Critics of Islam No Longer Allowed to Enter Great Britain

Islamic supremacists of the world . . . Rejoice! People who speak the truth about Islam are no longer allowed to enter the United Kingdom. Facts no longer matter. Evidence is irrelevant. Britain will exclude people solely for making true statements about the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an. If you say, "The Qur'an commands Muslims to 'fight those who do not believe in Allah,'" you will be banned from Great Britain, even though the quotation comes directly from the Qur'an (Surah 9:29). But if you quote the verse and believe that it's the word of Allah, you will be quite welcome in the country.

Robert Spencer (who has been officially banned from the UK) writes:

In a striking blow against freedom, the British government has banned us from entering the country. Muhammad al-Arifi, who has advocated Jew-hatred, wife-beating, and jihad violence, entered the U.K. recently with no difficulty. In not allowing us into the country solely because of our true and accurate statements about Islam, the British government is behaving like a de facto Islamic state. The nation that gave the world the Magna Carta is dead.

Here is the government letter informing Robert that he is a persona non grata:

Radical Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah Meets with Obama Administration at White House

Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah met with White House officials to urge them to increase support for the Islamist takeover of Syria. Nothing to worry about here.

FoxNews—A Muslim scholar whose group supports Hamas, who has urged the U.N. to criminalize blasphemy and who is the deputy of an Egyptian cleric banned from the U.S. over his radical statements was able to secure a visit at the White House earlier this month.

A report from The Investigative Project on Terrorism uncovered a statement on the website of Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah claiming he met June 13 with Obama administration officials in Washington.

Bin Bayyah is vice president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, a group founded by Egyptian cleric Yusuf Qaradawi -- a Muslim Brotherhood leader who has called for the death of Jews and Americans and himself is banned from visiting the U.S.

While Bin Bayyah secured a visit, he and his group also have a history of questionable positions, IPT reports.

A 2009 fatwa from the group barred "all forms of normalization" with Israel. Bin Bayyah also got behind a campaign to pressure the U.N. to pass a resolution criminalizing blasphemy. (Continue Reading.)

#Jihad: More Jihadists Using Twitter to Spread Violent Propaganda

But when we use Twitter to confront the violent teachings of the Qur'an, we're called "racists," "bigots," and "Islamophobes."

FoxNews—Twitter is the new frontier for jihadist propaganda, according to an extensive review of more than 75,000 tweets in a leading counterterrorism journal exclusively reviewed in advance of publication by Fox News.

The article, called "Tweeting for the Caliphate," was authored by independent academic investigators Nico Prucha and Ali Fisher. It will be available on Tuesday in the CTC Sentinel, a journal published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. It explored the Syrian opposition group Jabhat al-Nusra and its established links to Al Qaeda as a case study (in Syria, the Assad regime is said to allow social media activity, in part so that government officials can monitor the traffic).

"Twitter has become the main hub for the active dissemination of links guiding users to digital content," the report found, adding that a new generation of jihadists now engages in attacks after extensive exposure to online propaganda. "These jihadists decided to engage in physical violence after being active within the virtual dominions of al-Qa'ida where exposure to the media had an impact on their personal lives and understanding of religious conduct."

Increasingly, investigators found Al Qaeda web forums are buying into social media and promoting their official Twitter accounts on their main web pages. It is not uncommon for videos, linked to jihadist tweets, to get upwards of 5,000 views. (Continue Reading.)

Sunni Mob Murders Four Shias in Egypt

The U.S. government helped the Muslim Brotherhood take over Egypt. Now our government is helping Al Qaeda take over Syria. The only positive side to the carnage that's coming is that the world will finally see the effects of Islam on previously secular governments.

BBC—Four Egyptian Shia Muslims have been killed in a mob attack in a village near the capital Cairo, officials say.

The attack on Sunday targeted a house where a group of Shia worshippers had gathered for a religious ceremony.

The attackers accused those gathered of trying to spread Shia beliefs, reports say.

Shia Muslims are a small minority in predominantly Sunni Muslim Egypt, but anti-Shia rhetoric has increased recently due to the conflict in Syria.

Eyewitnesses told the BBC that an anti-Shia crowd numbering at least several hundred formed around the house.

The mob then reportedly demanded the Shia leave the house before storming it and trying to set it alight.

Images from the incident show the victims being dragged through the streets.

One of those killed was a local Shia leader, Hassan Shehata, officials say.

Eight others were injured in the attack, according to security sources.

A health ministry spokesman told Egypt's Mena news agency that the bodies "showed numerous puncture wounds and severe bruising".

One eyewitness, Hazem Barakat, told the Ahram newspaper that police stood by and did nothing to stop the attack. (Continue Reading.)

Syrian Rebels Execute Teenager Mohammed Katta for Mentioning Muhammad in a Joke

The U.S. government is arming terrorists who kill children over jokes. Nuff said?

14-Year-Old Mohammed Katta

Syria—Mohammed Katta's mother witnessed the execution of her son in three stages.

She was upstairs at home when she first heard the shouting. The people of the neighbourhood were yelling that "they have brought back the kid", so she rushed out of her apartment.

"I went out on my balcony," Nadia Umm Fuad said. "I said to his father, they are going to shoot your son! Come! Come! Come! I was on the stairs when I heard the first shot. I was at the door when I heard the second shot.

"I saw the third shot. I was shouting, 'That's haram, forbidden! Stop! Stop! You are killing a child.' But they just gave me a dirty look and got into their car. As they went, they drove over my son's arm, as he lay there dying."

Mohammed was 14 when he was killed, earlier this month, prompting international condemnation. He has become a symbol of the fears many Syrians have for the future of a country where jihadists are vying with the regime for control.

He is a counterweight – the comparison was Nadia Umm Fuad's – to Hamza al-Khatib, the 13-year-old from Deraa in southern Syria returned by regime troops to his parents battered, genitals removed, kneecaps smashed, burned and with three gunshot wounds, early in the uprising.

Mohammed was working at the family's coffee stall in the Shaar district of Aleppo when he made a fatal mistake. Pressured by a customer to hand over a coffee on promise of payment, he shouted good-humouredly: "I wouldn't give the Prophet Mohammed credit if he came here today." He was overheard by two men on the opposite corner. Marching over, they whisked him away in a car, ignoring his protestations of his love for the Prophet and the objections of a militiaman from the Free Syrian Army nearby. Half an hour later, they returned. According to Mohammed's younger brother and the neighbours, he was staggering and fell to his knees, and had clearly been beaten. A bag had been placed over his head.

"I heard them say, 'People of Aleppo and people of Shaar! Anyone who curses God is given three days to repent. Anyone who curses the Prophet is killed immediately'," Nadia Umm Fuad said. (Continue Reading.)

Jihadists Gun Down Nine Foreign Tourists in Pakistan

Unfortunately, Western Muslim groups are so busy complaining about "Islamophobia" that they don't have time to convince their Muslim brothers not to slaughter people in the name of Allah.

ISLAMABAD – At least a dozen Islamic militants wearing police uniforms shot to death nine foreign tourists and one Pakistani before dawn Sunday as they were visiting one of the world's highest mountains in a remote area of northern Pakistan that has been largely peaceful, officials said.

The foreigners who were killed included five Ukrainians, three Chinese and one Russian, said Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. One Chinese tourist was wounded in the attack and was rescued, he said.

The local branch of the Taliban took responsibility for the killings, saying it was to avenge the death of a leader killed in a recent U.S. drone strike.

The shooting was one of the worst attacks on foreigners in Pakistan in recent years and is likely to damage the country's already struggling tourism industry. Pakistan's mountainous north — considered until now relatively safe — is one of the main attractions in a country beset with insurgency and other political instability. (Continue Reading.)

For those who think that Islam forbids such killing, see the following video.

How Isaiah 53 Proves That Muhammad Was A False Prophet Pt. 2

This is part 2 in Sam's series replying to Shabir Ally on Isaiah 53. Part 1 can be found here.

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Muhammad’s Perverted View of Vicarious Atonement

We continue from where we left off by turning our focus on Muhammad’s understanding of vicarious suffering.

It may come as a surprise for Muslims to discover that even their own prophet subscribed to substitutionary atonement, albeit a rather perverse form of what we find in the Holy Bible.

Muhammad taught that Allah would ransom Muhammad and his followers from hell by unloading all of their sins upon the disbelieving Jews and Christians, who in turn would be tortured forever in place of the Muslims:

Superiority of the believers in the Oneness of Allah and the punishment of the Jews and Christians 

8) Narrated Abu Musa: Allah’s Messenger said: On the Day of Resurrection, my Ummah (nation) will be gathered into three groups. One sort will enter Paradise without rendering an account (of their deeds). Another sort will be reckoned an easy account and admitted into Paradise. Yet another sort will come bearing on their backs heaps of sins like great mountains. Allah will ask the angels though He knows best about them: Who are these people? They will reply: They are humble slaves of yours. He will say: Unload the sins from them and put the same over the Jews and Christians: then let the humble slaves get into Paradise by virtue of My Mercy. 

(This Hadith IS SOUND and mentioned in Mustadrak of Hakim). (110 Hadith Qudsi (Sacred Hadith), translated by Syed Masood-ul-Hasan, revision and commentaries by Ibrahim m. Kunna [Darussalam Publishers and Distributors], pp. 19-20; capital and underline emphasis ours)

And:

Chapter 8: THROWING OF NON-BELIEVERS IN HELL-FIRE FOR BELIEVERS AS DIVINE GRACE AND MERCY 

Abu Musa' reported that Allah's Messenger said: When it will be the Day of Resurrection Allah would deliver to every Muslim a Jew or a Christian and say: That is your RESCUE from Hell-Fire. (Sahih Muslim, Book 037, Number 6665) 

Abu Burda reported on the authority of his father that Allah's Apostle said: No Muslim would die but Allah would admit IN HIS STEAD a Jew or a Christian in Hell-Fire. 'Umar b. Abd al-'Aziz took an oath: By One besides Whom there is no god but He, thrice that his father had narrated that to him from Allah's Messenger. (Sahih Muslim, Book 037, Number 6666) 

Abu Burda reported Allah's Messenger as saying: There would come people amongst the Muslims on the Day of Resurrection with AS HEAVY SINS AS A MOUNTAIN, and Allah would FORGIVE THEM and He would PLACE IN THEIR STEAD the Jews and the Christians. (As far as I think), Abu Raub said: I do not know as to who is in doubt. Abu Burda said: I narrated it to 'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz, whereupon he said: Was it your father who narrated it to you from Allah's Apostle? I said: Yes. (Sahih Muslim, Book 037, Number 6668) 

Talk about a perversion of the Biblical doctrine of substitutionary atonement! Muhammad’s statements are an assault against the holiness and justice of God.

Contrast the differences between the scriptural teaching concerning the vicarious death of the Servant with these sayings of Muhammad. Yahweh’s Servant dies a voluntary death on behalf of his people and the nations in order to make atonement for their sins. In light of his willing submission to bear the sins of others, God rewards his righteous Servant by exalting him to share in his glorious reign over the nations. See part 1 for the details.

Muhammad, however, has his deity eternally torturing and humiliating Jews and Christians in hell for all the crimes and evils committed by Muhammad’s followers. This means that Allah will actually be punishing Jews and Christians for their own sins as well as for all the wickedness carried out by Muslims. To say that this is an insult against the perfect character of God would be a wild understatement. Thankfully, however, Muhammad’s god is not the true God revealed in the Holy Bible, so Christians and Jews need not take any offense at Muhammad’s travesty of divine holiness and justice.      

Embarrassed by such reports, certain Muslim scholars have tried to come up with some justification for this rather perverted view of divine justice and redemption. One such Muslim was al-Nawawi, one of Sunni Islam’s renowned authorities who wrote a commentary on Sahih Muslim which is still considered the premiere exposition. The following citation is taken from a Muslim writer(1) who not only refers to al-Nawawi’s explanation, but also shows why his exposition of these narratives is rather weak and desperate: 

“Al-Nawawi, Muslim’s commentator, seems unable to advance any rationale for these traditions and, therefore, unsuccessfully tries to interpret them in a bid to maintain their sanctity. He believes that what Abu Hurayrah has reported from the Prophet, namely that: ‘For everyone there are two places reserved, one in Hell and the other in Paradise. If a believer enters Paradise, his place in Hell will be taken over by a disbeliever due to his disbelief,’ explains the ahadith. By this he means to say that Jews and Christians will enter Hell owing to their own sins and not because of the sins of Muslims. In order to strengthen his stand he derives an argument from another hadith–‘He who introduces an evil act will have to bear the sin of everyone who does it’–and extrapolates that the non-believers will bear the sins of Muslims due to their having introduced evil acts. Al-Nawawi’s argument can hardly stand up to scrutiny. The traditions clearly mention that Allah will transfer the sins of Muslims onto Jews and Christians. The second tradition, which he quotes to explain the matter, does not indicate what he derives from it; he only takes one part and leaves the other. According to this hadith, the introducer of a sin will be burdened not only with his own sin but also with the sin committed by others, whilst the sins of others will not be commuted. The three ahadith are categorical in the transfer of the sins of Muslims to Jews and Christians, who will then be burdened with two categories of sins: 1) their own, and 2) those of the Muslims.” (Israr Ahmad Khan, Authentication of Hadith: Redefining the Criteria [The International Institute of Islamic Thought, London●Washington, 2010], Chapter 3. The Quran and Authentication of Hadith, pp. 64-65; bold emphasis ours)  

The author goes on to cite Q. 6:164, which denies that Allah punishes people for the evil deeds committed by others, in order to show how these ahadith contradict the Quran. There are two problems with the author’s response. First, his reply assumes that the Quran is God’s word and that Muhammad is a true prophet, and therefore would never say anything to contradict the so-called “revelation.” This approach begs the question since it takes the Islamic position concerning the status of the Quran and Muhammad as a given, even though Muslim scholars and/or apologists have yet to produce any convincing and irrefutable evidence to support this assumption.

This leads me to the second problem with Khan’s argument. Contrary to his assertion, the Quran does in fact teach that people will suffer and be punished for the sins committed by others:

And those who disbelieve say to those who believe: Follow our path and we will bear your wrongs. And never shall they be the bearers of any of their wrongs; most surely they are liars. And most certainly they shall carry their own burdens, AND OTHER BURDENS WITH THEIR OWN BURDENS, and most certainly they shall be questioned on the resurrection day as to what they forged. S. 29:12-13 Shakir

We, thus, have a contradiction within the Quran itself since there are specific texts which say that no sinner will bear the sins of someone else (cf. Q. 17:13-15; 53:38-42), and yet both Q. 29:12-13 and 16:25 expressly teach that they shall indeed be forced to carry the burdens of others. As the late scholar of Islamic studies Arthur Jeffrey noted in his exposition of Q. 16:25:

"This is in contradiction with the oft-repeated statement that no burdened soul will bear the burden of another. But that statement seems meant to exclude hope in a Redeemer who will take on himself the guilt of others, whereas here the meaning is that some of the guilt of those led astray will be placed on those who have led them astray." (The Koran, Selected Suras, footnote 4 to Sura 16)

Nor can taqyyists such as Ally and Williams simply brush aside these narratives since they are all included within a work that Sunni Islam deems to be the second most authentic collection of narrations ever compiled. In fact, some Muslim scholars have gone as far as to argue that in some aspects Sahih Muslim is actually superior to al-Bukhari’s collection!

“… Although Sahih al-Bukhari is the most reliable collection of Ahadith, however, Sahih Muslim has certain aspects of superiority. Imam Muslim adhered strictly to most of the principles of the Science of Hadith which were somehow at some places ignored by his teacher Imam Bukhari. Imam Muslim accepted for his collection only such Ahadith which had been transmitted with an unbroken chain of reliable narrators, free from all defects and were in perfect harmony with the narrations of other narrators. He has recorded only those ahadith which were transmitted at least by two different transmitters from two different Companions. Imam Bukhari has sometimes used the Kunyah (surname) of the narrators and sometimes their names. Imam Muslim avoided this confusion. Imam Muslim is also particular in pointing out the slightest difference in the text of the narrations. Imam Bukhari has fragmented most of the Ahadith and presented the portions under different chapters, while Imam Muslim presented them as a whole narration. So, the works of both Imams provide different approaches for the scholars and readers of Ahadith.” (The Translation of the Meanings of Summarized Sahih Muslim, Publisher’s Note, Volume 1, p. ii; bold emphasis ours)

And:

“Imam Muslim compiled many books and treatises on Hadith, the most important of his works is the compilation of the Hadith collection Al-Jami‘ As-Sahih, which is famous by the name of Sahih Muslim. Some scholars of Hadith opine that in some respects IT IS THE BEST AND MOST AUTHENTIC COLLECTION of Ahadith. Imam Muslim laboriously collected 3,00,000 Ahadith, but after critical study, he selected only 4,000 Ahadith for this collection…

“Many students learned the Science of Hadith from Imam Muslim. Those who became famous and occupied a prominent position are: Abu Hatim Razi, Musa bin Harun, Ahmad bin Salamah, Abu ‘Isa Tirmidhi, Abu Bakr bin Khuzaimah, Abu ‘Awanah and Hafiz Dhahbi.” (Ibid., p. v; bold and capital emphasis ours)

This demonstrates that these traditions thoroughly met Imam Muslim’s stringent criteria of authenticity, which also indicates that this renowned hadith scholar was fully convinced that these were actual statements uttered by Muhammad.

Therefore, these dawagandists are going to have to do a lot more than claim that these narrations are weak or fabricated seeing that they met the very strict criteria employed by Imam Muslim. As such, Ally and Williams have no choice but to accept the fact that according to Islamic historiography and the science of hadith criticism, these reports are genuine sayings of the historical Muhammad.

For more on this topic we recommend the following articles and rebuttals:

Islam’s Doctrine of Substitutionary Atonement And the Ransoming of Sinners 

Islam’s Divine Insurance Scam

Reexamining Islam's Divine Insurance Scam Pt.1, Pt. 2

A Muslim Dawagandist Asks A Question

Islam’s Morally Grotesque Doctrine of Substitutionary Atonement

Addressing Paul Williams’ False Accusations Pt. 6

Qur'an Contradiction: Who Suffers the Consequence of Sins according to the Qur'an?

Islam and the Punishmentof the Innocent: A Response to MENJ’s Proposed Harmonization of a Quranic Contradiction

Does the Quran really deny that a person can bear the sins of another? Pt. 1, Pt. 2

We will conclude this series with an addendum where we will cite from specific Jewish sources to show that even Jewish authorities viewed Isaiah 53 as a prophecy concerning the sufferings of the Messiah. This will demonstrate that Christians aren’t the only ones who have taken Isaiah 53 to be a prediction of the vicarious death of Christ.

Endnotes

(1) Ironically, Israr Ahmad Khan’s book came highly recommended by none other than Shabir Ally himself in one of his “Let the Quran Speak” episodes (Following the Quran Alone?). The reason why this is ironic is because Khan’s work provides plenty of ammunition for Christians in their witness to Muslims, since it highlights the rather irrational and highly unethical teachings which pervade the hadith corpus. Khan even manages to put holes in the explanations given by Muslims to justify such silly and immoral stories and commands. We, therefore, highly recommend this book to any serious Christian apologist interacting with Muslims. We also want to thank Ally for bringing this work to our attention. Much appreciated!

U.S. Muslim Convert Joshua Lee Coffey Threatens to Kill Mother for Serving Pork

Mental note: Pork = Bad. Killing Mother for Serving Pork = Good.

Ethical instruction from the religion of peace.

Pennsylvania—An Elk County man was arrested last week after police said he threatened to kill his mother and her boyfriend because he thought they served him pork for dinner.

Joshua Lee Coffey, 25, allegedly brandished a 10-inch kitchen knife the evening of June 11 and told his mother Sherri Coffey he’d “f–king kill her” after she cooked him what he thought was pork, a forbidden food under Coffey’s Muslim religion.

Officers with the City of St. Marys Police Department responded shortly before 10 p.m. to a home on the 1200 block of East Eschbach Road for a report of a domestic altercation, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

Using their spotlights, they found two men in the backyard – later identified as Joshua Lee Coffey and his mother’s boyfriend, Mark Blair.

An officer said he saw a kitchen knife in Coffey’s hand, ordered him to drop the weapon and took the young man into custody without incident.

Further investigation allegedly revealed Mark and Sherri were eating a steak dinner in the home’s upstairs bedroom when Joshua burst into the room, “accusing Sherri of attempting to poison him,” the affidavit states. “Joshua claimed the meat he was given to eat was pork, which was against his Muslim religion.”

The assertion allegedly touched off a verbal altercation during which Joshua threatened to kill both Mark and Sherri.

He then allegedly went downstairs into the kitchen, retrieved the knife and held it “in a threatening manner” above his shoulder, prompting his mother to flee out of the bedroom window and onto the home’s roof.

Investigators said Joshua then held the knife to Mark’s throat and threatened to kill both Mark and Sherri if either of them called police. (Continue Reading.)

Syrian Refugees Marrying Off Young Daughters to Protect Them from Rape

CAIR-Washington Member Omar Abdelbadie Arrested for Raping Twelve-Year-Old Girl

Omar Abdelbadie was born in Egypt, but has lived in the United States for the past eight years. He is currently studying Neurobiology at the University of Washington. In his free time, he volunteers with CAIR-Washington, promotes interfaith unity as Vice-President of Bridges (the University of Washington's Interfaith Council), and walks the streets looking for little girls to ply with drugs and take back to his apartment. The only silver lining to this dark cloud of perversion is Abdelbadie's unnamed friend, who called police after realizing that a sex-crime had just been committed. (If this friend happens to be Muslim, I tip my hat to him, for living a far better life than some of his Muslim brothers across the Atlantic have been living.)

Of course, perverts can come from all sorts of backgrounds. The point here, however, is that Muslim preachers keep telling us that Islam is the solution to Western immorality. With so many recent cases of Muslim pedophiles targeting little (non-Muslim) girls, I'd say that Muslim preachers have lost the right to tell us what Islam can do for the West. When a religion glorifies a man who had sex with a nine-year-old girl, allows its adherents to rape female captives, and calls anyone who rejects the religion "the worst of creatures" (Qur'an 98:6), it will never benefit societies with large populations of unbelievers.

Omar Abdelbadie

Washington—A University of Washington student accused of having sex with a 12-year-old girl he picked up in the University District has been charged with child rape.

Currently free after posting bond, UW Senior Omar Abdelbadie is alleged to have plied the girl with marijuana, brought her back to his apartment and had sex with her hours after they met. Abdelbadie, a 22-year-old originally from Bellevue, was described by prosecutors as a threat to community safety, despite his lack of a criminal history.

“The defendant is a danger to children given the circumstances of this crime where he met a 12 year old girl on the street, exposed her to marijuana, and took her to his home, where they had sexual intercourse,” Senior Deputy Prosecutor Carol Spoor said in court papers.

Having left home that evening, the girl ended up in the U District just after midnight on June 10, according to charging papers. She told police she was about to head home – she described the crowd there as “creepy” – when she encountered Abdelbadie.

According to the girl’s account, Abdelbadie approached and struck up a conversation with her, and then asked her to smoke marijuana with him. The girl said she told him her age several times before he brought her back to his apartment, where he had sex with her after claiming she had “seduced” him.

The girl left Abdelbadie’s home the following day. Abdelbadie and a friend are alleged to have walked her home, and watched hiding behind a fence as she walked up to the house.

Abdelbadie’s friend – who met Abdelbadie when signing him up for a children’s charity -- then called 911 after arguing with Abdelbadie about his conduct with a young girl. Officers responded to the area and arrested Abdelbadie.

According to charging papers, Abdelbadie told police he met the girl walking near University Avenue and claimed she was dressed “provocatively.” He is alleged to have admitted he “hooked up” with the girl, but would not say whether he knew her true age. (Continue Reading.)

For more:

Copts Fleeing Egypt as Persecution Grows

Let it be known, both now and forever, that the United States of America helped cleanse Egypt of its ancient population of Coptic Christians. And now, the United States is arming Al Qaeda to help them cleanse Syria of Christians. Future generations will look back on our generation as the most cowardly bunch of sniveling terrorist-enablers the world has ever seen.

CAIRO – Thousands of Egypt’s Coptic Christians are fleeing to Europe, the United States and elsewhere rather than face mounting discrimination at home.

Copts, Egypt’s ancient Christian community, are the country’s largest minority, making up nearly 10 percent of its 85 million people.

But clashes between Christians and Muslims have become more frequent since the ouster of longtime authoritarian ruler Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 uprising – some say due to a breakdown of government security. Many Copts feel Egypt's Islamist-led government is not doing enough to protect them from religious hate crimes and inflammatory rhetoric – so many are leaving.

“My sister in California wanted a better life for her and her two daughters,” explained Marianne Aziz, a 25-year-old pharmacist. “There was a big fight between us and our Muslim neighbors over our parking place ... . They cut my brother-in-law’s face with a knife.”

Aziz said that after that incident, “My sister felt she was no longer safe anymore. She got a hospital report on her husband’s injuries and a police report and when they went to the U.S., she immediately [applied for] asylum.”

Egyptian now ranks as the second highest nationality to receive asylum in the United States – although it is uncertain how many are Copts because immigration statistics do not include religious affiliation, many of the asylum seekers are believed to be Christian.

The number of Egyptians receiving asylum in the U.S. has jumped more than five-fold in recent years. In 2010, the year before the revolution, just 531 Egyptians received asylum in the U.S.; in 2012, that number jumped to 2,882, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s statistical data for 2012. (Continue Reading.)

For more on Jihad, see my video:

How Isaiah 53 Proves That Muhammad Was A False Prophet Pt. 1

The following article was written by Sam Shamoun and is the first in a series of articles replying to Shabir Ally that will appear here and eventually on the Answering Islam website (Lord willing).

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Noted Muslim dawagandist Paul Williams posted a short clip from another renowned taqiyyist Shabir Ally who claimed that Isaiah 53 is really about Israel, not about a single individual. Ally further contended that the Gospel writers took this prophecy and wrote a narrative around it in order to make it seem that Jesus fulfilled this prediction of the Servant who suffers vicariously for the sins of others in order to make atonement for them (IsIsaiah 53 ‘The Suffering Servant’ a prophecy about Jesus? DrShabir answers).

Ally isn’t saying anything new here, but is simply repeating and rehashing the same worn out objections and criticisms of liberal critics of the Holy Bible, as well as Jewish anti-missionaries whose entire mission in life is to convince their fellow Jews that they must reject Jesus as a false Messiah.

Now before we delve into our response it is vitally important that we actually quote the entire context of this amazing and supernatural prediction of the vicarious sufferings and exaltation of the Messiah, starting with Isaiah 52:

¹³ Behold, My servant will prosper,
He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.
¹⁴ Just as many were astonished at you, My people,
So His appearance was marred more than any man
And His form more than the sons of men.
¹⁵ Thus He will sprinkle many nations,
Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;
For what had not been told them they will see,
And what they had not heard they will understand.

53 Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
² For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
³ He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

⁴ Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
⁵ But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.
⁶ All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.

⁷ He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
⁸ By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off out of the land of the living
For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?
⁹ His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

¹⁰ But the Lord was pleased
To crush Him, putting Him to grief;
If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
¹¹ As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities.
¹² Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out Himself to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.

Tragically, in their zeal to attack the Christian faith and the inspired Scriptures of God, these taqiyyists fail to see how the arguments and presuppositions of the Jewish anti-missionaries and liberal scholars end up proving that Muhammad was a false prophet (which he was for a variety of reasons) and that the Quran is a book of deception (which it actually is). It further illustrates their inability to critically analyze arguments and shows that they lack the prowess to reason and think logically. This explains why these dawagandists are constantly raising objections which can and have been used against them to prove that their own religious sources fail the very tests and objections leveled against the Holy Bible and the Christian faith.

Take, for instance, the claim that Isaiah 52:13-53:12 is actually about the nation of Israel or, as some would argue, the righteous remnant of Israel who suffer vicariously for the sins of their countrymen, as well as the Gentiles, in order to bring about the salvation of all the nations. Don’t these taqiyyists see that this particular interpretation is at odds with their religious beliefs, since even this view basically affirms that the Hebrew Bible actually teaches that God accepts the sufferings of the righteous as atonement for the sins committed by others?

Don’t they also realize that this proves that tauhid or Islamic monotheism is wrong when it says that Allah will not share his exalted status and rule over creation with anyone?

Do you not know that Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and that besides Allah you have no guardian or helper? S. 2:107 Shakir

And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and Allah has power over all things. S. 3:189 Hilali-Khan

And say: (All) praise is due to Allah, Who has not taken a son and Who has not a partner in the kingdom, and Who has not a helper to save Him from disgrace; and proclaim His greatness magnifying (Him). S. 17:111 Shakir

However, in clear contradiction of these statements, Isaiah prophesied that God would raise up his Servant to share in his exalted reign and glory:

“Behold, My servant will prosper, He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted (yarum wa'nissa wa'gabah).” Isaiah 52:13

Here, Isaiah uses the same words which he employs elsewhere in reference to Yahweh’s exalted position and throne from which he reigns over the nations:

“But the Lord of hosts will be exalted (wayyigbah) in judgment, And the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.” Isaiah 5:16

“In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted (ram wa'nissa), with the train of His robe filling the temple.” Isaiah 6:1

“The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high (marom); He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness… ‘Now I will arise,’ says the Lord, ‘Now I will be exalted (‘eromam), now I will be lifted up (‘ennase).’” Isaiah 33:5, 10

“For thus says the high and exalted One (ram wa’nissa) Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, I dwell on a high (marom) and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite.” Isaiah 57:15

Isaiah even says that Yahweh will humble all those who exalt themselves since he alone is to be exalted:

“The proud look of man will be abased And the loftiness (rum) of man will be humbled, And the Lord ALONE will be exalted in that day. For the Lord of hosts will have a day of reckoning Against everyone who is proud and lofty (wa’ram) And against everyone who is lifted up (nissa), That he may be abased. And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up (ha'ramim wa'hannissa'im), Against all the oaks of Bashan, Against all the lofty (ha'ramim) mountains, Against all the hills that are lifted up (hannissa'ot), Against every high (gaboha) tower, Against every fortified wall, Against all the ships of Tarshish And against all the beautiful craft. The pride of man will be humbled And the loftiness (rum) of men will be abased; And the Lord ALONE will be exalted in that day,” Isaiah 2:11-17

Thus, according to Isaiah’s prophecy the Servant, which taqiyyists like Ally and Williams want us to believe is Israel, reigns with Yahweh on Yahweh’s glorious throne, thereby sharing in his sovereignty over creation, something which Islam classifies as the unpardonable sin of shirk (cf. Q. 2:22; 4:48, 116; 6:83-88; 39:65).

And can’t these dawagandists see that even this interpretation necessarily includes Jesus? After all, isn’t Jesus an Israelite from the tribe of Judah, a physical descendant of Abraham and David?

“The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:” Matthew 1:1

“Then they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road. When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’ Many were sternly telling him to be quiet, but he kept crying out all the more, ‘Son of David, have mercy on me!’” Mark 10:46-48

“Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the descendants of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming in, he said to her, ‘Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.’ But she was very perplexed at this statement, and kept pondering what kind of salutation this was. The angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.’” Luke 1:26-33

“Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. And so, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne, he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that He was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did His flesh suffer decay. This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses. Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear.” Acts 2:29-33

“concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,” Romans 1:3-4

“who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises, whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.” Romans 9:4-5

“Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel,” 2 Timothy 2:8

“For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.” Hebrews 7:14

“and one of the elders said to me, ‘Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.’” Revelation 5:5

“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.” Revelation 22:16

And don’t both the Holy Bible and the Quran testify that Christ is absolutely righteous and pure?

“And he was preaching, and saying, ‘After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of His sandals. I baptized you with water; but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.’ In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Immediately coming up out of the water, He saw the heavens opening, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him; and a voice came out of the heavens: ‘You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.’… Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying, ‘What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!’” Mark 1:7-11, 23-24

“He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.” John 7:18

“And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him… Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?” John 8:29, 46

“But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you. You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.” Acts 3:14-15 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

“Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;” Acts 7:52

“And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear an utterance from His mouth.” Acts 22:14

“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21

“For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.” Hebrews 4:15

“The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing, but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently. Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever.” Hebrews 7:23-28

“how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Hebrews 9:14

“knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.” 1 Peter 1:18-19

“And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;” 1 John 3:3-7

"If thou fearest God ... He said, 'I am but a messenger come from thy Lord, to give thee a boy most pure." S. 19:19, Arberry

As such, wouldn’t this mean that Isaiah’s prophecy includes Jesus as well, seeing that he is an Israelite who is absolutely sinless?

To put this another way, if Isaiah 53 is a prophecy concerning the entire nation of Israel (as Ally and Williams claim), or a righteous remnant within it, suffering for the sins of others, then Christ must be included as part of Isaiah’s prediction seeing that he is the ideal Israelite, being the only One from among his countrymen to have ever lived a morally perfect life.

Since these gentlemen have demonstrated that they lack the capacity to think logically, I will try to help them to see how even their preferred interpretation actually ends up confirming the Christian understanding and explanation of Isaiah 53.

1. Isaiah 53 announces that Israel, or a righteous remnant within it, will suffer vicariously and bear the sins of all the nations in order to procure their redemption and forgiveness.
2. The Lord Jesus Christ was/is a righteous Israelite who is absolutely holy and morally perfect.
3. Jesus is, therefore, necessarily included within Isaiah’s prophecy since he is an Israelite who offered his life as a vicarious sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins.

No wonder the NT writers, in fact Jesus himself, alluded to,

“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45 – cf. Matthew 20:28

“The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” John 1:29

“The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus, the one whom you delivered and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him… For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.” Acts 3:13, 26

“God exalted this man to His right hand as ruler and Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.” Acts 5:31 HCSB

“And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.” Hebrews 9:27-28

“For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.” 1 Peter 2:21-25

Or directly quoted from this great prophecy to describe Christ’s atoning death:

“For I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me, ‘And He was numbered with transgressors’; for that which refers to Me has its fulfillment.”” Luke 22:37

“Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’ And he said, ‘Well, how could I, unless someone guides me?’ And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: ‘He was led as a sheep to slaughter; And as a lamb before its shearer is silent, So He does not open His mouth. In humiliation His judgment was taken away; Who will relate His generation? For His life is removed from the earth.’ The eunuch answered Philip and said, ‘Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself or of someone else?’ Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he preached Jesus to him. As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, ‘Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?’ [And Philip said, ‘If you believe with all your heart, you may.’ And he answered and said, ‘I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.’] And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him.” Acts 8:30-38

Unlike Ally and Williams, these inspired spokespersons of the living God seem to have realized that if the Lord Jesus doesn’t qualify to fulfill Isaiah 53, then there can be no fulfillment of this majestic prophecy since no other Israelite has ever been, nor can ever be, as righteous and holy as Christ was (and still is).

Hence, what started out as a refutation of the Christian interpretation of Isaiah 53 ended up supporting the Christian view that this glorious prophecy necessarily includes, and was perfectly fulfilled in, the eternal Person of our blessed Lord and risen Savior, Jesus Christ since he is the Israelite par excellence, the true Israel that God intended the nation of Israel to be but never became.

So much for the deceptive and desperate polemics of Ally and his band of dawagandists.

We are not quite through yet, since the worst is still to come for these expert taqiyyists.