Paganism in Islam

Islam is the largest and fastest growing cult or religion in the world. The most holy site of Islam is the black meteorite in Kaaba, Mecca. This stone is worshipped by veneration, as was practised before the advent of Islam.

Why do the Crescent along with a star representing Islam?

    The sign of Islam is the Crescent, sometimes along with a star , just as was the Babylonian Goddess worship.  The most holy object in the Kaaba is the black meteorite stone, once the throne of Isis, now connected with Allah. Another goddess objects in the Kaaba are the  Crescents and the towers. Towers have been one of the main symbols of Babylonian paganism since the time of Nimrod. His followers decided to build their own tower, their own name. Later, Nimrod's wife, Semiramis, erected a 130 feet tower in Babylon. Babylonian pagans prostrated themselves before this icon, even mentioned in the third chapter of the Book of Daniel. Moses Maimonides, the mediveal Jewish philosopher, had read deeply into the learning of the Babylonians. He described the myth of Tammuz' death, quoted by Hislop in The Two Babylons, p. 62, as follows:
 

• When the false prophet named Thammuz preached to a certain king that he should worship the seven stars and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, that king ordered him to be put to a terrible death. On the night of his death all the images assembled from the ends of the earth into the temple of Babylon, to the great golden image of the Sun, which was suspended between heaven and earth. That image prostrated itself in the midst of the temple, and so did all the images around it, while it related to them all that had happened to Thammuz. The images wept and lamented all the night long, and then in the morning they flew away, each to his own temple again, to the ends of the earth.
   

Those familiar with the Biblical story of Daniel's friends should recognize this. The whole world bowed down in worship for the king's pagan gold image. The astonishing issue is, however, that Muslims still do. The prostrate themselves in the direction (qibla) of the former Goddess symbols in Mecca, now Allah's sanctuary.

    From the beginning, towers or obelisks were symbols of pagan worship as conducted in Babylon and Egypt, and later all around the world. The obelisk was originally a symbol of Baal (Nimrod) and sexual rituals in the context of sun-worship. We also see these matzebah images in various places in the Bible, such as I Kings 14:23, 2 Kings 18:4, 23:14; Isaiah 17:8, 27:9; Jer. 43:13; Ezk.  8:5; Micah 5:13).

    The name of Artemis, a version of Semiramis, probably meant "women who built towers", Cybele and Diana, another versions of Semiramis, were pictured carrying a tower, and we can trace this all the way Japan and China in the east, to Indians in America, the Vikings of the North and Africans in the South. We always see this tower connected with pagan worship, and, unfortunately, later adopted by the Roman Catholic church. And, of course, Islam has not only adopted the tower (minaret) but also the worship of meteorites, the Crescent and the Babylonian Star. And to conclude this discussion, Allah himself was originally a pagan deity, related to astrological fertility worship and various other aspects of Babylonian paganism.
 
Who is Allah?

 Muslims usually argue that their ‘Allah’ is the same deity as the Judeo-Christian God. For sincere Jews or Christians, that statement ought to be considered as a profound blasphemy, since it destroys their concept of God. By accepting such a thesis one is admitting Islam as the true religion, above Judaism and Christianity. One has not come across any arguments that can prove that ‘Allah’ is just another name for the Judeo-Christian God.

The Islamic scholar Caesar Farah states: "There is no reason, therefore, accept the idea that Allah passed to the Muslims from the Christians and Jews." (Ceasar Farah, Islam: Beliefs and Observations (New York, 1987), 28.) And as their characters are examined, they seem to be of a completely different nature and reveal contradicting scriptures.

  ‘Allah’, in fact, has a genealogy that can be traced through Yemen to Babylon, the mother of all idolatry. In Babylon, paganism began at the time of Nimrod, the alleged builder of the Tower of Babel. After the confusion of languages, Babylonian idolatry spread all over the world. Nimrod had been dei-fied and was known as Baal, Molech,.... and finally, as Allah. The Baal worship was conducted by sacrifices, prostrations and kissing the idol, (See  I. Kings 19:18) which was the same type of service conducted at the Kaaba and other places in Arabia. There are also traces of a direct Baal worship among the Arabs: "And God helped him [King Uzziah of Juda] against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims [probably Mineanites from Yemen]." (II Chron. 26:7) It was common to add Baal’s name to the city where he was worshipped and thus it was obviously so in Gur. Inscriptions with Baal’s name have been found in Central Arabia at some oasis where Arabian inhabitants had settled. The great scholar William Robertson Smith argues that the

• most developed cults of Arabia belong not to the pure nomads, but to these agricultural and trading settlements, which the Bedouin visited only as pilgrims, not to pay stated homage to the lord of the land from which they drew their life, but in fulfilment of vows. (William Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites. The Fundamental Institutions (London, 1902), 109.)
   

Concerning the Kaaba, Muslims' holiest place, Ibn Ishaq gives us an example of such fulfilment of vows, when he reports the story of a Jurhum woman who "had been barren and vowed to Allah that if she bore a son she would give him to the Kaaba as a slave to serve it and to look after it." (quoted in; Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad, 49.) In Mesopotamia, and consequently in all the known world, the firstfruits of the crops or cattle were sacrificed to the fertility god. A sacred plot of land was offered to the deity, where he could abide and accept their offerings. In Mecca, the earlier fertility god named Baal was replaced with desert gods, the Aramaic Allah and the Yemenite Hubal.

    The ancient world usually worshipped a pantheon of gods, where higher and lesser gods battled for supremacy. All these pantheons had many similarities, for example, always including a relationship between a high male-god and a mothergoddess.  Religious beliefs were often a spiritual form or the exaltation of the society the worshippers happened to be a part of. In primitive tribal societies, the family was the integral part which formed the basis of solidarity, wealth, protection and daily support. Thus, a family of deities was the normal state of worship.

    In Arabian archaeology a large number of inscriptions on rocks, tablets and walls, have pointed to the worship of a family of four; one male and his three ‘daughters’ or goddesses. Those three goddesses are sometimes engraved together with Allah, represented by a crescent moon above them. But Allah was the ‘Lord of the Kaaba... Lord of Manat, al-Lat, and al-Uzza...and even as ‘Lord of Sirius’.’(Peters, Muhammad, 98.) His ‘daughters’ were his associates, helpers and were themselves worshipped, after the manner of ancient Babylonian customs and symbolised by astronomical symbols.