Another Candle, but less Hope

Banna tries perhaps the impossible, to fundamentally reform Islam within a believing Islam. Mirza has sufficient light to see his way out, and to warn, but sees the darkness within Islam as beyond any internal illumination; he has joined The Moviegoer in Disbelief....

"FP: So you started studying Islamic theology, and what did you find?

Mirza: "....I also found out that Qur’an is a book full of hatred, cruelties, unethical matters and most of all it has no divinity at all. I could not find anything that was impossible for mankind to think or say in the 7th century period. The Qur’an is replete with hateful, coercive and killing verses (examples: 5:51, 9:5, 3:85, 8:39, 9:29, 47:4, 2:191).
My childhood religious teacher was Huzur Shaheb, a mullah who always used to tell me that Islam is Allah’s only chosen religion and the most peaceful religion on earth. Now it became beyond my comprehension how any deity or religious scriptures could dictate to kill other human beings."

"a large portion of Muslims will never condemn any Islamic terrorism whole heartedly, period. Islamic terrorists are continuously getting a silent “nod of consent” from millions of gullible Muslims and hypocritical Islamists. Devout Muslims, (especially in Arab nations, Pakistan and elsewhere) have two-faces: to the western media, they profess to oppose terrorism, while in private, they espouse Islamic jihad, which is Islamic terrorism. Keep in mind that Muslims are allowed by Allah to lie for the sake of Islamic success. This is what we call Islamic deception to fool the western people. I hate to say it, but Islamists are getting great successes in this practice of fooling westerners."