I recently received an email accusing me of hating Arabs and my father. This email is typical of Arab media accusations of my views regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. Since most Arabs have no chance to read my book, Now They Call Me Infidel, Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror, which explains in detail my position, I will answer the email in this article. First, below is the translation of the Arabic language email which I received without a signature:
Salam to you,
With all of our pride in your father we pray that Allah will bless him with entering paradise, which is the wish of every person after this short prideful meaningless life. I want to ask you, has your father become your enemy after his death? We in the city of Gaza take pride in your father and I live on a street by the name of Shahid Moustafa Hafez which also has a school by the name of Shahid Moustafa Hafez. We never forgot his sacrifice, so how could you become an enemy to the tortured Palestinian people who are still suffering at the hands of Arab Zionists? I ask Allah to give you health and strength.
Awaiting your response and thank you in advance.
Here is my response:
Dear Gaza resident,
Your email touched me as sincere even though your accusations are wrong. I am not the enemy of Arabs and I assure you that I love my original culture and people. What makes me different is that I do not only love Arabs, but I also love the Jewish people. I am speaking my conscience. I respect their right to live in peace in their tiny homeland, Israel. I understand how that could be puzzling and unbelievable to many Arabs, to love both Jews and Arabs.
We Arabs have suffered from an unnatural and consistent indoctrination into Islamic supremacy and Jew hatred for over 1400 years. Thus it has become unfathomable to the Arab mind to comprehend loving both Arabs and Jews and wishing both well. Our culture has deprived us for many centuries from loving all of humanity as equals, through intense religious indoctrination resulting in self-imposed isolation and non-integration with other cultures. This isolation and jihad against non-Muslims has become increasingly difficult to maintain. Muslims everywhere are trying desperately to save face, reform Islam’s image and deny the undeniable. But they also want to have their cake and eat it too. While they are telling the world Islam is a religion of peace, they still want to continue with the jihad against non-Muslim countries. While one leader says, let’s kill all the Jews and take over Rome, another says to Western media that Islam is a religion of peace and we are deeply offended by the anti-Islam rhetoric. To play his sick game, Muslim culture must live a dysfunctional double life where everyone is deceived, including Muslims.
Thus to do the kind of jihad that Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Assad, Nasser, Saudi jihadists etc, do and which is dictated by Sharia, Muslims find it hard to be honest. Thus, Muslims must claim victimhood in order to justify jihad. The entire Muslim world is using your people, the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza, to justify their jihad against not only Israel, but also all non-Muslim countries. That includes Iran, which supports Hamas and Hezbollah.
Your people in Gaza should have realized this game a long time ago, but you refuse to see and be open about who is your true oppressor. Arab and Muslim media is using and abusing your people in order to justify their Islamic jihad around the world. That is why they never want to resolve your problem and want you to suffer and live in constant terror against Israel.
Under Islamic law, non-Muslim countries are never equal to Muslim countries and actually their sovereignty as a non-Muslim nation must always be challenged by Islamic jihad. Islamic law codified jihad as a permanent war with non-Muslims to establish the religion. Muslims thus have to use Taquiyya, lies, to legitimize their aggression on Israel and the West. That is why Muslim countries can never abandon the constant hate propaganda, lies and misinformation about Israel and the West. If that ends, their jihad ends. The UN must be constantly bombarded by complaints from Arab countries against Israel. The Arab street must be constantly bombarded with ridiculous accusations and Zionist conspiracies. Lately on Syrian TV a Syrian intellectual accused Israel of stealing human organs in Haiti while they were helping them after the earthquake. This is not something new; it started in the 7th century, when the prophet Mohammed accused the Jews of treason to justify killing and expelling them and taking over their wealth. To explain this away, he stated that Jews are worthy of this treatment since they are the descendants of apes pigs and enemies of Allah. Muslims still use the same dynamic and the world still falls for it every time.
The Arab mind was trained to never venture outside of the box of Islamic superiority, and that prevented us from treating the rest of humanity as equals. It is alien to Muslim preachers today to preach love to all of humanity and wishing non-Muslims the same human rights as Muslims. I have never heard that from a Muslim preacher. Only after 9/11 and in the West today, do we see some Muslim preachers trying to preach some Western values and engage in interfaith dialogue, in order to rehabilitate the image of Islam in the West and attract more converts.
I often get mail from secular Muslims who ask me: I can understand that you chose to leave Islam, but how can you support the Jews? I get mail like this because, in the Muslim mindset, loving, accepting and feeling good about Jews or Christians and thinking of them as equals, is unthinkable and an act of treason to Islam itself and even worse. It is as though the whole religion of Islam is dedicated to hating and killing Jews.
After centuries of this kind of education, the Muslim world produced a dysfunctional society, unable to relate to the rest of the world. While wanting to convince the world they are a religion of peace, do not be afraid of Islam, they are still hell-bent on conquering the world for Islam. That is Islam’s dilemma today.
What I, and a few others, are trying to do is to bring the truth to both Muslims and non-Muslims to finally face this sick game. We want to encourage Arabs to look at Jews and others as human beings and not as enemies to conquer. What kind of God will tell his followers to kill more than half of humanity if they don’t submit to Islam? The Muslim world today is a disaster waiting to happen. Ahmadinejad, who is not an Arab, wants to continue the Islamic jihad against Jews by destroying Israel. I have news to especially the Left in Europe and America: Islamic jihad will not end with Israel; you will be next.
To my email writer: in your letter to me, I have noticed that your outlook on life is pessimistic describing it as short and meaningless pride. Your views are prevalent in Muslim culture and I have heard it thousands of times when I lived in the Middle East. I remember even when we laughed and giggled as young girls, we were immediately silenced as being improper and that Allah somehow does not like us to laughing for no reason or in public. Even a heartfelt laugh to a Muslim was not going to get you friends, but critics. Your message to me and to Muslims is that life on earth will not get us happiness and the only escape from such misery is the everlasting happiness in the pleasures of Allah’s paradise after dying in jihad. But why take the Jews with us? They want to live and enjoy life and to make the earth, right here, a better place.
Our rejection of life is not a coincidence: since jihad does not value life, then it must value death. The first casualty of the jihad principle is peace and that is why I never learned peace as a value in Gaza. I have never heard a peaceful song in Arabic. To think of peace with the Jews is equal to treason to Islam. Rejection of peace has detrimental consequences to the healthy functioning of the Arab personality, family, society and the whole region. It is not a coincidence that Saudis reject under the law any celebration of Valentine’s Day, reject celebrating love between a man and a woman, teaching peace and compassion to their children towards the others. Just look at our Islamic law books and see the most cruel and unusual punishments ever created in any culture on earth. Only a culture that demands war and terror can promote such cruelty.
As to your question about hating my father, again I want to assure you that I adore and respect my father more than all of the people of Gaza. Actually I love him and wish him heaven not because he killed Jews, but because he was a good human being who was respected by many including the Israeli soldiers who killed him. He was known even to Israel as a cut above his peers and had integrity and honor. My father was the victim of the blood-thirsty culture of death all around him. He is one of the many thousands and even millions of victims of the jihad ideology, practiced over the last 1400 years.
Dear Gaza resident, yes, I cannot blame the Jewish people, or the government of Israel, for what you call the ‘misery’ of the Palestinians. I can only blame Arab and Islamic culture which used and abused you and which you allowed. I believe that this is an Arab self-inflicted crisis that has nothing to do with Israel.
Arab education has never told us the truth about the Israeli people and the story from their side and what Jerusalem means to them. We were told that Jerusalem was a Muslim city simply because Mohammed dreamt one night that he went to the farthest mosque but he never mentioned Jerusalem. The Koran never mentioned Jerusalem, which is mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible as the heart and soul of the Jewish people. We as Muslims never respected other religions holy cites and always claimed them to Islam; even Spain and India are being claimed as Muslim land. It was the tradition of Muslim conquerors to convert churches and temples to mosques and that is exactly what happened to the Jewish Temple Mount when 100 years after the prophet Mohammed died, Muslim conquerors built the mosque right on top of it. Just imagine if Jews or Christians had built a temple on top of the Kaaba in Mecca. This is how Islam has treated the Jews. It is time for Muslims to seek redemption and forgiveness and to extend the hand of reconciliation and peace to the Jewish people.
Nonie Darwish
Author: Cruel and Usual Punishment; the terrifying global implications of Islamic law.
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/04/15/dear-gaza-resident/
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Finally, someone who understands! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteDear Nonie,
ReplyDeleteYour response to "Gaza resident" is so beautiful and insightful, I have passed it on to friends and family. Particularly your recognition that the Israeli conflict is an "Arab self-imposed" one. Everyone forgets it was the Arab side that started the war in '47, and this created the Palestinian refugee crisis. The UN gave the Palestinians the right to form a state at the same time as the Jewish state, yet the Arabs chose opposition to the Jewish state over creating a Palestinian one. Not to say that Israelis are blameless, either. But the origin of the problem lies in Muslim intolerance of other religions and cultures. I fear this will be very hard to correct, as Mohammad was a harsh conqueror and polygamist not a "peace and love" kind of leader, yet he is taken as the "beautiful example of conduct" for Muslims. But you yourself are evidence that Muslims can find it in their hearts and minds to break free from this reasoning. I must add that I was very touched by the sympathetic notes from other Muslims on this site. Unfortunately their voices are too often silenced in societies dominated by a climate of fear.
Dear Larry NYC,
ReplyDeleteI am a Muslim who is Pro-Peace, Non-violence.
I read your comment about Mohammad, and its uneducated comments like that, that start problems with people. The reason we say Mohammad is an excellent example of a Person who has submitted to God, is because he was Anti-War, and Anti-Killing.
You read Muslim history, and you see the Wars... but then you read Jewish history, and your see Wars as well.
The Prophets (ie Solomon, David, Mohammad,etc.) only used war as a last resort. Killing is a gross sin, and it is strictly forbidden, unless is against someone who has murdered another person, or someone who has spread oppression in the Land.
Read the Old Testament Verses of the Bible, and then Read the Quran's. The Old Testament is WAY more violent.
My main point is... Violence should not even be on our radars, but to accuse another Faith, because you have been brainwashed into thinking they are the enemy.. is wrong.
In life, there are 2 types of people.
There are Good. And there are Bad. Although I agree there may be some bad "Muslims" (ie osama), I also agree there are bad Jews (Israeli Government), and bad Christians (Hitler, Mussolini, Bush)...
Those who want peace, should live in Peace... but the only way we can find peace in each other, is by finding peace in ourselves.
And most of All, by being Kind (not just for show), and Just.
Hello Nonie,
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading your book "Now They Call Me Infidel". You have given me insight into the minds of radical Muslims and their culture as it stands today. I admire your courage and continuing determination to stand up for what you believe in and because of this, many have benefited. God is with you indeed.
On your response above, it was mentioned "...he was a good human being who was respected by many including the Israeli soldiers who killed him". In your book that I have read, it was described there that your father was killed by a bomb in a parcel he received in his home. There was ,however, no mention of who had sent the bomb or if Israeli soldiers being at his home at that time. Is there something I have missed reading. Please correct me. It is not in my nature to bring up painful memory of the past but I thought I should write in.
GBU Always
Sheryl C.
Dear Nonie,
ReplyDeleteYou really are one in million, maybe one in a billion. I love you from the bottom of my heart. Reading your letter was like a breath of fresh air. Please don't stop what you're doing. We need many more like you in this upside down world!
G-d Bless you!
Shalom
What about GAZA?
ReplyDeleteLets compare Gaza to one of the most "prosperous" Arab countries: Egypt.
In Egypt the minimal wage is 6.5 US dollars, this is not a mistake, this figure was not changed since 1984 and was not adjusted to inflation.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50218
People from Gaza in the past (Before the second Intifada and Hams craze) were able to work in Israel and they received at-least the Israeli minimal wage which is 1000 US dollars and if they work more, they even can bring home 1500 or 2000 dollars.
Women from Gaza worked in Industrial areas around Gaza that were under Israeli control and earn a good wage-the Israeli minimal wage, but Hamas bombed those Industrial areas and they were closed.
So after Second Intifada, Hamas rise to power and many other awful events, all most all Gazans lost the ability to travel to Israel and now they live on UN welfare (Thats higher then 6.5 Egyptian wage).
Now people in Gaza worked as actors in Gaza TV as poor and hungry people and receive a big support from UN (REMEMBER EGYPTIAN minimal WAGE?)
So who's is the victim?
Nonie your response to the Gaza resident was enlightening and precious, it was given in an attitude of love as it should be not to discredit or put down but to inform, my prayers go out to you in your bravery and resolve to stand firm in your resolve to help the Muslim people as well as the Jews and all others under oppression, Praise to the Lord the Almighty who loves all people and keep up the good work,my prayer are with you a Christian in US
ReplyDeleteNonie,
ReplyDeleteYou definitely are a rare 'shining' example to the Muslim world. Keep the faith & do not falter! True peace can only come from understanding & you elaborate on this beautifully. Peace dies the moment any group, whether Muslim, Christian, etc view themselves as 'superior' to any other human being. We are ALL sinners & only God can rectify this through a 'personal' relationship with him. Man's labor to 'purify' sinners is completely in vain no matter what your religious belief may be.
I am a follower of Jesus & I acknowledge the Jews as God's chosen people, but at the same time Jesus preached of love for ALL man; whether Jew or Gentile. God IS love, therefore no-one can claim to know God and yet despise his neighbor.
I agree that life here on earth is so very short in comparison to eternity, but hardly 'meaningless'! With that logic, it begs the question: 'Why would God even put us on this earth?' For the little bit of time we are here, where is the logic in promoting hate, despair, & violence on others? Live a life full of love!
Praise be to the Lord of all Lords & King of Kings! God bless you sister.
Yours is a brave and intelligent voice, which I hope will rese above the destructive noice. Thank you for your thoughts!
ReplyDeleteNonie,
ReplyDeleteYou are a courageous and enlightened woman, I pray that many people,Moslems, Jews, Christians and others listen to you, to the voice of reason and love in this world of hatred and violence.
An israeli citizen
Dear Nonie,
ReplyDeleteI have been aware of this website and of your efforts to enlighten the world about the Islamic propaganda and lies.
I am a Greek Jew.Here in Greece,antisemitism is alive and well despite the assurations from the political world that such thing no longer exists.Whenever there is news about some clash that involved Israel,most people start questionning Israel's right to exist,most people start parrotting the usual antisemitic propaganda,most people say "oh,it's again those JEWS who did that".And when I attempt to show them another perspective,they refuse to listen to it because "yeah,we know,it's the Israeli propaganda that you're telling us" and "what could we expect from a Jew other than lies?".
Unfortunately,all those who support Israel and its right to exist and who fight antisemitism,we are "alone".We should coordinate our efforts in an international scale,make clear to the world that they are misled and misguided by the Islamic propaganda and that instead of immediately condemning Israel and the Jews,they should realize that denying a people its right to existance and to self-determination is far more immoral than accidentally killing one or two persons because they were caught in th emiddle of a clash.I don't know how this "large scale" coordination could be achieved but I know it has to be achieved somehow,otherwise a future second Holocaust is very likely to occur...
Dear Nonie,
ReplyDeleteYour response to Gaza resident made my heart lighter. Your logical and insightful thoughts are inspiring and a beacon of reason to the world at large.
As a citizen of Melbourne, Australia from where the Middle East seems like such a long way away it is enlightening that there are people like you who are making a difference.
Reuben
Nonie, May the G-d of Yisra'el Bless, Increase, and keep you to see Peace in Yarushalaim and your children's children! You are a most precious person, a soul who sees the truth, and stands by it.
ReplyDeleteThe worlds response to the Gaza flotilla shows that sights like this are too little and too late, although I agree 100% with Nonie. Just think how great life would be for all in the middle east if the Arab world took advantage of what Israel offers in every field of human endeavor.
ReplyDeleteRon Kall
Philadelphia
Dear nonie,
ReplyDeleteYou bring tears to my eyes, I would never have throught that an Arab would talk like that.
Maybe there is hope after all...
Lior, Israel
Nonie, you are amazing, in a good way!
ReplyDeleteIt is comforting to know that there are still thoughtful people such as yourself in the world. May God bless you for your insight and bravery!
ReplyDeleteReading your reply made my day. Really, as an Israeli-American it is very good and comforting to know there are people who think like you.
ReplyDeleteMay god bless you, you're so brave.
I wish to thank Nonie for this website and this contribution to understanding the issues which divide Islam from the world around its domain. This is an important attempt to help people on both sides of this divide to understand each other.
ReplyDeleteThere is another dynamic in this struggle, besides the human issues of politics and also religious politics. There is the matter of Bible prophecy that is widely ignored, yet it is coming to pass before everyones eyes, yet without the recognition people need to give it.
We need to understand the nature of the age of mankind in which we now live: God's Era of the promised Second Regathering, which is the restoration of His Land to His People and His People to His Land. And the whole world seems blind to this truth.
The Second Regathering was plainly revealed to the Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 11 v 11 and following verses). Details of events and conflicts surrounding the start, the evolution, and the completion of that Regathering are revealed by the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Amos, Joel, Hosea, Daniel, Obadiah, Malachi, Zechariah and Zephaniah, and in at least one of the Psalms (83) of the Prophet Asaph (for that is one of many prophetic Psalms). That is twelve witnesses to the stated intentions of the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob (whom God renamed by calling him Israel). This is that same God Who had revealed Himself to Moses; the One Who called Himself: YHWH (‘Yaweh’) {‘I AM THAT I AM’}. {Islam also fights against what it does not understand, what it blindly rejects.}
The Word of the God of Israel will come to pass: He told Ezekiel that Israel would be brought back again from their graves [Ezekiel 37 v 12-13]; He told Isaiah that Israel would be (re)born in one day (Isaiah 66 v 8 & v 9-24); He told Asaph the conspiracy to cut off Israel would fail (Psalm 83).
That conspiracy is described as involving the ancient tribes and peoples that eventualy, historically evolved into the major tribes of Arabdom. That is where we are now today. And all of their leaders plans will fail, because they do not understand Who it is that they are actually at war with.
The world’s politicians would do well to heed the warnings of Scripture concerning those who seek to use the powers of state to attempt to thwart the will of the True and Living God: you will bring unnecessary injury to your peoples and nations and you will lose. How do I know that?
1. “Thus says the LORD GOD: ‘When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and am hallowed [honored] in them in the sight of the Gentiles, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob. And they will dwell safely there, build houses and plant vineyards; yes, they will dwell securely, when I execute judgments on all those around them who despise them. Then they shall know that I AM the LORD their GOD’.” [Ezekiel 28 v25-26].
2. Many dozens of prophecies that had lain dorment in the Bible for many centuries have now come to pass in the past 90 years, since General Allenby took Jerusalem, and in conjunction with the major return of the Children of Israel to their Land. This IS the Second Regathering God revealed to Isaiah.
3. “I AM GOD, there is none else; I AM GOD, and there is none like Me; DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, and from Ancient Times things that are not yet done; saying: ‘My counsel shall stand, and ALL MY PLEASURE WILL I DO’.” [Quoting God; Isaiah 46 v 10; Tanakh, JPS]
4. "Then the Lord said unto me, 'You have seen well, for I am watching over My Word to perform it.'" [Jeremiah 1 v 12].
Yes ! I think the main reason that we hate the jews is because they are the descendants of apes pigs and enemies of Allah.And they act as monsters in the dark.
ReplyDeletehttp://radioislam.org/
http://www.jewwatch.com/
Read the book of the prophet Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. In those two chapters you will find a war not yet found in the history books of the world: I'ts a future war between the muslim nations against Israel. These Muslims armies will turn their weapons against each other to death (Sunnis vs Shiites). There will be so much spill blood and carnage that the birds will be called upon to eat whatever flesh is still on the ground. This is what is awaiting the Muslim world if their attitudes don't change. It's just so sad that not all Muslims deserve this carnage. Jewish and Christian faiths must reach the Muslim society while there is still time. The God of the Bible LOVES the Muslims too! They are precious human beings.
ReplyDeleteI think that Jewish Community must be strong in that problem!.
ReplyDeleteYou are doing more for the great Arab people than all the fighters in Hamas put together. Thank you for seeing the truth and understanding that the Holy Land is a wonderful resource -- for ALL of us.
ReplyDelete"What is human?" GOD's paradigm answer...
ReplyDeleteKeven J. Hasson, President of the Becket Fund, recently stated, "...the American and Soviet systems...offered differing visions of freedom and human nature." The missing element in every human 'solution' is an accurate definition of the creature.
In the Bible, God's Word has accurately defined the human being as 'the earth creature endowed with the ability to choose.' His natural Rights, therefore, are merely an extension and application of natural human endowments, which all humans - everywhere in the world - possess. Even as goldfish, canaries, and puppy dogs require an environment based on their natural features, so humans require external freedom to fulfill their natural internal abilities of choice, selection, election, and consent. Uniquely, America was founded on this definitive paradigm in human nature. All nations should reject foundational human opinion that teaches otherwise.
Further, God's gift of criteria for choosing between alternatives supplies us with superior standards for successful visionary choice-making. Humans cannot invent (or replace) criteria greater than self, ACLU to the contrary.
Defining 'human' accurately is the first step in establishing accurate and successful environments, institutions, and creative relationships for earth's Choicemaker. Middle East governments, and all leaders, would do well to pay attention: nature and nature's Creator speak with an authoritative voice. Psalms 25:12 119:30, 173 Joel 3:14 Selah
No one is smarter than their criteria.
Jim Baxter Sgt. USMC WWII & Korean War semper fidelis http://www.choicemaker.net/
Dear Nonie,
ReplyDeleteif only more Muslims could read your article and open their hearts to a bit of sanity and truth, it would remove a dark cloud from the earth that is trying to engulf us.
But also if our politicians in the West would read your article and listen to you, for they too are blind and their humanistic belief as one Swedish minister recently expressed with the kind words "we must be nice to the Muslims in Sweden so that they will be nice to us when the rule us in the coming decades" The reply to this request came rather sudden in the form of Swedens first Islamic suicide bomber ( who fortunatly missed his target)
There is such a naivity in their west which has made to many of us blind as well.
Unless the Islamic world awakes from it's nightmare and unless the West awakes from it's apathy, it is a time bomb to happen and the outcome will be blood on the streets all over Europe and all over the US and any other Western Nation. It's time to wake up and you are doing a wonderful job. Please be encouraged and don't give up ,
I greatly admire what you do and I admire your great courage
Fred from Australia
Nonie, you are a light in a dark place. Thank-you. I pray your light shines on into eternity.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting read.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting. And please keep up you good work of spreading the truth.
I would like to thank Arabs For Israel for their support of Israel. Israel needs neighbours who are as enlightened as you. The region could have such great potential. As an Israeli, I have a dream that one day the Arab and Jewish inhabitants of the land can come together to build a peaceful and prosperous future for our children and generations to come. The arab nations are our brothers. We are all descendants of Abraham. Imagine how unstoppable we would be if we joined forces.
ReplyDeleteהיה נהדר לקרוא ולהבין שיש אכן מישהו מהצד השני שהוא בעדנו!
ReplyDeleteIt was great to read and understand that there is someone from the other side that gives support to us!
שלום
سلام
May GOD bless you!
ReplyDeleteDear Nonie,
ReplyDeleteI have read your articles today, for the first time. You really do uplift me with your courage and honesty. I ask God to guide you and bless you and keep you in these troubled times.
Lots of love in Jesus, Isa Masih,
Barbara, London, UK
Your an AMAZING person! If only other Musims could read this...
ReplyDeleteThank you Nonie <3 May you be blessed to continue spreading tolerance and respect among humanity... People like you will be the saviors of your people and culture!
ReplyDeleteNo, YOU'RE the sick minded, filthy psycho here. You've been so badly affected by lies that you are so full of bullshit (I do not like profanity, but it's the best word that describes you. Sorry in advance.) And all of this bullshit that you've wasted time blogging about, is nothing but proof of your great IGNORANCE, and it clearly shows that you know nothing of Islam's true structure and logical, subjective Sharia, and that you most likely haven't even read/comprehended the meanings of the Quran's script (which you've falsely claimed to have included hateful messages against non-Muslims).
ReplyDeleteNow, to face your lies with Quran (which is the base of Islamic rules and Sharia, and the most truthful source of information about Islam and Muslims), I would like to do it in a numerical list format;
1- In your own words: 'Under Islamic law, non-Muslim countries are never equal to Muslim countries and actually their sovereignty as a non-Muslim nation must always be challenged by Islamic jihad. Islamic law codified jihad as a permanent war with non-Muslims to establish the religion.'
My reply using Quran as evidence of that proven to be just some ignorant hateful speech coming out of you: 'Allah forbids you not, respecting those who have not fought against you on account of your religion, and who have not driven you forth from your homes, that you be kind to them and act equitably towards them; surely Allah loves those who are equitable.' [60:8]
AND
'Allah only forbids you, respecting those who have fought against you on account of your religion, and have driven you out of your homes, and have helped others in driving you out, that you make friends of them, and whosoever makes friends of them — it is these that are the transgressors.'
[60:9]
2- You said: 'This is not something new; it started in the 7th century, when the prophet Mohammed accused the Jews of treason to justify killing and expelling them and taking over their wealth.'
I use the words of the prophet Mohammad himself, to -again- prove you wrong: [Upon being asked (Prophet Mohammad): 'Would you forgive someone who defies (commits) Islamic Majors (the highest level of sins in Islam, to be specified, this was a question about stealing from others.), stealing, in this case?' Prophet Mohammad replied: 'Even if it had to be Fatima, my own daughter, who would steal, I swear to God I would apply the punishment of cutting off her hand.' Enough said about that (that 'Hadeeth' (speech) of prophet Mohammad was certified to be truly one of his, and I have tried my best to translate it correctly.)
3- You: 'To explain this away, he stated that Jews are worthy of this treatment since they are the descendants of apes pigs and enemies of Allah.'
To reply to that, I ask you to Google the many failed attempts in which Jews tried to assassinate prophet Mohammad, God bless him. And please, for at least once in your life, preview these attempts against him and the stories about them that you will find online from a subjective non-aligned point of view, where you would put your hate aside, and just imagine if it you in that position. Now if you do so, I am pretty sure that you would hate them back and call them names, because neither would you or anyone else who supports your point of view previously would like to be the target of assassins.
To be continued...
4- You: 'After centuries of this kind of education, the Muslim world produced a dysfunctional society, unable to relate to the rest of the world. While wanting to convince the world they are a religion of peace, do not be afraid of Islam, they are still hell-bent on conquering the world for Islam. That is Islam’s dilemma today.'
ReplyDeleteI will not deny that our education system might have had a hand in misunderstanding God's orders and/or Islam's true logical structure, again I would like to use translated Quran script for this matter;
'Allah forbids you not, respecting those who have not fought against you on account of your religion, and who have not driven you forth from your homes, that you be kind to them and act equitably towards them; surely Allah loves those who are equitable.' [60:8]
'Call unto the way of thy Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in a way that is best. Surely, thy Lord knows best who has strayed from His way; and He knows those who are rightly guided.' [16:125]
Islam calls out for peaceful treatment, but when one oppresses a Muslim and treats them unfairly, even though God tells us to be patient and not instantly violate our violators, the Muslim, in this case, has the right to react in the same way:
'And if you desire to punish the oppressors, then punish them to the extent to which you have been wronged; but if you show patience, then, surely, that is best for those who are patient.' [16:126]
5- You: 'What I, and a few others, are trying to do is to bring the truth to both Muslims and non-Muslims to finally face this sick game. We want to encourage Arabs to look at Jews and others as human beings and not as enemies to conquer.'
And in reply to that, I would like to remind you again of God's words in the Quran at [60:9-10]. God tells us to have mercy towards those who mercy us, and to treat them the same; that is, if they treat us well, they shall receive just as well of a treatment from us. Otherwise, well, you know, we would treat them just the way they treat us. In short, if one may try to look upon us as 'enemies to conquer,' we shall look upon them identically.
You: 'What kind of God will tell his followers to kill more than half of humanity if they don’t submit to Islam?' And once again, [16:125-126] and [60:8-9], God tells us to communicate with those who oppose us rationally and to treat them well, unless they use violence first, which is when we can reply with violence in terms of self-defense.
6- You: 'I remember even when we laughed and giggled as young girls, we were immediately silenced as being improper and that Allah somehow does not like us to laughing for no reason or in public.'
I can only feel sad when I read this, as those idiots (unwanted but necessary profanity) who falsely claim that God does not 'like' it when a child (a girl, to be precise) laughs (whether for a reason or not), are just idiots -again- who know nothing of Islam's reality, and who were just more victims of ignorance that leads to false beliefs and opinions that are based not on truth, but on nothing but bullshit (Once again, sorry.)
To be continued...
7- You: 'I am not the enemy of Arabs and I assure you that I love my original culture and people. What makes me different is that I do not only love Arabs, but I also love the Jewish people. I am speaking my conscience. I respect their right to live in peace in their tiny homeland, Israel.'
ReplyDeleteYou: 'in the Muslim mindset, loving, accepting and feeling good about Jews or Christians and thinking of them as equals, is unthinkable and an act of treason to Islam itself and even worse. It is as though the whole religion of Islam is dedicated to hating and killing Jews.'
God: 'And the Jews will by no means be pleased with thee, nor the Christians, unless thou follow their creed. Say, ‘Surely, Allah’s guidance alone is the guidance.’ And if thou follow their evil desires after the knowledge that has come to thee, thou shalt have, from Allah, no friend nor helper.' [2:120]
AND [60:8-9], [16:125-126].
8- You: 'I cannot blame the Jewish people, or the government of Israel, for what you call the ‘misery’ of the Palestinians. I can only blame Arab and Islamic culture which used and abused you and which you allowed. I believe that this is an Arab self-inflicted crisis that has nothing to do with Israel.'
God: 'And We revealed to the children of Israel in the Book, saying, ‘You will surely do mischief in the land twice, and you will surely become excessively overbearing.’'
'So when the time for the first of the two warnings came, We sent against you some servants of Ours possessed of great might in war, and they penetrated the innermost parts of your houses, and it was a warning that was bound to be carried out.'
'Then We gave you back the power against them, and aided you with wealth and children, and made you larger in numbers.'
'Now, if you do well, you will do well for your own souls; and if you do evil, it will only go against them. So when the time for the latter warning came, We raised a people against you to cover your faces with grief, and to enter the Mosque as they entered it the first time, and to destroy all that they conquered with utter destruction.'
'It may be that your Lord will now have mercy on you; but if you return to your previous state, We too will return, and We have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers.'
[17:4-8]
9- You: 'We were told that Jerusalem was a Muslim city simply because Mohammed dreamt one night that he went to the farthest mosque but he never mentioned Jerusalem. The Koran never mentioned Jerusalem, which is mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible as the heart and soul of the Jewish people.'
Please, double check your failsources of faulty information about the holy Quran, which has not only once, mentioned Jerusalem, and how God has set up the journey of Mohammad to Jerusalem in one night (because he can.) And only when you REALLY, and FULLY, read the Quran and understand it, you can accuse it in such faulty manner (but it won't happen, because you won't read it, nor would you ever find a flaw in it).
God: 'Glory be to Him Who carried His servant by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Distant Mosque, the environs of which We have blessed, that We might show him some of Our Signs. Surely, He alone is the Hearing, the Seeing.' [17:1]
'His servant' here refers to prophet Mohammad, who has been sent to Jerusalem ('the Distant Mosque, the environs of which We have blessed')
'The Distant Mosque' translates into the 'Aqsa' mosque, which is the name of the Muslim mosque in Jerusalem, and 'the environs' are the lands around it, ie Jerusalem itself. Enough said.
To be continued...
10- Finally, you said: 'We as Muslims never respected other religions holy cites and always claimed them to Islam; even Spain and India are being claimed as Muslim land. It was the tradition of Muslim conquerors to convert churches and temples to mosques and that is exactly what happened to the Jewish Temple Mount when 100 years after the prophet Mohammed died, Muslim conquerors built the mosque right on top of it. Just imagine if Jews or Christians had built a temple on top of the Kaaba in Mecca. This is how Islam has treated the Jews. It is time for Muslims to seek redemption and forgiveness and to extend the hand of reconciliation and peace to the Jewish people.'
ReplyDeleteIn response to that, I refer to ALL the Quran scripts' translations that I have provided above in addition to:
'Surely, those who disbelieve in Allah and His Messengers and desire to make a distinction between Allah and His Messengers, and say, ‘We believe in some and disbelieve in others,’ and desire to take a way in between,'
'These indeed are veritable disbelievers, and We have prepared for the disbelievers an humiliating punishment.'
[4:150-151]
AND
'Let not the believers take disbelievers for friends in preference to believers — and whoever does that has no connection with Allah — except that you cautiously guard against them. And Allah cautions you against His punishment; and to Allah is the returning.'
[3:28]
Finally, I would like to mention that I once disbelieved in everything that has to do with religions, God, and such... But then, I've realized that atheism is wrong and that it opposes the truth.
And now, I leave you to reconsider your faulty mislead opinions about Islam and Muslims. May God have mercy on your soul, and may he lead you to the truth.
Nonie shalom.
ReplyDeleteYou are like Rivka, Rachel, Leah and Ruth who came from "negative" families yet are the maternal foundations of our nation because they saw and recognised the TRUTH.
From what I have learned I think you are wrong about the history of the conflict between Islam and Judaism.
Our two religions are parallel, not intercepting.
In fact the basics are similar: Diatry laws, sanctity of women and mariage, sanctity of time and, of course, our direct belief in The L-d and His laws as given by our Prophets.
In the English translation of the Kor'An I believe that even your prophet said that if you want to understand the Koran, ask the Jews....
The Jews that lived in Arab lands throughout our Diaspora were treated much better than in Christian lands.
True that all foriegners in Arab countries are Dihmies not just the Jews. Which is even justified as saying: "If you want to live in our country accept the fact that you are not equal just because of the fact that it is our country"
As to the current conflict in Eretz Yisrael it is all the making of the British Mandate.
When the Zionists began to immigrate to Palestine from Europe in the last quarter of the 19th Century they were met well by the few Arabs who lived here (about 300,000). True there were robbers and "terrorists" but they attaced everybody who seemed defensless. The Jewish and Arab populations unter the Otoman Empire coexisted in relative peace.
Only after the Brits came did violence erupt between Arabs and Jews (Hebron 1929!)
The Brits acted here like in their other colonies (of that time) which was "divide and rule". It was much more preferable to them that Jews and Arabs fight each other rather than join forces to expell the "new crusaders" from The Holy Land.
Even now the same Crusaders are feeding and financing the Terrorists that, as you so rightly pointed out, are terrorising their own people more than us.
The fact that the British Mandate allowed some 1.5 Million Arabs to immigrate to palestine and only half a million Jews (despite the Balfour Declaration) is the root cause of the so called "Palestinian refugee problem". The Arabs that fled/ were encouraged to leave / were expelled from Palestine in 1948 were put in Crusaders' financed UN camps. like the Dogs in Animal Farm, to become suicide fighters against the Jews.
Hello everyone,
ReplyDeleteNonie, I am sure you are a peaceful mind but your vision on arabs and islam is pretty wrong. Unfortunaletely things are not that simple and clear. All arabs are not anti Jews and vice versa. You missed to talk about the period where both our people lived in harmony and brotherhood. Never islam pushed people to hate jews, never this was a religious rethoric. This is consequence of a too long war, propaganda from both sides, and people willing to hate one another. Nonie this is a serious business, some people are only working on getting us hating each other. This whole war is a business. Arabs and Jews were neighbors for years and I still have my grand mother describing how close she was to her "jewish sister" next door. But this vision you introduce is not only wrong, but dictated by a wrong goal I guess. You want to show to the world and to the jews that some arabs like you are pro israel. Well, a lot of them want peace and safety for this country which is legitimate to exist, but this is not something we should scream around and showoff with to show we are openminded and fair. Supporting palestinians and wanting a Palestinian state is not contradictory to recognizing Israel. And we do not need to support israel to recognize it or to be recognized. This is a hazy and sick reasoning. The muslim world its true has a lot to learn and to develop. But this comes with time, and Islam is the newest monotheist religion so give it time to experience its decadence, its inquisiton, and after all, democraty will come. The palestinian problem is everything but religious. It´s political, it´s a big manipulation from the media (arab-jewish-western) it comes from years of ignorance of the palestinian misery. Never forget your own History and never hijack History when it´s already so much corrupted and written by the powerfuls and the winners.
Today, Israel already exists and seriously apart from crazy minds like Ahmadinedjad and cie who still question the right for Israel to exist, most of the people never even think of it. The state which is missing here is Palestine, the people with no identity and no passport is the palestinian people and the only thing the majority of Humanity still denies is their right to have their homes too. So be a loyal and honest mind and tell all our fellowers and jewish brothers from all over the world who seems to be touched by you, that most Arabs are not bad boys, the only want the same as you have, a place to identify to, a place to call home. You want to be outstanding with your courage of speaking your mind, well do it to the fullest. Say we support Israel but say we want Palestine to exist and this region to get the peace its deserve.
I am sure most of jews and arabs want peace, much more than what the people who published comments before me wants to think.
I am sure, soon, we will live with each other and love each other as we should always have done.
Amen,
and happy holidays to all of you guys!
Really an insightful post. Only if more Muslims will start thinking like , the world's problems can be solved.
ReplyDeleteNonie, god bless you, brought tears to my eyes. May peace and reconcilliation come hastily in our days. arabs and jews, brothers and sisters. the problem is there's no place to communcate with one and another as indivduals, fellow human beings instead of symbols, representatives of oppression and murder. Weve hurted each other, we've killed each others sons and daughters, we're heart broken and the our past fills us with hate, our preconceived notions of each other fills us with hate.. history fills us with hate.. the only way to get rid of these curtains is to unveil them through eye to eye interactions. talk it out, scream it out, cry it out but on a street level, heart to heart,
ReplyDeleteGod bless you again, Nonie for spreading some hope in this otherwise pessimestic situation
Nonie,
ReplyDeleteI wish there would be more people like you, unfortunately, there will always be more of other kind - the ones that never stop for a second and put themselves in someone else's shoes, or look at life from different perspective.
If you teach a child to hate someone from pre-school age and beyond, anything to the contrary will be savage to them.
As bob8931 mentioned above, "Thank-you. I pray your light shines on into eternity."
Well spoken with rational points, love and thoughtfulness. Keep it up
ReplyDeleteWow, insightful and well spoken. I and my family are better for having read this. If the philosopy of your critics had the edifying effect on others as your observations and conclusions there would be less grief and misery in their lives. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteFinally, someone who understands!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
Ritik
(islam in gaza strip)
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ReplyDeletethis is an important letter, you told everything!!
Arab people should bless you everyday for openning their mind about their real oppressors.
Don't worry our prophets says the Right and the Good will win, so I am no afraid for us. :))
Nonnie,
ReplyDeleteG-d bless you. I am Jewish and not always happy with the conduct of the Jewish State towards the Palestinians. If there were many more people like you on both sides the conflict would vanish like smoke. How much happier we all would be if we could sit down together in peace and friendship. How could any decent person in the world not love someone who speaks as you do? I wish you all the best.
Peace starts with people like you Nonie! God bless you, you and everybody who is dedicated to peace in the middle-east. As a Jewish girl I would be proud to call each and every person who thinks like you my friend.
ReplyDeleteI Wish you all the best. To me you are a Hero.