Peace With Islam in Our Time

koran-kalashnikov-500x332Abdallah Bulgasem Zehaf-Bibeau, the crackhead turned Jihadist spawned by the mating of a Canadian immigration official and a Libyan Muslim Jihadist, just wanted peace.

He told a co-worker, “There can’t be world peace until there’s only Muslims.” Then he tried to usher in peace, the Islamic way, by opening fire near the Canadian parliament.

Meanwhile in Israel a reporter interviewing Arab Muslim settlers in Jerusalem found that they too wanted peace. On their terms.

“Yes we want peace,” one of them said, “but peace means no Jews.”

When negotiating peace with other cultures it’s a good idea to make sure that the words you are using mean the same thing. Most Muslims and Westerners want peace. But to Westerners peace means co-existence. To Muslims, peace means the end of your existence.

Ideas carry heavy cultural baggage. Peace in the West summons up images of Armistice Day, of the Christmas Truce of WW1 in which French, German and English soldiers could share meals and play soccer together. It carries with it the subversive idea that both sides realize the war isn’t worth fighting.

Such a subversive idea has no place in Islam. The Jihad is at the heart of Islam. To question the holy war is to also question the faith. When war is religion then peace through setting aside war is heresy.

The Western idea of peace is a wholly alien one to Islam. In Islam, peace does not come from men transcending their differences, but from destroying men who think and live differently. That is the function of the religious police of our allied “moderate Muslim” countries who seek out the practice of other religions and other ways of living in places like Saudi Arabia and suppress their practitioners.

Islamic peace does not come from diversity, from accepting the existence of other nations, religions and peoples, but from unity through Islam and eliminating as many differences as possible. If Islam is the source of peace, then all that which is “not Islam” is the cause of war.

Kill the Jews. Kill the Christians. Then there will be peace.

The Islamic idea of peace was aptly expressed by Zehaf-Bibeau and our anonymous Jerusalem Jihadist. It is not based on a recognition of the humanity of one’s fellow man, but on a rejection of their humanity.

As Mohammed curtly put it in missives to the leaders of non-Muslim countries in the region, “Aslim, Taslam.” Convert to Islam and you’ll have peace. The same message has been dispatched by Muslim leaders today to popes and presidents. It’s a message of peace on the only terms that Islam allows.

Islam is the religion of peace. For there to be peace, Islam must be supreme. Within the Islamic worldview, conflict is caused by the existence of dissent. The only way to achieve peace is by forcing the submission of every human being to the correct strain of Islam. “Moderates” may agree to let Jews and Christians live as inferior second-class citizens if they submit to Muslims. “Extremists” will skip straight to raping and beheading them. And once that ugly business is done, there will be peace.

Or there will be peace once the “moderates” and “extremists” have finished killing each other, once the Sunnis and Shiites have finished beheading each other, and once every single Muslim has finished slaughtering every other Muslim who in any way dissents from his understanding of Islam.

That’s the brand of peace we’re seeing in Iraq and Syria today. Or the peace process between Israel and the Arab Muslims who were rebranded as “Palestinians” because it made them seem like a local flavor.

Islam rejects the idea that mutual empathy should transcend conflict. Instead it believes that war should transcend humanity. Or as the Koran puts it, “Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not.”

The Western tradition is biased toward the peace of co-existence. It applies the logic of armistice toward all areas of life leading to the championing of multiculturalism and immigration. Its siren song is John Lennon’s Imagine with its call for an end to borders, nations, religions and property. Its ideal of peace comes from the end of structure and separation between people.

The Islamic idea of peace however affirms a structure and separation based on the Koran. It believes that there will be peace when everyone is forced to live within the strictures of Islam. And therefore there can be no genuine peace with non-Muslims who do not submit to Islam.

These two incompatible notions of peace continue to collide. Imagine if French soldiers had clambered out to sing and play soccer only to be gunned down by German soldiers who had a fundamentally different idea of peace. This was actually how WW2 was shaped as the victorious side played by outdated rules while Nazi Germany, Japan and the USSR shifted to a thoroughly totalitarian mentality.

Munich was a disaster because Hitler was not the Kaiser. The other side was no longer willing to play by any rules, even in diplomatic negotiations, or to accept anything short of total victory. The Allies were forced to match their enemies in a ruthless war that saw entire cities destroyed.

The Nazis and Communists were the products of years of indoctrination that taught them to see opponents as less than human and peace as being obtainable only through their destruction. Japan, which had a longer history of dehumanizing outsiders, proved to be an even tougher nut to crack.

Islam has a history of over a thousand years of continuously dehumanizing non-Muslims and identifying peace and their enslavement as one and the same. It is impossible to live in peace with Muslims who think that there can be no peace as long as non-Muslims continue to live independent lives.

In the Muslim worldview, war happens because non-Muslims exist. War is caused by the infidel, the disbeliever and the Muslim hypocrite who does not truly commit to the practice of Islam. The Jihad purifies the world of non-Muslims; it eradicates the “moderate” Muslims who have been compromised by Western culture. It is a war of extermination against the un-Islamic.

When Westerners propose peace, Muslims reject them as hypocrites for speaking of peace, but refusing to accept the only religion that can bring peace. They feel no obligation to honor any peace agreements since peace can only come from Islam and the Western rejection of Islam proves our deceitfulness and bad intentions. This dynamic is inherent in the Koran and the entire history of Islam.

Islam does not obtain peace through peace, but through war. It seeks a world without conflict by killing anyone who might disagree with its totalitarian ideology.

Proposing the peace of co-existence to an ideology to which peace means its own supremacy is a foolish and deranged act.  Our outreach to the Muslim world does not lack for a common language, but for common ideas. Both sides may speak of peace, but for one side peace really means war.

Languages are not only made up of words, but of values. It is not enough to bring a dictionary to a negotiation if the two parties are reading from different moral and ethical traditions. Just because we translate “Salaam” as peace and agree that we both want peace does not mean that we have the same idea of what peace is.

The West sees peace as living side by side with Muslims. Muslims see peace as the end of the West.

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  • 11bravo

    Sorry you had to state the obvious again Dan. I only wish you had wider circulation.

    • Bamaguje

      It’s not obvious to Muslim appeasing Western leaders who publicly insist Islam is “religion of peace”, and Jihad terror has “nothing to do with Islam.” Such willful ignorance undermines their anti-terror strategy and policies.
      As DG rightly points out, these Jihad deniers have no idea what “peace” means in Islam.
      Which is why they unduly pressurize Israel to negotiate “peace” with Arabs masquerading as “Palestinians.”

      • pupsncats

        Muslim appeasing Western leaders know full well that Islam is no religion of peace. They are too busy and need more time spent on their quest to destroy their nations themselves and so can’t afford the distraction of an outside force.

      • subee7

        t is not ignorance, it is willful lying to deceive a blinded people here in America. Nowhere else are people so deceived as they are here.
        Others have seen the evil in the Muslims, yes all that go by the name and go by the Q’ran.(Koran)

        • dwayne roberson

          “Nowhere else are people so deceived” Is this what we have done with our freedom? That gave a creepy chill down my neck.

    • truebearing

      Yes, if someone reads this post and still persists in projecting his own values on Muslims, he deserves what he gets. If he happens to be a powerful national leader, he should be removed from office as fast as possible if he can’t grasp a truth so well delineated.

      • Bamaguje

        No willfully blind & deaf Western leader will be removed on account of an eye-opening treatise like Mr Greenfield’s.
        If at all they read it, Daniel Greenfield will be denounced as an Islamophobe, racist and bigot.

        • truebearing

          Painfully true. What “should” happen is seldom the outcome. My point was less about the likelihood of leaders being removed than a leader’s moral responsibility when confronted by clear and evident truth.

        • Joe The Gentile

          Accurate definitions can potentially help:

          Islamophobe (noun):

          1.
          Derogatory term for a self-respecting non-Muslim
          who has a clue about Islam and Jihad.

          2.
          Derogatory term for a person who opposes the
          evils of Islam, in full knowledge that they are of Islam.

          3.
          Derogatory term for a person who has counterjihadist vision or sentiments.

        • laura r

          and a jew.

    • Biff Henderson

      “Islam rejects the idea that mutual empathy should transcend conflict. Instead it believes that war should transcend humanity.”

      DG is adept at turning a phrase.

      • truebearing

        Indeed.

  • Bamaguje

    Yet another brilliant treatise by Mr Greenfield.
    I would only add that this Islamic notion of peace explains why Muslim ruled territory is Dar-ul Salam (land of peace); while non-Muslim territories are Dar-ul harb (land of war).

    “…peace process between Israel and the Arab Muslims who were rebranded as “Palestinians” because it made them seem like a local flavor” – Daniel Greefield.

    Indeed rebranding Arabs invaders and migrants in Palestine as “Palestinians”, helps push the false narrative that they are indigenous, while Jews are foreign.

  • truebearing

    Daniel, you framed humanity’s either/or brilliantly. There is no possibility of peaceful coexistence with dedicated evil.

    Islam is the ultimate in misanthropic ideologies. Even if the Muslims did succeed in destroying all other religions, they would then turn on each other over increasingly petty doctrinal disputes, slaughtering each other until eventually only two antagonists remained. They would fight to the death of the weakest one, leaving the other to realize — too late — that Islam was an evil system of lies intended to degrade, then destroy humanity.

    • camp7

      Happy Thanksgiving truebearing and others.

      Another year to think about,
      the things that we hold dear.
      Prepare us for another one,
      to brave what we all fear.

      The fight that we, your people face,
      will test the will and spirit.
      The Word that you have spoken,
      leads heart and mind when near it.

      One special day a year we thank,
      the Giver of the good.
      And all the things that make our lives,
      as blessed as Thou could.

      When times get tough and seas are rough,
      when course is hard to stay.
      Help us to remember,
      the good worth thanks this day.

    • Dan Knight

      Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

  • Harold Harry Francis Callahan

    This looks to me like a very smart analysis, Mr. Greenfield, thank you.

  • camp7

    Okay, so much for peace, let’s get down to business.

  • http://johnnyangeladvocacygroup.net JohnnyAngel Advocacy Group

    Right on. Just to mention Lennon though; he was an obvious Marxist and though I may have missed reading it in the columns, it seems to have been glossed over . I am also stating outright that the black, mostly innercity populations of larger cities may be headed in the Muslim direction if they haven’t already. With more rabble rousing and more Obaholder speeches it is a distinct possibility. Be aware white man !!

    • Lightbringer

      The black inner city population might be headed toward Muslim-like supremacy and hatred, but most of them would not care to adhere to its discipline, such as it is.

  • Texas Patriot

    Great work, Daniel. When the Iranians assure the world that their nuclear weapons program is for “peaceful purposes”, now we know what they mean.

    • Hi there

      Good point.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Fascist Irans version of peace involves the death of tens of million of Persians.

  • Ramjet

    So Basically we have a situation here ,where if we see a Muslim and he approaches you yelling ” i want peace” he is actually meaning i want “a piece” of you ..preferably your head.

  • sportyone

    In a few words you’ve modelled the semantics of ‘peace’ in our world. The Muslim paradigm of ‘peace’ is achieved through annihilation of the other. Our attainment of peace is through mutual acceptance and compromise

    • bill reitzes

      Compromise does not exist in Islam.
      How would the cult expand if it compromised?

  • kafir4life

    “We love death as much as you love life”
    - the muslims
    I see a win-win scenario where everybody gets what they want.

    • Bamaguje

      Indeed, we should finish them off by giving them what they want – death.

    • subee7

      Not on your life! Patroits are willing to die for their Country.

  • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

    Excellent points.

    The comparison to other forms of totalitarianism is appropriate. I remember Communists who would say explicitly that there will be peace once the whole world is under communism and “justice” is established everywhere. They chant “no justice, no peace” and they meant that in their distinctive way.

    While totalitarian utopians see no large scale war in their oppressive world, there is no peace either. They impose their oppressive order using force on the subjected population. We see the hanging of gays in Iran, the mass slaughter of non-Muslims in the Islamic State after control is established, etc. “Peace” in Islam looks like “peace” in North Korea. It is brutal and coercive. This is the type of peace when individual rights are non-existent and the collective is all. In Islam, the Ummah trumps the individual including “innovative” Muslims who start to go their own way. ISIS is Islam.

    • dwayne roberson

      I wish to upvote Jason again…I couldn’t help it!

  • Daniel

    Muslims FIRST invaded the West in 711 AD with the conquest of Spain.
    We have been resisting them ever since.

    • DowntotheBone

      The Christian Middle East and North Africa, part of the Greco-Roman-Judaic (Athens and Jerusalem, after all) cradle of the civilization we in the West now live in, would tweak that date to something closer to 640 AD.

  • bklyn farmer

    Thanksgiving day November 27, 2014
    Report from Fox News:
    ” The Shin Bet said it arrested more than 30 Hamas militants who planned to kidnap Israelis and carry out attacks against Jerusalem’s light rail and its largest soccer stadium, among other targets. It said the men were trained and recruited in Jordan and Turkey and that various arms and explosives were recovered.”

  • LindaRivera

    Western leaders are neither ignorant or naive. They know exactly what Islam is. They know that Islam is an extremely violent, extremely barbaric pagan blood cult – proven by the Quran, Hadith, all Islamic teaching and 1,400 years of massive genocides leaving hundreds of millions of non-Muslims dead – non-Muslims who refused to submit to Islam and the Muslim death god. The satanic atrocities, mass barbaric murders and mass sex-slave taking perpetrated to this day.

    Western leaders colonised our nations, especially each one of the tiny countries of Britain and Europe with many millions of the soldiers of Allah. Our leaders are not ignorant or naive. They are evil.

    In Britain, join in the fight for freedom! Join EDL street demos and join counter jihad party, Liberty GB http://libertygb.org.uk/v1
    “Islam and terrorism go hand-in-hand” – Paul Weston in Luton
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6635-islam-and-terrorism-go-hand-in-hand-paul-weston-in-luton

    • gwsmith

      “Western leaders are neither ignorant or naïve?” So the European, Canadian, and American leaders KNOW they are welcoming death through the door?

      • pupsncats

        FDR, a lover of Uncle Joe, survived. George W Bush, a “religion of peace” man, survived. The leaders simply lead others into their deaths.

  • DowntotheBone

    Well said, Mr. Greenfield.

  • Hi there

    Excellent article. I’ve been thinking a lot about this word, “peace”. There are right-wing people who have been labelled ‘fear-mongers’ for questioning the sanity of certain peace deals between Israel and Fatah. They are made into pariahs, as if they themselves are the obstacles to utopia.
    But peace doesn’t always mean peace. And for a kumbaya word, it’s nice for camping events, but I maintain the right to question whether any plan with the word in its midst must be God-sent. It’s just a word.
    In arguments I’ve had with a radical Israeli leftist, I was unsuccessful in convincing her that I too want peace. She was too far gone in her messianic delusions of a brotherly co-existence for her to accept that I would love peace too, but only if it’s real peace. I would love if our Arab neighbors stopped sending rockets or driving into civilians. I would also love, and eagerly await the time, when nations will beat their swords into plowshares. But in the meantime, I’m not sticking out my neck to die.
    I want peace, not suicide. And I, according to her, am a radical nut-job who is destroying my children’s future and ruining the whole Middle East…
    I stopped arguing with her. The last thing I told her was that she made me understand the ancient attachment to false idols, “They have mouths, but they cannot speak, eyes, but they cannot see.”

  • Gee

    Islam and Nazism have a lot in common and should be treated the exact same way

  • weirdpeter

    I recommend that everyone print out this essay and read it again whenever the Western world is accused of being unfair to Islam and lectured that it does not really want peace.
    Prediction – At the end it will boil down to the last two humans still alive. True believer 1: “There are only two true Muslims in the world, and I’m having doubts about you!” This will be followed by a swish of his scimitar in the direction of the “apostate’s neck.

  • FedUpWithWelfareStates

    “There can’t be world peace until there’s only Muslims.”

  • Dan Knight

    Thank you Daniel, very well put.

  • Peter Castle

    There can be no peace with religious fanatics who want to annihilate you.

    See “Let’s Talk ISIS Into Peace” at http://t.co/x5bJ44gBxY.

  • cree

    Islam’s enemy is peace as long as any non-muslims resist. The radical element of Islam has been, is growing. We secure in some degree of peace are under threat. Real threat.

    The no go zones scattered within Europe will likely duplicate here unless they are neutralized soon. Muslims duplicating Ferguson, MO. is real possibilities. Islam could give our blacks more destructive power. Those in the active fight on/in the frontlines of real battle buffers the rest of us; but, we the innocents are also targets. The “lone wolf” attacks in Israel have happen here. Prepare for war. We are enemies to Islam.

    I regret but am not sorry to be a realist.

    Be Thankful this day. America sure makes that more possible. The fight is for freedom and for our children.

  • mollysdad

    If in Islam, peace does not come from men transcending their differences, but from destroying men who think and live differently, then Islam must be destroyed and its profession and propagation be made a crime.

  • Rob

    Cannot wait for Obama to vacate the WH and get a REAL President to sort out the mess his predecessor created with his Pro Islamic ideas , but in the meantime he still can do a lot of damage, we just have to watch him.

    • knowshistory

      you are a bit overly optimistic if you see any possibility of getting a real president to replace the muslim. with the criminal party stuck on the hildebeast, and the stupid party again touting the virtues of mitt, or even mr open borders jeb, what really is the probability of electing a real president? no one is even thinking about running who is willing to promote the necessary remedy to the Islamic attack on our country–send the enemy home. let there be no muslims in the west. until there are no muslims, there will be no freedom.

    • bill reitzes

      He is doing something, by doing nothing, or half measures.
      ISIS is growing in spite of the coalition of the unwilling.
      35 countries in the coalition, and ISIS is winning.
      Catch my drift,, his doing nothing is allowing and approving violent jihad.

      • Rob

        Political correctness is paramount with the ‘Religion of Peace’
        Our ‘Leaders’ just don’t get it, the signs are everywhere that the path they want to follow is not working.

        • bill reitzes

          35 countries today, can’t defeat ISIS.
          Israel could in about 2-4 weeks. Job done.
          Hussein Obama’s coalition, is of the “unwilling”
          More sales job by the community organizer from Chicago.
          Islam gets stronger, and the keystone cops run around like, well, keystone cops.
          Cheers

          • Rob

            You are not wrong Bill,it seems that the Left is worrying about losing votes , seem to be more important to the Narcissists than the long term wellbeing of the nation or nations for that matter, to abandon Israel is very wrong ,it could well be that if threatened can trigger a massive response from Tel Aviv, as is the case today they are very restrained in their actions.

          • bill reitzes

            The Israelis are the best because of technology and motivation.
            They fight for their literal existence.
            Obama, who should be the Leader of the “free world” confuses me.
            He fights ISIS, who wants to establish a brutal Sharia state.
            He bows down to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a brutal Sharia state.
            He is giving into Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and Iran is another brutal Sharia state.
            He pushes Israel into the corner, to create a Palestinian state, which all polls indicate, will be another brutal Sharia state.
            What does Obama really want?
            Is he pro, rights denying Sharia, or does he oppose, rights denying Sharia?
            One thing we all know for sure, Obama is a HUGE failure.

  • kikorikid

    Yes, As Obama said.”No religion condones the Killing of innocents”.
    What Obama omitted is that in Islam the ONLY “Innocents” are
    “Believers”.
    Islam comes ONLY to Conquer, Submit, Convert, or Kill.

  • Raymond_in_DC

    “Peace” is hardly the only word that conveys something quite different in Western and the Islamic cultures: freedom and justice come to mind. It’s also telling that the Islamic world rejects the “universal” notion of human rights, preferring instead a version consistent with sharia.

  • punk

    incredible article! simply incredible!

  • steve b

    I SEE PEACE AS A SERIES OF MUSHROOM CLOUDS ALL ACROSS THE ISIS AND ISLAMIST TERRITORIES.

    • Rob

      Perhaps a solution! to get rid of them once and for all.

  • Rob

    Wishfull thinking!

  • subee7

    You are so right, just wish the idiots that protect them would understand.
    Their heads may be the 1st to roll.

  • moraywatson

    Islam is not the religion of peace, it is the politics of submission. Surrendering to totalitarian supremacism will not bring peace, it will only bring despair.

  • dan3333333333

    “If Islam is the source of peace” Islam is the source, the source of Satan antics, whom represents all things evil and wrong with this world. Muslims are stuck on stupid and embarrassed to admit it!