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		<title>Islamic Human Sex-Trafficking &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Mark Durie explains why ISIS's new sex-slave pamphlet references Islamic texts.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by Scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart</strong> and joined by <a href="http://www.markdurie.com/"><b>Dr. Mark Durie</b></a>, a theologian, human rights activist, pastor of an Anglican church, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.</p>
<p>Dr. Durie came on the show to discuss <strong>Islamic Human Sex-Trafficking, </strong>explaining why ISIS&#8217;s new sex-slave pamphlet references Islamic texts.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode in which guest-host <strong>Louis Lionheart</strong> interviews author and lecturer <strong>Dr. Edward L. Dalcour </strong>on <strong>Sharia Law: Draconian Legal System</strong>:</p>
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		<title>Islamic Literary Sources: What They Are &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scholar of Comparative Religion Anthony Rogers explains the theological materials that Muslims base their beliefs on.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by Scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart </strong>and joined by Scholar of Comparative Religion<strong> <strong><b>Anthony Rogers</b>.</strong></strong></p>
<p>Mr. Rogers discussed <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: What They Are, </strong>focusing on the theological materials that Muslims base their beliefs on.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode, also with <strong>Anthony Rogers</strong>, in which he discusses <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: Their Application</strong>, revealing a religion&#8217;s teachings and their earthly incarnations.</p>
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		<title>The Case of Mohammed and Aisha &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scholar of Islam Louis Lionheart dissects one of the most controversial chapters in the Islamic narrative. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> episode was joined by <strong> Louis Lionheart, </strong>a scholar of Islam who engages in open-air debates, dialogues and evangelism on 3rd. Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Ca. His website is: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/louis.lionheart?fref=ts">TruthDefenders.com.</a></p>
<p>Louis came on the show to discuss <strong>&#8220;The Case of Mohammed and Aisha,&#8221;</strong> dealing with the prophet of Islam&#8217;s marriage to a 6-year-old girl, and his &#8220;consummation&#8221; of that marriage when she was 9. Louis discusses the Islamic theology and texts that describe this marriage and how the Islamic and non-Islamic world has dealt, and not dealt, with the Islamic reality of this case. <strong><br />
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode with<strong> Bosch Fawstin</strong>, the world&#8217;s first anti-jihad comic book author and illustrator. He is The Eisner Award nominated cartoonist who is the creator of the new comic book series, <a href="http://fawstin.blogspot.com/"><em><strong>The Infidel, Featuring Pigman</strong></em></a>, the superhero who is waging a new war against Islam.</p>
<p>Bosch discussed his creation, &#8220;Pigman,&#8221; his childhood growing up as a Muslim, the threat we face in Islam, our leadership&#8217;s failure to confront the threat, and much, much more:<strong><br />
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		<title>Female Genital Mutilation and Islam-Denial &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2014 04:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Mark Durie analyzes how the world blinds itself to the Islamic theological foundation of a vicious Islamic crime. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Dr. Mark Durie</strong>, a theologian, human rights activist, pastor of an Anglican church, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Mark discussed,<strong>&#8220;Female Genital Mutilation and Islam-Denial,&#8221;</strong> analyzing how the world blinds itself to the Islamic theological foundation of a vicious Islamic crime <strong>[starts at the 11:00 minute mark]</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The dialogue occurred in the context of &#8220;<em>Our &#8216;Tend and Befriend&#8217; Response to Jihad,</em>&#8221; &#8212; the phenomenon of how Islamic terror has traumatized the West into psychological slavery.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second <em>Glazov Gang</em> edition, joined by <strong>Daniel Greenfield</strong>, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He writes the blog, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/the-point/">The Point</a>, at <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/">Frontpagemag.com</a>.</p>
<p>Daniel discussed<strong> &#8220;How Obama Surrendered Iraq,&#8221;</strong> outlining a Radical-in-Chief&#8217;s suicidal foreign policy [<strong>starting at the 8:30 mark</strong>].</p>
<p>The dialogue also involved an analysis of Obama&#8217;s disastrous Afghanistan give-away, more revelations on the Benghazi betrayal, the scandalous Taliban-Bergdahl swap, and much, much more:</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is UC-San Diego student and MSA member Jumanah Imad Albahri being an observant Muslim in promoting genocide against Jews?]]></description>
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<p>UC-San Diego student<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/12/i-want-a-holocaust/"> Jumanah Imad Albahri</a> last week, under questioning from David Horowitz, refused to condemn Hamas and Hizballah and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/12/i-want-a-holocaust/">endorsed a genocidal statement</a> by Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Many were shocked. Albahri’s statement is being treated as a singular utterance, a lapse that has nothing to do with the Muslim Students Association of which she is a part, and certainly not with Islam as a whole.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Albahri’s support for genocide of the Jews doesn’t reveal that she is a closet Nazi, but that she is an entirely mainstream Muslim. Genocidal statements are painfully common from Muslim leaders today. On January 29, Palestinian Authority TV, which is controlled by the ostensibly moderate Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, broadcast a Friday mosque sermon containing this reference to the notorious genocidal hadith in which Muhammad says that the end times would not come until Muslims started murdering Jews: “The Prophet says: ‘You shall fight the Jews and kill them, until the tree and the stone will speak and say: “Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah”’ — the tree and the stone will not say, ‘Oh Arab,’ they will say, ‘Oh Muslim.’ And they will not say, ‘Where are the millions?’ and will not say, ‘Where is the Arab nation?’ Rather, they will say, ‘Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah — there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’ Except for the Gharqad tree, which is the tree of the Jews. Thus, this land will be liberated only by means of Jihad.”<strong> </strong></p>
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<p>In the original hadith, Muhammad says that “the last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews” (Sahih Muslim 6985).</p>
<p>If the “last hour” will not come until Muslims start murdering Jews wholesale, then what’s to prevent a pious young lady like Jumanah Imad Albahri from believing that speaking approvingly of the mass-murder of Jews, as Nasrallah did, is a holy and pious act?</p>
<p>Clearly other Muslims do. On January 12, a top Iranian official, Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, declared on Al-Manar TV: “We have manufactured missiles that allow us, when necessary, to replace Israel in its entirety with a big holocaust.” And on December 29, 2009, Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub, an Islamic cleric, dashed hopes for the usefulness of interfaith discussions when he said this on Egypt’s Al-Nas TV: “The Jews are our enemies. Allah will annihilate them at our hands. This is something we know for certain. We know this for certain – not because I say so, but because Allah said so. ‘You shall find that the people strongest in enmity to the believers are the Jews and the polytheists.’”</p>
<p>Yaaqub was quoting from the Qur’an (5:82).</p>
<p>Ahmad Al-Barqawi, professor of philosophy from Damascus University, joined the genocidal chorus on Syria TV on December 15, 2009: “If the enemy reaches a stage in which it feels that it is paying a heavy price for its occupation – both in terms of human lives and in terms of resources – it will give up. Without this, there is no chance of reconciliation with the enemy. Therefore, I believe that the annihilation of Israel is easier than reconciliation with it. Annihilating Israel is easier than reconciling with it, because annihilating Israel through a long-term and consistent effort may bear fruit in a society that feels it is alien to this [Arab] world, and does not want to remain in a world that rejects by force.”</p>
<p>None of this should come as any surprise. The genocidal hadith quoted on Palestinian TV is just one element of an anti-Semitism that is deeply rooted in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and which runs through Islamic history with a remarkable consistency. The Qur’an portrays the Jews as the craftiest, most persistent, and most implacable enemies of the Muslims. Three notorious Qur’anic passages depict an angry Allah transforming Jews into apes and pigs: 2:63–66; 5:59–60; and 7:166. The first of those passages depicts Allah telling the Jews who “profaned the Sabbath”: “Be as apes despicable!” It goes on to say that these accursed ones serve “as a warning example for their time and for all times to come.” The second has Allah directing Muhammad to remind the “People of the Book” about “those who incurred the curse of Allah and His wrath, those of whom some He transformed into apes and swine, those who worshipped evil.” The third essentially repeats this, saying of the Sabbath-breaking Jews that when “in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibitions,” Allah said to them, “Be ye apes, despised and rejected.”</p>
<p>In traditional Islamic theology these passages have not been considered to apply to all Jews. However, that hasn’t stopped contemporary jihadists from frequently referring to Jews as the “descendants of apes and swine.” The implication is that today’s Jews are bestial in character and are the enemies of Allah, just as the Sabbath-breakers were. The grand sheikh of Al-Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, the most respected cleric in the world among Sunni Muslims today, has called Jews “the enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs.” Saudi sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Sudayyis, imam of the principal mosque in the holiest city in Islam, Mecca, said in a sermon that Jews are “the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs.”</p>
<p>Another Saudi sheikh, Ba’d bin Abdallah al-Ajameh al-Ghamidi, made the connection explicit: “The current behavior of the brothers of apes and pigs, their treachery, violation of agreements, and defiling of holy places … is connected with the deeds of their forefathers during the early period of Islam—which proves the great similarity between all the Jews living today and the Jews who lived at the dawn of Islam.” A 1996 Hamas publication says that today’s Jews are bestial in spirit, and this is a manifestation of the punishment of their forefathers. In January 2007, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas stated, “The sons of Israel are mentioned as those who are corrupting humanity on earth,” referring to Qur’an 5:64.</p>
<p>Likewise, Sheikh ‘Atiyyah Saqr, writing in Islam Online, declares of Jews that “Almighty Allah told us that He’d send to them people who’d pour on them rain of severe punishment that would last till the Day of Resurrection.” Then comes a threat: “All this gives us glad tidings of the coming victory of Muslims over them once Muslims stick to strong faith and belief in Allah and adopt the modern means of technology.”</p>
<p>Modern means of technology? Perhaps a nuclear bomb exploded in Tel Aviv? If that happened, Jumanah Imad Albahri would by no means be the only Muslim who would thank Allah for his bounties.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the Obama administration now make an issue out of where Hasan got his “violent Islamic extremism” from? ]]></description>
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<p>Wow, according to Fox News, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2392" target="_blank">Janet Napolitano</a> just described what happened at Fort  Hood as “violent Islamic extremism.”</p>
<p>This is quite a step. How long did it take her to figure this one out?</p>
<p>It must be hard, after all, when you’re a person who heads Homeland Security but who has no idea who the 9/11 hijackers were – and thinks that they<a href="../2010/01/25/brown%E2%80%99s-national-security-victory/"> came from Canada</a>. It’s really difficult when your first instinct after Abdulmutallab almost blew himself up on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, is to say that the airport security “system worked.”</p>
<p>Hmmm, I wonder if Napolitano will now confirm that thirteen American heroes lost their lives at Fort Hood precisely because of people like her, who have created a culture in which naming<em> Islamic extremism </em>and crystallizing its roots is disallowed? Major Nidal Malik Hasan would have been thrown out of the army a long time before his shooting spree if members of the army were not afraid to get in trouble for violating “diversity” and felt safe to point a finger at a Muslim who was preaching hate and violence against non-Muslims.</p>
<p>Will Napolitano and the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_blank">Obama administration</a> now make an issue out of where Hasan got his “violent Islamic extremism” from? Indeed, from where oh where could Hasan have possibly got the idea that he was supposed to kill the kafir? Hmmm, could it have been from the Verse of the Sword of the Koran (9:5)?</p>
<p>Hmmm, could it have been from all the other Koranic verses? (i.e. 9:29).</p>
<p>This is just all so mysterious.</p>
<p>Is the Obama administration now going to talk about how Hasan’s and Abdullmutallab’s actions, and, well, you know, things like 9/11, just might have something to do with the fact that <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30886">61% of the Koran</a> is devoted to the hatred of non-Muslims, that 75% of the Sira (the life of Mohammed) is devoted to jihad, and that 20% of the Hadith is in reference to the necessity of subjugating and killing the infidel?</p>
<p>I wonder, could any of this have anything to do with the fact that <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30886">nowhere in Islamic theology is there even <em>one positive reference</em></a> to kafirs and even the slightest suggestion that a Muslim should love them as much as he loves himself?</p>
<p>How do we win this terror war if our administration not only refuses to fight the enemy on many realms, but to even name him?</p>
<p>The issue here is not to demonize Muslims. Many Muslims, like Tarek Fatah and Irshad Manji, are fighting to reform Islam and to bring it into the modern and democratic world. We must support them. Millions of Muslims suffer from persecution under Sharia Law. We must help them. The key is that it is time to be honest about what Islamic theology inspires and sanctions. The key is that the onus is on the Muslim world to confront these teachings and to negate them if there is to be any possibility for an end to this conflict.</p>
<p>Napolitano’s step is a positive one. But do we hold our breath for the Obama administration to step up to the plate and to name not only <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catId=124&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">Islamic jihad</a> as our enemy, but to also name the Islamic theology that spawns it?</p>
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<p><strong>To get the whole story on why the lib-Left and the Obama administration refuse to name the jihadist enemy, read Jamie Glazov’s new book, <em><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602');" href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602">United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror.</a></em></strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one told the Islamic Nazis that they lost World War II.]]></description>
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<p>No one told the Islamic Nazis that they lost World War II.</p>
<p>The former prime minister of Malaysia,<strong> </strong>Mahathir Mohamad, recently asserted that Jews in Europe had “always been a problem.” He claimed that “they had to be confined to ghettos and periodically massacred. But still they remained, they thrived&#8230;held whole governments to ransom. Even after their massacre by the Nazis&#8230;they survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for the world.”</p>
<p>Mahathir won fame in October 2003 for charging that “Jews rule this world by proxy.” In the same speech, he lamented that “the Muslims will forever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and the Jews. It cannot be that there is no other way. 1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. There must be a way….For well over half a century we have fought over Palestine. What have we achieved? Nothing. We are worse off than before. If we had paused to think, then we could have devised a plan, a strategy that can win us final victory.”</p>
<p>Final victory? A <em>final solution</em>, perhaps? Might Mahathir believe that Jews are due for one of those periodic massacres about which he spoke so approvingly?</p>
<p>In this Mahathir is not alone: several other Islamic leaders have spoken in similar ways recently. On January 29, Palestinian Authority TV, which is controlled by the ostensibly moderate Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, broadcast a Friday mosque sermon containing this reference to the notorious genocidal hadith in which Muhammad said that the end times would not come until Muslims started murdering Jews: “The Prophet says: ‘You shall fight the Jews and kill them, until the tree and the stone will speak and say: “Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah”’ &#8212; the tree and the stone will not say, ‘Oh Arab,’ they will say, ‘Oh Muslim.’ And they will not say, ‘Where are the millions?’ and will not say, ‘Where is the Arab nation?’ Rather, they will say, ‘Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah &#8212; there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’ Except for the Gharqad tree, which is the tree of the Jews. Thus, this land will be liberated only by means of Jihad.”<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=ndmaus&amp;v=250&amp;source=tbx-250&amp;tt=0&amp;s=myspace&amp;url=http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/shades_of_hitler_in_mahathirs_call_for_a/&amp;title=Shades%20of%20Hitler%20in%20Mahathir%25E2%2580%2599s%20call%20for%20a%20%25E2%2580%2598final%20victory;%25E2%2580%2599over%20Jews%20%257C%20Daily%20Telegraph%20Piers%20Akerman%20Blog&amp;content=&amp;lng=en&amp;uid=48cd72c33625c923"><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p>Likewise, on January 12, a top Iranian official, Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, declared on Al-Manar TV: “We have manufactured missiles that allow us, when necessary, to replace Israel in its entirety with a big holocaust.”</p>
<p>On December 29, an Islamic cleric, Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub, said this on Egypt’s Al-Nas TV: “The Jews are our enemies. Allah will annihilate them at our hands. This is something we know for certain. We know this for certain – not because I say so, but because Allah said so. ‘You shall find that the people strongest in enmity to the believers are the Jews and the polytheists.’” That is a quotation from the Qur’an (5:82).</p>
<p>Ahmad Al-Barqawi, professor of philosophy from Damascus University, joined the genocidal chorus on Syria TV on December 15, 2009: “If the enemy reaches a stage in which it feels that it is paying a heavy price for its occupation – both in terms of human lives and in terms of resources – it will give up. Without this, there is no chance of reconciliation with the enemy. Therefore, I believe that the annihilation of Israel is easier than reconciliation with it. Annihilating Israel is easier than reconciling with it, because annihilating Israel through a long-term and consistent effort may bear fruit in a society that feels it is alien to this [Arab] world, and does not want to remain in a world that rejects by force.”</p>
<p>And on January 5, Yousuf Ahmad, head of Gaza’s Al-Faraeen TV bureau, said that Israel was “weaker than a spider web. By Allah, if the Arab nation decided to unite, the state of Israel would automatically collapse.” And if that happened, of course, wholesale massacres of Jews would be inevitable. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal made a similar statement this on Al-Jazeera on December 15: “The resistance on the land of Palestine will be victorious and will drive those Zionists out of our land. We have driven them out of Gaza, even if they continue to besiege it. We will drive them out of the West Bank and all our Palestinian land, Allah willing.”</p>
<p>None of this should come as any surprise. The genocidal hadith quoted on Palestinian TV is just one element of an anti-Semitism that is deeply rooted in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and which runs through Islamic history with a remarkable consistency. What’s more, as Pamela Geller <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/auschwitz-blueprints/">has recently and exhaustively documented</a> at AtlasShrugs.com, the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the Holocaust in Europe. A great admirer and friend of Adolf Hitler, al-Husseini was involved in massacres of Jews in the Holy Land in the 1930s. And in July 1946 at the Nuremberg Trials, Dieter Wisliczeny, the deputy of Nazi genocidal killer Adolf Eichmann, testified that “the Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan&#8230; He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chambers of Auschwitz.”</p>
<p>Al-Husseini was drawn to his role in Hitler’s Final Solution by his loyalty to Islamic texts and teachings that demonize Jews and call for their murder. And as Mahathir and the other Muslims quoted above have shown, Muslims are still reading those texts and taking them seriously. The world yawns at this at its own risk.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free speech on an American college campus -- courtesy of a bodyguard and twelve armed security officers. ]]></description>
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<p><strong>[Editor&#8217;s note: Protected by a bodyguard and twelve armed campus security officers, David Horowitz spoke at the University of Southern California on November 4, 2009. This is a text of his remarks, edited for readability. A video of the speech <a href="http://www.davidhorowitztv.com/colleges/270-david-horowitz-at-usc">is available here</a>. To read about the efforts to censor him before the speech and the slander directed at him, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/14/censorship-and-libel-at-usc-by-david-horowitz/">click here</a>.]<br />
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<p>I want to thank the College Republicans for being brave enough to invite me, and I want to thank all of you who are here to actually listen for coming.</p>
<p>It used to be a pleasure for me to speak on a college campus like USC.  I can remember the days when I could stroll onto the USC campus and walk over to the statue of Tommy Trojan where College Republicans had erected a platform for a rally to support our troops in Afghanistan after 9/11 at which I was to speak.  Now, however, I can’t set foot on this campus – or any campus – without being accompanied by a personal bodyguard and a battalion of armed campus security police to protect me and my student hosts.</p>
<p>Sheer prudence forces me to visit campuses with these security measures in place because I’ve been demonized by the campus left at virtually every school I’ve visited in the past decade and physically assaulted at several. USC officials regard the threats against this event seriously enough to have assigned twelve armed officers to watch over the proceedings. These police are not here to protect you from me.  They are here to protect me from you members of the USC Progressive Alliance, Students for Justice in Palestine and the USC Muslim Student Union who have made these threats and incited hatred towards this event and its speaker. These are the tactics favored by fascists – and when I use that word I mean it literally.  I don’t use it the way the Left does, as an epithet for anyone they don&#8217;t like.</p>
<p>The attacks on this event and those organizing it are part of a national hate campaign that the left has organized against me and others who share my views. It can be tracked on numerous websites over nearly a decade and is evidenced in the common themes of slander and abuse that are directed towards me. The left’s campaign – really a declaration of war &#8212; is in part a response to my opposition to its anti-American, anti-democratic and anti-Semitic agendas.  Consequently I accept their attacks as features of this battlefield, signature methods of leftist argument.  But the College Republicans on this campus have been caught in this crossfire. These students pay the same tuition as the political thugs who are on the attack and who are supported by the USC student paper which is under the control of USC administrators, and they do not deserve to be treated this way. Nor should a university administrator lend legitimacy to modes of discourse which violate the published ethical standards of the institution he represents.</p>
<p>In its attack the USC Progressive Alliance put out a flyer containing gross fabrications which are central to its campaign of slander against this event and the students hosting it. The flyer’s headline reads:  “Hate Muslims? So Do We.” It pretends to be a document issued by College Republicans. In fact they had nothing to do with it, while the sentiment it expresses is reprehensible to them. The deception isn’t even original. Two years ago an identical flyer was posted all over the George Washington University campus when I spoke there during an Islamofascism Awareness Week I had organized. This “Hate Muslims? So Do We” poster bore the forged signature of the Young America’s Foundation, which was the group that was sponsoring my speech at George Washington U.</p>
<p>When the president of the University became aware of the poster he was so outraged that he sent emissaries to dorm rooms of the leaders of the Young America’s Foundation at eight in the morning to summon them to his office where he threatened them with expulsion. They explained to him that they had absolutely nothing to do with the offense and didn’t hate Muslims but the president’s threat remained. That night he convened a campus meeting to deplore the attack.  As you know there is a new religion on college campuses based on the idea that there are endangered human species that need to be protected – all of them conveniently championed by the left as groups that are oppressed. In fact the only oppressed and persecuted groups on college campuses are those under attack from the left &#8212; campus conservatives, Christians and Jews. That’s the reality, in contrast to the rhetoric.</p>
<p>At the president’s meeting, he told the hundreds of students and faculty present that the posting of the flyer attacking Muslims was a terrible thing in the history of the university, and he would severely punish whomever was found to be responsible. But the unforeseen result of his threat that the leftist who created the flyer and posted it around campus had an attack of guilt that his prank might have hurt the feelings of Muslim students. He stepped forward to confess that he was the author. Instead of the dire consequences promised the conservative students when they were suspected, the radical defamer was given a university slap on the wrist amounting to a $25 fine or the equivalent of a campus parking ticket.</p>
<p>In point of fact, Muslim students far from being under duress are everywhere coddled on college campuses, where they are showered with special privileges – generous student funding, special access to university officials, and the opportunity to target individuals with whom they disagree with slanderous attacks that would not be tolerated from any other group. At the University of California Irvine, Muslim Student Union members have been allowed to harass Jewish students, wear Hamas armbands praising suicide bombers over their graduation robes and to hold prayer services in the administration building of a state instution.</p>
<p>The current flyer distributed at this university by the USC Progressive Alliance characterizes me as a person hostile to all believing Muslims: “In the past, Horowitz has said, ‘While having the body of the human being, a Muslim who unquestioningly follows the Koran behaves like a soulless beast.”  Now, who writes English like that except Ayman Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden? This is a complete fabrication, presented as a view that I hold, in order to justify the left’s attack on College Republicans as having invited an Islamophobe and racist to campus.</p>
<p>Another organization – a notorious supporter of the terrorist attacks on Israel called “Students for Justice in Palestine” &#8212; posted a defamatory statement – including a list of repulsive opinions I am alleged to hold on Facebook. These inventions also appeared in a letter to <em>The Daily Trojan</em>. Not only did <em>The Daily Trojan </em>print this scurrilous attack, it refused to print my point by point rebuttals of the fabricated statements attributed to me. <em>The Trojan</em> letter was signed by half a dozen officially recognized leftist organizations and five USC faculty members. Among other canards list was the accusation that “Horowitz has previously asserted that African Americans owe American society a debt for having been enslaved for hundreds of years.”  Who in his right mind would say anything like that? I certainly didn’t.</p>
<p>There were no quotation marks around the statement attributed to me but it is one that has been circulated on the web by other leftist groups based on an ad I had published in 40 college newspapers back in 2001 opposing a leftist campaign to make Americans pay reparations for slavery 137 years after 350,000 Union soldiers gave their lives to abolish slavery. I opposed the reparations campaign because, as someone who marched in civil rights demonstrations before the parents of any of the students in this room were born, I thought it was a bad and divisive idea &#8212; bad for Americans in general and for the descendants of slaves in particular.</p>
<p>If you have studied American history, you know that the waves of immigration, which brought to these shores the ancestors of more than 80 percent of living Americans, took place beginning in 1880, 17 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.  Consequently what the Left was trying to do with this campaign was to tell the descendants of immigrants whose ancestors had nothing to do with slavery, that they were nonetheless responsible for the institution.   Moreover they needed to pay reparations to African Americans who had never been slaves, including millionaires like Jesse Jackson and Oprah Winfrey, the richest woman in America. In other words, the reparations campaign was a divisive campaign that would serve only to isolate African Americans and incite resentment.</p>
<p>That was the political reality I opposed. The ad I published contained ten reasons why the reparations proposal was a bad idea. But of course, you can’t conduct an intellectual argument with leftists who are a species of religious fanatics who regard those who oppose them as immoral and indecent. Their self-righteousness inspires them to rant and chant and defame their opponents, and try to shut them up.</p>
<p>The ad I wrote about reparations, including the statement I am alleged to have made, appeared originally as an article on <em>Salon.com</em>, which is a leftwing magazine where I was a regular guest columnist. Not a single one of my leftist editors thought the article or any of its statements was racist, although this has not discouraged the left from throwing this slander in my face ever since. Calling someone a “racist” is useful if you can’t make an intellectual argument and want to destroy their reputation in the process.</p>
<p>What I said in the ad opposing reparations was that if Americans living today are beneficiaries of the slave economy as the proponents of reparations claim then everyone is a beneficiary, blacks and whites alike. I also said that while the ancestors of African Americans were brought here in chains while others came voluntarily, the fact is that Africans whose ancestors were not brought to America as slaves are on average thirty times poorer than African Americans today, have a one-in-three chance or more of getting AIDS, and live under tyrannical regimes. I also said that African Americans alive today &#8212; like all Americans – owe a debt to this country for their prosperity and freedom. These are just facts.</p>
<p>Why is the left attacking me now?  Because I have organized a week of protests this year against campus organizations that support the war Hamas, Hizbollah and Iran are waging against the Jews and the Jewish state. Among these organizations are Students for Justice in Palestine, the USC Progressive Alliance and the Muslim Student Union which is affiliated with the national Muslim Students Association.</p>
<p>I will share with you now my actual views about Muslims as opposed to the slanderous canard that I hate them.  I’m going to spell these views now, but it won’t make any difference to those who are attacking me.  Because I’ve taken pains to explain these views every time I’ve spoken on a campus, including my appearances during  Islamofascism Awareness Week (There are plenty of video records of these appearances on the Internet). Islamofascism Awareness Week, by the way, is not a protest against Muslims.  In fact, my first Islamofascism Awareness Week, which was held two years ago, was specifically organized to protest the oppression of Muslim women in Islamic countries.  In case you weren’t aware of it, there are 140,000 adolescent girls whose genitals are sliced off every year without anesthetic in Muslim countries.  That was one of the obscenities we were protesting.</p>
<p>At Columbia University, where one of our events was held, we projected onto a giant screen the photo of a Taliban soldier holding an AK-47 to the head of a Muslim woman in a <em>burqa</em>. On YouTube there is a video of this incident where you can see the soldier actually blow her head off.  Why would he do that?  Because she had been <em>accused</em> of fornicating, of having illicit, un-Koran-approved sexual relations.  Being a woman, she was not allowed to testify in her own defense.  To prove her innocence she would have been required to produce four males to testify that she had been raped.  Otherwise, they would blow her head off.  Does anybody here find that offensive?  But if you were to say that out loud from a university platform, as I did, the left would be all over you claiming that you hate Muslims and are a racist and an Islamophobe.  No I don’t, and no I am not.  I am defending that Muslim woman against the Taliban soldier.  Students for Justice in Palestine, the Muslim Students Association, by contrast, are busy raising money for the persecutors of Muslim women like the Taliban soldier.</p>
<p>Here are my views concerning Muslims:  There are good Muslims and bad Muslims, just as there are good Christians and bad ones, good Jews and bad Jews.  Most Muslims are like everybody else &#8212; they want peace; and are law-abiding.  And probably their religion is very personal to them, and doesn’t involve efforts to convert and subordinate or kill others.</p>
<p>There is a difference between religious institutions and the religion of their individual members.  Many Catholics do not follow church doctrine on birth control and abortion for example. The Ku Klux Klan is a Protestant Christian organization, but most Protestants and their churches would condemn the Ku Klux Klan. One of my concerns regarding organized Islam is that I don’t see a comparable readiness to condemn Jew-hatred or the genocidal incitements regularly made by individuals and governments speaking in the name of Islam against the existence of the Jewish state. There are hateful sayings in the Gospels against Jews, for example that they are cursed. But the Christian churches have distanced themselves from those passages.</p>
<p>The Koran is full of hateful comments against the Jews, statements that are much more troubling than those in the Gospels.  Jews are referred to as apes and pigs … [At this point members of Students for Justice in Palestine in attendance stood up. Some turned their backs to me; others marched out.] For those of you who’ve never seen a demonstration in a university lecture hall, this is what it looks like. Everybody who has their back turned towards me will be ejected, and we will just pause until that can be accomplished. This is my intolerance and disrespect for the intolerant and disrespectful.</p>
<p>The focus of tonight’s event at USC is the posting of a particularly troubling <em>hadith</em>, which is a saying of the Prophet Mohammed, on the official USC website. This <em>hadith</em> is a specific call for Muslims to exterminate the Jews: “The Day of Judgment will only come when Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. When the Jews hide behind the rocks and the trees and the rocks and the trees cry out, ‘Oh Muslim, there is a Jew hiding being me, come and kill him.’”</p>
<p>That saying was posted by the USC Muslim Student Union on the official USC website and remained there until a complaint was lodged by my organization through the Wiesenthal Center and a concerned trustee. Responding to the complaint, the USC’s provost had the<em> hadith</em> removed. The USC Muslim Student Union and the Council on American Islamic Relations immediately protested the removal as religious persecution. This is a prime example of what I mean by the troubling responses of organized Islam regarding the hateful and even genocidal proclamations associated with its religion.</p>
<p>There are about a thousand sayings of the prophet among the <em>hadith</em>. They were collected 200 years after the Prophet’s death.  Accordingly, a modern person might entertain the thought that there could have been an error in transcription along the way.  In fact, there is a commission in Turkey whose mission is to examine the authenticity of the <em>hadith</em> and to discard those that are inauthentic. Is it too much to hope that this hateful saying attributed to the Prophet might be regarded as inauthentic? In fact it probably is. Turkey is presently a virulently anti-Jewish state, and it is doubtful that they would have the decency to do so.</p>
<p>The reason we organized this event following that incident is that the hateful, genocidal saying of the Prophet is back on the official USC website today.  It is back even though it violates USC’s code of ethics presumably binding on all faculty and students. The USC “Principles of Community” state: “As a scholarly community, we aspire to create an environment in which racism, sexism, ageism, xenophobia and homophobia do not go unchallenged… we speak out against hatred and bigotry wherever and whenever we find them.”  At present, hatred and bigotry of Muslims against Jews appears to be exempt from the code. This particular expression of that hate was restored to the USC website after its removal by an organization calling itself the Center for Muslim-Jewish Exchange.</p>
<p>One of the statements attributed to me in the literature protesting this event is absolutely correct. I am reported to have said, “Muslim Student Union groups in the United States are supporters of terrorist activity abroad, part of the network founded by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, and funded by Saudi money.”  I did say that, and the statement is true.  The national Muslim Students Association presents itself as a cultural organization on campuses across the country, but it is in fact part of the Muslim Brotherhood network. At Temple University, where we held an event recently, the faculty adviser for the Muslim Students Association is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood itself. I have met several members of the Muslim Students Association on campuses where I have spoken and they are generally well-spoken and appear civil when you talk to them. But that impression lasts only until you start probing their actual beliefs.</p>
<p>For example, when I gave a talk at the University of California Santa Barbara last year there were about fifty members of the Muslim Students Association in the audience, some with signs.  Throughout my hour lecture I paused periodically to ask them if they were willing to condemn the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah and Hamas, both of which claim to speak in the name of Islam. The official Hamas charter contains the very <em>hadith</em> I have mentioned, calling on Muslims to kill the Jews as a religious requirement for their redemption. Not one member of the Muslim Students Association in the audience at my talk was willing to condemn Hamas or Hezbollah.</p>
<p>When finished and the question-and-answer period began, the first person to speak was the president of the Muslim Students Association.  So I said to him, “Before you ask your question, let me put one to you: ‘Will you condemn Hezbollah as a genocidal, terrorist organization?’”  His response to this question was that it was too complicated for a yes or no answer. So I said, “Well, let me put it to you this way.  I’m a Jew, and the head of Hezbollah has said he hopes that we Jews will all gather in Israel so he won’t have to hunt us down worldwide.  Are you for that or against it?” He would not answer.</p>
<p>This shocked my conservative student hosts. It was a revelation to them that a well-spoken Muslim student with whom they had many civil encounters could not condemn a genocidal threat directed against Jews by a Muslim terrorist. Indeed, that none of the fifty members of the Muslim Students Association were willing to do so.</p>
<p>It is teaching moments like this that make me willing to subject myself to the indecencies of coming to a campus like USC and being called a racist, having my reputation shredded and my name dragged through the mud. Perhaps 20,000 individuals on this elite university campus have been exposed to charges printed under the authority of USC’s Vice President of Student Affairs claiming that David Horowitz thought it was a good idea to have slavery, and that blacks should be grateful for being enslaved.  I hope most people would be skeptical enough to suspect that there might be something fishy about these statements attributed to me, but it’s not something I can count on.</p>
<p>My purpose in enduring these attacks is to teach the students who come to hear me two important lessons. The first is for Jewish students. As Jews we are facing real enemies in this country who will pretend to be for peace and justice, and to disarm us will go through the charade of engaging in civil exchanges with those Jewish organizations who are deluded enough to think they can persuade people who want to kill Jews for religious reasons that maybe they’re mistaken, and that we are really nice people who don’t deserve to be killed. I want these Jews not to make the mistake their forebears made with the Nazis whom they thought were too civilized to actually want to kill them.</p>
<p>My second purpose is to alert Americans to the most important battle of our lifetime, which is the battle we are having on this very campus for freedom of speech. What is at stake in this conflict at USC – and on campuses across the country – is the ability to assert that there are Muslims who have a religious hatred for others and who consider it a religious obligation to make war on them.</p>
<p>Of course there are also Muslims who dissent from these views and who find the genocidal sayings of the prophet Mohammed hateful and who would condemn the Muslim oppressions of women and gays and Christians. But so far not many have had the courage to speak up. Where are the Muslim organizations condemning genital mutilation?  Where are the Muslim organizations condemning the genocidal war against the Jews?  Hitler hid the Final Solution from the German people, because he thought they were too civilized to embrace it, that they might object to the idea of exterminating a whole people.  Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah shout it from the rooftops. The  very call to destroy the Jewish state – echoed on American campuses &#8212; is an act of genocide in the dictionary meaning of the word. If they were calling for the destruction of the only black state in existence this would be obvious to everyone, even to university communities. But on today’s campuses, the call to eliminate the Jewish state is greeted with silence and even support.</p>
<p>There are 57 Muslim countries. But not one Muslim government has denounced Iran’s call to wipe Israel and America from the face of the earth. That tells me, as a Jew and American, that fearing Islam is a prudential caution.  There were lots of good Germans but in the end, they didn’t make a damn’s worth of difference to the six million Jews who perished. I don’t know how many good Muslims there are, but it doesn’t matter if they remain silent while their co-religionists conduct their holy war against the rest of us. What matters is how many of them are going to stand up and oppose Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. So far the Muslim Students Association, the largest Muslim student organization in America has failed to do just that.</p>
<p>Just a few years ago, a Danish cartoonist drew a picture of Mohammed with his head as a bomb. It was a satirical gibe at Islamists who use the Koran to justify murder. Millions of Muslims rioted all over the world in protest, destroying property and killing innocent people. Their protests were not against those who use the Koran to conduct suicide bombings against innocent civilians. They were protesting the satirical cartoon as a blasphemous act. This was a massive show of force designed to intimidate critics of Islam’s holy war against the West. And it was very successful. Western papers did not dare to print the cartoons. Years later, Yale University Press has just published a book about the cartoons but the book does not contain a single one of the cartoons that inspired the protests. The assault on freedom of speech in America, which is most advanced on college campuses, is greater today than at any time since the Salem witch trials, thanks to the political Left, their liberal protectors, and the Islamic jihadists who have established a base in this country and on campuses like USC.</p>
<p>Thus, the Muslim Students Association, whose members have helped to organize the protest against this talk, is part of the Muslim Brotherhood Network and the Brotherhood’s plan to destroy American civilization.  How do we know this?  We know it because during the Holy Land Foundation trial in Texas against a Muslim charity that was funding the terrorists, the FBI seized Brotherhood documents describing the network and the plan. The organizations named in the document, which had been set up to carry out the plan included the Muslim Students Association, the Council on Arab Islamic Relations, the Muslim American Society, and the Islamic Society of North America. All these groups not only have privileged access to university administrations on campuses across America, but to the administration in the White House as well.</p>
<p>The organized smear campaign designed to intimidate the sponsors of tonight’s event and cause them to cancel it is a campaign familiar to every campus where speakers with views like mine appear. Speakers such as Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan, Daniel Pipes, Walid Shoebat all must be accompanied by armed guards when they appear in university settings because of the threats posed by the Muslim Students Association, Students for Justice in Palestine, and their non-Muslim leftist allies, the Progressive Alliance being only one of many. No critic of the Islamo-fascist war against the West is permitted a civil platform on a college campus today. That is the reality.</p>
<p>A few weeks ago, I was in Philadelphia and New York to host the Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders at two campus events. Wilders is now the head of the largest party in the Netherlands, and could be elected prime minister in the next elections. In the Netherlands, freedom of speech is even more endangered at present than it is here. Criticizing Islam can be a crime in the Netherlands and in other parts of Europe, and Wilders is currently under indictment for insulting Islam, and could be sent to jail for his offense. In Pakistan, by the way, the crime is blasphemy punishable by death. How did Geert Wilders insult Islam? He made statements that while the majority of Muslims are peace-loving and law-abiding, Islam itself – with its incitements to war against infidels in general and Jews in particular is a problem and its fanatical adherents a threat.</p>
<p>Some will object that all religions contain problematic proclamations by their founders. In the Old Testament, for example, God tells Moses to destroy the Amalekites, every man, woman and child. But there are no Amalekites in the world today. It is an entirely different story when Mohammed calls for the extermination of the Jews, and in fact all infidels who refuse to submit to Allah, and Muslims refuse to distance themselves from these proclamations.</p>
<p>If you look at currents facts in the Middle East the distinction can seen in its practical effects. There are a million Muslim Arabs living in Israel, and they have more rights as Israeli citizens than ordinary Arabs in any Arab Muslim country, or Muslims in any Muslim country. As for infidels, the situation is worse. There is no religious freedom. If you are a Christian you can’t even carry your own bible into Saudi Arabia, without having it confiscated. In the strictly Islamic countries, there is no political freedom either. There is not a single Islamic democracy where infidels have equal rights.  There existed one democracy in the Western sense in the Middle East, which was Lebanon. That democracy has been destroyed by Syria, by Iran, and by Iran’s proxy, the Islamic “Party of God” &#8212; Hezbollah.</p>
<p>So there is in fact a problem.  But to say that there is a problem, which is what Geert Wilders did, is an actionable offense. He made a 15-minute film, showing the oppression of gays and women in Islam. The film gave examples of the genocidal incitements of the Koran and the calls by living Imams to kill infidels, kill Jews, and conquer the world for Allah. Egyptian TV has run an entire series of television shows based on the anti-Semitic forgery, the <em>Protocols of the Elders of Zion</em>, which claims that Jews rule the world. The Arab Islamic countries are Jew-hating societies from top to bottom. For making factual – and easily verifiable &#8212; statements like this, I and people like me are demonized and called racists and Islamophobes. The students who invite us are similarly attacked, and with the acquiescence and &#8212; at USC &#8212; even the support of university administrators.</p>
<p>The campaign to suppress the critics of Islamic bigotry and violence is a national campaign orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that spawned al-Qaeda and Hamas, and indeed all the terrorist ideologies of Islam. The Muslim Students Associations are integral parts of the Muslim Brotherhood network. Every spring Muslim Students Associations hold <em>Nakba</em> protests on campuses across the country. What is a <em>Nakba</em> protest? It is a protest against the very existence of the Jewish state. It is held on the day of Israel’s birth. In Arabic, <em>Nakba</em> means “the catastrophe.”</p>
<p>To protest the very existence of an ethnic state is genocidal incitement. The <em>Nakba</em> protests are fueled by genocidal lies. The most prominent of these is that Israel exists on occupied land, on land that belonged to the Arabs and was stolen from them. There is no basis for such claims. There is no Arab land that is being occupied. For 400 years prior to the creation of the state of Israel, the Palestine Mandate was controlled by the Ottoman Turks, and after that by the British victors in World War I. The Turks are not Arabs but they <em>are</em> Muslims and that is the real source of the conflict in the Middle East. It is a sin for Muslims to surrender any territory that was once part of Islam to the infidel. That is the source of the Hamas refusal – and now the Fatah refusal &#8212; to recognize the Jewish state. But it is also the source of al-Qaeda’s refusal to recognize the sovereignty of a non-Jewish nation, Spain, whose territory also once belonged to Islam.</p>
<p>There are not two rights contending in the Middle East. There is the right of the Jews to have a state in the region, and then there is the Islamic crusade to eliminate all non-Muslim peoples from what was once the Muslim umma, or – failing that – to make them submit to Muslim rule. In other words there is one side that wants to eliminate the other side. That is the one issue you can’t negotiate – the desire to end your existence. That is the nature of the conflict in the Middle East, and that is why there is no peace.</p>
<p>In closing, let me revisit the issue that confronts us, the issue of free speech, of the right of critics of Islam to make themselves heard. I would like briefly to tell you what happened at Temple University so that you can see how systematic the persecution of Islam’s critics is on American campuses today. At Temple University, the students had invited Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian I mentioned earlier. The Muslim Students Association together with Students for Justice in Palestine and other leftist groups immediately attacked Wilders as a “racist” and “Islamophobe” and demanded that the proposed event be banned. You would think that university officials would admonish the student protestors about tolerance and the importance of civility and intellectual diversity in a university setting. You might expect them to roll out the welcome mat for an important European politician such as Geert Wilders and to say, “We’re so glad you chose our campus, because now our students can learn about a crucial conflict over an issue of historic importance &#8212; whether Europe is going to reinstitute blasphemy laws or defend freedom – and to learn about it from the one of the historic actors.”</p>
<p>But that was far from what happened. Instead, three university administrators, led by Temple’s Vice President of Student Affairs, summoned the students who had invited Wilders and told them their invitation was divisive, and hurtful to Temple’s Muslim students. They urged the students to cancel their event and suppress Wilders’ views, just what the leftists and their Muslim Brotherhood adviser were demanding. When the students argued that this was a free speech issue, the Temple administrators told them, “Foreigners don’t have free speech rights in America.” That&#8217;s what three Temple University Administrators told our students. Foreigners don’t have free speech rights in America. As it happens, one of the students’ fathers had actually served in Iraq defending the free speech rights of foreigners. Her name is Brittany Walsh and she resisted the pressure to close down the event, and it was held – under armed guard.</p>
<p>In America, the right of free speech is not a right you can put in your pocket or a right that can be withheld. It is a limit on what government can and cannot do. The First Amendment says that government shall make no laws abridging the right of free speech. It doesn’t make a distinction between restrictive laws that apply to foreigners visiting this country and American citizens. It is a designed as the cornerstone of our democratic system.</p>
<p>Every single freedom that we have comes from our right to speak freely, to disagree with the orthodox view. Once you remove that right, once you ban events that feature Geert Wilders or David Horowitz, once you outlaw opinions that you find offensive, you have outlawed democracy itself, which the right to disagree and therefore to oppose the power of the government or the majority, as the case may be. If we lose the right to disagree and be heard, then sooner or later there will be only one politically correct authority, and one politically correct party. And that will be the party in power. If human beings are given the power to suppress speech they don’t like they will have no trouble finding the moral justification for doing so by calling it hate speech or whatever the current fashion will bear. In Stalin’s Russia it was anti-Soviet speech that was banned.</p>
<p>No matter what views you hold, or what you think of anything else I have said, you need to defend this right.  Because this is all you have.  If you don’t have this right, you don’t have any other.</p>
<p>The final thought I want to leave you with is that you must continue the battle that has begun on this campus. The groups that attempted to shut down this speech need to be disciplined. This is not behavior that is appropriate to a university. This is a threat to the fundamental principles on which a university is based. All the groups that were involved in these attacks are officially recognized student groups. They have applied for official recognition and have received privileges, including money to fund their own events. Every one of them understands there are obligations involved in receiving recognition, and that they are going to come under university scrutiny.  What the university now needs to do is to tell all student organizations: “If you attempt to obstruct a speaker who has been invited by another student group, or if you slander USC students or their guests, you are going to be put on probation – or suspended &#8212; and lose your privileges.”</p>
<p>It’s that simple. It’s how a university must function. The students who sponsored this talk are paying the same tuition as the students who assaulted them. They are going to be here when I’m gone. They did not deserve to be called racists, or to have their safety threatened, or to be viciously attacked as they were this week. No university should tolerate, let alone encourage, behavior like this. It is a deplorable fact that the University of Southern California currently does.</p>
<p>In closing, I want to thank you for being a good audience, and particularly those of you who disagree with me and who stayed to the end. And I want to again thank the very brave College Republicans, who invited me and suffered these indignities with me, and stood up through it all.</p>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guests today are Robert Spencer and Moorthy Muthuswamy.</p>
<p><strong>Moorthy Muthuswamy</strong> is an expert on terrorism in India. He grew up in India, where he had firsthand experience with political Islam and jihad. He moved to America in 1984 to pursue graduate studies. In 1992, he received a doctorate in nuclear physics from Stony Brook University, New York. Since 1999 he has extensively published ideas on neutralizing political Islam&#8217;s terror war as it is imposed on unbelievers. He is the author of the new book, <strong><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Defeating-Political-Islam-New-Cold/dp/1591027047/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1" target="_blank">Defeating Political Islam: The New Cold War.</a></em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer</strong> is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is the author of nine books on Islam and Jihad, a weekly columnist for Human Events and Frontpagemag.com, and has led numerous seminars for the U.S. military and intelligence communities. He is the author of the new book, <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1596981040/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books"><em>The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran</em></a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Moorthy Muthuswamy and Robert Spencer, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>I’d like to talk to both of you today about the Yemeni Koran.</p>
<p>Moorthy Muthuswamy, let’s begin with you. Tell us about this Yemeni Koran and what it signifies.</p>
<p><strong>Muthuswamy:</strong> Thank you for the opportunity, Jamie. First, some background.</p>
<p>In 1972, during the restoration of the Great Mosque of Sana&#8217;a, in Yemen, a gravesite containing a mash of old parchment pages was discovered. It became clear that this parchment hoard is an example of what is sometimes referred to as a &#8220;paper grave.&#8221; In this case, the site was the resting place for tens of thousands of fragments from close to a thousand different parchment codices of the Koran, the Muslim holy book.</p>
<p>Using a technique called “carbon dating,” some of the parchment pages in the Yemeni hoard were dated back to the seventh and eighth centuries, or Islam&#8217;s first two centuries. Until now, three ancient copies of the Koran were said to exist. One copy in the Library of Tashkent in Uzbekistan, and another in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, date from the eighth century. A copy kept in the British Library in London dates from the late seventh century. But the Sana’a parchment pages are even older. Moreover, these pages are written in a script that originates from the Hijaz—the region of Arabia where the prophet Muhammad purportedly lived. This makes the Yemeni Korans not only the oldest to have survived, but one of the earliest copies of the Koran ever.</p>
<p>In 1981, the first scientific undertaking to study the Yemeni Koran was initiated by a group headed by Gerd-R. Puin, a specialist in Arabic calligraphy and Koranic paleography based at Saarland University, in Saarbrücken, Germany. Puin and his group recognized the antiquity of some of the parchment fragments. Their preliminary inspection revealed unconventional verse orderings, minor textual variations, and rare styles of orthography and artistic embellishment. Interestingly, some of the sheets were also palimpsests—versions very clearly written over even earlier, washed-off or erased versions.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199901/koran" target="_blank">To quote Puin</a>: “So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Koran is just God&#8217;s unaltered word… They like to quote the textual work that shows that the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Koran has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Koran has a history too. The Sana&#8217;a fragments will help us to do this.&#8221;</p>
<p>The idea that the Koran is the literal Word of God, perfect, timeless, and permanent, is crucial to Islam, in particular, to the Islamists at the <em>forefront</em> of spreading sharia and jihad. However, some of the Sana’a fragments revealed small but intriguing aberrations from the standard Koranic text. Indeed, this evidence compels one to conclude that the Muslim holy book has undergone a textual evolution rather than simply the Word of God as revealed in its entirety to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century.</p>
<p>This explosive ramification has made the State of Yemen reluctant to give further access to the Sana’a fragments. Fortunately, before the door was shut to Western scholars, another German academic, Graf von Bothmer, made 35,000 microfilm pictures of the fragments, which remain at the University of the Saarland.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Robert Spencer, so the Yemeni Koran points to the fact that the Muslim holy book has undergone a textual evolution. Give us your view of the meaning and significance here.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Spencer:</strong> Moorthy is quite right: the idea that the Koran is perfect and uncreated, with no textual variants, is central to Islamic proselytizing. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says the Koran “was memorized by Muhammad and then dictated to his companions. The text of the Qur’an was cross-checked during the life of the Prophet. The 114 chapters of the Qur’an have remained unchanged through the centuries.” This idea is also central to the worldview of jihadist groups. Osama bin Laden bragged in his 2002 letter to the American people that the Koran “will remain preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed. The Qur’an is the miracle until the Day of Judgment.”</p>
<p>The textual variants in the Yemeni Koran, simply by showing that the text is not always and everywhere the same, explode the mainstream Islamic belief that the Koran was delivered in perfect form to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel, and has always been miraculously preserved from variant readings.</p>
<p>Yet oddly enough, early Islamic traditions recorded in the Hadith assume the existence of variant readings of the Koran. The impetus for collecting Muhammad’s revelations into a single volume came after Muhammad and other important early Muslims started dying off. Late in the year Muhammad died, 632, a group of Arab tribes that Muhammad had conquered and brought into the Muslim fold revolted. The first caliph, Abu Bakr, led the Muslims into battle to subdue them.</p>
<p>The two sides met in the Battle of Yamama, in which some of the Muslims who had memorized segments of the Koran were killed. One Islamic tradition notes that “many (of the passages) of the Qur’an that were sent down were known by those who died on the day of Yamama&#8230;but they were not known (by those who) survived them, nor were they written down, nor had [the first three caliphs] Abu Bakr, Umar or Uthman (by that time) collected the Qur’an, nor were they found with even one (person) after them.” Ibn Abi Dawud, <em>Kitab al-Masahif</em> )</p>
<p>The official compiler of the Koran, Zaid ibn Thabit, explained that he “started locating Quranic material and collecting it from parchments, scapula, leaf-stalks of date palms and from the memories of men (who knew it by heart). I found with Khuzaima two Verses of Surat-at-Tauba which I had not found with anybody else.” Zaid’s recollection testifies to the ad hoc nature of his work. For example, it was Khuzaima himself, Zaid’s sole source for the last two verses of sura 9, who approached Zaid and informed him of the omission: “I see you have overlooked (two) verses and have not written them.” When he had recited them, an influential companion of Muhammad and the future third caliph, Utman, declared, “I bear witness that these verses are from Allah.” And so they were included in the Koran (9:128-129).</p>
<p>Other sections of the Koran, some mandating stringent punishments for unbelievers and other violators of Islamic law, were lost altogether. One early Muslim declared, “Let none of you say, ‘I have acquired the whole of the Qur’an.’ How does he know what all of it is when much of the Qur’an has disappeared? Rather let him say ‘I have acquired what has survived’” (As-Suyuti, <em>Al-Itqan fii Ulum al-Qur’an</em> ). Other Koranic verses dropped out of the text without replacement. One of these stated, “The religion with Allah is al-Hanifiyyah (the Upright   Way) rather than that of the Jews or the Christians, and those who do good will not go unrewarded.” Al-Tirmidhi, the compiler of one of the six collections of Hadith, or Islamic traditions, that Muslims consider to be the most reliable, said that this verse was at one time part of sura 98. It is not found there, however, in Zaid’s canonical version.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Moorthy Muthuswamy?</p>
<p><strong>Muthuswamy: </strong>The importance of the Yemeni Koran is that it was an independent discovery; it physically exists and is distinct from the Islamic doctrines presently in use.</p>
<p>Political Islam faces ideological difficulties with the likes of the Sana’a fragments pointing to the textual evolution of the Koran. Furthermore, as Robert insightfully observes, other inconsistencies in the contemporary Koran and the Hadith accentuate these difficulties.</p>
<p>The challenge ahead lies in utilizing this breach to decisively break the back of Islamic radicalism.</p>
<p>Whether it is the latest, in the form of the Fort  Hood massacre or the previous 9/11 attacks, there is one common theme: the armed jihads were carried out by mosque-going pious Muslim men who claimed to be driven by Islamic doctrines.</p>
<p>Recently, much progress has been achieved by applying statistical analysis to the Islamic doctrines themselves in order to understand why pious Muslims are waging jihad on unbelievers. Specifically, we now understand that about <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30658" target="_blank">sixty-one percent</a> of the contents of the Koran are found to speak ill of unbelievers or call for their violent conquest; at best only <a href="http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/the-good-in-the-koran/" target="_blank">2.6 percent</a> of the verses of the Koran are noted to show goodwill toward humanity. Get this: about <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=297" target="_blank">seventy five percent</a> of Muhammad’s biography (Sira) consists of jihad waged on unbelievers.</p>
<p>While there might be some subjectivity to the above analysis, the overwhelming thrust of the inferences should be noted. Moreover, this overall thrust exposes the sheer absurdity of excusing the Koran-inspired terror on the so-called “selective interpretation” of the Muslim holy book or its “verses being taken out of context.”</p>
<p>Additionally, there is the sharia—the so-called Islamic Law, legitimized by the Koran. The medieval sharia has stifled development and integration of Muslim communities, and has indirectly helped channel Muslim energies toward the outlet of jihad.</p>
<p>Let us discuss the evolution of Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort  Hood jihadist. Consider a hypothetical scenario: the majority of the worshippers in the mosques Hasan attended believed that the Koran couldn’t be taken literally; that that there are many mainstream Islamic sites that emphasized the textual evolution of the Muslim holy book. What would have happed? It is very unlikely that Hasan would have given the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/11/10/GA2009111000920.html" target="_blank">pro-jihad seminar</a> (the precursor to the Fort Hood massacre) in Walter Reed  Medical Center.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, reality is just the opposite. Saudi-funded Wahhabi ideologies that emphasize the literal interpretation of the Koran have played a longstanding role at <a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2206" target="_blank">grievously</a> influencing most American mosque goers.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hvk.org/articles/1002/69.html" target="_blank">An April 2001 survey</a> by CAIR found 69 percent of Muslims in America saying it is “absolutely fundamental” or “very important” to have Salafi (similar to radical Wahhabi Islamic ideology) teachings at their mosques (67 percent of respondents also expressed agreement with the statement “America is an immoral, corrupt society”). The Internet-based mainstream Islamic portals too, almost without exception, preach radical ideologies, backed by the Muslim holy book.</p>
<p>Based on the above analysis we can unequivocally state that the Koran, through its contents and their literal interpretations, acts as an albatross around the neck of Muslim communities. Yet, our national security policy in its various incarnations builds on the fundamentally flawed assumption that the Koran is a constructive element in the lives of Muslims.</p>
<p>The challenge of mitigating the radical Islamic threat indeed comes down to questioning the very basis that the Koran is the Word of God.</p>
<p>The Yemeni Koran, backed by Koranic inconsistencies might provide a fresh impetus in this direction.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Robert Spencer, final thoughts?</p>
<p><strong>Spencer:</strong> Moorthy is right. PowerPoint slides on which Hasan proposed to show “what the Koran inculcates in the minds of Muslims and the potential implications this may have for the U.S. military” have come to light. The implications are many, and important.</p>
<p>Hasan makes the case that Muslims must not fight against other Muslims (as is mandated by Koran 4:92), and that the Koran also mandates both defensive and offensive jihad against unbelievers, in order to impose upon those unbelievers the hegemony of Islamic law. He quotes the Koranic verse calling for war against the “People of the Book” (that is, mainly Jews and Christians) until they “pay the tax in acknowledgment of [Islamic] superiority and they are in a state of subjection” (9:29).</p>
<p>Hasan seems then to have been telling the assembled (and no doubt stunned) physicians that Muslims had a religious obligation to make war against and subjugate non-Muslims as inferiors under their rule.       But surely that is “extremist” Islam, no? No. Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Shari’ah and Law of the International Islamic University in Islamabad, in a book on Islamic law explains that “Muslim jurists agreed that the purpose of fighting with the People of the Book…is one of two things: it is either their conversion to Islam or the payment of jizyah.” (<em>Jizyah</em> is the tax referred to in Koran 9:29.)</p>
<p>Nyazee concludes: “This leaves no doubt that the primary goal of the Muslim community, in the eyes of its jurists, is to spread the word of Allah through jihad, and the option of poll-tax [jizya] is to be exercised only after subjugation” of non-Muslims.”</p>
<p>Likewise Majid Khadduri, an internationally renowned Iraqi scholar of Islamic law, explained in his 1955 <em>book War and Peace in the Law of Islam</em> that “the Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God’s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world….The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.”</p>
<p>And Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini put it this way: “Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled or incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world&#8230;.But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world&#8230;.There are hundreds of other [Qur’anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.”</p>
<p>Hasan’s Islam also coincides with that of the jihad terror group Hamas, which has announced its intention, once fully and firmly ensconced in power, to collect that Koranic tax – <em>jizyah</em> – from the non-Muslims luckless enough to live within its domains. Hasan would also no doubt find heads nodding in agreement with his explanation of Islam among the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamic organization (which operates under a variety of names in the United States) that is dedicated in its own words to a “grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”</p>
<p>No one in government or law enforcement has ever made any attempt to determine how prevalent such understandings of Islam are among Muslims in the United States. But if they are not Nidal Hasan’s eccentricities, but indeed mainstream views of Islam, it would be of cardinal importance for those sworn to protect us to begin making such an attempt now. The lives of innocent people depend on it. As Moorthy explained, the Yemeni Koran could help provide a way.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Moorthy Muthuswamy and Robert Spencer, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
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