Neocon bait from the Netherlands on Qur'aan
Mike Ghouse, January 20, 2008
The old Banker of Great Britain had written laws on
how to get rid of bad torn up currency; he called it
Gresham’s law - which states "Good money will chase
bad money out of circulation".
Muslims can learn from this law - the only way to
kill a bad idea is to float good ideas on the
market. I am writing this is in response to a ten
minutes documentary made by Geert Wilders; a Dutch
lawmaker, and it is billed as “a ten-minute film
exposing the horrific passages of the Koran.” This
is expected to be aired on January 25th. All hell
may freeze over and may this day pass without any
incidence.
First of all, the horrific pages they are referring
to are misunderstood verse, rather mistranslated
verses. It is our duty to produce answers for this
error and produce equally good documentaries to
present the truth. We must avoid the temptation to
preach or teach, but simply present it as
information for people to review. Let people make up
their own minds.
The moderates, who make up the majority of any
people, should
not expect the hard core Neocons to read this
documentation or even see a documentary should it be
made. Neither their counterparts, the Muslim Neocons
will see their documentary either. Both are trouble
makers, their duel is messing the peace loving
majority of Muslims, Christians and others. We need
to speak up.
The movie is produced with the evil intention of
maligning Islam and agitating Muslims. It is going
to test the mettle of Muslims. Let's not fall prey
to this bait. Indeed, let's thank these guys for
making a big deal about it, as it gives us the
opportunity to present the truth in the open market,
at least some will see it. If we do nothing positive
about this event, shame on us.
Here are a few opening thoughts that we can enrich
and modify to make it work in the best interests of
humanity and peace.
1. The Imams can deliver sermons asking
people to follow the Prophet's example, where he
prayed for those who pelted stones at him. Truth is
far more important than the job and the people will
always support the truth. Let the few who scream,
keep screaming, it is time to discipline those
cranky babies.
2. The goodness has to spread faster than
badness and our Imams can bring about this change in
a short period of time, but it is the responsibility
of each Muslim.
3. Our Imams ought to take a personal
interest in making at least 5 calls to the imams
they know overseas and let that multiply. I do know
that every Imam in America and Perhaps Canada is a
peace maker, but we cannot say that about some of
the Europeans and others.
4. Our Imams can turn the tide around and
become the peace makers; i.e., mitigating conflicts
and nurturing goodwill.
5. The Mosque administrators can distribute
fliers and constantly talk to those few, just those
few extremists whose head does not comprehend peace.
6. It is in our interest and interests of the
world of Islam to put the extremists behind bars.
That is what Islam is about, peace making.
7. It is rather shameful to be in a position
of defending, let's fix our rascals and get out of
our defensive mode.
8. May Allah give us the guts to take firm
stand against extremism?
9. May Allah drain the fear of rocking the
boat and embolden us to speak out the truth.
10. May Allah drain the fear of them bad
boys, in reality they are chicken crap, and we can
stop them by simply speaking up. Quote the Qur’aan
to shut them up. Qur’aan does not support them.
11. Produce documentaries showing the truth
with the intention of gaining the viewers to
consider another version, rather than preaching or
missionizing (Dawa) as it would be counter
productive.
12. Lastly, each one of us needs to monitor
any kind of extremism. All it takes is one idiot to
make the lives of 1.5 Billion Muslims miserable. We
should do our struggle to contain these elements
that would be our good deed.
Please share this message with other Muslims. Every
day those ugly Neocons are bombarding the airwaves
with their propaganda, and our Neocons are giving a
life to them. A majority of the general public does
not believe those liars, but each passing day, they
are gaining believers.
You and I need to do our share of goodness, and that
is to check the growth of extremists’ thoughts,
actions and words. We cannot expect peace, unless we
are prompters of it.
*The word Neocon is
used to represent extremists in all faiths, cultures
and races.
We have begun the process of addressing those verses
at
Qur'aan-information tab at
http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/ . Insha
Allah, the 14 misrepresented verses addressed
in the documentary will also be explained under the
title "Geert
Wilders misunderstands Qur'aan"
on this website.
Jazak Allah Khair
Speak up, silent no more®
Mike Ghouse
http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/
Good for Muslim and Good for the world.
By Grant Swank
Koran's Verses via Dutch Film
December 04, 2007 12:00 PM EST
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/29496.html
Geert Wilders, Dutch conservative lawmaker, has made
a ten-minute film exposing the horrific passages of
the Koran.
Per AP Wilders refers to the selected verses as
“’fascist.’”
He does not fear being slain, claiming 24-hour
protection.
Theo van Gogh, film director, made “Submission”
available for public viewing. It was a “fictional
study of abused Muslim women with scenes of
near-naked women with Quaranic texts engraved on
their flesh.”
Theo van Gogh was murdered—shot with throat slit by
a Muslim extremist. His body was discovered on an
Amsterdam street in 2004.
“Prominent Muslim critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who wrote
the (van Gogh) screenplay, was threatened in a note
left on Van Gogh's body. She now lives under
round-the-clock protection in the United States.
“Wilders plans to depict parts of the Quran he says
are used as inspiration ‘by bad people to do bad
things.’
“Less than 10 minutes long, the film is expected to
air in late January.
"It will show ‘the intolerant and fascist character
of the Quran,’ said Wilders, whose anti-Islam
campaign helped his Freedom Party win nine seats in
parliament in last year's election.
“In the past, Wilders has said that half the Quran
should be torn up and compared it with Adolf
Hitler's book ‘Mein Kampf.’ He has claimed the
Netherlands is being swamped by a ‘tsunami’ of
Islamic immigrants.”
In other countries, there are those sympathetic with
Wilders’ point of view. There is grave concern on
the part of persons enjoying democracies that
infiltration of extremist Islamic lifestyle,
especially that built upon the sharia so-called
justice system, is a real-life real-time deadly
threat to civility.
Numerous persons who have researched the Koran
verse-by-verse have concluded that the general
public in the main is ignorant of the Allah-dictates
that threaten civility. This ignorance is evident
when uninformed individuals still refer to Islam as
a “peace religion.”
When taking the Koran seriously as divine
revelation, a superficial review of the Koran’s
extremist verses is not what meshes with
democracies.
A sample of extremist Koran verses includes the
following:
Surah 9: Repentance
1. Give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful doom to
those who disbelieve. 3
2. Slay the idolaters wherever you find them. 5
3. Don't let idolaters tend the sanctuaries. Their
works are in vain and they will be burned in the
Fire. 17
4. Give tiding of a painful doom to Christians and
Jews. 34
5. If you refuse to fight, Allah will afflict you
with a painful doom. 39
6. Disbelievers go to hell. 49
7. Those who vex the Prophet, for them there is a
painful doom. 60
8. Those who oppose Allah and His messenger will
burn in the fire of hell. 63
9. Allah promises hypocrites and disbelievers the
fire of hell. Allah curses them. They will have a
lasting torment. 68
10. Fight the disbelievers and hypocrites. Be harsh
with them. They are all going to hell anyway. 73
11. Allah will afflict disbelievers with a painful
doom in this world and the Hereafter. 74
12. For disbelievers there will be a painful doom.
90
13. Don't pray for idolaters (not even for your
family) after it is clear they are people of
hell-fire. 113
14. Fight disbelievers who are near you, and let
them see the harshness in you. 123
Concerning the Dutch situation, AP reports:
“Immigrants from Muslim countries number about 1
million of the country's 16 million people.
Wilders informs the media: "’I will make the film
and see what reaction it creates.’"
Read "Dutch lawmaker planning film criticizing the
Quran" at
www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=8512622
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:15:59 -0600
From: imranr
To:
imam@xxxxmasjid.org;
yzk@xxx.com
Subject: Dutch film on Quran
CC:
saifkhanxx@hotmail.com;
txnaexx@gmail.com
Assalam-o-alaikum,
May this email find you in the best of health.
I have received this email below concerning a 10
minute film that will be airing in late January.
We thought about producing a film, in order to
counter it. Our film will be distributed online,
though various video portals and possibly on
television. After producing American Ramadan, we
have established several contacts all over the
world. I think this is an opportunity for us to
counter this film with a film of our own.
We would like to get your valuable input in this and
we would like to have both of you involved in this
project.
The link below provides excerpts from the Quran in
which will be used in the film makers video.
Obviously, he will use it out of context and distort
it as much as possible.
Please let us know when would be the best time to
arrange a meeting.
Thank you,
Imran
On Jan 19, 2008 5:28 PM, saif khan
wrote:
Assalamu alaikum
One more film to start a new crises. Can the
responsible leaders of the world and the Heads of
Muslim countries take any action so the general
public will not take things in their hands out of
frustration.
salam
saif khan
Dutch PM appeals for restraint over Koran film
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter
Balkenende appealed for restraint on Friday over a
yet to be screened film in which a right-wing
populist lawmaker plans to lay out his view of the
Koran.
Balkenende said it was unclear what Geert Wilders --
a politician whose anti-Islam comments have led to
death threats -- would say in the film, but there
were concerns in the Netherlands and abroad.
"The Netherlands has a tradition of freedom of
speech, religion and beliefs. The Netherlands also
has a tradition of respect, tolerance and
responsibility. Unnecessarily offending a certain
belief or group has no place in that," Balkenende
told a news conference in The Hague.
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende is seen
addressing the 62nd United Nations General Assembly
in New York in this September 27, 2007 file photo.
Balkenende appealed for restraint on Friday over a
yet to be screened film in which a right-wing
populist lawmaker plans to lay out his view of the
Koran. (REUTERS/Eric Thayer/Files)
"A free and unhindered debate, and respect in
dealing with each other flow from both traditions,
and the cabinet shall uphold both traditions and
calls on everybody to do so."
Dutch public broadcaster TROS said the movie was
expected to be shown on Jan. 25, but it was unclear
on which TV station. A film made by a high-profile
critic of Islam for Dutch television has a
disturbing precedent in the Netherlands.
Three years ago an Islamic militant killed film
maker Theo Van Gogh over his film "Submission",
written by former Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi-Ali, in
which she accused Islam of condoning violence
against women.
The murder unleashed a violent anti-Muslim backlash
and forced Hirsi-Ali into hiding.
The Volkskrant newspaper reported on Friday that the
government had prepared a 20-page document dealing
with potential threats to public safety if Wilders'
film is screened.
The document also deals with the evacuation of Dutch
embassies, the paper said.
(Reporting by Niclas Mika)
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