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Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Dec 24, 2010 at 08:26

Dr. Pipes: you and Robert Spencer were just great. The difficulty with the likes of Moustafa Zayed, and I really felt sorry for him, is that he is the product of poor Egyptian education and he does not have the tools of critical thinking to examine any issue and provide an answer that can make sense and his basic fatal flaws are the following

1. He is not a historian and his command of islamic theology is either poor or he is making thins up and the little he knows is what the Arabs would call fahlawa or style but no substance

2. He tells us that if the Qur'an and the hadith say so then it must be so and case in point is ayat la ikrah fi al-deen or the no compulsion in religion verse and he does not tell us about the sword verse and in his mind he believes that we will not question him and we will be all saying; Amen! but it is very clear in the Islamic tradition that this verse was abrogated by the infamous ayat al-sayf or the sword verse which is really about: polytheists must either convert to Islam or be killed. As for quoting some hadith about the fact that Muhammad was quoted as saying to treat the Jews and Christians well then this is against what the Qur'an says and against Ibn Taymiyya's rantings about the fact that the Jews and Christians are really polythiests and against what really happened in real history and more damaging to his case is that such hadith is regarded by his tradition as hadith da3eef or not very reliable hadith. And this hadith would be regarded by historians of early islam as an anachronistic hadith that has no value and means nothing

And I'm very glad that Robert Spencer pointed out to him that Ibn Maymun or Maimonides had no regard for Islam but in the mind of Moustafa; If Ibn Maymun wrote in Arabic then he and the Jews must have been well treated by Muslims! Where is the logic here? Well if so then Zakaria Botros and the Copts must have been well treated by Muslims and islam

There is no doubt that the theology in the Qur'an and the hadith is very confusing and you will find, as Patricia Crone had stated: the A but not the A and only Allahu a3lam (only Allah knows) to just about any thing and you might even find some where that Muhammad might have been a British monarchist as was pointed out by some Mullah in London that I do not recall his name

2. He is not a historian and indeed islam is no more than Arabian imperialism and as was pointed out by Crone that the Arabs loved to invade and collect booty, their God told them to do so and these are indeed the reasons for the Arab invasions of the late antique Middle East

3. He does not realize that another basic flaw in islam is that its theology is based on polemics (see Wansbrough's Sectarian Milieu) and this would mean that any form of dialog between Muslims and non Muslims can never work

4. As for the jizya he was trying to justify the absurd and even if we agree with his absurd claim that the jizya is supposed ot be $100 well this is lots of money for many people back then and even now! And to "protect" non Muslims from what? And he also forgot to tell us that the jizya must be paid and the non Muslim must be humiliated. How disgusting

5. And notice also that he did not have any answer to Dr. Pipes points that the in-equality of Muslims and non Muslims and of men and woman cannot be accepted any more

6. Notice that Moustafa was silent about the Hindus and the Buddhists and the atheists

7. As for Rasheed I did some research and he is a star in the Middle East and he has a progarm on Qanat al-haya or life channel and he is watched by millions in the Middle East every Thrusday and it is called Su'al jari' or daring question and he is indeed a convert from Islam to Christianity and he is from Morroco. Notice that Moustafa did not have any replies to Rasheed's well explained points.

8. As for Kunte: He is ignorant and annoying

Dr. Pipes; I would love to see such an exchange between you and Robert Spencer and Tariq Ramadan and the so called shiekh Abdul Rauf

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Sadly, no islam has not been hi-jacked, it is just like the original. [46 words]Phil GreendJan 30, 2013 17:37202981
2The Definition of Hijacking - Cognitive Dissonance or Radicalism as a tragic choice for Muslims [995 words]Michel C ZalaJan 25, 2011 11:58182036
4sooner rather than later [541 words]the Grand Infidel of KaffiristanJan 28, 2011 07:51182036
The Glass Half Empty? [372 words]Michel C. ZalaJan 30, 2011 11:25182036
1Islam has always belonged to extremists! [105 words]B.N.GururajJan 15, 2011 22:38181828
2Muslims should not rest in peace until we have destroyed America and India : Maulana Masood Azhar (Pakistani Islamic Terrorist) [112 words]Rahul VermaJan 30, 2011 04:17181828
1Daisy Khan watch and she will not be the center of attention! poor Farhat I mean Daisy [225 words]dhimmi no moreJan 15, 2011 11:21181819
1things are very rarely as they seem [179 words]the Grand Infidel of KaffiristanJan 15, 2011 20:49181819
5Must reading: "Fatima and the daughters of Muhammad" [371 words]dhimmi no moreJan 18, 2011 06:36181819
5Equivalence to Violent Christianity??? [67 words]DallasDec 29, 2010 14:05181341
2THere is NO violence or terrorism (other than sickos) in ANY religion but Islam [20 words]JimDec 30, 2010 20:09181341
3If Islam is being misrepresented as the problem... [63 words]HomefrontDec 28, 2010 21:58181324
wrong [244 words]havasJan 4, 2011 14:12181324
6It is your islamic sources that say that we kuffar only tell you what your sources are saying so if you do not like it then get rid of them [548 words]dhimmi no moreJan 5, 2011 06:26181324
1no surrender to islamic imperialism [671 words]the Grand Infidel of KaffiristanJan 7, 2011 03:28181324
see you next year [371 words]havasJan 10, 2011 14:42181324
3Turkey, one of the most secular states in the world???? [2171 words]the Grand Infidel of KaffiristanJan 11, 2011 05:46181324
quality of discussion - the opposite maybe true [58 words]mythDec 28, 2010 16:14181321
4Nobody has hijacked real Islam - it is being practiced by Muslims who the Western media calls them as radicals and Islamists!!! [100 words]JaladhiDec 28, 2010 13:40181320
5The strange case of Amir Khadir and I urge the people of Mercier to go out and vote him out [248 words]dhimmi no moreDec 28, 2010 07:51181316
dhimmi's continuous rants against Muslims/Islam [16 words]Khaja QutubDec 29, 2010 19:45181316
1Another victim of Arabian imperialism [207 words]dhimmi no moreDec 31, 2010 07:29181316
Converted ... and islamic cult [124 words]Muslimk***Dec 31, 2010 09:45181316
2no delusion worse than self delusion, none more blind than those who wll not see [108 words]the Grand Infidel of KaffiristanJan 4, 2011 01:57181316
5Extremist islamic cult [74 words]Muslimk***Dec 27, 2010 07:22181288
9The question "Has Islam been hijacked by radicals" itself is invalid. [316 words]RajeevDec 25, 2010 15:05181252
3Yes, wrong question [387 words]Erich WDec 27, 2010 16:49181252
1Islamic nationalism [68 words]Joe Six-PackDec 27, 2010 20:11181252
1Umma means Nation, more or less [112 words]Erich WDec 29, 2010 02:41181252
2Islam and the "Liberal age" [123 words]dhimmi no moreDec 29, 2010 17:48181252
2intercede for what - and how? [52 words]the Grand Infidel of KaffiristanDec 30, 2010 02:58181252
The word umma [137 words]dhimmi no moreDec 30, 2010 07:35181252
2Umma is a Hebrew word, borrowed by Islam [131 words]saraDec 31, 2010 01:33181252
Insecurity [220 words]Erich WDec 31, 2010 02:50181252
7The words Umma, Ummi, Ummiyyun, Om, Umm [982 words]dhimmi no moreDec 31, 2010 14:31181252
Slight correction [11 words]dhimmi no moreDec 31, 2010 14:37181252
Clarification on "too simple" [299 words]Erich WDec 31, 2010 21:56181252
ummaa muslim [5 words]dalaysFeb 11, 2012 10:35181252
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4Very interesting and many thanks to Rasheed [767 words]dhimmi no moreDec 24, 2010 08:26181222
7About Muslim apologists [580 words]Erich WDec 23, 2010 21:15181209
5Rasheed and Father Zakaria Botros [755 words]dhimmi no moreDec 24, 2010 14:35181209
1thanks [114 words]Erich WDec 27, 2010 16:55181209
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3Allah al-makkar [21 words]dhimmi no moreJan 4, 2011 07:08181207
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