I do it for entertainment. But, you’re right, time to stop wasting time on these practioners of takiyya.

God bless

the article reflects the opinion of the writer and who ever agrees to it.

i am a pediatrician , and i thought that i’d find something useful other than the quarrel present over here..
I don’t agree with some points , especially that i have worked with Muslim doctors in their country and there was nothing as preaching or enforcing their ideas to any patient..

yes there are that are deviants who exist , as there are among Christians as well as all the other existing religions, so it isn’t fair to generalize…

ease it down! there are more medical problems to worry about!

Chill!

The hadith is well known. http://www.derafsh-kaviyani.com/english/quraiza.html

I am surprised you donot know of it. Likewise, I know that Mohamed was poisoned by a servant girl at age 61. Jesus died ont he Cross at 33 and was resurrected on the third day and lives at the right hand of God.

The Koran says Jesus is Holy, and born of a virgin. It says Jesus performed miracles. The Koran also tells us that Mohamed was a sinner and didn’t perform miracles. So calling Jesus a potential killer is not Islamic!

If the hadith is wrong, you must confront the Ayatollah Khameini–he’s sort of like the pope of Muslims.

The word racist is wrong. Islam is for all people, so how is being critical of Islam racist? Unless you mean pan-racist– against all races! That’s a silly idea.

Please call me Islamophobe, not in the medical sense, but in the sense that I am 100% against the satanic tyrannical doctrine. But I am also 100% against Nazi-ism and communism and dictators in general, so I am not just picking on Islam. Perhaps call me a tyrannophobe!

Paul, I can tell I must turn this over to Jesus, to enlighten you. You must bear the name of the great Christian saint for a reason! God bless.

I think I know what’s bother you Guy Macher. You think Mohamed is a killer and Jesus isn’t. Well guess what, you didn’t notice that both of their life time aren’t relatively equal. How long do you think Mohamed live? Well how long did Jesus live?

I’m sure if Jesus lived longer than he was, Jesus too would be involved in war. Because what!? Because Jesus is a prophet. That’s what prophets do. NOT TO KILL AND WAR. A prophet’s job is to solve all problems in this world, including war. How come a prophet will settle down all prob, if he even doesn’t know how to war? He must practice all aspect of life including warring.

War is not for revenge or for empire. War is to defend ourselves from the enemy. Maybe the Jews that get killed (as you claimed) were the army of Jews. So that’s what happened in a war. They don’t play poker or scratch each others back. They kill.

Study Islam by heart, not by hate. I guess, maybe you’re the friend of Geert Wilders. That racist thing.

What have I said that is not true? I only used the Koran and the hadiths about Mohamed. If I have made an error please tell me where I went wrong.

I cannot believe that what I wrote is the most hateful thing you have heard about Islam. Did you not feel something on 9/11 or 7/7 or any time Muslim terrorists fire rockets into Gaza? Did you not feel something when a so-called honour killing takes place in the West?

Do you say that Jesus beheaded any one? or raped any one? or raised a sword against anyone?

The hadiths say Mohamed did these things. I am only repeating what Muslims say about Mohamed.

The “Jesus” in the Koran is not the Christian Jesus. We believe He is the Son of God and not a prophet of the moon god , Allah. We believe Jesus was crucified upon a cross and died and rose again to life.

Although the Koran says the Gospels of Jesus are true, it denies His Deity. The Gospels and the Old Testament are at least 500 years older than Islam. And the documents are the same now as when written. They have not been corrupted.

Please, check this out. Jesus wants you to be saved to live for Eternity in Heaven with Him.

I never watch CNN.

You may call me Islamophobic but not racist. Is Islam for only one race? What race would that be? Aren’t Iranians, Caucasians? Do you assume I am not black? Or Amerind?

No apostrophe is used in the possessive third person neuter. Than is used in comparisons.

May Jesus Chirst, Son of God, enlighten you.

Read the Hadiths about Mohamed. His biographers record his treatment of Jews. They say he beheaded them. Or did I misread? If Mohamed respected Jesus, would he kill Jews? Does anyone say Jesus killed people?

If I have misinterpreted the Koran or the Hadiths, prove it. If the Ayatollah Khamenei erred in his writings of permitted sexual acts involving infants and animals, please tell me. I am willing to learn. Perhaps 36 years of teaching physics and mathematics have caused my brain to shrink and I need your fresh brain to show me the error of my ways.

Are the reports of Arab suicide bombers simply made up? Was I dreaming when Muslims near my home town paraded joyfully on September 11th? Did the Arabs turn the Garden of Gaza back to desert, or are those reports lies, too?

Would you have tolerated Hitler? I’m glad my father, grandfather, father-in-law didn’t. My Jewish neighbour is also thankful they didn’t have that kind of tolerance. But perhaps she still misses her family and isn’t thinking straight. Perhaps she hates Hitler too much.

People are people. Very insightful. Which peolpe are dressing up 8 year-old girls in dynamite and detonating them? What is it that you see in your own family that is parallel to that? Do Christians go to heaven for killing non-Christians? I’m not being critical. I am just trying to learn tolerant and insightful.

The Koran verse you allude to, you know the one about Mohamed looking after his neighbour’s valuables, which verse it that? He couldn’t even be trusted with his daughter-in-law. He set fire to a man to find out where treasure was hidden. Sounds too rapacious to trust. And there’s that hadith about him beheading 600 Jews in an afternoon. I know some hadiths say 900, but that would be psychopathic, so I always quote the lower number.

I always write under my Christian and Family name. I don’t want to be controversial, just honest and tolerant, like you, whoever you are.

Made Jesus enlighten you! God bless!

i guess the above comments by other readers of this blog prove that there are religious extremists and people who can hate in every religion. all the rest of us normal people can do is try to give you a good shake and get you to open up your eyes and your minds to diversity. people are people, we are not born to hate. so stop hating.

I don’t have the answers, but they are interesting questions.

Charles

Thank you for your comment on my related post on arabdemocracy.com

You raise very relevant points in your article which echo some of the conclusions in the original report. I am not a muslim myself but your analysis of the role of medical practioners extending beyond their technical abilities to a more pastoral one does not strike me as unique to Islam but common to most societies to different extents including western industrial society until not that long. At the end of the day medical school is competitive, attracts motivated (hopefully talented) individuals generally from privileged backgrounds. All these attributes makes them potential leaders, and some of them do actually decide to use that potential outside their chosen field.

On the issue of why they choose to support fundamentalist interpretations of Islam, that has been a trend that transcends classes, ethnicity and profession. Doctors cannot be expected to be immune to it by virtue of their profession. History shows us that they never have anyway.singling them out deviates us from the real problem at hand.

Joseph El-Khoury
co-editor
Arabdemocracy