Islam Commands You to Kill All Those who Dare to Criticize Islam

A publisher from London, Martin Rynja, decided to publish the book “The Jewel of Medina”, which resulted in his apartment being set on fire. The Jewel of Medina is a novel written by American journalist Sherry Jones and it speaks about Aisha, the child wife of Muhammad. The child wife and Muhammad’s paedophilic leanings spoken about in ahadith have long been tender issues within the Islamic world, because of the thought incorporated within the Five Pillars of Islam that Muhammad himself was a perfect man and every Muslim has to try to follow the example set by him.
[ An example about the paedophilic leanings of Muhammed within the ahadith can be found from Bukhari 6:298 ]

Previously the book has been published in Serbia, but because of the pressure from the Muslim community the book was withdrawn from the markets. In the America the publishing company Random House left the book unpublished because the publication of the book could result in worse threats to security than what had resulted from the Danish Muhammad cartoons. Of course the fear is not completely unwarranted, because the theology of the Islamic faith commands to kill everyone who insults the prophet Muhammad.

The matter is expressed in the Qur’an 33:57 the following way; "Lo! those who malign Allah and His messenger, Allah hath cursed them in this world and the Hereafter, and hath prepared for them the doom of the disdained". Later in the same Surah after the Surah has commanded women to veil their faces, the verse continues about the subject by describing the punishments themselves; “They have incurred condemnation wherever they go; (unless they stop attacking you,) they may be taken and killed. This is Allah's eternal system, and you will find that Allah's system is unchangeable."

The most important ahadith concerning the subject can be found from the hadith collection of Bukhari. Bukhari 59:369 deals with a Jewish poet, Ka’b bin al-Ashrafi, who was sentenced to death by Muhammad after the poet wrote verses which Muhammad deemed offensive. In turn Bukhari 4:241 tells that after Muhammad had taken the control of Mecca back to himself all those who insulted Muhammad were murdered. The practice has survived thru time in the same form. For and example in Pakistan the mocking of the prophet, Allah or Qur’an yields either a death sentence or imprisonment for life.

In Islam a fatwa is an religious opinion about the Islamic law issued by an Islamic Scholar or a religious authority. The same theology that is behind the Pakistani law or the murders in the Mecca was behind the fatwa given by Ajatollah Rudollah Khomeini in the year 1989 concerning the murder of the writer Salman Rushdie. Rushdie’s crime was that he had written a book called “The Satanic Verses”. As the book’s name suggests, one of the things the book spoke about were the so called “satanic verses” found on Qu’ran. These are the verses where Muhammad by accident happens to affirm three other deities, Allat, al-‘Uzza and Manat, besides Allah. After the publications of the Satanic Verses and the fatwa concerning the murder of Salman Rushdie a wave of slaughter and blackmail was committed by Muslims. Afterwards an assassination attempt on Rushdie’s life and threats made to him got Rushdie insincerely to convert to Islam so the Muslims would spare his life.
[ An article about the consequences of the fatwa concerning the murder of Salman Rushdie. ]
[ A commentary about the Satanic verses of the Qur’an. ]

Do you know what terrorism is? Terrorism is to use violence, crime and destruction to create an atmosphere of fear. The purpose of this atmosphere of fear is to get people to act in a certain way or to get people to leave something undone which they otherwise would do because of the fear of becoming a victim of violence, crime and destruction. The idea of the Islamic terrorism is to silence and submit everyone who dares to criticize Islam or its prophet. This Islamic intimidation is active in the Finland also, though in practice the Finnish media doesn’t speak about it. For an example the name of the Finnish translator of Robert Spencer’s book “The Truth about Muhammed – the Founder of the Most Intolerant Religion in the World” was completely left out from the book.

The solution to the problems that result from Islam is not silence and pretend “toleration” and the hope that Islam will experience some kind of a reformation or enlightenment of its own. The solution isn’t either to label the critics of Islam as racists, neo-nazis or hillbillies. The only solution to get to the problems is to talk about the problems openly. To make something holy means that that thing can no longer be criticized. However; if the very problem is in these holy things, then they should be and ought to be criticized.