the name of caste. I guess you do not want to speak about it so you speak of justice and injustice in the terms you have used. You are free to make your choice and if you want to do it by shifting the blame to someone else, that is your choice. I have nothing more to say on that.

Walter

Dr Walter Fernandes
Director
North Eastern Social Research Centre
110 Kharghuli Road (1st floor)
Guwahati 781004
Assam, India
Tel. (+91-361) 2602819
Email: nesrcghy@gmail.com
Webpage: www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/NESRC

4. My Take:
Dr. Walter Fernandes is lumping everybody together ( Christianity & Hinduism ) regarding caste injustice. But everybody is Not alike nor equivalent. Hinduism does not profess to be casteless, even though Hinduism is trying to eradicate, evacuate, and expunge caste system altogether.

5. Dr. Fernandes concedes that Christianity ( like Hinduism ) practises caste-ism, and transacts injustice on Dalit-Christians. But he fails to behold the hypocrisy that is inherent in Christianity's disposition, because Christianity purports to be totally-casteless. And that is EXACTLY what the Christians want you to believe Christianity is. But Christianity is nothing of the sort. The emperor has no clothes. To put it point blank:

" CHRISTIANITY IS SAILING UNDER FALSE COLORS. "

6. Christianity is on a very flimsy & flabby ground. Why ?
Because Christianity has a history of sexism, racism, and INTOLERANCE of difference, & desecration of Non-Christian religions.

The slaughter of two-thirds of Pagan-Europe, during Christianization of Europe, and butchery of 41 million Native Americans, during Christianization of Americas, are a Red-Hot Reminder of Christianity's TOTAL DISREGARD for human freedom, dignity, and self-determination.

Surinder Paul Attri

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From Islam to Atheism: A

From Islam to Atheism: A Pakistani Muslim's Journey
Saturday, 13 June 2009 18:33 Muhammad A. Khan

Why I left Islam and how look at it now...

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Introduction
Born a Muslim, I am living in the Muslim community observing and contemplating on various dimensions of the inhabitants of Pakistan: their Islamic culture, their styles of living, and their way of commerce. The most important aspect that intrigues me is the inclination of Pakistanis towards Islam. In this respect it is doubtless that Pakistani culture is very different from the rest of the world.

With 95% of its 170 million people Muslims, Pakistan is an Islamic state. The number of rural Pakistanis far outweighs the number of urban dwellers. Pakistan has only four provinces, but more than thirty spoken languages. Urdu is the national language, and English is a Secondary language. The 1973 constitution of Pakistan has declared that Arabic will also be a secondary language of Pakistan. Despite such a constitutional measure, still in 2009, Arabic has no place in this country. I would safely say that more than ninety percent Pakistanis, including me, do not understand Arabic; neither do we speak nor write it properly. Truly, this proves the heart of a Pakistani is anything but Arabic.

Just like any other Islamic countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, Islam is the only dominant religion in Pakistan. Bitterly condemned and despised, religions other than Islam have very little place in these countries. These Islamic states attempt to adopt their way of life according to the Quran and Sunnah. In Pakistan, Sunnis are in the majority, about 75% of the population: the Shias are the second largest Islamic sect.

My beliefs towards Allah, Islam and Muhammad as a Muslim
As stated above, I was, by birth a Muslim, and at an early age we were taught the basic principles of Islam. Allah was everything to me. I considered him as the almighty. He was omnipresent; I thought he was watching us all the time.. He knows every action of us, even what we think and intend. We live happily or sadly, that’s all from his will. We were taught that he loves us very much and he is our only protector. He possesses such a mighty power that we could never even think.

Like every Muslim, I had a great reverence and adoration for Muhammad. To me, he was a hero, a superman, the only savior, infallible, protector, merciful, and the most remarkable personality on earth that can never be compared with anyone else. I could never dare to conjecture that Muhammad could ever commit sins or do mistakes. Had I ever questioned the honor and integrity of Muhammad, I started to blame my subconscience. I often thought that I was one of the luckiest men in the world that I was born a Muslim, and we Muslims would be the only inhabitants of Jannat, where there are hoors (heavenly virgins) and vine (wine) with exclusive flavors. Thus, around the age of 20, I started to offer prayers, not only five times a day, but also nawafil prayers (extra prayers that are not compulsory), just being greedy to have more hoors in jannat. I believed that the more we pray the prettier our hoors will be.

Sadly, due to this self-deception and ignorance, I neglected and overlooked the pretty virgins in this world.

Knowing that every non-Muslim, no matter how righteous or good, will go to hell, I often pondered about them, and the terrible fate that awaits them. Pitying them, I wished that all non-Muslims become Muslim and join us in jannat. Because I learned that the only method for the success in the hereafter was to believe in one Allah and in the affirmation of the finality of Muhammad, the (so-called) prophet. I firmly believed that Muhammad was the next great personality after Allah.

My reasons of Leaving Islam

Now, I will discuss about the false conception of Muslims about Islam, Allah, the Quran and Muhammad .I found the good reason to leave Islam when I discovered the gross irrationalities and logical errors Muslims make about the supremacy of Islamic faith. Here I shall illustrate my view-points, and it is up to the reader to decide if I had been right or wrong.

a) Allah
Who is this Allah? This legitimate question is very common, but there is no satisfactory answer. Many great thinkers have succinctly discussed about the origin of Allah considered, by Muslims, the only God, my past God, too. From their record it is established that before Islam, Allah was also the pagan god or deity. Research shows that Allah was a moon-god, whom the people of Quraish in Arabia, revered and worshiped.

Muslims have a completely different notion of Allah. The above claim of Allah being the god of the pagan Arabs will severely hurt ordinary Muslims. They will never accept claims of many scholars, since they will not agree that their Allah, who is invisible and living above the highest heaven, was once an idol-god of the Arab idolaters.

I consider the claim of the scholars about Allah as true. This is because Muhammad’s father’s name was Abdullah (slave of Allah). Muhammad’s grandfather, Abdul Muttalib (slave of Muttalib), gave this name to his son in association with one of their deities. The truth lies here, because Abu Lahab, the uncle of Muhammad and one of the sons of Abdul Muttalib, had his original name as Abdul Uzza (slave of Uzza). We know that Uzza was one of the deities of the Quraish, and this name is also mentioned in the Quran (53:19, 20). It is natural that Abdul Muttalib chose another deity (Allah) as his other son’s name, Abdullah.

Thus, there is no surprise that Allah was certainly one of the esteemed deities of the Quraish, that Abdul Muttalib, the Quraish leader, gave this name to one of his sons. This reason prevents me from prostrating before a god that was once an idol, and later pretended to be a heavenly God. It is ridiculous to believe in the idol-god that he could be ever a heavenly God.

b) The Holy Quran
Muslims believe that the Quran is the most holy, inimitable, immutable, and comprehensive Holy Book. Every word in the Qur'an is from Allah, and no power on earth could ever change it. No book in the world, they assume, can be compared with the Quran. They think Quran is the book of justice and salvation of all problems. Its words are absolute, eternal, and are intact in the same way as it was revealed as divine messages 1,400 years ago. No one has the possession and power to change or erase its words or chapters because of the challenge of Allah (17:88).

Let us now discuss how the challenge of Allah, the Almighty, was countered by his own abrogated verses. There are strong evidences in Sahih Bukhari and Tirmizi that Allah could not honor his own words, because he had to replace his so-called immutable, divine, and most wise verses with other verses, or in many cases cancelled. My question is: “Why Allah, the wisest creator, needed to supersede his own verses? Why did he forget the previous verses?” Muslims’ answer to this question is: ”Because circumstances were changing through the period of revelations. It was necessary for a few verses to be abrogated, and a few to be replaced.”

The question again arises: “Why is it that those circumstances changed for only 23 years, in the life span of Muhammad, after he had claimed to be the prophet?”

Circumstances always change. Don't Muslims think that circumstances also changed since Muhammad’s time, and will continue to change? What shall we do now? Who will now abrogate such verses that clash with the present reality and in the future? When we raise such questions, the response from the Muslims is complete silence.

Another solid evidence by Muslim historians bear witness that the challenge of Allah was also turned down by his own devout follower Uthman bin Affan. Islamic history tells us that to prevent the misconceptions, variations and errors propagated by various groups of Muslims, Uthman, the third Caliph of Islam, burned the original text of the Holy Qur'an, keeping only the compilation ordered by him. Islamic historians write that, because of the uniformity in eloquence in rhetoric in Arabic among the tribes in Arabia, Islam was spreading rapidly worldwide. To clear all misconceptions among Muslims, and to save the ummah, therefore, Caliph Uthman made copies of his version of the Quran, and sent them to several regions. We may ask: why did not Allah reveal his verses in the same eloquence that are found today? Who gave authority to Uthman to burn the original Quran and to compile a new version?

It is also very interesting that when Uthman was elected as the caliph of Islam, he was about 70 or 72 years old. History shows us that Uthman had close relatives who belonged to Banu Umayya. This aged man was very easy to be tricked and manipulated. On the other hand, Amir Muaweeya, the son of Abu Suffian, was the governor of Syria. Islamic historians agree that on the day of conquest of Mecca, after Muhammad broke all the idols in front of the Quraish, many infidels among Abu Suffian and Amir Muaweeya embraced Islam, either by heart or by force. My conjecture is that Muaweeya and Abu Suffian never accepted Islam by heart, because they had no other option but to accept Islam. Thus, during the caliphate of Uthman, when Muaweeya was enjoying the governorship of Syria, he was very well aware that the old man Uthman cannot establish laws on his own. Uthman had to depend on his allies and kinsmen. Muaweeya had never forgotten his fellow men, killed by Muslims, and the desecration of their sacred idols by Muhammad. I think Muaweeya had been carrying this grudge against Islam since that day.. Elected as the governor of Syria, he was desperately waiting for the precise time to avenge the humiliation of his idols in the hands of Muslims. Therefore, it is quite natural to think that it was Muaweeya, in the behind, who had urged Uthman, to burn the original Quran.

The Sahabas (companions of Muhammad) also played an important role to preserve the Quran. Muslims claim that, many Sahabas, with their incredible memory, retained the Qur'an in their hearts: the divine verses were untouchable, and protected from the attack of infidels and outsiders. Most part of the Quran, according to Muslims, was revealed in Mecca, before Muhammad's migration to Medina. In the initial stages of revelation, vine or wine was not considered as the act of Satan.. We can easily assume that drinking alcohol was not a problem in the early age of Qur'an revelations. So, why later, Muhammad or Allah developed a great dislike for alcohol or vine? Even Muslims in Pakistan claim that Muhammad banned alcohol, because some Sahabas, including Ali (the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad), while in the state of drunkenness during prayer, uttered some inappropriate words that were not in conformity with Islam. So, it is logical to think that those Sahabas (companions of Muhammad), who routinely drank alcoholic drinks, did not deliver the divine messages properly. During the state of drunkenness they might have recited many verses differently from what Muhammad had revealed to them. Realizing this, the wisest and the mightiest Allah authorized Muhammad to abrogate and alter verses at his whims and fancies. Thus, we can say that not only many verses of the Qur'an had been abrogated, but many more verses have been changed by those, who were routinely vine drinkers.

Islamic history tells us about Abdullah bin Sa’d, one of the scribes of Muhammad from Mecca. After Muhammad migrated to Medina he retained Abdullah to write the Quranic verses as dictated to Muhammad by Allah. During a “divine inspiration session”, Abdullah discovered the fraudulence of Muhammad, and hastily returned to Mecca. Abdullah was convinced that Muhammad was an imposter, that Allah had never sent any divine messages to Muhammad. Muhammad never forgave Abdullah. When Muhammad invaded Mecca he ordered Abdullah bin Sa’d be killed, along with other pagans who had annoyed Muhammad in the past. We may wonder why a person, who was the writer of divine law and sacred verses, had to be killed by the Prophet of Islam. According to various sources, Abdullah bin Sa’d was a wise and knowledgeable man in Mecca. It was his habit, whenever prophet of Islam asked him to write such verse on anything, he -- with his wisdom, knowledge, and ability -- used to suggest Muhammad changes to verses revealed by Allah. Regardless, Muhammad gave importance to the wisdom of Abdullah bin Sa’d over to the wisdom of Almighty Allah. It was when Abdullah boasted to Muhammad’s other disciples about it that he got into troubles and fled to Mecca to save his life. That was why, on the day of the conquest of Mecca, Muhammad wanted him to be killed. It was Abdullah’s good luck that Uthman b. Affan was his foster brother and saved his life. Thus, we may conclude that a talented man, with profound intellect, imagination and ability had constructed the Qur'an.

Contradictions in the Holy Quran, is another lengthy topic, which I do not wish to discuss in this article. Suffice it to say, numerous contr adictions in the verses of the Holy Quran have been discovered and more will be found in the future.

e) The character and deeds of the Holy Prophet of Islam
Muslims present the character of Muhammad as exemplary. He is considered the most honest, pious, humble, incorruptible, righteous, balanced, genius, and Rehmat ulil Alimeen (a mercy for whole Universe)…and so on—it is an endless list.

Let us discuss his character and deeds sourced from impeccable Islamic sources, such as ahadith (Muhammad's traditions) and sira (Muhammad's biography).

(1) Muhammad, Aisha and their dating: Muhammad's first wife was Khadija, an influential and rich trader of Mecca. It is true that Muhammad did not marry any other women until Khadija's death. He was very devoted to her, a rich woman in the Quraish tribe, through the rest of her life, until she died in 619 CE. Immediately after Khadija’s death, Muhammad started a chain of marriages. She first married Sauda, a widowed woman. Soon he added Aisha, the daughter of Abu Bakar, the first caliph of Islam, to his harem. Narrations from Sahih Bukhari, the most authentic hadith compilation, gives us evidence that Aisha was only six years old when Muhammad, 50 or 51, married her. When Aisha was nine, she had her first night with Muhammad, then 53 or 54.

Was it a love affair between Aisha and Muhammad? Muslims claim that, when Muhammad consummated Aisha at the age of nine, she had already attained puberty. But this claim is baseless and week, because many traditions from different ahadith prove that after consummation of her first night with Muhammad, Aisha still played with her dolls. We know that a girl, shortly before her puberty, will quit playing with dolls; otherwise, she is considered a retard.

Today, this kind of marriage with forty to or fifty years of age difference is considered highly contemptible and condemnable, especially in Western countries. Even in Islamic Republic of Pakistan, parents would not give their six or nine-year-old daughters in the hands of a fifty plus-year-old man. This tradition may still exist partially in some backward remote villages, but to the vast majority of Pakistanis, this custom is not acceptable. Muslims defend by saying that this practice was followed in the primitive age in Arabia. What this Muslim claim means is that Muhammad’s Sunnah to consummate his marriage with Aisha at the age of nine was admirable in Muhammad's time, but in the 21st century, this tradition is not a civilized way of life. In other words, Muslims themselves prove that Muhammad’s actions and character do not bear hallmark of perfection for all time.

(2) Muhammad’s grabbing of his daughter-in-law: Zainab, a young and beautiful woman, was one of Muhammad’s many wives. She was formerly married to Zaid bin Harith, Khadija’s former slave and a black, whom pagan Muhammad had freed and adopted as his son. This relation tells us that Zainab was the daughter-in-law of Muhammad before he married her. The story goes that one day Muhammad went to visit Zaid at his home. Zaid was not at home. After Zainab informed him of the same from inside the house, Muhammad still peeped into the house to catch a glimpse of a scantily-dressed Zainab inside. According to Tabari and Ibn Sa’d, the posture of a half-naked Zainab highly aroused Muhammad, so much so, that he started praising his Lord and mumbled some words that Allah, aware of all his intentions, could understand. He had to rush to one of his wife, another Zainab, to sleep immediately in order to cool down his arousal.

After Zainab informed Zaid of Muhammad’s actions and his mumblings, Zainab understood Muhammad’s longings for her, and divorced her to pave way for Muhammad to fulfill his lust for her. On this occasion Allah revealed verse 33:37. It is clear from this verse that the companions of Muhammad in Medina objected to his act of marrying his adopted son's wife. Being an unacceptable custom among the Arabs, it was a reasonable objection. To confront this objection, however, Allah sent down divine messages in the form of warning of his wrath upon those, who make trouble for his beloved prophet.

The marriage between Zaid and Zainab was arranged by Muhammad himself. How come, a marriage that is convened by prophet himself was dissolved? Why Muhammad, the foreteller of the advent of Imam Mehdi and the Day of Judgment, did not perceive the divine conclusion of the marriage between him and Zainab in the first place? Where was Allah, the knower of the past and future, who would prevent marriage between Zaid and Zainab? I know Muslims will claim that Muhammad knew only what Allah told him. This is an absurd claim; it further supports my reason to disdain Islam.

To learn more about the affair of Muhammad and Zainab, please visit this page.

(3) Maria the Copt, the sweetheart and sex-slave of Muhammad: Maria, a Coptic Christian slave-girl, was another sweetheart of Muhammad. She became the sex-slave of the Prophet of Islam. According to Islamic sources, she was a very attractive young girl and Muhammad was more attracted to her than to any of his wives. One day, Muhammad tried to send Hafsa (one of his wives) away, by telling that her father (Umar) wanted to see her. As Hafsa went out leaving Muhammad alone with Maria in her house, the Prophet of Islam started to give glad tidings to Maria that if she made the Prophet happy, Allah would make her happy too, and she will never be miserable in her life and hereafter. As Maria heard this, she smiled and looked at the Prophet. This gesture of the former filled Muhammad's heart and mind with love, passion and desire for her.

Hafsa retuned rather quickly, annoyed that Muhammad had told her a lie. She entered her room, to discover that the lustful Prophet of Islam deeply engaged in sex with Maria, and she started shouted at the Prophet. He did not expect Hafsa to return so soon. While the proud young and beautiful Maria was giggling on this scene, argument started between Muhammad and Hafsa. Muhammad tried his best to assuage Hafsa and keep her mouth shut. But Hafsa, as courageous and petulant as her father (Umar), rebuked Muhammad for his deception and the evil deed. Soon, Hafsa shared this story with Aisha, and they tried to tease the prophet of Islam by saying that his mouth stank of home-made alcoholic drink. Muslims try to defend Muhammad by claiming it was the smell of honey as Muhammad loved honey. Accordingly, after this affair, Muhammad never drank honey. We should note that honey does not stink. It was, perhaps, the ‘honey’ that flowed between Maria’s legs that might have caused Muhammad's mouth to stink.

Later on, Hafsa and his other wives banded together to deny sex to Muhammad. But Allah---always eager and happy to see Muhammad’s every desire fulfill and defend his every action, however, vile---revealed verses to defend his beloved prophet to confront the allegations of his wives.

To know more about this sordid act of Muhammad, please visit this page.

(4) Muhammad’s followers jubilation on the massacre of Banu Quraiza: The plunder of Khyber and the massacre of Banu Quraiza (a Jewish tribe of Medina) is another glorious feature of Islam. Soon after the battle of the Trench in 627 CE, in which the Meccans had besieged Muslims at Medina, they annihilated the entire Quraiza tribe. Amidst cheers from his fanatic followers, Muhammad beheaded all the Banu Quraiza adult men, and sold their women and children as slaves to raise money to buy war implements. Without any credible evidence, Muhammad alleged that the Banu Quraiza was in conspiracy with Quraish in during the battle, although they remained neutral during the whole battle.

Islamic history tells us that shortly after migrating to Medina, the Prophet of Islam and his followers adopted looting and plundering trade-caravans for making a living. Holy Quran also depicts this abhorrent policy in a number of verses. Muhammad’s depicted it as a holy war sanctioned by Allah, but this notorious act was not acceptable to some groups in Medina, who refused to join Muhammad in his so-called holy war mission. An attempt to plunder a Meccan caravan led to the first battle of Badr in 624. After this battle, a series of other battles followed in the form of aggressive barbarism by Muslims.

As stated before, soon after the battle of the Trench, Muhammad attacked the Banu Quraiza Jews, killed their men, enslaved their women and children, and divided their wealth and property amongst Muslims.

My question is:

Why were all men and adult boys of Banu Quraiza massacred in a dreadful way?

Was it because the Jews did not aid Muhammad in the battle of the Trench?

Was it because they conspired with the Quraish against the prophet of Islam?”

If these reasons are valid, why did not Muhammad massacred all men of the Quraish on the day of conquest of Mecca?

Who were the archenemies of Islam and Muhammad?

I know Muslims will simply reply that the Quraish were spared because they took pledge on the hand of Muhammad, but the Jews of Banu Quraiza did not. I consider this argument false. The reason is that the Quraish were the family members of Muhammad, whereas the Banu Quraiza Jews were not. Had the Quraish been different tribe from Muhammad, I can say with certainty that they, given their lasting enmity of Muhammad, would have met worse fate than that of what happened to Banu Quraiza. The Quraish brought many inflictions on Muhammad and his followers before and after their migration to Medina. It is widely known that the Prophet of Islam was by nature, a vindictive person. In spite of that, Muhammad spared the Quraish. This is a glaring example of injustice of the prophet of Islam.

(6) Muhammad's confusion on facing the qiblas: Muslims claim that Kaaba (Muslim’s holy shrine in Mecca) was built by Abraham (the father of Ishmael and Isaac). According to them, Allah ordered Abraham to build a sanctuary for Allah, and warned him against idol worshipping. Hence, today, Muslims face the Kaaba during their prayers. Many Muslims in Pakistan claim that the system of five daily prayers was ordained on Muslims when Muhammad undertook the journey of Miraj (a night journey to seven skies). Before Miraj, compulsory prayers were not ordained.

Ibn Ishaq tells us that in the early days of Islam, Muhammad and the handful of his followers started offering prayers facing the Kaaba. Later, in Medina, the Prophet of Islam and his companions started offering their prayers facing Masjid-e-Aqsa (a Jewish temple at Jerusalem) abandoning the Kaaba. Again, after the 18th month of migration, Allah sent his divine messages, allowing his beloved prophet to turn his face back to the Kaaba. So, while Muhammad and his companions were attentive in prayers, Muhammad turned his face from the Masjid al-Aqsa to the Kaaba.

We may ask: Why qiblas (facing towards shrine) were switched to Masjid-e-Aqsa and back to Kaaba if it was predestined that Abraham was the builder of the Kaaba?

This incidence proves that Muhammad was uncertain that the Kaaba was ever built by Abraham. If it was, this is a big sin on the part of Muhammad for turning his face away from Allah’s true shrine of Kabaa. Today’s Muslims should realize it that the Kaaba was once an old sanctuary for idols, and the idolaters had built Kaaba.

(7) Muhammad violated the treaty of Hudaibiya: Apparently, the treaty of Hudaybya was a peace treaty between the Quraish of Mecca and the Muslims of Medina. Feeling homesick and nostalgic after six or seven years away from their home and center of spirituality, Muslims in Medina probably were disintegrating. They became tired of Muhammad's harangue and false promises of prosperity and divine bliss. They had had enough of Muhammad. Muhammad realized that, to enthuse his crestfallen followers, he had to engage in warfare, to attack Mecca and take control of it. Consequently, he adopted deception and pretension to ascend to power. The treaty of Hudaibiya is an example of such trickery by Muhammad. The treaty of Hudaybya was a peace pact for the Quraish, but not for Muhammad. Even before this treaty was signed Muhammad had already devised a plan to invade Mecca. Muslims claim that the Quraish violated the treaty. From Jarir Tabri resources, it is clear that it was Muhammad who had violated that treaty.

Allah, Islam, and Muhammad as I see as an Ex-Muslim
The evidences cited above shows that the prophet of Islam was a coward, who always adopted a way to attack his opponent from back, and kill them in ambush. To Muhammad and his Allah, every promise and word of honor was meaningless. He was the only untrustworthy Prophet in the history of mankind who could do anything, beyond the limits, to make his own created Allah happier. This prophet was indeed a miscreant, a criminal, a womanizer, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and so on…

Conclusion
Just because I have left Islam, it does not mean I have converted to other religions like Christianity, Hinduism or Buddhism. I consider myself an atheist. To me, all religions were made by men, and I do not consider any prophet or prophets as pious and righteous. They all were myths, designed to trick and convert the gullible people. I do not believe in the hereafter or whatever has been told in ancient myths and creeds. However, I still believe in reincarnation, but not in sprightly form but in genetic form. As genetics travels and will travel through generations, we are reborn in this world, albeit in a composite form, through our future generations.

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From Islam to Atheism: A Pakistani Muslim's Journey
Saturday, 13 June 2009 18:33 Muhammad A. Khan

Why I left Islam and how look at it now...

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Introduction
Born a Muslim, I am living in the Muslim community observing and contemplating on various dimensions of the inhabitants of Pakistan: their Islamic culture, their styles of living, and their way of commerce. The most important aspect that intrigues me is the inclination of Pakistanis towards Islam. In this respect it is doubtless that Pakistani culture is very different from the rest of the world.

With 95% of its 170 million people Muslims, Pakistan is an Islamic state. The number of rural Pakistanis far outweighs the number of urban dwellers. Pakistan has only four provinces, but more than thirty spoken languages. Urdu is the national language, and English is a Secondary language. The 1973 constitution of Pakistan has declared that Arabic will also be a secondary language of Pakistan. Despite such a constitutional measure, still in 2009, Arabic has no place in this country. I would safely say that more than ninety percent Pakistanis, including me, do not understand Arabic; neither do we speak nor write it properly. Truly, this proves the heart of a Pakistani is anything but Arabic.

Just like any other Islamic countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, Islam is the only dominant religion in Pakistan. Bitterly condemned and despised, religions other than Islam have very little place in these countries. These Islamic states attempt to adopt their way of life according to the Quran and Sunnah. In Pakistan, Sunnis are in the majority, about 75% of the population: the Shias are the second largest Islamic sect.

My beliefs towards Allah, Islam and Muhammad as a Muslim
As stated above, I was, by birth a Muslim, and at an early age we were taught the basic principles of Islam. Allah was everything to me. I considered him as the almighty. He was omnipresent; I thought he was watching us all the time.. He knows every action of us, even what we think and intend. We live happily or sadly, that’s all from his will. We were taught that he loves us very much and he is our only protector. He possesses such a mighty power that we could never even think.

Like every Muslim, I had a great reverence and adoration for Muhammad. To me, he was a hero, a superman, the only savior, infallible, protector, merciful, and the most remarkable personality on earth that can never be compared with anyone else. I could never dare to conjecture that Muhammad could ever commit sins or do mistakes. Had I ever questioned the honor and integrity of Muhammad, I started to blame my subconscience. I often thought that I was one of the luckiest men in the world that I was born a Muslim, and we Muslims would be the only inhabitants of Jannat, where there are hoors (heavenly virgins) and vine (wine) with exclusive flavors. Thus, around the age of 20, I started to offer prayers, not only five times a day, but also nawafil prayers (extra prayers that are not compulsory), just being greedy to have more hoors in jannat. I believed that the more we pray the prettier our hoors will be.

Sadly, due to this self-deception and ignorance, I neglected and overlooked the pretty virgins in this world.

Knowing that every non-Muslim, no matter how righteous or good, will go to hell, I often pondered about them, and the terrible fate that awaits them. Pitying them, I wished that all non-Muslims become Muslim and join us in jannat. Because I learned that the only method for the success in the hereafter was to believe in one Allah and in the affirmation of the finality of Muhammad, the (so-called) prophet. I firmly believed that Muhammad was the next great personality after Allah.

My reasons of Leaving Islam

Now, I will discuss about the false conception of Muslims about Islam, Allah, the Quran and Muhammad .I found the good reason to leave Islam when I discovered the gross irrationalities and logical errors Muslims make about the supremacy of Islamic faith. Here I shall illustrate my view-points, and it is up to the reader to decide if I had been right or wrong.

a) Allah
Who is this Allah? This legitimate question is very common, but there is no satisfactory answer. Many great thinkers have succinctly discussed about the origin of Allah considered, by Muslims, the only God, my past God, too. From their record it is established that before Islam, Allah was also the pagan god or deity. Research shows that Allah was a moon-god, whom the people of Quraish in Arabia, revered and worshiped.

Muslims have a completely different notion of Allah. The above claim of Allah being the god of the pagan Arabs will severely hurt ordinary Muslims. They will never accept claims of many scholars, since they will not agree that their Allah, who is invisible and living above the highest heaven, was once an idol-god of the Arab idolaters.

I consider the claim of the scholars about Allah as true. This is because Muhammad’s father’s name was Abdullah (slave of Allah). Muhammad’s grandfather, Abdul Muttalib (slave of Muttalib), gave this name to his son in association with one of their deities. The truth lies here, because Abu Lahab, the uncle of Muhammad and one of the sons of Abdul Muttalib, had his original name as Abdul Uzza (slave of Uzza). We know that Uzza was one of the deities of the Quraish, and this name is also mentioned in the Quran (53:19, 20). It is natural that Abdul Muttalib chose another deity (Allah) as his other son’s name, Abdullah.

Thus, there is no surprise that Allah was certainly one of the esteemed deities of the Quraish, that Abdul Muttalib, the Quraish leader, gave this name to one of his sons. This reason prevents me from prostrating before a god that was once an idol, and later pretended to be a heavenly God. It is ridiculous to believe in the idol-god that he could be ever a heavenly God.

b) The Holy Quran
Muslims believe that the Quran is the most holy, inimitable, immutable, and comprehensive Holy Book. Every word in the Qur'an is from Allah, and no power on earth could ever change it. No book in the world, they assume, can be compared with the Quran. They think Quran is the book of justice and salvation of all problems. Its words are absolute, eternal, and are intact in the same way as it was revealed as divine messages 1,400 years ago. No one has the possession and power to change or erase its words or chapters because of the challenge of Allah (17:88).

Let us now discuss how the challenge of Allah, the Almighty, was countered by his own abrogated verses. There are strong evidences in Sahih Bukhari and Tirmizi that Allah could not honor his own words, because he had to replace his so-called immutable, divine, and most wise verses with other verses, or in many cases cancelled. My question is: “Why Allah, the wisest creator, needed to supersede his own verses? Why did he forget the previous verses?” Muslims’ answer to this question is: ”Because circumstances were changing through the period of revelations. It was necessary for a few verses to be abrogated, and a few to be replaced.”

The question again arises: “Why is it that those circumstances changed for only 23 years, in the life span of Muhammad, after he had claimed to be the prophet?”

Circumstances always change. Don't Muslims think that circumstances also changed since Muhammad’s time, and will continue to change? What shall we do now? Who will now abrogate such verses that clash with the present reality and in the future? When we raise such questions, the response from the Muslims is complete silence.

Another solid evidence by Muslim historians bear witness that the challenge of Allah was also turned down by his own devout follower Uthman bin Affan. Islamic history tells us that to prevent the misconceptions, variations and errors propagated by various groups of Muslims, Uthman, the third Caliph of Islam, burned the original text of the Holy Qur'an, keeping only the compilation ordered by him. Islamic historians write that, because of the uniformity in eloquence in rhetoric in Arabic among the tribes in Arabia, Islam was spreading rapidly worldwide. To clear all misconceptions among Muslims, and to save the ummah, therefore, Caliph Uthman made copies of his version of the Quran, and sent them to several regions. We may ask: why did not Allah reveal his verses in the same eloquence that are found today? Who gave authority to Uthman to burn the original Quran and to compile a new version?

It is also very interesting that when Uthman was elected as the caliph of Islam, he was about 70 or 72 years old. History shows us that Uthman had close relatives who belonged to Banu Umayya. This aged man was very easy to be tricked and manipulated. On the other hand, Amir Muaweeya, the son of Abu Suffian, was the governor of Syria. Islamic historians agree that on the day of conquest of Mecca, after Muhammad broke all the idols in front of the Quraish, many infidels among Abu Suffian and Amir Muaweeya embraced Islam, either by heart or by force. My conjecture is that Muaweeya and Abu Suffian never accepted Islam by heart, because they had no other option but to accept Islam. Thus, during the caliphate of Uthman, when Muaweeya was enjoying the governorship of Syria, he was very well aware that the old man Uthman cannot establish laws on his own. Uthman had to depend on his allies and kinsmen. Muaweeya had never forgotten his fellow men, killed by Muslims, and the desecration of their sacred idols by Muhammad. I think Muaweeya had been carrying this grudge against Islam since that day.. Elected as the governor of Syria, he was desperately waiting for the precise time to avenge the humiliation of his idols in the hands of Muslims. Therefore, it is quite natural to think that it was Muaweeya, in the behind, who had urged Uthman, to burn the original Quran.

The Sahabas (companions of Muhammad) also played an important role to preserve the Quran. Muslims claim that, many Sahabas, with their incredible memory, retained the Qur'an in their hearts: the divine verses were untouchable, and protected from the attack of infidels and outsiders. Most part of the Quran, according to Muslims, was revealed in Mecca, before Muhammad's migration to Medina. In the initial stages of revelation, vine or wine was not considered as the act of Satan.. We can easily assume that drinking alcohol was not a problem in the early age of Qur'an revelations. So, why later, Muhammad or Allah developed a great dislike for alcohol or vine? Even Muslims in Pakistan claim that Muhammad banned alcohol, because some Sahabas, including Ali (the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad), while in the state of drunkenness during prayer, uttered some inappropriate words that were not in conformity with Islam. So, it is logical to think that those Sahabas (companions of Muhammad), who routinely drank alcoholic drinks, did not deliver the divine messages properly. During the state of drunkenness they might have recited many verses differently from what Muhammad had revealed to them. Realizing this, the wisest and the mightiest Allah authorized Muhammad to abrogate and alter verses at his whims and fancies. Thus, we can say that not only many verses of the Qur'an had been abrogated, but many more verses have been changed by those, who were routinely vine drinkers.

Islamic history tells us about Abdullah bin Sa’d, one of the scribes of Muhammad from Mecca. After Muhammad migrated to Medina he retained Abdullah to write the Quranic verses as dictated to Muhammad by Allah. During a “divine inspiration session”, Abdullah discovered the fraudulence of Muhammad, and hastily returned to Mecca. Abdullah was convinced that Muhammad was an imposter, that Allah had never sent any divine messages to Muhammad. Muhammad never forgave Abdullah. When Muhammad invaded Mecca he ordered Abdullah bin Sa’d be killed, along with other pagans who had annoyed Muhammad in the past. We may wonder why a person, who was the writer of divine law and sacred verses, had to be killed by the Prophet of Islam. According to various sources, Abdullah bin Sa’d was a wise and knowledgeable man in Mecca. It was his habit, whenever prophet of Islam asked him to write such verse on anything, he -- with his wisdom, knowledge, and ability -- used to suggest Muhammad changes to verses revealed by Allah. Regardless, Muhammad gave importance to the wisdom of Abdullah bin Sa’d over to the wisdom of Almighty Allah. It was when Abdullah boasted to Muhammad’s other disciples about it that he got into troubles and fled to Mecca to save his life. That was why, on the day of the conquest of Mecca, Muhammad wanted him to be killed. It was Abdullah’s good luck that Uthman b. Affan was his foster brother and saved his life. Thus, we may conclude that a talented man, with profound intellect, imagination and ability had constructed the Qur'an.

Contradictions in the Holy Quran, is another lengthy topic, which I do not wish to discuss in this article. Suffice it to say, numerous contr adictions in the verses of the Holy Quran have been discovered and more will be found in the future.

e) The character and deeds of the Holy Prophet of Islam
Muslims present the character of Muhammad as exemplary. He is considered the most honest, pious, humble, incorruptible, righteous, balanced, genius, and Rehmat ulil Alimeen (a mercy for whole Universe)…and so on—it is an endless list.

Let us discuss his character and deeds sourced from impeccable Islamic sources, such as ahadith (Muhammad's traditions) and sira (Muhammad's biography).

(1) Muhammad, Aisha and their dating: Muhammad's first wife was Khadija, an influential and rich trader of Mecca. It is true that Muhammad did not marry any other women until Khadija's death. He was very devoted to her, a rich woman in the Quraish tribe, through the rest of her life, until she died in 619 CE. Immediately after Khadija’s death, Muhammad started a chain of marriages. She first married Sauda, a widowed woman. Soon he added Aisha, the daughter of Abu Bakar, the first caliph of Islam, to his harem. Narrations from Sahih Bukhari, the most authentic hadith compilation, gives us evidence that Aisha was only six years old when Muhammad, 50 or 51, married her. When Aisha was nine, she had her first night with Muhammad, then 53 or 54.

Was it a love affair between Aisha and Muhammad? Muslims claim that, when Muhammad consummated Aisha at the age of nine, she had already attained puberty. But this claim is baseless and week, because many traditions from different ahadith prove that after consummation of her first night with Muhammad, Aisha still played with her dolls. We know that a girl, shortly before her puberty, will quit playing with dolls; otherwise, she is considered a retard.

Today, this kind of marriage with forty to or fifty years of age difference is considered highly contemptible and condemnable, especially in Western countries. Even in Islamic Republic of Pakistan, parents would not give their six or nine-year-old daughters in the hands of a fifty plus-year-old man. This tradition may still exist partially in some backward remote villages, but to the vast majority of Pakistanis, this custom is not acceptable. Muslims defend by saying that this practice was followed in the primitive age in Arabia. What this Muslim claim means is that Muhammad’s Sunnah to consummate his marriage with Aisha at the age of nine was admirable in Muhammad's time, but in the 21st century, this tradition is not a civilized way of life. In other words, Muslims themselves prove that Muhammad’s actions and character do not bear hallmark of perfection for all time.

(2) Muhammad’s grabbing of his daughter-in-law: Zainab, a young and beautiful woman, was one of Muhammad’s many wives. She was formerly married to Zaid bin Harith, Khadija’s former slave and a black, whom pagan Muhammad had freed and adopted as his son. This relation tells us that Zainab was the daughter-in-law of Muhammad before he married her. The story goes that one day Muhammad went to visit Zaid at his home. Zaid was not at home. After Zainab informed him of the same from inside the house, Muhammad still peeped into the house to catch a glimpse of a scantily-dressed Zainab inside. According to Tabari and Ibn Sa’d, the posture of a half-naked Zainab highly aroused Muhammad, so much so, that he started praising his Lord and mumbled some words that Allah, aware of all his intentions, could understand. He had to rush to one of his wife, another Zainab, to sleep immediately in order to cool down his arousal.

After Zainab informed Zaid of Muhammad’s actions and his mumblings, Zainab understood Muhammad’s longings for her, and divorced her to pave way for Muhammad to fulfill his lust for her. On this occasion Allah revealed verse 33:37. It is clear from this verse that the companions of Muhammad in Medina objected to his act of marrying his adopted son's wife. Being an unacceptable custom among the Arabs, it was a reasonable objection. To confront this objection, however, Allah sent down divine messages in the form of warning of his wrath upon those, who make trouble for his beloved prophet.

The marriage between Zaid and Zainab was arranged by Muhammad himself. How come, a marriage that is convened by prophet himself was dissolved? Why Muhammad, the foreteller of the advent of Imam Mehdi and the Day of Judgment, did not perceive the divine conclusion of the marriage between him and Zainab in the first place? Where was Allah, the knower of the past and future, who would prevent marriage between Zaid and Zainab? I know Muslims will claim that Muhammad knew only what Allah told him. This is an absurd claim; it further supports my reason to disdain Islam.

To learn more about the affair of Muhammad and Zainab, please visit this page.

(3) Maria the Copt, the sweetheart and sex-slave of Muhammad: Maria, a Coptic Christian slave-girl, was another sweetheart of Muhammad. She became the sex-slave of the Prophet of Islam. According to Islamic sources, she was a very attractive young girl and Muhammad was more attracted to her than to any of his wives. One day, Muhammad tried to send Hafsa (one of his wives) away, by telling that her father (Umar) wanted to see her. As Hafsa went out leaving Muhammad alone with Maria in her house, the Prophet of Islam started to give glad tidings to Maria that if she made the Prophet happy, Allah would make her happy too, and she will never be miserable in her life and hereafter. As Maria heard this, she smiled and looked at the Prophet. This gesture of the former filled Muhammad's heart and mind with love, passion and desire for her.

Hafsa retuned rather quickly, annoyed that Muhammad had told her a lie. She entered her room, to discover that the lustful Prophet of Islam deeply engaged in sex with Maria, and she started shouted at the Prophet. He did not expect Hafsa to return so soon. While the proud young and beautiful Maria was giggling on this scene, argument started between Muhammad and Hafsa. Muhammad tried his best to assuage Hafsa and keep her mouth shut. But Hafsa, as courageous and petulant as her father (Umar), rebuked Muhammad for his deception and the evil deed. Soon, Hafsa shared this story with Aisha, and they tried to tease the prophet of Islam by saying that his mouth stank of home-made alcoholic drink. Muslims try to defend Muhammad by claiming it was the smell of honey as Muhammad loved honey. Accordingly, after this affair, Muhammad never drank honey. We should note that honey does not stink. It was, perhaps, the ‘honey’ that flowed between Maria’s legs that might have caused Muhammad's mouth to stink.

Later on, Hafsa and his other wives banded together to deny sex to Muhammad. But Allah---always eager and happy to see Muhammad’s every desire fulfill and defend his every action, however, vile---revealed verses to defend his beloved prophet to confront the allegations of his wives.

To know more about this sordid act of Muhammad, please visit this page.

(4) Muhammad’s followers jubilation on the massacre of Banu Quraiza: The plunder of Khyber and the massacre of Banu Quraiza (a Jewish tribe of Medina) is another glorious feature of Islam. Soon after the battle of the Trench in 627 CE, in which the Meccans had besieged Muslims at Medina, they annihilated the entire Quraiza tribe. Amidst cheers from his fanatic followers, Muhammad beheaded all the Banu Quraiza adult men, and sold their women and children as slaves to raise money to buy war implements. Without any credible evidence, Muhammad alleged that the Banu Quraiza was in conspiracy with Quraish in during the battle, although they remained neutral during the whole battle.

Islamic history tells us that shortly after migrating to Medina, the Prophet of Islam and his followers adopted looting and plundering trade-caravans for making a living. Holy Quran also depicts this abhorrent policy in a number of verses. Muhammad’s depicted it as a holy war sanctioned by Allah, but this notorious act was not acceptable to some groups in Medina, who refused to join Muhammad in his so-called holy war mission. An attempt to plunder a Meccan caravan led to the first battle of Badr in 624. After this battle, a series of other battles followed in the form of aggressive barbarism by Muslims.

As stated before, soon after the battle of the Trench, Muhammad attacked the Banu Quraiza Jews, killed their men, enslaved their women and children, and divided their wealth and property amongst Muslims.

My question is:

Why were all men and adult boys of Banu Quraiza massacred in a dreadful way?

Was it because the Jews did not aid Muhammad in the battle of the Trench?

Was it because they conspired with the Quraish against the prophet of Islam?”

If these reasons are valid, why did not Muhammad massacred all men of the Quraish on the day of conquest of Mecca?

Who were the archenemies of Islam and Muhammad?

I know Muslims will simply reply that the Quraish were spared because they took pledge on the hand of Muhammad, but the Jews of Banu Quraiza did not. I consider this argument false. The reason is that the Quraish were the family members of Muhammad, whereas the Banu Quraiza Jews were not. Had the Quraish been different tribe from Muhammad, I can say with certainty that they, given their lasting enmity of Muhammad, would have met worse fate than that of what happened to Banu Quraiza. The Quraish brought many inflictions on Muhammad and his followers before and after their migration to Medina. It is widely known that the Prophet of Islam was by nature, a vindictive person. In spite of that, Muhammad spared the Quraish. This is a glaring example of injustice of the prophet of Islam.

(6) Muhammad's confusion on facing the qiblas: Muslims claim that Kaaba (Muslim’s holy shrine in Mecca) was built by Abraham (the father of Ishmael and Isaac). According to them, Allah ordered Abraham to build a sanctuary for Allah, and warned him against idol worshipping. Hence, today, Muslims face the Kaaba during their prayers. Many Muslims in Pakistan claim that the system of five daily prayers was ordained on Muslims when Muhammad undertook the journey of Miraj (a night journey to seven skies). Before Miraj, compulsory prayers were not ordained.

Ibn Ishaq tells us that in the early days of Islam, Muhammad and the handful of his followers started offering prayers facing the Kaaba. Later, in Medina, the Prophet of Islam and his companions started offering their prayers facing Masjid-e-Aqsa (a Jewish temple at Jerusalem) abandoning the Kaaba. Again, after the 18th month of migration, Allah sent his divine messages, allowing his beloved prophet to turn his face back to the Kaaba. So, while Muhammad and his companions were attentive in prayers, Muhammad turned his face from the Masjid al-Aqsa to the Kaaba.

We may ask: Why qiblas (facing towards shrine) were switched to Masjid-e-Aqsa and back to Kaaba if it was predestined that Abraham was the builder of the Kaaba?

This incidence proves that Muhammad was uncertain that the Kaaba was ever built by Abraham. If it was, this is a big sin on the part of Muhammad for turning his face away from Allah’s true shrine of Kabaa. Today’s Muslims should realize it that the Kaaba was once an old sanctuary for idols, and the idolaters had built Kaaba.

(7) Muhammad violated the treaty of Hudaibiya: Apparently, the treaty of Hudaybya was a peace treaty between the Quraish of Mecca and the Muslims of Medina. Feeling homesick and nostalgic after six or seven years away from their home and center of spirituality, Muslims in Medina probably were disintegrating. They became tired of Muhammad's harangue and false promises of prosperity and divine bliss. They had had enough of Muhammad. Muhammad realized that, to enthuse his crestfallen followers, he had to engage in warfare, to attack Mecca and take control of it. Consequently, he adopted deception and pretension to ascend to power. The treaty of Hudaibiya is an example of such trickery by Muhammad. The treaty of Hudaybya was a peace pact for the Quraish, but not for Muhammad. Even before this treaty was signed Muhammad had already devised a plan to invade Mecca. Muslims claim that the Quraish violated the treaty. From Jarir Tabri resources, it is clear that it was Muhammad who had violated that treaty.

Allah, Islam, and Muhammad as I see as an Ex-Muslim
The evidences cited above shows that the prophet of Islam was a coward, who always adopted a way to attack his opponent from back, and kill them in ambush. To Muhammad and his Allah, every promise and word of honor was meaningless. He was the only untrustworthy Prophet in the history of mankind who could do anything, beyond the limits, to make his own created Allah happier. This prophet was indeed a miscreant, a criminal, a womanizer, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and so on…

Conclusion
Just because I have left Islam, it does not mean I have converted to other religions like Christianity, Hinduism or Buddhism. I consider myself an atheist. To me, all religions were made by men, and I do not consider any prophet or prophets as pious and righteous. They all were myths, designed to trick and convert the gullible people. I do not believe in the hereafter or whatever has been told in ancient myths and creeds. However, I still believe in reincarnation, but not in sprightly form but in genetic form. As genetics travels and will travel through generations, we are reborn in this world, albeit in a composite form, through our future generations.

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Subj: Response to message of

Subj: Response to message of Mukund Apte
1. Mukund Apte to me
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Dear sir,
All the ills of Bhaarateeya people are because of loss of their faith in their own Vedas Shaastraas. The education system started by British people for Bhaarateey in nineteenth century is the main culprit in this.From then onwards Bhaarateey people (appear to be) convinced that GORA saheb is superior to us and hence he waited on Western people for any instruction for action. He stopped even thinking on hois own. ow we even know that our 'educated' bureaucracy is selfish and worst in the whole world.
What we have to do is CHANGE the education system. I am enclosing three articles written by me a few years back on education. They were published in TRUTH Weekly being published from KOLKATA. Kindly read them and ponder. Also please let me know your views on the articles.
I am confident, once we adopt this education system every ill will be banished from Bhaarateey mind and Bhaarat will once again become JAGADGURU.
With regards to all,
-----Mukund Apte
2. My Take:
We Hindus need to move away from, the rhetoric of blaming others for problems that, are entirely of our own making.
Even before the Gora-Sahebs ( the English ) came to India, our Hindu System was in a very bad shape. Hundreds of millions of our Hindu people had been murdered by Sulla-Sahebs, and millions more were converted to Islam. The dreadful genocide of the Hindu, was a cataclysmic occurrence and a record of Islamic bestiality. The foolish attitude of our Hindu Leaders & of our Hindu Holy Men (HHMs ), enabled the evil of Islam ( and also of Christianity ) to triumph in India, which is the land of the Hindu.
3. All barbarians ( such as Islam, Christianity, and Communism ) go where they can go easily, where they detect some weakness. This weakness is what helps the consolidation of the alien religious Mafia ( of Islam & Chrisianity ) in India. We might wonder why our Hinduism has been in such a pitiable state.
There are three causes. There have been three strikes against the Hindu.
Strike # 1: Selfishness of the Hindu. Hindu's top priority is on his personal welfare & on the welfare of his family. He has no priority on the welfare of his Hindu community. He is unwilling to pay the price of Hinduism Defense.
Strike # 2. Our Rotten Hindu Leaders during the last 1200 years. Even now, in the year of 2009, our Hindu Leadership is rotten. They do not have what it takes to do the job, of Hinduism Defense. They cannot cut the mustard.
Strike # 3. Our Rotten Hindu Holy Men ( HHM's ). Ninety percent of our HHM are rotten. They don't know which end is up.
4. Note. Strikes # 1, 2, & 3 are Incurable.
By uttering the word Dharma alone, we cannot defend or strengthen our Hinduism. We need to alter & re-arrange things in a massive way.
One thing is more than certain. By doing things the way we Hindus have been doing, for the last 1200 years, the results will be exactly the same, and the Hindu will confront more desperation.
But with a different technique, the Outflank Technique, we can repair the shattered fortunes of the Hindu, and expose the Lies, Deception, and Barbarism of Islam & Christianity, and hit the soft-underbelly of both Islam & Christianity. We can bring to an end, the naked dance of bestiality of both Islam & Christianity in India.
Surinder Paul Attri

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Subject: BOOK REVIEW:

Subject: BOOK REVIEW: UNDERSTANDING MUHAMMAD
My Take:
1. There is no mysterious quality in Muhammad. There is no puzzle, none whatsoever, in understanding Muhammad.

2. This guy ( Muhammad ) was a real piece of Crap.

Surinder Paul Attri

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ARE WHITE PEOPLE MORE

ARE WHITE PEOPLE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN US INDIANS ?
By S.P. Attri ( USA )
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1. Noted French journalist Francois Gautier, is disgusted at the sight of intelligent Indian men & women, debasing & degrading themselves in front of Sonia Gandhi, a white woman. He is dazed why we Indians have such an affinity towards the white skin.
Psychiatrists tell us that we humans are reasonable people. What this means is that, we do not do anything, without reason.
2. Signor Gautier is flabbergasted at this Indian proclivity for the white skin because:
He himself is a white man, is free from advanced-complexes that we Indians have developed ( and which he has not ) in abundance, and is also a possesser of French frankness ( and that is Not a pun either ). A frank come-back is befitting.
3. We Indians are Not attracted towards the white skin only, you have to have a face that goes with the white skin. Indians would Never fall at the feet, of any man or woman, from North China, North Japan, or North Korea et al, some of whom are dog-gone light complexioned, but lack the cosmetic effect of a European-Looking face.
Yanks have or used to have a joke ( this is just a joke ):
One Mr. Foo & one Mrs. Foo, do not make white. It is strictly occidental.
This softens up the cosmetic routine for us Indians, and we have it at the level of our instincts. Indians are only doing what their instincts are telling them.
4. Even though, in the past as well as in the present, many whites of Europe, America, South Africa, Australlia et al, have looked down upon the darker races of the world, their action is a consequence of a different factor, it is a factor of Superiority-Complex, that some or possibly many whites ( in spite of the modern spirit of toleration ) are possibly afflicted with. In the case of us Indians, the problem is different, as it an outgrowth of our Inferiority-Complex. We Indians are gloated & bloated with this Useless-Complex, and we need to spiral down from it.
How can anybody help what the color of his/her skin is ?
I am not trying to blame or excuse anybody. I am coming at the problem, from a factual point of view.
5. Question: Does preference for lighter skin have any practical use or serviceability ? Not much.
No body would give you a job, because of the lightness of your skin, neither in the USA, nor in UK, nor in India, nor at any other place in the world. Employers hire people who have qualifications & talents to do the job. Complexion does not enter into their hiring-decisions.
Inferiority-Complex may look like a choice, but it is Not much of a choice. It is an addiction, a chronic addiction that, unjustly punishes those amongst us, who have great skills & talents, but may happen to be dark-complexioned.
6. Sonia Gandhi is considered an Aryan by Indian standards ( Incidentally, Aryan is a Sanskrit word, it is not an English, French, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian et al word ). But standards vary all over the place. Sonia Gandhi is Not too much of an Aryan, by the standards of Adolf Hitler & Heinrich Himler, both of whom had a Strong predilection, for blond hair & blue eyes. Neither Hitler nor Himler was blond, neither Hitler nor Himler had blue eyes. The howl & hubbub of Hitler & Himler, was a ferment & fuss of no use or of reality, but propagated a lot of evil & wickedness in the world.
7. We do realize that it is a problem that, we are burdened with. We also realize that, there is not a damn thing that we can do about it.
But I strongly condemn spurious-connotations that, result from preference for lighter skin. In the case of us Indians, many amongst us believe that, there is a co-relation between white skin & intelligence. This is something Totally-False. There is No co-relation at all between, complexion & intelligence. None whatsoever.
8. I am Not expressing or implying that, white man is dumber than us Indians. What I am saying is that:
White man is neither smarter nor dumber than us Indians. White man is just a human being, like the rest of us Non-Whites.
9. To underscore the point:
Any believed or implied co-relation between, white skin & intelligence, is a crock of SH**.
Surinder Paul Attri

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Subj: Armed Houries 1. Much

Subj: Armed Houries
1. Much to their surprise, the Virgins awaiting Muslims in Heaven, were not quite what they expected.
2. My Take:
This is very keen indeed.
3. Murdering of Kafirs ( Non-Moslem Infidels ) is a Moslem thing, it makes the Sulla a Ghazi & his murder of the Kafirs an act of Jehad, the surest way of securing Janat ( Moslem's Paradise ), the goal of every Moslem, where 72 Houries are awaiting for him, to satisfy his wildest sexual fantasies. But armed Houries in Janat is Not what Quran promised the Sullas. Sullas will not be going pit-a-pit, leaping into their mouths. Sullas would feel frustrated and cheated. It would appear as an abdication of responsibility, on the part of Allah, towards his devoted Sullas, who fight in the way of Allah, they kill & get killed.
4. Quran assures the Sullas that Allah is the best keeper of promises. But when the promise does not come through, the Sulla is going to get dazed & amazed, and ask " Why ? "
Of course, Islam degrades & insults women ( the weaker gender ) to the nth degree. In fact, the treatment of women is the shame of Islam, and the lynch-pin of Islam's barbarism.
5. The picture presented in this article ( of armed Houries ) should give warning to Sullas that,
Women will not put up with the demoniacal treatment of Islam.
And there can hardly be any doubt that:
Gun is a Great-Equalizer.
Surinder Paul Attri