It is correct to say that the image of Muslims in the world has been shaken by the crimes that the Islamic State (ISIS) has been committing against innocent people of all faiths while relying on pure Islamic laws and teachings. But the recent terrorist attacks in France and Austria, and the anti-French campaigns then launched in many Islamic countries following the beheading of a French teacher by a Muslim immigrant for showing a caricature of Muhammad, were undoubtedly catastrophic to the reputation of Islam.
Every time the scholars of the Islamic jurisprudence try to use religious texts, whether from the Qur’an, Muhammad’s biography or the Hadith, they find themselves revealing yet another reason why Islamic law is incompatible with the laws of the rest of the world.
In their desperate attempts to exonerate Islam of responsibility for ISIS’ heinous crimes, Muslim scholars unconsciously find themselves revealing more about Islam’s inability to accept others. In some debates, they also uncover a hideous sense of Muslim superiority versus the rest of humanity.
But another challenge Islam faces is the presence of videos which are promoted by Islamic scholars that stir up a sense of ridicule and embarrassment among most of the viewers. Some Muslims have cast doubts upon many Islamic videos that, they say, degrade the moral value of their Prophet. Actually, some reveal repulsive episodes that are full of shameless behaviors by Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam.
To people with common sense, these videos are actually more insulting than any drawing or caricature published in France or elsewhere. Yet Muslims who are aware of these videos do not generally reject them, but rather find themselves trying to justify them by adding some kind of twisted logic that only people with perverted fantasies could accept and contemplate.
In the video below, Sheikh Mahmoud Al-Masry, who has an established presence in the Islamic media, talks about how the Prophet Muhammad used to have sexual intercourse with his nine wives in one hour. He quotes one Hadith that says that “Muhammad would have sex with each wife while bathing after every intercourse and in another Hadith, he would have sex with all of his 9 wives while only bathing once.”
This video is self-explanatory and does not warrant the need to speculate any further about Muhammad’s sex life and his intimacy with his wives.
Nevertheless, many Muslim intellectuals feel that this portrayal of Muhammad, who allegedly was chosen by God and granted a power that no human being had known before, arouses mockery and astonishment. Muslim women, for example, wonder about their rewards in paradise while men are granted all these sexual privileges and power.
In reality, some Muslim women have wondered whether they would have a libido akin to that of 100 women on earth when they go to Paradise, similar to what men are rewarded with. For many, this has been the cause of all kinds of sarcasm and derision of most of what Islam represents.
No wonder some people believe that the rate of atheism is on the rise among Muslims in general and women in particular, mainly among those who are living in the West. Such doubts are augmented due to the inability of Islamic apologists to come up with any logical explanations, regarding a man’s sexual relationship with the so-called virgins in Paradise. These “creatures’ seem to restore their virginity after every time their hymens are torn because of intercourse, as is discussed in this video.
(source: MEMRI)
In another, video, Sheikh Muhammad bin Ali Al-Shanqeeti answers a question from an online follower about “Prophet Muhammad being born already circumcised.” This video portrays Muhammad as someone with supernatural qualities; including the claim that he was born already circumcised, unlike other prophets mentioned in the Qur’an. Another alleged quality is that Muhammad never had wet dreams, and other qualities that could only be perceived by some as the work of a story writer with a hoaxter imagination.
These “special powers or characteristics” are meant to make Muhammad look distinct from the people of his era, while the Qur’an and Hadith mention that he was also subject to skepticism and ferociously rejected by the people of Quraish. Many Muslims see all of this as yet further evidence of how Islam is full of contradictions and illogic.
These videos have been causing intellectual Muslims a growing sense of alienation, if not hostility, towards those Islamic scholars who, they believe, take their intelligence lightly and take for granted their fear to criticize them. For some, it simply contradicts any common sense and makes Muhammad look like a wizard who was a power of witchcraft, rather than what Islam tries to portray him as: God’s messenger with Divine revelations.
But the desperate attempts by some defenders of Islam to taint these sheiks, as they did with ISIS, as having no credibility among Muslims have enriched the debate among them, so that people with sound mind and logic eventually find themselves walking away from Islam.
A growing number of Muslims who call themselves “Illuminati” question the whereabouts of Muslims who shout “Except the Messenger of God” when they think that their prophet’s image has been subject to disrespect. They feel that the portrayal of Muhammad as a stallion or a sexual maniac does not disturb most Muslims, but rather makes them feel proud of being his followers.
Some Muslims feel that they have lost respect, as some of their homelands have lost the peace, safety, and prosperity that they had established for years. Muslims perceive that the fear of Islam or what they call “Islamophobia” will continue to grow in the West, leading to more caution and hostility towards them. This might explain why some Islamic countries desperately try to pass laws that prohibit the criticism of Islam, which also constitutes an attempt to conceal the bellicose nature of Islam.
But these efforts are alerting more people to remain vigilant regarding Muslims in their societies, especially after witnessing their violent reactions to what the rest of the world perceives as the freedom of speech.
Islam has always been in crisis, while the Internet came only to expose its incompatibility and inability to live in harmony and peace with the rest of the world. Preventing any criticism of Islam remains the biggest challenge Muslims face nowadays, while fighting the world in order to subject people and force them to accept that “Islam is a religion of peace” remains their most important battle.
Samir A. Zedan is a former Senior Counter-Terrorism Analyst at the US Department of State, and a former Development Outreach and Communication Specialist at USAID/Iraq. He has contributed to hundreds of articles published in major media outlets with assignments in the Palestinian Areas, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Europe.
Robin Searle says
We should all challenge Islam, it is evil at heart!
mortimer says
The above videos challenge Islam. We need to ask Muslims whether they believe the jihad doctrine of warfare against kafirs and the husband’s right to have slave girls for sex.
Ask Muslims: ‘Am I a kafir?’ (Most Muslims will be embarrassed to answer.)
gravenimage says
Mortimer, I don’t think it is so much that Muslims are embarrassed–it is that they don’t want us to know.
JIMJFOX says
Expose Muhammad as the imbecilic, deranged psychopath that he was.
The ‘perfect man’, the superstud who fathered (how many children)?
Wellington says
Islam cannot withstand anything that functions in the realm of reality coupled with honesty. There is no way a rational human being, possessed of common sense and moral intelligence, can study the life of Mohammed and conclude that he was a good man, let alone the Model Man for all to emulate.
As important as it is to point out all the ridiculous, disgusting and stupid crap to be found in the Koran and other Islamic texts, as well as the awful assessments put forth by every major school of Islamic theology, Sunni or Shiite, if Mohammed alone can be destroyed, Islam will be destroyed.
rooare says
Islam does not allow critique bc it cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas. Islam panders to the base nature of mankind and projects that into it’s hedonistic paradise which unfortunately for them is really hell.
Peter Buckley says
“Have the Internet and online videos become a major challenge to Islam?”
A major challenge? It’s destroying Islam. For the first time in 1400 years, muslims have succeeded in
a) organising themselves in practical terms, to try to ensure the safety of those wishing to leave the cult, with the result that it is become “safer” by the day, and more and more are leaving…
b) organising themselves individually and collectively on the Internet, in order to criticise the faith they were, through no choice of their own, born into.
It isn’t the simple act of individual apostasy that is so destructive to Islam, but the apostate’s public expression of it, and (most importantly) the public expression of his/her reasons for the apostasy. For 1400 years, devout muslims (“Islamists”) have succeeded in “silencing”, by whatever means, apostates. With the Internet, this is no longer possible. Islam is now “out of control”- it resembles more a sate of anarchy rather than a religion. In simple terms, we are now witnessing the beginning of the collapse of Islam back to Arabia, as predicted by Muhammad:
Verily Islam started as something strange and it would again revert (to its old position) of being strange just as it started, and it would recede between the two mosques just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.
http://hadithcollection.com/sahihmuslim/Sahih%20Muslim%20Book%2001.%20Faith/sahih-muslim-book-001-hadith-number-0271.html
The ongoing violence in the name of Islam is proof that it has nothing but violence to offer, and is losing badly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is5xQ0xhGnI
Islam is now a cornered animal, in its death throes, lashing out at anything close at hand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTECBfbUGMI&t=622s
SKA says
One comment in the “Taqiyyah Watch” video did worry me though: one narrator said that the numbers of people leaving Islam was approximately the same as the numbers of people converting to Islam since converts tend to become hyper-zealous this would seem to imply that the remaining Muslim community over time will become ever more fanatical and dangerous as a presence within western societies.
Peter Buckley says
According to muslims themselves, the vast majority of these “converts” leave Islam pretty damn quick:
https://imamluqman.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/seven-out-of-every-ten-converts-leave-islam-by-imam-luqman-ahmad/
https://www.muslimmatters.org/2018/01/10/in-the-age-of-islamophobia-why-reverts-are-leaving-islam/
So the guy in the video, like many, simply hasn’t done his homework.
The idea that “millions” of Westerners have converted, or that Islam is the fastest-growing religion, has always been nothing more than Islamic propaganda. It is understandable that gullible muslims would want to believe it (wishful thinking, pure and simple), but why some Westerners have swallowed it, is truly astonishing.
As for the “demographic timebomb” argument, that’s another that was put about over a decade ago, but hasn’t happened. Sure, muslims on average, have slightly more children than non-muslims, but that’s already changing:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-muslims-population-idUSTRE70Q12D20110127
Even then, those figures are over-rated, since, as we’ve already found out, many in the “muslim community” aren’t muslims at all.
Even if you believe the worst-case scenario, that muslims ARE somehow going to “out-breed” the rest (see all the evidence above), the last time I went to a zoo, there were thousands of animals, and just a few humans, but guess who was in charge? (see “Israel in the Middle East” for a clue).
Accept that there is going to be a lot of violence committed by muslims in the name of Allah, between now and the middle of this century. You’re not going to stop some clown who believes that killing innocents in the name of his God will grant him Paradise. But here’s three things to remember:
1. Most of these victims will be “other muslims”.
2. Every time someone commits an atrocity in the name of Allah, many thousands of muslims leave Islam in shame.
3. It is the most educated muslims who are leaving Islam, and the criminals and low-lifes who are choosing to remain muslim, as this imam points out at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk4d8i-yGiw
Do you understand how this is panning out now and in future generations?
gravenimage says
And there are also more Muslims flooding into the West than are leaving Islam.
Savvy Kafir says
Islam is gaining more ground than it’s losing — especially in the West. Fast-breeding Muslims more than make up for the ones lost via apostasy. The trend at this point is for Islam to continue to expand in the West until the Islamization of our countries is complete.
We cannot afford to become complacent, hoping that apostasy from Islam will save us. We’ve got to save ourselves, by ridding the West of Muslims while we still can.
Lightship Chaplain says
I would hope so!
Diane Harvey says
The stupidity of Islam is only exceeded by its cruelty.
Keith O says
Diane, you have to remember that islam started in the 7th Century and mudslimes are still backward, superstitious, barbarians.
Whilst the rest of humanity progressed, islam stayed bogged down in it’s barbaric ways and now that we have the internet a real light is being shone upon what it really is and the ones in control don’t like that.
peace says
Keith O, I’d say Islam stayed bogged down from the 7th century until the invention of the telephone (realistically the 50’s), I believe Islam will have been dilating at differing rates since then, and very speeded up since the internet arrived in our pockets, now everyone with access can see what life is like for other people and being a young muslim must be full of anguish about what you want to do.. and what you are required to do ..
I believe it must fail eventually ….. (fingers crossed)
gravenimage says
Many Muslims want to come to the West for its standard of living–but they also want to impose the horrors of Islam on us.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“Many Muslims want to come to the West for its standard of living–but they also want to impose the horrors of Islam on us.”
100% correct.
And the horrors of islam will significantly decrease the Western standard of living to the point where the affected country eventually becomes unlivable…
gravenimage says
All true, James–but so long as Muslims can enslave us, they will probably be happy.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
OK, I’ll admit, Mohammed was a wild and crazy sex machine. The greatest of all hedonists.
Sylvia Drummond says
Children born into mohammedan families have to do what they are told. It is not easy to leave the cult should they want to. ~Even the boys have to obey their fathers and marry other mohammedans who are often imported for the purpose. To leave would mean abandoning their families and relatives to live in isolation and perhaps fear of retribution. We all know the terrible dangers that young women face if they show signs of independence but young men can be targeted too. Good luck to those who choose to leave but their lives will not be easy.
Peter Buckley says
But the lives of their children, raised as non-muslims, will be easier, and the lives of their grandchildren will be even easier. Are you getting the picture?
Michael Copeland says
A hundred virgins in one morning?
Say 8.0 till 12.0, four hours.
That is one every 2 minutes 24 seconds.
SKA says
Sounds exhausting . . .
. . . cigarette breaks not permitted?
tim gallagher says
I often do think, who is winning this long war that islam has brought to this world? I hope that Islam is losing its grip on many of its followers, as several of the good posts up above say is the case. But then, we also get so much information that seems to say that, in our western countries, the Muslim invaders are winning and the governments of those western societies keep caving in to the Muslim enemy. And far too many of the average citizens seem to be unaware of Islam’s vile nature and seem to still buy the crap about how Islam is basically peaceful and most Muslims are OK (unbelievable to me that some dopes still buy this crap). I certainly do hope that the internet resources are undermining Islam. To me, Islam seems like some disgustingly barbaric throwback to primitive times ( child brides, honour killings, killing people who decide to leave islam, killing non-Muslims, etc) that it should have become extinct centuries ago. It is pathetic, and says something very alarming about quite a lot of human beings, that it still continues to exist.
john smith says
Well I must say that I’ve learnt a few things about muhammad from those videos. I didn’t Know that flies wouldn’t land on him. That in itself should tell these muslims something, as flies are usually attracted to shit, so if a fly wont even land on him, that doesn’t say much for their prophet, does it.
Another thing I didn’t know was when he has a pee on the ground, the ground will always remains dry.
Makes me wonder how any rational thinking person could be taken in by this crap, it beggar’s belief.
gravenimage says
🙂
Michael Copeland says
Don’t forget the Flying Horse with the woman’s face and a peacock’s tail. It sure can fly fast.
SKA says
If you consider also the impact of polemicist videos such as those by David Wood, Ian Smith and “the Apostate Prophet” or Anjuli Pandavar’s remarkable analysis “The Muslim’s Inner Struggle” as well as the polemical work Jihad Watch there are many resources to help liberate people held in the captivity of Islam.
ajj says
this is the type of comment I would lie to ‘up-vote’ with a single mouse click.
Peace says
Communications in general is a danger to Islam ..
The basic idea is to be dumbed down at a local level, being told what to do and everything about life by the mosk, the “learned Imam” being the only one that knows anything about anything and what the flock should do.
The young people want freedom, fun & free thinking, I believe eventually Islam will fail as the stalwarts pass away & modern life suceeds
gravenimage says
Have the Internet and online videos become a major challenge to Islam?
…………….
I think entended communication is a mixed bag–it certainly exposes the absurdity of Islam and allows those who might never otherwise to have seen any criticism of Islam to expericence it–but it also extends the reach of Islam to places it might otherwise never reach.
It is anyone’s guess which will win out–but our constantly exposing the horrors of Islam is something we *all* need to do.
James Lincoln says
Yes, gravenimage.
The Internet cuts both ways…
Infidel says
Those who think that the internet is causing the overall ummah to shrink are completely deluded
Peter Buckley says
You will see how wrong you are in the coming years.
What has happened in Iran since the start of the Internet, is just the beginning:
https://iranintl.com/en/iran/iranians-have-lost-their-faith-according-survey
Peter Buckley says
As you clearly haven’t got a clue as to what is happening in the real world, it is only fair you should be given the facts, in order to educate you on the topic.
So, if, as you claim, people who think that the overall ummah is shrinking, are “deluded”, please explain how the fact that, according to this leading muslim spokesman, a quarter of a million muslims, in Europe alone, have left Islam in recent years, doesn’t count as “shrinkage”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TxPmACbhHQ
I look forward to your explanation….
citoyen says
This is all Blah Blah Blah analogous to Jesuits questioning The Pope’s acceptance of homosexual practices and gay marriage: regardless, the Church will push on and be so broad in its intended policy as to be meaningfully useless.
Anyone living in the West is familiar at their local supermarket with that substantial form in front of them pushing a trolley piled high with all the cornucopia of the “Evil Infidel West”: these people are completely unaware of muslim intellectuals’ embarrassments and these people (of troglodyte form) are the ones who are transforming the West regardless (and against and in spite of) of the the great social reforms that have been won over the last few hundred years (albeit imperfectly) by Western civilisations for men, women, children, and minorities.
ajj says
If video and social media manage to unmask ISLAM for the illogical and fallible and baseless idolatry it is – do not pardon me the pun BUT GOOD SHOW!!!
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OLD GUY says
There are no moderate islamic followers, you either follow the Quran and Muhammad or you are not a believer and subject to punishment. Moderate muslims support islam through their contributions and silence about islam’s violence and hate.