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Book: The Misery of Islam
EuropeNews 11 January 2012
By Jaya Gopal
Introduction by Ibn Warraq
It gives me great pleasure to introduce Mr. Jaya Gopal’s
THE MISERY OF ISLAM.
To call Mr. Jaya Gopal’s book courageous is inadequate and in no way elucidates its real achievements which are not only many but very substantial and extremely important. This book must be read by everyone as an effective antidote to the many politically correct but historically and doctrinally incorrect apologies for Islam perpetrated by dogmatically Islamophile scholars such as John Esposito.
While many will find Jaya Gopal’s work one-sided, others, a far greater number will be grateful for a robust expose, uninhibited by political correctness of the totalitarian nature of Islam – a far more convincing account which explains the violence in Algeria, Iran and the Sudan better than the spurious, pseudo-sociological explanations that refuse to implicate Islam itself.
Jaya Gopal shows with inexorable logic that the barbaric treatment of women, religious minorities, apostates in Islamic Republics follows from the very fundamental principles of Islam and is not some aberration of it. In countries like Iran, the Sudan and Pakistan “Islamization” has effectively meant the elimination of human rights or their restrictions by reference to “Islamic criteria”. Jaya Gopal examines the Muslim sources for the career of the founder of Islam and finds that while Muhammad may well have been motivated by spiritual aspirations early in his ministry, he too readily succumbed to deceit and subterfuge to consolidate his political power later in his life.
Much of the modern violence of Islam can be blamed on the bad example set by the acts of the Prophet who was not above having political opponents assassinated, and who did not show much mercy when he had the entire male population of the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza (between seven and eight hundred victims) executed in cold-blood.
Mr. Jaya Gopal describes in great detail the bloody history of the early years of the Rise of Islam, in particular the shameful treatment of the dhimmis, the Christians and Jews and other religious minorities such as Zoroastrians. The lives of the dhimmis and not forgetting the so-called idolaters, that is, Hindus in India, was very precarious indeed, and punctuated with massacres or forced conversions.
Jaya Gopal has an eloquent chapter on the degradation of women and Islam. Women are considered inferior to men, and they have fewer rights and duties from the religious point of view. In regard to blood money, evidence and inheritance, a woman is counted as half a man, in marriage and divorce her position is less advantageous than that of the man, her husband may even beat her in certain cases.
There is a chapter devoted to the Koran. Jaya Gopal not only criticizes the doctrines contained therein, but also shows with copious examples, that there are many variant versions of this holy book, such that it makes it impossible to talk of the Koran. He points to the contradictions, grammatical and historical errors, interpolations and other weaknesses in the Koran to throw doubt on the claims made for it by Muslim apologists.
As long as there are courageous writers like Mr. Jaya Gopal, there is some cause for optimism that Islam will not destroy civilization. However, this is not time for complacency. We need a hundred Jaya Gopals to keep the torch of freedom burning.
Ibn Warraq
A sample of the book can be downloaded for free here.
The full book (397 pages) is available in PDF format on CD-rom at the low cost of $10, mailed to anywhere in the world. Orders taken at:
John Brown Press, P. O. Box 5224, Kansas City, Kansas, 66119 USA
John Brown Press can be contacted by email here.
Posted January 14th, 2012 by hrc
Book: The Misery of Islam
EuropeNews 11 January 2012
By Jaya Gopal
Introduction by Ibn Warraq
It gives me great pleasure to introduce Mr. Jaya Gopal’s
THE MISERY OF ISLAM.
To call Mr. Jaya Gopal’s book courageous is inadequate and in no way elucidates its real achievements which are not only many but very substantial and extremely important. This book must be read by everyone as an effective antidote to the many politically correct but historically and doctrinally incorrect apologies for Islam perpetrated by dogmatically Islamophile scholars such as John Esposito.
While many will find Jaya Gopal’s work one-sided, others, a far greater number will be grateful for a robust expose, uninhibited by political correctness of the totalitarian nature of Islam – a far more convincing account which explains the violence in Algeria, Iran and the Sudan better than the spurious, pseudo-sociological explanations that refuse to implicate Islam itself.
Jaya Gopal shows with inexorable logic that the barbaric treatment of women, religious minorities, apostates in Islamic Republics follows from the very fundamental principles of Islam and is not some aberration of it. In countries like Iran, the Sudan and Pakistan “Islamization” has effectively meant the elimination of human rights or their restrictions by reference to “Islamic criteria”. Jaya Gopal examines the Muslim sources for the career of the founder of Islam and finds that while Muhammad may well have been motivated by spiritual aspirations early in his ministry, he too readily succumbed to deceit and subterfuge to consolidate his political power later in his life.
Much of the modern violence of Islam can be blamed on the bad example set by the acts of the Prophet who was not above having political opponents assassinated, and who did not show much mercy when he had the entire male population of the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza (between seven and eight hundred victims) executed in cold-blood.
Mr. Jaya Gopal describes in great detail the bloody history of the early years of the Rise of Islam, in particular the shameful treatment of the dhimmis, the Christians and Jews and other religious minorities such as Zoroastrians. The lives of the dhimmis and not forgetting the so-called idolaters, that is, Hindus in India, was very precarious indeed, and punctuated with massacres or forced conversions.
Jaya Gopal has an eloquent chapter on the degradation of women and Islam. Women are considered inferior to men, and they have fewer rights and duties from the religious point of view. In regard to blood money, evidence and inheritance, a woman is counted as half a man, in marriage and divorce her position is less advantageous than that of the man, her husband may even beat her in certain cases.
There is a chapter devoted to the Koran. Jaya Gopal not only criticizes the doctrines contained therein, but also shows with copious examples, that there are many variant versions of this holy book, such that it makes it impossible to talk of the Koran. He points to the contradictions, grammatical and historical errors, interpolations and other weaknesses in the Koran to throw doubt on the claims made for it by Muslim apologists.
As long as there are courageous writers like Mr. Jaya Gopal, there is some cause for optimism that Islam will not destroy civilization. However, this is not time for complacency. We need a hundred Jaya Gopals to keep the torch of freedom burning.
Ibn Warraq
A sample of the book can be downloaded for free here.
The full book (397 pages) is available in PDF format on CD-rom at the low cost of $10, mailed to anywhere in the world. Orders taken at:
John Brown Press, P. O. Box 5224, Kansas City, Kansas, 66119 USA
John Brown Press can be contacted by email here.
Posted January 14th, 2012 by hrc
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