Muslim-only Spam

[Thinking Aloud]

This appeared in my inbox today - it's an "Open Letter to Muslims Only", so I read it anyway. You may have seen it already - offered here without comment.

AN OPEN LETTER TO MUSLIMS ONLY

Dear Muslim Brothers and Sisters,

God forbid if any one of our near one and dear one is
killed then the killer is evil, a beast and what not
and should get penalty but if one among us kills
anybody then he is not evil and we start lying,
denying or even justifying the killing.... double
standards?

Being Muslims, many of our brothers and sisters are
not working for peace. They are misguided, mistaken
and spreading the virus of hatred and revenge through
telling deliberate lies, disinformation and false
accusations, which is resulting in death and miseries
for number of innocent people living around the world
at the hands of merciless KILLER MUSLIMS and also
bringing bad name to Mohammed (PBUH) who never killed
anyone in his life time.

Instead of teaching about Good & Evil, certain Radical
Muslim Clerics are only "Trading in Religion". They
teach us about accusing, abusing and killing the
non-Muslims. They try to hypnotize us to Hate and Kill
the non-Muslims and brethren of other sects or be
killed and without using any common sense, we readily
believe in whatever is being said by these Hate
Mongers. Actually, they are "Agents of Satan" who is
paying them heavily and in return they are cutting at
the very roots of the Ummah. Instead of "Mourning"
most of the Muslims are rejoicing on the brutal
killings of the non-combatant innocent civilians and
"The Murderers" have always been "Our Great Heroes".

Before it is too late and the Curse Of God falls upon
us, we should use common sense, find out the TRUTH and
must change ourselves to save Muslims from becoming
the most "Hated, Isolated, Discredited and Suspicious"
people in the world. We must start working for
promoting "Sectarian Harmony and Religious Tolerance"
in the society and should prove to the WORLD through
our deeds that Islam is not a religion of Zero
Tolerance and Mohammed (PBUH) teaches "Love & Peace"
and not Gangsterism, Terrorism, Barbarism, Extremism,
Sectarianism, Cruelty, Inhumanity and "Hatred &
Killing" of the innocent civilians.

Islam is a religion of peace. Islam teaches respect
and love for all even the animals. But many
narrow-minded Muslims have so far failed to learn
anything good from the teachings of Mohammed (PBUH)
who preaches love for the peoples of all religions. We
are far away from the basic principle of Islam i.e.
"Enjoining the people to do Good and forbidding them
from Doing Evil" and thus, possess no quality of the
civilized society. Unfortunately, many of us show Zero
Tolerance towards others and have wrongly learnt few
thing to be called as good Muslims and those are
"hate" the non-Muslims and "Accusing, Abusing and
Cursing" the non-Muslims. ...act of madness?

The killing of others in the name of religion is a
Sin. Can a FATHER ever teach his Children to be the
permanent Enemies of each other?

The time has come for us to stop readily believing in
whatever is being said, read and written by the LIARS
/ Hate Mongers. Unfortunately, some misguided-Muslims
believe that the Holy Koran and Holy Prophet (PBUH)
both have instructed Muslims that the opponents be
KILLED and that they are simply following the orders.
We should use our own common sense and only believe
which is logical, convincing and in the best interest
of the humanity.

Why do we hate others so much, may be they are better
humans then what we are. My feeling is that the
Muslims should unite to discredit and deactivate the
fringe mullahs (Preachers of Hate) who promise a quick
trip to paradise to people who have little and
sacrifice themselves with bombs strapped to their
bodies. If the mullahs (THE LIARS) thought that it
really was a way to paradise they would be strapping
bombs to themselves! Their followers are kept too
ignorant to see this for themselves and enlightened
Muslims should educate them. We must promote
understanding and peace. We are all watched by the
same God and need to help one another, not Hate and
Hurt.

Our contention is that the WORLD should resolve the
conflicts facing the Muslim World to stop the
terrorism. Unfortunately, all the disputes facing the
Muslim World are our self created. The root causes of
all the disputes are based on the Muslim Philosophy of
Hate against the non-Muslims. The Muslim literature,
teachings and preaching are spreading and injecting
this hatred in hearts and minds of the Muslims. Our
intolerant behavior is further proved by the root
causes of all the pending conflicts that we (Muslims)
cannot live side by side in peace with the
non-Muslims. All the disputes facing Muslim World can
be resolved easily, only if we (the Muslims) are able
to condemn the "Philosophy of Hate" created in us by
our past and present elders who have divided the
peoples of the world in the name of "Religion, Cast
and Creed".

Fellow Muslims! if God is one and he loves mankind, we
should value each others life and strive to protect
each other than thinking that if we kill we shall have
reward. God looks at human beings not as belonging to
different religions, that is why the rain falls to
all, the sun shines to all and we all breathe the air
freely. We are all created or given life in the very
same way- whether Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jew etc.
Let us learn to love each other sincerely.

The change of heart and mind is possible to achieve if
we keep up our relentless efforts for a violence free
and peaceful world. We need to preach love, kindness
and humanity with extremist devotion and mission. The
mullahs (THE LIARS) and the preachers of HATE must be
excommunicated at every level and we should stop
giving them donations as it is our money which is
being used by them to spread HATRED for killing of the
innocents.

We must also stop dividing the World into Muslim and
non-Muslim blocks. Our political leaders and religious
teachers must offer positive ideas. Without the
ability to imagine a better world, we cannot build
anything together. Tolerance of the beliefs of other
peoples in the world, warmth and friendship across
racial cultures MUST be the objective of all peace
loving people worldwide. What is being offered today
through religion is "Death, Destruction and
Sufferings".

MY PRAYER FOR PEACE:

Merciful God, please give to peoples of the world, the
required wisdom and determination, to Forgive and
Forget the bitterness of the past and learn to live in
peace like brothers and sisters, by condemning the
divisions and hatreds created in us by our past and
present elders.
(Amen)

Please Read And Circulate this Message For Peace.
Thank you.

S.A.Rehman
Peace Activist
PAKISTAN

[charlou]

God looks at human beings not as belonging to
different religions, that is why the rain falls to
all, the sun shines to all and we all breathe the air
freely. We are all created or given life in the very
same way- whether Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jew etc.
Let us learn to love each other sincerely.

That's ... quite beautiful.

[klr]

God looks at human beings not as belonging to
different religions, that is why the rain falls to
all, the sun shines to all and we all breathe the air
freely. We are all created or given life in the very
same way- whether Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jew etc.
Let us learn to love each other sincerely.

That's ... quite beautiful.

It didn't mention atheists though, did it?

Just asking ...

[Xamonas Chegwé]

It was nice up until the point where they mentioned god.

[klr]

It was nice up until the point where they mentioned god.

Being Muslims, that's sort of an occupational hazard.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

It was nice up until the point where they mentioned god.

Being Muslims, that's sort of an occupational hazard.

*sigh* I hate explaining jokes.

Read the quoted passage and see how long before they mention the G word.

[klr]

It was nice up until the point where they mentioned god.

Being Muslims, that's sort of an occupational hazard.

*sigh* I hate explaining jokes.

Read the quoted passage and see how long before they mention the G word.

Sorry, I hadn't read it from the beginning - busy day here.

[charlou]

Who gives a fuck when the message is equality and unity? That's humanism, and the god notion is superfluous.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Who gives a fuck when the message is equality and unity? That's humanism, and the god notion is superfluous.

I'm afraid it isn't. The whole passage is a crock of shit. God doesn't make it rain, the sun shine, or provide the air we breathe. The only true statement in there is that god doesn't care what religion you are - but NOT for the reasons stated.

It reads like a fluffy piece of all-embracing niceness but, in reality, it is reinforcing the idea that religion is a force for unity, peace and love in the world - which is patent bollocks. By all means accept the tenet that all men are equal and should be treated as such but keep fucking god out of it cos that bastard has been doing the exact opposite ever since the first cave-dweller dreamed him up.

[charlou]

Who gives a fuck when the message is equality and unity? That's humanism, and the god notion is superfluous.

I'm afraid it isn't. The whole passage is a crock of shit. God doesn't make it rain, the sun shine, or provide the air we breathe. The only true statement in there is that god doesn't care what religion you are - but NOT for the reasons stated.

It reads like a fluffy piece of all-embracing niceness but, in reality, it is reinforcing the idea that religion is a force for unity, peace and love in the world - which is patent bollocks. By all means accept the tenet that all men are equal and should be treated as such but keep fucking god out of it cos that bastard has been doing the exact opposite ever since the first cave-dweller dreamed him up.

You rant about 'that bastard' as if you believe 'he' exists.

[klr]

Who gives a fuck when the message is equality and unity? That's humanism, and the god notion is superfluous.

I'm afraid it isn't. The whole passage is a crock of shit. God doesn't make it rain, the sun shine, or provide the air we breathe. The only true statement in there is that god doesn't care what religion you are - but NOT for the reasons stated.

It reads like a fluffy piece of all-embracing niceness but, in reality, it is reinforcing the idea that religion is a force for unity, peace and love in the world - which is patent bollocks. By all means accept the tenet that all men are equal and should be treated as such but keep fucking god out of it cos that bastard has been doing the exact opposite ever since the first cave-dweller dreamed him up.

I tend to agree with XC.

I say re-write the passage by taking God out of it, and see what's left ...

[charlou]

Who gives a fuck when the message is equality and unity? That's humanism, and the god notion is superfluous.

I'm afraid it isn't. The whole passage is a crock of shit. God doesn't make it rain, the sun shine, or provide the air we breathe. The only true statement in there is that god doesn't care what religion you are - but NOT for the reasons stated.

It reads like a fluffy piece of all-embracing niceness but, in reality, it is reinforcing the idea that religion is a force for unity, peace and love in the world - which is patent bollocks. By all means accept the tenet that all men are equal and should be treated as such but keep fucking god out of it cos that bastard has been doing the exact opposite ever since the first cave-dweller dreamed him up.

I tend to agree with XC.

I say re-write the passage by taking God out of it, and see what's left ...

I don't need to do that because I already exclude the god notion (as I said, superfluous), but I'm neither blinkered against the intended purpose of the message, nor incapable of personally taking an allegorical view of how it's presented.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Who gives a fuck when the message is equality and unity? That's humanism, and the god notion is superfluous.

I'm afraid it isn't. The whole passage is a crock of shit. God doesn't make it rain, the sun shine, or provide the air we breathe. The only true statement in there is that god doesn't care what religion you are - but NOT for the reasons stated.

It reads like a fluffy piece of all-embracing niceness but, in reality, it is reinforcing the idea that religion is a force for unity, peace and love in the world - which is patent bollocks. By all means accept the tenet that all men are equal and should be treated as such but keep fucking god out of it cos that bastard has been doing the exact opposite ever since the first cave-dweller dreamed him up.

You rant about 'that bastard' as if you believe 'he' exists.

Only in the way that any other fictitious character exists. And 'rant' is a rather loaded term.

[Hermit]

...reinforcing the idea that religion is a force for unity, peace and love in the world - which is patent bollocks.

Yes, just imagine if there was no religion...

Back in the real world, there are about 1.3 billion muslims, and I do not anticipate that that particular religion will fade into non existence any time soon. Meanwhile I won't need much time to make up my mind which I prefer - a wishy washy, let's all love each other regardless of our differences type islam, or jihadists calling for the death of everybody they disagree with and are in some cases actually prepared to sacrifice their own lives to bring that about.

On its own the Open Letter to Muslims Only is probably of microscopic effectiveness, but I hope that those who think that islam cannot change remember that christianity was at least as brutal in the past. It just took a few centuries to stop killing people who had different beliefs.

[charlou]

Only in the way that any other fictitious character exists. And 'rant' is a rather loaded term.

True. You talk about 'that bastard' as if you believe 'he' exists.

As you said, people invented 'the bastard, God'. But it's a meme that evolves as people manipulate it. Liberal christians are a case in point. Their socially developed humanism means that theirs is a god of love and they've removed the concept of hell from their belief system because they find it repugnant and/or plain ludicrous.

The vast majority of believers in the meme of god aren't going to listen to atheists telling them their 'bastard god is bastard', so just stop believing in it and be nice to each other, already. They're far more likely to take notice of people speaking from within their belief system, people who promote the values that the vast majority of empathic individual human beings recognise and fundamentally appreciate for a better humanity: peace, equality, unity, and who speak to them on their level, within their logical and rational paradigm.

Over time, religion becomes so diluted by this humanism, and further diluted by education, that the final step of acknowledging that the god notion is superfluous, and the atheism about all the various gods will be taken that one god further. Atheists won't achieve atheism for theists, theists will.