Abdullah Sameer

أَلَا يَعْلَمُ مَنْ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ Does He who created not know, while He is the Subtle, the Acquainted? (67:14)

Brother Ismail responds to death threats

Brother Ismail, who has been posting videos on his journey from Islam and doing nothing but quote Islamic sources for the reasons why, has been receiving a lot of hate mail.  Not just hate mail, but death threats.  Speaking out against Islam is not easy, because you not only have to face rotten tomatoes from the crowd, but death threats as well.  Most of the time these are empty threats but sometimes your life can actually be in danger.  So let me ask you, why would we want to do such a thing?  Well, because some of us want to live according to the truth, and share what we think is correct, despite the consequences.     You can read more about Why I do this. Religion has some good and bad ideas.  We need to move away from these bad ideas and only stick to the good ones.  One alternative philosophy to religion is ‘Secular Humanism’.

I will also be making videos soonish, and I will also have to face the same death threats that he is facing.

I hope for a world where we can be free to criticize or discuss ideas without threat of violence and terror.  Be safe, my brother and friend.

 

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The historical basis for hadith

The corpus of hadith literature cannot be depended on.

The compilers of hadith (the muhaddithun), “no matter how dedicated, were simply too distant from the time of the Prophet, and forgery had become too rampant for authentic hadith to be recovered.”

Some anecdotes of the muhaddithun suggest that they could not prevent forged hadith from being circulated even in their own names.

Read more at Does the Hadith have a solid historical basis?

Muhammad’s Jewish wife Saffiyah

Muhammad chose the most beautiful girl from the tribe of Huyayy to be his wife.  He had her father and brother executed, and her husband Kinana tortured by fire to find his treasure.  In one tradition apparently Saffiyah hated Muhammad more than anyone else, because he killd her family members.  Do you think it was a good idea to marry her after killing her family members?

All of these facts are from the Islamic sources themselves.  Listen to Ismail explain the problems with this story: