GainPeace, an enterprising Islamic organization in Chicago, has found a way to use coronavirus to promote Islam in the United States. The activist organization is a leading dawa (Islamic proselytizing) group that has placed billboards which sponsor a message from the prophet of Islam about health precautions. Excellent timing during the COVID-19 pandemic, but dangerously deceptive.
The overly simplistic advice is essentially good and in keeping with modern health standards. But many Muslim groups and pro-Islam spokespersons like Dr. Craig Considine are twisting it to advocate for Muhammad’s divine knowledge about health issues.
Dr. Sabeel Ahmed, GainPeace director, is a prolific public speaker and apologist for Islam. He has made the organization a pace-setting advocacy group for Muslims, and a dynamic promoter of Islam in the USA.
GainPeace and Dr. Ahmed are determined to find views that modern Western audiences respect and apply them to add credibility to Muhammad as a prophet. Coronavirus billboards around Chicagoland, sponsored by GainPeace say: “Coronavirus, Muhammad advised: Wash hands frequently, Don’t leave infected areas, Don’t visit infected areas.” It is reasonable, albeit rudimentary information, something your grandma would have said.
Noteworthy is that Muhammad’s words are taken out of context. The prophet of Islam was urging his followers not to flee from Allah’s punishment, and accept it by staying in the infected town.
Twisting scriptures to serve his purpose is not something new for GainPeace director. Dr. Ahmed has before published online videos that extol the wisdom of Muhammad’s medical guidance as a means to acclaim the Prophet’s role as the spokesperson of Allah; the Creator.
Religious zealots of any religion are susceptible to bias, which leads them to make absurd claims. In the West, Muslims who are practicing Dawa are often extreme examples of this.
Unfortunately, GainPeace and Ahmed are attempting to make credible the terrible idea that Muhammad is a trusted source for modern medical guidance. This would not be a matter of concern except that it also raises Muhammad’s medical views to the level of divine guidance. Therein lies the danger.
For example, Muhammad mistakenly thought that water was always healthy and pure. No exceptions. A Sahih (authentic) saying of Muhammad clearly makes such bad advice:
“I heard that the people asked the Prophet of Allah: Water is brought for you from the well of Buda’ah. It is a well in which dead dogs, menstrual clothes and excrement of people are thrown. The Messenger of Allah replied: Verily water is pure and is not defiled by anything.”
In a second example, based on a hadith report that is considered sahih (authentic), Muhammad prescribed camel urine as a cure. In light of the present COVID-19 crisis it is hard to even recall the 2012 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) issue, but at the time, MERS was a viral respiratory illness new to humans. First reported in Saudi Arabia, it spread to several other nations, including the U.S.A. The World Health Organization repeatedly cautioned Muslims to not drink camel urine, which in the view of many Muslims went against the medical advice of Muhammad.
Both the authoritative compilations on hadith Al-Bukhari and Muslim record this event:
“Some people from the tribe of `Ukl came to the Prophet and embraced Islam. The climate of Medina did not suit them, so the Prophet ordered them to go to the (herd of milk) camels of charity and to drink, their milk and urine (as a medicine). They did so, and after they had recovered from their ailment (became healthy).”
This recommendation for camel urine, as so-called Prophetic Medicine, is still a live issue in Muslim-majority societies. Proof is a 2018 Newsweek article that reported on the Muslim religious leader Bachtiar Nasir drinking camel urine.
This is what makes Dr. Ahmed’s promotion of Muhammad as a legitimate source of medical expertise so unsafe for American Muslims. We must not encourage a pseudo-scientific promotion of Prophetic Medicine. While the GainPeace billboards give practical advice, they are taken out of context, and readings of sahih, would draw Muslims to dangerous behavior. Posting them to promote Muhammad’s medical insight is not just irresponsible but deadly.
Darrell Pack is an Arabist and an Illinois’ Islamic Reform Forum Board Member
RichardL says
Since allahists today avoid soap and it wasn’t used when pedo-Mo supposedly lived, I suppose we all should wash our hands with air and sand as most allahist do for their pre-headbanging “wash”. You can’t make up the idiocy and infamy of allahists…
darrellpackglobal says
Richard L. stupid doesn’t bother me: I am from Chicago. It is the way they endanger others lie and cover up evil intentions that irritates me.
sweetolbob says
Ooooooh Yeah ! I agree ! All you muslims ae protected by Allagh . (P’tooie)
Don’t pay any attention to the infidel health guidelines ! Keep on licking door knobs, icons, and toilet seats. That’ll show ’em by golly ! And don’t forget to drink your Camel pee !
Wellington says
Even a stopped clock is right twice in a 24-hour period but this in and of itself would be no reason to think that such a clock was a good clock, an accurate clock, a clock worth having.
darrellpackglobal says
Wellington, you are entirely correct. Now I will sell you that clock and it only costs you your freedom of conscience, of religion and speech. Any takers?
Boromir's Horn says
There’s a billboard in Chicago by “gainpeace.com” (laughable in itself) that declares
“Did you know that Prophet Jesus is mentioned about 25 times in the Quran and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is mentioned more than 20 times in the Old and the New Testament of the Bible?”
Really? So Muhammad actually invented and was the first to use the hot tub time machine?
FYI says
muhmmed{PBUh,actual Prophecy Be Unknown to him}couldn’t possibly be in the Old Testament ….or the New Testament.
That is a filthy islamic LIE.
1]muhammed was a mass murderer of the Jews,the Children of Israel
{Abu Dawud 4390}
Now,what would a murderer of Jews be doing as a prophet in the OT?
No true prophet of YHWH could ever be like the immoral obscenity that was muhammed{ who even ADMITTED he was a false prophet al tabari 6:111}
2]Even the koran insists the prophets must be from the Children of Israel
{koran 45:16}
muhammed wasn’t from the Children of Israel:so laughably,the ‘holy’ prophet does not qualify as a prophet according to allah’s own criterion in the koran.
3}ALL Biblical prophets are Jewish.This is because “It is from the Jews that salvation comes”[John 4 v 22}according to Jesus Christ.
Thus,by the Bible’s criterion{as well as the koran’s}muhammed was not qualified to be a prophet
4}In a way muhammed and his kind are referenced in the Bible
Deuteronomy 18:20 The fate of all false prophets was to be killed.
muhammed was killed:he preached al lah,a false Arab god who is NOT YHWH of the Bible.
As for the muslim Jesus “isa”?
dawa folk insist this is Jesus speaking.
“Lo!I am the slave of allah .he hath given me the scripture and appointed me a prophet”
Koran 19 v 30
what the dawa liars don’t tell you is ..that’s an INFANT speaking in a crib as is clear from the context k19 v 23-30
{the previous line says ,when visitors come to visit “They said:how can we talk to one who is in the cradle,a little boy”}
So you see this gainpeace.org are LIARS as they do not tell you the truth!
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim organization called “Gian Peace” isn’t telling the people of telling the people of Chicago the While story.
For according to the Quran it’s Allah, the god of Islam ,who is the responsible for that starting and continuing the plague of coronavirus
What a cruel andvicious god, Allah is.
For when getting down to basic Quran theology which is the Quran based worldview the one who is really to blame and is responsible for the coronavirus plague is the god of Islam ,Allah. For according to the Quran Allah had sent cruel disaster of coronavirus on human beings .
This means then the god of Islam, as if he really does is a destructive and malicious god. For the Quran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Quran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.”
Therefore according the Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran the Islamic god, Allah, is guilty of infecting people with coronavirus What a cruel vicious, malicious god Allah must be. So Allah is than a very unloving malice –filled god.
Nevertheless, all Christians and Jews shout not lose faith and heart in the God of the Bible as vicious by sending coronavirus on people.
This is because the god of Islam is should be made clear that the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “
Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.”
In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible. The words in brackets are my
own. In addition other some other books that expose this little known truths are WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G..J.O.. Moshay also UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner and THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey . There is also PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett and ANSWERING JIHAD by Mabeel Qureshi
darrellpackglobal says
Walter Sieruk, Good points. That is all important theological information . Thanks. i am going to keep pointing to Gain peace until I can show that in their religious zealotry they are complicit in promoting overtly anti Semitic figures they are not about peace unless it is thru domination of non-Muslims.
gravenimage says
Chicago: Muslim organization touts Muhammad’s directives as safeguard against coronavirus
………………
How shameless are Muslims? The fact is that overall Muslim hygiene is appallingly poor, and Muslims have been refusing to use hand sanitizer and have been spreading the Coronavirus far and wide.
But they will never miss an opportunity to lie for their foul creed.
OLD GUY says
Gainpeace.com now there a joke coming from the most violent religious group ever. What a great play on words coming from the islamic/muslim hate machine. Next thing you know they will be telling us that the Holocaust never took place and that Hitlers Nazi storm troopers where the boy scouts of Germany.