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Phd in Islam PhD in Islam Lesson 1: Muslimspeak and Taqiyya Lesson 2: Jihad Lesson 3: Muhammad Lesson 4: The Quran and the Sunnah Lesson 5: Islam and Science Lesson 6: The Dhimmis Lesson 7: Pedophilia in Islam Lesson 8: Slavery in Islam Lesson 9: Women in Islam Lesson 10: Honor Killings Lesson 11: Gays in Islam (+ APPENDIX and GLOSSARY) APPENDIX GLOSSARY Archive URLs on page 3 Hi, I'm Professor Kafir and welcome to our PhD course in Islam. Since lots of people liked my interventions in pic related, I've decided to expand on the subject. I'm gonna tripfag so that muslims can't pretend to be me to post false info. Ever wondered what Islam actually says/thinks/orders about a certain matter? Why is it that muslims and infidels often say opposite things? What is the truth? More importantly: how do I DESTROY muslims with facts and citations from their own holy books when they lie about their religion? 1 In this study course, we will examine the most eloquent passages in the Islamic holy texts to really take a peek into the muslim mentality and find out their real beliefs and goals. Texts we'll use: >The Quran. The eternal, perfect, immutable Word of Allah. Here in several translations: quran.com >The Sirat. The biography of Muhammad (it's contained in the Sunnah). PDF: https://archive.org/details/TheLifeOfMohammedGuillaume >The hadiths. Millions of anecdotes (also contained in the Sunnah) about stuff Muhammad said/did. Many are considered as binding as the Quran. You'll be able to verify their validity on sunnah.com >'Umdat as-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller) A sunni manual of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) from the 14th century. Still considered valid by the prestigious Al-Azhar university, the greatest of the sunni world, and given to american converts to learn sharia. It's a manual of the Shafi school of jurisprudence, but the other 3 sunni schools agree on pretty much everything but the tiniest details, and when there are disagreements, the manual specifies it. PDF: http://docdro.id/smiCPxn --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 >"A Summary of Islamic Jurisprudence". A sunni manual (we'll focus on sunnis because they're 90% of muslims) of Islamic jurisprudence written in 2001 by Saleh al- Fawzan, professor of fiqh and one of the most respected muslim scholars in the world. Just to check if modern muslims still agree with their ancestors (they do. They always do). Vol. 1: https://Islamfuture.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/a- summary-of-Islamic-jurisprudence-volume-1.pdf Vol. 2: https://Islamfuture.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/a- summary-of-Islamic-jurisprudence-volume-2.pdf >Occasionally, other sunni or shia legal manuals. The curriculum will be thus articulated (if there is interest, otherwise I won't bother): >Lesson 1: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/193089072 Muslimspeak and Taqiyya (much more real and common than infidels think). >Lesson 2: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/193585054 Jihad (much more complex than you'd imagine). >Lesson 3: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/194939425 Muhammad (and why he was quite literally the anti-Christ). >Lesson 4: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/196163288 Quran and Sunnah (and why they're retarded). >Lesson 5: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/197349477 Science (what's that? is it halal to eat?). >Lesson 6: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/198520600 Dhimmis (a peek into your future). >Lesson 7: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/199793487 Pedophilia (and why it's endemic). 3 >Lesson 8: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/200684486 Slavery (the most honored muslim tradition). >Lesson 9: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/201800708 Women (and how to clean their litter box). >Lesson 10: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/203085261 Honor killings (wife or kid pissing you off? Sharia is the solution). >Lesson 11: http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/205236463 Gays in Islam (+ APPENDIX and GLOSSARY) Lessons will be on this board whenever I happen to have time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Lesson 1: Taqiyya Let's begin with Lesson 1: “How to understand Muslimspeak and spot Taqiyya”. Taqiyya (sacred deceit) is a practice ubiquitus in Islam. In the words of Sami Makarem, PhD in Middle Eastern Studies: >«Taqiyya is of fundamental importance in Islam. PRACTICALLY EVERY ISLAMIC SECT AGREES TO IT AND PRACTICES IT. We can go so far as to say that the practice of taqiyya is mainstream in Islam, and that those few sects not practicing it diverge from the mainstream. (...) Taqiyya is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era.» – Al Taqiyya fil Islam (Dissimulation in Islam), 2004, p. 7. Not surprisingly, the definition of “Taqiyya” is itself part of Taqiyya. Shia muslims will swear that it simply consists in denying to be a muslim when someone might kill or torture you for it. Sunni muslims will insist that it's true, and that only shias practice it anyway: sunnis are trustworthy fellas. Needless to say, things are a bit different. Taqiyya is such a detailed practice that can actually be divided into several sub- practices: >1) Taqiyya: Denying to be a muslim or that a certain practice or belief is part of Islam («Military warfare is not a part of Islam! Religiun of piss!»). 5 >2) Kitman: Lying by omission. Like not warning the police that a brother is planning a terrorist act, or quoting only part of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills a person «it shall be as if he had killed all mankind») while neglecting to mention that the prohibition only refers to the Children of Israel and that the rest of the verse (and the next) COMMANDS muslims to kill in undefined cases of "corruption" and "mischief". Two words that muslims interpret VERY flexibly (any criticism of Islam and any attempt to halt its spreading is mischief and corruption). >3) Tawriya: Intentionally creating a false impression to mislead infidels. It's very, very widely used, and we'll see it in detail later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >4) Muruna: “Blending in” among the kafirs (infidels) in order to advance Islam. Dressing like them, shaving, even drinking alcohol and eating pork. In 2013 Dr. Salim Abdul Galil from Al-Azhar university said that tricking infidels is allowed by sura 3:28 («Let not the believers take the disbelievers as friends instead of the believers [...] except if you fear a danger from them»). "A danger" is another extremely elastic phrase that can even mean "fear that they will hide their weaknesses if they know I'm muslim". Muslim terrorists in the West routinely use Muruna to go unnoticed and to run/shoot more comfortably in Western clothes. “Reliance of the Traveller” (a SUNNI manual, not shia) has entire paragraphs about how to fuck over the infidels: 6 >(r8.2) «Permissible Lying. >«Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praise worthy aim is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible (N: i.e. when the purpose of lying is to circumvent someone who is preventing one from doing something permissible), and OBLIGATORY TO LIE if the goal is obligatory. >«[…] Whether the purpose is war, settling a disagreement, or gaining the sympathy of a victim legally entitled to retaliate against one so that he will forbear to do so, it is not unlawful to lie when any of these aims can only be attained through lying. But is religiously more precautionary in all such cases to employ WORDS THAT GIVE MISLEADING IMPRESSIONS, meaning to intend by one's words something that is literally true, in respect to which one is not lying, while the outward purport of the words deceives the hearer, though even if one does not have such an intention and merely lies without intending anything else, it is not unlawful in the above circumstances.» ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But Reliance-san, I'm just a dumb goatfucker. How can I give misleading impressions to the kuffar? >(r10.2) «Giving a misleading impression means to utter an expression that ostensibly implies one meaning, while intending a different meaning the expression may also have, one that contradicts the ostensive purport. It is a kind of deception. >«(A: It often takes the form of the speaker intending a specific 7 referent while the hearer understands a more general one, as when a person asks a householder, "Is so-and-so here?" to which the householder, intending the space between himself and the questioner rather than the space inside the house, replies, "He is not here.")» That sounds terribly childish, Reliance-san. I'm appalled that a religion followed by 1.7 billion people would be as petty and childish as to include instructions on how to lie in their goddamn law manuals. >(r10.3) «Scholars say that there is no harm (def: p8.2 (A:)) in giving a misleading impression if required by an interest countenanced by Sacred Law that is more important than not misleading the person being addressed […]» Ah, ok then. Is jihad more important than not misleading the kafirs? (We'll find out in the next lesson. But yes. Yes it is.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But Islam is an honorable religion, r-right Reliance-san? They take oaths and promises very seriously. >(o19.1) «If one swears, "I will not eat this wheat", but then makes in into flour or bread (A: and eats it), one has not broken one's oath.» B-but using this principle allows you to break any oath or agreement.
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