I’m back!

Posted on March 27, 2009
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I’ve been away on some urgent family business for the last 18 days. Internet access was only for a few minutes… most days. Not blogging was hard on me, as I’ve become addicted to writing down my thoughts on a variety of political subjects. However, while not being much on the web was not pleasant I was able to instead read up extensively on the Qur’an and Islam in general. Working hours were taken up with errands, doctor’s visits, etc… with an old relative in another state who has no family left besides me.

These past three weeks, however, resulted in heavy reading, studying and very little sleep. Because the Qur’an is oft translated with various attempts to smooth over inconvenient language, because translations are usually intepretations, I got three different editions as follows:
Maulana Muhammad Ali – The Holy Qur’an, with English Translation and Commentary (2002). Ahmadiya Anjuman Isha’at Islam Lahore Inc. U.S.A.
M. H. Shakir – The Qur’an Translation (2005). Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an
N. J. Dawood – The Koran, with Parallel Arabic Text (2006). Penguin Books

In order to gain a better understanding of what I was reading I also got the following:
Mona Siddiqui – How to Read the Qur’an (2008). W. W. Norton
Martin Lings – Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (2006) . Inner Traditions
Martin Lings is a convert to Islam, that should show that I made an effort to understand Islam and its founder, from many different points of view.

I then proceeded to read further:
Mark A. Gabriel, Ph.D. – Islam and Terrorism (2002). Front Line
Mark A. Gabriel, Ph.D. – Islam and the Jews (2003). Charisma House
Dr. Gabriel is a former Imam and professor of Islamic history at Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. He converted to Christianity and changed names in order to escape his father’s attempts to cleanse the family honor by killing his rebellious son. Although some parts of the the two books deal with methodology for converting Muslims to Christianity, I found much of the books invaluable in that they deal with the mindset of IslamoFascists and their narrow interpretations of the Qur’an. Gabriel quotes chapter and verse and explains their plain meanings and implications.
Bernard Lewis – The Middle East (1997). Scribner
Bernard Lewis – The Arabs in History (2002). Oxford University Press, USA
Bernard Lewis – The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (2004). Random House Trade Paperbacks
Bernard Lewis – Islam: The Religion and the People (2008). Wharton School Publishing
Bernard Lewis’ work has been universally praised even in the Arab world, including Egypt’s most influential paper, Al-Ahram.
Robert Spencer – Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs (2008) Regnery Publishing
Merrill Simon – God, Allah And The Great Land Grab, The Middle East In Turmoil (1989) Jonathan David Publishers, Inc.
Bat Ye’or – Eurabia, The Euro-Arab Axis (2008). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

While no one can became a scholar of any subject or even an expert in almost three weeks, the extensive reading and study has given a certain understanding and insight, I did not previously posess, into the second largest religion on the globe. It helped understand Islam’s religio/political agenda and next week I will start a series on various aspects of Islam such how it deals with women of women, infidels, the Qur’an’s changing attitude towards Christian and Jews (the revelations that Muhammad received in Mecca which were later superseded by the new ones he received in Medina). Every quote from the Qur’an will be accompanied by its corresponding original Arabic verse.

We will also hear the voices of Muslims and ex-Muslims, like the courageous Dr. Wafa Sultan:

I have no doubt that the just passed resolution by the United Nation Human Rights Council curtailing freedom of speech about religion, specifically Islam, will soon be applied to silence the voices of courage. Those who fearlessly speak up against the hatred, against the trampling of women’s rights, against the murder of infidels, against the murder of Muslim by Muslim, against the terror perpetrated while fervently screaming Allah-o-Akhbar – Allah is Great soon will not be able to let their voices be heard. Such actions have just been declared criminal! I have no doubt that when bloggers like me, will quote Islamic texts, we too will be deemed criminal, we too will be accused of hateful bigotry… though we neither kill nor do we preach violence. What has the world come to? Has the West lost its will to live? Are western values so unvalued that we would regress into the seventh century?!?!?!?

Chaim

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5 Responses to “I’m back!”

Kate from Mississippi, United States on March 28th, 2009 12:33 am

I have really missed you, and am SO glad you’re back!

I’m sure you heard that folks like you and I, and every other person who isn’t in lockstep with this current administration, are considered ‘domestic terrorists’? Amazing, isn’t it. Of course, they decided to drop that nonsense, but there are no longer “enemy combatants”, no “War on Terror”, etc. Yet, as far as I know, those lovable folks you are referring to still want us dead.
Kate from Mississippi, United States on March 28th, 2009 12:34 am

Oh, and how on earth did you read all those books so fast?
M. Baxter from New York, United States on March 30th, 2009 3:18 am

There is one great point that I noticed because it shows how even the koran points to the fact that the Jews lived in Saudi Arabia 1,480 years ago when mohamed the murderer lived. This Arabic Moslem American Psychiatrist quoted the koran where it says that the souls of the Jewish people who the Moslems killed and buried there, wer from that region, that same area. So, the koran itself gives proof of Jewish presence and it is certainly NOT from Zionism as they claim because Zionism started in the late 1800’s only 115 years ago.
Now, to happier times…welcome back Mr. Chaim! You are the hope of the Christian people, especially we Catholics because our Pope has chosen to remain quiet about the Moslem desire to kill every one of us.
Dear Moslems, We will no longer turn the opther cheek while you slaughter our children and rape our nuns and burn our churches. Our revenge has already, quietly begun. You will learn about it as the years pass and you get comfortable thinking that the world is afraid. We are shaking yes, but it is no shaking that comes from fear. We are shaking with extreme rage and you Islamic haters and murderers and rapists and stealers and liars, will learn how fierce that fury is. You claim to have one billion followers. maybe that is true. The other seven billion are seething and boiling.
You have absolutely no idea at all what is coming.
yitzhak from Tel Aviv, Israel on March 30th, 2009 8:38 pm

wow!!! and your not even a muslem!! i can just imagine how much studying you do of the jewish texts. (i hope)
BerlK from New York, United States on April 1st, 2009 1:40 pm

yitzhak,

There was a time when commenters to this and other blogs, whether they agreed or disagreed, had something intelligent to say. So many people today just like to see their own inanities and snide remarks, which contribute NOTHING to the subject discussed… Whatever happened to the basics reasoned discussions? Why have so many people abandoned even the pretense of it?