To all American Jews, Irish and Italian descendants – a reminder

To my Jewish, Irish, Asian and Italian friends, let’s remember:

Your ancestors were lower than dirt when they arrived here.

Italians were referred to – openly – as a subhuman race of rats and criminals.

Irishmen were apes and monkeys.

Laws were passed to keep Chinese women out of the country, so that the Chinese males who were brought over for menial labor couldn’t produce offspring.

Jews were spat upon in the streets and routinely excluded from polite society.

Unhire-able. Undesirable. Laws were passed to allow for the mass discrimination and segregation of your great grandparents, not much more than a century ago.

It’s nice that you now view yourselves as “Real Americans.” Just yesterday, your kind were anything but. And I don’t mean in the deep south or in obscure corners of the country. Your forebears were considered human garbage on the streets of New York, Philadelphia and Boston. It wasn’t all that long ago when mainstream politicians were actively seeking ways to get rid of you too.

Here’s Uncle Sam being swallowed by Chinese and Irish immigrants, many of whom came over in the mid-1800’s to work on the railroads:

In “The Evolution of the Murphy”, an Irish child begins life as a potato, then becomes a vagrant, a cop and finally a corrupt political official:

Here’s an Irish ape, swinging a bottle of rum, rocking back and forth on a barrel of gunpowder:

A ship filled with big-nosed Jews, being ridiculed for fleeing the pogroms and sporadic outbursts of homicidal rioting against them across Russia and Eastern Europe. You’ll notice the ship itself is given a giant Jew nose for a prow, nice touch:

Here are Chinese locusts infesting America. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was signed by President Chester A. Arthur. It mandated a 10-year moratorium on all Chinese immigration into the United States. Amazingly, the US didn’t fully repeal the restrictions on Chinese immigration until 1943, as a check on Japanese attempts to weaken American-Chinese relations during the war:

Here’s an Oregonian settler offering a choice to the Chinamen who were inhabiting the west when he arrived – you can go or stay:

The irony of a country built by immigrants building walls to keep out specific types of immigrants should be lost on no one. Here you see a former African slave, a Civil War vet, another Irish ape, a Frenchman and a Jew building a wall to keep out whatever might come in behind them:

In 1915, Congress passed a law stating that immigrants had to pass a literacy test to come into the country. President Wilson vetoed it, but a much harsher measure passed two years later. Here was the list of undesirables banned from entering the country – word for word: “alcoholics”, “anarchists”, “contract laborers”, “criminals and convicts”, “epileptics”, “feebleminded persons”, “idiots”, “illiterates”, “imbeciles”, “insane persons”, “paupers”, “persons afflicted with contagious disease”, “persons being mentally or physically defective”, “persons with constitutional psychopathic inferiority”, “political radicals”, “polygamists”, “prostitutes” and “vagrants”. Here’s the “Americanese Wall”:

The first mass migration of Italians were the Sicilians – many of whom first arrived in New Orleans. It was said that Roman Catholics could never be real Americans because their loyalty would always be first and foremost to the church. There were conspiracy theories that they were planning to set up a Papal State within the US. Below is a casual instruction manual to deal with their kind and drown them like rats:

An Italian with the features of a monkey shines the shoes of a dandy. Southern Italians in particular were looked down upon for being “not quite white”:

President McKinley (top left) believed in open immigration. Here’s Uncle Sam, at his direction, looking on as Italian rats “directly from the slums of Europe” pour into the country. Sound / look familiar?:

The American “fool pied piper” leads more Italian rats toward Ellis Island as the cheering European aristocracy rejoices in the background. You can imagine some demagogue back then saying “they’re sending us their worst people”, can’t you?:

“Close the Gate” from 1919 – immigrants were routinely depicted as “Reds”, communists, Marxists and anarchists by this time – the irony being that these were some of the very things they were fleeing from. Not unlike the Middle Easterners currently fleeing from the very terrorism and religious genocide that many are accusing them of supporting:

Hatred of ethnic minorities is nothing new in America – if you are one of the people who thinks that the #MuslimBan is necessary to protect your national identity then you have forgotten the history of America. A nation not only built on immigrants but also on the hatred and at time genocide of minorities, intent to protect the interests of what can only be termed the True Minority – a team of wealthy bigots.

If so, I hope this hits close enough to home so as to awaken you from your contented slumber.

Well and Truly Rogered – Keith Vaz

As much as I personally detest you Keith Vaz, it seems that you have well and truly been rogered, and perhaps not quite the type of rogering that you were accustomed to! Of all the publications to receive the honour of bring you down it just had to be the despicable Sunday Mirror! Only one thing I can think of worse than shagging rent boys without a condom is reading the Sunday Mirror.

They do say when the great fall it is with a huge thud and in your case that thud is reverberating through your poor innocent family who frankly did nothing to deserve the ridicule that this will bring them (albeit probably indirectly).

It always strikes me that people fall from grace for all the wrong reasons. Look at Saddam Hussain for example. The bugger (although I don’t think he was gay) was a despot of biblical proportions, perhaps only being outdone on genocide by god himself. He deserved all manner of atrocious ending. Invading Kuwait and Iran and the tens of thousands that he tortured and murdered, his use of chemical weapons; the list goes on endlessly. But finally he was hanged because of some trumped up, or should I say Bushed up charges of being involved in Al-Queda. Nothing could have been further from the truth.

You Keith have had all manner of nasty liaisons with shady people of which I reckon these Polish rent boys would have perhaps been some of the most decent and honest of your little group of hornets. I mean what sane person could possibly have given his support for Salman Rushdie against Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa, only to appear the following week leading a muslim protest against Rushdie? Any more opportunist that you and even sharks would keep away for fear of getting indigestion. Then you naughty involvement with that crook of crooks Shahrokh Mireskandari and the whole sage surrounding Commander Ali Dizai reeked of abuse of your status. Yet nobody ever managed to take away your crown. That is until you managed to undo it yourself.

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Now I have absolutely nothing against a decent bit of filthy sex. Indeed I harbour many secret desires and whims of my own. And lets not get this out of context, I am not the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee or for that matter any committee. I am no public figure and frankly if I dies tomorrow very few people would even notice. But yet, I still manage to keep a grip on reality. I have often wondered what spontaneous sexual liaisons would be like and even wondered what gay sex would like and whether I might actually enjoy it myself. I have had the odd  couple of thousand thoughts and desires for all sorts of things. But even me in my innate universe of nobodyness has never had the gumption to give it a try. Perhaps that is because I am relatively happily married. Maybe it is because I am a coward of the highest proportions. But yet I am left wondering, what imbecile would openly engage in sexual naughtyness of your type when he holds high public office and hardly a week goes past without his photo being printed in a national newspaper.

Keith, I know you are feeling rather awful at the moment and probably spending long period of conversation with your solicitors at Howard Kennedy trying to find someone to sue, but lets face it mate; you really did bring this upon yourself.

What is it with politicians that allows them to think that they will get away with such a sordid private life? Lets not be in any doubt, I have no issue with your homosexuality. I have no issue with any drugs either and firmly believe that all drugs should be legalised. Indeed I have no issue with prostitution or group sex. In fact if I was more man than I am I would probably engage in it myself. But what I do take offence with is liars who portray themselves as otherwise. Keith; you lied to your Mrs, you lied to your children and you lied endlessly to the nation through your position as the the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee. You may not be guilty of anything related to the sordid nature of your liaisons with rent boys and poppers, but you are guilty of that most heinous of crimes, being a liar. There is no place in a proper democratic public office for a liar Keith! The biggest price that you will pay for this will most likely be within your own household. Quite how your children will come to terms with dad’s frivolity is beyond me. Personally in your shoes I would now be rowing my boat toward Antarctica hoping the penguins would not recognise me!

Despite my significant dislike for you as a politician, I can’t but sympathise with you as a human today. Why didn’t you just face your sexuality openly and ‘come out’ when you could. You could simply have identified openly as gay or bisexual and that would have been the end of it. Had the atrocious Sunday Mirror hounded you for that, the public would have risen to support you. Now, I doubt anyone would want to be associated with you Keith. To me personally there is a lot wrong with a man who can mislead his wife and children. I can cope with lying to the electorate, that is almost expected of politicians, but lying to your dearest and nearest….. no!

Oh yes and one other thing Keith and all the other Keith’s out there who are yet to be publicly humiliated. If you are going to lead a double life as a secret gay, don’t go pissing off the establishment and the country’s top cops! They have contacts and they will get their revenge! You will end up with more than just a sore head – perhaps even a sore ass!

Word of god? No – Pulp Fiction

What is the basis of almost all modern day religions? I am talking mainly about the abrahamic cults of christianity, islam and judaism; each of which has of course spurned offshoots and sects. In christianity alone there are estimated to be in excess of 41,000 …

Ever Wondered What a Bee Looks Like Peeing?

Birds do it – Bees do it – even…….

I have no doubt that many of you will have spent years wondering what a peeing bee looks like? Indeed the question, do bees pee, is likely to have given you endless sleepless nights and been the cause of many length discussions on long summer evenings, sipping a cold drink and debating other similarly key questions of life.

Fortunately for us, an English photographer has managed to capture one of nature’s rarer sights on camera: a bumblebee going to the bathroom. Check it out, below.

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Forty-five-year-old Mark Parrott captured the rare image while photographing a swarm of bees in North East Lincolnshire’s Grimsby Garden Centre, but didn’t even notice it until after the fact. When he did, he was rather impressed at his own feat, saying:

“I was shocked with excitement when I saw the shot and couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Parrott said. “There was a steady stream coming from the cheeky little bee”

However, the “steady stream” coming from the cheeky little bee technically isn’t urine—at least not the conventional type that we’re used to. It’s actually uric acid, which the Grimsby Telegraph refers to as “the insect version of wee.” Apparently, this liquid builds up inside the kidneys of insects, where it mixes with other bodily fluids, before exiting the body.

 

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While the amount of uric acid is extremely small, it is possible for the spectacle to be caught on camera, if timed absolutely perfectly. To make matters even more unbelievable, Parrott captured the shot using a handheld camera.

Now, if you are thinking of trying to catch a similar snap, be wary of several important points. First, we are almost at the end of whatever summer it was that we were meant to be seeing (those in England will know what I am talking about). Secondly, your chances of catching the spectacle again on a camera are pretty slim, most likely because peeing is not a big part of being a bee. I don’t know how often bees pee, but my guess is that they probably get a decent nights sleep and unlike myself are not constantly walking having to leave the queen bee in limbo for calls of nature. Thirdly, and perhaps of most interest to most, is the potential for not getting the desired snap but instead walking off with a bee sting!

A safer (and probably far more difficult challenge) would be a picture of an ant peeing. Any takers?

Glowing Purple Orb Discovered at the Bottom of the Ocean

The scientists aboard the E/V Nautilus have been exploring the ocean floor since they started their oceanic expedition back in 2010. Among their encounters have been surprise encounters with sperm whales and they have even managed to explore the deepest darkest parks of of hydrothermal vents off the Galapagos. However; news broke this week of perhaps their most baffling discovery yet. A small purple orb discovered near the Channel Islands, just off the coast of California (USA).

 

Photo courtesy: E/V Nautilus

The team are at a complete loss as to precisely what their new discovery might be. However they did manage to retrieve the glowing orb using their underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle). Up close it looks like anything from a scrunched up octopus right through to something out of the movie Alien. Needless to state the orb stopped glowing once it was removed from the water. We presume that is because it is now dead.

 

Photo courtesy: E/V Nautilus

The more excitable among us might like to believe that it’s an alien cast adrift in our planet’s vast oceans—or the horrible, mutated result of environmental pollution. However; early speculation suggests it could be a pleurobranch, a relative of the sea slug. However, a spokesperson for E/V Nautilus said,“We don’t have a definitive identification yet. We’re waiting on further analysis from on-shore science teams.”

In the meantime, this underlines the very real fact that as a species, we actually know less about the types of creatures that inhabit the deepest parts of our own oceans than we know about our immediate surrounding planets.

Christianity – Passive Aggressive

I recently took the family on a road trip through Europe. We spent over 3 weeks exploring France, Spain and Portugal. On the way down we made a series of stop overs in French wine country and mid Spain; all of which were absolutely fabulous. However; on the way back my wife decided that she wanted to visit the village of Lourdes in France. She had recently finished reading a Paul Coelho book on Bernadette and felt that she wanted to personally see the village and the Spring which is a so called miracle.

Now to give you some background, I am lacking in any semblance of recognition of any deity whatsoever (hence the page name). However spousy retains the remnants of a muslim upbringing and a deep rooted faith in some form of a god. She agrees with me that it is certainly not the god of the bible or the koran, but she retains a belief in an energy of some sort that is ‘higher’ than us mere mortals. She therefore has respect for all religious claims of visitations by angels and miracles attributed to these so called abrahamic ‘gods’.

Anyway; long story short – we get to Lourdes. Personally I would have been more excited if I had been having root canal treatment that day, but Lourdes was the order of the day and had I not agreed to this visitation, I have no doubt that reference to it would have been made on my gravestone (which is already expected to be quite large given the number of other criticisms that will be listed on it!). So here we are Lourdes!

Needless to state that the place was teeming with wheelchairs and the sick and old all looking for miracles and salvation; plus I got to see myself a monk or ten, all dressed up to look pious and reverend.

The walk down to the so called sacred spot was teeming with shops all selling Mary’s and crosses and – wait for it – empty buckets and containers in all manner of shapes and sizes. Some were shaped like crosses, others in the traditional image of Mary and baby and the less creative were just bottles with crosses painted on them. “Oooops” I thought to myself! Is this the Mecca of christians? Yep – sure enough they were all tanking up on the miracle piped fluids of the so called fountain; washing their heads and faces in the stuff, pouring it on their bodies and ailments, filling containers at a rate like a drought was coming. The queue to simply fill the bottles was itself 20 deep and taking account that there were at least 35 taps provided – well you can do the math on that one!

Well we start wandering around and spousy, knowing that my temprament for religious bullshittery was non-existent – she swiftly joined the queue of people who wanted to get close to the so called miracle, nestled under a overhang rock, atop of which has been constructed a cathedral of cinematic proportions. To my faithless eye the single overriding memory that I have of the place is that the public are being sucked for every penny they can muster, all in the name of jesus. It was a christian credit cards paradise. One shop was selling bread with crosses on it and another had French Fries ‘t’ shaped! If not satisfied with drinking holy water you could eat holy chips, buy holy beads, invest in holy stones, bathe in holy water and as for the candles… well – some fella sure had a business sense when he came up with the concept of a £100 candle with the logo ‘Let Your Prayers Burn On’!

Now to the main point of this post. The place was teeming with gods security personnel. These people were quaintly referred to as ‘Guides’ but their real purpose soon became apparent when I lit my nerve calming cigarette. They flocked to me like buzzards to a corpse; whispering in French (which I pretended not to understand) and telling me that if I wanted to smoke I had to stand at the exit, some 400 meters away from miracle base camp! I, in the spirit of respect for the occasion, pretended that I did not understand a word that they said and puffed away on my cigg. Little did the ‘Guides’ know that the only thing standing between them and a swift meeting with jesus was my cigarette because I had had about as much christ and Mary that afternoon as any healthy person could accommodate into a lifespan. For those of you who smoke, you will know precisely what I am getting at here.

It was at this point, whilst awaiting my beloved partners return from her blessing with miracle water under the cliff that I decided to familiarise myself with some of the bylaws and regulations of visiting this oh so godly spot in the French hills. It strikes me that for a place of worship (which as I stated earlier is teeming with the sick, old, crippled, disabled, terminally ill and dying), there are a lot of rules as to what you can and cannot do. For example:

i. no hats

ii. no shorts

iii. no revealing clothing for women

iv. no loud noises

v. no photography

vi. no drinking

vii. no eating

viii. no ball games

ix. no any other games

x. no running

xi. no child to play

xii. no sitting on the ground

xiii. no lying or sleeping on the ground

xiv. no camping

xv. no fires

the list goes on. Needless to state that the smoking ban was pretty high on that list too.

Now to the point of all this diatribe. I am an atheist who by threat and force has today been compelled to visit this vile establishment of gods. I am here not because I have any respect for your god or his heinous teachings, but because like all atheists I respect the living; in this case being my beloved life partner, for whom I would do anything to see her smile and make her happy. I am here merely so that my sweetheart can be comfortable in the knowledge that my ‘faith’ believes and practices love, peace and acceptance; unlike the utter trash that is marketed as christianity. On account of the fact that not a single cell in my body was a willing participant to this demonic tribute to a fake miracle, I was amazed that nevertheless my compliance with ritual acts of respect and worship were compulsory.

To me, these demands are designed to protect the lies that comprise the basis of christianity. These acts of observance impose a sense of conformity. To an observer the mere conformity with these demands suggest acceptance. It is infuriating and repugnant but a reality of the marketing plan that accompanies all things jesus. ‘Show respect when in a place of worship’! What I actually wanted to do was to succombe to the wrath of god by defecating in his miracle spring and waiting for his bolt of lightening. What respect do you demand of me you non-existent hate filled cash generator? You who do not exist? You whose messiah never existed? You whose miracles are nothing more than the decisions of your slave priests? you who answers to no logical person and no responds to no logical questions? You who are nothing and nowhere; you who does nothing and responds to nothing and for which there is not one single iota of justification; you demand observance and compliance from ME? Me a living organism that stands here today and one that actually exists?  That is the disease called religion. One that replaces reality with imaginary and then demands that reality bows to the imaginary and shows respect!

If this is merely ‘showing respect’ for a place of worship then I would ask that all of the same rules and requirements be adhered to by religious people attending an atheist conference. In particular that they keep their voices down, hats off, no eating and drinking and show respect to atheist principles by not interrupting when an atheist speaks and not responding when an atheist belittles their pathetic and baseless religious dogma. I would also add in another additional rule for the atheist conference attendees, threats of damnation and fires and burning are strictly forbidden, because they insult the principal atheist belief in ‘logic’!

For those of you wondering what happened to the cigarette, yep I sucked it to the very filter and then did the only respectable thing I could – flung it on their sacred ground so that it and I could be blessed by the nothingness of jesus!

 

What Does the Koran Actually Say?

 

There is a lot of conflicting information in the public domain these days about Islam and the true meaning of this pious religious faith. It seems that every person and every group has something to gain from either giving support to Islam or seeking to throw a negative light on this huge religion. One can see why an outside observer would feel confused and frankly baffled by the immense range of explanations afforded of the heinous crimes committed in the name of Islam.

So, instead of filling this post with more conjecture, interpretation and opinion, what better way of dispelling the myths surrounding Islam than to merely recite some of the text of the ‘holy’ Koran and leave it to the reader to interpret these as best you can. After all, one of the biggest criticisms of all religious faithful is the abject failure of any of them to actually read their holy books – cover to cover, in a language that the reader understands. The Koran, to such extent that it is ever read by anyone, is read parrot fashion, in Arabic. Arabic happens to be the language of less than 5% of the followers of this great religion. Everyone else is taught merely to recognise the alphabet, read the words, practice good pronunciation and as for the meaning of the text, that tends to be provided by the presiding Imam at the gathering who will present this in whatever manner suits the congregation.

However; before you proceed any further, a word or two of warning. According to Islamic scholars, the text of the Koran (Q’uran), being the actual words of allah (who apparently only speaks Arabic), are incapable of any accurate translation. This obviously means that what you are about to read (in English) is not necessarily what allah was saying when he dictated the koran to Mohammed who, being illiterate, then dictated it to his scribes to record on his behalf. (I have managed to come this far without mention of Chinese Whispers – which is quite good progress don’t you think?)

Now with this in mind, follows a transcript of some of the salient parts of the holy koran. Without doubt, some of these can and will be taken ‘out of context’ but as with all texts emanating from that supreme author of humanity, Mr Abraham (lets gut our son), context is a subjective. So go ahead and make of this what you will. Feel free also to post your comments, amendments and corrections as no doubt there will be many of these. (all comments are published – we run an open community here – which is more than can be said for a lot of the people who have ‘faith’ in allah):

One last warning – the text in bold is added in and is not from the koran, it’s just opinion and may have been taken ‘out of context’. But you probably already knew that anyway…… so onward and forward……..>>>>>>>>>

2:39                And those who disbelieve and deny Our signs – those will be companions of the Fire; they will abide therein eternally.”

2:98                Whoever is an enemy to Allah and His angels and His messengers – then indeed, Allah is an enemy to the disbelievers.

2:128              Our Lord, and make us Muslims in submission to You and from our descendants a Muslim nation in submission to You.

2:154              And do not say about those who are killed in the way of Allah, “They are dead.” Rather, they are alive, but you perceive [it] not.

* Here, would-be Jihadists are told they do not actually die. It looks as though they are dead, but they are still actually alive *

2:190              Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress.

2:191              And kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- Haram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.

2:193              Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah (disbelieving of Islam) and until all worship is for Allah alone.

* This is a direct and unambiguous order to fight and kill non-Muslims.
Fighting is to continue until everyone has embraced Islam, only then will there be peace *

2:216              Fighting [Jihad warfare] has been enjoined upon you (Muslims) while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not.

* This verse is telling all Muslims that fighting Jihad is their duty as a Muslim. Even if they do not want to, they must by order of Allah *

2:244              And fight in the cause of Allah and know that Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

3:4                  Those who disbelieve in the verses of Allah will have a severe punishment.

3:28                Let not believers (Muslims) take disbelievers (non-Muslims) as allies rather than believers. And whoever [of you] does that has nothing with Allah, except if you fear danger from them.

* This verse is inciting religious hatred. It is telling Muslims not to take non-Muslims as friends except if forced to do so *

3:85                And whoever desires other than Islam as religion – never will it be accepted from him, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers.

3:140              If a wound (and killing) has touched you, be sure a similar wound (and killing) has touched the others fighting you. Allah may test those who believe, and that He may take martyrs from among you. And Allah likes not the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong­doers).

* Muslims are told they are being tested in their efforts fighting Jihad and that Allah may wish to take Martyrs from among them. It is Gods will *

3:141              And that Allah may purify the believers [through trials] and destroy the disbelievers.

3:142              Do you think that you will enter Paradise before Allah tests those of you who fought (Jihad in His Cause)?

3:143              And you had certainly wished for martyrdom before you encountered it, and you have [now] seen it [before you].

3:151              We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.

3:157              And if you are killed in the cause of Allah or die – then forgiveness from Allah and mercy are better than whatever wealth you accumulate [in this world].

* Further urging of Muslims to fight and become Martyrs in the name of Islam. Mercy from Allah is better than anything else in this world *

3:158              And whether you die or are killed, unto Allah you will be gathered.

3:169              And never think of those [Jihadists] who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision,

3:170              Rejoicing in what Allah has bestowed upon them of His bounty, and they receive good tidings about those [yet to be martyred] after them who have not yet joined them – that there will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve.

3:171              They [Martyrs] receive good tidings of favour from Allah and bounty and [of the fact] that Allah does not allow the reward of believers to be lost.

3:178              And let not those who disbelieve [in Islam] ever think that [because] We extend their time [of enjoyment] it is better for them. We only extend it for them so that they may increase in sin, and for them is a humiliating punishment.

4:15                Those who commit unlawful sexual intercourse of your women – bring against them four [witnesses] from among you. And if they testify, confine the guilty women to houses until they die.

4:34                Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband’s] absence what Allah would have them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance – [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], beat them.

* Men are given permission to beat their wives *

4:47                O you who were given the Scripture (Jews and Christians), believe in what We have sent down [to Muhammad], confirming that which is with you, before We obliterate your faces and twist them toward their backs or curse them as We cursed the sabbath-breakers.

* Jews and Christians are threatened with having their faces destroyed and twisted backwards *

4:56                Indeed, those who disbelieve in Our verses – We will drive them into a Fire. Every time their skins are roasted through We will replace them with other skins so they may taste the punishment.

4:69                And whoever obeys Allah and the Messenger (Mohammed) – those will be with the ones upon whom Allah has bestowed favour of the prophets, the steadfast affirmers of truth, the martyrs and the righteous. And excellent are those as companions.

* Martyrs are described as “excellent” and promised the favour of Allah *

4:74                So let those fight in the cause of Allah who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter. And he who fights in the cause of Allah and is killed or achieves victory – We will bestow upon him a great reward.

* Jihadists who fight in the name of Islam and are killed will be given
“a great reward” from Allah *

4:75                And what is [the matter] with you that you fight not in the cause of Allah?

4:76                Those who believe [in Islam] fight in the cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the cause of Taghut [Satan]. So fight against the disbelievers [allies of Satan].

4:77                When fighting was ordained, They said, “Our Lord, why have You decreed upon us fighting?”  Say, “The enjoyment of this world is little, and the Hereafter is better for he who fears Allah.”

* Muslims are continually told throughout the Quran that this worldly life is only a short temporary mirage. The afterlife is far more important and eternal. These verses encourage Jihadists to engage in Islamic terrorism *

4:84                So fight, [O Muhammad], in the cause of Allah. And encourage the believers [to join you] that perhaps Allah will restrain the [military] might of those who disbelieve. And Allah is greater in might and stronger in [exemplary] punishment.

* Jihadists are urged to fight as Allah will restrain the military might of the opposition *

4:89                They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah (Islam). But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally.

4:91                You will find others who wish to obtain security from you and [to] obtain security from their people. Every time they are returned to [the influence of] disbelief, they fall back into it. So if they do not withdraw from you or offer you peace or restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you overtake them. We have made for you against them a clear authorization.

4:95                Not equal are those of the believers who sit (at home), except those who are disabled and those who strive hard and fight [Jihad] in the Cause of Allah with their wealth and their lives.

Allah has preferred in grades those who strive hard and fight with their wealth and their lives above those who sit (at home). Unto each, Allah has promised good (Paradise), but Allah has preferred those who strive hard and fight, above those who sit (at home) by a huge reward;

* A huge reward of paradise for those who fight in Islamic holy warfare *

4:100              And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many dwelling places and plenty to live by. And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him – his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah.

* This verse is central in explaining why so many Muslims are leaving their homes in the West to join the Islamic State. By emigrating in the cause of Islam and subsequently getting killed, you are guaranteed paradise *

4:101              The disbelievers [of Islam] are ever to you a clear enemy.

4:115              And whoever opposes the Messenger after guidance has become clear to him and follows other than the way of the believers – We will give him what he has taken and drive him into Hell, and evil it is as a destination.

4:138              Give tidings to the hypocrites that there is for them a painful punishment.

* The Quran refers to Muslims who do not follow a strictly Islamic way of life as “hypocrites”. Openly calling for them to severely punished. This is the justification that ISIS and other Islamists use to kill Muslims they believe not be acting in accordance to Islam. The Quran has sanctioned this killing *

5:21                O my people, enter the Holy Land [Palestine] which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back [from fighting in Allah ‘s cause] and [thus] become losers.”

* Here Muslims are urged to enter Palestine and fight for Islam *

5:33                The penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.

* The barbaric murders and crucifixions carried out by Islamists (Islamic State etc.) are sanctioned in this verse *

5:38                [As for] the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah.

5:60                Those (Jews) who incurred the Curse of Allah and His Wrath. He transformed them into apes and pigs, those who worshipped Taghut (false deities); such are worse in rank (on the Day of Resurrection in the Hell­fire), and far more astray from the Right Path.

6:32                And the worldly life is not but amusement and diversion; but the home of the Hereafter is best for those who fear Allah, so will you not reason?

* This life is nothing but an amusing diversion – Heaven is the real life and better for those who believe in Allah. This will spur on Jihadists *

6:49                Those who deny Our verses [this Quran] – the punishment will touch them for their defiant disobedience.

7:4                  And how many cities have We destroyed, and Our terror came to them at night or while they were sleeping at noon.

7:81                Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.”

7:84                And We rained upon them a rain [of stones]. Then see how was the end of the criminals.

* The murdering of gay people by Islamists is sanctioned in this verse *

7:96                And if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allah, we would have opened upon them blessings from the heaven and the earth; but they denied [the messengers], so We seized them for what they were earning.”

7:97                Then, did the people of the cities feel secure from our punishment coming to them at night while they were asleep?

7:98                Or did the people of the cities feel secure from our punishment coming to them in the morning while they were at play?

7:99                Then did they feel secure from the plan of Allah? But no one feels secure from the plan of Allah except the losing people [disbelievers].

7:166              So when they [Jews] were insolent about that which they had been forbidden. We said to them, “Be apes, despised and hated.”

7:176              So his example is like that of the dog: if you chase him, he pants, or if you leave him, he [still] pants. That is the example of the people who denied Our signs

* Non Muslims are comparable to dogs *

7:182              Those who deny Our signs [this Quran] – We will progressively lead them [to destruction] from where they do not know.

8:12                I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved [in Islam], so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.

* This is the verse which gives permission to Islamists to behead those who do not follow strict Islam *

8:13                That is because they opposed Allah and His Messenger. And whoever opposes Allah and His Messenger – indeed, Allah is severe in penalty.

8:15                O you who believe! When you meet those who disbelieve, in a battle-field, never turn your backs to them.

8:16                And whoever turns his back to them on such a day, unless swerving [as a strategy] for war has certainly angered Allah, and his refuge is Hell – and wretched is the destination.

8:17                And you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. He might test the believers with a good test.

* This verse tells Muslims that when they kill during Jihad, it is Allah doing the killing, not the perpetrators. Therefore, they are free to commit murder in the name of Islam *

8:18                That is so, and also that Allah will weaken the plot of the disbelievers.

8:19                If you [disbelievers] seek the victory – the defeat has come to you. And if you desist [from hostilities], it is best for you; but if you return [to war], We will return and your forces will be of no avail to you, however numerous it be; that is because Allah is with the believers.

8:25                And fear a trial which will not smite [behead] those who have wronged among you exclusively, and know that Allah is severe in penalty.

* Anyone can be beheaded – both good people and bad people *

8:36                Indeed, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to avert [people] from the way of Allah [Islam]. They will regret it; then they will be overcome. And those who have disbelieved – unto Hell they will be gathered.

8:39                Fight the disbelievers until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief, i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [Islam, in the whole of the world].

* This verse orders Muslims to fight non-believers and to keep fighting until Islam is the only remaining religion in the world *

8:55                The worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are those who have disbelieved, and they will not [ever] believe.

8:57                 When you capture the (unbelievers) during a war, punish them severely in order to disperse those who are behind them, so that they may learn a lesson.

* The brutality of Islamists, stems from this verse *

8:60                And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war (tanks, planes, missiles, artillery, etc.) by which you may strike terror (into the hearts of) the enemy of. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.

8:65                O Prophet, urge the believers to fight. If there are among you twenty [who are] steadfast, they will overcome two hundred. And if there are among you one hundred [who are] steadfast, they will overcome a thousand of those who have disbelieved because they are a people who do not understand.

8:67                It is not for a prophet to have prisoners of war until he inflicts a great massacre [upon Allah ‘s enemies] in the land. Some Muslims desire the commodities of this world, but Allah desires [for you] the Hereafter.

* This verse is telling Mohamed to inflict massacres. It is a requirement if he wishes to take slaves, which he duly does *

8:69                So consume what you have taken of war booty [as being] lawful and good, and fear Allah.

8:72                Indeed, those who have believed and emigrated and fought with their wealth and lives in the cause of Allah and those who gave shelter and aided – they are allies of one another.

8:73                And those who disbelieve are allies to one another, (and) if you (Muslims of the whole world collectively) do not do so (i.e. become allies, as one united block with one Khalifah – chief Muslim ruler for the whole Muslim world to make victorious Allah’s Religion of Islamic Monotheism), there will be Fitnah (wars, battles, polytheism, etc.) and oppression on earth, and a great mischief and corruption (appearance of polytheism).

8:74                But those who have believed and emigrated and fought in the cause of Allah [Jihad] and those who gave shelter and aided – it is they who are the believers, truly. For them is forgiveness and noble provision [Paradise].

9:5                  And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way.

9:20                Those who believed (in the Oneness of Allah – Islamic Monotheism) and emigrated and strove hard and fought in Allah’s Cause with their wealth and their lives are far higher in degree with Allah. They are the successful.

* Verses such as this one, urge Muslims to emigrate to the Islamic State as Allah will hold them in a far higher status *

9:29                Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth [Islam] from those who were given the Scripture [Jews and Christians].  Fight them until they give the jizyah [Muslim Tax] willingly while they are humbled.

* Violent verses such as this one are used to subjugate people of other religions *

9:36                And fight against the disbelievers collectively as they fight against you collectively. And know that Allah is with the righteous.

9:38                O you who believe! What is the matter with you, that when you are asked to march forth in the Cause of Allah (i.e. Jihad) you cling heavily to the earth? Are you pleased with the life of this world rather than the Hereafter? But little is the enjoyment of the life of this world as compared with the Hereafter.

9:39                If you do not go forth, He will punish you with a painful punishment and will replace you with another people, and you will not harm Him at all. And Allah is over all things competent.

9:41                Go forth, whether light or heavy, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the cause of Allah. That is better for you, if you only knew.

* These verses are enormous factors in the large numbers of Muslims who turn to terror *

9:49                And among them is he who says: “Grant me leave (to be exempted from Jihad) and put me not into trial.” Surely, they have fallen into trial. And verily, Hell is surrounding the disbelievers.

* Muslims are threatened with hell if they refuse to fight Jihad warfare *

9:51                [In Jihad warfare] Say, “Never will we be struck except by what Allah has decreed for us; He is our protector.” And upon Allah let the believers rely.

* If you die in Jihad, it is the wish of Allah *

9:73                O Prophet, fight against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them. And their refuge is Hell, and wretched is the destination.

9:100              And the first forerunners [in the faith] among the Muhajireen and the Ansar and those who followed them with good conduct – Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him, and He has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow [Paradise], wherein they will abide forever. That is the great attainment.

* Terrorist group Muhajireen is praised and promised paradise *

9:111              Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed. It is a true promise [binding] upon Him in the Torah, Gospel and the Qur’an. And who is truer to his covenant than Allah? So rejoice in your transaction which you have contracted. And it is that which is the great attainment.

* Muslims have given their lives to Allah in exchange for paradise in the after-life. They are expected to kill and be killed in the name of Islam.
This is a transaction in which Muslims are contracted *

9:123              O you who have believed, fight those adjacent to you of the disbelievers and let them find in you harshness.

11:28              [To disbelievers] should we force Islam upon you while you are averse to it?

* Islamists use this verse as justification to force Islam onto disbelievers *

15:4                And We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.

* Throughout the Quran, there are boasts of cities being destroyed *

15:5                No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.

* This is a thinly veiled threat that any nation can be destroyed *

16:88              Those who disbelieved and averted [others] from the way of Allah [Islam] – We will increase them in punishment over their punishment for what corruption they were causing.

16:106            Whoever disbelieves in Allah after his belief…except for one who is forced [to renounce his religion] while his heart is secure in faith. But those who willingly open their breasts to disbelief, upon them is wrath from Allah, and for them is a great punishment;

* Muslims are banned from leaving Islam. Islam is the only religion to impose threats of death/punishment for apostasy *

17:16               And when We decide to destroy a town (population), We (first) send a definite order (to the affluent) to obey Allah. Then, they transgress therein, and thus the word (of torment) is justified against them. Then We destroy it with complete destruction.

* Here permission is given to destroy a city if the inhabitants do not submit to Islam *

17:33              And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden, except by right.

* “Except by right” gives permission to kill Muslims and non-Muslims *

17:58              And there is no city but that We will destroy it before the Day of Resurrection or punish it with a severe punishment.

21:98              Indeed, you [disbelievers] and what you worship other than Allah are the firewood of Hell. You will be coming to [enter] it.

22:19               For those who disbelieve in Islam, garments of fire will be cut out for them, boiling water will be poured down over their heads.

It will melt their skins and all that is in their bellies. And for them are hooked rods of iron (to punish them).

Every time they want to get out of Hellfire from anguish, they will be returned to it, and [it will be said], “Taste the punishment of the Burning Fire!”

22:58              And those who emigrated for the cause of Allah (Islam) and then were killed or died – Allah will surely provide for them a good provision [Paradise].

* A further reiteration that Jihadists who are killed or become Martyrs are promised paradise in the after-life *

23:6                O Muslims, abstain from sex, except with your spouses and slave-girls. The practice of carnal relations is lawful with them.

* This verse gives Islamic State (and other Islamists) permission to keep female sex slaves *

23:43              No nation will precede its time [of termination], nor will they remain [thereafter].

24:2                The [unmarried] woman or [unmarried] man found guilty of sexual intercourse – lash each one of them with a hundred lashes, and do not be taken by pity for them in the religion of Allah, if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a group of the believers witness their punishment.

24:19              Indeed, those who like that immorality [illegal sexual intercourse] should be spread [or publicized] among those who have believed [Muslims], they will have a painful punishment in this world and the Hereafter.

24:29              There is no blame upon you for entering houses not inhabited in which there is convenience for you.

* Permission given to Muslims to enter houses, that are not inhabited, to use and remove goods as they wish *

24:32              And marry the unmarried among you and the righteous among your male slaves and female slaves.

24:33              And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution.

25:52              Do not obey the unbelievers but launch a great campaign against them with the help of the Quran.

* Islamist terror groups are hereby given express permission to launch a great campaign against the unbelievers – with the help of the Quran. This is one of the clearest verses that promotes terror using the Quran *

25:68              Do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden [to be killed], except by right, and do not commit unlawful sexual intercourse. And whoever should do that will meet a penalty.

* This verse grants permission to a Muslim to kill another person if they have “the right” to kill. This right extends to killing those who disbelieve in Islam – as according to the Quran, they are perceived to be creating “mischief” on the Earth (fitnah) *

25:70              Except for those who repent, believe and do righteous work. For them Allah will replace their evil deeds with good.

* Even if a Muslim kills without the “right” to do so, the Quran says that person is forgiven – by merely repenting, working righteously (this could be for the cause of Islam) and believing in Islam *

28:58              And how many a town (population) have We destroyed, which were thankless for its means of livelihood (disobeyed Allah, and His Messenger) And their dwellings, were not inhabited after them, except a little. We have been the inheritors.

29:64              And this worldly life is not but diversion and amusement. And indeed, the home of the Hereafter – that is the [eternal] life, if only they knew.

* Verses such as this are what Islamic terrorists use as means to recruit suicide bombers. *

31:7                And when our verses are recited to him, he turns away arrogantly as if he had not heard them, as if there was in his ears deafness. So give him tidings of a painful punishment.

* This verse is encouraging violence against non-Muslims *

33:18              Allah already knows those among you who keep back (men) from fighting in Allah’s Cause (Islam).

33:19              It is those people who have not believed, so Allah has rendered their deeds worthless.

* This verse is urging Muslims to fight (commit acts of terror) in the name of Islam. Those Muslims that try to stop people fighting and committing terrorism, are not true Muslims *

33:23              Among the believers are men who have been true to their agreement with Allah [i.e. they have gone out for Jihad (holy fighting), and showed not their backs to the disbelievers], of them some have fulfilled their obligations (i.e. have been martyred), and some of them are still waiting, but they have never changed [i.e. they never proved treacherous to their covenant which they concluded with Allah] in the least.

* This verse is a direct order to Muslims to engage in Jihad warfare and to fulfil their obligation to martyr themselves *

33:26              And the Jews and Christians who backed them (the disbelievers) Allah brought them down from their forts and cast terror into their hearts, (so that) a group (of them) you killed, and a group (of them) you made captives.

33:27              And He caused you to inherit their lands, and their houses, and their riches, and a land which you had not trodden (before). And Allah is Able to do all things.

33:36              It is not for a believing man or a believing woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decided a matter, that they should [thereafter] have any choice about their affair.

* Muslims have no choice in their decisions – Allah has made it for them. This extends to fighting Jihad *

33:60              If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, we verily shall incite you [Muslims] on against them, then they will cease to be your neighbours.

33:61              Accursed, wherever found, they shall be seized and killed with a (terrible) slaughter.

* This is the justification that Islamists use for their barbaric killing *

33:62              [This is] the established way of Allah with those who passed on before of old age; and you will not find in the way of Allah, any change.

* This verse ensures that the barbarous killing is not modified as it has always been the way of Allah.  The way of Allah will not change *

40:39              O my people, this worldly life is only [temporary] enjoyment, and indeed, the Hereafter – that is the home of [permanent] settlement.

* It is repeatedly stated that his life is temporary and the permanent life is after you have died in this life. This is an enormous pull factor for Muslims to martyr themselves *

46:27              And We have already destroyed what surrounds you of [those] cities, and We have diversified the signs [or verses] that perhaps they [non Muslims] might return [from disbelief] to Islam.

47:4                So when you meet [in battle] those who disbelieve in Islam, strike off their heads. When you have inflicted slaughter upon them, then take them as captives, and either [confer] favour afterwards or ransom [them] until the war lays down its burdens. That is the command of Allah.

Thus you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out Jihad against the disbelievers till they embrace Islam or at least come under your protection.

If it had been Allah’s Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But he lets you fight, in order to test you, some with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost.

* This verse confirms that violent Jihad (and beheading) is at the very heart of Islam. *

47:6                And those who are Martyrs will be admitted to Paradise.

47:21              Obedience (to Allah) and good words (were better for them). And when the matter (preparation for Jihad) is resolved on, then if they had been true to Allah, it would have been better for them.

47:31              We shall certainly test you until We know those who strive hard for the cause of Allah and those who exercise patience. We will also examine your deeds.

* This is a veiled order to strive hard (ie. fight Jihad holy warfare), as you are being tested by Allah *

47:35              So do not be weak and do not ask for peace (from the enemies of Islam), while you are having the upper hand. Allah is with you, and will never decrease the reward of your good deeds.

* This verse is a direct order to Islamists to never offer peace *

47:36              [This] worldly life is only amusement and diversion. And if you believe and fear Allah, He will give you your rewards.

48:29              Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah; and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves.

49:7                Allah has endeared to you [Muslims] the faith [Islam] and has made it pleasing in your hearts and Allah has made hateful to you those who disbelieve in Islam.

* This verse is a clear order to Muslims to incite in them hatred of non-Muslims (disbelieving in Islam) *

49:9                And if two factions among the believers should fight, then make settlement between the two. But if one of them oppresses the other, then fight against the one that oppresses until it returns to the command of Allah.

* Two factions in Islam (Sunni and Shia) are fighting. This verse gives permission for the factions to fight. With the aim that the “oppressor” of the two, being subdued, and returning to the “command of Allah”. *

This is the justification that Islamic State uses when murdering Shia Muslims. They are acting in accordance to this verse in the Quran *

49:15              The believers are only the ones who have believed in Allah and His Messenger and then doubt not but strive with their properties and their lives in the cause of Allah. It is those who are the truthful.

* This is another verse urging Muslims to strive with their lives (ie Become martyrs) in the cause of Allah (Islam) *

57:25               And We sent down iron wherein is mighty power (in matters of violent war), as well as many benefits for mankind, that Allah may test who it is that will help Him (His religion), and His Messengers in the unseen.

58:22              You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day (Islam) making friendship with those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred.

* Parental and sibling ties should be severed if they are not Muslim *

59:2                It is He [Allah] who expelled the ones who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture [Jews] from their homes at the first gathering. He cast terror into their hearts [so] they destroyed their houses by their [own] hands and the hands of the believers. So take warning, O people of vision.

59:4                That is because they opposed (Islam) Allah and His Messenger (Mohammed). And whoever opposes Allah – then indeed, Allah is severe in penalty.

60:1                O Muslims, do not take my enemies and your enemies [Those who disbelieve in Islam] as allies, extending to them affection while they have disbelieved in what came to you of the truth [this Quran].

If you have come out for Jihad [holy warfare] in my cause do not take non-Muslims as friends.

60:2                If they gain dominance over you, they would be to you as enemies and extend against you their hands and their tongues with evil, and they wish you would disbelieve.

61:4                 Indeed, Allah loves those who fight in His cause in rows (ranks) as though they are a single solid structure, joined firmly.

61:11              [It is that] you believe in Allah and His Messenger and strive in the cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives. That is best for you, if you should know.

61:12              He will forgive for you your sins and admit you to gardens (Paradise) beneath which rivers flow and pleasant dwellings in gardens of perpetual residence. That is the great attainment.

* Further verses where Muslims are urged to engage in holy war in the name of Islam.  Jihadists are promised erasing of sins and paradise *

61:3                And [you will obtain] another [favour] that you love – victory from Allah and an imminent conquest.

66:9                O Prophet, strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them. And their refuge is Hell, and wretched is the destination.

68:44              Leave to me [O Muhammed] those who reject the Quran and I shall lead them step by step to destruction, without their being aware of it.

68:46              Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are heavily burdened with debt?

* This verse is encouraging Muslims to place heavy taxes on non-Muslims in order to burden them with debt. The ultimate aim being to compel them to convert to Islam. *

70:16              [Disbelievers of Islam] The flame of hell will take away (burning completely) the head skin!

70:29              Saved are those who guard their private parts (from illegal sexual acts).

70:30              Except with their wives and the (women slaves and captives) whom their right hands possess, for (then) they are not to be blamed.

* Sex with female slaves is fully permitted in Islam –  *

98:6                Those who disbelieve (in the religion of Islam, the Quran and Prophet Muhammad) from among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. They are the worst of creatures.

110:1              When the victory of Allah has come and the conquest,

110:2              And you see the people entering into the religion of Allah (Islam) in multitudes,

110:3              Then exalt [Him] with praise of your Lord.

This final verse quoted from the Quran proclaims victory of Islam over all other religions. This is the ultimate aim and goal of Islam, as mandated in the Quran. World domination by violent conquest.

Kaaba – The Blackstone

The Black Stone (called الحجر الأسود al-Hajaru-l-Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim relic, which according to Islamic tradition dates back to the time of Adam and Eve. There are many stories attached to the stone and, as with most religious stories, none has any factual basis or evidence whatsoever. The stone is located about 5 feet off the ground in the Eastern corner of the Kaaba, in Mecca. It is the main attraction of muslims from around the globe who believe that a lifetime pilgrimage to this site is mandatory if their spot in heaven is to be preserved.

To understand the significance of the stone requires some consideration of the Hadiths of the koran. Hadiths are basically sayings from some of the men (and very rarely women) surrounding Mohammed (PissBUH). These do not form part of the koran itself but are ancillary to the book and meant to be a users guide. The koran provides little in the way of a users guide, preferring to restrict itself mainly to threats of damnation and atrocious murders of infidels and promises of sex in the afterlife. As with all the Abrahamic cults (Christianity, Judaisim and Islam), not all Hadiths are considered worthy of being followed. There is a separate post on these which we will link in later. The Hadiths a muslim follows depend very much on which islamic country is applying them and frankly what the believer wants to believe. There are Hadiths covering every aspect of life, from how to wipe your bottom after defecating through to which hand to eat with and how to rape a female prisoner.

A few of the Hadiths say that Mohammed (PissBUH), rode around the Kaaba on his camel (apparently he had a leg injury and could not do the walk which is now considered compulsory for all other muslims), and each time he came to the Eastern corner of the Kaaba, he pointed to the Blackstone and chanted ‘allah akbar’ (god is great). Hadith has it that Mohammed kissed the rock and now of course every muslim the world over dreams of kissing it. Of course the chances of getting a kiss out of it are frankly remote as the Saudi Government almost never allows access to it, so most pilgrims have to make do with a distant glance at it where they too point to it and chant (yeah you guessed it) allah akbar!

islam teaches it’s followers that Mohammed (PissBUH) was a perfect human. Therefore anything he did is totally okay to be replicated today. This of course includes marrying a 6 year old girl and having intercourse with her aged 9 – but more about that elsewhere!

Although muslims are against idolatry, they nevertheless revere the Blackstone and protect it with the threat of death. No non-muslim is allowed anywhere near the stone.

Many geologists and historians believe it to be a tektite or a meteorite.It is the eastern cornerstone of the Kaaba, the ancient sacred stone building towards which Muslims pray, in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. However; the custodians of Mecca and the Kaaba, the Wahhabi Kings of Saudi Arabia have never allowed any form of scientific examination or analysis of the stone.

One important and much ignored fact about this Blackstone is that it is actually NOT one stone. The impression you get from reading about it on the religious sites is that it is a large rock. In reality it is just a few (appx 7/8) tiny fragments of what might have once been a single stone. We say might because of course nobody actually knows. All that is known about it is that it has been severely damaged at least twice in history and stolen and taken away to what is modern day Bahrain at least once.

Today it is set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba with a silver frame that is purportedly screwed to the stone by silver screws. You will see that the tiny pieces of stone have been set into what is likely blackened cement of some form so as to give the impression that the rock is ‘one’ and that it is far bigger than it actually is. In actual fact the fragments would amount to little more than a few ring finger size pieces of stone. Photos dating back to the 1960’s and 70’s suggest that the surrounding supporting filler has been darkened (likely by order of the Saudi Kings) to conceal the frankly miniscule pieces of Blackstone.

Of course muslims have an answer for everything and they will tell you that the stone has darkened as it has absorbed the sins of it’s followers and turned black. Islam still has no problem equating black with evil and white with holy. A concept that we in the West have been trying to escape from ever since the first slaves were abducted from Africa.

The design appears to mimic the appearance of a vagina or vulva; and that is no coincidence.

Mohammed was himself totally absorbed and consumed with sexual desire and what can only be considered an obsession with vaginas. Now you may wonder how we come to such a pious conclusion. Lets dig a little deeper shall we:

A Muslim is not a Muslim, if he is not familiar with the name of Abu Huraira, one of the closest companions of Mohammad (PissBUH). However; despite being commissioned to write down and record the teachings of the illiterate prophet, men like Abu Huraira were constantly faced with the threat of a awful death if they crossed the line and recorded everything that the beloved prophet of allah said or did. The following hadith demonstrates that the Islamic scholars like Abu Hurairah were not allowed to record the ‘actual terrifying’ hadiths of Muhammad:

Sahih Al-Bukhari: 1:3:121: Abu Huraira – (a narrator of most of Hadith) narrated, “I have memorized two kinds of knowledge from Muhammad. I have propagated one of them to you and IF I PROPAGATED THE SECOND, THEN MY PHARYNX (THROAT) WOULD BE CUT. (i.e. KILLED).

In other words there were certain things that were off limits – even to the scribes. Now for a man who is perfect in every possible way, you would be forgiven for wondering why he would have anything to hide.

Sahih Al-Bukhari: 2:26:682: Narrated Ibn Abbas: The Prophet performed Tawaf (circumambulation) of the Ka’ba (kaaba) riding a camel, and every time he came in front of the Corner (having the Black Stone), he pointed towards it WITH SOMETHING HE HAD WITH HIM and said TAKBIR (ALLAHU-AKBAR).

(Note: In the above hadiths the Muslim scholars are afraid to expose the thing that Muhammad used to have in his hand while talking to the Blackstone). What was it? Well we do not know. But whatever it was, it was worthy of being kept secret.

Mohammed’s passion for all things sexual extends far deeper than this. He was obsessed to such a degree with sex and the female genitals that he prescribed detailed hadiths about exactly how and when a man can have sex with a mensturating female and even set out rules for how women on a period can pray. In one such hadith the prophet of allah orders that whilst the mensturating female prays one is to place a bowl between her legs to collect her dripping menstural blood! (no we are not making this up – you couldn’t!)

Mohammed dressed in womens clothes: Sahih Bukhari (2191I), “Revelations [it., the Koran] never come to me when I’m dressed in women’s clothing except when I’m dressed in Aisha’s,” implying that it was something of a habit for the prophet to dress in female clothing.

Mohammed advised that grown men be suckled by the woman of the house, so that they can become ‘one of the family’: In order to circumvent the prohibition on a male and a Muslim female who are not married to each other from working together in private is for the Muslim women to allow the man to suck her breasts becoming her foster child, and then they can be together without a chaperone. – Narrated Ibn Shehab: when he was asked about adult suckling he said; “Abe Hozaifa one of the companions of the messenger of God has adopted a boy named Salem, then when God descended a verse in his book concerning Zaied Ibn thabet abating the adoption saying: call them after their fathers (meaning that to attribute those adopted sons to their biological fathers) , Salma the wife of Abe Hozaifa came to the messenger of God saying: we had an adopted son named Salem ,he was getting into my house while I was wearing one dress , after the adoption was abated ,my husband Abe Hozaifa hated to see him getting into my home, while I am in such way, so what do you think?, how can I deal with that? The prophet replied her: then let him suck from you five times, and then he will be forbidden to you (as it was thought that if one sucks from a woman, he will be like her son)? She said surprisingly: how could I suckle him while he is a full grown man? Then the prophet smiled and said: I know that he is a full grown man. She went out and followed that advice and allowed the man to suck from her, she came back to the prophet saying I suckled him, now I don’t find anything wrong with my husband any more”

Aisha – Mohammed’s 6 year old bride quickly learned that in order to appease her husband, men visiting her house needed to be suckled: Ibn Shehab continued his narration about the Adult suckling saying;” and so, Aeisha the mother of believers followed the prophet’s advice, when she wanted some men to get into her house, she was asking her sister Om’ Kolthoum, the daughter of Abe-Baker, and her niece to suckle those men, so by that way she will be like the aunt of them, and they can get into her house freely and be with her.”

Mohammed (PissBUH) was obsessed with French kissing boys and girls: there are no less than 20 Islamic sources-such as the hadiths of Ahmad bin Hanbal- that Muhammad used to suck on the tongues of boys and girls” A hadith relayed by Abu Hurreira describes Muhammad sucking on the tongues of his cousin (and future caliph) Ali’s two boys, Hassan and Hussein. Muhammad sucked on the tongue of his own daughter, Fatima. Muhammad would not sleep until he kissed his daughter Fatima and nuzzled his face in her bosom.

Necrophilia with his dead aunt: now this is obviously a topic that has encouraged the islamic world to react openly and seek to distance itself from this practice. However; the fact remains that the assumption that Mohammed prescribed necrophilia is taken, verbatem, from the Hadiths themselves. The Hadith reads as follows: “I (Muhammad) put on her my shirt that she may wear the clothes of heaven, and I SLEPT with her in her coffin (grave) that I may lessen the pressure of the grave. She was the best of Allah’s creatures to me after Abu Talib“. .. The prophet was referring to Fatima, the mother of Ali.

Muslims have moved fast to attack this translation – some asserting that the Hadith is highly questionable whilst others prefer to restrict their arguments to translation of the Arabic being incompatible with such a pious man as Mohammed.

The Arabic scholar Demetrius explains : “The Arabic word used here for “slept” is “Id’tajat,” and literally means “lay down” with her. It is often used to mean, “lay down to have sex.” Muhammad is understood as saying that because he slept with her she has become like a wife to him so she will be considered like ,I “mother of the believers.” This will supposedly prevent her from being rormented in the grave, since Muslims believed that as people wait for the Judgment Day they will be tormented in the grave. “Reduce the pressure” here means that the torment won’t be as much because she is now a “mother of the klievers” after Muhammad slept with her and “consummated” the union.” Some websites will claim that Id’tajat means only to ‘lie down’. Assuming for a moment that this argument is to be accepted, why would the apostle of allah deem it necessary to ‘lie down’ in the grave of his dead aunt beside her? Irrespective – the word is as much used for innocent ‘lying down’ as it is a reference to sexual intercourse. By way of example the French for ‘will you lie down with me’ is synonymous with ‘will you have intercourse with me?’ Critics will be swift to point out that the koran was not written in French and this we can readily grant them, but if we are to assess the meaning of a term objectively, as so many of the islamic ‘scholars’ demand, then an objective assessment

Muhammad (PissBUH) fondling Aisha during her ‘Menses’- (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 6, Number 298-300, Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 1, Number 0270)

Muhammad liked to have intercourse with Aisha and his other wives when they were menstruating (Sahih Muslim, Book 003, Number 0577-0579)

Muhammed loved to recite the Quran when his wives were in Menses while lying between their legs!-(Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 6, Number 296), (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 93, Number 639

Muhammed had an insatiable sexual appetite: Aisha said: “Whenever Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) wanted to fondle anyone of us during her periods (menses), he used to order her to put on an Izar and start fondling her.” `Aisha added, “None of you could control his sexual desires as the Prophet (ﷺ) could.”

Sahih al-Bukhari 302
In-book reference	: Book 6, Hadith 7
USC-MSA web (English) reference	: Vol. 1, Book 6, Hadith 299

Muhammed would recite the koran at Aisha’s crotch while she had a period: Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 6, Number 296:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
“The Prophet used to lean on my lap and recite Qur’an while I was in menses”

Frankly the list of sexual incidents associated with Mohammed just goes on and on. Above is little more than a brief synopsis of some of these. What the reader is left with is clear evidence that Mohammed occupied himself with infintisimal detail surrounding sexual topics. He appeared to be consumed with these issues and made decisions and declarations relevant to every aspect of vagina management and sexual relief. So involved he was that even Aisha has been cited as criticising the apostle of allah, remarking how allah’s wishes seemed to so often replicate Mohammed’s own desires. That Hadith is regarded by many objective readers as a sarcastic comment of Aisha’s. Again of course muslims will tell you that the Hadith we refer to merely confirmed how close Mohammed was to allah and how well he knew the wishes of his lord and of course what an utterly perfect fellow he was himself.

Now we started this post with the Blackstone. We appear to have taken a lengthy and somewhat convoluted route through the mindset of this apostle of allahs. The reader is forgiven for wondering what are the associations. In summary, it is hard to say. But here we have an apostle of allah consumed with sex and sexual perversions. At the center of the sphere lies Mecca, the so called home of allah (god), revered by all muslims. The religion of islam explicitly forbids homage to idols. But at the far eastern corner of the most revered islamic symbol (the kaaba) lies a stone, set in a frame, shaped like a vulva or vagina. Every muslims dreams of kissing this stone, just as their messenger of allah supposedly did. Islams degenerate attitude toward sex and particularly the sexual freedoms of women needs no recitation here. So why are all muslims, so keen to pop their heads into this giant erect vulva and kiss this stone?

Many have pointed out that the silver vulva frame is a relatively new addition. It does not date back to the days of the apostle of allah. That is of course true. Anything of such value would have long ago been pillaged. But again – of all the designs available to the curators of this landmark, why does the most important symbol in islam resort to being a vagina?

 

The Eternal Universe

Whilst managing the Facebook page I recently came across this banner posted on another page. It stumped me for a moment, made me do a double take and literally took the breath out of my lungs. A bit of an over-reaction you might think. But not really, hear me through on this and then judge:

Clearly I am not religious, that goes without contention. I don’t sit and admire the magnificence of all that god has allegedly created and the religious concept that life is ‘so magnificent and varied’ that only a god could have created it, does not move me at all. Indeed I tend to subscribe to the precise opposite Darwinian theory, so wonderfully excerpted by Richard Dawkins in his book, that the sheer magnificence, complexity and extent of life itself points to nothing other than Natural Selection.

Many a clear night I will be mesmerised by the sky. I can spend an eternity just prostrate admiring the wonders of the twinkling stars above us, preferably on a warm sand beach with a Cuban cigar to keep me company. I have had the honour of having viewed the universe from many desirable and truly wonderous locations and the most recent and perhaps one of the most memorable was when I stopped for a well needed break after 17 hours of driving on an Arizona highway, at about 1am last Thanksgiving. I actually stopped for a call of nature and a smoke because my passengers, despite being asleep, were moaning about my smoking in the rental car. But as I emerged from the vehicle, with it’s engine slurping into sleep mode as it’s headlights swooned out of life, holding by bladder with one hand and scrambling for my packet of ciggs and lighter with the other, I was struck with the most astonishing sight I had ever seen. The universe above me, invisible with the headlights of a car running, called my attention to itself in awe. Words cannot describe the view. I melted and fell to the dusty Arizona ground where I lay, forgetting about my urgent call of nature and, immersed myself in the light of eternity shinning down from every angle; light that was billions of years en-route and which had chosen this moment to fill my eyes with awe.

I thought to myself then, as I have always felt, the magnitude and enormity of the universe is frankly unimaginable to an open mind. To a mind closed by scripture it is impossible to appreciate. What holds us back from comprehending this immense space is nothing other than the restrictions of our own minds, limited by size, thought and earthly preachings. Think, for a moment, of the biggest thing you can think of and then multiply that by a billion and then multiply that by another billion and then keep doing this and never stop. The universe is eternal and utterly without limitation. it has existed forever and will exist forever. If ever there was a god to which we should kneel and pay reverence it is the universe for it is the source of all that is and the energy of all that has even been. A cavern of endless magnificence and darkness, interspersed with life of all forms. An eternity would not be long enough to visit every planet and an eternity would not be long enough to learn everything that there is to learn about the universe.

Statisticians and mathematicians as well as scientists and philosophers have demonstrated that without doubt the question of whether life exists elsewhere other than on our planet can only be answered in the affirmative. To assume otherwise is merely to ignore the magnitude of the endless possibilities. The human mind is a strangely configured assessors of chance and one that is susceptible to indoctrination and self-absorbed imagination. Every day millions of humans scurry to purchase lottery tickets, believing that they stand a reasonable chance, equal to that of any other person, of scooping the jackpot. But few of these mortals acknowledges that statistically, for a person aged 50 or over, their chances of dying before the lottery even takes place is significantly higher than their chances of winning the jackpot. To beat those odds, a 50 year old player would need to buy his lottery ticket 30 seconds before the lottery closes for the draw. Yet that fact and those odds and infinitesimal in recognition by every player. This state of mind is combination of indoctrination (mainly by the lottery organisers), self-righteous desires and resistances and of course my personal favourite, blind faith. It is a fabulous example of the restrictive size of human thought. The imposition of limitations, barriers and cognitive embellishment. Yet that same mind which cannot perceive this infinitesimal chance similarly can be clouded by other belief systems. Beliefs in Deities, sun gods, ghosts, afterlife and evil. Beliefs in external adjudication of righteousness, repayment of obedience, and limitations of cause and effect. Beliefs that within the realms of their miniscule existence within the perimeters of their infinitesimal personal universe, they are in some way, chosen, revered, blessed or favoured. Beliefs that for some reason, my life, my body, my feelings, are on some manner more valuable, tender or needy than those of another being. These are the thought processes that lead to wars, genocide and hatred. The thought processes that lead to oblivion and retardation of humanity.

Yet to step back from this genocidal insanity and for a moment, only for a moment to kneel before the force and power of the universe, every human, no matter creed, colour or faith, will feel the overriding and exulting power of that energy called eternity. Our civilisation is a mere momentary lapse in the enormity of the universe and of no significance whatsoever. The eradication of our planet would be no different than the eradication of an ant mound in a desert of ant mounds stretching from earth to Neptune.

To imagine and perceive that a god was interested in arguing over a hilltop in occupied Palestine is frankly – ridiculous. Nothing created the universe because something that has no beginning and no end needs no creator. The universe will still be here, squillions of years after all gods have died and probably after all humanity has vanished from our tiny little wet planet.

The Goldilocks Zone

Theists believe that life originated on earth and that this was created by god and god alone. It is an interesting and frankly extremely self obsessed concept. To come to terms with the concept consider the following for a moment or two:

It is estimated that there are between 1 billion and 30 billion planets in our galaxy alone. It is also estimated that there are about 100 billion galaxies in the universe. In order to make this exercise as simple as possible we will knock a few naughts off the calculation and work on the basis that there are a billion billion planets in the known universe.

Now assume that the origins of life or the development of DNA is truly an unlikely event. This is the concept at the heart of the theory of Darwinian Evolution. Assume that life and DNA development is so improbable that it could arise in only one in a billion of these planets. On this calculation and with these totally absurd odds, life would therefore have developed and exists on at least one billion of these available planets. Now that is an incredible number of planets to ponder with odds that are frankly atrocious. To take it in context, if a doctor was offering you treatment for an illness and told you that it has a one in a billion chance of helping you, would you consider that treatment as hopeful? Assume the opposite, the same doctor tells you that with your illness, you have a one in a billion chance of dying early! Are you worried about dying early now? Any reasonable person would answer ‘no’ to both of these proposals by the medic. However when this statistical abstraction is viewed on the basis of available planets in the universe then the chances of life existing is far and beyond in excess of 100%.

Perceive the above in context that we human mammals tend to have a huge imagination problem; namely we have trouble perceiving. Not long ago as a civilisation we believed that the earth was flat. Now, despite the Hubble telescope and the immense advances of science, we have difficulty in perceiving quite how insignificant our planet is in the universe. Yet so many still persist in following texts written by cattle herders more than 1400 or 2000 years ago rather than pure scientific and mathematical fact staring them in the face.