The Dark Side Of Islam

More like the dark side of the moon, really: no matter which way you look at it, there ain’t no bright side to it….

Introduction courses to Islam are Indoctrination sessions, writes Jon Anderson, who tried it…

Update: Same in Australia

Lobbying Centres Masquerading As Courses In Australian Universities

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By Jon Anderson

IT’S BEEN MORE than eight years since Islamist terrorists succeeded in killing 3,000 people in the infamous Sept. 11 attack and America has yet to identify Islam as the ideological cause. I was 37 and a full-time student at JMU when the first images of the falling twin towers flooded our televisions.

I enrolled in an Introduction to Islam course the next semester. The course presented Islam as a religion of peace, justice and equality. Sometimes I asked questions in class motivated by suspicion that we were not getting the whole truth. I began to realize that the instructor was evading these kinds of questions.

For instance, after learning that it was obligatory for Muslims to give 2.5 percent of their income to charity, I asked if there was any means for donors to track how their money was spent. The instructor gave a reply, but didn’t answer the question. I had to press him pretty hard before he admitted that charities provided no such information. Years later, FBI raids on Islamic “charities” proved that at least some of them were funneling donated funds to terrorist organizations.

It wasn’t until working on the final research paper that I began to develop a conviction that Islam was a harmful ideology. I set out to discover if militant jihad was a part of Islamic doctrine. I determined to base my findings on Islamic scripture, not on the acts of terrorists. I discovered that “jihad” could correctly be interpreted as “a personal struggle” in certain places in Islamic scripture; however, “warfare” was much more often the intended meaning of the term.

In contrast to Biblical commands to conquer, which were isolated to a specific region in Israel’s history, Koranic commands to engage in warfare are universal and are to continue until Islam is the only religion. Examples include: “Make war on them until idolatry does not exist any longer and Allah’s religion reigns universally” (8:39). “Kill the unbelievers wherever ye find them, capture and besiege them and prepare for them every kind of ambush” (9:5). “Fight against them! Allah shall punish them, at your hands and give you victory over them…” (9:14). “Wage war on the people of the Book, who … do not accept the religion of Islam” (9:29). “Fight the unbelievers in your surroundings, and let them find harshness in you” (9:123). “Those who follow Muhammad are merciless for the unbelievers but kind to each other” (48:29). “Truly Allah loves those who fight in His cause in battle array… ” (61:4).

Self-study in more recent years has only increased my conviction. My frustration with the national press is at an all-time high for its near blackout on the doctrines of Islam. More problematic is the media’s ignorance concerning Islamic advocacy groups that engage in deception to further the cause of jihad. After the Fort Hood massacre, leaders of CAIR (Council of American-Islamic Relations) made appearances on all the major news networks. Invariably, CAIR’s message is one of shock and strong condemnation of the violence. This is followed by a portrayal of Muslims as the victim of hostility.

In January of this year, the FBI severed all ties with CAIR due to evidence revealing close ties between its leaders and Hamas. More recently, evidence stemming from a six-month non-government undercover investigation was made public in the book, “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America.” Documents prove that CAIR has fully supported the international jihad against the United States, having the goal of transforming American society through terrorist activities, fraud, and infiltration of our political and intelligence organizations. Some members of Congress are calling for a full congressional investigation.

Being knowledgeable of Islam’s dark side neither makes me fearful of, nor violent toward, Muslims. I befriend Muslims whenever and wherever I can. I also encourage others to do the same. My willingness to publicly speak out against Islam should not be perceived as hostility toward Muslims. I’m following the Biblical instruction to expose fallacy and teach truth (Matthew 18:20; 1 Timothy 4:16; Titus 1:9).

Jon Anderson is a resident of Harrisonburg.

Lobbying Centres Masquerading As Courses In Australian Universities

Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies

Australian University campuses. One such place is the Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies(CAIS) at the Australian National University(ANU), Canberra.

It is certainly a good idea to study religion in an academic set-up and thus there is nothing fundamentally wrong in having the CAIS at the ANU or any other Islamic-study centres at other Australian Universities. However, there are no dedicated centres for Buddhist or Jain or Parsi or Hindu studies at any of the major Universities in Australia. Of course, to understand the reasons for this omission and commission in Australian University campuses, would require a study of the synergy arising from the concentration of left-leaning academicians in our Universities and those with an Islamist agenda, amongst other factors.

It goes without saying that CAIS would not indulge in any activities such as a critical study of the consequences of Political Islam around the world. Here is an example list of subjects that would NEVER be studied at Islamic centres such as the CAIS:

Religious freedom in Saudi Arabia

The plight of minorities in Islamic countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh (such as Hin
Muslim Medieaval Tolerance in Afghanistan: Referred to as Gandhara and Vahlika in ancient Hindu-Buddhist scriptures, Hinduism (Saivite) and Buddhism (Mahayana) were the dominant faiths of the ancestors of present day Pathans inhabiting the Eastern and Southern parts of Afghanistan, before the advent of Islam. Around 654 C.E., Arab forces started attacking the Hindu Kingdoms of Kabul and Zabul ruled by the Shahiya kings. The Pathans resisted for 2 centuries before they were overwhelmed and forcibly converted to Islam. So great was the massacre of Hindus that the local mountain range was renamed as ‘Hindu Kush’ meaning ‘Hindu slaughter’. With the fall of the communist regime in 1980’s and after demolition of the Babri Masjid in India on December 6, 1992, the 75000 Hindu minority, mainly resident in Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandhar, was targeted selectively and their religious sites were descecrated. They fled en-masse to cities like Delhi in India, where they are settled now. Several modern day Indian Hindu communities like the Sehgals are descendent of Afghan Hindus who fled Islamic persecution in Afghanistan several centuries ago.
How Sharia law has violated the human-rights of minorities in Muslim countries.
The spread of Islam through the sword in Asia, accompanied by the large scale genocide of non-muslim people and the eradication of indigenous cultures in Asia.
The persecution of Muslim minorities such as the Ahmediyas by main-stream Muslims such as the Sunnis in Pakistan, Indonesia etc.
The sources of monetary funding and theological/ideological inspiration behind 9/11, 7/7, 26/11 and other terrorist attacks around the world such as the Bali Bombings, Madrid Train Blasts, Mumbai Train blasts etc.
Inseparability of Politics and Religion in Islam and their consequences on humanity.
CAIS itself boasts of the funding that it receives from the Iranian Government and the Turkish Government. Off-course, CAIS also receives a lot of funding from other Saudi Arabian sources. Thus, it cannot be expected that they study the subjects outlined above. This is a classical example of inseparability of Politics and Academics. Just as the importance of the separation of the church and government is vital to the evolution of democracies around the world, the separation of church and academic studies is vital to University studies and scholarly research. However, centres such as CAIS and the mushrooming of such centres on Australian University campuses are ‘going back’ full circle and integrating church and academic studies(well, in this case, the mosque and academic studies) and thus are becoming centres of Islamic lobbying rather than centres of learning.

Future Australian Diplomats may be trained in such centres and may be responsible for shaping Australia’s future foreign policies. There is a real danger that the world-views of these future diplomats may be shaped through the prism of Islamic lobbying centres such as the CAIS. This danger might generate ill-conceived foreign policy nightmares for Australia, especially with countries such as India, China, Russia, Thailand etc, as these countries all have Islamic
Tim Fisher shake hands with Prof. Amin Saikal Director of Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies (ANU). Tim’s involvement helped to convince the Australian Government that the Centre should receive generous funds from United Arab Emirates, Iran and Turkey.

-separatist problems within their countries.

The likelihood that Australian government representatives and diplomats would be influenced by lobbying centres such as the CAIS was clearly visible in the 2020 Summit facilitated by the Rudd government not too long ago. The advertisement for the 2020 summit said that the government needed some good ideas (to govern!) and that the 1000 “best and brightest” minds would be selected and that these minds would provide the government with good ideas. After the summit, the prime minister said that the top ideas would be acted upon by his government. There were 10 subjects for discussion in the summit, each with 100 experts, thus making up the 1000 “best and brightest” Australian minds. One of the ten subjects was Australia’s security. One would have expected the best 100 minds in the security domain to have participated. There were indeed some security experts amongst this 100. However, amongst this “100 security experts” were

Prof Amin Saikal. (Director, CAIS, ANU)
Mr Waleed Aly. (spokesperson for the Islamic Council of Victoria).
Assoc Professor Samina Yasmeen. (Director, Centre for Muslim States and Societies, University of Western Australia).
Clearly, the present Australian government sees people in “Centres of Islamic learning” including people dependent on “Islamic governments” for their careers, as “security experts” and allows these people to counsel them on matters of security including Australia’s policies with other countries on matters related to security. This is clearly a dangerous sign of things to come not only to Australians, but to non-Muslim populations and non-Muslim governments in Asia.

Lobbying centres such as the CAIS are very good in deceiving the general public about their intentions. In the month of June this year, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, President of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia presented a public lecture entitled ‘The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Today’ hosted by the CAIS at the ANU. Amongst other things, he said that Palestinians could follow the example of Gandhi to get Israel to accept their demands. Without a doubt, this is a very good idea and a radical one as far as Political Islam is concerned. But then the Prince was trying to deceive his listeners with his noble-sounding talk.

The deception was unmasked, when one of the members in the audience questioned the Prince, saying that while he was advocating the Gandhian idea of non-violence, would there be a chance of implementing the Gandhian idea of religious freedom by building a Hindu temple in Saudi Arabia. The prince replied that this would not be feasible as it was Mohammed’s idea not to allow any other religion in the country!! So much for Ghandian tolerance and freedom.

The word University derives from the Latin word ‘universus’ which means ‘whole’ or ‘entire’. Thus Universities are places where anything and everything can be studied in its entirety. According to this definition, University studies should be free from bias, for knowledge, by its very nature is eternal and free from bias. Thus it is appropriate to study everything including religion in an University. However, when there is an extreme bias in studies, thus deliberately depriving the ‘study’ of its entirety, then the study is no longer worthy of being conducted under the umbrella of a University.

Thus, it is not a good idea to study religion in a University centre, when the study is sponsored heavily by pro-religious fundamentalist groups, where the content of discourse is heavily biased in favor of these fundamentalist groups. Australians should never allow Universities to become lobbying centres for pro-Islamist groups or any other religious groups for that matter. There is a need for our parliamentarians and policy makers to understand the dangers of pro-Islamist groups in Universities (including formal Islamist groups such as the CAIS at the ANU).

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