English Language - Secular Audience

 Very useful hadith (saying of the prophet) reported by imam ali when he asked the prophet (pbuh) what are your main character traits.  Knowledge (of God) is my Capital; Reason is the Root of my Faith;  Love is my Foundation;  Enthusiasm is my Horse;  Remembrance (of God) is my Friend;  Firmness is my Treasure;  Sorrow is my Companion; Science is my weapon; Patience is my mantle; Contentment is my reward; Poverty is my pride; Devotion is my art; Conviction is my power; Truth is my redeemer; Obedience is my sufficiency; Struggle is my manner and my pleasure is in my prayer. In Arabic: حديث مفيد جدا عن الرسول الطيب محمد نقله الامام علي حين سأله عن اهم أوصاف  شخصيته، فقال صلى الله عليه و سلم : المعرفة رأسمالي ، والعقل أصل ديني ، والحب أساسي ، والشوق مركبي ، وذِكْر الله أنيسي ، والثقة كَنْزي ، والحزن رفيقي ، والعلم سلاحي ، والصبر ردائي ، والرضا غنيمتي ، والزُهد حرفتي ، واليقين قوَّتي ، والصدق شفيعي ، والطاعة حَسْبي ، والجهاد خلقي، وجعلت قرة عيني في ال...

Point 1: It is true there are some muslims who think that if someone curses their prophet that he should be killed. And some may even think that beheading maybe ok, despite us being in this modern time where such behaviour is completely reviled. So what’s going on with Muslims and Islam ? Is it really a barbaric religion with barbaric adherents or what ? Maybe what the media is telling us is true. Maybe the demonisation is justified. My answer is the following: I believe there are problems in the mindsets of some muslims. And I think this has come from the hijacking of true Islam by the ruling class. They wanted islam to be used as a means of sustaining their illegitimate rule ( after they usurped it) rather than to be a means for developing the human mind and freeing humanity from illegitimate control. So the intellectual freeing power of true Islam was cancelled out and muslims were turned into sheep. They accepted what the government controlled priests ( aka fake sheikhs) would tell...

 When I first came from Iraq fleeing from Saddam Hossein I believed that in the West there really was freedom of expression. However I discovered recently that things are no were near that. That there is deep fear of criticising anything Jewish in case the big smear of anti semetism is cast upon a person. And that even not believing in a certain something isn’t allowed. So you can disbelieve in God or Christianity or nearly anything you like but you are not allowed to disbelieve in something called the Holocaust. Because apparently disbelieving in that is beyond anything acceptable. Even though it’s just a belief ie a thought. So that means freedom of belief doesn’t really exist. So obviously there is something wrong in the West. So in case theoretical example you are not saying anything negative about the Holocaust but simply saying that you don’t believe it happened and yet it would be considered a crime. Isn’t this thought control ? And probably even me writing an article exposi...