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"content": "As promised for reaching the goal for number of likes - here's chapter 1 of my new book - Chicken Balti Pies: and other \"Benefits\" of a Multicultural Society.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/blog/view/694501388528394246\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/blog/view/694501388528394246</a>",
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"content": "Been putting together ideas for my new book - Chicken Balti Pies: and other \"Benefits\" of a Multicultural Society.<br /><br />Chapters so far include:<br /><br />1. Diversity is our strength<br />2. I'm not racist, but...<br />3. Terror attacks are 'part and parcel' of living in a major city<br />4. Islam is a religion of peace<br />5. Islam is a feminist religion<br />6. Check your white privilege<br />7. The advantages of multiculturalism in the workplace<br />8. Black history month<br />9. So-called Islamic State<br />10. White flight<br />11. Refugees are welcome here<br />12. Cultural appropriation<br /><br /><br />Chapter 1 is almost finished so I'll post as a blog on here if this post gets 25 likes lol",
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"content": "Chapter Seven of Contradictions in the Qur'an is now available for you to enjoy. As a special treat, chapter eight will follow tomorrow.<br /><br /><br />Seven<br /><br />Liam joined Chloe at the same table they’d been at the previous night as he returned from the bar with their drinks. ‘I’d have got you a soft-drink last night if you’d have said. You didn’t have to drink a pint to look hard in front of me, you know,’ Chloe said, as she noticed the drink Liam had bought for himself.<br /><br />‘I think it’s a stupid law anyway: one sip and you’re over the limit. So it’s worth the risk every now and again. However if you break the law on a regular basis then you shorten the odds of being caught.’<br /><br />‘You mean like discussing terrorist activities in public?’<br /><br />‘You can’t stop thinking about that,’ replied Liam, with a smile on his face.<br /><br />‘I think you’re either crazy or you think you’re funny. Either way if you carry on talking like that on a regular basis then you shorten the odds of being caught.’ Chloe quipped, as Liam smiled at her. ‘Do you honestly think we live as dhimmis in our “own country”?’ she asked.<br /><br />‘Yes,’ Liam replied, with conviction.<br /><br />‘Go on then. You’d better explain yourself seen as though you sound so certain about it.’<br /><br />‘Okay. First of all, there’s the jizya, or poll tax, a tribute paid by Kafirs (non-Muslims) in countries under the control of Daesh.’<br /><br />‘There’s no such thing in this country,’ Chloe said.<br /><br />‘Is there not? Over the past decades the tax system has been simplified. One, to make it easier to understand. And two, to supposedly make tax avoidance harder. However as always, those at the bottom end up paying more tax and those at the top end up saving millions.<br /><br />‘For every single pound a person in England earns 30 pence of that is by law deducted in tax, which pays for health, education, pensions, benefits, the police, etc., regardless of whether someone is on the Contributing Wage working just four hours a week or earning a million pounds a week. However as the banking system is now essentially Islamic, tax is collected differently to how it used to be and a person has to state how their tax is sent to HMRC. Therefore a person can state that their local masjid can handle their tax for them and instead of paying it direct to the government they can “donate” 30% of their earnings to that masjid. Then six months later they receive a “tax rebate” of 15 pence in the pound, of their full wage, from HMRC as a “thank you”, with the masjid keeping a nominal percentage for its trouble. <br /><br />In effect Muslims only pay 15 pence in the pound tax to the government. Plus they get to benefit from the percentage of their earnings they effectively “donate” to the masjid in the various ways it is used to help the ummah. Such as university fees, private health care, private pensions and interest free mortgages. It might not be official but that sounds like a dhimmitude society to me,’ Liam said.<br /><br />‘Yeah,’ Chloe started, ‘but Kafirs can take advantage of the tax rebate.’<br /><br />‘Yeah you’re right, they can. If they convert to Islam, which many rich people have pretended to do although they have no allegiance to the political religion, its fictitious God or paranoid schizophrenic mass murdering paedophile charlatan \"Prophet\" Muhammad. But what they forget is that whilst they haven’t been taken in by Islam’s false pretences of grandeur and a life of jannah upon death is their children and grandchildren will be. They’ll be brought up with Islam being bombarded into their heads from a young age so they’ll have the fear of God put into them and the whole abuse cycle of Islam will have another section of the world under its iron grip. That’s essentially how Islam took hold in parts of the Balkans in the Middle Ages and is its preferred method of conquest in England.<br /><br />‘But the Muslims don’t want every English person to convert yet. Or revert as they patronisingly call it with their claim that all humans are born Muslim but they have to accept Islam. They’ve learned from their past mistakes and as things stand we’re worth more to them as dhimmis. Well I am. They might find some other use for you.’<br /><br />‘Eurgh,’ Chloe said, as she shivered and felt her skin crawl at the thought of being used as a baby-making sex slave compelled to tend to her husband’s every need. <br /><br />‘Don’t put thoughts like that in my head. So if, and that’s a big “if”, what you’ve just said is true, why has this been allowed to happen?’<br /><br />‘Jihad of the dollar. Or more specifically the money generated from the production of oil which became the world’s most valuable commodity in the 20th century, overtaking gold as the most revered natural resource to be found underground. One of the key oil fields is in Saudi Arabia; also the birthplace of the invention of Islam, the worst evil to ever shame the world.<br /><br />‘Because control of the Middle East had passed over to the Arabs by the time oil became a multi-trillion dollar empire, the money generated from it went directly to the governments of Saudi Arabia and other oil rich states such as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. So because the Arabs own the oil they’ve been able to use that wealth to help establish significant Muslim populations in virtually every country around the world. None more significant than the Muslim diaspora from South Asia that dominates England today. In turn they’ve since been able to install their own rulers in the West as agents to carry out the orders of their Arab masters as Daesh has slowly gained control in the region.<br /><br />‘The thousands of masajid that blight the landscape of England have been paid for by jihad of the dollar. And now not only do the Arabs have control over oil they also have control over our banking system. There were repeated warnings given to the leaders of the Western world at the start of the 21st Century to find an alternative energy source to oil. But the severity of those warnings were largely ignored. By that point the Western governments were already too far under the influence of the Muslim ummah and happy to be fed money that satisfied their own greed to the detriment of the people they were supposed to be representing and their future generations.’<br /><br />‘Well I certainly don’t remember being taught about that at school,’ Chloe said.<br /><br />‘No. Might cause a few people to think if it was and that’s not the purpose of education. The purpose of education, like religion, is to get a person to submit and conform to the wishes of their leaders and become a good citizen. Not to think independently and realise how the world really works and ultimately how unfair it is for the masses.’<br /><br />‘So where does Jillhad come into it?’ Chloe asked.<br /><br />‘That’s just because I’m an evil bastard.’<br /><br />‘Mmm,’ Chloe said, as she looked Liam deep in the eye, ‘I don’t doubt that for a second. So why don’t you do it yourself if you’re so “evil”?’<br /><br />‘Because I’ve been appointed to recruit and prepare the Jillhadists. I’m far too important to potentially die myself and don’t have any inclination to do so until I’m at least 80 and have left a legacy that will go down in history. Essentially I want to be known as the person who started the removal of Islam in the West.’<br /><br />‘Appointed by whom?’ asked Chloe, as she failed to pick up on the fact that Liam had just implied her life wasn’t worth as much as his.<br /><br />‘You don’t need to know that,’ Liam said, pointedly.<br /><br />‘You expect me to commit a crime which will ensure I spend the rest of my life locked up, that’s if I even manage to survive it, and at the same time you want me to be carrying my unborn child, who I’d never get to have any proper relationship with because she’d be taken away from me as soon as she was born, and you won’t even tell me who’s behind it all?’<br /><br />‘You’d d...’ Liam started, before Chloe interrupted him.<br /><br />‘And don’t say “you’d do it if you loved me”. I don’t “love” you Liam. I’ll never love you.’<br /><br />‘So why are you here then?’ asked Liam, as he purposely looked at her breasts. Chloe automatically became conscious of the way he was staring at her and found it unsettling at first but then leaned forward as if she wanted him to get a better view.<br /><br />‘Because I wanted to know if you was serious or not.’<br /><br />‘And?’ Liam asked.<br /><br />‘And what?’<br /><br />‘Do you think I’m serious?’<br /><br />‘I think you think it could happen in your head but you wouldn’t be able to go through with it in reality.’<br /><br />‘So if you don’t believe it could happen, how come you haven’t told anyone else about it?’<br /><br />‘How do you know I haven’t?’<br /><br />‘Because girls never do for some reason.’<br /><br />‘What happened to the other girls?’<br /><br />‘They’re fine. You could walk past them in the street and you’d never know they know what you know. It’s not easy to kill someone. Especially when you’re planning to do it. Between now and Showtime there’d be thousands of chances to back out. Thousands of opportunities to be caught. You could be stopped randomly by the police tonight and you’d arise suspicion just in the way you’d be over-defensive about having done nothing wrong or having nothing to hide. They might not arrest you, or even search you, but they’d always be watching out for you. And then I wouldn’t be able to use you.’<br /><br />‘And what if the police stopped you?’ Chloe asked.<br /><br />‘That’s the risk we’ve all got to take.’<br /><br />‘How can I trust you?’<br /><br />‘Because you love me.’<br /><br />‘Apart from that,’ Chloe said, before she clarified herself, ‘not that I “love you”.’<br /><br />‘How can you not trust me? What do you think this country is going to be like in a hundred years time? The Muslims understand that at the moment we mean more to them as dhimmis. But history shows that eventually most ethnic groups of Kafirs can no longer cope with paying the jizya and end up converting to Islam over a lengthy period of time, when given the alternative options of a life of slavery or death. Then the true flaws and inaccuracies of Islam come to the fore as entire regions stagnate and just plod along because they’re brainwashed into thinking there really is a better life waiting for them after they die.<br />‘There were loads ethnicities in the Middle East that were majority populations in their country when Muslims became their minority rulers. They either no longer exist or are such a tiny minority in the present day that hardly anybody in the West has heard of them, until a Fundamentalist group of Muslims tries to ethnically cleanse them.’<br /><br />Chloe tried to think of something to say that would prove to Liam he was wrong but stopped, feeling as if her brain was being squeezed by all the information he’d fed her over the past couple of days. Instead she shook her head and started to worry about what she would have to do to stop getting involved and ruining her life, and potentially the lives of hundreds of other people in the process.<br /><br />‘You don’t believe me, do you?’ asked Liam.<br /><br />‘It’s not that I don’t believe you. What you’re saying may well be true but it doesn’t prove that we live as third class citizens.’<br />‘Not officially we don’t, but that’s the clever thing about it. It’s been done slowly but surely over the past hundred years or so. One step at a time so that people don’t notice it unless someone brings it to their attention. However it’s against the law to even discuss the issue. So unless people go out of their way to investigate what’s been allowed to happen then they have no way of knowing what conditions they really have to live under.’<br /><br />‘Unless they meet someone like you,’ Chloe said.<br /><br />‘But I only spend my time with people who are worth it. A lot of people have the assumption it’s the government who make the laws in England. That’s true. However it’s the judiciary who enforces them. And the judiciary isn’t accountable to anyone so it can effectively impose the law in whichever way it deems fit. Therefore the judiciary can slowly but surely change the laws in England to benefit Muslims, if they’re being paid off by Daesh. <br /><br />‘Take for example the debacle that has happened with the assisted dying laws. Due to the joys of political correctness there are schemes in place that make sure a majority of judges are from a multicultural background, which roughly translates to them being either Muslim or at least openly pro-Muslim. Also, because the traditional English legal system is now seen as too archaic and long-winded, the vast majority of cases are heard in court without a jury. That means it is potentially easier for precedent law to be changed over time for the benefit of Muslims.<br /><br />‘Do you remember the two murder cases that took place round here a couple of years ago?’<br /><br />Chloe nodded her head and said, ‘Sort of.’<br /><br />‘In the first one, an English lad, Karl Johnson, punched a Muslim man, once, causing him to bang his head on a curb. The Muslim man died a few days later as a result of that single punch. Karl Johnson was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum tariff of 20 years. In the second one, which happened a couple of months later, a Muslim man repeatedly kicked and punched an English lad, Iain McGrath, after the pair had got into a disagreement. Paramedics arrived at the scene just a few minutes later but he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. The court convicted the Muslim man of manslaughter and imposed an 18 month suspended prison sentence.<br /><br />‘Therefore to me that looks as if those two trials were conducted under Sharia, in which the life of a Muslim is considered superior to that of a Kafir. However because the cases were held in England, and technically English sentences were handed out, instead of the death penalty for Karl Johnson, no one has been allowed to publicly question the discrepancy between the two sentences. Even though both cases went before the court within two weeks of the incidents taking place and the full coroner’s reports were unavailable to be read out as evidence. The speediness of the legal system in those cases has been praised by the media as progressive by saving the taxpayer thousands of pounds in court costs. However swift justice is a key aspect of Sharia.<br /><br />‘There was also another case not long ago where an English girl, Charlotte Hughes, whom the court took the unusual step of naming whilst the case was taking place, claiming it was in the public interest, accused a Muslim man of rape. Initially the case was thrown out by the court because Charlotte didn’t have a witness available to match the testimony of the Muslim man. Eventually another English girl, Francesca Holland, came forward with an allegation that the same Muslim defendant had previously raped her. However in order for the case to even be heard in court both girls had to be named in public and both girls’ testimonies had to count as one because the court held the presumption that Kafirs are intrinsically dishonest and unreliable witnesses, even though there was DNA evidence available to support Charlotte’s allegation. The Muslim man was found guilty of rape and sentenced to a 12 month suspended prison sentence.<br /><br />‘There was also the case of Jennifer Molloy, who was in a secret relationship with a married Muslim man. Jennifer was pregnant with the Muslim man’s baby but died in “suspicious circumstances”. Upon Jennifer’s death, there was more debate in court as to whether the unborn foetus was a Muslim rather than into the circumstances of her apparent “suicide”. When the court ruled the unborn foetus was in fact Muslim it declared that Jennifer’s body couldn’t be buried in a Christian cemetery in her family plot but had to be buried in a neutral place.<br /><br />‘A lesser incident, but none the less just as significant, went before the courts a couple of weeks ago. An English lad was mugged in the street by a gang of Muslims youths. Only one of the Muslims was arrested and charged with theft. However in his defence the Muslim said he’d mugged the English lad because he’d been wearing a gold crucifix and did it to destroy the obscene object. The Muslim also admitted to mugging the English lad of his tablet and a significant amount of cash. The gold was sold for cash and was found to have been melted down shortly after. However the court ruled in favour of the Muslim and decreed he was allowed to keep the money gained from the robbery as he’d committed a good deed in ensuring that a crucifix, which is a sign of intolerance towards multiculturalism, was destroyed. What the court refused to acknowledge was that the item in question wasn’t a crucifix but a Celtic cross which many people of Irish descent wear to celebrate their heritage, not religion. Do you want me to go on?’<br /><br />‘You may as well whilst you’re in your element,’ Chloe said, teasingly.<br /><br />‘Okay, take this pub we’re in. It’s been up for sale for a couple of years and there’s no law against someone using their own money to purchase it. However if we wanted to go into business together and get a loan from the bank we wouldn’t stand a chance. Because the banks are now all essentially Islamic they wouldn’t lend us the money due to alcohol being haraam. And then there’s “Winterville”.’<br /><br />The simple mention of the word “Winterville” made Chloe shuffle uneasily and lean towards Liam as if she wanted him to make sure he was keeping his voice down. <br /><br />‘What’s up, you scared that I’m going to say the word “Christmas” and offend everyone?’<br /><br />‘Behave,’ Chloe said firmly. ‘Everyone knows that Winterville had become too commercial and lost its true meaning. You should be thankful it still exists at all.’<br /><br />‘Really? And what about other traditions or festivals. Have you ever questioned why any Muslims who attend the escort to the cemetery walk in front of the coffin instead of behind it even at a Christian funeral?’<br /><br />Chloe shook her head and said, ‘No, but... this is all getting a bit weird. You’ll start wittering on about Muslims not eating pork next.’<br /><br />‘To be fair to them Muslims had a very valid reason for not eating pork originally, and so did the Jews. The earliest Christians didn’t eat pork and that’s because they all originate from the same region. Therefore not eating pork was first a cultural preference because of the living conditions at the time and later on became a religious obligation. Technically a devout Christian shouldn’t eat pork if they are following a literal interpretation of the Bible and some weird sects these days still follow that interpretation. It’s not because pigs are “filthy creatures who eat their own waste”, or that pork contributes to the spread of cancer that people from the Middle East decided not eat pork. It’s because unless pork is kept at a cool temperature it goes off very quickly and can be lethal to humans. And what people should be looking at when considering things like that is: what changed? That might sound like a daft question but humans domesticated pigs for a reason. Well the reason is because they could. After all a wild boar is a lot easier to trap and tame than say a giraffe or a tiger. But if after eating domesticated pork on a regular basis people soon became ill and started dying then the first farmers who were experimenting with that new food source would have soon moved on to something else. So that tells us that at the time wild boars were domesticated, estimated to be around 13,000 years ago, the world’s climate must have been different. And it was. The ice age had only started to end around 10,000 years prior to that and the earth’s temperature was still rising. Therefore the climate in the Middle East at the time of domestication could have potentially been similar to what Northern Europe is now, in effect ideal conditions for pig farming. However over time the Middle East became a dry and arid region. But people still continued to farm pigs and pork started to spoil quicker under those harsher conditions. <br /><br />‘Pork is perfectly safe to eat as long as it is cooked properly and eaten in moderation, like all meats. In the time of the paranoid schizophrenic mass murdering peadophile charlatan “Prophet” Muhammad and before him, in the time of Moses, there was no refrigeration. But out of necessity poor people may have needed to eat spoiled pork in times of famine that in turn caused fatal illnesses. Over time this led to the assumption all pork was unfit to eat. An assumption Muslims still continue to this day because they think it will please Allah and they’ll be rewarded for living their life as the paranoid schizophrenic mass murdering paedophile charlatan \"Prophet\" Muhammad did by being admitted into jannah.<br /><br />‘Another explanation as to why it is forbidden to eat pork is down to cannibalism. It’s a not very funny joke that firefighters don’t eat pork because the smell of burning human flesh reminds them of pork crackling. Now I’m not going to prove my point by cutting off my arm and chucking it on a BBQ just to show that Islam is a complete waste of time. But it stands to reason the Bedouin tribes, which roamed Arabia before the invention of the evil that is Islam, would have practised cannibalism. So therefore the command not to eat pork could also stem from the fact that if people didn’t have a taste for pork in the first place then they wouldn’t develop one for human flesh.’<br /><br />‘That’s just stupid,’ Chloe quite rightly pointed out.<br /><br />‘Is it?’ Liam questioned. ‘The inhabitants of West Asia are dumb as fuck now because they still follow the example of a paranoid schizophrenic mass murdering paedophile charlatan \"Prophet\" despite all the reason and logic that explains why Islam is a complete waste of time. They wouldn’t have exactly been intelligent thousands of years ago.’<br /><br />‘Maybe they wouldn’t have been intelligent in the sense that we consider intelligence but you don’t have to be so ignorant about it.’<br /><br />‘Why not? Why shouldn’t I be allowed to criticise Islam and Muslims for what they believe in? A belief system that ultimately affects the quality of my life.’<br /><br />‘But not eating pork isn’t really the issue here, is it?’ asked Chloe.<br /><br />‘No you’re right. There are far bigger issues. But how often do you eat pork these days?’<br /><br />‘Not often, it’s far too expensive.’<br /><br />‘And why do you think that might be?’ asked Liam. ‘Whilst banks refuse to lend money to people who wish to run a pub they also refuse to lend money to pig farmers. Therefore unless a farmer has his own money to support himself he’s forced out of business.’<br /><br />‘So what can me and you realistically do about the rise of Islam in England?’ Chloe asked.<br /><br />‘Just say the world and there’ll be an AK-47 waiting for you under your bed covers when you return home.’<br /><br />‘You don’t even know where I live,’ Chloe said.<br /><br />‘I don’t. But one of our mutual friends does. Well more to the point, someone who’s told me a little bit more about you since I gave them the nod the other day that you could indeed be ready for Jillhad as they’d previously suggested.’<br /><br />‘You’re joking, I can tell,’ Chloe tried to convince herself. ‘Either that or you are one of my ex’s weird little mates and this is all part of his ploy to mess my head up and get me to take him back.’ Chloe said, as she tried to rid herself of any thoughts she had that some complete stranger did in fact have access to her house whilst she was out at work.<br /><br />‘We can go back now if you want? You can’t exactly want another drink because your glass has been empty for ages.’<br /><br />‘Okay then,’ Chloe said as she stood up. ‘We’ll go back to mine. I know you’re just like all lads really and it’s only an excuse for me to see this weapon of yours. But it’s one that helps create life, not end it.<br /><br />",
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"content": "Chapter Seven of Contradictions in the Qur'an is now available for you to enjoy. As a special treat, chapter eight will follow tomorrow.\n\n\nSeven\n\nLiam joined Chloe at the same table they’d been at the previous night as he returned from the bar with their drinks. ‘I’d have got you a soft-drink last night if you’d have said. You didn’t have to drink a pint to look hard in front of me, you know,’ Chloe said, as she noticed the drink Liam had bought for himself.\n\n‘I think it’s a stupid law anyway: one sip and you’re over the limit. So it’s worth the risk every now and again. However if you break the law on a regular basis then you shorten the odds of being caught.’\n\n‘You mean like discussing terrorist activities in public?’\n\n‘You can’t stop thinking about that,’ replied Liam, with a smile on his face.\n\n‘I think you’re either crazy or you think you’re funny. Either way if you carry on talking like that on a regular basis then you shorten the odds of being caught.’ Chloe quipped, as Liam smiled at her. ‘Do you honestly think we live as dhimmis in our “own country”?’ she asked.\n\n‘Yes,’ Liam replied, with conviction.\n\n‘Go on then. You’d better explain yourself seen as though you sound so certain about it.’\n\n‘Okay. First of all, there’s the jizya, or poll tax, a tribute paid by Kafirs (non-Muslims) in countries under the control of Daesh.’\n\n‘There’s no such thing in this country,’ Chloe said.\n\n‘Is there not? Over the past decades the tax system has been simplified. One, to make it easier to understand. And two, to supposedly make tax avoidance harder. However as always, those at the bottom end up paying more tax and those at the top end up saving millions.\n\n‘For every single pound a person in England earns 30 pence of that is by law deducted in tax, which pays for health, education, pensions, benefits, the police, etc., regardless of whether someone is on the Contributing Wage working just four hours a week or earning a million pounds a week. However as the banking system is now essentially Islamic, tax is collected differently to how it used to be and a person has to state how their tax is sent to HMRC. Therefore a person can state that their local masjid can handle their tax for them and instead of paying it direct to the government they can “donate” 30% of their earnings to that masjid. Then six months later they receive a “tax rebate” of 15 pence in the pound, of their full wage, from HMRC as a “thank you”, with the masjid keeping a nominal percentage for its trouble. \n\nIn effect Muslims only pay 15 pence in the pound tax to the government. Plus they get to benefit from the percentage of their earnings they effectively “donate” to the masjid in the various ways it is used to help the ummah. Such as university fees, private health care, private pensions and interest free mortgages. It might not be official but that sounds like a dhimmitude society to me,’ Liam said.\n\n‘Yeah,’ Chloe started, ‘but Kafirs can take advantage of the tax rebate.’\n\n‘Yeah you’re right, they can. If they convert to Islam, which many rich people have pretended to do although they have no allegiance to the political religion, its fictitious God or paranoid schizophrenic mass murdering paedophile charlatan \"Prophet\" Muhammad. But what they forget is that whilst they haven’t been taken in by Islam’s false pretences of grandeur and a life of jannah upon death is their children and grandchildren will be. They’ll be brought up with Islam being bombarded into their heads from a young age so they’ll have the fear of God put into them and the whole abuse cycle of Islam will have another section of the world under its iron grip. That’s essentially how Islam took hold in parts of the Balkans in the Middle Ages and is its preferred method of conquest in England.\n\n‘But the Muslims don’t want every English person to convert yet. Or revert as they patronisingly call it with their claim that all humans are born Muslim but they have to accept Islam. They’ve learned from their past mistakes and as things stand we’re worth more to them as dhimmis. Well I am. They might find some other use for you.’\n\n‘Eurgh,’ Chloe said, as she shivered and felt her skin crawl at the thought of being used as a baby-making sex slave compelled to tend to her husband’s every need. \n\n‘Don’t put thoughts like that in my head. So if, and that’s a big “if”, what you’ve just said is true, why has this been allowed to happen?’\n\n‘Jihad of the dollar. Or more specifically the money generated from the production of oil which became the world’s most valuable commodity in the 20th century, overtaking gold as the most revered natural resource to be found underground. One of the key oil fields is in Saudi Arabia; also the birthplace of the invention of Islam, the worst evil to ever shame the world.\n\n‘Because control of the Middle East had passed over to the Arabs by the time oil became a multi-trillion dollar empire, the money generated from it went directly to the governments of Saudi Arabia and other oil rich states such as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. So because the Arabs own the oil they’ve been able to use that wealth to help establish significant Muslim populations in virtually every country around the world. None more significant than the Muslim diaspora from South Asia that dominates England today. In turn they’ve since been able to install their own rulers in the West as agents to carry out the orders of their Arab masters as Daesh has slowly gained control in the region.\n\n‘The thousands of masajid that blight the landscape of England have been paid for by jihad of the dollar. And now not only do the Arabs have control over oil they also have control over our banking system. There were repeated warnings given to the leaders of the Western world at the start of the 21st Century to find an alternative energy source to oil. But the severity of those warnings were largely ignored. By that point the Western governments were already too far under the influence of the Muslim ummah and happy to be fed money that satisfied their own greed to the detriment of the people they were supposed to be representing and their future generations.’\n\n‘Well I certainly don’t remember being taught about that at school,’ Chloe said.\n\n‘No. Might cause a few people to think if it was and that’s not the purpose of education. The purpose of education, like religion, is to get a person to submit and conform to the wishes of their leaders and become a good citizen. Not to think independently and realise how the world really works and ultimately how unfair it is for the masses.’\n\n‘So where does Jillhad come into it?’ Chloe asked.\n\n‘That’s just because I’m an evil bastard.’\n\n‘Mmm,’ Chloe said, as she looked Liam deep in the eye, ‘I don’t doubt that for a second. So why don’t you do it yourself if you’re so “evil”?’\n\n‘Because I’ve been appointed to recruit and prepare the Jillhadists. I’m far too important to potentially die myself and don’t have any inclination to do so until I’m at least 80 and have left a legacy that will go down in history. Essentially I want to be known as the person who started the removal of Islam in the West.’\n\n‘Appointed by whom?’ asked Chloe, as she failed to pick up on the fact that Liam had just implied her life wasn’t worth as much as his.\n\n‘You don’t need to know that,’ Liam said, pointedly.\n\n‘You expect me to commit a crime which will ensure I spend the rest of my life locked up, that’s if I even manage to survive it, and at the same time you want me to be carrying my unborn child, who I’d never get to have any proper relationship with because she’d be taken away from me as soon as she was born, and you won’t even tell me who’s behind it all?’\n\n‘You’d d...’ Liam started, before Chloe interrupted him.\n\n‘And don’t say “you’d do it if you loved me”. I don’t “love” you Liam. I’ll never love you.’\n\n‘So why are you here then?’ asked Liam, as he purposely looked at her breasts. Chloe automatically became conscious of the way he was staring at her and found it unsettling at first but then leaned forward as if she wanted him to get a better view.\n\n‘Because I wanted to know if you was serious or not.’\n\n‘And?’ Liam asked.\n\n‘And what?’\n\n‘Do you think I’m serious?’\n\n‘I think you think it could happen in your head but you wouldn’t be able to go through with it in reality.’\n\n‘So if you don’t believe it could happen, how come you haven’t told anyone else about it?’\n\n‘How do you know I haven’t?’\n\n‘Because girls never do for some reason.’\n\n‘What happened to the other girls?’\n\n‘They’re fine. You could walk past them in the street and you’d never know they know what you know. It’s not easy to kill someone. Especially when you’re planning to do it. Between now and Showtime there’d be thousands of chances to back out. Thousands of opportunities to be caught. You could be stopped randomly by the police tonight and you’d arise suspicion just in the way you’d be over-defensive about having done nothing wrong or having nothing to hide. They might not arrest you, or even search you, but they’d always be watching out for you. And then I wouldn’t be able to use you.’\n\n‘And what if the police stopped you?’ Chloe asked.\n\n‘That’s the risk we’ve all got to take.’\n\n‘How can I trust you?’\n\n‘Because you love me.’\n\n‘Apart from that,’ Chloe said, before she clarified herself, ‘not that I “love you”.’\n\n‘How can you not trust me? What do you think this country is going to be like in a hundred years time? The Muslims understand that at the moment we mean more to them as dhimmis. But history shows that eventually most ethnic groups of Kafirs can no longer cope with paying the jizya and end up converting to Islam over a lengthy period of time, when given the alternative options of a life of slavery or death. Then the true flaws and inaccuracies of Islam come to the fore as entire regions stagnate and just plod along because they’re brainwashed into thinking there really is a better life waiting for them after they die.\n‘There were loads ethnicities in the Middle East that were majority populations in their country when Muslims became their minority rulers. They either no longer exist or are such a tiny minority in the present day that hardly anybody in the West has heard of them, until a Fundamentalist group of Muslims tries to ethnically cleanse them.’\n\nChloe tried to think of something to say that would prove to Liam he was wrong but stopped, feeling as if her brain was being squeezed by all the information he’d fed her over the past couple of days. Instead she shook her head and started to worry about what she would have to do to stop getting involved and ruining her life, and potentially the lives of hundreds of other people in the process.\n\n‘You don’t believe me, do you?’ asked Liam.\n\n‘It’s not that I don’t believe you. What you’re saying may well be true but it doesn’t prove that we live as third class citizens.’\n‘Not officially we don’t, but that’s the clever thing about it. It’s been done slowly but surely over the past hundred years or so. One step at a time so that people don’t notice it unless someone brings it to their attention. However it’s against the law to even discuss the issue. So unless people go out of their way to investigate what’s been allowed to happen then they have no way of knowing what conditions they really have to live under.’\n\n‘Unless they meet someone like you,’ Chloe said.\n\n‘But I only spend my time with people who are worth it. A lot of people have the assumption it’s the government who make the laws in England. That’s true. However it’s the judiciary who enforces them. And the judiciary isn’t accountable to anyone so it can effectively impose the law in whichever way it deems fit. Therefore the judiciary can slowly but surely change the laws in England to benefit Muslims, if they’re being paid off by Daesh. \n\n‘Take for example the debacle that has happened with the assisted dying laws. Due to the joys of political correctness there are schemes in place that make sure a majority of judges are from a multicultural background, which roughly translates to them being either Muslim or at least openly pro-Muslim. Also, because the traditional English legal system is now seen as too archaic and long-winded, the vast majority of cases are heard in court without a jury. That means it is potentially easier for precedent law to be changed over time for the benefit of Muslims.\n\n‘Do you remember the two murder cases that took place round here a couple of years ago?’\n\nChloe nodded her head and said, ‘Sort of.’\n\n‘In the first one, an English lad, Karl Johnson, punched a Muslim man, once, causing him to bang his head on a curb. The Muslim man died a few days later as a result of that single punch. Karl Johnson was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum tariff of 20 years. In the second one, which happened a couple of months later, a Muslim man repeatedly kicked and punched an English lad, Iain McGrath, after the pair had got into a disagreement. Paramedics arrived at the scene just a few minutes later but he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. The court convicted the Muslim man of manslaughter and imposed an 18 month suspended prison sentence.\n\n‘Therefore to me that looks as if those two trials were conducted under Sharia, in which the life of a Muslim is considered superior to that of a Kafir. However because the cases were held in England, and technically English sentences were handed out, instead of the death penalty for Karl Johnson, no one has been allowed to publicly question the discrepancy between the two sentences. Even though both cases went before the court within two weeks of the incidents taking place and the full coroner’s reports were unavailable to be read out as evidence. The speediness of the legal system in those cases has been praised by the media as progressive by saving the taxpayer thousands of pounds in court costs. However swift justice is a key aspect of Sharia.\n\n‘There was also another case not long ago where an English girl, Charlotte Hughes, whom the court took the unusual step of naming whilst the case was taking place, claiming it was in the public interest, accused a Muslim man of rape. Initially the case was thrown out by the court because Charlotte didn’t have a witness available to match the testimony of the Muslim man. Eventually another English girl, Francesca Holland, came forward with an allegation that the same Muslim defendant had previously raped her. However in order for the case to even be heard in court both girls had to be named in public and both girls’ testimonies had to count as one because the court held the presumption that Kafirs are intrinsically dishonest and unreliable witnesses, even though there was DNA evidence available to support Charlotte’s allegation. The Muslim man was found guilty of rape and sentenced to a 12 month suspended prison sentence.\n\n‘There was also the case of Jennifer Molloy, who was in a secret relationship with a married Muslim man. Jennifer was pregnant with the Muslim man’s baby but died in “suspicious circumstances”. Upon Jennifer’s death, there was more debate in court as to whether the unborn foetus was a Muslim rather than into the circumstances of her apparent “suicide”. When the court ruled the unborn foetus was in fact Muslim it declared that Jennifer’s body couldn’t be buried in a Christian cemetery in her family plot but had to be buried in a neutral place.\n\n‘A lesser incident, but none the less just as significant, went before the courts a couple of weeks ago. An English lad was mugged in the street by a gang of Muslims youths. Only one of the Muslims was arrested and charged with theft. However in his defence the Muslim said he’d mugged the English lad because he’d been wearing a gold crucifix and did it to destroy the obscene object. The Muslim also admitted to mugging the English lad of his tablet and a significant amount of cash. The gold was sold for cash and was found to have been melted down shortly after. However the court ruled in favour of the Muslim and decreed he was allowed to keep the money gained from the robbery as he’d committed a good deed in ensuring that a crucifix, which is a sign of intolerance towards multiculturalism, was destroyed. What the court refused to acknowledge was that the item in question wasn’t a crucifix but a Celtic cross which many people of Irish descent wear to celebrate their heritage, not religion. Do you want me to go on?’\n\n‘You may as well whilst you’re in your element,’ Chloe said, teasingly.\n\n‘Okay, take this pub we’re in. It’s been up for sale for a couple of years and there’s no law against someone using their own money to purchase it. However if we wanted to go into business together and get a loan from the bank we wouldn’t stand a chance. Because the banks are now all essentially Islamic they wouldn’t lend us the money due to alcohol being haraam. And then there’s “Winterville”.’\n\nThe simple mention of the word “Winterville” made Chloe shuffle uneasily and lean towards Liam as if she wanted him to make sure he was keeping his voice down. \n\n‘What’s up, you scared that I’m going to say the word “Christmas” and offend everyone?’\n\n‘Behave,’ Chloe said firmly. ‘Everyone knows that Winterville had become too commercial and lost its true meaning. You should be thankful it still exists at all.’\n\n‘Really? And what about other traditions or festivals. Have you ever questioned why any Muslims who attend the escort to the cemetery walk in front of the coffin instead of behind it even at a Christian funeral?’\n\nChloe shook her head and said, ‘No, but... this is all getting a bit weird. You’ll start wittering on about Muslims not eating pork next.’\n\n‘To be fair to them Muslims had a very valid reason for not eating pork originally, and so did the Jews. The earliest Christians didn’t eat pork and that’s because they all originate from the same region. Therefore not eating pork was first a cultural preference because of the living conditions at the time and later on became a religious obligation. Technically a devout Christian shouldn’t eat pork if they are following a literal interpretation of the Bible and some weird sects these days still follow that interpretation. It’s not because pigs are “filthy creatures who eat their own waste”, or that pork contributes to the spread of cancer that people from the Middle East decided not eat pork. It’s because unless pork is kept at a cool temperature it goes off very quickly and can be lethal to humans. And what people should be looking at when considering things like that is: what changed? That might sound like a daft question but humans domesticated pigs for a reason. Well the reason is because they could. After all a wild boar is a lot easier to trap and tame than say a giraffe or a tiger. But if after eating domesticated pork on a regular basis people soon became ill and started dying then the first farmers who were experimenting with that new food source would have soon moved on to something else. So that tells us that at the time wild boars were domesticated, estimated to be around 13,000 years ago, the world’s climate must have been different. And it was. The ice age had only started to end around 10,000 years prior to that and the earth’s temperature was still rising. Therefore the climate in the Middle East at the time of domestication could have potentially been similar to what Northern Europe is now, in effect ideal conditions for pig farming. However over time the Middle East became a dry and arid region. But people still continued to farm pigs and pork started to spoil quicker under those harsher conditions. \n\n‘Pork is perfectly safe to eat as long as it is cooked properly and eaten in moderation, like all meats. In the time of the paranoid schizophrenic mass murdering peadophile charlatan “Prophet” Muhammad and before him, in the time of Moses, there was no refrigeration. But out of necessity poor people may have needed to eat spoiled pork in times of famine that in turn caused fatal illnesses. Over time this led to the assumption all pork was unfit to eat. An assumption Muslims still continue to this day because they think it will please Allah and they’ll be rewarded for living their life as the paranoid schizophrenic mass murdering paedophile charlatan \"Prophet\" Muhammad did by being admitted into jannah.\n\n‘Another explanation as to why it is forbidden to eat pork is down to cannibalism. It’s a not very funny joke that firefighters don’t eat pork because the smell of burning human flesh reminds them of pork crackling. Now I’m not going to prove my point by cutting off my arm and chucking it on a BBQ just to show that Islam is a complete waste of time. But it stands to reason the Bedouin tribes, which roamed Arabia before the invention of the evil that is Islam, would have practised cannibalism. So therefore the command not to eat pork could also stem from the fact that if people didn’t have a taste for pork in the first place then they wouldn’t develop one for human flesh.’\n\n‘That’s just stupid,’ Chloe quite rightly pointed out.\n\n‘Is it?’ Liam questioned. ‘The inhabitants of West Asia are dumb as fuck now because they still follow the example of a paranoid schizophrenic mass murdering paedophile charlatan \"Prophet\" despite all the reason and logic that explains why Islam is a complete waste of time. They wouldn’t have exactly been intelligent thousands of years ago.’\n\n‘Maybe they wouldn’t have been intelligent in the sense that we consider intelligence but you don’t have to be so ignorant about it.’\n\n‘Why not? Why shouldn’t I be allowed to criticise Islam and Muslims for what they believe in? A belief system that ultimately affects the quality of my life.’\n\n‘But not eating pork isn’t really the issue here, is it?’ asked Chloe.\n\n‘No you’re right. There are far bigger issues. But how often do you eat pork these days?’\n\n‘Not often, it’s far too expensive.’\n\n‘And why do you think that might be?’ asked Liam. ‘Whilst banks refuse to lend money to people who wish to run a pub they also refuse to lend money to pig farmers. Therefore unless a farmer has his own money to support himself he’s forced out of business.’\n\n‘So what can me and you realistically do about the rise of Islam in England?’ Chloe asked.\n\n‘Just say the world and there’ll be an AK-47 waiting for you under your bed covers when you return home.’\n\n‘You don’t even know where I live,’ Chloe said.\n\n‘I don’t. But one of our mutual friends does. Well more to the point, someone who’s told me a little bit more about you since I gave them the nod the other day that you could indeed be ready for Jillhad as they’d previously suggested.’\n\n‘You’re joking, I can tell,’ Chloe tried to convince herself. ‘Either that or you are one of my ex’s weird little mates and this is all part of his ploy to mess my head up and get me to take him back.’ Chloe said, as she tried to rid herself of any thoughts she had that some complete stranger did in fact have access to her house whilst she was out at work.\n\n‘We can go back now if you want? You can’t exactly want another drink because your glass has been empty for ages.’\n\n‘Okay then,’ Chloe said as she stood up. ‘We’ll go back to mine. I know you’re just like all lads really and it’s only an excuse for me to see this weapon of yours. But it’s one that helps create life, not end it.\n\n",
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"content": "So here it is fine ladies and gentlemen of Minds - Chapter Three of Contradictions in the Qur'an. Please take the time to read, vote up, remind and even subscribe to ensure to catch Chapter Four soon.<br /><br />Three<br /><br />Liam was pleasantly surprised to find that Chloe had waited for him at the end of their shift. Ethan had given Liam a job to do at the other end of the factory as punishment for coming back late from his break. The job made him finish a couple of minutes later than all the other Casuals so Liam had been worried he wouldn’t get a chance to speak to Chloe again that evening. ‘What did Ethan want you to do that he made sound so important?’ asked Chloe.<br /><br />Liam smiled and said, ‘I had to help load the wagons. They’re huge, bigger than most houses.’<br /><br />‘We should save up and buy one, convert it and then go on a road trip,’ Chloe said, dreamily. <br /><br />Liam didn’t reply but made a mental note of Chloe’s comment and how it could be put to good use in the future with the plans he had lined up for her. ‘You not in a rush to get anywhere tonight?’ he asked instead, as they started to walk through the factory floor.<br /><br />‘No, my bus isn’t for ages yet anyway. That Stu guy offered me a lift but I thought I’d swerve it.’<br /><br />Again Liam didn’t reply but he was glad Chloe seemed to be taking his side over Stu’s without him having to put too much effort in or show her something that would certainly catch her eye. He’d felt over the past couple of days she’d wanted to talk more openly with him but had been put off by her surroundings and who might be listening in.<br /><br />‘Are you proud to be multicultural?’ Liam asked Chloe, as she looked up at him as if he’d caught her off guard with the randomness of his question.<br /><br />‘Erm...,’ Chloe paused, as she ran her hand through her hair. ‘I suppose it’s good that we’re influenced by so many cultures and that no one culture seems to take priority over the others.’<br /><br />Liam nodded his head. Not in agreement but because he had a feeling that was the answer Chloe would give. The answer the majority of people gave. The answer people were subliminally forced to give. ‘Are you proud to be English?’ he asked, as he looked her straight in the eye, not caring who else might be able to hear him.<br /><br />Chloe took longer to think about her answer this time, as if she was far too aware that someone else could easily impose themselves on their conversation and make things uncomfortable. Eventually she said, ‘I suppose being English is being multicultural these days. It’s not like I’m any more English because I’m White. I don’t think national identity matters much anymore. I mean it’s normal for people to leave the country they were born in and start a new life somewhere else.’<br /><br />Again Liam thought Chloe’s answer was rather bog-standard but he didn’t get annoyed or start questioning her reasoning. He knew the reason behind her answers and, in part, he knew the answer she would give to any question about race and identity.<br /><br />‘Are you proud to be Western?’ he asked quickly, as he wanted to keep her mind focused and not give her the opportunity to change the subject.<br /><br />‘No,’ Chloe replied, instantly. ‘If you look back at recent history Western societies have been oppressors and villains who have imposed their culture on other societies who they deemed as “less advanced”. I know we don’t have slavery or the British Empire anymore but we’re still reminded of the effects of it. And I think it’s only right we apologise regularly about the bad things we’ve done in the past. What do you think?’<br /><br />‘You don’t want to know what I think,’ Liam said, with a smirk on his face, as the pair made it to the signing on desk and picked up their work cards which would ensure they’d be paid for their shift of hard labour.<br /><br />‘Go on, tell me,’ Chloe said.<br /><br />‘Don’t you have a bus to catch?’ asked Liam.<br /><br />‘Yeah, or you could give me a lift. I saw you drive past me this morning. We could get a drink or something to eat.’<br /><br />‘I might have things to do,’ Liam teased, as he enjoyed seeing Chloe think on her feet for reasons to encourage him to spend time with her.<br /><br />‘Come on,’ Chloe purred, as she linked her arm inside his, ‘one quick drink. Please.’<br />",
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Whilst childless dhimmi women were encouraged to pursue further education to postgraduate level in an effort to show they were just as bright and intelligent as men when given the opportunity.<br /><br />Since the Casuals didn’t know each other well conversations were limited to safe subjects that could include everyone. Ethan had been roundly slagged off for the way he’d strutted around the factory floor like a peacock whose feathers had been smothered in grease. And the topic of when they would be paid was raised for the second time in as many days. Not one to sit and talk bull-shit for the sake of it Liam decided it was time to test the feeling within the group and discuss a topic that most people from his background were too scared to bring up.<br /><br />‘It is clear from what is constantly reported in the media that Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion. However a minority find verses in the Qur’an to justify “jihad” in the way of Muhammad and to please Allah. I’m sure the verses the jihadists use as justification for fighting a “holy war” only make-up a tiny percentage of the entire Qur’an and have been taken out of context. Have any of you studied the Qur’an in any detail to know whether that is true?’<br /><br />The Casuals glanced uneasily at each other and looked around the canteen in case any full-time members of staff had been listening to Liam as their jobs were at risk if the wrong person was privy to their conversation. However Liam had checked his surroundings and the only other people around were a group of full-time staff who were busy playing a game of pool at the far side of the canteen.<br /><br />‘You don’t need to have studied the book to know that is true,’ finally said Finn, a thickset middle aged man who looked to Liam as if he’d given up on life at least a couple of decades earlier. ‘The same can be said of the Bible; it’s full of murder, rape and intolerance.’<br /><br />‘Yeah,’ politely agreed Harrison, a man who’d previously told the group he was well past retirement age but still had to work to be able to support himself and his wife, even though he had a workplace pension he’d been obligated to pay into for over 50 years. ‘It’s not too dissimilar to the Bible to be honest. The odd nutter will always look for things to justify their cause and power hungry folk are waiting in the wings always happy to use folk when such opportunities arise.’<br /><br />After a couple of opinions had been put forward everyone else around the table looked as if they had started to relax and were ready to give their point of view. <br />Pete, a man in his 30s who Liam thought looked old before his time, gave his next. ‘I guess the problem is that Muslim countries haven’t evolved in the same way as Christian ones. Muslim countries are built on the teachings of a religious text, whereas the majority of Christians ones have pulled away from such practices.’<br /><br />Liam listened carefully to the Casuals answers. He’d heard similar ones many times before. People quick to point out similarities in the Bible. That it was power hungry people trying to control the masses. Or other countries were simply less enlightened. Normally he wouldn’t rock the boat. He would agree everything was fine and there was nothing dangerous being allowed to happen in England unchecked. However things had changed, and it was time for further change.<br /><br />‘“Muhammad is Allah’s Apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another.” “Whoever changed his Islamic religion then kill them.” “God is most high and glorious. We are not equal. Our dead are in jannah; your dead are in jahannam.” All quotes from the Qur’an. I don’t remember being told about those particular passages when I was forced to learn about the Qur’an at school, or ever hearing people quote similar sounding ones from the Bible.’<br /><br />As soon as Liam had started the conversation he’d noticed that Huxley, a tall man with a ginger beard that made him impossible to miss, had taken out his tablet. It was now time for Huxley to read out extracts from the Bible he’d found online in an attempt to discredit Liam’s argument with a peaceful and tolerant Christian quote. ‘“Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.”’<br /><br />Liam took Huxley’s tablet and read some more of the quotes before replying. ‘All taken from the Old Testament and therefore the passages are God’s commands to the Israelites to make war against a particular people group, i.e. the Hittite, Girgashite or other such groups from pre-Christian times. So in effect they don’t apply as direct instructions to Christians.’ Whilst everyone around the table considered Liam’s response they weren’t ready to accept his point of view just yet.<br /><br />‘Ah, right,’ said Huxley, as if he was pleased for the opportunity to get on his high horse so he could attempt to make himself look clever. ‘So before when you said “the Bible”, what you really meant was only half the Bible, ignoring the Old Testament which sadly many Fundamentalist Christians don’t. What you should have said at the start is “the Bible and the Qur’an have many things in common, the difference being that Islam doesn’t have a Jesus figure preaching forgiveness and love”.’<br /><br />‘That’s a fair summary,’ said Levi, another of the older ones within the group, who Liam thought looked as if he still had some fight left in him but was confused over which side he should be on.<br /><br />‘I never mentioned the Bible at the beginning. I only wanted to find out what knowledge people had about the Qur’an. In the latter half of the 20th Century a Christian Arab professor published a series of works whilst living in America that quickly became the defining texts for the academic study of Islam in the West. On the back of those works he became the most powerful voice of the Palestinian diaspora and didn’t so much help to erroneously establish that Islam has a genuine tradition of tolerance as to make it racist to suggest otherwise. Over a century later we’ve ended up with a situation whereby people are brainwashed at a young age into believing that to even question any part of Islam is a crime. Whilst at the same time it is implied to them it is more than fair game to slate and degrade any part of Western history and culture. Would anyone care to name the guy who has effectively helped to gag everyone sat around this table?’ asked Liam. ‘Without looking it up,’ he added, as he smirked at Huxley.<br /><br />The Casuals all looked at each other blankly but Liam noticed that the realisation he’d made a valid point, when they took into consideration what they’d heard on a regular basis about what was and wasn’t acceptable for them to think and question about Islam, was written all over their faces. ‘I’ll leave it for you to look up later on,’ Liam said, conscious he was in danger of making a name for himself for all the wrong reasons far too soon.<br /><br />‘The thing is,’ started Stu, a lad similar in age to Liam but smaller in stature and smoother around around the edges, ‘the Qur’an does have a Jesus figure in it: Jesus. He’s named as the Prophet Isa in the Qur’an.’<br /><br />‘True,’ said Huxley, quick to jump in again and let the group know he was there and had an opinion. ‘Jesus is mentioned more times in the Qur’an than Muhammad. Muslims believe in the virgin birth and that Jesus was a Prophet who foretold of Muhammad’s coming. However they don’t believe he was divine or rose from the dead.’<br /><br />‘So who do Muslims believe is Jesus’ father then if they believe in the virgin birth but don’t believe he was divine? Surely the two go hand in hand?’ Liam questioned.<br /><br />‘Not quite,’ Huxley quickly responded. ‘In the Qur’an, Adam was also the first human being and he was born without either a human mother or father, so the claim of the virgin birth isn’t as far-fetched as you’re trying to make out.’<br /><br />Rather than dictate the conversation on his terms, Liam let the Casuals continue to give their opinions as Stu began to follow up from Huxley’s comment. ‘The Qur’an and Muhammad are considered by Muslims as the final instalment to a trilogy of religions, with Judaism being the first, Christianity the second and Islam the third. If you looked into the history of the Crusades and the holy war led by the Pope then it might change your perceptions and shed some light on the verses that you quoted Liam.’<br /><br />‘But then you also have to ask yourself why the Crusades started,’ Liam replied. ‘The Byzantine Empire in the Middle East was a continuation of the Roman Empire, which at the time was the most advanced empire the world had ever seen. However we are told that those people were nothing more than Germanic barbarians who caused the Dark Ages whilst the Muslim world lived in a Golden Age. But that doesn’t add up. How can a group of people go from overthrowing the most civilised empire that ever lived only to continue living like supposed savages? Well unless they didn’t choose to enter the Dark Ages. What if it was jihad that caused the fall of the Roman Empire and the destruction of the Classical world? What if it was Muslim pirates patrolling the Mediterranean sea that cut off the communication links between the East and West? What if the Byzantine Emperor pleaded to the Pope in Rome for help because his empire was under constant siege and Christianity in the East was in danger of going the same way as other Eastern religions such as Zoroastrianism?’<br /><br />‘I don’t think this is the time or the place to be having a conversation like this,’ Stu said as he stood up. ‘Come on, it’s time we went back.’<br /><br />Liam looked up at the clock on the wall and then checked the time he made it on his tablet. ‘We’ve got two minutes yet, haven’t we?’<br /><br />‘Yeah but it’ll take us two minutes to walk back down there,’ said Harrison, as if he was well programmed in the way companies really operated when it came to timekeeping. Nevertheless Liam stayed put in defiance as the rest of the Casuals made their way out of the canteen.<br /><br /><br />Liam didn’t see Ethan make a beeline for him as he made his way back to his place on the factory floor as he was too busy looking at Stu who was talking to Chloe.<br /><br />‘You’re late back, where have you been?’ Ethan asked Liam.<br /><br />‘I went to the toilet,’ Liam replied, with the first excuse which came into his head.<br /><br />‘That’s what your break time is for.’<br /><br />‘I went during my break time but so did everybody else so I had to wait.’<br /><br />Ethan’s body language made it plainly obvious to Liam that he didn’t believe him but he knew Ethan didn’t have any evidence to prove that he was lying. ‘Right then, seen as though you won’t be needing the toilet any time soon I don’t expect to see you away from your machine for the rest of your shift this evening without my permission, is that clear?’<br /><br />Liam nodded his head simply so that Ethan would disappear out of his face and made his way towards Chloe. He noticed Stu whisper something into her ear before he made his way back over to his own machine. ‘All right cha?’ Liam asked Chloe, who nodded as she looked up at him. ‘What was that Stuart asking you?’<br /><br />‘Oh,...’ Chloe replied, as she looked back over towards Stu. ‘He was just saying I should stay away from you.’<br /><br />‘Oh, right,’ Liam said. ‘Why? Is he your boyfriend?’<br /><br />‘No!’ laughed Chloe, as she shook her head.<br /><br />‘Is he your friend?’<br /><br />‘That was the first time I’ve spoken to him.’<br /><br />‘So why you listening to him then?’<br /><br />‘I’m not.’<br /><br />Liam smiled at Chloe and said, ‘Come on, we’ve got work to do. The sooner we get this shit sorted out the sooner we can get out of this shithole.’<br /><br /> ",
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"content": "Minds is promoting itself on being the 'free speech' network. However 'Contradictions in the Qur'an' will be the piece of work that truly tests that. Read Chapter Two below for a taste of why. Thanks to @Bodhis for their input.\n\n\nTwo\n\nAll the Casuals gathered around the same table for the only official break during their 10 hour shift. Liam and Chloe were the youngest in the group and Chloe also had the distinction of being the only girl. In fact she was one of only a handful of women who worked at the Crown Parcel Service. In recent years it had become the norm for women with school-aged children to revert to being housewives, although that popularity was due in part to it still being an essential part of the Muslim regime. Whilst childless dhimmi women were encouraged to pursue further education to postgraduate level in an effort to show they were just as bright and intelligent as men when given the opportunity.\n\nSince the Casuals didn’t know each other well conversations were limited to safe subjects that could include everyone. Ethan had been roundly slagged off for the way he’d strutted around the factory floor like a peacock whose feathers had been smothered in grease. And the topic of when they would be paid was raised for the second time in as many days. Not one to sit and talk bull-shit for the sake of it Liam decided it was time to test the feeling within the group and discuss a topic that most people from his background were too scared to bring up.\n\n‘It is clear from what is constantly reported in the media that Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion. However a minority find verses in the Qur’an to justify “jihad” in the way of Muhammad and to please Allah. I’m sure the verses the jihadists use as justification for fighting a “holy war” only make-up a tiny percentage of the entire Qur’an and have been taken out of context. Have any of you studied the Qur’an in any detail to know whether that is true?’\n\nThe Casuals glanced uneasily at each other and looked around the canteen in case any full-time members of staff had been listening to Liam as their jobs were at risk if the wrong person was privy to their conversation. However Liam had checked his surroundings and the only other people around were a group of full-time staff who were busy playing a game of pool at the far side of the canteen.\n\n‘You don’t need to have studied the book to know that is true,’ finally said Finn, a thickset middle aged man who looked to Liam as if he’d given up on life at least a couple of decades earlier. ‘The same can be said of the Bible; it’s full of murder, rape and intolerance.’\n\n‘Yeah,’ politely agreed Harrison, a man who’d previously told the group he was well past retirement age but still had to work to be able to support himself and his wife, even though he had a workplace pension he’d been obligated to pay into for over 50 years. ‘It’s not too dissimilar to the Bible to be honest. The odd nutter will always look for things to justify their cause and power hungry folk are waiting in the wings always happy to use folk when such opportunities arise.’\n\nAfter a couple of opinions had been put forward everyone else around the table looked as if they had started to relax and were ready to give their point of view. \nPete, a man in his 30s who Liam thought looked old before his time, gave his next. ‘I guess the problem is that Muslim countries haven’t evolved in the same way as Christian ones. Muslim countries are built on the teachings of a religious text, whereas the majority of Christians ones have pulled away from such practices.’\n\nLiam listened carefully to the Casuals answers. He’d heard similar ones many times before. People quick to point out similarities in the Bible. That it was power hungry people trying to control the masses. Or other countries were simply less enlightened. Normally he wouldn’t rock the boat. He would agree everything was fine and there was nothing dangerous being allowed to happen in England unchecked. However things had changed, and it was time for further change.\n\n‘“Muhammad is Allah’s Apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another.” “Whoever changed his Islamic religion then kill them.” “God is most high and glorious. We are not equal. Our dead are in jannah; your dead are in jahannam.” All quotes from the Qur’an. I don’t remember being told about those particular passages when I was forced to learn about the Qur’an at school, or ever hearing people quote similar sounding ones from the Bible.’\n\nAs soon as Liam had started the conversation he’d noticed that Huxley, a tall man with a ginger beard that made him impossible to miss, had taken out his tablet. It was now time for Huxley to read out extracts from the Bible he’d found online in an attempt to discredit Liam’s argument with a peaceful and tolerant Christian quote. ‘“Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.”’\n\nLiam took Huxley’s tablet and read some more of the quotes before replying. ‘All taken from the Old Testament and therefore the passages are God’s commands to the Israelites to make war against a particular people group, i.e. the Hittite, Girgashite or other such groups from pre-Christian times. So in effect they don’t apply as direct instructions to Christians.’ Whilst everyone around the table considered Liam’s response they weren’t ready to accept his point of view just yet.\n\n‘Ah, right,’ said Huxley, as if he was pleased for the opportunity to get on his high horse so he could attempt to make himself look clever. ‘So before when you said “the Bible”, what you really meant was only half the Bible, ignoring the Old Testament which sadly many Fundamentalist Christians don’t. What you should have said at the start is “the Bible and the Qur’an have many things in common, the difference being that Islam doesn’t have a Jesus figure preaching forgiveness and love”.’\n\n‘That’s a fair summary,’ said Levi, another of the older ones within the group, who Liam thought looked as if he still had some fight left in him but was confused over which side he should be on.\n\n‘I never mentioned the Bible at the beginning. I only wanted to find out what knowledge people had about the Qur’an. In the latter half of the 20th Century a Christian Arab professor published a series of works whilst living in America that quickly became the defining texts for the academic study of Islam in the West. On the back of those works he became the most powerful voice of the Palestinian diaspora and didn’t so much help to erroneously establish that Islam has a genuine tradition of tolerance as to make it racist to suggest otherwise. Over a century later we’ve ended up with a situation whereby people are brainwashed at a young age into believing that to even question any part of Islam is a crime. Whilst at the same time it is implied to them it is more than fair game to slate and degrade any part of Western history and culture. Would anyone care to name the guy who has effectively helped to gag everyone sat around this table?’ asked Liam. ‘Without looking it up,’ he added, as he smirked at Huxley.\n\nThe Casuals all looked at each other blankly but Liam noticed that the realisation he’d made a valid point, when they took into consideration what they’d heard on a regular basis about what was and wasn’t acceptable for them to think and question about Islam, was written all over their faces. ‘I’ll leave it for you to look up later on,’ Liam said, conscious he was in danger of making a name for himself for all the wrong reasons far too soon.\n\n‘The thing is,’ started Stu, a lad similar in age to Liam but smaller in stature and smoother around around the edges, ‘the Qur’an does have a Jesus figure in it: Jesus. He’s named as the Prophet Isa in the Qur’an.’\n\n‘True,’ said Huxley, quick to jump in again and let the group know he was there and had an opinion. ‘Jesus is mentioned more times in the Qur’an than Muhammad. Muslims believe in the virgin birth and that Jesus was a Prophet who foretold of Muhammad’s coming. However they don’t believe he was divine or rose from the dead.’\n\n‘So who do Muslims believe is Jesus’ father then if they believe in the virgin birth but don’t believe he was divine? Surely the two go hand in hand?’ Liam questioned.\n\n‘Not quite,’ Huxley quickly responded. ‘In the Qur’an, Adam was also the first human being and he was born without either a human mother or father, so the claim of the virgin birth isn’t as far-fetched as you’re trying to make out.’\n\nRather than dictate the conversation on his terms, Liam let the Casuals continue to give their opinions as Stu began to follow up from Huxley’s comment. ‘The Qur’an and Muhammad are considered by Muslims as the final instalment to a trilogy of religions, with Judaism being the first, Christianity the second and Islam the third. If you looked into the history of the Crusades and the holy war led by the Pope then it might change your perceptions and shed some light on the verses that you quoted Liam.’\n\n‘But then you also have to ask yourself why the Crusades started,’ Liam replied. ‘The Byzantine Empire in the Middle East was a continuation of the Roman Empire, which at the time was the most advanced empire the world had ever seen. However we are told that those people were nothing more than Germanic barbarians who caused the Dark Ages whilst the Muslim world lived in a Golden Age. But that doesn’t add up. How can a group of people go from overthrowing the most civilised empire that ever lived only to continue living like supposed savages? Well unless they didn’t choose to enter the Dark Ages. What if it was jihad that caused the fall of the Roman Empire and the destruction of the Classical world? What if it was Muslim pirates patrolling the Mediterranean sea that cut off the communication links between the East and West? What if the Byzantine Emperor pleaded to the Pope in Rome for help because his empire was under constant siege and Christianity in the East was in danger of going the same way as other Eastern religions such as Zoroastrianism?’\n\n‘I don’t think this is the time or the place to be having a conversation like this,’ Stu said as he stood up. ‘Come on, it’s time we went back.’\n\nLiam looked up at the clock on the wall and then checked the time he made it on his tablet. ‘We’ve got two minutes yet, haven’t we?’\n\n‘Yeah but it’ll take us two minutes to walk back down there,’ said Harrison, as if he was well programmed in the way companies really operated when it came to timekeeping. Nevertheless Liam stayed put in defiance as the rest of the Casuals made their way out of the canteen.\n\n\nLiam didn’t see Ethan make a beeline for him as he made his way back to his place on the factory floor as he was too busy looking at Stu who was talking to Chloe.\n\n‘You’re late back, where have you been?’ Ethan asked Liam.\n\n‘I went to the toilet,’ Liam replied, with the first excuse which came into his head.\n\n‘That’s what your break time is for.’\n\n‘I went during my break time but so did everybody else so I had to wait.’\n\nEthan’s body language made it plainly obvious to Liam that he didn’t believe him but he knew Ethan didn’t have any evidence to prove that he was lying. ‘Right then, seen as though you won’t be needing the toilet any time soon I don’t expect to see you away from your machine for the rest of your shift this evening without my permission, is that clear?’\n\nLiam nodded his head simply so that Ethan would disappear out of his face and made his way towards Chloe. 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"content": "Anyone truly interested in free speech should take a look at the opening chapter of my novel. Please read, like, comment and subscribe. But more importantly see my blog for further chapters.<br /><br /><br /><br /> One<br /><br />A dead tree stands out more in summer, Chloe thought to herself as the adhan (call to prayer) went out from the factory masjid. Upon hearing the adhan over 80% of the staff left the factory floor and walked as one to undertake the maghrib (evening prayer). Chloe turned to Liam and watched as he carried on with his work in time with the cacophony of the machines of industry. They’d only known each other for a couple of days but on their induction tour of the building they’d soon realised the rumours were true and they were different to the majority of staff who worked at the Crown Parcel Service. The blazing neon jackets they were compelled to wear identified the status of Liam and Chloe and matched that of the remaining staff on the factory floor. A marker that they were ‘Casuals’, and could be dismissed on the spot for any slight indiscretion, and also of their dhimmitude (non-Muslim) status within society as a whole because they hadn’t officially subjugated themselves to the religion of peace.<br /><br />‘Do you think the war will spread here?’ Chloe asked Liam.<br /><br />Officially there wasn’t a war taking place in Andalus but simply a winning of the hearts and minds by the Andalusian government against a backward thinking section of its society who wanted to bring back the fascist regime of the mid-20th Century. And the government in Andalus was being supported by its allies in the former European colonial lands of North Africa and West Asia, under the guidance of Daesh. <br /><br />‘We’ll fight back against Daesh before they’ve officially taken over us,’ Liam said.<br />Liam’s response surprised Chloe somewhat as she hadn’t seen any evidence of a fight back against Daesh or its millions of supporters in England. The Internet, supposedly the last safe haven for freedom of speech, was awash with pro-government and pro-multicultural sites so it was virtually impossible to break through the censorship and find anything to back up Liam’s claim. In fact everything that was available about the situation in Andalus always focused on how innocent Muslims were being attacked and how it was imperative everyone in England embraced multiculturalism in order to avoid the same thing happening. A tactic that had been used for generations to win sympathy towards Muslims so they weren’t offended and to ensure their beliefs system couldn’t be called into question.<br /><br />Multiculturalism was constantly being praised in all forms of the media as the saviour of the English way of life. Although people like Liam and Chloe had become third class citizens in their relatively short lifetimes and endured a significantly lower standard of living than people did fifty or sixty years earlier. Multiculturalism had become nothing more than an Islamic monoculture but despite that no one ever dared claim anything was wrong. Even the ones at the bottom of the pile. They’d been programmed down the generations to accept it. Do as they were told. Keep a stiff upper lip and lie to themselves that they weren’t on the path towards a choice of: conversion, slavery or death.<br /><br />‘What do you mean, “we’ll fight back before they’ve officially taken over?”’ Chloe asked, as she moved closer Liam because she felt as if she’d committed a crime by discussing the Andalusian situation without starting the conversation with a clarification on how committed to multiculturalism and proud of all her Muslim friends she was.<br /><br />Liam looked up but didn’t get a chance to respond as the effects of 80% of the staff leaving the factory floor all at once became evident. ‘What’s all this mess?’ bellowed Ethan, the Crown Parcel Service’s puppet manager, who’d been put in charge simply because he’d agreed to subjugate himself to the demands of those in power, rather than because of any managerial qualities he had.<br /><br />Chloe had noticed that Liam had taken an instant dislike to Ethan when he’d introduced himself to the Casuals and it seemed to her that Ethan wasn’t too fond that someone like Liam would be working under him. Since that first meeting, every time Ethan had walked over to them with his rounded shoulders and greasy long hair, it appeared to be Liam who he singled out with his petty management style.<br /><br />‘Is this a safe environment to be working in?’ asked Ethan, as he pointed towards some boxes in the middle of the floor the machines had continued to process with no one to collect them and move on to the next stage.<br /><br />Liam looked at the mess but didn’t respond to Ethan’s question. Chloe however, keen to make a good impression and show how committed she was to making the fantastic opportunity she’d been given at Crown Parcel Service work, saw the need to offer him an explanation. ‘The same thing happened yesterday, they just leave them when they go to pray,’ she said.<br /><br />‘I’m sorry?’ questioned Ethan, as he furrowed his monobrow and looked down his glasses to focus on Chloe better. ‘Who are they?’ he asked, as if Chloe had just suggested the octogenarian King Charles III was the ideal candidate to be put forward for a euthanasia trial. <br /><br />‘The people,’ Chloe spluttered, as she pointed towards the factory masjid.<br /><br />‘They,’ Ethan said, as his saliva flew out of his mouth and onto Chloe’s bright neon jacket, ‘had important business to attend to. If you allowed a little culture into your life then perhaps you wouldn’t have wound up the waste of space you’ve become. I want this area tidying up in two minutes. 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Multiculturalism had become nothing more than an Islamic monoculture but despite that no one ever dared claim anything was wrong. Even the ones at the bottom of the pile. They’d been programmed down the generations to accept it. Do as they were told. Keep a stiff upper lip and lie to themselves that they weren’t on the path towards a choice of: conversion, slavery or death.\n\n‘What do you mean, “we’ll fight back before they’ve officially taken over?”’ Chloe asked, as she moved closer Liam because she felt as if she’d committed a crime by discussing the Andalusian situation without starting the conversation with a clarification on how committed to multiculturalism and proud of all her Muslim friends she was.\n\nLiam looked up but didn’t get a chance to respond as the effects of 80% of the staff leaving the factory floor all at once became evident. ‘What’s all this mess?’ bellowed Ethan, the Crown Parcel Service’s puppet manager, who’d been put in charge simply because he’d agreed to subjugate himself to the demands of those in power, rather than because of any managerial qualities he had.\n\nChloe had noticed that Liam had taken an instant dislike to Ethan when he’d introduced himself to the Casuals and it seemed to her that Ethan wasn’t too fond that someone like Liam would be working under him. Since that first meeting, every time Ethan had walked over to them with his rounded shoulders and greasy long hair, it appeared to be Liam who he singled out with his petty management style.\n\n‘Is this a safe environment to be working in?’ asked Ethan, as he pointed towards some boxes in the middle of the floor the machines had continued to process with no one to collect them and move on to the next stage.\n\nLiam looked at the mess but didn’t respond to Ethan’s question. Chloe however, keen to make a good impression and show how committed she was to making the fantastic opportunity she’d been given at Crown Parcel Service work, saw the need to offer him an explanation. ‘The same thing happened yesterday, they just leave them when they go to pray,’ she said.\n\n‘I’m sorry?’ questioned Ethan, as he furrowed his monobrow and looked down his glasses to focus on Chloe better. ‘Who are they?’ he asked, as if Chloe had just suggested the octogenarian King Charles III was the ideal candidate to be put forward for a euthanasia trial. \n\n‘The people,’ Chloe spluttered, as she pointed towards the factory masjid.\n\n‘They,’ Ethan said, as his saliva flew out of his mouth and onto Chloe’s bright neon jacket, ‘had important business to attend to. If you allowed a little culture into your life then perhaps you wouldn’t have wound up the waste of space you’ve become. I want this area tidying up in two minutes. 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