The Islamic Tactic of Terror and Lure

taqiyyaThere is more bad news for moderate Muslims who deny any connection between Islam and terror and who insist on convincing the West that no one should interpret Quranic commandments to kill, behead, torture, terrorize, humiliate, belittle and never befriend the non-believer, as violent.

As I was watching an Arabic Aljazeerah TV show, which did not have a date, called “Sharia and Hayaa,” meaning Islamic law and life, the topic was “Dawaa Baina Al Tarhib Wal Targhib,” Arabic for “Preaching between Terror and Lure.” The word “dawaa” means preaching or spreading Islam. “Tarhib” is derived from the word “irhab” or terror, and “tarhib” means to instill terror. Incidentally, the Quran encourages Muslims to “instill terror through the hearts of unbelievers.” The word “targhib” means luring or making something attractive. I am sure Islamic apologists will dispute the interpretation since they never admit that the word “kill” in the Quran means “kill” anyway.

“Tarhib Wal TarghibI” is an Islamic doctrine that the West and many Muslims are unfamiliar with but that demonstrates yet another clear connection between Islam and terror. This doctrine promotes the use of two extreme tools to bring people and nations to submit to Islam. Such polar opposite and extreme techniques penetrate Islamic society from top to bottom; they are encouraged in child rearing, in the relationship between men and women, leaders and citizens, mosque preachers and the congregation, Arab media and the public, and even between Islamic nations and the West — the nations they wish to conquer or lure to Islam.

A Quranic verse (The Rock 49-50) was mentioned at the beginning of the show stating that Allah said: “tell my worshippers that I am the beneficent the merciful and my torture [Athab] is a painful one”; two opposite extreme descriptions of Allah, or more accurately Mohammed himself, that became the foundation of the contradictory doctrine of Islam.

It must be noted that Arabic Aljazeerah discusses Islam in a totally different light from English Aljazeerah, which is designed to lure Westerners to the idea that Islam is peaceful while defending terror as freedom fighting.

This doctrine is a summation of what the Quran is all about, terror and lure, and promotes such extremely but powerful and raw cultural attributes of Muslim society; shame and pride. Such a doctrine has also evolved from Mohammed’s character when he failed to peacefully evangelize through persuasion and “lure” and therefore had to flip tactics, going straight to pure terror. Thus his famous saying “I have been victorious through terror.”

The show’s questions were more interesting than the answers. The host, Othman Othman, was trying to bring the guest, Islamic Dawah “preaching” expert Dr. Salman Alawda, to state that Islam equally balances the two extreme tools of terror and peaceful teaching. These were some of his questions: Many say terror and bullying are necessary. How do we achieve balance regarding the names of Allah between punishment and forgiveness? Why is it that the agony side often prevails over the mercy side? Are hardship and pain required for their own sake when it comes to Islamic legislation? Why does the discussion of the torment of the grave, death and the afterlife turn into a terrifying discussion? Why are Salafis more inclined to use fear/terror factor regarding global advocacy? Some ask, shouldn’t we [Muslims] be judged as imperfect humans anyway?

The host, while exalting Islam, the Quran and Mohammed, was desperately trying to get a glimmer of hope with his questions to bring out any trace of joy and hope for Muslims who want to enjoy life right here on Earth, but are not getting such a message from Islamic teachings. Unfortunately the guest provided very little hope when he skillfully spinned that Islam does have a balance. But what failed the guest was the fact that values of joy, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and making the world a better place, do not exist in the Quran. The guest could not give the host the good news, when he asserted that seeking pleasure and happiness on earth is equal to death. The guest’s discussion of the good life for Muslims was narrowed down to the after life in the Islamic jannah, heaven. Thus the Islamic promise of virgins and carnal pleasure became the infamous lure Islam uses on the jihadis, pushing them into waging Allah’s war of terror on his enemies: the unbelievers.

The lesson America needs to learn and get united under is that we, the West, right now are under assault by the good old Islamic doctrine of Terror and Lure; two sides of the polar opposite and deceptive face of Islam.

If the West continues to believe that Islam is a religion of peace, then unfortunately for the West they will suffer irrevocable consequences.

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  • crapbuster

    Don’t you guys have other better things to do in life than just making money out of hate.
    Modern research shows that hatred is not good for your health and will make you visit the doctor more often. You are very likely to pass on this disease and its adverse affects to your kids. Think about it when you take a break from your hatred, if you ever do that is.

    • Brend_a

      Buster, The crap you need to bust is going right now in Nigeria and all over the Middle East in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia etc. Denial is also not good for your health and the health of millions of victims of Islam all over the world. Nice try but I am not lured!

    • William F

      Where is the hate in this article? These are the facts based on the reality of Islam and its teachings that’s all. Islam is hateful.

    • loyalindian

      Dude. They are all near-death and very old people. Their children have already grown up and left them alone in bewilderment. This is why they are so toxic.

    • Greg Hamilton

      crap, you exemplify very well many of the mental habits of a failing culture: you cannot distinguish between a discussion about the consequences of a religion which teaches hatred toward non-believers and being filled with the emotion of hatred oneself; you appear to believe that being “positive” is necessarily better than being critically discerning and facing reality squarely. Essentially you have lost the ability to think and merely parrot the fallacious platitudes of your ilk.

      And as regards mental health, denial of reality has been shown to be one of the least psychologically healthy responses to adversity. (see George Vaillant’s categorization of defence mechanisms)

    • Softly Bob

      So pointing out hate is now classed as hate is it? What a deluded idiot you are.

    • Anukem Jihadi

      When you preach the same message at the mosque then you can call yourself “crapbuster”… Until then you’re just full of it.

    • Evermyrtle

      If you are so adverse, how did it suck you in, that you felt it is necessary to join us??? It is that powerful, that you could be lured in?

  • Michael Copeland

    “There is no fun in Islam.”
    Ayatollah Khomeini

  • loyalindian

    Really. How weird does a Holy Scripture in isolation looks.

    Nonie Darwish – Your description says it all:

    Nonie Darwish is the author of The Devil We Don’t Know; The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East and President of FormerMuslimsUnited.org.

    How much credibility then is left that you would do an impartial analysis?

    You quote a verse from Quran:

    “tell my worshippers that I am the beneficent the merciful and my torture [Athab] is a painful one”

    Above looks so weird in isolation but when you read in context you get to know that in the background a story about Iblis (Satan) is being told who refused to prostate before Allah. I recommend to all readers to study Quran from start till end and then properly make conclusions about the meanings.

    Unfortuantely your propaganda machinery would not work.

    • Greg Hamilton

      indian, you commit the ad hominem fallacy: “How much credibility then is left that you would do an impartial analysis?”
      What would an impartial analysis of a doctrine of division, hatred, and violence actually look like? Would it perhaps show that there was division, hatred, and violence?

      • loyalindian

        Interestingly thats the only thing you found worthy of a reply in my post. Rather than commenting on the supporting facts you just, once again, as all haters do pick up one line and do not support your criticism with any solid refutation.

        • Greg Hamilton

          “Interestingly thats the only thing you found worthy of a reply in my post” – yes, says it all really. And you have responded to the second point I made? No, of course not.

          • loyalindian

            I have supported my assertion with solid evidence. Thus the doubt I cast on writer’s ability to remain impartial is grounded on solid basis. It is not a thing in the air like your questions which have nothing to represent except ignorance.

            If I had to take your line of thought than I could have decided to just post the following:

            FrontPageMag
            Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out

            Says it all really.

          • European

            Here’s some real ‘solid evidence’, loyalwhatever, that you have no idea what you’re talking about: thousands of innocent victims that, as we speak, are being raped, tortured, beheaded in the name of your blood-thirsty god. Need more evidence? Perhaps a good time for you to join ISIS and see first hand how death is being celebrated in your cult.

          • loyalindian

            What is that an evidence of? A cult supported by neo-cons or the side-effect or rather effects of an un-just war. Or is it correlate of political strife and illiteracy. Or a correlate of human civilization’s greed and lust for black gold. Mr. European – better step out of your home. Go and live in those communities and see yourself forst hand what all that violence is exactly caused or correlated by.

  • Chicago- Spidey

    Vigilant defense of ones ideals concerning freedom and liberty actually creates a positive energy field which coverts so called hate into passion and love of country. This positive energy can be stored and in many cases deemed inexhaustible.

    • kikorikid

      Do I dare call it “Patriotism”?

  • Sassy Serf

    I recently worked with a very sweet, very friendly Pakistani nurse practitioner. I wanted to reciprocate and felt I should respond in kind — yet always wondering whether she would give silent assent or enthusiastic support to my being beheaded as an infidel. It’s a weird feeling.

  • cheeseburger

    Given what the Koran says about the disposition of non-Muslims (convert, submit or die) only a fool would trust a Muslim.

  • ObamaYoMoma

    If the West continues to believe that Islam is a religion of peace, then unfortunately for the West they will suffer irrevocable consequences.

    Any so-called religion you can’t leave without being killed or speak out against without also being killed isn’t a religion much less a so-called religion of peace in my book, it’s a cult instead.

  • http://geoffreybritain.wordpress.com/ Geoffrey_Britain

    I’m much in agreement with the author but feel compelled to take her to task.

    “There is more bad news for moderate Muslims who deny any connection between Islam and terror” Nonie Darwish

    Ms Darwish with all due respect there are NO ‘moderate’ Muslims. There are tens of millions of ‘cafeteria’ Muslims. This is not mere semantics. Using the term ‘moderate’ implies Islamic moderation and that jihadists are ‘radicals’. Nothing could be farther from the truth. For there are also NO ‘radical’ Muslims.

    Using the label radical implies outside the norm. However, those labeled radicals are actually devout Muslims faithfully following Mohammad and Allah’s edicts, commands and theological imperatives. There are tens of millions of devout Muslims and, it is they hold Islam’s theological ‘high-ground’.

    Cafeteria Muslims who pick and choose what Islamic dictates to follow, as the larger society within which they exist allows, know that it is the devout Muslims who are wholly faithful. And that is why they are silent.

    An example of a cafeteria Muslim is the Arabic Aljazeerah host, Othman Othman who asked, “How do we achieve balance regarding the names of Allah between punishment and forgiveness?”

    Had the devout Muslim guest, Islamic Dawah “preaching” expert Dr. Salman Alawda been more honest, he would have pointed out that Allah’s punishment is reserved for the infidel and Allah’s forgiveness for the devout Muslim.

    • Brend_a

      I think Nonie means the Muslims who call themselves moderate or peaceful. Nonie never said there is Moderate Islam and Radical Islam. There is only one Islam.

  • Dyer’s Eve

    Islam is about as two-faced as you can get.

  • Jobethian

    Obama said in his “Happy Ramadan” speech that his government has partnered with the OIC and OIC-member countries. WTH? The OIC stands for nothing more than world-wide Sharia and World-wide Blasphemy Laws. How can the USA with our Constitutionally-protected right of free speech PARTNER with anyone who enforces blasphemy law?