14 July, 2008
Muslims believe that if your income is dirty or illegal then you can cleanse it by paying 2.5% of this income as tithe (zakat) and then you use part of that money to perform the pilgrimage in Mekah and you will come home as sinless as a newly born baby -- and that is why many Muslim leaders all over the world are corrupt, Malaysia included.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
People of the book believe that all God has to do is say ‘be’ and so it shall be. People of the book believe that from God we come and to God we shall return. People of the book believe that nothing will befall us that God does not wish will befall us. People of the book believe that God will not change our destiny unless we first take steps to change our own destiny.
Yes, there are many beliefs that people of the book are supposed to believe. But people of the book do not really believe these beliefs. Yes, they are supposed to believe these beliefs, but they do not. It is all lip service meant to make them feel good about themselves and meant to make them look good to others. It is not only meant as a show, it is also a self-hypnosis exercise meant to give them the comfort of believing that they believe what God has ordained they believe and therefore they are destined for heaven.
People of the book believe that they are right and all others are wrong. People of the book believe that God has chosen them to walk down the right path and has chosen all others to walk down the wrong path. People of the book believe that you are not empowered to choose the path in which to walk as God will decide which path you shall walk and while He has opened your heart into choosing the right path, He has closed the hearts of all others so that they walk down the wrong path.
People of the book believe that God is fair, just and merciful. People of the book believe that God has chosen the minority to go to heaven while He will throw the majority into hell. People of the book believe that only they have been selected to go to heaven while all others have been selected to go to hell. People of the book believe that heaven and hell is all up to God and He chooses who goes where.
People of the book have many beliefs, the most important of all being: I am right and all others are wrong. People of the book believe that they are special because God has handpicked them to go to heaven while he has handpicked all others to go to hell. People of the book believe that it is their job to save the souls of all the others so that they too can join them in heaven. People of the book believe that it is nevertheless futile to try to save the souls of all the others because all the others will not listen to reason, or agree to logic, or open their hearts to the truth -- but it is their duty to try anyway.
Muslims are one branch of the people of the book. Muslims also believe what people of the book believe. Muslims further believe that their religion means submission. Muslims therefore ask you to submit to God. And Muslims believe that if you submit to God then you will go to heaven. But Muslims do not really know what submitting to God means. Muslims believe that submission means to dress like Arabs and to perform all sorts of rituals in body, although there is absolutely no presence of mind.
So, Muslims judge you by your dressing and as to how frequent you perform your rituals. The more Arabic you look and the more time you spend off from work to perform your rituals, the more respected you will be. Many Muslims even believe that if you sleep in the mosque in-between the different prayer times you will be blessed by God.
Muslims will be very careful about observing the taboos of their religion. They will refuse to eat pork or eat in a restaurant that sells pork even though they don’t fear kissing another person who eats pork on the lips with their tongue deep inside that person’s throat and will enjoy performing oral sex on a pork-eater.
Muslims will not want to drink liquor or eat anything that may contain alcohol even though they don’t mind that their salary comes from tax earned from import duty on liquor or from taxes from pubs, discos, massage parlours, karaoke joints, brothels, gambling, lotteries, money-lenders, and other activities banned by Islam.
Muslim men and women are not supposed to shake hands with people of the opposite sex who are not their close relative or spouse but they have no problems accepting bribes as long as you utter the word ‘ikhlas’ -- which means ‘sincere’ -- when handing over the bribe.
Muslims believe that if your income is dirty or illegal then you can cleanse it by paying 2.5% of this income as tithe (zakat) and then you use part of that money to perform the pilgrimage in Mekah and you will come home as sinless as a newly born baby -- and that is why many Muslim leaders all over the world are corrupt, Malaysia included.
Muslims believe that if you rape and murder 99 children and then repent -- and then die soon after repenting without undertaking the 100th rape and murder -- then your sins will be forgiven and you will go to heaven as long as your repentance is sincere.
Muslims believe that all Muslims, even bad Muslims, will go to heaven as long as you do not deviate from the true teachings of the religion while all non-Muslims, even good non-Muslims, will go to hell -- even if they believe in the one God and submit to God just like the Muslims.
Muslims believe that had they been born in China to Buddhist parents, or in Sweden to Christian parents, or in India to Hindu parents, they would still be Muslims because God has chosen them to be Muslims and that it has nothing to do with the fact that their parents happen to be Muslims and that this is the only reason they also happen to be Muslims.
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