Every so often we try out new venues for expression. A commenter at one of my lesser known blogs suggested that I should contribute to Helium.com. I tried it out, making three posts in one thread. I have included the text of those posts below so that you can see what I wrote and that those posts were unexceptional.
The result was an email from a site administrator, demanding that I change my pen name and accusing me of posting offensive content. My response to that email follows, below the horizontal line, followed by the admin's email and my posts.
The result was an email from a site administrator, demanding that I change my pen name and accusing me of posting offensive content. My response to that email follows, below the horizontal line, followed by the admin's email and my posts.
Dear ------------,
I know of no valid reason why "Al-Dajjal" should be offensive to any open minded and rational person. Most Americans are unaware of its , meaning. Muhammad himself used that expression, which literally means "the liar", to name his worst adversary yet to come. Muhammad several times added Messiah as a prefix to that name. In fact, I am not a liar, I use Islam's own canon of scripture, tradition & jurisprudence to expose deception, not to deceive.
I have reviewed the three posts I made, and find nothing in them that should offend anyone. I did not impugn or attack any other poster. At one time, several months ago I considered writing an article in response to a contest but demurred because it was obvious to me that the research time involved would outweigh the reward and that my writing probably would not meet with approval. I find that judgment vindicated by the attitude expressed & implied in your email.
Last fall I was invited to guest post on a rapidly growing Conservative blog which logged its one millionth hit of the year April 21. I am proud of the fact that a daily series I post has contributed to that blog's growth and provided its readers with information they were not receiving elsewhere.
Several of my fellow bloggers enjoy trying out new venues. We discovered that Digital Journal is an unfriendly environment for Conservatives. Now you have shown me that Helium is another lowest common denominator / party line environment. I will save my friends from wasting their time.
The first amendment applies to the Federal Government, not to private entities. You have made it obvious that relevant, verifiable facts and hard questions are not welcome on your site; I won't hang around there. I prefer the company of open minded people.
I have reviewed the three posts I made, and find nothing in them that should offend anyone. I did not impugn or attack any other poster. At one time, several months ago I considered writing an article in response to a contest but demurred because it was obvious to me that the research time involved would outweigh the reward and that my writing probably would not meet with approval. I find that judgment vindicated by the attitude expressed & implied in your email.
Last fall I was invited to guest post on a rapidly growing Conservative blog which logged its one millionth hit of the year April 21. I am proud of the fact that a daily series I post has contributed to that blog's growth and provided its readers with information they were not receiving elsewhere.
Several of my fellow bloggers enjoy trying out new venues. We discovered that Digital Journal is an unfriendly environment for Conservatives. Now you have shown me that Helium is another lowest common denominator / party line environment. I will save my friends from wasting their time.
The first amendment applies to the Federal Government, not to private entities. You have made it obvious that relevant, verifiable facts and hard questions are not welcome on your site; I won't hang around there. I prefer the company of open minded people.
------------------- wrote:
Your name is offensive to many in our community. Please change your penname immediately. Go to My Articles>Account setting>scroll up to the top, middle tab and click "penname."
Also your board behavior has led to many moderator reports. I also see you have not written articles yet.
None of these are good introductions to this writing community. Please work within our requirements, and prove yourself a contributing writer to the site, or consider finding a site that works better for your interests.
None of these are good introductions to this writing community. Please work within our requirements, and prove yourself a contributing writer to the site, or consider finding a site that works better for your interests.
Please reply to this so I know your intentions.
--------------------------------Also your board behavior has led to many moderator reports. I also see you have not written articles yet.
None of these are good introductions to this writing community. Please work within our requirements, and prove yourself a contributing writer to the site, or consider finding a site that works better for your interests.
None of these are good introductions to this writing community. Please work within our requirements, and prove yourself a contributing writer to the site, or consider finding a site that works better for your interests.
Please reply to this so I know your intentions.
Community Manager
Content & Community Team
Helium.com
Al Dajjal
| Reply #72 on: May 04, 2008, 04:54:04 AM |
Again u do not answer my questions:--
why the prophet Solomon wanted to fight Saba' (Sheba)and why the prophet David killed Jalut (Goliath) and fought with Talut (Saul) against the disbelievers and why Moses fought the disbelievers. Those are the prophets of God and they had been taken the orders from him not from themselves. If u want to attack , please attack the God and do not attack the prophets.Please tell me what the Bible and Torah said about the disbelievers and what their fate in the hereafter. My dear friend do not expect to find any differences between Quran ,Torah and Bible because they are holy books of God and God does not contradict himself to write something different in these holy books.Again I will answer u and do not expect that u are the only one who know the history or u can deceive the people by remembering the actions of the Muslims against the others and neglecting the actions of the other faiths against the others in their centuries. Please listen to me:-This earth is the earth of God and he is only one who puts its laws and the law of God told that he is the only one to be worshiped and who worship anything other than God will go to hell and I think that all the religions remembered that and it is fact, who deny it , know nothing in this life. God is the one who sent David and ordered him to fight the disbelievers and he is the one who sent Solomon and ordered him to fight and kill the disbelievers and he is the one who sent Moses, Jesus and Mohamed and ordered all of them to fight the disbelievers and kill them but he added one advantage to prophet Mohamed ; to take the the 'jizyah tax from them and do not kill them and they keep their faith.This Jizyah was not 50% as u said but it was
Per Imam Shafi, "The minimum non-Muslim poll tax is one dinar (. . . 4.235 grams of gold per person (. . . per year). The maximum is whatever both sides agree upon."No trusted history book told about these 30,000 churches destroyed by the Muslims in Palestine. This is from your imagination.I do not compare religions here but i told u that all these religions are from the God and he is the only one who put its laws, not u or me. Try to understand my dear friend and do not attack all the time without thinking in the whole matter by broad mind.At the end the terrorists do not express the Islam or any religion. They express themselves and please stop and let us discuss other subjects.
"why the prophet Solomon wanted to fight"That question and those accompanying it are irrelevant ancient history, not germane to the question of tolerance / intolerance in Islam.
"Please tell me what the Bible and Torah said about the disbelievers and what their fate in the hereafter."
What God does to sinners after they die is not our problem unless we are unrepentant sinners. The current problems revolve around what one group of men do to another, claiming divine sanction for their actions.
"they are holy books of God and God does not contradict himself to write something different in these holy books."
The Hebrew & Christian scriptures predated Muhammad's recitation of the Qur'an. Muhammad had contact with at least one monk and other literate persons who were familiar with existing scripture, both canonical & apocryphal. He wove some of the latter into his recitations along with the former and he introduced chronological error in the process.
he is the one who sent Moses, Jesus and Mohamed and ordered all of them to fight the disbelievers and kill them but he added one advantage to prophet Mohamed ; to take the the 'jizyah tax from them and do not kill them and they keep their faith.
Where in the scriptures is it recorded that Jesus was commanded to fight & kill disbelievers? Where in the scriptures is it recorded that he engaged in combat? As-Saff 14
implies that Jesus recruited an army and defeated the Jews who did not accept his teaching. Where is that story in the New Testament?
Jizya, imposed in Al-Taubah 29, applies to Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians & Sabeans, who had the scriptures. Sahih Muslim Book 019, Number 4294 is written more broadly, but Reliance of the Traveler, Book O-9.8 & 9.9 make the matter starkly clear.
implies that Jesus recruited an army and defeated the Jews who did not accept his teaching. Where is that story in the New Testament?
Jizya, imposed in Al-Taubah 29, applies to Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians & Sabeans, who had the scriptures. Sahih Muslim Book 019, Number 4294 is written more broadly, but Reliance of the Traveler, Book O-9.8 & 9.9 make the matter starkly clear.
The caliph (o-25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (N: provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya, def: o-11.4) -which is the significance of their paying it, not the money itself-while remaining in their ancestral religions) (O: and the war continues) until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax
The caliph fights all other peoples until they become Muslim (O: because they are not a people with a Book, nor honored as such, and are not permitted to settle with paying the poll tax (jizya)}Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number 550:
Narrated 'Abdullah:
The Prophet gave (the land of) Khaibar to the Jews (of Khaibar) on condition that they would work on it and cultivate it and they would have half of its yield.
So much for inconsequential, symbolic Jizya!
Al Dajjal
| Reply #79 on: May 05, 2008, 01:30:36 AM |
Satan can deceive any one except the prophets because they are sinless and infallible
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/2sam/11.html2: Samuel 11:2...27 David the Prophet was guilty of adultery.
Quran 22:52. Never did We send a Messenger or a Prophet before you, but; when he did recite the revelation or narrated or spoke, Shaitan (Satan) threw (some falsehood) in it. But Allah abolishes that which Shaitan (Satan) throws in. Then Allah establishes His Revelations. And Allah is All-Knower, All-Wise:53:19. Have you then considered Al-Lât, and Al-'Uzza (two idols of the pagan Arabs)
53:20. And Manat (another idol of the pagan Arabs), the other third?
53:21. Is it for you the males and for Him the females?53:22. That indeed is a division most unfair!
53:23. They are but names which you have named, you and your fathers, for which Allah has sent down no authority. They follow but a guess and that which they themselves desire, whereas there has surely come to them the Guidance from their Lord!
For the dirty details (from Ishaq & Tabari) refer to:
http://www.muhammadanism.org/Quran/SatanicVerses.htm#ftn2
http://www.muhammadanism.org/Quran/SatanicVerses.htm#ftn2
Al Dajjal
| Reply #81 on: May 05, 2008, 03:34:56 AM |
I suspect the "disbelievers" he was referring to are those who have turned away the prophet Mohammed, not those who have never believed.
The term disbelievers refers to anyone who does not submit to Islam. It includes Agnostics, Atheists & Pagans. Believers in scriptural religions (People of the Book,mentioned in 9:29) are Kuffar: rebels against Allah. Muslims who recant are termed Apostates or Hypocrites.
Islam teaches that Jews and Christians should be accepted and loved
Perhaps you can show us where Islam teaches acceptance & love of Kuffar.
A search for "take not" returns hits in Surahs 3,4,5,9,16, 17 & 60. Relevant hits include:3:118, 4:89, 4:144, 5:51, 5:57 & 9:23.
A search for "take not" returns hits in Surahs 3,4,5,9,16, 17 & 60. Relevant hits include:3:118, 4:89, 4:144, 5:51, 5:57 & 9:23.
I am sorry to inform you that the injunction includes family members.3:118. O you who believe! Take not as (your) Bitanah (advisors, consultants, protectors, helpers, friends, etc.) those outside your religion (pagans, Jews, Christians, and hypocrites) since they will not fail to do their best to corrupt you. They desire to harm you severely. Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, but what their breasts conceal is far worse. Indeed We have made plain to you the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses) if you understand.
Consider what Allah has to say about Jews & Christians.9:23. O you who believe! Take not for Auliya' (supporters and helpers) your fathers and your brothers if they prefer disbelief to Belief. And whoever of you does so, then he is one of the Zalimun (wrong-doers, etc.).
8:22. Verily! The worst of (moving) living creatures with Allah are the deaf and the dumb, those who understand not (i.e. the disbelievers).
8:55. Verily, The worst of moving (living) creatures before Allah are those who disbelieve , - so they shall not believe.
98:6. Verily, those who disbelieve (in the religion of Islam, the Qur'an and Prophet Muhammad ()) from among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) and Al-Mushrikun will abide in the Fire of Hell. They are the worst of creatures.
9:30. And the Jews say: 'Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: Messiah is the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouths. They imitate the saying of the disbelievers of old. Allah's Curse be on them, how they are deluded away from the truth!
And what are Muslims commanded to do to us? For clarity, I prefer Rodwell's translation of 9:29
Ben 05/06/08 |Make war upon such of those to whom the Scriptures have been given as believe not in God, or in the last day, and who forbid not that which God and His Apostle have forbidden, and who profess not the profession of the truth, until they pay tribute out of hand, and they be humbled.