The Quran Is Their Box

This just caught my attention from one of Pastorius’s postings of Will’s Links:

Top Islamic Scholars Say Jews and Christians Know Islam Is True, Purposely Removed Muhammad from the Bible.

I thought about writing a comment to it but it became too long for a comment so I am posting it as an article here. Enjoy.

This is what Mohammed said too (and all the caliphs and muftis that followed).

According to different sources, Christians and Jews changed the Bible and removed references to Mohammed because 1) They didn't want to stop eating pork 2) They wanted to keep on fishing on the Sabbath 3) They wanted to keep on committing adultery 4) They just didn't want to accept that an Arab was the chosen one. There are other dumb reasons also, of course, but these were the only ones I could think of off the top of my head. My Muslim thinking is getting rusty

Muslims also claim that the Bible forbids the drinking of alcohol and even Gentiles are not allowed to eat pork. Muslims, on top of all this, claim and wholeheartedly believe that even though Christians and Jews have worked together in history (imagine that!) to blot out Mohammed from the Bible, there are still references to him scattered in there (eg. Dueteronomy 18.18).

Now, as a Muslim, the only reason I actually picked up (or downloaded, rather) the Bible was to find references to Mohammed in there (according to Sura 7.157, Mohammed is mentioned in the Torah and Injeel [a corrupted Arabic word for the Greek euangélion]. Not only did I download the Bible and consult different Imams and scholars on what specific verses there were about Mohammed in the Bible that still survive to this day, I also read the Bible cover to cover to actually see for myself whether these verses were what they were hyped up to be in the ummah!

Well, guess what. Reading the Bible made me lose faith not only in Islam but also God, or rather god, because all I knew about the supreme being was from Islam, the supreme being that you can’t really get to know on a personal level and if you try to or claim to know him, then you have committed blasphemy (note: I am not talking about Sufiism here. No one really cares about Sufis. I am talking from a Sunni perspective).

I think my only mistake when I read the Bible to look for Mohammed was that I did not switch off my brain and become a dummy who yells “May Allah's Curse be on the Jews and the Christians for they build places of worship at the graves of their prophets” (this is what Mohammed said right before dying. Compare that with what Christ said. And also consider this: Today, his own followers take pains to go to Medina, where he’s buried, to just look at his grave and be able to touch the golden bars (prison!) that are there to stop people from entering the grave area and touching the grave itself [A funny story about that: So, the Jews wanted to steal Mohammed’s body and they had actually dug a tunnel from Israel {I believe} all the way to Medina. They were so secretive and successful {them Jews!!} that they had got the body and were taking it out. But at the last minute they got caught {hahaha! Allah embarrasses the sneaky Jews every chance he gets. Allah! The greatest of deceivers…hey, that’s in the Quran} and were publically executed], guess Mohammed’s cursing his own people too now).

Anyway, so I didn’t turn off my brains and just walk in the footsteps of 1.3 billion idiots that sing the same songs and recite the same mantra. Three years after I read the Bible for the first time and lost my faith in everything, I converted to Christianity (to join the Jews and the Christians in this conspiracy of hiding the truth and committing adultery and fishing on the Sabbath…yup, I’m big on fishing, look at all the fish in my backyard!!) and a year after that I wrote a tiny book explaining how stupid it is to think that verses like Deuteronomy 18.18 talk about Mohammed and reason that I gave that it was stupid was that, um, no these verses don’t talk about Mohammed. Just read the goddam context!

So to wrap it up, I am not really surprised by that comment by Muslim scholars. It actually makes me feel kind of at peace to know that they still haven’t changed and we are still fighting the same idiotic people that we were fighting when I joined this fight.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention the following Hadith (Bukhari Vol.2, No. 555):

Narrated Ash-sha'bi:

The clerk of Al-Mughira bin Shu'ba narrated, "Muawiya wrote to Al-Mughira bin Shu'ba: Write to me something which you have heard from the Prophet (p.b.u.h) ." So Al-Mughira wrote: I heard the Prophet saying, "Allah has hated for you three things:

1. Vain talks, (useless talk) that you talk too much or about others.

2. Wasting of wealth (by extravagance)

3. And asking too many questions (in disputed religious matters) or asking others for something (except in great need).

(The writings in parentheses are additions by the translators and not in the original text.)