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| 08-26-08 | 5 | 1\1 |
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If anyone wants to undearstand Islam, understanding Muhammad is a must.
This book from an insider's perspective is an excellent effort by Mr. Ali Sina. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-29 08:21:55 EST)
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| 08-26-08 | 5 | 1\1 |
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If anyone wants to undearstand Islam, understanding Muhammad is a must.
This book from an insider's perspective is an excellent effort by Mr. Ali Sina. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-09-02 08:31:37 EST)
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| 07-25-08 | 5 | 10\10 |
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I have read many, many books about Muhammad and Islam trying to understand why the followers of this "religion" are so hateful, intolerant and perpetually angry. Why was Muhammad so cruel, manipulative, domineering and apathetic? How did he amass so many followers completely willing to stop thinking rationally and allow themselves to commit horrible atrocities? How is it that after 1400 years the attitudes haven't changed? This is by far the best information available.
Dr. Ali Sina is a former Iranian Muslim who operates a website called faithfreedom.org to educate both Muslims and non-Muslims about the dangers of following this cult. His book explains in depth the very likely psychological and physical problems suffered by Muhammad. The most obvious being Narcissitic Personality Disorder or NPD. Defined by DSM as a pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and sense of entitlement. Often individuals feel overly important and will exaggerate achievements and will accept, and often demand, praise and admiration despite worthy achievements. Other criteria such as being obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence; interpersonally exploitative; devoid of empathy; arrogant;constantly envious are all descriptors of Muhammed. What is worse is that this personality disorder seems to have been bequeathed to his followers througout it's existance and we are seeing it in abundance today. Other issues like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder help explain why Muhammed was obsessed with illogical rituals such as abulution before prayer for example:washing of nostrils by sniffing water into them three times, wipe whole head with wet hand once, wipe inner sides of ears with forefingers and the outer sides with thumbs, wash two feet up to the ankles three times beginning with the right. Other rituals include:how to make yourself pure after having sex, touching a dog, how and with what to wipe after defecating etc..and how these rituals are mandated and still performed by todays Muslims. Sina also details the physical aliments most likely suffered by Muhammed like Temporal Lobe Epilepsy that perfectly explains why Muhammed believed he was being visited by Gabriel and numerous other characteristics and behaviors. I cannot possibly list them all. Also of importance is the comparison of Islam with other cults and their leaders especially Jim Jones of the infamous Jonestown. This is particularly helpful in proving Muhammad as nothing more than a dangerous cult leader. The information in this book is endlessly reasearched, factually accurate and from the Islamic sources themselves. Disregard all the negative reviews of this book and books like it from people who claim it is false, taken out of context, or misleading. When pressed, they never, ever are able to list one example of how the information is misleading. It is a clever attempt to keep the non-believers in the dark and is even in the Quran. Do not fall for it any longer. I encourage the reader to pass along the information gained from reading this book and continue to educate yourselves to the truth about Islam. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-26 08:30:08 EST)
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| 07-19-08 | 5 | 3\3 |
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All people who are ill do not produce ill thoughts and do not do acts of evil. Only some people who are ill do. Muhammad was probably one of those, his illness used as an instrument by others, who then profited. Should be read by all muslims espesially, all over the world, and the sooner the better. Together with christians, but not neccesarily at the same place or in the same room. Muslims should now allow Muhammad to be put at risk of beeing "de-troned", like alle other leaders are or will be, once light is forcused on them. All great leaders seems in a way to benefit from this, making their descisionmaking more understanable, why not scritunize the prophet,to the benefit of all muslims? Ali Sina has done a good work and a good book here. To learn a lot from, understanding the unfolding drama becomes more and more important every day, every hour - counts. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-01 08:30:26 EST)
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| 07-07-08 | 5 | 7\7 |
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Had I not taken the advice of several of the above reviewers, perhaps I would have passed up this rational and unrefuted psychological examination of Mohammad and the true explanation of what (and why) muslims think and act as they do. I've never read anything as compelling with the potential of freeing enslaved minds as well as shaking up Islamic apologists.
I'll never view another news story, read another account of Islamic culture or history without appreciating and applying what I have learned. Muslims will continue to threaten Ali Sina with hell. Nothing in this work dissuades a person from a belief in God but I imagine readers will never again be able to keep a serious face when someone says Mohammad's Allah is God Almighty, creator of the universe. No question Islam is a house of cards and will soon collapse. Buy the book, buy it new, I imagine his security costs are high. You'll benefit by acquiring one more degree of understanding above these cultists that may in time be used to help them and all of civilization. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-01 08:30:26 EST)
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| 06-28-08 | 4 | 7\8 |
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Few people know Islam well like Ali Sina - and even less match his courage in taking such a firm stand against it.
He is one of the few to critically analyze the root of Islam through the means of rational thinking and modern storiography - without the relativist curtain and the will of appeasing foreign cultures that is so widespread among many Western intellectuals. He is certainly the first to take the next step and analyze the psyche and mindset of its founder through the lens of modern psychology. The picture he draws is extremely disturbing - but sadly, everything that Sina argues is soundly foolproof, reliably quoted from mainstream Islamic theology. This is both the strength and the weak point of this book: many people who are not accustomed to the main points of the critic of Islam will be surprised by the harshness of words against Islam's doctrine and its founder, that is why I recommend this book only to those who are already familiar with the doctrine of Islam beyond its facade of Taqiya and political correctness. If you are a Muslim don't bother: you might even change your mind about being one after reading it. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-07-07 04:53:06 EST)
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| 06-26-08 | 5 | 1\1 |
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There are many biographies of Muhammad and they all look the same. Even if we compare Muhammad's biography from his first biographer Ibn Ishaq, with, say, the one from Robert Spencer (The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion), we will not find many differencies. Basically Ishaq views Muhammad's murders, genocides and debaucheries as holy acts of Allah's Apostle worthy of emulation, while Spencer sees them as contemptible, but the content of both books is basically the same.
Ali Sina writes about Muhammad from different and so far largely unexplored point of view. After recapitulation of Muhammad's life written by critical pen of ex-muslim he examines Muhammad from point of view of modern psychology, psychiatry and psychopathology. He discovers Muhammad as a cult leader of the same kind as Adolf Hitler, Josif Stalin or Jim Jones. He is quoting from psychiatric textbooks and descriptions of different cults and compares described psychopathology with Muhammad's behaviour in different situations and shows that his personality fits the profile of mentally disturbed person and cult leader like a hand in a glove. Classical martial wisdom says: know your enemy. For a practicing muslim Muhammad is a perfect model of conduct worthy od emulation in every aspect. Therefore his personality is the key to understanding of thinking of Muslims and of danger that those who really follow their prophet are posing to us - and also of unstable situation of those muslims who are living with idyllic fantasies of him. Ali Sina's book is unique and propably the best available tool which allows us to get such understanding. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-28 04:41:34 EST)
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| 06-22-08 | 5 | 6\14 |
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Prophetic Analysis from staringattheview.blogspot.com
Imagine that three individuals were each commissioned to prepare the psychological profile of a self-appointed religious prophet who founded a tightly-knit community in Arizona in the mid-1800's. The prophet, soon after the death of his wife of 25 years, began having dreams about the six-year-old daughter of his best friend and persuaded the friend that God had told him to marry her. He later used the same God-told-me-so line to convince his adopted son to divorce his attractive wife so he could marry her as well. The community was polygamous, but the prophet was the only man who could have as many women as he wanted. The community had few financial resources, so the prophet developed the idea of robbing stagecoaches and trains that passed through the area. Slavery was legal within the community, and the people who were not killed on these raids were used and sold as slaves. Male members of the community had full sexual access to the female slaves. The prophet's ambitions were much larger than the few hundred converts he garnered his first few years. He fully expected all the people of the area to accept his prophethood and join the community. When some refused, he turned viciously against them. Eight hundred men were killed in one day, and the rest were driven to outlying regions. When he realized that his people did not have the agricultural and industrial resources to provide for the needs of the community, he came up with a new strategy. He again attacked the people he had recently driven away, this time allowing them to live in exchange for giving him fifty percent of their produce. Shortly before his death, he stated a new ruling that they were to be driven completely from Arizona and never allowed to return. As often happens with religious and political leaders who see themselves as chosen vessels, the prophet became more intolerant to criticism as he grew older and more powerful. Stories of the murder and assassination of his critics became increasingly common. One of his disciples bragged that he had come across a one-eyed sheep rancher who said he would never join the prophet's group. The disciple waited until the rancher fell asleep, and then thrust a sharpened stick into the rancher's good eye so hard it came out the back of his neck. The disciple next captured an associate of the rancher, tied his thumbs together, and led him to the prophet. The prophet laughed so hard at the sight, according to the disciple, that, "You could see his back teeth". The prophet blessed the disciple when he heard how he had killed the one-eyed rancher. About the same time a 100-year old poet wrote lines critical of the prophet and his followers. In reference to the many regulations the prophet had established for the community, the poet noted, "You follow someone who divides everything into `This is allowed' and `That is forbidden'." As soon as the prophet heard this, he sent someone to assassinate the old poet. A second poet, the mother of five children, was courageous enough to criticize the murder of the old man. She wrote, "I despise you people....you who obey a stranger and expect good things from him after he killed all your leaders." The prophet, realizing he was the "stranger" she was writing about, sent one of his followers to kill her. She was murdered in her bed that night with her nursing child lying by her side. Her murderer, perhaps touched with remorse by the heinousness of his crime, asked the prophet if anything bad would happen to him. The prophet replied that her death was of no more significance than two goats butting their heads together in the back yard. Some time after the prophet's death, it was discovered that the Arizona desert underneath his followers' feet contained the world's largest diamond resources. Community members became wealthy beyond their wildest dreams, and began to use their new-found riches to extend the prophet's vision that the entire world come under the influence of his teachings and principles. Now back to the first sentence, where "three individuals" are each commissioned to write a profile of the prophet. The first is a university professor who is an expert in the teachings of the prophet even though he has not joined the prophet's community. He was recently given 25 million dollars by that community to establish a university department where the teachings of the prophet are examined. He is careful to only teach a version of community history appoved by his sponsors. His students rarely learn incidents such as the deaths of the poets and the role of the community in the slave trade as noted above. They know nothing about the world-wide political aspirations of the group. The second individual is a fully-committed member of the community. She has been taught since her birth that the life of the prophet is the perfect model for all humankind to follow. She doesn't even know many of the details of that life, such as his treatment of the exiles who did not accept his message. She only knows what she was taught, one side of the story, and is not interested in learning more. The third person is an ex-member of the community. He was born and raised within it, similar to individual number two, but at a certain stage began to question the things he had always been ordered to simply believe. His questioning led to doubt, and the doubt resulted in his leaving the community. He now sees himself as free, but his former associates, including individual number two above, view him as a traitor. Even the university professor, individual number one, despises him because he is not sufficiently "academically trained", according to the professor, to critically examine the community of which he was once a part. Which of these three individuals might give the most objective profile of the prophet's life? If your answer is individual number three, I recommend this book by Ali Sina. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-26 17:07:45 EST)
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| 06-19-08 | 5 | 10\10 |
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I had anxiously awaited this book for some time, being a huge fan of Ali Sina from his website, Faithfreedom.org, as well as from his contributions to Islam-watch.org. His writings are always well-researched, insightful, illuminating, and fascinating. He combines a deep understanding of the human soul and mind with a deep understanding of Islam, the Muslim mind, and the cultural factors involved in the Muslim world. He is never apologetic, and is often accused of being a liar simply for telling the ignorant what they really need to know. This book is quite an ambitious project, but a necessary one, and Ali Sina is the perfect person to undertake it, as he is ever-able to combine his deep-rooted regard for the truth about Islam, which is almost invariably quite ugly, with an unabashed compassion for Muslims, since he believes that we must never sink to their level, but rather, always abide by the Golden Rule, love our neighbors, and hope that one day they will come to understand that what they believe is evil through and through, that Islam is not a religion, but rather a nihilistic Nazi death-cult and a totalitarian, colonialist political movement. I like to agree with him and believe that Muslims are good people, who are victims of inhumane circumstance, and who simply need deprogramming and a solid dose of the truth.
This book should be required reading in schools. Sina goes beyond Robert Spencer's "The Truth About Muhammad," which is also fantastic book and should also be required reading, but Sina seeks to answer the question "so what was wrong with Muhammad?" As it turns out, lots. He takes into account his childhood, which was unstable, and during which he alternately experienced undue adulation and a complete lack of love, resulting in one of the most extreme cases of malignant narcissism the world has ever seen. Combine these experiences with a medieval Bedouin culture which is actually quite similar to Arab culture today, in that it is a "shame" culture, like that of the Nazis and the Shintos, which substitutes honor for morality. It is a culture in which one does not take pride in hard work, one does not admit one's faults, accept blame, or ever, under any circumstancs, acknowledge, let alone confront, societal, familial, and personal problems. The truth, like hard work and empathy, was never highly valued in the Arab world. It is important to understand Muhammad because 1.2 billion people follow his narcissistic, immoral/amoral example, to this day behaving and thinking in a clannish manner, never even conveiving of the Golden Rule, the ultimate moral compass, the basis of morality. Instead, they are forced to be OCD about the number of times they wipe their butts, bring "religion" into the bedroom, and have every behavior and aspect of life dictated to them, including which foot to put one's weight on while on the toilet, the proper showering procedure, and of course, every aspect of one's sex life. Muhammad was not only OCD. He was also a necrophiliac who reveled in zombifying people, if only by force. Cult leaders do this, and the more difficult the travails of one's "faith," the more inclined they are to believe it. After all, they've put forth too much effort for it to possibly be untrue, right? A million crazy rules serve as a substitute for morality in Islam because Muhammad was a power-hungry opportunist. There is no "thou shalt not kill" or "thou shalt not lie" in Islam. There is halal (permissible) and haram (forbidden). So while the Koran sanctions the rape of one's daughers and sisters (Q 2.071), lying to, stealing from, and killing unbelievers, infidel "sons of apes and pigs," one may never mortage a house, take out student loans, or enjoy a glass of wine. Islam is submission, and Muhammad was a power-hungry psychopath who needed for people to either submit to his will or die. While Muhammad was an unfathomably evil mad man, Sina manages to always portray him as human. To conceive of Muhammad as a monster is not only too easy, but also dangerous, as to do so would be denying that circumstances, people, and culture could create such a person. Sina believes that everyone is born pure and innocent. What one becomes after that is first a matter of chance, and then choice. Whereas I had always assumed that Muhammad was simply schizophrenic, what with the bells and whistles, the flashing lights, and then the all-out audio-visual hallucinations, Sina's thesis is that Muhammad actually suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy and agromegaly, which he does quite a good job at proving through historical reconstructions and psychological profiling. A schizophrenic would be unlikely to rise to power in the way that Muhammad did. This explains the visions, the fact that he often believed something had happened when in fact it had not, that he was always paranoid and extremely insecure (although malignant narcissism also explains those), which caused him to forbid anyone from marrying his wives after his death (including his 18-year-old brain-damaged widow Aisha), from ever looking directly at them, or from ever uttering an unkind word about him. We see the ramifications of this today. If someone insults "the leader" (arms straight out, zombie eyes), watch how angry Muslims become. Watch how they treat their women: they force them to wear veils which serve to deprive them of 100% of their diginity, identity, their femininity, and their sexual power; they murder their female relatives for speaking with an umarried male in public, etc., etc. This is partly because his agromegaly caused a greatly increased sex drive combined with impotence which even modern medicine is often unable to overcome. This fact, combined with his loveless upbring and abandonment by his mother, led to an extreme misogyny. Misogyny is obviously nothing more than narcissistic projection, since women are capable of doing everything that men are, plus childbearing, and most importantly here, controlling men with our sexuality. What two attributes do misygynists ascribe to women, Muhammad himself quite explicitly? Stupidity and weakness. Why? Because misogynists, even when they are intelligent enough to understand that they are being controlled, still allow themselves to fall under the spell of female sexuality, thereby making them necessarily weak, stupid, and subconsciously ashamed of that, particularly in a shame culture. So normal, natural sexual desire becomes unnatural, evil hatred. Pretty sick. The saddest part of the story of Muhammad as it has unfolded throughout history is what it does to families. By declaring that believers must love him more than their own families, generation after generation of Muslims mistreat their children, especially their daughters, who end up raising their own children without love. Children in the Muslim world undergo unspeakable horrors, not the least of which is growing up completely unloved, but also being taught to hate, female genital mutilation, general degradation, being told that they are evil, enduring sanctioned sex abuse at home, in school, and in mosques, sometimes even being turned into suicide bombers before they are old enough to understand what they are doing, and in the case of girls, being pimped away by their family at an always inappropriately young age, usually to someone much older or a cousin, always for money. Muslims have no choice but to learn to hate themselves, women, infidels, and pretty much everyone. The only people whom it is even acceptable to accept are Muslim men, and they are the oppressors, and are often child molesters, wife beaters, polygamists, pedophiles, and rapists, all of which are perfectly permissible in the Muslim world, thanks to the example set by their "prophet." Horrible, loveless childhoods, in addition to polygamy, cause the tragic, dangerous, and volatile cycle of narcissism to repeat itself over and over. Wafa Sultan, the renowned Syrian-American psychologist, once said that nobody could possibly read the Koran, believe a word of it, and maintain any semblance of mental health whatsoever. She is right. For the Koran is Islam, and Islam is Muhammad: malignantly narcissistic, incapable of love, incapable of even a basic understanding of humanity let alone empathy, completely immoral/amoral, regressive even by medieval Bedouin Arab standards, corrupt, intolerant, hateful, oppressive towards women and children, absolutely soulless, evil incarnate, and ultimately wholly political, but never divine. If this book were required reading, who knows how many millions of lives could be saved? Thank you Ali. Note to the buyer: please buy a NEW copy, if possible. Ali Sina is incredibly giving of his time and energy on Faithfreedom.org, and he does this because he wants to save lives. He finally undertook a project which will pay him. Let him get his due. Thank you. Also, these bad reviews are obviously from people who have not read the book. Ali Sina is frequently subjected to this sort of abuse for telling the truth about an evil cult. He also always manages to rise above it. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-22 06:44:08 EST)
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| 06-17-08 | 3 | 8\9 |
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Ali Sina is a brave man, and he make some interesting observations about the various mental illnesses and pathologies Muhammed exhibited. Unfortunately he isn't a very good writer and the book is a bit repetitive. Having said that, I do think this is a very important book and should be read by anyone who wants to understand the danger we face from this cult masquerading as a "Religion of Peace".
If people weren't so afraid of Islamic bullies in academia, we would see more analysis of Islam's fairly sordid origins. It's pretty clear from the Mohammedans who wrote reviews here, they didn't read the book, nor will they, because they aren't allowed to. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-22 06:44:08 EST)
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| 06-14-08 | 1 | 0\8 |
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It's so amazing in a time where our so called modern society allows prostitution and degredation of women in every sense of the word, crime has branched out into all aspects of society and all the world leaders that are actually starting wars (not just talking about it) are not muslim, we can still find time to waste writing fairy tales about how it's allll islam's fault. Yep... all the world's problems are because of Islam. (chuckles) I suppose world war 1 and 2 were started by muslims as well huh?
This book is just a little boy's cry that because he was born a muslim, Islam is the cause of all his problems... how's that for psycology? Religons don't kill people... people kill people, so stop blaming people who died over a thousand years ago for you simplistic attitude towards life. Peace. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-18 08:25:56 EST)
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| 06-03-08 | 5 | 8\8 |
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For over a year I have been waiting for Ali Sina's book "Understanding Muhammad". I honestly thought that it would be the usual drivel over Muhammad. Boy! was I wrong! I read the book with a very askance view. I was looking for the errors. I was aiming to pick apart the style needed to examine such a complex subject. I was aiming to critically expose every flaw.
I was wrong! It is a great book for any critical thinker. It is so refreshing to pick up a book that you cannot lay down. It is hard to write about this complex subject and keep the readers attention. But Ali Sina did it. I completed the book in two settings. I have some idea of how hard it is to convey basic ideas. That is the hardest thing to do in written communication and then to communicate a complete religion and its basic precepts is a totally different task. Well, Dr. Sina did it. Dr. Sina's use of professional views and scientific information to help weave his ideas and story line was basic into letting us understand Muhammad, maybe for the first time. No facts are assumed in this book. Opinions are stated as opinions and facts stated as facts and questions stated as questions. The only pursuit involved in this book is that of the absolute truth for a logical mind. Ali Sina has given us a book that can be used for future reference. He has produced a fantastic work presenting facts, associations and leaves the reader to make his own cognitive decisions. The book has given us so much to open our eyes to Islam and what it means to all. Now I actually feel that I "Understand" Muhammad. I hope that all atheists, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and Jews can read this book and read it with an open mind. It is by far the best book that I have read on the subject of Islam in that it really gets into the physical reasons why Muhammad should receive both our pity and hate at the same time. Muslims' negative reaction to this book is expected. I only wish they had read the book prior to commenting on it. Bert Higginbotham (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-15 08:04:55 EST)
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| 06-02-08 | 1 | 1\19 |
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This is a self proclaimed effort to malign a whole body of people by demeaning their culture, their faith, their religion and the one person they regard as the last prophet of God. It is ironic that some of the positive reviews should come from individuals who claim to be Christians, because Muhammad and his followers throughout the ages always held the position of Jesus, Moses, David and Solomon (among other Biblical prophets) very high in their faith. There is a whole chapter devoted to the Virgin Mother of Jesus in the Quran. It was a Christian monk (named Bahira) who first had identified Muhammad as a would-be prophet when he was a boy. Also, it was another (Waraqa, cousin of his wife Khadija) who confirmed that he indeed had gotten revelation from God through Archangel Gabriel. Abyssinian Christian king, Negus, gave political asylum to hundreds of New Muslims who were ordered to migrate to that country to flee the unbearable torture heaped on them by the Ruling Meccan pagans.
One needs to only look at the historically recorded facts and events in Muhammad's life to see how much compassion this holy man contained in his heart. Also, and this is very important, one may look at the vast literature of countless Sufi Saints of past and present -- lile Hafiz, Rumi, Shah Naqshband, Abdul Qadir Jinani, Muinuddin Chisti of Ajmer, Shah Ahmed Faruqi, and Shaykh Nazim Adil of Cyprus -- to see how these Saintly people were single-pointedly inspired by an explemplary father figure named Muhammad son of Abdullah. These Saints, their illuminated lives and their love of humanilty and service to mankind, regardless of religion or race, are all recorded and can be seen as never superceded by anyone else. The most important trait they shared as the focus of all their efforts is the love of Muhammad. This by itself should be proof enough of the extremely elevated moral character of Muhammad. One more point interesting to note is that just like it is the Sufi Saints and mystics with their love and tolerance who embraced Muhammad as a central figure in their lives, the Wahhabi heretics (who portay the same viciousness and hatred of this author, and perpetrate and condone murder and plunder of both Muslims and non Muslims in the name of religion) always oppose the Sufis and rejects all glorification of Muhammad in their version of Islamic theology and practice. Any coincidence? It is books like this, and people like the author, who incite many to be intolerant toward a whole population. In these peculiar times of ignorance and hedonism, narrow minded, deliberately distorted texts and out of context refrences like this book can surely create hatred of enormous proportions in the minds controlled by whim and fear. What a disgrace this is to scholarly minds all over the world. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-15 08:04:55 EST)
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| 06-02-08 | 5 | 6\6 |
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This book is undoubtedly revolutionary, whether you agree with it or not. For the last few decades, the Prophet Muhammad was portrayed as a Christ-type figure whom people stood at awe. Apologists like Karen Armstrong and John Esposito made Muhammad seem kind,generous, forgiving, tolerant, a supporter of both human and feminist rights, and wise leader. The cited facts show the contrary. The Islam most of us see in such documentaries like "Islam: Empire or Faith" and "Muhammad: Prophet of our Time", both by PBS, is an altered version of this faith that is reformed to fit modern standards. As we can see, throughout history, this type of view of Muhammad did not exist. Why would the early Muslims lie and slander their prophet? Clearly they thought this was who he was.
This book, like many others of its kind, represents a crack on the wall. Very soon this view will no longer be supressed. If anyone feels this book is wrong and promotes lies against this man, you are in luck. [...]. Some say this book won't affect anything at all, but I say to them, a waterfall starts from a single drop of water, and look what comes out of that. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-15 08:04:55 EST)
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| 05-29-08 | 1 | 0\5 |
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This book has twisted historical facts to create a monster of one of history's and today's most influential and loved persons. Ali may have realized the potential market for readers wishing to reinforce their preconceived and misguided prejudices towards Islam, and he wrote a book to exploit it. I am amazed at the author's arrogance in contrast to his lack of knowledge about history and religion. The wealth of actual Islamic teachings and well documented historical records of the Prophet Muhammad make deceptive claims like that of Sina seem absolutely fabricated from within his own mind, and it makes praise from his readers almost comical if not embarrassing. For every claim Sina makes through his own analysis, a scholar can find a thousand claims by actual historians and Islamic scholars in opposition.
This book is a selective choice of historical antidotes misinterpreted to serve an agenda and a bias. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-02 08:02:51 EST)
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| 05-22-08 | 5 | 7\10 |
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Ali Sina is uniquely qualified to write a book on Mohammad. He is an Iranian ex-Muslim, who grew up in orthodox surroundings, and underwent the same brain washing that every Muslim does. In his youth, he read the Islamic literature extensively and was filled with revulsion at the violence inherent in the Koran, the immorality of the Hadiths and the general venom which these books spew towards non-believers. He apostasized, and left his country for good, settling down in Canada.
Now he runs a website called faithfreedom.org bringing the truth about Islam to the entire world. There is also a testimonies section in his website, where ex-Muslims share their experiences of Islam. With this book Ali Sina joins the league of Ibn Warraq, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Robert Spencer in bringing the truth about Islam to a wider audience. Islam has survived on misinformation and repression. Throughout its 14 centuries of violent history, criticising Islam was a risk you could undertake only at the cost of your life. Now internet has enabled us to remain anonymous critcs of this ghastly cult. The veil has been lifted, now its only a matter of time before the cult of lies collapses like a pack of card. This scourge has troubled the world 20 times as long as communism and claimed 50 times as many lives, along with destroying advanced civilizations like Persia, Egypt and Mesopotamia, besides wiping out Buddhists from India and killing and subjugating millions of Hindus. Islam's decimation will come not a moment too soon, whenever it comes. And yes, I have a gut feeling that it will be within the next few decades. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-05-29 07:56:17 EST)
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| 05-16-08 | 5 | 10\13 |
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Any and all serious efforts to shine light on the darkness that is Islam is to be highly commended.
This book, and the author who knowingly subjects himself to Islam's characteristically harsh reaction by all who are caught in this web of lies and suppress all efforts to expose it for the death cult that it truly is certainly is worthy of deep respect. Thank you, Mr. Sina, for being willing to put yourself and those you love at risk in the honorable service of truth. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-05-23 08:07:51 EST)
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