Can Holla Forums fact check this response to Waleed Aly for me?
…Or you can reform your faith, stop placing your burdens and responsibilities on the kuffar, Waleed. It is not ours to bare and my people and culture in this age are becoming victims of it now as we have allowed hundreds of thousands of Muslims to come and live in the west with open bloody arms. I know there are so many happenings where the Islamic community are trying to reach out to everyone else in this country, but there is no evidence of reformation, just expectation that the wider Australian community can just 'tolerate' your culture or better yet become a fellow submissive of God.
I can't blame you, you can't just rewrite what is written in the Sunnah overnight, you can't change what is written about Muhammad life and deeds in the Hadith and Sira.
Most Muslims are either conveniently ignorant or silent about the history of horrific war crimes against the people in and around Medina, with Muhammad, drunk on political power, sanctioned as a spiritual leader in Medina after he was kicked out of Mecca in 622, rejecting a co-existence pact with the local customs of the territory. 622 (also being the beginning of the Islamic Calender.)
Slavery, Sex slaves, paedophilia, the child molestation of 9 year old Aisha. The aggressive raiding parties that ransacked the caravans of Mecca which lead to the battle of Badr in 624CE and sealed in place the aggressive ideology of Islamism in which the Jewish desert tribes of Medina (Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, Banu Quyrayza) stood no chance against. He ordered assassinations against his rivals. Banu Quyrayza massacre is a fancy highlight with the execution murder of 700-900 men and boys after surrendering to the Neo-cultist raiding parties led by the Green Smock wearer himself in 627.
""How can you seriously think that Muhammad was the perfect man to model yourself around.""
And though you can point at the finger at the cultural dominance and nasty bullshit of other faiths in the world, such as the Spanish Inquisition and religious infighting within Europe, The crusades (in which was mostly a response to aggressive attacks on European soil from Islamic armies). There has been huge reformation to the point where people are leaving Christianity in droves.
For balance sake, In Islamic defence, It also had a reformation once, during it's golden age, and a massive chance to calm the fuck down, with the embracement of Mathematics, Astonomy and free thought. But thanks to characters like Al-Mutawakkil with the school of Mu'tazila and Gazhali with the school of Ash'ari, + others enforcing the faith to the book and being obstacles against science and free thought. With a complete toppling of the civilization when the Mongols ransacked Baghdad in 13th century including the Bayt al-Hikma (house of wisdom). Luckily the West embraced and nurtured what was left of it (also the grassroots of the Renaissance in Europe.) This literalism comes from the core of Islamic faith, it is time normal people in the culture just ditched it altogether, much like we have ours.
All that remains is this aggressive, power-fetish political ideologues in the faith of mainstream Islam TO THIS DAY. You have crank laws that still are in practice today, such as stoning of women who are raped, cutting off the hands of people who steal, needing four male witnesses in defence to a woman's rape. You still have teachings and laws which demand Jizya taxes of non-muslims subjects living in Islamic regions, teachings that people who follow polytheistic faith must be killed, list goes on and on. None of this can be changed without removing selected text from the Qu'ran, as it is sole mutterings of Muhammad believing himself for being a prophet, as an avatar of god so to speak. All claimed to be the perfect pure word of god without contradiction, Not something that you can do at all.
And with teachings such as Taqiyya (where it is permitted for a Muslim to deny a religious practice or belief if they are in a situation where they fell that they are being persecuted or under compulsion.) and Kitman (The act of trickery and deceitfulness, permission to lie to the Kaffir and reserve true beliefs.) In this political climate, how can anyone trust what you are saying if these stupid things are in effect with the added baggage of your culture's history, arrogance and aggression.
I invite you to reform your faith or fucking leave it, pick one. Don't fucking demand us for forgiveness for YOUR mess, YOUR burden and YOUR cultural influence. In this "gleeful" Social Marxist west, we are forced culturally to create these double standards to give your culture a fair go every time shit like this hits the fan in non-muslim nations. I for one, have felt betrayed time and time again by this faith. I've have given it a fair go but now I offer it no mercy anymore.
Like I said, reform or leave it.