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Salam aleikum, Muslims. I would like for you to view these four short videos before reading further.

Now, what do we see here as a pattern? Simply put, you see a largely heritage-based, nationalistic resistance against an evil that is being imported and forced into a disadvantaged society from abroad. This evil is homosexuality. ‘Batty business’ as they call it in their English. So, allow me to address this pattern and what it means to Muslimsin the order I have listed the issues in this title. Jamaica, batty business (homosexuality), and walaa wal baraa.

JAMAICA:

Jamaica’s history began when the first people settled on it, the Arawaks. But its written history began when the Spaniards landed on it and began the genocide on the Arawak, not one of whom remains today without mixture. They and the English imported slaves from Africa there to replace the Arawaks they could no longer enslave. Importing more and more Africans, they eventually turned the island into another African country, miles and miles off shore from the West African coast. The Africans there mingled their languages with English to come up with their distinct patois spoken today in non-formal situations. They held on to many African customs and ways, good and bad, and they were among the foremost resistors to slavery in the Americas, along with the Haitians nearby. They fought oppression, and were at times inspired by Muslims among them. Their maroons, named after the Muslim tribe called Maruns, fought against the Spaniards and the British from their bases in the Blue Mountains. When slavery was abolished, the masses were still poor, and now they are still poor. When independence came, the loans Jamaica took out from the developed world were designed to imprison her in debt, in which its economy is still trapped today. And now, because the nation is dependent on tourist dollars, they generally will cater to tourists and try to show them a good time in their tropical land.

BATTY BUSINESS:

But Jamaica is an African country, far away from the African coast line. And homosexuality is an anathema to African customs, despite the tribal diversity of the continent. Recently, probably as of the 80s, definitely the 90s, the presence and idea of homosexuality has shocked the people there. Despite the possible existence of bent gender roles in some African societies before European contact, and I say possible to be fair to those who claim to have studied this, the fact is that many in Africa and Jamaica have not heard about such before European contact. If it existed, then the fact is that the larger population was unaware of it.So, when it came to the public view of Jamaicans, probably in the 80s, people were horrified and shocked.

As a nation of Bible-believers, who are not always ’sanctified’ and ’saved’ as Christians, they are still a nation of people who base their notions of right and wrong on the Bible and its commandments. The Rastafarians actually have a good concept of walaa wal baraa, despite their lack of Islam. They differentiate between moral people on one side and backbiters, informers, traitiors, murderers, and worst of all, homosexuals on the other. They see homos as sodomites, and homosexuality as something that is naturally wrong to everyone, universally disgusting to all peoples instinctively, and therefore unacceptable as a practice that threatens to tear up the fabric of societies and families. Therefore, homosexuals being nice to them and being polite will not make them feel they have to accept this sort of behavior. It is like someone smiling at you while kicking a bucket of poison over into your water supply. Between the serious Christianity of the masses and the Rastafarianism of the few, homosexuality has fortunately been met with baraa by the disbelieving Jamaicans while the Muslims in Muslim lands are being more tolerant of it and saying nothing when men belly-dance on TV or go to Bahrain for weekends with lady-boys, or even when bedouins in Kuwait go into towns and the sick among them hope to catch a little boy unawares.

WALAA WAL BARAA:

Simply put, I as a Muslim, am dead-set against homosexuality or even men having feminine mannerisms like some do even when they don’t desire other men. I am a homphobe because I am supposed to be, and I refuse to suffer any repercussions because of it. So while I intend to present the facts without bias, I wish to admit to the reader that I am more than just a homophobe, I am a Muslim who is serious and does not give ground to homosexuality. A teenage boy can flutter around and talk more effeminately than a woman, and his parents may feel they have to accept this, but don’t let him tell his parents he wants to get married. So in this matter, I stand with Jamaicans, and with other Africans who oppose this as a nasty evil in a category by itself. I give praise to Jamaica and Jamaicans for their stance against this evil, despite the monied gay interests from abroad that want to impose this evil on them. They have surpassed Muslims in their baraa, and for this I pray that Allah grow the Muslim communities there from their population. But therein lies the issue.

See, as much as they are against it bravely, even in the face of threats of boycotting of them as a tourist destination, they are resisting from a standpoint of Christianity, Rastafarianism, and a sense of their very African national identity.They are morally outraged against this wickedness, but what is missing is a full understanding of why all of us as human beings are even wired to hate such in the first place. Who wired us this way? Why? What reason are we created this way? Is hatred of homosexuality alone a guarantee of salvation? If not, why? What does it mean and what does it not mean? What mindset will make the entire island able to withstand the financial backlash against it for its homophobia? Why has God Almighty not rescued the place from its predicament if it’s so righteously outraged by what God is angry at?

To Jamaica, let me say this; you don’t have to accept some outside or inside agents imposing this evil value on you. Even if someone could come and prove that some African tribe had this practice among its people before anyone of them ever saw a non-African, you wouldn’t have to accept it. Matter of fact, you do have to reject it as you are doing. Our texts agree that societies are destroyed when they accept this. You are an island of brave people who do not bend easily, and of all things to impose in your domain, any idiot should have known that the abomination of abominations would not go over easily amongst you. But by the same token, man cannot live by bread alone, as many of you would say. Likewise, humanity cannot be redeemed by homophobia alone. Salvation requires more than that. For this reason, I invite you to accept Islam, as you are already poised to surpass other Muslims around the world with your proper loyalty to righteousness and your praiseworthy disavowal of wickedness, what we call walaa wal baraa, solidarity and opposition. Many of you may say, “If we do that, then America, Canada, and the UK will come down on us!” I say to you they have already tried this and it didn’t work, did it? You have salvation to gain and nothing to lose.

To the rest of the world, I say that I openly appreciate their resistance to homosexuality and their refusal to accept it as a society. That is not something that needs to be done away with. If anything, it is something that needs to be upped legally until the law will send them to their deaths for this type of behavior if they’re caught. I side with them on this issue. And to top it off, their vigilante justice against homos is dangerous because a straight person could be killed as a gay by a careless accuser or an angry crowd, and yet I find that better than a situation in which someone can say openly that they get busy with others of their own gender and get away with it. The fact that people in Jamaica have babies outside of wedlock routinely is not missed by me as a Muslim, but the fact is it is better than a place where people can forsake the opposite gender and then adopt children because they can’t conceive between themselves. The fact that Jamaica has a problem with corruption is an issue, but its government with its kufr and corruption is superior to America’s with its kufr, corruption, and open legal acceptance of homo business. My only regret is that other Muslims aren’t strong enough or don’t know enough to surpass li’l old me in their baraa against this disgusting lifestyle.

May Allah guide the homophobes to Islam and embarrass the wuslims with them. May Allah guide them to love Him and then love them in return, and make them merciful with the believers while harsh with the disbelievers.

Too often we find Muslims reciting the old refrain as though it is a hadith. “The worst Muslim is better than the best kaffir.” We’ve all heard it before, had to, can’t go to some masajid without hearing that same old quote. Let me get to the point; there is a truth to this statement as well as a problem from which it stems and a problem to which it leads.

TRUTH

This statement is true, but not in the context meant by many who say this. Theologically speaking, this statement is absolutely true. As Islam is true, or else we shouldn’t have accepted it, it will always be superior to falsehood. Mother Theresa can’t do enough, can’t sacrifice enough, and can’t feed enough people to cover for the sin of shirk. None of us can. So, kufr is the capstone if transgressions against Allah, and in this context, yes,the worst Muslim is better than the best kaffir. But this is a normal belief in all religions claiming truth. Christians will tell you that sin doesn’t take people to hell, but that sin being someone’s god instead of the Messiah, is what sends souls to hell. Jews will tell you that sinful Jews have a hope of redemption that saintly gentiles can’t have. One thing on which all People of the Book will agree is that good works by themselves don’t save a person and that we are in need ofthe Almighty’s mercy for our redemption. As Muslims, we don’t debate the Jews and Christians on this. Christian pastors may try to debate us on this, but it stomps them in debates when we say to them, “We agree! Without mercy, all are lost.”

This leads to what the problem is with this statement.

PROBLEM

See, unfortunately, we got some triflin’ folk in our coomunities, and they know this. They wouldn’t be around us if they weren’t so triflin’. Some Muslims not only excepted Islam in prison, but they would have never accepted Islam had they not been locked up! They had to go to jail to accept it. They had to be in a pathetic state to be humbled enough to accept it for themselves, other wise they’d have been like Abu Jahl, too arrogant to accept it. They are of the mindset that uses this refrain in a problematic way, and they differ from people who accept Islam in prison or in a bad situation because that was when it reached them. Some of the people of this mindset only accept Islam when they are bankrupt, or in any other condition making them useless in the way of this world to others, to be brutally honest. And then when they enter our fold, they got tawheed and hamdulillah for it, but they then bring their triflin ways and the burdens thereof into our ranks and communities, causing more fitnah than we could possibly tolerate!

Some of them come into Islam, but they keep making babies they can’t take care of! Married or not! Some of them are bad enough for trying to marry when they have no job and they just hang around the masajid all day, then have the audacity to brag to prospective sisters that they say all five salawat in the masjid! And when their kids’ mothers then have to beg from us and be a nuisance, they are not only absent or sitting in the cars, waiting on these women to bring them the kindness of strangers, they will not accept correction for their behaviors! Tell them how bad they are for others’ Islam, and they will say “Subhanallah! The worst Muslims is better than the best kaffir!” You see the context in which they use it? It’s to excuse their trifling, unexcusable behaviors in the first place! Simply put, the statement with respect to behavior. Behaviorally speaking, the worst Muslims are worse than the best kuffar! The kuffar have stopped legalizing discrimination against nationalities and races! Have the Muslims? Nope! The kuffar will generally take care of their kids, despite teaching them shirk!Many Muslims will, but the kuffar distance themselves from other kuffar who neglect their kids. Do Muslims? We tolerate it, epsecially in ghettos! That’s a bad behavior, and in that respect, the’re better than us! Let’s admit it!

There are Muslims who accept Islam, then stay in a life of crime, drinking, and fornication. They bring their girlfriends to the masajid and leave them in the cars while they pray. Kuffar become born-again Christians, and they leave that foolishness behind if they really mean it! In that regard, they simply are better than we are! There are kaffir women who are educated and have marketable skills, and they still love and appreicate their men, and are not so materialistic! There are Muslim women who have no means of independence, and yet they are so materialistic that men are more valuable to them for expensive furniture and jewelry than they are for natural, biological reasons, and they don’t appreciate men outside of the materialistic concerns! Behaviorally speaking, the kuffar have surpassed them, even though they have a superior aqeedah! Muslims and Muslimahs are behaving so badly that we are driving each other away a lot of times. We are generally behaving so badly to other Muslims that we harm each other’s iman, to be honest! We give each other anti-dawah like it’s a second job! “The worst Muslim is better than the best kaffir” does not mean we are excused for these things!

May Allah make us behaviorally better than the ones we have surpassed in terms of faith.

Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu to the Muslims.

Forgive me for my long delay since my last voice recording, but it hasn’t been for lack of concern for my Muslim audience.

Years ago, before I was even able to have children, I made my mind up that I wouldn’t show a certain type of movie to my children whenever I had them. Movies that depicted magic in any way except to discourage them were out of the question. Movies that showed royalty or the marriage of common women to men of royalty and having all of their problems solved were definitely out of the question. Until any children of mine were old enough to have a critical talk with me about what they were seeing and understand when I tell them what is wrong with the depiction, there would be no viewing of them. These are referred to as “princess movies” in our house. Princess movies cause serious problems when you’re not careful.

Well, months ago, I was in Blockbuster, looking for something not quite so harmful for my daughter to watch, something educational that also entertains children. But she kept coming to me with exactly the ones I didn’t want her to see. Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and even some movie that shows them together in some sorority! She only wanted princess movies, period. And they all show magic of some sort, something that solves all problems all of a sudden, allowing the characters to live happily ever after. And they were all made by Disney. All of them! This was why I entitled this, “Disney and Divorce”. I finally picked out a historically accurate cartoon that my daughter mistook for a princess movie, made by WB. Guess what! It had magic, and the same fantastic notion of regular women marrying royalty and having no more problems in life! It was princess movie, following in Disney’s footsteps. So Disney began a process when they made these princess movies back in the 30s to the 90s. But shortly after Disney began, the soap opera studios and Hollywood began picking up on these notions, and the trouble was that this combination of Disney cartoons for the children and the other movies for adults not only fed children these fantastic notions, but reinforced them when these kids grew up!

Weeks ago, I was in a coffee shop getting something for my wife, and I happened to know the man behind the counter. We talked a bit about the things our kids say, and that led to talk about how some wives have mutually exclusive standards for their men to meet. When we made mention of this, he then related a class discussion about gender relations he had the prior week, in which he told his female classmates that they should get together and sue the F out of Disney, because their expectations had been messed up by the company. He told them that real men could not possibly be everything they expected, just as they cannot possibly be all that porno movies depict them to be. But as he said this, it dawned on me that it was no coincidence that my 3 year old daughter came to me with ONLY the movies that I had determined NOT to show her at so young an age. Yes, I was angry about this! But then he made me realize that it was not possibly just a coincidence! It was intentional! Those movies and they expectations they set, the notions they impart, are all a pit, a trap. The most effective trap to build is one that deceives its prey into thinking they are fortunate to have stumbled into it, and makes others outside feel left out so they’ll jump in, too. My daughter wanted to jump in that pit, not understanding that later on, it would hurt. She didn’t understand that it was a trap! Even without me telling her about the movies, she knew about them from her playmates who have not been kept from the trap, and insists that she must see them! They have been advertised to her, for free, not only to where she knows about them, but also to where she has to see them or she can’t relate, even at three years of age!

The kaffir behind the counter is right! Women need to sue the F out of Disney; sue the fulus out of them! And Muslims need to keep these fantastic notions they impart out of the minds of our Muslim children, so that when they are grown, they do not entertain unrealistic standards for a prospective spouse to meet, only to be disappointed to learn that, no, Allah didn’t make anyone like that for them! Disney began what the other studios continued; the mental process that has led to the climbing divorce rate in the US, which in turn is being mirrored in other countries around the world, too. In America, men who do not earn a lot of money fresh out of college are considered ineligible, even amongst Muslims, even though Allah has promised that he would test even the kuffar with hard times and test us with harder times. In the Arab countries, some families will not allow their daughters to marry until the suitor earns a masters degree from abroad, even though every one earning a master’s degree would only make it less valuable in the job market. I was informed a few years ago that in South Korea, the divorce rate increased to 50 percent in a five year period. Back in the US, Froma Walsh says in her book Normal Family Processes that despite the last decade’s slight dip in the divorce rate, it still tripled in the last five decades.

Muslims, please avoid letting our kids fall into these traps. They do not need to see these movies until they are old enough to mistake them for comedies just for being so unrealistic! Even then, they should probably only view them once so that they know what is behind the stupidity of the fanstasies entertained by the kuffar between whom we unfortunately live. Their entertainment value is nil for the people of tawheed who detest magic and lies. May we soon see the day that our children think such stories are comedies because they cannot stop laughing at the stupidity of them!

In no way is this an accquital of Obama for killing Muslims.
Correction: The newspaper responsible is the New York Post, not the Times. I apologize for the confusion and the injustice I did to the Times accidentally.