Wednesday, February 28, 2024

BuyIndieComics.com Interviews M. Rasheed (2012)

 


Cosmic Mutiny
by Andre Owens

This interview was published on the defunct site BuyIndieComics.com in 2012.

“A Monstrous Interview with Cartoonist M. Rasheed.”

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Red Skew (Andre Owns) - First question, who are you and where are you from?

MRasheed - I am Muhammad Rasheed, a cartoonist originally from Detroit, Michigan now living in Raleigh, North Carolina. I sign my work "M. Rasheed" and use that when I deal with the public.

I publish cartoon books through my company Second Sight Graphix.

Monsters 101, the graphic novel series scheduled to end at 10-titles this year, is my flagship book.

Red Skew - When did you realize you wanted to be an artist?

MRasheed - When I was in my late teens. I had always drawn cartoons/illustrations, but for whatever reason, never really considered it something I would be able to do as a real life profession when I "grew up." My siblings and I were home-schooled during my high school years, and I got my GED at 18. I went to the local community college and art schools and saw the major for "Illustrator" and that was the very first time I thought, "Hey! I should be an artist!"

                              

Red Skew - You went to the Joe Kubert School. Tell us a little bit about that experience?

MRasheed - Well, after I got my BFA in Illustration at the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, having had instructors that teased us with cartooning assignments (I considered it teasing), I applied for the Kubert School a few weeks after I graduated because I didn't feel like I learned what I really needed to get from my college experience. I had a few teachers who literally hated cartoons, and were contemptuous about my work and the style I was attempting to develop... it left a real bad taste in my mouth.

I figured I could reverse all of that negativity by attending an actual cartoon illustration school.

The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Inc., functioned like a cartooning bootcamp. We had 10 classes per semester, two each work day, with assignments to do every single day. You had to really be on your game to stay caught up and not get left behind and forced to drop out/fail. It was very intense.

It also felt very much like coming home. lol I had spent my entire 20+ years of life preparing for just such an environment.



All my teachers were working cartoonists in the field, from old school Silver Age veterans of comic book illustration, to a Disney studio artist on hiatus from his Blockbuster Film work; it was a great experience for an aspiring cartoonist. And they taught us every aspect of cartooning relevant at the time.

They also turned us into drawing machines. Kubert school attendees are famous for getting work done.

Red Skew - After you graduated from the Kubert School, what was your next steps toward developing Second Sight Graphix?

MRasheed - Oh, I didn't develop Second Sight Graphix right away. Even though I had spent my childhood and teens creating my own books under my own li'l kid publishing company, the college experience pushed that entrepreneurial spirit away from my conscious mind, and when I got out of school I felt I should submit portfolios to companies so I could work for them... the way I'd been taught.

So I did commercial art for local companies and "worked on my portfolio." For years. It wasn't until I was well into the first 14 chapters of Monsters 101 did I seriously consider the idea of my own company.

Until then I was just doing contract work until I could get a "good job."

Red Skew - Did you ever want to work for the Big Companies?

MRasheed - Sure, because that was the Holy Grail back in school. That's what we were all supposed to want as a career end-goal. So I ate that up, too. Absolutely.

And then I got over it. lol

Once I held in my hands my own published book—my masterwork—and began to resent the idea of using up all my time to work on someone else's properties, or worse, give over creative control of my masterwork to some publisher, my boyhood entrepreneurial spirit began to resurface.

Red Skew - I've heard that tale before, so how long did it take you to realize that the Big Guys weren't for you and you wanted to do it your own way?

MRasheed - lol About 14 chapters. lol

Red Skew - Too funny.

MRasheed - It took a couple of years for the complete switch in mentality to take.

Red Skew - You say that you had all 14 chapters on Monsters 101 plotted out, when did you decide to go ahead and self publish?

MRasheed - No, I had the first 14 chapters completed. Inked on bristol board. Books One & Two, and the first two chapters of Book Three.

My decision to self-publish was only about a year old when I met you. (Note: MRasheed and I met on the online forum BlackSuperhero.com ~ RS)

Nah, more like a little over two years. Yes.

Red Skew - Wow, you are prolific. Did you always intend to self publish or were you looking for someone to publish?

MRasheed - I started off trying to get one of the creator-friendly publishers to do it for me... Dark Horse, Top Shelf, etc. But they all said that they thought it was very good, but not what they were looking for. Then I got married, moved to NC, and decided to do it myself.

Red Skew - We've been talking about Monsters 101, give us a little background on the series. What's it all about?

MRasheed - Monsters 101 is an action-adventure series, with elements of classic horror and fantasy, featuring the tale of a former school bully turned monster and his partner, his former favorite nerd victim turned sorcerer. The tale is told in ten 150 page graphic novels, with the point of the series to transform a bully and a nerd into responsible heroes. Along the way they encounter child-eating monsters, ferocious super beings, demonic spirits, alien races, and all kinds of other stuff designed to challenge them and make the tale as exciting as I can.



Red Skew - What I find exciting about your work is that you're a one man army who creates every aspect of Monsters 101, from creating to writing to drawing to publishing. What are your general thoughts on indie publishing?

MRasheed - I think the aspect that I like the most about it is that it does tend to reflect the purest beauty of cartooning, which to me is the one-man-show aspect. That's how I began all of this as a child, after-all. That's what appeals to me... it's just me, my pen-n-ink, my paper, and my imagination.

The independent publishing movement as a whole is pretty vast to me. I've been studying aspects of it at a time over the years and always find something different and interesting to try out almost every month.

I only recently discovered Dave Sim, and started reading the background on all of that history of comic book self-publishing. At first I thought Jeff Smith of Bone fame was the king, as an example.

Red Skew - As a Black creator/cartoonist, have you had any difficulty in the indie comic scene?

MRasheed - lol No. All of my difficulties have involved trying to juggle my solitary cartooning lifestyle with being a new husband and father. The side effect was making me not as prolific as I was used to being. This is the year I finally figured it all out. Now I get to really create some difficulties in the indie scene. hahahaha I'm looking forward to it.

Red Skew - Is there any advice that you could give to other creators looking to self publish?

MRasheed - I would tell them to get a body of work behind them as soon as possible. It definitely helped me with the credibility aspect out the gate, even though I wasn't a ''name" yet. And that sort of thing is vital in the direct market as well; retailers NEED to know that you can produce, and get books to them when you say you will, before they will give you any money. So setting up some kind of regular art production schedule where you can reliably put finished pages behind you, is the difference between making it and being shamed off the playing field.

Red Skew - Sound advice. Lastly, where can fans find Monsters 101 and/or contact you?

MRasheed - They can do both on my website at www.mrasheed.com.

Red Skew - Well, thanks for your time and an interesting interview.

MRasheed - Thank you for a very good interview! I now forgive you for scaring me earlier. :P


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Friday, February 23, 2024

Keeping an Undersized Rare Fish for the Novelty

 

[original cartoon pending]

CITATION
Rasheed, Muhammad. "Keeping an Undersized Rare Fish for the Novelty." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 00 Date 2024.  [cartoon pending] Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.


CLICK & SUBSCRIBE below for the Artist's Description of this #MRasheedCartoons image:

M. Rasheed on YouTube!

M. Rasheed on BitChute!

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write craft (@writecraft123) - I think I’d rather listen to this man than a TikTok historian


Muhammad Rasheed - Dr. King didn't say this. This line was pulled from a fabricated 1999 work by Rabbi Marc Schneier. The attribution of this quote to Dr. King was a hoax designed for social engineering scams. 

write craft (@writecraft123) - actually he did say it

Muhammad Rasheed - Actually, he did not. It's a scam.

write craft (@writecraft123) - right. In actuality He was probably a natzee like you 😂😂

Muhammad Rasheed - In actuality, I — like Dr. King — am focused on the enfranchisement & economic inclusion of my own people and don't have time to play silly games with you.

write craft (@writecraft123) - yet here you are on my page natzee lover. Bye

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm talking about your "natzee" foolishness games, not the other thing. I'm obligated to call out grifters and scumbags when they are trying to use my people's imagery to push debunked nonsense.

write craft (@writecraft123) - well you feel free to talk about my “people” so all is fair I guess. For what it’s worth MLK would be sickened by you. Natzee

Muhammad Rasheed - Turns out I wouldn't talk about your people at all if it wasn't for your chronic anti-Black American racism. How about learning to "walk the talk" of righteousness instead of grifting people and pretending to be the good guy? Try it.

Don't pretend to know what Dr. King would be sickened by or not, when I just caught you red-handed passing a fake message around about him, chief. Grow up for once.

write craft (@writecraft123) - how about you don’t pretend to know just because you’re black, which is the dumbest fucking reason ever. That’s literally his quote so you can cry more jew hater.

write craft (@writecraft123) - “anti black racism” plz prove it . You are a dummy grasping for straws pulling the race card

Muhammad Rasheed - writecraft123 wrote: "how about you don’t pretend to know just because you’re black"

What kind of ignorant strawman effigy fallacy is this? Didn't you see me source Rabbi Schneier's fake 1999 book? Have a care, goober.

writecraft123 wrote: "which is the dumbest fucking reason ever."

It's certainly dumb to pretend that's what I said my reason was. You can't win an argument with logical fallacies. Get your game up, high eye-cue. lol

writecraft123 wrote: "That’s literally his quote so you can cry more"

It's literally a fabricated 'quote' and fraudulently attributed to him by your Rabbi Marc Schneier. #ThouShaltNotBearFalseWitness

writecraft123 wrote: "jew hater."

🙄 Calling you out for performing evil deeds isn't an act of "hate," dummy. Grow up. Why don't you stop hating Black Americans. That's the root cause of the issue.

write craft (@writecraft123) - stop trying to sound intelligent since that went bye-bye with your opening statement. MLK has always been a supporter of the Jews and Israel by extension so you can keep on pulling High school level debate tactics as is trying to shoehorn yourself as a victim of black racism ( LOL) which you swill have not backed up with anything. If you’re gonan argue with Jews which, one of the most intelligent ppl in earth bc we value education, bring a bette argument than, “you’re racist just because.” Fake victim idiot

Muhammad Rasheed - writecraft123 wrote: "stop trying to sound intelligent"

Stop being a lying grifter.

writecraft123 wrote: "since that went bye-bye with your opening statement."

Said the guy passing around a fake hoax quote falsely attributed to Dr. King to push his self-serving political agenda. Shame on you.

writecraft123 wrote: "MLK has always been a supporter of the Jews and Israel by extension"

By extension of what? Your lie? The evidence shows that he was no where near as vocal about the issue your grifter community pretends he was. 

writecraft123 wrote: "so you can keep on pulling High school level debate tactics"

Calling out your logical fallacy is high school level debate, huh? lol

writecraft123 wrote: "as is trying to shoehorn yourself as a victim of black racism ( LOL)"

I happen to be a Black American anti-racism activist. *shrug*

writecraft123 wrote: "which you swill have not backed up with anything."

Are you going to pretend you suddenly care about facts & truth? When did that enlightenment happen?

writecraft123 wrote: "If you’re gonan argue with Jews"

I'll admit you lot are pretty shy, but I am occasionally able to catch an indiscreet low-ranking one. #CaseInPoint #HijinksEnsued 

writecraft123 wrote: "which, one of the most intelligent ppl in earth"

It's difficult for me to consider grifting, usury, human trafficking, and disrespecting the Lord thy God (daily!) as marks of "intelligence." 🤔

writecraft123 wrote: "bring a bette argument"

It's adorable you're pretending to care about a real argument. awww...

writecraft123 wrote: "than, 'you’re racist just because.'"

lol You saw I referenced Rabbi Schneier's "Shared Dreams" hoax book, didn't you? 😉

writecraft123 wrote: "Fake victim idiot"

"Victimhood" and "race card," etc., is how the white supremacists talk. What else are you hiding?

write craft (@writecraft123) - it’s amazing you wrote a whole novel and still have not been able to show where you experienced black racism. I noticed as a cartoonist you’re also extremely verbose but make no salient points( you’re also not funny either but that’s a different story ) At least you’re consistent 😂 please only respond to this with where you have experienced racism and not an obfuscating novel. Thanks

Muhammad Rasheed - writecraft123 wrote: "and still have not been able to show"

???

Where did I agree I was going to play your games with you? You said debate rules were only things people in high school did anyway, so why are you pretending you want to actually debate for?

writecraft123 wrote: "where you experienced black racism."

The fact that you passed around a fake quote falsely attributed to Dr. King on Black History Month to push an alien political agenda will do for our purposes.

writecraft123 wrote: "I noticed as a cartoonist you’re"

Blah-blah-blah. I'm not open to unsolicited critique from people I don't respect at all. You should repent of your lying grifting first and then we'll see if your character manages to improve. Otherwise, save your hot air.

write craft (@writecraft123) - hahaha “our purposes.” As if you talk for all of your ppl. You don’t. Invoking that MLK quote whether you believe it or not has zero to do with racism and the fact It happened on “ on black history month” is irrelevant. And yes it’s very clear you’re not open to unsolicited critiques judging by how amateur your work is and how little ppl engage with it. God forbid you try to get better hahah. But I’m sure it’s racism keeping you down 😂 oh wait I shouldn’t belittle you on black history ‘we are invulnerable’ month. 😂 dunce

Muhammad Rasheed - @writecraft123 wrote: "hahaha 'our purposes.' As if you talk for all of your ppl. You don’t."

Of course, I do. I'm a pro-Black American anti-racism activist.

writecraft123 wrote: "Invoking that MLK quote"

Is fraudulent. It's not real.

writecraft123 wrote: "has zero to do with racism"

Deliberately twisting Dr. King's words, downplaying his actual mission work, and even going so far to fabricate fake quotes and falsely claim he said them are altogether the actions of an anti-Black American racist.

writecraft123 wrote: "and the fact It happened on[sic] 'on black history month' is irrelevant."

You purposely did it this month to draw attention away from a Black American history observance time to appropriate Dr. King's imagery for your self-serving political interests. That's racist.

writecraft123 wrote: "And yes it’s very clear you’re not open to unsolicited critiques"

Nope. And certainly not by a slimeball grifter such as yourself. lol

writecraft123 wrote: "But I’m sure it’s racism keeping you down 😂"

This sounds like a projected variant of the anecdotal logical fallacy, speaking of consistency. Do you carry a bag of fallacies around with you? No wonder you have a disdain for the basic rules of debate. lol

***** @writecraft123 blocked me on IG after posting some offensive trash in the comments of some of my cartoons, and then unblocked me mysteriously to start up again *****

write craft (@writecraft123) - you don’t speak for all of your ppl. Sorry. And the quote is real no matter how much you hate it jew hater. Cry more. “Anecdotal logical fallacy” Hahaah so desperate to sound intelligent instead of just speaking coherently. You’re not a good writer man, I’m sorry. You’d have a bigger audience if you were. Im sorry you have to hear that on black history month, maybe you shoudl have waited to attack the Jews for Jewish history month… oh wait we don’t have one 😂 also we don’t care. You’re a bad writer and a horrible debater ( you also don’t knwk what a grifter is ooof) Now go ahead and parse every sentence of mine and respond like a good little robot 😂

Muhammad Rasheed - @writecraft123 wrote: "you don’t speak for all of your ppl."

Sure, I do. That's literally the point of political advocacy for group uplift.

writecraft123 wrote: "Sorry."

Apologize for your anti-Black American racism.

writecraft123 wrote: "And the quote is real no matter how much you hate it"

lol It's not about whether I hate it or not, it's a matter about it being fake because that's what the research shows. 

writecraft123 wrote: "jew hater."

I don't hate the Jews. Allah confirms that they are His people as long as they adhere to the covenant and stay on the Path of righteousness. I only hate anti-Black American systemic racism, grifting, usury, human trafficking, and disrespecting the Lord thy God  avoid those and we're good.

writecraft123 wrote: "Cry more."

I don't need to cry. I believe God.

writecraft123 wrote: "'Anecdotal logical fallacy' Hahaah so desperate to sound intelligent instead of just speaking coherently."

You sound like you were left behind, didn't get to go to the school you wanted to, and now you're bitter with a chip on your shoulder. 

writecraft123 wrote: "You’re not a good writer man, I’m sorry."

You're not a good human being at all. I guess that makes us even. 

writecraft123 wrote: "You’d have a bigger audience if you were."

*shrug*

writecraft123 wrote: "Im sorry you have to hear that on black history month"

lol I'm okay. I expect you grifting scumbags to be true to form. 

writecraft123 wrote: "maybe you shoudl have waited to attack the Jews"

When did I "attack the Jews?" 

writecraft123 wrote: "for Jewish history month… oh wait we don’t have one 😂 also we don’t care."

ummm... You're looking for "Jewish American Heritage Month" which is observed in May. Sheesh you're dumb. No wonder you're so bitter over the education thing. Tsk.

writecraft123 wrote: "You’re a bad writer"

*shrug*

writecraft123 wrote: "and a horrible debater"

That's what all of my crushed opponents say. You'll be alright. Put some ointment on it.

writecraft123 wrote: "( you also don’t knwk what a grifter is ooof)"

A grifter is a con artist, and you apparently worship the activity as an idol.




The Third Wheel

 

[original cartoon pending]

CITATION
Rasheed, Muhammad. "The Third Wheel." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 00 Date 2024.  [cartoon pending] Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.


CLICK & SUBSCRIBE below for the Artist's Description of this #MRasheedCartoons image:

M. Rasheed on YouTube!

M. Rasheed on BitChute!

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Bruce Ramsey - O Muslim.  WHO is the "he" Jesus is referring to in the "Injeel" (John 8:24) when Jesus says, "I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins"?   So, O Muslim, WHO is that "he" Jesus is referring to in the "Book" that makes "People of the Book" the Quran says it confirms?  WHO is that "he" IN John 8:24?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "WHO is the 'he' Jesus is referring to in the 'Injeel' (John 8:24)"

The Injil referred to in the Qur'an isn't the modern New Testament. The Injil is the revealed message preached by Jesus (pbuh) during his earthly lifetime, a work that is now lost. Jesus did not preach his own (badly) cobbled together life story as shown in the four gospels.

Bruce wrote: "when Jesus says"

Christian scholarship reveals that the Gospel of John is a fabricated document written by anonymous writers from among the Johannine community. Jesus didn't actually say the quote, it was a fictional quote based on a specific evangelical agenda and attributed to the messiah as if he said it.



Bruce Ramsey - If the Gospel is NOT the New Testament, well, WHAT is the "Book" that not only makes "People of the Book" the "clear signs" (Quran, that "explains EVERYTHING fully in detail") confirms, but, WHAT are the "before Scriptures" YOU are to come to ME for my READING of according to Quran 10:94?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "10:94"

In context, the verse is talking about settling the children of Israel in the promised land, and the bickering schisms they fell into among one another later. Obviously, "those who have been reading the Book from before thee" is referring to the Book of Moses specifically where such information is to be found.

Also, considering the Jewish scripture was carried only as an oral song passed down through the generations for millennia before it was finally written down in relatively recent times, obviously the One God doesn't always mean a literal physical "book" when He uses the term.



Bruce Ramsey - You think it's wise to come to me for reading a book ALL Muslims believe to be corrupted? THINK, please.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "You think it's wise to come to me for reading a book ALL Muslims believe to be corrupted?"

The bible is absolutely corrupted, and no one would be more aware of that than Allah, of course. So, the point of the two verses is to tell the prophet that that particular portion of the Old Testament is still accurate enough for the prophet to verify with the learned among the children of Israel only if the prophet were so foolish as to doubt the revelation of Allah in verse 10:93.

Clearly, Allah only said that in order to produce a stylized effect. Of course, the prophet took his Lord at His Word.

Bruce wrote: "THINK, please."

Oh, I did. You're the one who appears to be having some trouble.

Bruce Ramsey - There is no verification, though, for the Red Sea incident in the Torah doesn't match with how the Quran has it (Pharaoh becoming a Muslim). But, hey, come to me to find out there is no verification, and, I'll then tell you how Jesus' death on the cross FOR our sins is the ONLY action that makes sense of all the sin offerings and blood atonement mentioned in the Torah (Allah's book given to Musa").

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "There is no verification, though"

The Qur'an is the inerrant Word of God that the bible only pretends to be. By default, the Qur'an IS the verification that corrects the previous errors.

Bruce wrote: "for the Red Sea incident in the Torah doesn't match with how the Quran has it"

Then fix your book. You now have access to the Noble Qur'an to guide you.

Bruce wrote: "(Pharaoh becoming a Muslim)"

Death bed confessions aren't real anyway. He "converted" in impotent vanity. Hell will be his portion.

Bruce wrote: "But, hey, come to me to find out"

Again, 10:93-94 is talking about going to the children of Israel to verify the specific topic God mentioned. At no point ever did God say we should verify anything with the Christians who lost most of the message of the Christ, and even ignore the little piece you did manage to save. What would YOU know? Psh.

Bruce wrote: "there is no verification"

Allah is enough for a Witness.

Bruce wrote: "and, I'll then tell you how Jesus' death on the cross FOR our sins is the ONLY action that makes sense"

It's the only action that makes sense for those who wish to be cast into hell as pagans.

Caleb Sannoh - @Muhammad... I am just joining this conversation between you and Bruce. I have a few questions about the corrupt Injil.

1. Have you seen the uncorrupted Injil? If you have seen it, can you tell me where to find it?

2. Who physically wrote the Quran?

3. If Mohammed was a prophet, why didn't Allah speak to him directly? Why did Allah always have to go through the angel Jibril to communicate with Mohammed?

Waiting to hear back from you.

Muhammad Rasheed - Caleb wrote: "Have you seen the uncorrupted Injil? If you have seen it, can you tell me where to find it?"

You said you saw the dialog between Bruce and me. I answered that question right at the top. The Gospel of Jesus (pbuh) was an oral message.



Caleb wrote: "Who physically wrote the Quran?"

There were a number of scribes in the early Muslim community who dutifully wrote down the new revealed verses as soon as they heard them. This included Ubayy ibn Ka'b and the prophet's stepson Zayd ibn Thabit.

Caleb wrote: "3. If Mohammed was a prophet"

And he was, confirmed by Allah Most Gracious, so be not of those who doubt.

Caleb wrote: "why didn't Allah speak to him directly? Why did Allah always have to go through the angel Jibril to communicate with Mohammed?"

Allah said that He always used the Noble Gabriel to communicate the revelation to His prophets, with Moses (pbuh) being the only exception.



Caleb Sannoh - @Bruce... It is an impossible task to try and explain the truth to a man who is not Born Again. This guy resorts to insults when he has no answer for your questions.

Here is what Jesus said about such people:

New Living Translation (Matt 7:6)
“Don’t waste what is holy on people who are unholy. Don’t throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the pearls, then turn and attack you.

He cannot understand you because, in Islam, ALLAH IS THE MESSENGER OF MOHAMMED (he hates Jews but he is a Jew according to Muslims. He is a descendant of Ishmael).

Both Isaac and Ishmael are offspring of Abraham who is the father of the Jews.

Muhammad Rasheed - Caleb wrote: "it is an impossible task to try and explain the truth"

I'm amused that you think you know what the truth is. It's cute.

Caleb wrote: "to a man who is not Born Again"

"Born again" to Greco-Roman influenced paganism. I reject your version of the religion with my whole heart to avoid the certainty of hell.

Caleb wrote: "This guy resorts to insults"

Simply calling out your tactics & behavior using plain language is insulting to you? Perhaps you should repent and change your foul behavior.

Caleb wrote: "when he has no answer for your questions."

I answered all of his questions.

Caleb wrote: "Here is what Jesus said about such people: New Living Translation (Matt 7:6)"

Jesus said no such a thing. Here is what your own Christian scholars said about your Gospel of Matthew:


Caleb Sannoh - After you get born again, I will respond to your childish cut and paste pictures. Only illiterate people use cut and paste pictures to bolster their argument. You are a 419 con artist. I can see your digital foot print from here.

Muhammad Rasheed - Caleb wrote: "after you get born again"

Jesus (pbuh) said he had more to teach, but he would have to leave the fuller message for the spirit of truththe Comforterwho was coming after him. Allah calls the Qur'an a fuller explanation of the Book of Moses, thus identifying it as the fuller message of Jesus. Why would I abandon Al-Islam to go backwards to not only an incomplete message, by one corrupted by a notoriously rebellious people?

Caleb wrote: "I will respond to your childish cut and paste pictures."

Why bother? You are not of the learned scholar class of the Christian faith, you are only a layperson who blindly & uncritically swallows what the pastors feed you. Why do you think I would care about your uninformed opinion of a body of work you didn't even know existed until you met me? Save your hot air.


Caleb wrote: "Only illiterate people use cut and paste pictures to bolster their argument."

Really? You may wish to tell your fellow Christians this info, since no one fills this chat group up with cut and paste pictures more than you lot. lol

3 out of the last 4 image memes uploaded
to the chat were provided by Christians


Bruce Ramsey - @Muhammad... Would you still think he was a pagan if he was bowing down five times a day to a rock pagans use to worship before the time of Muhammad?

Muhammad Rasheed - @Bruce... It depends on what you are talking about. Explain, please.

Bruce Ramsey - The Kaaba was a pagan shrine before Mo came on the scene. It was surrounded by pagan idols. One of them, the black stone, was getting worship by the pagans as well, which is why it supposedly turned black from originally being white as it absorbed the sins of the pagans. Now it supposedly DOESN'T get worship, just bowed down too, is all. 🙂

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "The Kaaba was a pagan shrine before Mo came on the scene."

True. At the time of Muhammad's birth (pbuh), the Ka'aba was controlled by the pagan Quraysh leaders.

What was the Ka'aba before the pagans took it over?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "Now it supposedly DOESN'T get worship, just bowed down too, is all. 🙂"

No one bows down to the Black Stone. The actual purely voluntary/optional ritual is to kiss it if you can reach it, or just touch it, or blow a kiss in its direction. It's not mandatory to do any of that, in fact, the Qur'an never mentions the Stone at all. Whatever you think about the Black Stone is inaccurate.

The term "Qibla" is the Qur'anic requirement of facing the Ka'aba when we praywherever we are in the worldas an act of community solidarity as believers in the One God. The Black Stone has nothing at all to do with this.

Bruce Ramsey - WHY obey Quran 10:94 and come to ME for my reading of the "before Scriptures" version of the Red Sea incident IF it doesn't match with the Quran if THAT is what Quran 10:94 is telling you to do with me?

Muhammad Rasheed - I already explained. The verse is Allah letting the prophet know that the particular item He mentioned in 10:93 about the Old Testament is still accurate, if the prophet felt inclined to get the info verified by the children of Israel. Christians and their New Testament are not part of that discussion whatsoever.

In fact, you're butting into someone else's discussion like a third wheel.

Bruce Ramsey - Where does it say in Quran 10:93 "still accurate"?

Muhammad Rasheed - 10:94 is the part that says that story in OT referenced in 10:93 is still accurate.

Muhammad Rasheed - Aren't you the one who told me to "THINK, please"?

I'll need you to try a little harder, bud, considering all the trash you talked.

Muhammad Rasheed - Are you a Christian?

Bruce Ramsey - I'm a Pauline Dispensationalist.

Muhammad Rasheed - That sounds VERY Western Christian. lol

Muhammad Rasheed - Surah 10:93 is talking about something specific that was described in the Book of Moses (pbuh). In Surah 10:94, why would God be directing the prophet to you instead of towards the children of Israel?

You're trying to insert yourself into a discussion that has nothing to do with the 'Pauline Dispensationalist.'

Bruce Ramsey - I bet you're right.

Bruce Ramsey - Why direct you to the children of Israel when they could bring scriptures from the "before Scriptures" to make you believe Israel belongs to them?

Muhammad Rasheed - Because Surah 10:93 is only referencing a very specific, limited point inside of a single tale, not literally everything the children of Israel care about.

Bruce Ramsey - Where does it say it's a very specific and limited point inside a single tale? YOU think you are going to get anything good from people Allah has a tendency to change into animals Mo found as detestable?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "Where does it say it's a very specific and limited point inside a single tale?"

I posted it earlier, but obviously you didn't bother to read it, which is why your questioning is so odd.


Muhammad Rasheed - I also paraphrased it a billion times, but you don't seem to be able to process information...

Bruce Ramsey - So, go to those who have schisms? Really?

Bruce Ramsey - Why go to those who have schisms? Does that make sense?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "YOU think you are going to get anything good from people Allah has a tendency to change into animals Mo found as detestable?"

The "If thou wert in doubt as to" line was rhetorical. Of course, Allah didn't expect the prophet to doubt Him. I think you have a learning deficiency, to be honest. I'm tired of repeating this same point over and over.

Are you drunk? What is it? Fentanyl?

Bruce Ramsey - Aren't Muslims to use Muhammad as an example to live by? Thus, you are to come to ME for my READING of the "before Scriptures" (Bible).

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "Does that make sense?"

It makes sense when you pay attention to the context, recognize who is actually talking and to whom, and are not narrow-minded because of your effort to artificially find a fault that doesn't exist.

Bruce Ramsey - So, go to those who are in schism if you are in doubt since it is MUHAMMAD you are to emulate, true?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "So, go to those who are in schism if you are in doubt since it is MUHAMMAD you are to emulate, true?"

Allah is talking to the prophet with that rhetorical line, not to the believers at large.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "Aren't Muslims to use Muhammad as an example to live by?"

Yes.

Bruce wrote: "Thus, you are to come to ME"

Hell no. Why would anybody go to a Christian to learn the OT? You guys don't read your bible anyway, you just make up stuff on the fly and pretend it came from the holy spirit.

Bruce wrote: "for my READING of the 'before Scriptures' (Bible)."

Literally never. In fact, it would be genuinely stupid to treat the Christian like they are somehow an expert in the scriptures.

Bruce Ramsey - In other words, throw out Quran 10:94 from the Quran, GOT it. It was just basically Allah telling Muhammad to kill himself if he doubted, I see.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "In other words"

I don't know what that means when you post it. You tend to immediately go out of the discussion into a possibly opioid-inspired personal mental fantasy trip afterwards.

Bruce wrote: "throw out Quran 10:94 from the Quran"

Never. That would be an act of disbelief.

Bruce wrote: "GOT it."

You got what? Fentanyl?

Bruce wrote: "It was just basically Allah telling Muhammad to kill himself if he doubted,"

It was actually Allah revealing some information, and then using a rhetorical turn-of-phrase to confirm that part of the Book of Moses is still accurate and can be confirmed with the children of Israel for those so inclined to check.

Bruce wrote: "I see."

lol I doubt it.

Bruce Ramsey - OMA!!!  On top of this, there is a hadith that says that he who sucks the tongue of Muhammad, will avoid "the fire".  I don't know about you, O Muslim, but this sounds like a catch-22 situation.  Oh that Mo.

[MEME] showing image of Arab man holding a child

Muhammad Rasheed - Did AI make this? Why are the hands, feet and eyes so wonky...?

Bruce Ramsey - Maybe the "Shaitan" made it.

Muhammad Rasheed - The image alone seems innocent enough, despite the draftsmanship wonkiness. It's the meme's message that incorporates it that's 'shaitan' inspired.

Bruce Ramsey - You don't believe the hadith that inspired it?

Muhammad Rasheed - Why would I willynilly believe everything finite humans claimed in the hundreds of thousands of collected biographical ahadith narratives, especially if it didn't align to the Qur'an, or at least, the character of the prophet that was known to be of a high standard?

The hadith are not the divine Word of God. Only the Qur'an fits that role. Why don't Christians understand that basic 'Islam 101' principle after all these centuries of discussions between us?

Bruce Ramsey - If the hadith is written by finite humans, how can you believe any of it? WHY have your patooti up in the air five times a day on a prayer rug? WHY wash your nose out three times if Satan HASN'T spent the night in it? WHY say a prayer before entering a bathroom with your left foot if Satan DOESN'T play with your ass? THINK, please.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "If the hadith is written by finite humans, how can you believe any of it?"

Allah said to believe in Him and perform the religion the way His prophet performed it. So, the believers collected the narratives of how the prophet did everything in his daily life. I believe the hadith that align to the Qur'an and remain indifferent to the ones that don't do this, or are in general questionable.

Bruce wrote: "THINK, please."

You keep saying that to me, but frankly, I don't find your intelligence to be up to even an average bar in these discussions. You need to take a step back and look at all of this with an objective eye. Your pet religious ideology makes you silly and unable to focus it seems...

Bruce Ramsey - So, you cherry pick from the hadith, I see. I've noticed that sahih (sound/authentic) no longer means that, but, anything in the hadith that doesn't embarrass a Muslim about Mr. (pbuh).

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "So, you cherry pick from the hadith, I see."

You don't understand what the hadith actually are. There are literally hundreds of thousands of those narratives collected within entire libraries dedicated to ahadith alone. Literally everybody "cherry-picks" them because it's more material than anyone can read in a single lifetime. Plus, they are supposed to be picked through because the entire purpose for the collection is to see how Muhammad (pbuh) performed the rituals of Islam so we can copy him. The rest of them are just bonus material.

Bruce wrote: "I've noticed that sahih (sound/authentic) no longer means that"

No, it means you are incorrect about what 'sahih' actually entails. Instead of being a typical biased outsider and assuming something about a religion you don't know anything about, you really should just ask. Unless, of course, your goal is to slander, lie and sow mischief in the earth.

Bruce Ramsey - If the hadith is as you claim, sounds like something you can't trust. Thus, why be a Sunni Muslim? Sunnis are called "Sunni" because they "follow the sunnah/hadith". Anyway, sahih USED to mean "sound". I noticed that it no longer means that. Sahih NOW means ANYTHING that doesn't make Mo look stupid, or crazy or evil.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "If the hadith is as you claim, sounds like something you can't trust."

Some you can trust, others you can't... the same as with any other collected body of human testimony.

Bruce wrote: "Thus, why be a Sunni Muslim? Sunnis are called 'Sunni' because they 'follow the sunnah/hadith.'"

I claim no sects. I am only a Muslim. This is sufficient.

Bruce wrote: "Anyway, sahih USED to mean 'sound.' I noticed that it no longer means that. Sahih NOW means ANYTHING that doesn't make Mo look stupid, or crazy or evil."

lol "Sahih" references a custom-developed methodology that Bukhari, Muslim, etc., used as their quality check criterion. If the interviewee passed that sahih test, then the hadith was collected from them. Sahih is not a reference to the authenticity of the hadith narrative itself, only that the person repeating it had no ulterior motive, or whatever. That's all. "Sahih" does not mean that the repeated narrative was automatically true.

Bruce Ramsey - M. Rasheed wrote: "Some you can trust, others you can't..."

And you trust some when they don't make Mo sound crazy, stupid or insane, true?

M. Rasheed wrote: "the same as with any other collected body of human testimony."

IF that testimony is what you agree too, GOT it.

M. Rasheed wrote: "I claim no sects. I am only a Muslim. This is sufficient."

Well, you certainly aren't a Sunni, that is for sure.

M. Rasheed wrote: "lol 'Sahih' references a custom-developed methodology that Bukhari, Muslim, etc., used as their quality check criterion. If the interviewee passed that sahih test, then the hadith was collected from them."

You mean, if it didn't make Mo sound evil, or stupid, or insane.

M. Rasheed wrote: "Sahih is not a reference to the authenticity of the hadith narrative itself,"

It USED to mean that. "Grade sahih" means "sound/authentic".

M. Rasheed wrote: "only that the person repeating it had no ulterior motive, or whatever. That's all. 'Sahih' does not mean that the repeated narrative was automatically true."

And 'alaqa' no longer means 'clot of blood' but 'clinging leech like thing' AND 'spread out like a carpet' NOW means 'earth shaped like as ostrich egg.'

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "IF that testimony is what you agree too, GOT it."

There is more collected human testimony about prophet Muhammad (pbuh) than any other historical figure. The nonsense fraudulent narratives stand out because they are inconsistent with the greater work, as well as Allah confirming that His servant was of excellent character. You only want the obviously fake hadith to be real because you are a transparently biased outsider.

Bruce wrote: "Well, you certainly aren't a Sunni, that is for sure."

In the Qur'an, Allah says not to break the religion up into sects. so, all the Muslims who enthusiastically claim to be sunni, shia, suffi, etc., etc., will have to answer for that foolishness on the Day of Judgment. You may encourage it as you like, but that stance only shows you as a transparently biased outsider who wants to sow mischief.

Bruce wrote: "And 'alaqa' no longer means..."

You're babbling. In your effort to mock the material, you confused ayahs with hadith and sound like a loon.

Bruce Ramsey - Again, "alaqa" no longer means "clot of congealed blood" it now means "clinging leech like thingy". By the way, Muhammad says in the hadith (which you apparently don't believe in), that there will be 71 sects of Jews and only one sect of Jews will escape "the fire". There will be 72 sects of Christians and only one sect of Christians will escape "the fire", and there will be 73 sects of Muslims, and only (well, you know the pattern). But, it's pointless to talk hadith with you since you don't believe in the hadith and aren't a Sunni Muslim, true?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "Again, 'alaqa' no longer means 'clot of congealed blood' it now means 'clinging leech like thingy.'"

Is this Qur'an translation comparison somehow relevant to the hadith part of the discussion?

Bruce wrote: "By the way, Muhammad says in the hadith (which you apparently don't believe in)"

Did I say I didn't believe in any of the ahadith, or did you just whip out a strawman effigy fallacy with a flourish? lol

Bruce wrote: "that there will be 71 sects of Jews and only one sect of Jews will escape 'the fire.' There will be 72 sects of Christians and only one sect of Christians will escape 'the fire,' and there will be 73 sects of Muslims, and only (well, you know the pattern)."

What about it?

Bruce wrote: "But, it's pointless to talk hadith with you since you don't believe in the hadith"

Copy/paste the post where I said I didn't believe in the hadith, please.

Bruce wrote: "and aren't a Sunni Muslim, true?"

I do not claim the sunni sect, nor any other. I am only a Muslim.

Bruce Ramsey - And you DO believe in the hadith? But, ONLY the hadith that doesn't make Mo sound crazy, stupid or evil, I can imagine, even if it's written by Bukhari.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "And you DO believe in the hadith?"

I said exactly what I believe about the hadith, but you twisted it into something completely different. I started to get angry about it, until I remembered that's how your entire religion actually functions. You ignore what is plain, unambiguous and explicit, to prefer to just make up stuff by connecting dots that don't make any sense to connect. I don't think you can help yourself at this point, it's just how you think out of long practice turned habit.

Bruce wrote: "But, ONLY the hadith that doesn't make Mo sound crazy, stupid or evil, I can imagine"

Allah confirmed that His servant was none of those things, so what would I look like taking the position of the hostile, biased outsider? What sense would that make?

Bruce wrote: "even if it's written by Bukhari."

Bukhari didn't write anything; he just compiled hadith narratives from a bunch of people he interviewed. Your knowledge base in the material is very low, yet you are campaigning hard to force a very specific narrative about it. It's weird.

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Bruce Ramsey - Muslim: The "I am he" in John 8;25 is? Who's he? He is Judas. John 13;26. Judas took the place of Jesus in death on the cross

Kufr: So JUDAS takes away the sins of the world when he goes to the cross? JUDAS is the "lamb" that makes sense of all the sin offerings and blood atonement described in the TORAH ("Allah's book given to Musa")?!?! JUDAS is the one who makes sense of the SPOT-LESS Passover Lamb's blood shed and put over doorways to keep the Angel of Death from killing the FIRST Born of Israel? JUDAS is the one foreshadowed as the metallic IMAGE of a snake on a stick held up by "Musa" to keep the Israelis from dying of snake venom when the Israelis would look up and SEE the IMAGE of the metallic snake on a stick HELD up by "Musa"!?! REALLY!?! LOL! 🙂

Bruce Ramsey - Do you need to wash your nose out three times? If you do, what is the reason for it?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "The 'I am he' in John 8;25 is? Who's he?"

It could be whoever the anonymous writer who wrote the fiction wanted it to be. Why would your biblical fan-fiction matter to me?

Bruce wrote: "Do you need to wash your nose out three times?"

Yes.

Bruce wrote: "If you do, what is the reason for it?"

Rinsing out the nose is part of the ablution cleansing ritual (wudu) that is mandatory before prayer. Allah uses water to purify the believers—to change their state from common-to-holy—as in the baptism ritual of the previous prophets.



Bruce Ramsey - So you wash your nose out THREE times, NOT because you believe Mo was right about Satan spending the night in it, but, because you feel it's good for you? Never heard of a brain-eating amoeba, I see. But, forget that single celled creature, you DO wash your nose out THREE time, because you feel it's GOOD for you and NOT because Satan spends the night in it, true?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "So you wash your nose out THREE times, NOT because you believe Mo was right about Satan spending the night in it"

No. I'm confident that's not a real story you're referencing.

Bruce wrote: "but, because you feel it's good for you?"

To remove from me the stain of the satan, to strengthen my heart, and to plant my feet firmly in my faith as Allah lists in the highlighted portion of the Qur'an verse I quoted above. Allah says He loves those who keep themselves clean & pure, commands that the believers perform the ritual ablution before prayer and His prophet showed us how to do so.

Washing up before prayer takes me from the common state to a holy stat so I am properly prepared to speak to my Lord & Cherisher who made me.

Bruce wrote: "Never heard of a brain-eating amoeba, I see."

Sure, I have. 🙄

Bruce wrote: "But, forget that single celled creature"

I already have. 🙄

Bruce wrote: "you DO wash your nose out THREE time"

Yup.

Bruce wrote: "because you feel it's GOOD for you"

See my explanation above.

Bruce wrote: "and NOT because Satan spends the night in it, true?"

Quite true. smh

Bruce Ramsey - M. Rasheed wrote: "No. I'm confident that's not a real story you're referencing."

It's sahih (sound) hadith. You don't believe sahih (sound) hadith?

M. Rasheed wrote: "To remove from me the stain of the satan, to strengthen my heart, and to plant my feet firmly in my faith as Allah lists in the highlighted portion of the Qur'an verse I quoted above."

NOT because Satan "spent the night in" your nose, like Muhammad says in sahih (sound) hadith, true?

M. Rasheed wrote: "Allah says He loves those who keep themselves clean & pure,"

Did you know in Sunan Abu Dawud Mo "takes ablution" in the "Well of Bud'ah" that is on par with a modern day sewer? IF You DO know this hadith, do YOU think taking "ablusion" in that will make you clean?

M. Rasheed wrote: "commands that the believers perform the ritual ablution before prayer and His prophet showed us how to do so."

By bashing in something on par with a sewer? Check THIS out, please:

كتاب الطهارة1 Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)
(35)Chapter: What Has Been Narrated Concering The Well Of Buda'ah(34)باب مَا جَاءَ فِي بِئْرِ بُضَاعَةَ
Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri:
I heard that the people asked the Prophet of Allah (ﷺ): Water is brought for you from the well of Buda'ah. It is a well in which dead dogs, menstrual clothes and excrement of people are thrown. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) replied: Verily water is pure and is not defiled by anything.
Abu Dawud said I heard Qutaibah b. Sa'id say: I asked the person in charge of the well of Bud'ah about the depth of the well. He replied: At most the water reaches pubes. Then I asked: Where does it reach when its level goes down ? He replied: Below the private part of the body.
Abu Dawud said: I measured the breadth of the well of Buda'ah with my sheet which I stretched over it. I them measured it with the hand. It measured six cubits in breadth. I then asked the man who opened the door of garden for me and admitted me to it: Has the condition of this well changed from what it had originally been in the past ? He replied: No. I saw the color of water in this well had changed.
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي شُعَيْبٍ، وَعَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْحَرَّانِيَّانِ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ سَلِيطِ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ رَافِعٍ الأَنْصَارِيِّ، ثُمَّ الْعَدَوِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَهُوَ يُقَالُ لَهُ إِنَّهُ يُسْتَقَى لَكَ مِنْ بِئْرِ بُضَاعَةَ وَهِيَ بِئْرٌ يُلْقَى فِيهَا لُحُومُ الْكِلاَبِ وَالْمَحَايِضُ وَعَذِرُ النَّاسِ ‏.‏ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ "‏ إِنَّ الْمَاءَ طَهُورٌ لاَ يُنَجِّسُهُ شَىْءٌ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَسَمِعْتُ قُتَيْبَةَ بْنَ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ قَيِّمَ بِئْرِ بُضَاعَةَ عَنْ عُمْقِهَا قَالَ أَكْثَرُ مَا يَكُونُ فِيهَا الْمَاءُ إِلَى الْعَانَةِ ‏.‏ قُلْتُ فَإِذَا نَقَصَ قَالَ دُونَ الْعَوْرَةِ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَقَدَّرْتُ أَنَا بِئْرَ بُضَاعَةَ بِرِدَائِي مَدَدْتُهُ عَلَيْهَا ثُمَّ ذَرَعْتُهُ فَإِذَا عَرْضُهَا سِتَّةُ أَذْرُعٍ وَسَأَلْتُ الَّذِي فَتَحَ لِي بَابَ الْبُسْتَانِ فَأَدْخَلَنِي إِلَيْهِ هَلْ غُيِّرَ بِنَاؤُهَا عَمَّا كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ لاَ ‏.‏ وَرَأَيْتُ فِيهَا مَاءً مُتَغَيِّرَ اللَّوْنِ ‏.‏
Grade: Sahih (Al-Albani) صحيح (الألباني) حكم :
Reference : Sunan Abi Dawud 67
In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 67
English translation : Book 1, Hadith 67

M. Rasheed wrote: "Washing up before prayer takes me from the common state to a holy stat so I am properly prepared to speak to my Lord & Cherisher who made me."

Bruce: Even if you have particles of dead dogs up your nose?

M. Rasheed wrote: "Sure, I have. 🙄"

Don't you think the "well of Bud'ah" might have something like that in it?

M. Rasheed wrote: "I already have. 🙄"

🙂

M. Rasheed wrote: "Yup."

But, not with water like the "well of Bud'ah", true? But, you feel it is GOOD for youm true?

M. Rasheed wrote: "See my explanation above."

And?

M. Rasheed wrote: "Quite true. smh"

Muhammad Rasheed - Are you still under the impression that your cherry-picked, random hadith should mean more to me than the Noble Qur'an, the source text of Al-Islam and the revealed Word of God on earth? Because that's what it seems like you posted that for.

The hadith do not trump the Qur'an. For nearly 1400 yrs, we've been having these discussions between the two faiths and you still don't understand basic Islam 101 principles. That bull-headedness taints your witness, bud.

Muhammad Rasheed - You seem to recognize that I know too much about the corrupt mess called Pauline Western Christianity and could NEVER convert to it, so you've switched tactics to trying to smear Al-Islam as your consolation prize.

But you're approaching it from the position of a person who seems to have only discovered Islam a week ago and still never bothered to learn what it's about before you went on your attack.
You sure have a lot of confidence in your personal sophistry tricks.

Bruce Ramsey - M. Rasheed wrote: "Are you still under the impression that your cherry-picked, random hadith should mean more to me than the Noble Qur'an,"

Hey, nice to see my comment to you was allowed on, after all. Oh, you mean the hadiths Muslims reject because they make Mo sound crazy? So you DON'T believe you can take ablution in a sewer? Hey, that's a start.

M. Rasheed wrote: "the source text of Al-Islam and the revealed Word of God on earth? Because that's what it seems like you posted that for."

You must not be a Sunni, for a Sunni Muslim is to believe what the hadith says. It's quite apparently you DON'T believe you can take the water of a sewer and use it for ablution.

M. Rasheed wrote: "The hadith do not trump the Qur'an. For nearly 1400 yrs, we've been having these discussions between the two faiths and you still don't understand basic Islam 101 principles. That bull-headedness taints your witness, bud."

Did you know that the QURAN (not hadith) but the QURAN says that if there is no water for ablution, you can use "clean" soil? Thus, do you snort "clean" soil up your nose to cough Satan out?

Bruce Ramsey - M. Rasheed wrote: "You seem to recognize that I know too much about the corrupt mess called Pauline Western Christianity and could NEVER convert to it, so you've switched tactics to trying to smear Al-Islam as your consolation prize."

You just don't believe Paul, because, Paul said he met Jesus on the Road to Damascus. IF Paul said he was all alone in a cave, getting squeezed to near death by an angel of light every time he said he couldn't read, to the point he ran out of the cave thinking he was demon possessed, YOU would then believe what Paul says, true?

M. Rasheed wrote: "But you're approaching it from the position of a person who seems to have only discovered Islam a week ago and still never bothered to learn what it's about before you went on your attack."

You want to see how far back I've been exposing Islam? Here you go: [link to Bruce's personal YouTube site]

M. Rasheed wrote: "You sure have a lot of confidence in your personal sophistry tricks."

You mean knowledge of Al Islam. Yes I do. I've been a student of Christian Prince since 2006.

Muhammad Rasheed - Are you really trying to appropriate my style on Black History Month? That's messed up...

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "You want to see how far back I've been exposing Islam?"

"Exposing" Islam using sophistry isn't a thing. You have to actual address the claims of the religion and then prove them untrue. The blatant use of fallacious arguments isn't that.

Bruce wrote: "You mean knowledge of Al Islam. Yes I do."

I'm willing to believe you may actually think that about yourself, but the fact that you do believe that random, cherry-picked hadith should hold more weight than the Qur'an itself (the actual source text of the religion and the inerrant Word of Allah) demonstrates you don't know the religion at all, and just copy canned arguments from anti-Islam hate websites without studying the faith for yourself.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "Hey, nice to see my comment to you was allowed on, after all."

??? Why wouldn't it be?

Bruce wrote: "Oh, you mean the hadiths Muslims reject because they make Mo sound crazy?"

The ones that are clearly false because they don't align to the Qur'an, nor to basic common sense. lol

Bruce wrote: "So you DON'T believe you can take ablution in a sewer?"

No. Allah says He loves those believers who keep themselves pure and clean. Obviously sewage would be the opposite of that. We're not even allowed to make prayer in the restroom.

Bruce wrote: "Hey, that's a start."

A 'start' to what?

Bruce wrote: "You must not be a Sunni"

I claim no sects; I am only a Muslim. That will sufficeth.

Bruce wrote: "Did you know that the QURAN (not hadith) but the QURAN says that if there is no water for ablution, you can use 'clean' soil?"

Yes. I had to do it myself a couple of times while on an adventure.

Bruce wrote: "Thus, do you snort 'clean' soil up your nose to cough Satan out?"

lol No. Allah says we just have to wipe our hands and lightly pat our faces with it, and He'll accept the prayer.

Bruce Ramsey -  I've interjected my thoughts with Muslim since 2007. By the way, speaking about Black History Month, did you know Muhammad was a white, crackah who owned black slaves and said that if you want to see what Satan looks like see Nabtal Ibn Harith (a black man)?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "You just don't believe Paul, because, Paul said he met Jesus on the Road to Damascus."

That was clearly a blatant lie and of course I don't believe him. I also reject him because he pointedly avoided the disciples of Jesus (pbuh)—an obvious red flag—tainted the message with Greco-Roman trinitarianism to appeal to the pagan gentile, and later when the disciples did find Paul and ask him about it he lied to their faces. lol But most damning for your boy is when he officially prophesized that the Christ would return during his own lifetime. This didn't happen, which formally labels Paul of Tarsus as the false prophet of legend, hence why God had him executed per Deut. 18:20.

Bruce wrote: "IF Paul said he was all alone in a cave, getting squeezed to near death by an angel of light every time he said he couldn't read, to the point he ran out of the cave thinking he was demon possessed, YOU would then believe what Paul says, true?"

Why would that matter? Clearly Paul was a lying wretch, so you can swap out the "met Jesus on the Road to Damascus" fable with any other story and he would still be a lying wretch who deserved to have his lying head cut off.

Bruce wrote: "I've been a student of Christian Prince since 2006."

I've maybe heard the name before...? But I'm mostly unfamiliar. A brief search shows him as a sideshow freak. Is that where your fallacy-laden, sneaky, trick-bag argument style comes from? Figures.

Bruce Ramsey - Muslims cherry pick what they want to believe even from the "clear signs". Why do you think not ALL Muslims joined ISIS when they came upojn Quran 9:111? I don't cherry pick anything. I mean, if I'm going to make my point, I don't pick from the hadith that has Muhammad saying to not chop down a tree, OK?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "I've interjected my thoughts with Muslim since 2007."

I don't know what that means.

Bruce wrote: "By the way, speaking about Black History Month, did you know Muhammad was a white"

lol No, he wasn't. Here:

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According to the celebrated 9th century scholar Al-Jahiz, the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was a black man:

"The ten sons of Abd el-Mottalib [the grandfather of Mohammed] were all black and strong; so was Abdallah ibn Abbas, Mohamet's cousin. The members of the family of Abu Talib [a relation of Muhammad and the father of the Sultan Ali] were all more or less Negroid in color." ~Al-Jahiz (776 AD - 868 AD), an excerpted translation from his essay "The Superiority in Glory of the Black Race Over the White" published by G. van Vloten, tria opposcula auctore, Abu Othman Amr ibn Bahr AIDjahiz, Basrensi Leyden, 1903

"What Al-Jahiz says about the Negro strain in certain great Arabs is supported by other writers, European as well as Arab. For instance, he says that the sons of Abd el-Mottalib, the grandfather of Mohammed, were Negroes, which in turn would make Mohammed a Negro." ~J.A. Rogers, World's Great Men of Color, Vol I
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Bruce wrote: "crackah"

A "cracker" is a poor white person who traces their lineage to the poor whites of Old England. They are showcased in the titular essay of Thomas Sowell's book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals." I don't see how the term is relevant in this context. I think you confused yourself again.

Bruce wrote: "who owned black slaves"

The Muhammad (pbuh) freed his slaves upon receiving his prophethood commission.

Bruce wrote: "and said that if you want to see what Satan looks like see Nabtal Ibn Harith (a black man)?"

lol The satan is not a human being. 🙄

Bruce Ramsey - M. Rasheed wrote: "??? Why wouldn't it be?"

Because I was exposing Islam too well?

M. Rasheed wrote: "The ones that are clearly false because they don't align to the Qur'an, nor to basic common sense. lol"

Having meteors burning up in the earth's atmosphere being literal stars is "basic common sense"? Having a place of setting (a muddy spring) is "common sense"? Having a giant molten metal wall holding back Gog and Magog people on earth is "common sense"? Speaking of which, WHERE is that giant molten metal wall holding back the Gog and Magog people to the end of the world?

M. Rasheed wrote: "No."

NO!?!?!

M. Rasheed wrote: "Allah says He loves those believers who keep themselves pure and clean."

Clean" soil does that?

M. Rasheed wrote: "Obviously sewage would be the opposite of that. We're not even allowed to make prayer in the restroom."

So you REALLY don't believe Sunan Abu Dawud hadith about Mo and the "well of Bud'ah", true?

M. Rasheed wrote: "A 'start' to what?"

Rejecting the teaches of Islam. Now, I've noticed, not even sahih of Sunan Abu Dawud is believed.

M. Rasheed wrote: "I claim no sects; I am only a Muslim. That will sufficeth."

So you have no problem with Ahmadis or Sufis or Shia, true? They are just as Muslim as you, true?

M. Rasheed wrote: "Yes. I had to do it myself a couple of times while on an adventure."

And you felt clean after doing it, true?

M. Rasheed wrote: "lol No. Allah says we just have to wipe our hands and lightly pat our faces with it, and He'll accept the prayer."

Why do you then after to snort water up your nose and risk getting a brain eating amoeba? Why not treat the water like you do the "clean" soil?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "Muslims cherry pick what they want to believe even from the 'clear signs.'"

You're speaking as a hostile, heavily-biased outsider who happens to be envious that Christianity didn't get to be the favored religion of God. Your bitter and silly opinions don't mean anything at all to me. Should they?

Bruce wrote: "Why do you think not ALL Muslims joined ISIS when they came upojn Quran 9:111?"

lol uhhh... Because they recognize that 9:111 is talking about one of the specific battles in early Islam's history as is not a call for all of us to join a terrorists group founded by a joint CIA/Mossad operation that conspicuously slaughters more innocent Muslims than anyone.

Bruce wrote: "I don't cherry pick anything."

Okay, then the anti-Islam hate websites you frequent did all the cherry-picking, and you just copy/paste them. Either way, the spirit is the same. You'd be better off reading the Qur'an and a bio of the prophet for yourself instead of being an unrepentant hellbound stooge of hatred.

Bruce Ramsey - This guy presents the hadiths and tafsrs that have Mo as white. [David Wood YouTube link]

Bruce Ramsey - Did you know that Mo taught that a giant monster would come up out of the earth at the end of the world to turn you white for "the garden" and black for "the fire"? Mo was a racist white crackah devoh.

Muhammad Rasheed - What's a "devoh?"

Bruce Ramsey - Oh, eexcuse me... "devil".

Muhammad Rasheed - Oh, I see. You're supposed to be mocking my ethnic group's American English dialect.

You don't think that taints your witness, too?

Bruce Ramsey - I've just heard it pronounced as "devoh" so much, it sticks.

Muhammad Rasheed - Did you?

Muhammad Rasheed - I didn't recognize it. I guess all the white folk who dress up in blackface in your circles pronounce it like that when they're mocking us.

Bruce Ramsey - Did I what?

Bruce Ramsey - I think you're right.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "Did I what?"

Heard the word pronounced the way you spelled it.

Bruce Ramsey - Devil? Devoah? Well, how do YOU pronounce it? By the way, if I was black, Islam would be the LAST religion I'd be a part of.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "I think you're right."

Of course. That's a huge part of why Pauline Western Christianity is completely soiled for me, even outside of the bible's numerous errors and corruption. Your folk basically wiped your arses with it. I don't want it. Too much baggage.

Bruce Ramsey - Did you know slavery is fine in the Quran? Check out Quran 2:178, please. By the way, which is worse? Saying blacks are destined for "the fire" or me pronouncing "devil" and "devoah"?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "Devil? Devoah? Well, how do YOU pronounce it?"

I'm from the Mid-West of the USA, so I have that accent, with a sprinkling of my dad's Ole Miss.

Bruce wrote: "By the way, if I was black, Islam would be the LAST religion I'd be a part of."

lol You don't know enough about Al-Islam to make such a claim.

Bruce Ramsey - M. Rasheed wrote: "Why would I believe something that directly contradicts God?"

Where does the Quran say NOT to wash in a sewer when you can you "clean" soil?

M. Rasheed wrote: "I have a problem with all those who break their religion up into sects and proudly rep those 'colors' in defiance of the Word of Allah. They will have to answer for that willful disobedience on the Last Day."

Then you have a problem with Sunnis, for they see their sect as the true sect... UNLESS they are trying to convince you that Islam is the world's fastest growing religion, then they even include Shia as Muslim.

M. Rasheed posted: "'Holy Qur'an 6:159: As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects, thou hast no part in them in the least: their affair is with Allah: He will in the end tell them the truth of all that they did.'"

And SUNNIS don't do that, true? 🙂

Bruce Ramsey - Seems it would have been more merciful of Allah to say you don't need to do the ablution if there is no water around. But, we can't have that, can we, for that opens the door up to cleansing when you really need it.

Bruce Ramsey - M. Rasheed wrote: "If I were you, I would be less worried about catching a rare ailment, and more worried about the certainty of Eternal Torment you have in your future lest you repent and convert to Al-Islam."

Oh, so the water up your nose, or, the dirt, is NOT to get Satan out of it, but, to avoid "the fire"? Hmmm.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "You don't have a problem with that? How come you don't have a problem with that?"

Why would I have a problem with God's instructions to keep murderous blood feuds going until whole tribes were wiped out? God said if one person gets murdered, then you're only allowed a strict "eye for an eye" revenge killing. That's all. But He encourages the offended party to forgive and strengthen their soul in the "turn the other cheek" concept.

Bruce wrote: "Where does the Quran say NOT to wash in a sewer when you can you 'clean' soil?"

I don't understand what you mean. God's instructions were clear: Use water for wudu and if there is no water, then use clean earth in the manner described. What are you going on about 'sewers' for after God revealed His clear instructions?

Bruce wrote: "Then you have a problem with Sunnis"

I have a problem with anyone breaking their religion up into sets in defiance of Allah's command. I claim no sects. I am only a Muslim.

Bruce wrote: "then they even include Shia"

They are all Muslim if they meet the requirement. The problem is that other thing that counts as a sin.

Bruce wrote: "And SUNNIS don't do that, true? 🙂"

Don't do what?

Bruce wrote: "Seems it would have been more merciful of Allah to"

You sound retarded. Are you going to second guess the All-Knowing One God? wtf?

Bruce wrote: "Oh, so the water up your nose, or, the dirt, is NOT to get Satan out of it, but, to avoid 'the fire?' Hmmm."

I already posted the Qur'an's verse that described what the water does spiritually, but here in response you just made up something and ended it with "Hmmmm" in perfect imitation of a strawman effigy fallacy.

Bruce wrote: "Why does a slave have to be killed instead of the slave master who killed him?"

Because God's rule is that old "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" requirement. If the chief of the tribe was killed, then the opposing party's chief must die in exchange. If a slave, then a slave in return. It's God's rule of equality in this matter.

Bruce wrote: "Slaves aren't worth as much as masters in Islam? Mm mm mmmmmmm."

You're mixing two different points.

Bruce wrote: "So she can have TWO husbands!?!?"

A free woman wouldn't have two husbands, since he's forbidden to marry her if she is already married as I said.

Bruce wrote: "Oh, it's VERY obvious."

I don't think you know what that means. lol

Bruce wrote: "Where is the consent of her husband whose town you might have slaughtered? WHERE is the consent to just make it adultery?"

Slaves have no rights in that regard. But if they ask to be able to buy their freedom, you must give it to them.

Bruce wrote: "No, it's called 'reading the Quran verse without blinders on.'"

At no point have you done this.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "Where does it say 'enslaved hand maidens belonging to your wife?'"

• your right hand = spouse
• possesses = your spouse's servant

Muhammad Rasheed - Bruce wrote: "By the way, again, ahem.. WHERE is the consent of her husband whose town you might have slaughtered? WHERE is the consent to just make it adultery?"

I'm not sure what you are asking here. You wrote it in a convoluted mess. Be clearer, please.

Bruce wrote: "Again, YOU don't see how just those TWO scriptures on slavery EASES African American complaint for the time the US had slavery?"

No. Plus, why would I isolate two verses out of the Qur'an's greater context about slavery as if those two versus alone represented a separate Islamic doctrine? Christians treat their "scripture" in that way; there's no logical reason to actually do it.

Bruce wrote: "THINK, please."

I would've thought you'd learned your lesson from the last couple of times you typed that. You always look like a fool.


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