Posted on 10/16/2001 7:30:06 AM PDT by Radioheart
|
The Lies of Oprah
By Jamie Glazov |
|
On Friday, October 5, Oprah devoted her program to "Islam 101," which, I think, was supposed to be a crash course on the Islamic religion. I’m still confused. continue… |
Another guest, Professor Akbar Ahmed, who served as the Pakistani Ambassador to Great Britain and is now the Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington D.C., stated that there was a "commonality" between Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the "emphasis" on "family life."
Oprah didn’t challenge these statements.
After the program, I was very traumatized. I tried to synthesize Oprah’s show with everything I have read in the Qur’an – and in other Islamic texts. I failed miserably.
I’m very confused.
In the Qur’an, Surah 2:28 tells us that men are superior to women. Surah 4:34 commands a man to beat his wife as soon as she shows any sign of disobedience to his orders. The verse reads, "As for these women, fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart and scourge them."
The Prophet Mohammed was kind enough to leave no misunderstanding on this matter in the hadiths, which are his Sunnah (sayings and doings) as recorded meticulously by his companions. They are considered to have the same authenticity as the Qur’an by the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world.
In his hadith in volume 3:826 of the Sahih Al-Bukhari, Imam Al-Bukhari quotes Mohammed’s order to the husband regarding his wife: "Hang up your scourge where your wife can see it."
The Prophet, however, was loving enough to command that, according to Imam Kitab al-Nikah’s hadith No. 1850 in The Book of Marriage, "you shall not slap her on the face, nor revile her, nor desert her except within the house."
It’s a good thing that some contemporary Islamic teachers are a little more liberal on this issue. Abdul-latif Mushtahiri is a prime example. In his book, You Ask and Islam Answers, he instructs on page 94 that, while he is all up for a good wife-beating, it is a good idea to stop short of any broken bones or shedding of blood. He patiently explains that, "Many a wife belongs to this querulous type and requires this sort of punishment to bring her to her senses!"
I’m confused.
Is this the "family life" that Professor Ahmed was referring to on Oprah in regard to the "commonality" between Islam, Christianity and Judaism? Or was he referring, perhaps, to Prophet Mohammed’s instruction to husbands, quoted in Imam Kitab al-Nikah’s hadith No. 1850, that, "It is that you shall give her food when you have taken your food, that you shall clothe her when you have clothed yourself"?
I wonder what comment Oprah’s guests would make about Al-Bukhari’s hadith, in volume 3:826 of the Sahih Al-Bukhari, that quotes Mohammed saying that women are deficient in mind and religion? Is this why Surah 4:3 allows a man to marry up to four wives at the same time, so that the other three can make up for the deficiency of the individual retarded one?
When the Pakistani ambassador told Oprah that "Islam encourages women to participate and be a productive member of society," was she referring to Surah 2:223, which states that a wife is a sex object for her husband? It’s quite a poetic verse: "Your wives are as a tilth unto you, so approach your tilth when or how ye will."
Aside from having more than nine wives, the Prophet Mohammed married six-year old Aisha and consummated his marriage with her when she was nine. Al-Bukhari’s Sahih Al-Bukhari is filled with references (i.e. vols. 5:236, 7:64, 7:65, 7:88) to this inspiring ingredient of Islam that all Muslims must accept.
I’m very confused.
Is Oprah planning to have an "Islam 202"? Is that when she will ask her guests about six-year old Aisha? Or is it when she will recommend the book Rage Against the Veil – the heartbreaking account about how Islam mutilates the lives and souls of women and children? The book tells the story of Homa Darabi, an Iranian female doctor and human rights activist, who committed suicide, by self-immolation, in a crowded public square in Tehran in 1994 to bring awareness to the nightmarish realities that, for some reason, were forced into invisibility on Oprah’s "Islam 101."
Notice how the Left groups rail against using the word "Christmas" in schools to describe the Holidays, but could care less about Halloween, a religious, Satanic holiday.
bump
Non-Muslims thinking they understand Islam better than Muslims.
"See no evil, hear no evil"
Anyone who would standup against real injustice, anyone who would resist despotism, anyone resisting draconion measures by a government that only wants to 'help', these are the people Oprah and her ilk hate.
It seems to be the mission of persons like her to isolate, belittle, discredit and demonize anyone who disagrees with the lib/communist elites and their agenda.
But,
1)given the behavior of certain maniacs of that ilk and...
2)the by and large lukewarm denounciations by persons of that belief system in this country to any reactions against terrorists seem to...
3) indicate that defending against the possibility of another attack, from without or WITHIN to be reasonable and prudent.
All non-Moslems are infidels. However, there are gradations. The people of the Book (meaning the Bible, both the old and the new testaments) are the Jews, the Christians and the Moslems. According to Islam, Mohammed was the last prophet and there would be no other future prophet or prophets.
The Jews and Christians are considered as people of little faith by the followers of Islam. On the other hand, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Jains, the Sikhs, the Zoroastrians, the Taoists, in fact, all other religions are considered as the religions of the kafirs. They are the worst of all and do not have the right to exist in this world unless of course they accept Islam unconditionally.
...peaceful and gentle religion???
I wouldn't open up the Koran and start to pluck verses from the air without knowing what context they were in.
If I was unfamiliar with the Bible, and someone started throwing me the infamous Dr. Laura rebuttal Bible Quotes (you know the ones...A lady with whom I work is a Wiccan, and describes herself as a "witch." Jesus clearly enjoins us, "Suffer not a witch to live." Yet, I really like Sarah - does merciful, sweet Jesus expect someone to take her life? Please tell me what a good Christian is supposed to do.
I would like to sell one of my daughters into slavery, as it suggests in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her? (She has a strong back but little work history.)
I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her menstrual period of "uncleanliness" (Lev. 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? Most of my neighbors or coworkers take offense when I ask them. Etc, etc...)
I would be confused also, because the quotes were taken out of context without a full understanding of the bible. I give credit to Oprah for at least discussing the issue and letting muslims explain their faith....
Oprah is one of the "useful idiots". She thinks she has gotten where she is due to her so-called talents, but that's far from the case. She has become a billionaire simply because of her usefulness to the leftist cause.
Where did Jesus say this?
Now that I got that out of my system, there are numerous "experts" who believe that only a small percentage of muslims are devout. The extremists do, as you state, tend to force others to follow their own interpretation os what is and isn't acceptable.
Much as those who were forced in to Christianity at the point of a sword tend to secretly harbor different beliefs, one could argue that many converts to Islam never truly accepted the belief.
I personally have no idea if this is true or not, but I believe that a review of those European Jews forced to convert to Christianity could provide insight in to much of the Muslim world. In general, this is a religion that was spread not through missionaries but armies.
Non-Muslims thinking they understand Islam better than Muslims
Gee, thanks for your one-line quip that makes no sense, offers no intelligent input and serves no purpose whatsoever.
No.
Somehow, Oprah never got around to asking about this.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.