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Islam watch

 

Islam Watch is a website set up by a group of Muslim apostates who left Islam out of their own conviction when they discovered that Islam is not a religion at all. Here, one of its founders, M A Khan, explains their mission and describes the challenge ahead for Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

Most of us took a prolonged period of time to study, evaluate, reflect on and contemplate this religion of our birth – Islam. Having meticulously scrutinised Islam, we concluded that it is not a religion of peace at all, as touted by smooth-talking, self-serving Muslims and their apologists from non-Muslim backgrounds. The core of Islam – that is, the Qur’an, Hadis and sharia – is filled with unbounded hatred for the unbelievers, unbelievably intolerant toward them and extremely cruel and merciless to Muslims who dare to deviate an iota from its doctrine.

We realised that Islam is beyond alteration because Muslims – who attempt to modernise and reform its unremitting bigotry, irrational rituals and its cruel and draconian punitive measures – are targeted for annihilation. Our verdict was that the only way to escape from the tyranny of Islam is to leave it altogether. We have, therefore, discarded Islam from our lives so that we can be free to enjoy a normal, pleasant and humane life in complete harmony with all peoples on Earth, irrespective of their religion, race or creed.

Having thoroughly understood – through our meticulous investigation of Islam, lasting years to decades – that Islam was nothing but a lie, most of us have left Islam silently because of the fear for our lives. As Islamic terrorism and violence overwhelms the world, particularly in the post-9/11 years, we felt that it’s a responsibility upon us to make world’s 1.4 billion Muslims aware of the falsity of their religion and its cruel nature so that they can make informed choice and leave Islam to live with love, respect and harmony with rest of humanity.

We also felt it incumbent upon us to make the non-Muslim world aware of the reality of Islam and take timely precautionary measures against this religion of terror, hate and mayhem. We tell the world that the ongoing terrorism, unleashed by Islamic militants, is not an aberration from the so-called “peaceful religion of Islam”: instead, it is the real Islam preached and practised by its founder, Prophet Muhammad. A thorough study of the Qur’an and prophetic tradition (Hadith, Sunnah) makes it clear.

Islamic hate manual ...

aka: The 'holy' Qur'an

Islam Watch is founded by a few Muslim apostates. Hailing mainly from South Asia, some of us left Islam after 9/11; others have been apostates since before that. We aim to establish that Islam is false. We feel that it needs to be emasculated, marginalised or eliminated altogether, if the Muslim world wants to come out of its current backwardness and quagmire, characterised by poverty, corruption, illiteracy, violence, misrule and tyranny, into which it has been thrown due to Islamic indoctrination.

Our challenge

We challenge Muslims to debate on these assertions:

We assert that Islam is not a religion of peace but is founded on war, violence, terrorism, hate and injustice.

We affirm that Islam is a false religion.

We conclude that Islam is responsible for rampant corruption, widespread misrule, implausible tyranny, mindless terrorism, unrelenting violence and pervasive social injustice in the Muslim world.

Our mission

Our ultimate aim is to guide Muslims out of the fold of Islam. We also expect that critical voice against Islam will render it somewhat benign.

We plan to achieve our goals in the following ways:

  1. We will criticise and expose the real truth about Islam without minding about any political correctness, whatsoever.
     

  2. We will establish that Islam is false, that it is not revealed by any god, but was created by the prophet Muhammad himself to fulfil his greed, ego and ambition.
     

  3. We will prove that Islam has nothing to do with peace: instead, it is a dangerous cult founded through violence, terror, plunder and extreme injustice by its founder, Muhammad.
     

  4. We will prove that Islam is incompatible with the modern world. Islamic precepts stand in contravention of the concept of democracy, tolerance, human rights and gender equality and hence are dangerous for modern civilisation.
     

  5. We will demonstrate that Islamic terrorism, as witnessed today, is sanctioned by Islam. Terrorists did not hijack Islam: Islam itself has hijacked some otherwise good human beings and turned them into machines for terror, murder and destruction.
     

  6. We will also awaken the non-Muslim world, especially the West, about the short-term and long-term dangers of Islam to their good and benevolent society.
     

  7. As nontheistic humanists, we strongly affirm that human life should be guided by human conscience, wisdom and judgement based on the Golden Rules. This is an ever-changing, dynamic, process. As people gain new experience, scientific knowledge and insights into the workings of the world and human life, our ethical wisdom will change. Opposed to religious doctrines, we believe that no particular set of rules or values should be considered absolute and universal. We propagate the sentiment, “Live your own life and let other live theirs, as long as they don’t harm and cause nuisance to others.”
     

  8. Islam Watch will be dominated by ex-Muslim and moderate Muslim writers. We will make some room for non-Muslim authors to help us gauge how the non-Muslim world grasps the truth about Islam.
     

  9. To create a critical mass of critics of Islam from Muslim backgrounds, one of our missions will be to create new writers, critical of Islam, from among Muslims. We will put maximum effort into nurturing these nascent talents. To this end, we will urge Muslim writers to pen their critical thoughts on Islam, regardless of how good they are, and we will try to accommodate them on our website.
     

  10. Although Islam Watch has been launched by ex-Muslims coming mainly from South Asia, we aim to connect to Muslim apostates and critics from all corners of the world. We encourage them from all parts of the world to voice their opinions through Islam Watch.
     

  11. Islam Watch will publish a comprehensive daily news concerning Islam from all corners of the world so as to keep our readers updated with the state of affairs of Islam worldwide. This, we hope, will transform Islam Watch into a unique hub for readers interested in the truth and reality of Islam from all corners of the world.
     

  12. We will publish a select number of op-ed/articles of non-Muslim authors of strongly secular conviction. Selection of articles by non-Muslim authors would be solely at discretion of the editors.

We have launched Islam Watch to expose the real Islam – the Islam that is determined to replace the modern civilisation with seventh-century Arab Bedouin barbarism, peddled as the true Islamic civilisation. Let the world watch Islam through Islam Watch – and be warned!

 

M A Khan is an ex-Muslim and a liberal humanist. He is the author of Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slavery.

He believes that Islam Watch, now in operation for three years and currently with  more than 4,000 unique visitors daily and growing steadily, is poised to become a leading freethinking initiative by ex-Muslims for the intellectual enlightenment of Muslims.

 

 

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