The blog entry is full of stupidity. He refuses to secure his wifi network because he has 6 pcs and 'finds it easier' without a key. Well Einstein, don't be surprised if you get more letters from Virgin and the BPI./rant
The Qu'ran, far from being "the unaltered word of God", is actually an horrific and savage compilation of distilled hatred. Work on collecting the verses wasn't even begun until long after Mohammed was dead, and it was pieced together from people who claimed to have known him or known people who knew him. Thus it's put together out of chronological order (already one alteration) and to try to claim "Mohammed" wrote it is laughable.
Verses were written down on anything from leaves to animal skin at the time. After his death, it was put together in a non-chronological order, but the actual text was not changed. No one claims he wrote it, the fact is he was uneducated and didn't know how to write.
The same is true for the other Muslim "holy books", the various collections of hadith (sayings of the so-called "prophet") that various factions believe are more or less authentic (the Sunni and Shi'a have their own favored set each, same for other sects).
Al-Bukhari did extensive research and travel before accepting any hadith, including checking the link between people who claimed to know the hadith, and making sure every person in the chain was trustworthy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahih_Bukhari/
Islam is not simply a religion; it is a design guidebook for the creation of a totalitarian state in which the "supreme leader" (Caliph) and his stooges get to use religion as an excuse to be really crappy to everyone else. And it's a lot easier to keep your population under control if they're too stupid to know better and terrified that a revolt might stop them from reaching "heaven." Muslim leaders are accountable to the court and people for anything they do. Even in the early days, they could be summoned to court to answer for an allegation against them. Unfortunately this isn't the case now.
And Mohammed, far from being a prophet, was an opportunist who figured like Akenaten, Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard that he could use religion as a tool and scam. Look at the various things he was "exempted" from. He "limited" other men to only 4 wives (already a mysoginistic bastard but we'll move on), but he himself got at least an even dozen, plus he fucked a 5 year old (Aisha) just because he got bored with adults. He raped a girl who had just seen her entire family slaughtered (Safiya) and then retroactively declared it a "marriage" the next day when his troops started complaining. Do you really think that someone who was a trickster would accept ~13 years of suffering in Makkah under the hands of his enemies without raising an hand in return. And even on the night he left Makkah, he was in possession of the property of some of the men of Makkah, who had given them to him to keep safe, and even when he was forced to leave, he ordered the return of their property.
I'd be really interested in your source for these claims.
This was before the monotheistic "Allah" was cooked up by Mohammed.
Question: Which pagan deity is Allah? Or else who was Abd'allah named for? The Makkans at the time believed in Allah already, it didn't need to be 'cooked' up. But they wouldn't accept that they would have to change their way of life, like giving to the poor and establishing social justice. The society at that time was a complete mess.
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The blog entry is full of stupidity. He refuses to secure his wifi network because he has 6 pcs and 'finds it easier' without a key. Well Einstein, don't be surprised if you get more letters from Virgin and the BPI. /rant