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Terror Networks & Islam
The Ever-Changing Islamic God, Allah
2005-10-13
A Faith Freedom piece.
By: Vernon Richards, author of: ‘Islam Undressed’
Following the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, Islamist sites all over the world praised it as a divine act by Allah. In their minds, it became proof manifest that Allah is on their side and wants to help them destroy the infidels. Googling reveals 126,000 hits on the subject of Allah punishing the US through Katrina.
The Islamic scholars all seemed quite certain it was evidence God was really cheesed at us...
Such logic claiming Allah caused 1000 American causalities is difficult to reconcile with the much larger losses in the Bam, Iran earthquake, the 125,000 causalities (plus 110,000 missing) suffered in the Muslim world by virtue of the Dec tsunami, or the 30,000 or so causalities suffered from the most recent earthquake in Pakistan / Kashmir.
Centered, we might add, on Muzaffarabad, a hotbed of terrorism...
Devout Muslims in the past attempt to get around this quandary by claiming the tsunami was aimed at bad Muslims in South Asia involved in homosexuality and fornication, or part of an Indian/Israeli/American conspiracy.
That'd be the Halliburton Quake and Natural Disaster Division, of course...
I would guess that a high percentage of the dead would take issue with the claims they were bad Muslims.
No doubt they would, if they weren't dead...
It would appear that if Allah punishes through nature, he is currently much more intent on killing Muslims than infidels. When one tries to find google hits of articles relating to Allah punishing Muslims by earthquake in Pakistan one finds only about 9,000 hits, and most of those are ‘shoe on the other foot’ pieces mocking the earlier Muslim claims regarding Katrina. Interesting though, there are a few Muslim pundits claiming Allah is punishing the ultra-fundamentalist region because of Pakistani alliances with the US . Islamists can always find a way out of their own arguments, apparently.
Sophistry, apparently, isn't confined to the West...
Should we conclude that the people hurt and killed in this latest natural catastrophe are all evil apostates?
Probably not. Some of the teevee images are heart wrenching...
Or can we infer that Allah has changed his mind (again) and now favors another religion over Islam?
That's an idea we should be pushing, but Christian theologians appear to lack testicles and most other religions don't care.
If God changed his mind once, then what is to keep the all powerful one from switching his alliances again? According to the Muslim Qur’an, Allah suddenly decided one day while speaking to Muhammad that he only loves people who believe in his designated psychopath, and no longer had any feelings whatsoever for all other creations. He further revealed that the proper path in dealing with unbelievers was through the sword, slavery, and death. Quite a switch, really, from everything he had previously communicated to his designated representatives. So perhaps now He has tired of all the murderers arriving in heaven to claim their mansions, 72 wide-eyed virgins, and dozens of boys like pearls. Perhaps he took a new decision to find a better class of neighbors to rub shoulders with. All those mujahedeen miscreants have undoubtedly proven to be a total bore to socialize with, since all they want to talk about is sex and violence. So Allah might well have changed his mind again deciding to only accept as neighbors men and women who care for and help their fellows.

Or here is a radical thought, as long as we are drawing reasonable inferences from empirical data, 
perhaps God never changed after all! In fact, wasn’t He already supposed to be omnipotent and omniscience prior to Muhammad? And since already fully formed and perfect, isn’t it reasonable to assume such a mature being is not likely to exhibit adolescent tantrums nor wild personality swings? Maybe, 
just maybe, this Muhammad guy is a total farce who never had an inkling what God was like, let alone communicated with Him. Maybe God never changed, and all Muhammad’s claims otherwise are self-serving lies designed to assist in his version of Arab Imperialism. Mmmmm
 The reasoning here seems sound, and leaves one to feel sorry for Muslims worldwide deceived by such a ridiculous and transparent notion that God switched his personality, likes and dislikes, and his modus operandi in dealing with His creations.

The rest of the world can breath a sigh of relief, 
the Muslim God Allah is not affiliated with the actual Creator, and its only mortal men who want to kill us. Whew 
that was a close one! For Muslims the problem is much bigger. You see, their usual method of interpreting the data on natural-disasters supports the certainty that Allah has switched sides, which can’t be good news for them. A few more tsunamis and earthquakes, plus perhaps a plague or two, and Allah might just solve the mistake he started with Muhammad. Good luck with that!
We had a brief flurry of emails yesterday on the subject "My God can beat up Your God." Being a devout agnostic, I'm guessing that maybe he could, but that, if he exists, He's above such behavior. I'm also guessing He doesn't mind seeing proponents of such views heartily mocked.

Without going too deeply into my views on the Nature of God™, I can say what I don't think He is, and that's so insecure that He can't exist without millions or even billions of people bowing down in the direction of His rock collection five times a day and telling Him how wonderful he is. By the same token, I'm not at all sure He requires people to handle snakes or to run up and down church aisles speaking in tongues. I don't believe that God requires human sacrifice, whether it's tossing your first-born into the fiery furnace in tribute to Moloch or on an Aztec altar or on a bus in Jerusalem. Assuming the existence of God, He probably did create us with a purpose, but I don't think that purpose includes wearing turbans, waving scimitars or AKs, jumping up and down, hollering "Allahu Akbar" and killing infidels.

On the other hand, still assuming he exists, God may well have a sense of humor. If Mecca suddenly sprouts a volcano where the rock collection used to be, then we know he does. Demolishing Muzaffarabad only suggests he does.

"Lord, gimme a sign!"
Posted by:anonymous5089

#6  My Deity: definitely a sense of humor, irony, and no need for the butts in the air 5 times a day
Posted by: Frank G   2005-10-13 15:38  

#5  Satanic Verses, baby!

(or is it Satanic Versus?)
Posted by: Hyper   2005-10-13 15:24  

#4  The epicentre of the quake was the location of Jihad central: the region of Pakistani Kashmir where the majority of terrorist camps were, where even OBL was rumored to have relocated.

Allah has quite a sense of humor. Even the most rabid of jihadists: the ones who cut the throat of old hindu women in their own homes, are not islamic enough to escape divine punishment.

Posted by: john   2005-10-13 14:42  

#3  Thor Odin and the rest of us AEsir are getting mighty upset with this little southern godling.

We need a few more mead based group discussions before we take action but the trending is there.

Thor has not swung his hammer hard in a long while (although he did rent it out the the Halliburton Earthquake Division)

Odin is waiting until his ravens recover from west Nile virus.

Loki is having fun playing with some minds. He really liked working with the Halliburton Tsunami division and got a lot of good ideas that he's been discussing with the Midgard Snake and Fenrir (Fenris Wolf). Bet on lots of new and innovative developments from this enlightened cabal.

Skadi has some rage to get rid of too..

It will make for good sagas.
Posted by: 3dc   2005-10-13 12:32  

#2  The faith based way to look at is is this. God doesn't micromanage, he tests. Earthquakes and tsunamis and hurricanes are just part of his ammo list. If you pass the tests you go to Heaven/Paradise for eternity. If you fail you go to hell.

Pain and suffering and anguish and all of that for our insignificant life spans is nothing when compared to eternal life in heaven or hell.

Personally I beleave living in Las Vegas with Sin on demand is a far greater test of the faithful than living in taliban controlled Afghanistan where one must actively hunt out an exposed ankle. Clearly the jihadists do not trust themselves to pass God's tests.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2005-10-13 11:54  

#1  Mr. Vernon Richards is at his brilliant best when he says "...this Muhammad guy is a total farce who never had an inkling what God was like, let alone communicated with Him. Maybe God never changed, and all Muhammad’s claims otherwise are self-serving lies designed to assist in his version of Arab Imperialism...."

I would like to add here that Mohammad, a pervert from his childhood, contrived this belief called Islam purely in order to satiate his basest desires of rape, loot, and murder. When religions throughout the world says it is a sin to kill, a sin to covet, a sin to commit adultery, a sin to give false-evidence, a sin to steal, it is only Islam which says all these are fine so long as you rape, loot or kill non-moslems, and that god [allah] would reward them with 72 virgins and 20 young boys in an islamic paradise where they can indulge in a never ending sexual orgy.

Mohammad was very clever in telling the equally perverted, degraded followers of his that he has the God's Word on this. Naturally the Arabs who were leading a miserable existence then [oil was yet to be found] were ready to do anything to enjoy riches and forbidden pleasures. They thought if we follow this man and indulge in loot and murder we can enjoy the belongings of others. If in the process we die, we would get transproted to Jannath (islamic heaven) where rivers of wine, honey and milk would flow and where we will have the service of 72+20!

Mohammad, as befitting any sexual pervert, was a pedophile too. Or else how would this old man of 50+ years fantasize about having sex with a girl child of 6 years and below! {When he `married' the 6 year old Ayesha, this retard Mohammad `confided' in her that he used to have wet dreams of making love to her even as she was a 2 year old! Only Allah knows as to what Ayesha understood of this senseless rubbish.

If we go by the parable "Just as you sow, so shall you reap", the Moslems ever since the time of their prophet mohammad have sown seeds of sin throughout the world. It is now time for their harvest. It is their over grown sin in the form of Osama Bin Laden, Pevez Musharaff, A.Q. Khan, etc which is starring them in their face! Moslems who were once rulers in many parts of the world, today are leading a miserable existence as labourers, rickshaw pullers and criminals in spite of petro-dollar wealth! Their end is nearer than most of us imagined. The Lord Almighty has answered our Prayers. Soon enough this sinful religion called islam would be no more. Until then let us continue to offer our Prayers to the Almighty and remain vigil against Islamic terrorism. Let us also lend unstinted support to our respective governments in the War against Terror! For a while let us pack away luxuries such as human rights etc. to a unknown destination.
Posted by: Prof. Alex Wordsmith   2005-10-13 10:34  

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