Category Archives: Islam

Both Iran and Malaysia held international Qur’an competitions within the last three weeks ahead of the arrival of Islamic month of Ramazan (the month of fasting), begining on July 21, subject to sighting of Moon. 

Kuala Lumpur concluded its 54th international Qur’an competition on July 13, 2012. Muhammad Anvar Bin Ghazali (Malaysia) won the top prize ($13,000) and Amin Pouya (Iran) won the second position ($10,000). Listen to Amin Pouya’s recitation of Holy Qur’an contest in India in 2007, below, when he won the first prize.

Tehran’s 29th international competitions in Holy Qur’an recitation and memorization were held at Tehran’s Milad Tower between June 17-22, 2012. Some 50 reciters and 40 memorizers of Holy Qur’an from about 70 countries participated in the competition.

The participants’ performance was judged by a jury of 14 religious experts from Egypt, Malaysia, Algeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon and Iran.

Qasem Moqaddami in recitation and Hossein Mo’tamedi in memorization, both from Iran, won the top prizes ($18,000 each) of this year’s competition. The participants from Egypt and Bahrain were the second and third winners of the recitation category. The prize for best memorizers of the Holy Qur’an, after Iran, went to competitors from Bangladesh and Libya.

Everyone among 1.7 billion Muslim has memorized a portion of Holy Qur’an to recite in Arabic in five-times daily prayers. However, there are over ten million Muslims (Hafiz) who have memorized the entire Revelation in Arabic contained in the 30 chapters of Holy Qur’an.

The revelation of Holy Qur’an or The Final Testament to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) began in 610 CE via Archangel Gabriel (Bible’s Holy Spirit) and was completed in the next 23 years. As soon as the Prophet (pbuh) used to inform his Companions of the new revelation from Allah – they used to record it by memorizing it or wrote it on tanned hides, stone tablets, wooden tablets, pieces of cloth, etc. The Prophet (pbuh) himself had memorized the entire Holy Qur’an. Every Ramazan all the portions of the Qur’an that had been revealed, including the order of the verses, were recited and reconfirmed by the Prophet (pbuh) with Archangel Jabriel. During the last Ramadan, before the demise of the Prophet (pbuh), Holy Qur’an was rechecked and reconfirmed twice.

One set of manuscripts of the entire revelation was in the possesion of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). It was during the time of Islam’s third Caliph Usman when the entire revelation was put into a single book-form by coping it from original manuscripts. Two such copies of the copied text of the original Qur’an authenticated by the Prophet are present to this day – one at the museum in Tashkent and the other at the Topkopi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey.

“We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly Guard it (from corruption),” Holy Qur’an 15:9.

Hollywood director and filmmaker, Sean Stone 27, son of Oscar-winning director, Oliver Stone, has irked Israel Lobby by converting to Islam on February 14, 2012 in Ispahan, Iran. He chose ALI as his first name. Some Israel Hasbara websites have given him the title of “defender of Ahmadinejad“. His father, Oliver Stone, is Jewish but his mother is Christian. Thus, by Jewish law, Sean is not ‘Jewish’ by birth unless he had adopted Jewish religion after he turned 14.

In 2010, David Harris, executive director American Jewish Congress (AJC) had called Oliver Stone an anti-Semitic Jew for praising Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Castro. Oliver Stone also claimed that the Jews dominate the US media and Israel had messed-up US foreign policy for years.

The Islamophobes are very upset like they’re when Tony Blair’s sister-in-law, Lauren Booth hadconverted to Islam earlier in Iran and the Hollywood Irish Catholic star, Liam (William John) Neeson 52, who said last month while filming in Istanbul: “There are 4,000 mosques in the city. Some are just stunning and it really makes me think about becoming a Muslim“. In February 2010, Liam, who acted in the Oscar-winning Jewish-victimization movie “Schindler’s List” – visited Holocaust Memorial in Berlin along with his two sons, Michael and Danie.

In an interview with The Wrap at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2010, Sean Stone had supported Iran’s right to a nuclear program as a defense against threats from Israel. He said criticizing the Iranian government is “like someone coming to your house and saying the father shouldn’t hit the kids,” he said. “Who are we to tell them how to rule their country?”

Sean Stone also said: “President Ahmadinejad did come to America to extend a hand. And there’s a lot of mistranslation, literally, I’ve seen it. Ahmadinejad will say something and it will be mistranslated. A lot of this is bullsh**, mistranslation. It’s an aggressive attitude on both parts, mostly on the American side“.

British philosopher, Sir George Bernard Shaw, wrote in his 1936 book, ‘The Genuine Islam’: “Islam would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it’s begining to acceptable to Europe of today“.

Inspite of Zionist mafia’s millions dollars annual anti-Islam propaganda - more and more western Jews and Christians are finding escape in Islam from the immoral and corrupt western culture. A typical jerk reaction to this trend was by British lesbian Christian Zionist journalist, Julie Burchill, who said if she was Lauren Booth, she would have converted to Judaism rather Islam.

According to several western churches and studies – Islam is the most progressive faith in the West. It’s attracting thousands of converts across Europe each year. Last year, a study carried out by Swansea University (Wales) reported that in Britain the Muslim converts have passed 100,000 mark – 70% White and 62% of them are women. In United States, an average of 10,000 people have been converting to Islam since Sept. 11, 2001 tragedy.

Some of the reasons reported for this ‘Islamization of the West’, includes  murders (mostly between men and their girlfriends and family disputes), alcohol and drunkenness, lack of morality and sexual permissiveness, unrestrained consumerism, etc. For example, the murder rates are much higher in the west than in Muslim world (US, 5.2% per 100,000, Canada 1.2%, Turkey 1%, Egypt 0.8% and Iran 0.3%). Same goes for rape; the US 30 per 100,000, Canada 1.5%, Turkey 0.5%, Egypt 0.1% and Iran 0.05%.

According to various western sources, during the last decade, 70,000 French, 20,000 German, 50,000 Spaniards, 5,000 Swedish – and several thousands non-Muslims have found peace in Islam in Poland, Austria, Netherlands, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Norway and Australia. These converts include former Islamophobe like Daniel Streich, the anti-minaret Swiss politician and Italian MP Alfredo Maiolese.

On the other hand, Zionists like Danish Jew Flemming Rose‘s Muhammad Cartoons, Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ Fitna and Norwegian mass-killer Anders Behring Breivik, to name a few have been terrifying westerners by Israeli hoax of ‘Muslim occupation of Europe’.

On December 1, 2001, Zionist Jew Larry King, while interviewing  Catholic priest, Rev. Michael Manning, on air – asked Manning: “How do you view Muhammad?” Manning, to great surprise to Larry replied: “As a very wise man. I see the beauty of Islam in very strong way. A simple approach to God. I’m very touched by five times prayers by Ramazan, by the fasting; the beautiful presence of God and the power of God. And as a Catholic I need to learn from that“. Watch the video below.