I'm a normal average Muslim woman. I may not follow some of the teachings but my faith is always there. Islam is a religion of rational and logic, that's why my faith is still with this religion. And i thank God for blessing me with a brain that is able to think, understand and question logically.
I came across this degrading video where a man attacks and make fun of Islam. I was really pissed off by this video because it's filled with lies. Right now, i'm trying to control bad words from coming out from my mouth but i just want to say this is a brainless fat ass bastard. I'm attacking this person in his personal capacity and i'm not attacking the religion that he's currently profess to. I've always believe that people make the religion bad because any religion is not bad. It's our human nature (some of us at least), enjoy making fun of other religion and at the same time take pride in our religion. There's no problem in being proud of our religion, but we are not suppose to attack and use vulgar words about other religion, that's DISRESPECTFUL.
P/S : i just realized that i can't post the video here... it's only available on facebook...
So i'm gonna counter attack whatever this bastard said about Islam because i don't want any person who watches this video, get the wrong impression about Islam :
1. He converted out of Islam?
He said "kami org Melayu". So i presume that he is a Malay and used to be a Muslim so that means he converted out from Islam, a.k.a MURTAD. Aside from that, he can read al fatihah in arabic.
As you are aware of, those who converted out from Islam will have to be killed after warning him 3 times. I don't know whether this is stated in the Quran or otherwise but initially i think this was kindda harsh, does this mean Islam is forcing you to remain in the religion when you don't want to?
Over time, it came to me that some of these "murtads" can be dangerous people. Like this fat bastard for example. He converted out of Islam, started preaching about how Islam is fake or evil or whatever. He made fun of his previous religion. And whatever that is said by him are LIES. You degrade Islam with lies. And you don't think such people deserved to be killed?
Then the Lina Joy example. A Muslim who wanted to convert out and demand that her IC which shows she's "Islam" be removed. She went PUBLIC with this, attracting media. This is indirectly trying to tell other Muslims you can convert out of Islam and it's ok, just be brave in fighting those who oppose your conversion. First of all, if you want to convert, convert. Don't try to give ideas to people to convert and you give such idea by going public and thru media.
If really you don't want to be a Muslim, then don't do whatever a Muslim does. You don't have to pray like a Muslim, you don't have to believe in Allah, you don't have to tell people you are a Muslim if people asked. I'm not encouraging or telling people how to convert but if you want to save your sorry asses, don't go public. In addition to that, i don't see why you need to go public with your conversion and you know very well conversion out of Islam is wrong.
2. Al Fatiha
He said the al fatihah says "tunjukkan kami ke jalan yg lurus" a.k.a "show us the right path". His argument is that Prophet Muhammad read the same thing, so if he reads the same thing, and he doesn't know where is the right path, how can he lead the people? Truthfully, you don't have to be a Muslim to counter this argument. It's common sense.
Firstly, the Prophet Muhammad is like a normal human being like the rest of us, he eats, sleeps, breath and definitely pray to God. The difference is that he's gifted and he's chosen to be a Prophet and has a duty to guide the people to the right way.
Like i said earlier, he's a Muslim like the rest of us. He's not God. Of course he needs guidance from Allah too. He's not Mr Perfect because if he is, he don't have to submit himself to Allah. He's being H-U-M-B-L-E. All of us have to be humble and submissive to Allah. You are praying to God for him to always put you on the right path. Is that wrong? Again i tell you, we believe that Prophet Muhammad is a prophet and NOT A GOD.
3. POLYGAMY
He continues to attack Islam by saying Islam encourages "zina" when Prophet Muhammad can have up to 23 wives. He said "isterinya sampai 23". First of all, from what i've read, he has 12 wives. So where did this obese monkey get his facts? Did he simply want to make it 23 to make it sound MORE DRAMATIC, knowing very well the Prophet didn't have that many wives.
And he didn't marry all 12 together at one time because Islam only allows you to have 4 wives at the same time. I'm not gonna elaborate long on polygamy and briefly, this is what i want to say. He married old women, he married widowed women, he married some women for political reasons. Unlike Muslims men now a days, Prophet Muhammad didn't marry out of lust. While married to Khathidjah, he didn't marry another woman until she passed away. And that was like what, 20 years plus?
4. PEDOPHILE
So the insults continue calling the Prophet a pedophile because he married Siti Aisyah when she was 6 years old. However, the marriage was only consummated when she was 9 or 10. Some said she was 15.
Some argue that women back then are matured and it's a norm to marry young. I don't know. But really, if he was a pedophile, all of his wives should be that young right? Why would he marry old women and widows? Really, i don't know how physically and mentally mature a woman can be when she's 10 years old back then.
5. THOU SHALL NOT KILL and JIHAD
"Bunuh satu orang Kristian, dpt .... di syurga". I couldn't hear the word he mentioned but basically he says if you kill a Christian, you are guaranteed heaven.
I have read some parts of the Al Quran. I can point you some parts when the Quran states have mercy on your enemy and threat your captives right but i've mentioned this in my previous blog. Killing is only justified when a person threatens Islam. Is it wrong to kill in the name of religion when someone wants to harm you and your religion?
Islam don't tell Muslims to simply kill the non believers. Only kill when they pose a threat. You would kill someone who threaten your family right? The unfortunate part is that some of those who commit Jihad now a days don't do it the right way. They kill innocent people. Thus this caused Islam to be looked as a religion that promotes terrorism. I have a lot of arguments on this but won't mention it here because it will make the blog longer. My previous blog entries have mentioned and justified this matter. I remember blogging bout this when some idiots attack and called Islam a religion of terror and supposedly show some verses in the Quran indicating Islam supports violence. What these evil people did is that, they only show you certain phrases of the Quran that may look like Islam support violence but had they shown the whole paragraph, it explains the justification and when can you only do it.
6. DOGS
Muslims are not afraid of dogs. We don't look at dogs as disgusting creatures. However, i've come across some Muslims who are just being over dramatic with dogs, calling them "binatang jijik" a.k.a disgusting animals. Seriously, i don't know what's disgusting about dogs. Cockroaches are more disgusting.
We are not allowed to touch dogs when it's WET. That's the rule.
7. ANGELS
The guy go on to say that "pelita" needed to be lighted 7 days before Hari Raya, "Malam 7 Likur", "malam turun berkat". And without the lights, the angels can't see, so no blessings from the angels. What BS is this?
Again, i'm pretty sure the Al Quran didn't mention anything about "pelitas" because as far as i'm concern, the lighting of pelita is just a Malay tradition or culture. You want to make fun or tradition and culture? Traditions and cultures have weird activities or activities that may not seem reasonable and this is not just limited to the Malay. Every race has their own tradition and culture and whether it's weird or funny, that's subjective.
This is a question of tradition and culture, not religion. People these days gave mixed their traditions and cultures into religion and thus creating some kind of confusion. In Islam, we can continue our Malay culture as long as it's not against the teaching of Islam.
8. HAJJ
I'm not that sure about what are the practices or what people do when they do hajj, but maybe after this i shall ask my parents. So i can't argue much on this point.
The guy said that the black stone called Hajaru-l-Aswad, rudely saying it shapes like a "woman's vagina", is like some time of "reborn stone" where people put they head in and take it out and sins are forgiven. I copy and paste a part of an article i obtained fro wikipedia on this matter :
They attempt to kiss the Black Stone seven times, once for each circumambulation of the Kaaba, emulating the actions of Muhammad. In modern times, large crowds no longer make it practically possible for everyone to kiss the stone, so it is currently acceptable for pilgrims to simply point in the direction of the Stone on each of their circuits around the building. Some even say that the Stone is best considered simply as a marker, useful in keeping count of the ritual circumambulations (tawaf) one has performed. Its black colour is deemed to symbolise the essential spiritual virtue of detachment and poverty for God (faqr) and the extinction of ego required to progress towards God (qalb).
This is what i know : Your sins are not forgiven by doing some kind of rubbish acts. it's up to Allah to forgive or not to forgive you because only Him can see what's truly in your heart. You can doing an act where people tell you if you do it, your sins will be washed away but that doesn't mean your heart is clean or you genuinely repent.
9. CONCLUSION
Sometimes there are Muslims who do things which Islam in fact didn't ask them to do. But they think if they do something EXTRA, it will be better. So they add in a few things, thinking oh, if i do that, i get more blessing or if i do this longer, God will love me more. Some Muslims simply go over broad, like jihad being given the image of terrorism.
Another example is "Purda", the thing where you cover your whole face except for your eyes. It's unnecessary and Islam never require you to do that. The purda is a culture doing. Islam is not that restrictive. That's what happens when you blend culture with religion, it tends to become something else, something that might be even more difficult to do, or something that may look ridiculous.
So if you don't understand Islam, don't simply accused Islam having crazy and illogical practices. And really, use your bloody head to think before you choose to say something.
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