"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins."

- Ayn Rand, John Galt Speech, Atlas Shrugged.
 

“It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.”

- Ayn Rand,
For the New Intellectual

Ayn Rand
Novelist-Philosopher
1905-1982

"History has seen a period of approximately ten centuries, known as the Dark and Middle Ages, when philosophy was regarded as "the handmaiden of theology," and reason as the humble subordinate of faith. The results speak for themselves."

- Ayn Rand,
The Objectivist

 

"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage."
 
- Ayn Rand,
The Fountainhead

 

"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours."
 

- Ayn Rand, John Gault Speech, Atlas Shrugged.
 

Islamic Commentators - "from the Camel's Mouth"

  • "The ultimate aim of those who submit to the Shariah is to express their slavehood to their Creator." - Faraz Rabbani
  • "The Democratic system that is predominant in the world not be a suitable system for the peoples of our region... The system of free elections is not suitable to our country" King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
  • "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."  - Omar Ahmad of Council on American-Islamic Relations
  • "The life of an unbeliever has no value, it has no sanctity." - Omar Bakri Muhammad
  • "in a decade, you will see parts of English cities which are controlled by Muslim clerics and which follow, not the common law, but aspects of Muslim Sharia law.  It is already starting to happen - and unless the Government changes the way it treats the so-called leaders of the Islamic community, it will continue." Dr Patrick Sookhdeo
  • "The Islamic Resistance Movement draws its guidelines from Islam; derives from it its thinking, interpretations and views about existence, life and humanity; refers back to it for its conduct; and is inspired by it in whatever step it takes." - Hamas Charter (1988)
  • "There can never be scope for a democratic rule from the Islamic point of view."  Mufti Ebrahim Desai
  • "I would like to see the Islamic flag fly, not only over number 10 Downing Street, but over the whole world" - Omar Bakri Muhammad
  • "Our dear Imam (referring to Ayatollah Khomeini) said that the occupying regime must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement ."- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
  • "If a country doesn't allow the propagation of Islam to its inhabitants in a suitable manner or creates hindrances to this, then the Muslim ruler would be justifying in waging Jihad against this country."  Mufti Ebrahim Desai
  • "It is wrong to say that Islam teaches us to respect the religious beliefs of non-Muslims. To respect the beliefs of others means to respect kufr and shirk. This is totally unacceptable."  Mufti Moulana Imraan Vawda
  • "I would like to inform all intrepid Muslims in the world that the author of the book entitled The Satanic Verses, which has been compiled, printed, and published in opposition to Islam, the Prophet, and the Qur’an, as well as those publishers who were aware of its contents, have been sentenced to death. I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them quickly, wherever they find them, so that no one will dare insult the Islamic sanctities. Whoever is killed on this path will be regarded as a martyr." - Fatwa issued by Ruhollah Khomeini
  • "The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies – civilians and military – is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and the holy mosque [in Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God, 'and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together,' and 'fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God.'" - Fatwa issued by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri
     

Koran - Holy Book of the "Religion of Peace"

Unbelievers

  • 2:191, "And slay them wherever ye catch them"
  • 5:33 "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter"
  • 8:12 "I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their fingertips off them"
  • 8:65 "O Prophet! rouse the Believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, they will vanquish a thousand of the Unbelievers"
  • 9:5 "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem."
  • 9:29 "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya* with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."
  • 47:4 "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens."
  • 48:13 "And if any believe not in Allah and His Messenger, We have prepared, for those who reject Allah, a Blazing Fire!"
     

Women

  • 4:3 "Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess"
  • 4:11-12 "Allah (thus) directs you as regards your Children’s (Inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females."
    4:24 "Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess."
    4:34 "Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women)."
  • 1. It is forbidden for a woman to be seen by any man except her husband when she is made up or well dressed. (TR. P 430)
    2. A woman is not a believer if she undertakes a journey which may last three days or longer, unless she is accompanied by her husband, son, father or brother. (TR. P 431)
    3. A woman must veil herself even in the presence of her husband's father, brother and other male relations. (TR. P 432)
    4. She is forbidden to spend any money without the permission of her husband, and it includes giving food to the needy or feast to friends. (TR. P 265)
    5. A wife is forbidden to perform extra prayers (NAFAL) or observe fasting (other than RAMADAN) without the permission of her husband. (TR. P 300)
    6. If prostration were a legitimate act other than to God, woman should have prostrated to her husband. (TR. P 428)
    7. If a man is in a mood to have sexual intercourse woman must come immediately even if she is baking bread at a communal oven. (TR. P 428)
    8. The marriage of woman to her man is not substantive. It is precarious. For example if the father of the husband orders his son to divorce his wife, he must do so. (TR. P 440)
    9. Majority of women would go to hell. (Muslim P 1431)
    10. If a woman refuses to come to bed when invited by her husband, she becomes the target of the curses of angels. Exactly the same happens if she deserts her husband's bed. (Bokhari P 93)
    11. The women who are ungrateful to their men, are the denizens of hell; it is an act of ingratitude for a woman to say: "I have never seen any good from you." (Bokhari P 96)
    12. A woman in many ways is deprived of the possession of her own body. Even her milk belongs to her husband. (Bokhari P 27)