Bill Warner - Mohammed and the Unbelievers

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OVERVIEW

KAFIR

The first step in learning about Islam is to know the right words. The language of Islam is dualistic. There is a division of humanity into believer and kafir (unbeliever) . Humanity is divided into those who believe Mohammed is the prophet of Allah and those who do not.

Kafir is the actual word the Koran uses for non-Muslims. It is usually translated as unbeliever, but that translation is wrong. The word unbeliever is neutral. As you will see, the attitude of the Koran towards unbelievers is very negative. The Koran defines the Kafir.

The Kafir is hated

40:35 They [Kafirs] who dispute the signs [Koran verses] of Allah without authority having reached them are greatly hated by Allah and the believers. So Allah seals up every arrogant, disdainful heart.

A Kafir can be enslaved [Bukhari is a sacred text, see page xii.]

Bukhari 5,58,148 When some of the remaining Jews of Medina agreed to obey a verdict from Saed, Mohammed sent for him. He approached the Mosque riding a donkey and Mohammed said, Stand up for your leader. Mohammed then said, Saed, give these people your verdict. Saed replied, Their soldiers should be beheaded and their women and children should become slaves. Mohammed, pleased with the verdict, said, You have made a ruling that Allah or a king would approve of.

A Kafir can be raped

I759 On the occasion of Khaybar, Mohammed put forth new orders about forcing sex with captive women. If the woman was pregnant she was not to be used for sex until after the birth of the child. Nor were any women to be used for sex who were unclean with regard to Muslim laws about menstruation.

A Kafir can be mocked

83:34 On that day the faithful will mock the Kafirs, while they sit on bridal couches and watch them. Should not the Kafirs be paid back for what they did?

A Kafir can be beheaded

47:4 When you encounter the Kafirs on the battlefield, cut off their heads until you have thoroughly defeated them and then take the prisoners and tie them up firmly.

A Kafir can be confused

6:25 Some among them listen to you [Mohammed], but We have cast veils over their [Kafirs] hearts and a heaviness to their ears so that they cannot understand our signs [the Koran].

A Kafir can be plotted against

86:15 They plot and scheme against you [Mohammed], and I plot and scheme against them. Therefore, deal calmly with the Kafirs and leave them alone for a while.

A Kafir can be terrorized

8:12 Then your Lord spoke to His angels and said, I will be with you. Give strength to the believers. I will send terror into the Kafirs hearts, cut off their heads and even the tips of their fingers!

A Kafir can be deceived

Bukhari 5,59,369 Mohammed asked, Who will kill Kab, the enemy of Allah and Mohammed?

Bin Maslama rose and responded, O Mohammed! Would it please you if I killed him?

Mohammed answered, Yes.

Bin Maslama then said, Give me permission to deceive him with lies so that my plot will succeed.

Mohammed replied, You may speak falsely to him.

A Kafir can be annihilated

6:45 So the Kafirs were annihilated. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds!

A Kafir can be robbed

Bukhari 5,59,537 On the day of Khaybar, Allahs Apostle divided the spoils of war of Khaybar with the ratio of two shares for the horse and one share for the foot soldier.

A Kafir can be killed

4:91 If they do not keep away from you or offer you peace or withdraw their hostilities, then seize them and kill them wherever they are. We give you complete authority over them.

A Kafir can be crucified

5:33 The only reward for those who war against Allah and His messengers and strive to commit mischief on the earth is that they will be slain or crucified, have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished from the land. This will be their disgrace in this world, and a great torment shall be theirs in the next except those who repent before you overpower them. Know that Allah is forgiving and merciful.

A Kafir can be made war on and humiliated

9:29 Make war on those who have received the Scriptures [Jews and Christians] but do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day. They do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden. The Christians and Jews do not follow the religion of truth until they submit and pay the poll tax [jizya], and they are humiliated.

A Muslim is not the friend of a Kafir

3:28 Believers should not take Kafirs as friends in preference to other believers. Those who do this will have none of Allahs protection and will only have themselves as guards. Allah warns you to fear Him for all will return to Him.

A Kafir is ignorant

6:111 Even if We had sent down the angels to them [Kafirs], the dead had spoken to them, and We had gathered all things before their eyes, they would not believe unless Allah had willed it, but most of them are ignorant.

A Kafir is blind

27:80 You can not make the dead listen or the deaf to hear, when they have turned to flee, nor can you guide the blind from their errors

A Kafir is arrogant

40:76 Enter the gates of Hell to live there forever. Evil is the abode of the arrogant ones.

A Kafir is evil

23:97 And say: Oh my Lord! I seek refuge with You from the suggestions of the evil ones [Kafirs]. And I seek refuge with you, my Lord, from their presence.

A Kafir is a liar

51:10 Cursed are the liars, who stumble along in the depths of ignorance!

A Kafir is disgraced

37:18 Tell them, Yes! And you [Kafirs] will be disgraced.

A Kafir is a partner of Satan

25:55 And still they worship others besides Allah who can neither help nor hurt them. The Kafir is Satans ally against Allah.

A Kafir is unclean

9:28 Oh, believers, only the Kafirs are unclean.

A Kafir is cursed

33:60 They [Kafirs] will be cursed, and wherever they are found, they will be seized and murdered. It was Allahs same practice with those who came before them, and you will find no change in Allahs ways.

In Islam, Christians and Jews are infidels and People of the Book; Hindus are polytheists and pagans. The terms infidel, People of the Book, pagan and polytheist are religious words. Only the word Kafir shows the common political treatment of the Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, animist, atheist and humanist. What is done to a pagan can be done to a Jew or any other Kafir.

The word Kafir will be used in this book instead of unbeliever, non-Muslim or disbeliever. Unbeliever or non-Muslim are neutral terms, but Kafir is not a neutral word. Instead, it is extremely bigoted and biased.