Islam Is NOT A Religion Of Peace And You Better Believe It

This ‘religion of peace’ fallacy was to make it easier to ‘market’ the religion. But only Christians and Muslims do this false marketing. The Jews do not pretend that Judaism is a religion of love and peace. They take your land by force and kill you if you resist. That is what Judaism, Christianity and Islam are really all about — about conquest and domination. 

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Different people have different definitions of Islam. Many try to give the impression that Islam is a religion of peace and whatnot. Cabinet member and Pakatan Harapan cum Amanah leader, Mujahid Yusof Rawa, has also defined Islam in the Malaysiakini news report below.

At the end of the day, Islam is not what you say it is, but by what you practice. While the 27 Bibles of the New Testament define Christianity as a religion of love and peace, the 40-50 Bibles of the Old Testament have an entirely different and opposite definition of Christianity.

The Jesus Movement (much later called Christianity) was founded on the resistance to Roman occupation and was actually militant in nature and not about love and peace

Some Christians will argue that Christians follow the New Testament Bibles and not the Old Testament Bibles. Hence the violent form of Christianity espoused by the Old Testament no longer applies while the love and peace version of Christianity as espoused by the New Testament does.

That is not true one bit. The New Testament does not tell the stories of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, etc. — the 46 books of Catholicism, 39 books of Protestantism or 50 books of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Why do Christians believe the story of Adam and Eve, the story of Noah, the story of Moses, the story of Joseph, plus the many other stories from the Hebrew Bibles? All these stories are from the Old Testament Bibles and not from the New Testament Bibles.

Muslims and Christians will continue to fight until one of them is wiped out

That means Christians DO believe in the Old Testament Bibles and not just in the New Testament Bibles. Hence Christianity is NOT a religion of love and peace but a religion of violence and war. And in this same spirit, so is Islam, which basically follows the Old Testament.

To understand the three Abrahamic faiths, you must first discard your denial syndrome and call a spade a spade. For more than 2,500 years the Abrahamic faiths — starting from Judaism, and then Christianity, followed by Islam around 1,000 years after Judaism — were about war, conquest and domination.

In the Old Testament, God orders us to cleanse this earth (or ethnic cleansing) by totally annihilating the enemies of God. Gays must be exterminated, every last one of them. Idol-worshippers must be exterminated. Those who reject God must be exterminated. God rains death on entire cities. God floods the world so that every last creature dies.

There is only death and destruction if you defy God

Kill! Kill! Kill! That is the message from God. And good Muslims follow God’s command.

Yes, there is some element of love and peace. But it is love and peace for fellow Jews, fellow Christians, or fellow Muslims. Muslims call each other ‘brother’ or ‘sister’. But Muslims DO NOT call, say, Hindus or Jews, ‘brother’ or ‘sister’. In fact, Muslims believe Jews are cursed by God. And yet Abraham, the father of Islam, was a Jew, as was Jesus who Paul ‘converted’ to Christianity — after he died a Jew.

This ‘religion of peace’ fallacy was to make it easier to ‘market’ the religion. But only Christians and Muslims do this false marketing. The Jews do not pretend that Judaism is a religion of love and peace. They take your land by force and kill you if you resist. That is what Judaism, Christianity and Islam are really all about — about conquest and domination.

So what Mujahid said in the Malaysiakini news report below is utter nonsense. He is just trying to market Amanah and Pakatan Harapan as a so-called moderate or liberal party to the Chinese and Indians. “Political parties that make use of religion or race are no longer relevant today,” said Mujahid. In that case that would make Islam also no longer relevant today.

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(Malaysiakini) – Parties that use race and religion as their raison d’etre are no longer pertinent, says Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department for Religious Affairs Mujahid Yusof Rawa,

“Political parties that make use of religion or race are no longer relevant today. I stress the words ‘make use of’,” said the Amanah lawmaker in an interview with Malaysiakini.

“It’s not that I reject Islam. But Islam is broad – it’s not about whether it is used by a (political) party or not,” he said when asked about his views of certain parties, including PAS, that are viewed as extreme in wanting to step up religious punishments for offences.

The Parit Buntar MP and member of Pakatan Harapan’s maiden cabinet said it is a misunderstanding that Islam is solely confined to party concerns.

“Islam is a way of life, it is faith. If Islam is only for a party’s interests, and they use Quranic verses to shore up the party’s claim it represents Islam, that is a misrepresentation,” he said, adding the religion’s scope goes beyond just politics.

“We have to take Islam beyond politics. Islam is not partisan but is one of the major principles that guides us through life, including worship, way of life, nationhood, laws,” said Mujahid, the son of former PAS president Yusof Rawa.

A former PAS lawmaker, Mujahid and the party’s moderate faction quit the Islamist party three years ago after they were completely obliterated from the top leadership in a heated party election and formed Amanah.

PAS’ ulama leadership has since taken to routinely attacking Amanah over the latter’s Islamic credentials, particularly in the run-up to the May 9 general election.

‘Islam as friendly, not fiery’

Asked about religious extremism in the country, Mujahid said the country needs to produce more preachers who understand Islam as a universal religion of peace.

In fact, he intends to create a guide for preachers who want to speak in mosques or in public spaces, so as not to spread hatred in the course of their service.

“For me, this is a challenge I am forced to face.

“That is why we will introduce a contest for preaching and cultivate preachers or group leaders among ustaz and ulama who can forward the idea of ‘rahmatan lil alamin’ (universal peace) so

that there is no room for extremism or Islamic terrorism.

“We want an Islam that is convivial, not confrontational,” he said.

Mujahid said while our ustaz’ standards may be high and they may be knowledgeable, they have to moderate their preaching methods and avoid using religious agencies “with the aim of hate

politics, racial tension in the name of religion, in the name of fatwa that are extreme.

“I will tackle this, insha-Allah,” he vowed.

Shiites are ‘M’sians too’

When asked whether Shiite adherents would enjoy protection from the new government, Mujahid said they have rights too as Malaysians.

Nevertheless, he asserted the country practices Islam in accordance with the Sunni school.

“Each individual has the right to choose his or her religion. This is enshrined in the constitution. Each citizen has freedom of religion.

“The country’s official religion is Islam in the constitution and there is freedom in its practice. Clauses about freedom of religion (in the constitution), I cannot deny those rights, (and) within that context.

In Malaysia, Shiites are considered adherents of a “deviant” sect. They are barred from promoting their faith to other Muslims but are free to practise it themselves.

“We adhere to the Sunni school of law, according to the teachings of Imam Syafie,” said Mujahid.

“Beyond that framework on (the practice) of Islam, whether the Shiite teachings conflict with Islam, that is an intellectual debate. As Malaysian citizens, they (Shiite adherents) are still entitled to that freedom.

“Unless they commit crimes that threaten the country’s stand on Islam, then action would be taken against that.”