Portal of deception
I recently denounced Islam.
It's not that I thought there was something wrong with the Quran, but it was the way they teach this travesty they call a "religion."
Although I have a few Muslims friends in real life, and they are great folks on a personal level, I have recently been exposed to some incredibly deceptive tactics both IRL and online.
For quite some time I had been speaking at a Comparative Religion forum which is located at the
www.ummah.com web portal. When I first went there almost a year and a half ago I met a couple people whom I thought were nice and everything seemed fine.
But suddenly, things started taking a wierd twist. Let me explain.
I don't speak Arabic, but I currently have 25 electronic translations of the Quran. This makes it fairly easy for me to compare translations, find the most common translation of a specific verse, and then use the common translation as the standard for interpreting the that particular verse.
I would even check out my interpretions online at some Islamic website just to make sure I had a decent and firm understanding of the verse.
Now, coming from a Catholic background previously, I have a very strong knowledge of both the Gospel and Torah. And I was reading in the Quran where it says various scriptures which confirm the authenticity of both the Gospel and the Torah. On some of the Qaran verses, in all 25 of my interpretations, it was 100% agreement on the authenticity of the Torah and Gospel.
So I brought this up in their Comparative Religion forum at
www.ummah.com and that's when all hell broke loose. This idiot moderator they have over there named "Moayidd" starts coming in with his Arabic language skills and proceeds to completely re-design the message of the verses to explain that the Quran does not authenticate or confirm the Torah or Gospel in any way shape or form.
So I'm watching this guy, and I'm looking at my 25 translations, and I'm reading what he's saying, and then looking at my 25 translations again from 25 different scholars, and I say to myself:
WTF?
So this bullsh!t story of his keeps churning out the crap, and then some of the other Muslims come into the forum- you know the type, the one's who's avatars depict war, killing, and anti-american, anti-christian propaganda- and they all sart saying how right this Moayidd moderator is. They proceed to tell me how corrupt the Gospel and Torah are, how Christians and Jews are all going to hell, how America is going to be destroyed, and all that wrought.
So I'm watching this stuff happening- and not only once, but hundreds of times- on my screen over the past year and a half. I'm watching how these "Muslims" are permitted to invite people on to their forum to discuss the comparitives between their religions, and while they are totally insulting decent Christians and Jews, they will then use their moderator tools to edit posts of non-Muslims to make it look like they said something they didn't say.
Not only that, if a non-Muslim were to speak out with anything that even showed the slightest disrespect for Islam he would get threats against his life in private messages, as well as publically chastized in the forums, and either a suspension or a ban from the forums.
So I'm observing this little act of deception going on at this forum, and I determined that the entire point of thier Comparative Religion forum was not to share a dialogue between faiths as advertised, but to use as a portal to propagate their hatred of Christians, Jews, Americans, Britons, and just about anyone/anything else that isn't Islamic ... all in the name of Islam.
Now, I have been on both sides of the fence- Christian & Muslim- but I confess right here and now that I have never experienced pure hatred from anyone than what I have seen dished out by Muslims. They will attempt to purposely decieve you if its in their best interests. They will lie to you, find allies against you, try to track your home address down through the internet, and purposely misguide you until they get what they want from you.
And what they want from you is to be like them. And that is very very sad.
I dunno but ... the Jesus that I know never taught me to hate anyone. Never taught me to be prejudiced, or to lie, or to decieve, nor to misguide anyone. He taught me to have love for one another, and not once did he ever attach that love to some condition of religion.
Well, I'm free of Islam now. After the kind of bizzare behaviour I have seen displayed online and in real life by Muslims, the best thing I can say about them is ... grow up.
I mean, nobody hates like Islam hates anymore. That type of religious hatred went out in the dark ages with the Crusades and before. It was left in the dust the day a man named Jesus got nailed to a cross for a crime he didn't commit; a crime we- as the human race- commited.
The crime of hatred.