A programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional philosopher, journalist and voice actor. 

Music:
"Gone with the winds", by Veaceslav Draganov on artlist.io

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Learn more about this URGENT topic by following these links:

The Story of Helena Kerschner, who regrets having “transitioned” as a teenager:
https://youtu.be/Ibq3ld087Y4

The Irish Bill to remove the words "woman", "mother", and more from legal language:
https://4w.pub/ireland-to-strip-maternity-law/

New Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown cannot bring herself to say what a woman is:
https://youtu.be/BWtGzJxiONU
…and she then refuses to answer clear questions about self-definition as a woman:
https://youtu.be/BWwx-UrL0e4

Documentary “What is a woman?” by Matt Walsh:
https://youtu.be/8wlZWZoqRlo

Disability statistics in the UK:
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9602/CBP-9602.pdf

Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Act (Transgender Trend):
https://www.transgendertrend.com/scotland-gender-recognition-act-reform-bill/

The SNP’s Gender Recognition Bill is a threat to women (Spiked Online):
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/05/the-snps-gender-recognition-bill-is-threat-to-women/

Ministers face public backlash over gender recognition reforms (The Times):
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-face-public-backlash-over-gender-recognition-reform-plans-dvgljmqrf

Brit Awards 2023: Why no women were nominated for Best Artist  (BBC)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64264069

The nonsense of nonbinary (Spiked online):
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/16/its-time-to-call-out-the-nonsense-of-nonbinary/

"Toxic feminism is the ONLY kind of feminism": https://youtu.be/mOSS8yBp3go

"Biology trumps gender," says the president of the World Athletics Association:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10934773/World-Athletics-president-Sebastian-Coe-backs-FINAs-ruling-transgender-athletes-banned.html

The "triumph" of transgender athlete Lia Thomas:
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/ncaa-title-for-lia-thomas-is-joke-with-biological-women-as-punchline-hardly-a-laughing-matter/

Transgender martial arts "champion" Fallon Fox punches her female opponent so violently that he (she) breaks her skull: 
https://www.bjjee.com/articles/transgender-mma-fighter-who-broke-female-opponents-skull-are-we-getting-too-politically-correct-with-reality/

Why female athletes should raise their voices every time a transgender athlete tries to compete against them:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sharron-davies-the-trans-debate-is-toxic-its-made-my-life-hell-but-female-athletes-must-speak-up-xllplkmp3

Toilets in new public buildings should be separate for men and women:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/02/single-sex-lavatories-mandatory-new-public-buildings/

But transgender activists consider this "transphobic":
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a40497357/new-buildings-must-have-single-sex-toilets/
 
It is "unfair" to force someone "who is already facing exclusion" to use toilets that are not "neutral" or "gender neutral":
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/17/gender-neutral-toilets-public-buildings-single-sex-uk-robert-jenrick/

The alarming "gender dysphoria" among minors, which jumped from 138 cases in 2010 to 2,383 in 2020: 
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/10/nhs-gender-identity-service-for-children-cant-cope-with-demand-review-finds

Bullying and violence against girls who dare to question the transgender agenda in their schools:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/girl-driven-out-of-school-for-questioning-trans-ideology-ls790krdh

Gone with the winds

The Disappearance Of Women

A billion women live under the shadow of Islam today (that's almost one in eight human beings walking the planet today). And all the evidence from fourteen centuries of Islamic history and theology points to the uncomfortable fact that Islam hates women. We examine numerous texts from the Qur'an and hadiths of Sahih al-Bukhari to illustrate the thesis. 

Credits and references:
Programme written, produced and hosted by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Cover:
Carte Portale 532 - Jeunes Filles Arabes, by Lehnert & Landrock at zeno.org/bildpostkarten/m/

Music:
"Broken", by Michael Vignola at artlist.io
"The Art of Listening", by Gnawledge, from their album Granada Doaba at freemusicarchive.org

Texts quoted from the Koran: 
Distribution of inheritances: 4:11 and 12.
Islam is the "perfect" religion for all mankind: 5:3 
What to do with women "who commit unlawful sexual acts" (and those who are raped): 4:15 and 24:2 
Men are superior to women: 4:34

Commentaries (tafsir) of Al Qurtubi, Al Tabari, Ibn Hajar:
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Wife_Beating_in_the_Qur%27an

https://www.al-islam.org/tags/tafsir

Hadiths of al-Bukhari:
Most of the inhabitants of Hell are women, and they are deficient in intelligence and devotion:
Sahih Bukhari 1:6:301

It is not permissible to mourn a woman for more than three days:
Sahih Bukhari 1:6:310

Not to whip the wife as a slave:
Sahih Bukhari 7:62:132

The beaten woman who sought help from Aisha:
Sahih Bukhari 7:72:715

Hadith on the benefit of drinking camel urine:
Sahih Bukhari, Hadith: 233, and Sahih Muslim, Hadith: 1671.

Hadith on the wings of flies:
Sahih Bukhari 4:54:537 and also Sahih Bukhari 7:71:673. 

You can learn more about Bukhari here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahih_al-Bukhari

Ayaan Hirsi Ali:  
Ayaan has written several books, among them "Infidel", about her own story and her flight from Islam, and "Heretic", about the reformation that Islam needs today. Visit his website here: https://ayaanhirsiali.com
The quote read comes from:
"Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now", http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/why-islam-needs-a-reformation-now

Broken

Islam Hates Women

According to Islam, Paradise is a luxury brothel. As many as six Suras (chapters) of the Quran are devoted to this notion, with sensuous descriptions of steamy pleasures for those who gain entrance. And these descriptions are further enhanced by numerous hadiths. Sadly for all of us, only terrorists who die in jihad qualify for immediate access, which explains why they are so eager to blow themselves (and others) up. And Muslim women are not invited to Paradise because they would only spoil the party for the men.


Credits and references:
Programme written, produced and hosted by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and murmullosradiantes.com

Cover:
"The Believer's Dream", by Achille Zo (1870). Musée Bonnat, Bayonne

Music:
"Qanun al-Tarab" and "El Arte de Escuchar" by Gnawledge, from their great album Granada Doaba on freemusicarchive.org. Buy it on Bandcamp!
"Undeniable", by Ketsa, on freemusicarchive.org.
"Devotion", from The Pilgrimage Series, Part 1 on artlist.io.
"Reflections Eastern", from Master 1, on freemusicarchive.org.

Texts quoted from the Qur'an: 
"those who deserve paradise occupy themselves with delightful things": 36:55.
Description of paradise and the Huris: 55:66-76
"The pious will be in a place of safety": 44:51-57
Description of paradise and the Huris: 56: 15-37
Eternal mancebos "like hidden pearls": 52:24

For the original sources of the Qur'an:
W. Tisdall, The Original Sources of the Quran





Hadiths of al-Bukhari and others:
Paradise is in the shadow of the sword: 
Sahih al-Bukhari 4:52:73 
Muhammad is not guaranteed salvation:
Sahih al-Bukhari 5:58:266
Women with "desirable frontal passages" and men with penises that do not become flaccid: 
Sunah Ibn Majah, 5:37:4337
Believers will receive the sexual potency of a hundred men:
Jami at-Tirmidhi 4:12:2536
What will the Day of Judgment be like?
Sahih al-Bukhari 8, Book 76, hadith 577; Bayhaqi
Every pacifist Muslim is a hypocrite:
Sahih Muslim; Sunah Abu Dawud 2502. Book 15, hadith 26

Official Islamic biography of Muhammad:
The Life of Muhammad, a translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, with introduction and notes by A. Guillaume. Karachi, Ameena Saiyid, Oxford University Press, 23rd impression 2010. 

History of the invasion of Kaybar in which Muhammad has a Jewish leader tortured and burned:
Sirat p. 510-19; History of al-Tabari VIII, p. 122, 123.

Tafsir of Ibn Kathir:
To occupy oneself with "delightful things" means "deflowering virgins":
Ibn Kathir IX, 383
Tafsir al-Khalalalayn, Surah Jaseen verse 55
https://i.redd.it/ga0ox7sd2a851.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/12frh1x/deflowering_virgins_quran/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CritiqueIslam/comments/hjec12/proof_that_men_are_rewarded_virgins_that_they/

The story about Ayatollah Khomeini’s thesis on copulation with chickens I read in the wonderful and very moving book Reading Lolita in Teheran, by Azar Nafisi. Read it!

A very interesting article on the religion of the Vikings:
https://scandinaviafacts.com/did-vikings-have-to-die-with-sword-in-hand-to-reach-valhalla/

"Qanun al-Tarab" and "El Arte de Escuchar"

Is paradise a luxury brothel?

A much funnier version of the children's story we all know...and written in rhyme! Only the fantastic Roald Dahl could twist the end like this. Get ready for a hilarious adventure!

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy. It's a beautiful book!) 

Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music: 
"Gypsy Bill”, by Ofer Koren and The Hill Bullies, at artlist.io

Gypsy Bill

Snow White and the seven dwarves, by Roald Dahl

My atheist friends love to cite Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Voltaire as leading thinkers who opened new horizons for humanity, freeing it from the religious prejudices that had enslaved it for centuries. But things were very different, and the writings of these three influential thinkers provided a framework that supported the slavery and exploitation of non-European races more than anyone else. We examine the great ambiguities of the Enlightenment and the main myths of atheism, such as The Myth of Progress, The Myth of Human Rationality and The Myth of Human Goodness, with a discussion of Steven Pinker's  "Enlightenment Now".

Programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor (gabrielvoice.com).

Cover design: Ricardo Gil (ricardo@scrav.com).

Music: 
"Joking Together", by Michele Nobler/Memory Tapes @artlist.io
"Alive and Well", by Campagna/Hello Love @artlist.io

The inspiration for this programme comes from a debate between Steven Pinker and Nick Spencer, titled "Have science, reason and humanism replaced faith?", available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ssf5XN5o9q4?feature=shared

Nick Spencer published a well-argued article entitled "Atheist Fairy Tales: exposing secularism's major myths" on Premier Unbelievable: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/topics/atheist-fairytales-exposing-secularisms-major-myths/12200.article 

Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome Project, published a book entitled "The Language of God", in which he makes a strong case for the existence of God.

Joking Together

The Daydreams of Atheism

Reducing the conflict in Gaza to a question of Palestinian-Israeli differences is an unforgivable mistake. The conflict that has been raging in Gaza for decades is the conflict between Islam and world civilisation, that is, between Islam and you and me, and each and every one of us who are not yet under Islam: not only Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Newagers and Hindus. Also homosexuals, transsexuals, feminists, atheists, agnostics, science, education, technology and progress and welfare for all. All this is lost if Hamas wins, and Islam advances.

Programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, at murmullosradiantes.com. 

Cover created by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com
Image by Vectonauta at www.freepik.es

Music: 
"Gone with the winds", by Veaceslav Draganov (Picture) on artlist.com.
"Jericho at Dusk", by Alon Peretz (Three Middle Eastern Cities), on artlist.com
"Ruhi", by Meriem Ben Amor, on artlist.com

Links and references:
On how Hamas rewards its soldiers with girls as young as nine years old, see these photographs: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hamas-wedding-girls/

On Islam's hatred of women, and how it promises a paradise of luxury and sex to Hamas soldiers and Islamism, listen to these past episodes:
"Islam hates women": https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-islam-odia-a-las-mujeres
"Is paradise a luxury brothel?": https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-paraiso-es-un-burdel-de-lujo
On the dangerous stupidity of the masses:
https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-peligro-de-la-estupidez-mr-sc-esp

A long and detailed collection of Hamas abuses on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Hamas#Press_restrictions

On the despicable sexual violence of Hamas’ attack on 07 October: https://youtu.be/2l3EbRiDATE?feature=shared

Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of one of the founders of Hamas, appears in multiple YouTube videos, such as this one:
https://youtu.be/H9WEcvrWvyo?feature=shared
His experiences and perspectives on the workings of Hamas appear in a book entitled "Son of Hamas": 
https://amzn.eu/d/ff29BB7
and a film entitled "The Green Prince": 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B00YRUA3QU/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
 
On Hamas soldiers shouting "Allah is victorious" as they behead and rape innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023: https://youtu.be/SmivUM0tlwc?feature=shared

A passionate article by Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, which inspired me to write this episode: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20126/hamas-nazis

Photos of Mufti Husseini reviewing troops and having tea with Hitler can be seen here: https://youtu.be/ou0EgaK49Ak?feature=shared

If Hamas Wins, We All Lose

Every year, Christmas is the greatest celebration around the globe. No other event makes us get together as families and friends like Christmas. And yet, Christmas is also the worst time of the year for millions of lonely, hurting people. Commandeered by businesses and restaurants, Christmas celebrations often obscure Christ, whose birth is the original and best reason to celebrate Christmas. Find out why the birth of Christ deserves to be celebrated with all your heart.

Programme presented and produced by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and musmullosradiantes.com

Text: Nicky Gumbel
Nicky Gumbel is the creator of the Alpha Course, which is a beautiful and warm introduction to Christianity. Over 26 million people have taken the Alpha Course in over 100 countries. Nicky graduated in Law at Cambridge and in Theology at Oxford. He worked as a barrister before becoming a writer and preacher. 
Join an Alpha Course near you here: https://alpha.org.uk/try
You can also do it online.

Cover created by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com with AI at www.bing.com by Microsoft

Music: 
"Handpanophone" by David Charrier is from his album Ephemeral on artlist.io.
Sound effect: 
Clean high bell ring, license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://orangefreesounds.com/

Handpanophone

Why celebrate Christmas?, by Nicky Gumbel

A jewel of Spanish-language literature, quintessentially Mexican and universal at the same time. The story of a town that is all dust, loneliness and silence “where sorrow makes her nest”. 


Original story by Juan Rulfo read by Gabriel Porras
Translation by Stephen Beechinor
Production: Gabriel Porras and Andre Sosa @drorangeacademy
Cover design by Ricardo Gil ricardo@scrav.com
Music: La Guanábana, by Los Parientes de Playa Vicente, from the album América Afroíndigena at freemusicarchive.com

América Afroíndigena

La Guanábana

Luvina, by Juan Rulfo

All we have to comfort, guide us and sustain us in this straggling path called life are the radiant whispers that we grasp as a distant “sunrise of wonder” in our spiritual practice, in great works of literature, music, art, and in nature and blue skies. These are the Radiant Whispers. That's what this podcast is about. We will talk about culture and society, about ancient and modern history, literature and art with dramatized readings of poetry, fables, theatre, novels and stories. Subscribe -let's find radiant whispers everywhere.

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