The Danger in
Islamic Prayer
By
Sonia Bailley
It
is crucial that Westerners discover what Muslims are saying when they recite
the Islamic mandatory prayers before sharing their places of worship. A few
days ago, an Ontario synagogue invited Muslim worshippers to lead the Friday
prayer.
This
article explains what the Islamic daily prayers mean, with focus on the Friday
prayer within the context of Islamic law or sharia. Being better informed will
make Westerners think twice before opening the doors to Muslims for prayer.
Canadian
Muslims in southern Ontario were invited to preach the supremacy of Islam at a
local synagogue and church. In a goodwill gesture, Peterborough's Mark Street
United Church and Beth Israel Synagogue opened their doors to Muslims for
prayer following the recent fire damage of the Masjid al-Salaam mosque.
President
of the Beth Israel Synagogue and his board of directors hosted two Islamic
prayer sessions this past Friday with not even a suspicion that the underlying
theme in Islamic prayer is to curse and do away with nonbelievers like them.
A
deep hatred and rejection of Judaism and Christianity are hardwired into
Islamic doctrine, including the Koran. Many of its chapters are incorporated
into mandatory daily Islamic prayer. The very first Koranic chapter, considered
the most exalted of all chapters, is a prayer directed to Allah asking him to
keep Muslims away from the misguided path of Jews and Christians.
This
chapter is a necessary part of the five mandatory daily prayers, and is recited
not once, but anywhere from 17 to 100 times a day by devout Muslims (or in a
broader sense, 6200 to 36,500 times a year).
Repetition
priming inculcates the notion of superiority over non-Muslims into the minds of
all Muslims, instilling a deep mistrust of non-Muslims: "Guide us along
the right path, the path of those whom you favored (referring to Muslims), and
not along the path of those who earn your anger (referring to Jews), or those
who go astray (referring to Christians).
The
references to Jews and Christians are in accord with Al-Tirmidhi's authentic
hadiths (or Islamic narrations attributed to Mohammed) and other venerated
Islamic interpretations, as reflected in some English translations of the
Koran.
Friday
prayers also include recitation of Koranic chapters 62 and 63 where Jews who reject
Allah's commandments in the Torah are loathed and compared to "the
likeness of a donkey carrying books but understands them not." Jews are
told to "long for death" if they pretend to be Allah's favorite.
Nonbelievers
are condemned to a state of error until Mohammed is sent by Allah to purify
them "from the filth of disbelief and polytheism" with his verses or
revelations from Allah.
"Hypocrites"
or apostates from Islam are considered enemies, "so beware of them, may
Allah destroy them!". Is it any wonder why many Muslims are prohibited
from being friends with Jews and Christians? The Koran condemns them to hell
(which melts their skin and bellies) in nearly 500 verses for not believing in
Mohammed and for not converting to Islam.
Such
are the prayers that are recited over and over again in mosques, and now in
some churches and synagogue across the world as more Muslim communities
continue to grow and expand.
Oblivious
to the ignorant Jewish and Christian hosts -- whom the Koran portrays as sons
of apes and pigs and as the worst of creatures -- those very same prayers were
recently recited by the Peterborough mosque's muezzin (one who recites the
Islamic call to prayer) in the local church and synagogue. His sonorous and
somber voice evoked emotion and tears expressing compassion and admiration of
Islam during the Islamic prayer session at the Mark Street United Church a
couple of Fridays ago.
Little
did these people know that he was chanting verses expressing disgust and
disdain for nonbelievers, such as themselves. They appeared to be in a
trancelike stupor as if undergoing a spiritual awakening -- despite not
understanding one word of Arabic prayer that calls for their rejection and
eradication due to their misguided behavior.
If
they only knew what Islamic prayers meant in English, they would not be
shedding tears of ignorance, and certainly thinking twice before allowing
Muslims to pray in their places of worship. Love thy neighbor should not be a
one-way street.
The
Peterborough mosque's imam Shazin Khan, along with other imams and Islamic
spokespeople, uses a common deceptive tactic to show the Church audience that
Islam cares about people of all religious faiths. He repeats only part of a
well-known Koranic verse taken from the Jerusalem Talmud, asserting that saving
one human being is like saving all of humanity.
However,
unlike the original Talmudic verse that applies equally to all humans, the
Koranic verse was modified and prohibits only the murder of Muslims. This verse
in its entirety is in accord with Islamic law or sharia, which applies the
death penalty for killing Muslims, not non-Muslims.
Referring
to Judaism and Islam, Kenzu Abdella, president of the Kawartha Muslim Religious
Association (in the Peterborough area near Toronto) who formed an alliance with
Larry Gillman, President of the Beth Israel Synagogue, informed the Canadian
Broadcasting Cooperation that "we have more similarities than differences.
We have so much common".
Contrary
to his claim, the differences are so great that 57 Islamic states united in the
highly influential Organization of Islamic Cooperation rejected the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights that views all people as equal and free, and
replaced it with the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI) that
views people as neither equal nor free.
The
CDHRI, being subject to sharia, limits the right to freedom of religion and
expression according to what sharia permits. Women have lesser rights than men,
as do non-Muslims than Muslims. Slavery is allowed as it still has not been
abolished in Islam. Human rights in Islam rely upon the most illiberal,
draconian, and barbaric corporal punishments imaginable. Where are the
similarities?
Mr.
Abdella failed to mention that Islam considers itself the mother religion of
both Judaism and Christianity, that it existed prior to those two false
religions that veered away from the path of strict monotheism. They became
corrupt and ignorant until Mohammed was sent by Allah as a gift to set things
straight and convert all back to Islam or "the religion of true unspoiled
nature", as per the CDHRI.
The
Islamic end-times, according to Bukhari, the most authentic of all hadith
collections, occurs when Jesus, considered the last Muslim prophet in Islam,
returns to earth to destroy Christianity ("break the cross") and
forces all to convert or die.
But
until such a time, radical Muslims must continue waging jihad against
Christians and Jews who pay an Islamic tax called jizya that masquerades as
halal products to support Islamic terrorism worldwide.
It's
long past time that Westerners familiarize themselves with Islam and think
twice before rolling out the welcome mats in their places of worship,
especially in light of the tens of thousands of unvetted Muslim migrants coming
soon to a city near you.
Westerners
who remain true to their faith by reaching out to Muslim neighbors with
compassion will soon find out the hard way that mutual respect can never exist
amongst different religions when one views itself as the perfect and supreme
religion above all others, as Islam does.
Before
sharing premises with Muslim worshippers, ask yourself the following question:
would Muslims anywhere ever allow Jews or Christians into a mosque sanctuary to
lead a Jewish or Christian prayer service?
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