Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims

The Radical Muslims of Germany

"Jews are the enemy of Allah," declared Ismael Gharaballi during a recent service in a mosque in Bielefeld, Germany. "This is not only my belief, but also Allah's conviction," the Palestinian imam and Hamas activist declared, waving his Koran in the air. The congregation of about 200 thundered, "Allahu Akbar!"

 

Then Gharaballi turned to another page in the Koran and read,

"… and kill them [he explained this to mean unbelievers, especially the Jews] wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you" (Surah 2, verse 191). "What are you waiting for?" he cried. "Allah Himself is telling us kill them. No peace can be made with the Jews."

After the prayers, I approached Gharaballi in the cafeteria of the mosque and asked him if he was serious about what he had preached. "Of course, I am. This is not any book. This is the word of Allah." Then I asked if he would kill a Jew here in Germany. He answered: "Yes, especially those Israelis who are occupying Arab land." I reminded him that this would be murder and for that he would land up behind bars. Ismael retorted angrily: "I don't care. The Koran is our law and constitution and anything else is just rubbish." Referring to Hitler, Ismael told me: "The man was a hero, almost a Muslim. I'm one of his fans."

Gharaballi is not unique in Germany's three million-strong Muslim community. Ibrahim el-Zayat, the head of an extremist Munich-based organization called The Islamic Community of Germany, told a meeting of fellow Muslims last month: "It is still premature to strike against the Jews and infidels in this country. However, at the lecture at a community center in Neukoeln, Berlin, which I attended, but where no media reporters were allowed access, he went on to assert: "But sooner or later we will strike against the enemies of Allah and Islam. We have to wait. Many Germans are converting to Islam, especially friends from the NPD [a neo-Nazi party]." When I asked a German reporter to verify this by calling el-Zayat, the latter denied having ever said such a thing.

El-Zayat was born in 1968 in Marburg, Germany, to an Egyptian imam and a German mother. He owns a construction company and receives huge sums of money from the Saudis to build mosques in Germany and in other European countries. He is an aggressive Muslim fundamentalist and has connections to various Islamists and terrorist organizations across the world. He is currently being prosecuted in Germany for supporting radical organizations.

El-Zayat is typical of most Muslim activists in Germany. In their schools and community centers, Muslim organizations incite hatred and violence against Jews and Christians. In public, however, and before the media, they deny preaching violence. El-Zayat, Gharaballi and the majority of radical Islamist imams, and officials of Muslim organizations receive big honorariums from the Saudis.

According to a study by Bielefeld University, over 30 percent of the Muslims living in Germany are radicalized. They reject the German Constitution and hope to establish shari'a Islamic law.

Many German politicians, in particular in the Green Party, often attribute radicalism among Muslims to social problems and lack of integration in German society. For all these problems they blame the German side. Former foreign minister Joschka Fischer stated, in an interview with German radio station WDR earlier this year, that Muslims should be left alone to believe and act the way they please. "Other religions are not more liberal than Islam."

The German Home Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has met with heads of Muslim organizations and Islam experts several times over the last two years, the latest was in March. I attended all these meetings. The heads of Muslim umbrella organizations tell the German government that they and their members accept the German Constitution. Back in their communities they preach hatred and violence. In mid-April, the German police raided the properties of a dozen Muslim extremists and arrested nine of them. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. The German media and the public appear to be wary of antagonizing Muslim radicals. Very few media reproduced the Mohammad cartoons published in Denmark and they downplayed the recent anti-Islam Fitna film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Radical Islam inculcates in impressionable young minds verses from the Koran that are incompatible with modern values and human rights, such as inciting hatred towards Jews and Christians. Dalal, a 15-year-old girl who attends a Muslim school in Ulm, was proud to tell me that her teacher told her not to greet non-Muslims. It is haram (forbidden), she said. The radical Muslims also emphasize those passages that discriminate against women and incite violence against those who practice freedom of religion and speech.

Christianity and Judaism also have passages in their holy scripts that are incompatible with human rights. But most Christians and Jews simply ignore these passages, consider them archaic, and instead apply more humane and rational ones. Most Muslims ignore the more liberal passages that do exist in the Koran.

The majority of Muslims in Germany are peaceful people. Radical Muslims are a minority. But this minority dominates. They are in key positions in the community and control mosques and organizations. There is no hate-crime law in Germany. The German government should enact such a law, like the one against Holocaust denial, making it an offense to incite to hatred and the violation of human rights. •

This article appeared in Jerusalem Post on 18 May 2008.

 

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Dr. Sami Alrabaa, an ex-Muslim, is a sociology professor and an Arab/Muslim culture specialist. Before moving to Germany he taught at Kuwait University, King Saud University, and Michigan State University.

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Name: this alone tells the difference
Date: Thursday October 16, 2008
Time: 08:15:10 -0700

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between The Bible and the cult book: "Christianity and Judaism also have passages in their holy scripts that are incompatible with human rights. But most Christians and Jews simply ignore these passages, consider them archaic, and instead apply more humane and rational ones. Most Muslims ignore the more liberal passages that do exist in the Koran." It also shows the differences between the "religions" and how jews/christians have evolved and those that follow this cult have not. And that is one of the hallmarks of a cult: not evolving but to stay stagnant.


Name:
Date: Thursday October 16, 2008
Time: 08:24:33 -0700

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The author says "Most Muslims ignore the more liberal passages that do exist in the Koran". They ignore them because once Mohammed became powerful his 'more liberal' passages no longer suited his new role as a successful warlord so he abrogated them...he abolished them. So Muslims are allowed to ignore them without being hypocrites. Isn't Islam convenient! Well done Dr. Sami Alrabaa.


Name: qwer
Date: Thursday October 16, 2008
Time: 13:25:57 -0700

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"Most Muslims ignore the more liberal passages that do exist in the Koran" Aha ... LIBERAL PASSAGES ... I really search for very long time in the Koran! Would you tell me where I can find it?


Name: Dear Dr. Sami Alrabaa
Date: Thursday October 16, 2008
Time: 19:57:32 -0700

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For God sake, you call your self a Doctor? Ismael Gharaballi only said Zionist are are the enemy of Allah. Do you know why he said that my learned friend? If the Editor only highlights my reply the world will know the truth. If the Editor realy wants to get to the bottom of this. Well the reason Ismael Gharaballi only said Zionist are are the enemy of Allah as the Zionist not the jews are Killing Children ,Houses of the Palastinians are demolished If violence escalates, you bring seeds and water for terrorism. You kill someone's brother or mother, and you will just get more crazy people. So my learnered friend do you atleast now know why? Please be good to reply if you have any guts!


Name: Germany should not meet the fate of india.
Date: Thursday October 16, 2008
Time: 23:27:19 -0700

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Germany should not meet the fate of india. Soon germans must save their motherland. otherwise they will not only loose their mother land but their language ,culture and even heritage. Islam is mind virus which causes mental slavery and irrational hate to kaffirs


Name: ha ha ha .....
Date: Friday October 17, 2008
Time: 02:43:18 -0700

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It is through people like that the Islamic governments from the Middle Mast are trying to build a hegemony of Islam around the world. The only way to stop it is by banning moslem people to enter western countries, no matter which country they are from. Letting them enter your country, is like letting a hungry wolf enters your home. Soon it will eat everything in your house, including you and your family. Remember, Islam/Moslem has no ethical human values, only murders and terrorism and lusts, ha ha ha .....


Name: ha ha ha .....
Date: Friday October 17, 2008
Time: 02:50:15 -0700

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Most of Moslem countries has oil as their economic strength. But it will lasts only several decades more. After the oil is spent, there's nothing for them left as a means to stay in prosperity. If, only if, the non-moslem countries pay tax to them (Jiyza), then they can go on living, but it should be supported by strong military forces. Exporting dates will never be enough to feed their people, ha ha ha .....


Name: Lists of enemy's of allah is too long
Date: Friday October 17, 2008
Time: 08:13:55 -0700

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Lists of enemy's of allah is too long. in this lists there are animals, imaginary saitan, jews, chriatians, idol worshpping hindus of india, shinots of japan, music, women ............long.


Name: from Qwer to Dear Dr. Sami Alrabaa: ISLAM IS RELIGION OF PEACE
Date: Friday October 17, 2008
Time: 18:23:37 -0700

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Yes I fully agree 100% with you. ALL OF ISLAM'S TERRORISM IS CAUSE BY JEWS AND ZIONISM! .... Budha Bamiyan and Borobudur Temple's blasted .... conflict in Filipina .... Patani Thailand .... beheading monks and 3 girls in Thailand and Indonesia .... again Hindu Ayodhya India .... churchs blasted in Christmas 2000 in Indonesia .... Yazidi blasted.... bomb blasted everyday in Iraq and Pakistan everyday .... massacre in Moskow and Beslan kindergarten.... Xinjiang's separatism .... on sooo manyyyyyy .... ALL IS CAUSE BY JEWS!! Islam (Quran-Hadis-our Prophet PBUH is no tolerate killing other peoples except JEWS, right?


Name:
Date: Saturday October 18, 2008
Time: 06:25:14 -0700

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It it thought provoking that not only the Jews are the enemies of Muslims, but all non-Muslims. See chapter 3 in www.1000mistakes.com.


Name: To Dr. Sami Alrabaa
Date: Saturday October 18, 2008
Time: 06:59:20 -0700

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Will you please pinpoint exactly the verse in the Bible that you referred to as incompatible with human rights?


Name: Dr. Sami Alrabaa
Date: Sunday October 18, 2008
Time: 07:59:20 -0700

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Reply to commenter above:

REJOICE WITH THEM !!
[Prov. 5:18]
REJOICE WITH THE WIFE of your youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; LET HER BREASTS SATISFY YOU AT ALL TIMES.
[Song. 8:8]
We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when is spoken for? I was a wall, and MY BREASTS WERE LIKE TOWERS.

WOMAN'S VEIL IN THE BIBLE
[1 Corin. 11:5]
But any woman who prays and prophecies with her head unveiled dishonors her head - it is the same as if her head were shaven, for if a woman will not veil herself then she should cut off her hair. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her wear a veil. JUDGE FOR YOURSELVES; is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
WOMAN IS NOT THE GLORY OF GOD
[1 Corin. 11:7]
For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man, for man was not made for woman, but woman from man, neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

REMAIN SILENCE!
[1 Tim 2:11-14]
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

SILENCE IN CHURCHES
[1 Corin 14:34]
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to
speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

WOMAN IS EVIL !
[Zech. 5:7]
The leaden cover was lifted, there was a woman sitting, and he (the angel) said: this is wickedness.

GOD MAKES PEOPLE FALL IN ADULTERY
[Amos 7:16]
God said to Am-a-zi'ah "You say, prophesy not against Israel and drop not your word against the house of Isaac?
Thus the Lord says: YOUR WIFE SHALL BE AN HARLOT in the city and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword."
[Jer. 8:9]
They have rejected the word of the Lord. Therefore I WILL GIVE THEIR WIVES UNTO OTHERS.
[Jer. 13:22]

"For the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts discovered, AND YOUR HEELS MADE BARE. I will discover your skirts upon your face, that your shame may appear I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings the lewdness of your whoredoms."

HIDE WOMAN'S VOICE !
[1 Corin. 14:34]
The woman should keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says. If there is any thing they desire to know let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
[1 Timo. 2:9]
Woman should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire but by good deeds.
WOMAN FOR THE MAN
[1 Corin 11:5-10]
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovereddishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels."

HOW TO RESCUE HER HUSBAND
[Deut. 25:11]
When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have not pity.
MARRIAGE BY FORCE !!
[Deut. 25:5]
If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be marries outside of the family to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go into her, and take her as his wife.
WHAT IF HE REFUSES ?
[Deut. 25:7]
And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate of the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel.. Then the elders of his city shall call him.

And if he persists.. Then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot, and spit in his face; and shall answer and say: So it shall be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house. And the name of his house shall be called in Israel THE HOUSE OF HIM THAT HAD HIS SANDAL PULLED OFF.
UPRIGHT WOMEN!
[Eccless 7:26-28]
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare....while I was still searching but not finding, I found one upright man among a thousand but not one upright woman among them all".
KILL WOMEN, CHILDREN, ANIMALS !!
[Ezek. 9:5]
And the Lord said, "Go through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have you pity. SLAY UTTERLY OLD AND YOUNG, BOTH MAIDS AND LITTLE CHILDREN, AND WOMEN.
[Num. 31:1]
And the Lord said unto Moses, "Avenge the children of the Mid'-an'ites.. They warred against the Mid'-i-an'ites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slay all the males. And they took all women as captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

Moses said, "HAVE YOU SAVED ALL THE WOMEN ALIVE? NOW KILL EVERY MALE AMONG THE LITTLE ONES, AND KILL EVERY WOMAN that has known a man by lying with him, but all the young girls who have not known a man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.
[Josh 6:16]
Joshua said to the people of Israel, "The Lord has given you the city (of the Canaanites).. all silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: They shall come into the treasury of the Lord. The people utterly DESTROYED ALL THAT WAS IN THE CITY, BOTH MAN AND WOMAN, YOUNG AND OLD, AND OX AND SHEEP, AND ASS, WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD.

KILLING, KIDNAPPING, SLAVERY
[Josh. 16:10]
So the Canaanites have dwelt in the midst of E'phraim to this day, but become slaves to do forced labour. (see also Joshua 17:13 and Judg. 1:30)
[Judg. 21:10]
The congregation of Benjamin sent twelve thousand of their bravest men, and commanded them, "Go and smite the inhabitants of Ja'-besh-gil'ead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones. Every male and every
woman that has lain with a male YOU SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY.

And they found among the inhabitants four hundred YOUNG VIRGINS who had not known a man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp of Shiloh, which is the land of Canaan. And Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Ja'besh-gil'ead, but they did not suffice for them.
STEALING WOMEN !!
And they commanded the Benjaminites, saying:"Go and lie in wait in the vineyard, and watch, if the daughters of Shiloh go out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyard and seize each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh. And the Benjaminites did so, and took their wives from the dancers whom they caught.
KILL THEM AND TAKE THEIR PROPERTIES
[Deut. 20:10]
When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if its answer to you is peace and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it SHALL BE FORCED LABOUR FOR YOU AND SHALL SERVE YOU.
But if it makes no peace with you, then you shall besiege it, .. YOU SHALL PUT ALL ITS MALES TO THE SWORD, BUT THE WOMEN AND THE LITTLE ONES, the cattle and every thing else in the city all its spoil, YOU SHALL TAKE AS BOOTY FOR YOURSELVES; AND YOU SHALL ENJOY THE SPOIL OF YOUR ENEMIES.

 


 
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