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CONCLUSION:

CONCLUSION:

(A) There are Quranic facts in which true Muslims must believe: God's true religion has been reveled in many eras and languages as one calling for the Truth, rights, goodness, charity, peace, righteousness, and justice; therefore, it is impossible to make God's religion responsible for injustices, persecutions, and acts of hatred and fanaticism committed by mortals in the name of religion. God says the following in the Quran: "We sent Our messengers with the clear proofs, and We sent down with them the Book and the Balance, that humanity may uphold justice…" (57:25), and this means that the aim of celestial divine messages is to make people uphold justice. It is NEVER part of justice to make one group, class, or sect within a given society dominating, persecuting, oppressing, and controlling the others; this is a crime and a grave injustice that has nothing to do with God and His religion at all. It is unfair to ascribe such crime to His religion; God says the following about Himself: "…God desires no injustice for humankind." (3:108); "…God wants no injustice for the servants." (40:31). Let us be reminded of the fact that God condemns injustice and tells us that the unjust ones are the dwellers of Hell after the Last Day: "Faces will be humbled before the Living, the Eternal. Whoever carries injustice will despair." (20:111). Hence, how come that some of those who claim to be 'Muslims' accept to commit injustices against those who have different faiths?! The real Quran-believing people must know that God's will ordained that people would differ in faith: "Had your Lord willed, He could have made humanity one community, but they continue to differ. Except those on whom your Lord has mercy-for that reason He created them…" (11:118-119). Thus, the Quran urges us to adhere to elevated, refined, polite dialogue with those who have different faiths as God postpones judgment of faiths to the Day of Resurrection. The Quran asserts the vital importance of tolerance, peace, and equality so that all people on earth coexist peacefully despite differences on which God's creation of them is based. God says about his last message conveyed by Muhammad: "We did not send you except as mercy to humankind." (21:107). This means that Muhammad was not sent to command massacring and persecuting others; how come that some accept hadiths and narratives ascribed to Muhammad, who never said or uttered them, that urge massacring and persecuting people?!

            

(B) There is a historical fact/lesson that can be drawn and deduced from between the lines of the above brief historical overview; the bill of persecution increases until the perpetrators pay it after victims would pay. For instance, the Umayyad caliphate adopted a policy based on fanaticism: the Umayyads were biased against non-Arabs and favored only Arabs, and they were biased against certain Arabian tribes and factions and favored some others. Some Umayyad caliphs were biased against their brothers and removed them from their statuses as crown-princes to appoint their sons instead. Such explosive and volatile state of affairs was the fatal weapon causing the detriment and collapse of the Umayyad caliphate that spanned only 8 decades despite its initial political strength and military might that enabled it to stretch its borders between gates of China Wall and the Pyrenees mountains south of France. Thus, fanaticism destroyed the Umayyad caliphate as it gnawed from within itself. This is an invaluable lesson to be learnt; when fanaticism and extremism spread in a given society, everything and everyone are destroyed including those who initiated such fanaticism and extremism. Likewise, religious fanaticism backfires always at its initiators; it turns into persecution, bias, and prejudice among members of the same sect/doctrine and the circle would grow smaller and people would declare one another as 'infidels', 'apostates', or 'heretics' in mutual distrust and accusations until violence, massacres, and terrorism spread among a given society whose members are deemed as 'disbelievers'. Such ghastly state of affairs does occur now within the countries of the Muhammadans. Apart from historical examples of what we refer to here, in modern times, we have witnessed a revival of Salafism/Wahabism now all over the Arab world that spreads terrorism and bloodshed. What aggravates matters is the following fact often ignored by most people: the vast majority of distortions in religion within tenets and notions believed by the Muhammadans in their ancient 'holy' books of traditions have been introduced by non-Arabs who hated both Arabs (who conquered their lands) and Islam (the culture that undermined theirs), and they sought to take revenge at any cost by feigning conversion to 'Islam' to undermine it in the books authored by them. Within such books, countless narratives/hadiths and fatwas contradict and undermine the Quran/Islam and cast doubts on Muhammad; yet, such books are sanctified and believed by the Muhammadans, past and present, and this means that the revenge sought by those non-Arab authors is complete and still going on for centuries until now! Because of racial discrimination and religious persecution, feigning a conversion to 'Islam' was the political route to wreak revenge against Arabs and Muhammadans. If there were any justice, equality, and religious freedom within the Arab rule/caliphates, those people would not have resorted to secret resistance methods. We assert here that racial discrimination is short-lived, as the one adopted by Umayyads against non-Arabs did not last for long as the Abbasids never adopted it. In contrast, religious persecution lasts for centuries; the one introduced and initiated by the Ibn Hanbal doctrine scholars and imams as well as the narrators/fabricators of hadiths and narratives has become integral part of the Sunnite religion. Intellectual stagnation that lasted for centuries helped in maintaining such books and tenets and notions without being discussed and refuted, paving the way to their being accepted as 'holy' creed and part and parcel of being religious. In our modern times, the religious 'Islamic' revival that began in the Arab world in the 1970s has nothing to do with Islam (i.e., the Quran alone); rather, it is the re-introduction of the backward, regressive, obscurantist Salafism/Wahabism that dates back to the Middle Ages, the era of fanaticism, extremism, obscurantism, immorality, violence, intellectual stagnations, and backwardness. Hence, the so-called 'revival of religion' is in fact poses a veritable danger against people and it distorts and defames the name of Islam; terrorism and sectarian violence base themselves on Wahabi grounds, thus turning citizens/generations into time-bombs that will explode sooner or later. All extremist movements and calls begin by declaring others, in a given society, who have different faiths/doctrines/religions as 'infidels' and 'disbelievers', and they end up declaring the whole society as such, thus seeking to impose change and to reach power via terrorism, violence, and massacres. This later on will lead to more divisions and killings within the one group of those criminals against one another. Hence, fanatical and extremist movements begin at first as simple ones, and they snowball into a huge, massive destructive force gaining fake legitimacy from religion by raising the banners of jihad. To face such veritable danger, we are to prove the falsehood and the deception of such fake legitimacy that contradicts and flagrantly violates the Quranic sharia. Indeed, the Muhammadans are in bad need of religious reform, and if governments would not do it, enlightened free thinkers must undertake it in Egypt, and all over the Arab world, as religious reform will save Egypt and the Middle East countries, and indeed the whole planet, from extremism and terrorism. The needed religious reform is nothing but Quranism: to return to God's Word as the sole criterion to refute traditions/falsehoods accumulated for 14 centuries; this way, we will clear the name of Islam from the acts and notions of past and present Muhammadans. ""Shall I seek a judge other than God, when He is the One who revealed to you the Book, explained in detail?" Those to whom We gave the Book know that it is the truth revealed from your Lord…" (6:114). As always, God says nothing but the Truth.

The Persecution of Copts after the Arab Conquest
The Persecution of Copts after the Arab Conquest
Written by Ahmed Subhy Mansour
Translated by Ahmed Fathy

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This book is a research tackling the persecution of Copts in Egypt after the Arab conquest, called by some historians as the 'Islamic' conquest, from the era of the pre-Umayyad caliphs to the end of the Mameluke Era, within a historical overview and also within a Quranist vision.
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