Saying No to the Culture of Death

In recent weeks my attitude towards Islam has hardened. I do not think that it needs much imagination to see that as a Catholic I am very upset over the behaviour of the Islamists regarding a remark made in a speech at Regensberg University by Pope Benedict XVI. The remark itself was a quote from a Medieval emperor of Byzantium, and at the time Byzantium was being laid under seige by the Turks (read Muslims). Interestingly, the statement was being made to a Persian interlocuter. The story does not tell much about what the Persian had to say, and Benedict did not add the outcome of the conversation - that the Persian was convinced enough to become a Christian.

The question that was asked: What did Mohammed bring to the world with his religion? It was nothing more than death and violence. This was sufficient to set off a tantrum of rage from the usual suspects. They screamed and shouted, they burned effigies of Pope Benedict XVI and their leaders threatened to kill Benedict. In Pakistan though, the leaders have gone further and have issued a fatwa against Benedict's life. Over what? He said nothing that was not true about Mohammed. It is well known that Mohammed was a murderer, a thief, an enslaver of young boys and girls, and that he was a sexual pervert. There is nothing holy about the former camel driver with the name Mohammed.

I have watched with disgust, the behaviour of adult men and women who have been screaming their obscenities against Christians. I have seen the way that they have insulted the leader of my faith. How dare they think that they have the right to not only insult the Pope but to insult and blaspheme Jesus Christ. I have nothing but contempt for the blasphemers. However, it is a lot worse because these things are nothing compared to the fact that they have threatened the lives of Christians in the Middle East, and at least 5 people have been murdered during this rage. The first was the martyr Sr. Leonalla. The others were Christians in Basra who were killed as they attended their Sunday church service. All this in the name of the false prophet Mohammed (mhrih)

Whilst I will continue to object to any alleged Christian claiming that Muslims worship the pagan moon god, I also have my limits as far as tolerance is concerned. We are taught to turn the other cheek, but that does not mean that we do not have the right to speak out against the injustices that are perpetrated in the name of the God of Islam (Allah is the Arabic name for God, but in Islam there is a false perception about the nature of God). I will always maintain that we have no right to make such false claims about the beliefs of Muslims, for we must respect what is good and holy within the people as a whole.

On the other hand, my internet research has helped to reveal to me even more disgusting things about the false prophet Mohammed. He is well and truly known by his fruits, and as far as I can see the Byzantine emperor asked the right questions about what good has come from what I must regard as a false religion. Islam is first and foremost a political system dressed up as religion. That is why there is such a strong desire for the state to control the whole of people's lives. It is a form of brainwashing and mind control. Yet there is more to be revealed, especially when one sees the abuses that go on in Islamic countries against the women - in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and elsewhere. It is the women who bear the brunt of the excesses of the fanatical Islamics.

Whilst I could detail much about the current abuses against women, I think I want to concentrate upon the behaviour of Mohammed. How is it to be considered holy to have a harem full of "wives" in which to relieve one's oversexed desires? Whilst it is true that even Abraham had more than one wife - Sarah plus Hagar who was the slave of Sarah gave birth to Ishmael, - it is not true to state that such behaviour was totally condoned. There was a need for a primitive people to evolve from such a base level to the point of having only one wife. By the 7th century A.D. it was more common for men to have only one wife, not several. In fact Mohammed claimed that Allah allowed him to have as many wives as he required. Well, I have heard the same argument about Joseph Smith the false prophet who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day saints, and I have heard of more recent examples from the man known as the Little Pebble (another who was in the habit of indulging his sexual fantasies).

No, what really turns my stomach is the further information that I have discovered about the child Ayesha who was married off to Mohammed when she was only 6 years old. She was a child and Mohammed stole her innocence. It is said that he did not penetrate her until she was 9 years old, but even that is well below the age of puberty, and is just not accpetable. However, what makes it even more disgusting, is that even though Mohammed did not penetrate Ayesha until she was 9, he used to "thigh" the child. That means that he used to place his penis between her thighs and rub himself against her. That is a clear case of child molestation. In my view Mohammed was nothing more than a dirty old man and a sexual pervert. There is absolutely no reason for this man to be considered as holy, let alone to even think of him as being a legitimate man of God, or anything resembling a prophet. His behaviour suggests that he was a sexual pervert who was totally undisciplined in sexual matters.

By seeing Mohammed in this light, I find that my attitude towards Islamists has become even more hardened. Where I might give some the benefit of the doubt, I must now admit that I feel a lot more suspicion about the motivation of the men who persist in forcing the women to wear head scarves, veils and all of the other weird get up. Women bear the brunt of the brutality of these men. I am not a feminist, and I can hardly believe that I am so willing to take such a stance against the male species. However, where Muslims are concerned, I make an exception.