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		<title>ISIS&#8217;s Sex Slave Pamphlet &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the Islamic references in the Islamic State's new "rulebook."]]></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>ISIS&#8217;s Sex Slave Pamphlet</strong>, explaining the Islamic references in the Islamic State&#8217;s new &#8220;rulebook.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Do We All Believe in the Same God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reflection on what Allah say in the Koran about Jews and Christians.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bible_quran.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247929" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bible_quran.jpg" alt="bible_quran" width="263" height="150" /></a>A commonly heard claim is that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in “the same God.” These are comforting words and of great assistance to those wishing to engage in interfaith dialogues and tri-faith ventures. But is this true? To answer that question, let’s look at what is said and taught about Jews and Christians by Allah, the god of Islam, and Muhammad, Allah’s prophet. We’ll start with the Koran.</p>
<p><strong>The Koran</strong></p>
<p>Muslims believe the Koran is the infallible, timeless and perfect word of Allah. So what does Allah say in the Koran about Jews and Christians?</p>
<p>To set the stage, Allah states that the only religion acceptable to him is Islam (e.g., 3:19 and 3:85). And Allah states that Islam is to be made superior over all other religions, even if the non-Muslims don’t like it (e.g., 9:33, 48:28, and 61:9).</p>
<p>Allah states that he is angry with the Jews, and the Christians are misguided in their beliefs (1:7). In fact, Allah curses the Jews and Christians (9:30). He states that the Jews and Christians are among the worst of creatures who “will abide in the fire of Hell” (98:6), while Muslims are the best of creatures (3:110 and 98:7). He forbids Muslims from being friends with Jews and Christians (5:51). Instead, Allah commands Muslims to fight the Jews and Christians until those Jews and Christians pay the <em>jizyah</em> (protection tax), with willing submission and feeling themselves subdued (9:29).</p>
<p>Allah specifically states that the Jews are among the worst enemies of Islam (5:82).</p>
<p>Allah states that Christianity is a false religion. Allah says that Jesus was not crucified, but it only appeared so (4:157-158). Allah states that he took Jesus bodily into paradise and made one of Jesus’ disciples look like Jesus; it was that disciple who was crucified. So Muslims who know their religion look at a crucifix or a painting of the Crucifixion and see an imposter hanging on the cross. And of course, if there was no Crucifixion, there was no Resurrection. So Islam teaches that Christianity is based on a fraud.</p>
<p>Allah also states that those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God commit the one unforgiveable sin in Islam, <em>Shirk</em> (e.g., 4:48 and 4:116). In fact, Allah curses Christians specifically for this belief (9:30) and says that those who so believe will go to Hell (e.g., 3:151 and 5:72-73).</p>
<p><strong>Muhammad</strong></p>
<p>Islam teaches that Muhammad spoke for Allah (4:80), and Allah commands Muslims to obey Muhammad (59:7). And Muhammad is considered the timeless standard by which Muslims should conduct themselves (33:21). So what did Muhammad have to say?</p>
<p>He said Jews and Christians are worth only half as much as a Muslim,<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>and he gave the following advice about what to do when meeting Jews and Christians:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Do not greet the Jews and the Christians before they greet you and when you meet any one of them on the roads force him to go to the narrowest part of it.</em><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad said that the Jews were grave robbers,<sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup> and he said,</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The Hour will not be established until you fight against the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, &#8216;O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.</em><sup><sup>[4]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad said that on the Day of Resurrection, mountains of sins would be removed from the backs of Muslims and put onto the Jews and Christians.<sup><sup>[5]</sup></sup> Muhammad even said that Jews and Christians would take the place of Muslims in Hell.<sup><sup>[6]</sup></sup></p>
<p>And on his death bed Muhammad said:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims.</em><sup><sup>[7]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>These are timeless commands and statements from Allah and Muhammad, and Muslims are not allowed to disagree with them (33:36).</p>
<p>So if Allah is God and the Koran consists of statements and commands from Allah, if Muhammad spoke for Allah, and if Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in that same God, then Jews and Christians believe in and worship a God who hates and curses them, orders Muslims to fight them, and condemns them to Hell simply because they are not Muslims.</p>
<p>Either we are talking about a pagan god of multiple, compartmentalized personalities, or the claim that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the same God is theological nonsense.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong></p>
<p>[1] Muhammad bin Yazeed ibn Majah Al-Qazwini, <em>Sunan Ibn Majah</em>, trans. Nasiruddin al-Khattab, Vol. 3 (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), No. 2644, p. 521.</p>
<p>[2] Abu&#8217;l Hussain &#8216;Asakir-ud-Din Muslim bin Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Naisaburi, <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, trans. Abdul Hamid Siddiqi, Vol. 6 (New Delhi: Adam Publishers and Distributors, 2008), No. 2167, p. 439.</p>
<p>[3] Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah Al-Bukhari, <em>Sahih Al-Bukhari</em>, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Vol. 4 (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Book 60, No. 3452, p. 413.</p>
<p>[4] <em>Sahih Al-Bukhari</em>, Vol. 4, Book 56, No. 2926, p. 113.</p>
<p>[5] <em>110 Ahadith Qudsi: Sayings of the Prophet Having Allahs Statements</em>, 3<sup>rd</sup> ed., trans. Syed Masood-ul-Hasan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2006), No. 8, titled <em>Superiority of the believers in the Oneness of Allah and the punishment of Jews and Christians</em>, pp. 19-20.</p>
<p>[6] <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, Vol. 8, No. 2767R1, p. 269.</p>
<p>[7] <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, Vol. 5, No. 1767, p. 189.</p>
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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>Allah: The Greatest Deceiver? &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The significance of Islam's teaching to smile in unbelievers' faces, but to curse them in one's heart.]]></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> <strong>Anthony Rogers.</strong> </strong></strong></p>
<p>Mr. Rogers joined the show to discuss <strong>Allah: The Greatest Deceiver?</strong>, analyzing the significance of Islam&#8217;s teaching to smile in unbelievers&#8217; faces &#8212; but to curse them in one&#8217;s heart. The discussion occurred within a focus on <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: Their Application,</strong> in which Mr. Rogers dissected a religion&#8217;s teachings and their earthly incarnations.</p>
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		<title>Ten Ways the Mafia and Islam Are Similar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>During <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/other-matters/ben-affleck-portrait-of-islams-clueless-apologetics/">a debate on HBO’s <em>Real Time</em></a> last October, host Bill Maher declared that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”</p>
<p>Maher was apparently referring to Islam’s “blasphemy” laws, which ban on pain of death any “insult”—as found in a statement, a picture, a book—to Islam and especially its prophet, Muhammad.</p>
<p>While Maher has been criticized for his “Islamophobic” assertion, he and others may be surprised to learn that the similarities between Islam and the mafia far exceed punishing those who say, draw, or write “the wrong thing.”</p>
<p>In what follows, we will examine a number of these similarities.</p>
<p>We will begin by looking at the relationship between Allah, his messenger Muhammad, and the Muslims, and note several parallels with the relationship between the godfather, his underboss, and the mafia.</p>
<p>Next, we will examine the clannish nature of the mafia and compare it to Islam’s tribalism, especially in the context of the Islamic doctrine “Loyalty and Enmity.” For example, in both Islam and the mafia, members who wish to break away, to “apostatize,” are killed.</p>
<p>We will consider how the mafia and Islam have both historically profited from the “protection” racket: Islam has demanded <em>jizya</em> from non-Muslims under its authority/territory and the mafia has demanded <em>pizzo</em> from people that fall under its jurisdiction.</p>
<p>Finally, we will consider what accounts for these many similarities between Islam and the mafia, including from an historical perspective.</p>
<p><strong>1. Allah and Muhammad/Godfather and Underboss </strong></p>
<p>The <em>padrino</em> of larger mafia organizations and families—literally, the “godfather” or “boss of bosses”—has absolute control over his subordinates and is often greatly feared by them for his ruthlessness. He has an “underboss,” a right-hand man who issues his orders and enforces his will. The godfather himself is often inaccessible; mafia members need to go through the underboss or other high ranking associates.</p>
<p>Compare this with the relationship between Allah and his “messenger” Muhammad (in Arabic, Muhammad is most commonly referred to as <em>al-rasul</em>, “the messenger”). Unlike the Judeo-Christian God—a personal God, a Father, that according to Christ is to be communed with directly (Matt 6:9)—Islam’s god, Allah, is unreachable, unknowable, untouchable. Like the godfather, he is inaccessible.   His orders are revealed by his messenger, Muhammad.</p>
<p>If the Judeo-Christian God calls on the faithful to “come now, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18), Allah says “Do not ask questions about things that, if made known to you, would only pain you” (Koran 5:101). Just follow orders.</p>
<p><strong>2. A “Piece of the Action” </strong></p>
<p>The godfather and his underboss always get a “piece of the action”—a “cut”—of all spoils acquired by their subordinates.</p>
<p>So do Allah and his messenger, Muhammad. Koran 8:41 informs Muslims that “one-fifth of all war-booty you acquire goes to Allah and the messenger” (followed by Muhammad’s family and finally the needy).</p>
<p><strong>3. Assassinations </strong></p>
<p>The godfather, through his underboss, regularly sends mafia men to make “hits”—to assassinate—those deemed enemies of the family.</p>
<p>So did Allah and his messenger. One <a href="http://www.sahih-bukhari.com/Pages/Bukhari_5_59.php">example</a>:  A non-Muslim poet, <a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_Undressed:_Muhammad%E2%80%99s_Actions,_Speaking_Louder_than_Words#The_Murder_of_Kab_Ashraf">Ka‘b ibn Ashraf</a>, insulted Muhammad, prompting the latter to exclaim, “Who will kill this man who has hurt Allah and his messenger?” A young Muslim named Ibn Maslama volunteered on condition that to get close enough to assassinate Ka‘b he be allowed to lie to the poet.</p>
<p>Allah’s messenger <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/bukhari/bh4/bh4_274.htm">agreed</a>. Ibn Maslama traveled to Ka‘b and began to denigrate Islam and Muhammad until his disaffection became so convincing that the poet took him into his confidence. Soon thereafter, Ibn Maslama appeared with another Muslim and, while Ka‘b’s guard was down, slaughtered the poet, bringing his head to Muhammad to the usual triumphant cries of “Allahu Akbar!”</p>
<p><strong>4. Circumstance is Everything</strong></p>
<p>While the mafia adheres to a general code of conduct, the godfather issues more fluid orders according to circumstances.</p>
<p>This is reminiscent of the entire “revelation” of the Koran, where later verses/commands contradict earlier verses/commands, depending on circumstances (known in Islamic jurisprudence as <em>al-nāsikh wal-mansūkh</em>, or the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islamic-jihad-and-the-doctrine-of-abrogation/">doctrine of abrogation</a>).</p>
<p>Thus, whereas Allah supposedly told the prophet that “there is no compulsion in religion” (Koran 2:256), <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/how-circumstance-dictates-islamic-behavior/">once the messenger grew strong enough</a>, Allah issued new revelations calling for all-out war/jihad till Islam became supreme (Koran 8:39, 9:5, 9:29, etc.).</p>
<p>While other religions and scriptures may have contradictions, only Islam rationalizes them through abrogation—that is, by giving prominence to later verses which are seen as the “latest” decision of the deity.</p>
<p><strong>5. Clan Loyalty </strong></p>
<p>Loyalty is fundamental in the mafia. Following elaborate rituals of blood oaths, mafia members are expected to maintain absolute loyalty to the family, on pain of death.</p>
<p>Similarly, mafia members are expected always to be available for the family—“<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7086716.stm">even if your wife is about to give birth</a>,” as one of the mafia’s “ten commandments” puts it—and to defend the godfather and his honor, even if it costs their lives.</p>
<p>Compare this to the widespread violence and upheavals that occur whenever Allah or his prophet is offended—whenever non-Muslim “infidels” blaspheme them. Or, as Bill Maher put it: “Its’ the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”</p>
<p>Islam’s “Loyalty and Enmity” doctrine (<a href="http://quranicverse99.tripod.com/islamicways/id15.html"><em>al-wala’ wa’l bara’</em></a>)—which calls on Muslims to be loyal to one another even if they dislike each other—is especially illustrative. Koran 9:71 declares that “The believing [Muslim] men and believing [Muslim] women are allies of one another” (see also 8:72-75). And according to <a href="http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/muslim/032.smt.html#032.6219">Muhammad</a>, “A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He neither oppresses him nor humiliates him nor looks down upon him…. All things of a Muslim are inviolable for his brother in faith: his blood, his wealth, and his honor”—precisely those three things that mafia members respect among each other.   This is why Muslims like U.S. Army Major Nidal Hassan, whose “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/nidal-hasan-and-fort-hood/">worst nightmare</a>” was to be deployed to fight fellow Muslims, often lash out.)</p>
<p><strong>6. Death to Traitors </strong></p>
<p>Once a fledging mafia member takes the oath of loyalty to the mafia—including the Omertà code of silence and secrecy—trying to leave the “family” is seen as a betrayal and punishable by death.   Any family member, great or small, is given authority to kill the traitor, the “turncoat.”</p>
<p>Compare this to Islam. To be born to a Muslim father immediately makes the newborn a Muslim—there are no oaths to be taken, much less any choice in the matter.   And, according to Islamic law, if born Muslims at any point in their lives choose to leave Islam, they are deemed “apostates”—traitors—and punished including by death.   Any zealous Muslim, not just the authorities, is justified in killing the apostate (hence why Muslim families that kill apostate children are rarely if ever prosecuted).</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/084-sbt.php">words</a> of Muhammad—the messenger (“underboss”) of Allah (“godfather”): “Whoever leaves his Islamic faith, kill him.”</p>
<p><strong>7. Distrust and Dislike of “Outsiders”</strong></p>
<p>Aside from loyalty to the family, mafia members are also expected not to befriend or freely associate with “outsiders”—who by nature are not to be trusted, as they are not of the “family”—unless such a “friendship” helps advance the family’s position.</p>
<p>Similarly, the second half of the doctrine of Loyalty and Enmity—the enmity (<em>al-bara’</em>)—calls on Muslims to maintain distance from and bear enmity for all non-Muslims, or “infidels.”</p>
<p>Thus Koran 5:51 warns Muslims against “taking the Jews and Christians as friends and allies … whoever among you takes them for friends and allies, he is surely one of them.” According to the mainstream Islamic exegesis of al-Tabari, Koran 5:51 means that the Muslim who “allies with them [non-Muslims] and enables them against the believers, that same one is a member of their faith and community,” that is, a defector, an apostate, an enemy.</p>
<p>Similar scriptures include Koran 4:89, 5:54, 6:40, 9:23, and 58:22; the latter simply states that true Muslims do not befriend non-Muslims—“even if they be their fathers, sons, brothers, or kin.” Koran 60:1 declares, “O you who believe! Do not take my enemy and your enemy [non-believers] for friends: would you offer them love while they deny what has come to you of the truth [i.e., while they deny Islam]?” And Koran 4:144 declares “O you who believe! Do not take the infidels as allies instead of the believers. Do you wish to give Allah [“godfather”] a clear case against yourselves?”</p>
<p><strong>8. Deception and Dissimulation </strong></p>
<p>As mentioned, close relations to non-mafia individuals that prove advantageous to the family (for example, collaboration with a “crooked cop”) are permissible—as long as the mafia keeps a safe distance, keeps the outsider at arm’s length.</p>
<p>Compare this to Koran 3:28 which commands “believers not to take infidels for friends and allies instead of believers… unless you but guard yourselves against them, taking precautions.” According to the standard Koran commentary of Tabari, “taking precautions” means:</p>
<blockquote><p>If you [Muslims] are under their [non-Muslims’] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them with your tongue while harboring inner animosity for them … [but know that] Allah has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels rather than other believers—except when infidels are above them [in authority]. Should that be the case, let them <em>act friendly</em> towards them while preserving their religion.</p></blockquote>
<p>After interpreting Koran 3:28 as meaning that Muslims may “protect” themselves “through outward show” when under non-Muslim authority, Ibn Kathir, perhaps Islam’s most celebrated exegete, quotes Islam’s prophet (“underboss”) saying: “Truly, we smile to the faces of some people, while our hearts curse them.”</p>
<p>Similarly, a few years ago, Sheikh Muhammad Hassan—a leading Salafi cleric in Egypt—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/sharias-sinister-smiles/">asserted on live television</a> that, while Muslims should never smile to the faces of non-Muslims, they should smile, however insincerely, if so doing helps empower Islam, especially in the context of <em>da‘wa</em>.</p>
<p>The idea of hating “outsiders” is apparently so ingrained in Islam that another leading Salafi cleric, Dr. Yasser al-Burhami, insists that, while Muslim men may marry Christian and Jewish women, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-ultimate-source-of-islamic-hate-for-infidels/">they must hate them in their heart</a>—and show them that they hate them in the hopes that they convert to the “family” of Islam.</p>
<p>(For more on the doctrine of “Loyalty and Enmity,” including references to the exegetical sources quoted above, see al-Qaeda leader Dr. Ayman Zawahiri’s comprehensive treatise by that name in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Qaeda-Reader-Essential-Organization/dp/076792262X/ref=rec_dp_0"><em>The Al Qaeda Reader</em></a>, pgs. 63-115.)</p>
<p><strong>9. “An Offer You Can’t Refuse”</strong></p>
<p>Although the novel-turned-movie, <em>The Godfather</em>, is fictitious, it also captures much of the mafia’s modus operandi. Consider, for example, that most famous of lines—“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeldwfOwuL8&amp;spfreload=10">I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse</a>”—spoken by the Godfather to one of his “godsons,” an aspiring actor and singer. After being turned down by a studio director for a role that he desperately wanted, the godson turned to his Godfather for aid.</p>
<p>As the movie progresses, it becomes clear that the offer that can’t be refused consists of nothing less than violence and death threats: after the Godfather’s messenger to the director asking that the actor be given the role is again rejected, the director awakens the next morning to find the bloodied and decapitated head of his favorite stallion in bed with him. The godson subsequently gets the movie role.</p>
<p>Throughout the context of the entire <em>Godfather</em> trilogy (which captures well the mafia’s approach to business) making someone “an offer they can’t refuse” means “do as I say or suffer the consequences,” possibly death.</p>
<p>Compare this to Islam’s threefold choice. On Muhammad’s <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/002-sbt.php#001.002.025">orders</a>, whenever Muslims conquer a territory in the name of Islam, its non-Muslim inhabitants are given three choices: 1) convert to Islam (“join the family”), 2) keep your religious identity but pay tribute (<em>jizya</em>, see below) and live as an “outsider,” a subjugated <em>dhimmi</em> or 3) execution.</p>
<p>Throughout history, converting to Islam has been an “offer” that countless non-Muslims could not refuse. In fact, this “offer” is responsible for transforming much of the Middle East and North Africa, which were Christian-majority in the 7<sup>th</sup> century when the jihad burst forth from Arabia, into the “Muslim world.”</p>
<p>And this <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/">offer is still alive and well today</a>. For example, several older and disabled Christians who were not able to join the exodus out of Islamic State controlled territories <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/world-ignores-christian-exodus-from-islamic-world/">opted to convert to Islam rather than die</a>.</p>
<p>Like the mafia, then, Islam’s offer to conquered non-Muslims (“outsiders”) is basically “join our ‘family,’ help us and we will help you; refuse and we hurt you.”</p>
<p><strong>10. The “Protection” Racket</strong></p>
<p>Once the mafia takes over a territory, one of the primary ways it profits is by collecting “protection money” from its inhabitants. While the protection racket has several aspects, one in particular is akin to an Islamic practice: coercing people in the mafia’s territory to pay money for “protection,” ostensibly against outside elements; in fact, the protection bought is from the mafia itself—that is, extortion money, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzo_(extortion)"><em>pizzo</em></a>.   Potential “clients” who refuse to pay for the mafia’s “protection” often have their property vandalized and are routinely threatened and harassed.</p>
<p>Compare the collection of <em>pizzo</em> with the Islamic concept of <em>jizya</em>: The word <em>jizya</em> appears in Koran 9:29: “Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, nor forbid what Allah and his Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth, <em>until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued</em> (emphasis added).”</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/muslim/019-smt.php#019.4294">hadith</a>, the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad—in our analogy, the “underboss”—regularly calls on Muslims to demand <em>jizya</em> from non-Muslims:  “If they refuse to accept Islam,” said the prophet, “demand from them the <em>jizya</em>. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay <em>jizya</em>, seek Allah’s help and fight them.”</p>
<p>The root meaning of the Arabic word “jizya” is simply to “repay” or “recompense,” basically to “compensate” for something.  According to the <em>Hans Wehr Dictionary</em>, the standard Arabic-English dictionary, <em>jizya</em> is something that “takes the place” of something else, or “serves instead.”</p>
<p>Simply put, conquered non-Muslims were to <em>purchase their lives</em><em>,</em> which were otherwise forfeit to their Muslim conquerors, with money.  As one medieval jurist succinctly puts it, “their lives and their possessions are only protected by reason of payment of <em>jizya</em>” (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><em>Crucified Again</em></a>, p. 22).</p>
<p>And to top it off, just as the mafia rationalizes its collection of “protection money” by portraying it as money that buys mafia protection against “outsiders”—when, as mentioned, the money/tribute serves only to protect the client from the mafia itself—so too do <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islamic-jizya-protection-from-whom/">Islam’s apologists portray the collection of jizya</a> as money meant to buy Muslim protection from outsiders, when in fact the money/jizya buys protection from Muslims themselves.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion: Mafia—What’s In a Word?</strong></p>
<p>What accounts for all these similarities between Islam and the mafia? One clue is found in the fact that the very word “mafia,”which means “hostility to the law, boldness,” is derived from an Arabic word, <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mafia?s=t"><em>mahya</em></a>, which in translation means “bragging, boasting, bravado, and swaggering.”</p>
<p>This etymology is a reminder that Sicily, birthplace of the mafia, was under Arab/Islamic domination for over 200 years. Aside from a borrowed etymology, could some of the mafia’s modus operandi also have been borrowed from Islam? Isolated on their island, could native Sicilians have co-opted the techniques of social controls that they had lived under and learned from their former overlords—albeit without their Islamic veneer?</p>
<p>The mafia is not the only historical example of a non-Muslim criminal organization to be influenced by Islam. For example, the Thuggees — whence we get the word “thug” — were a brotherhood of allied bandits and assassins who waylaid and savagely murdered travelers in India, often by first feigning friendship. Although they were later associated with the Hindu cult of Kali, the original Thuggees were all Muslim. As late as the 19<sup>th</sup> century, a large number of Thuggees captured and convicted by the British were Muslim.</p>
<p>The similarities are clear: Along with assassinating his opponents, including, as seen, through treachery, Muhammad also personally engaged in banditry, ransacking the caravans of enemy tribes.</p>
<p>And if the words “mafia” and “thug” have Arabic/Islamic etymologies, the words “assassinate” and “assassin” are derived from a Medieval Islamic sect: the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-assassination-silencing-freedom-fighters/"><em>Hashashin</em></a>, who pioneered the use of political assassination—with <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/was-marco-polo-an-islamophobe/">promises of a hedonistic paradise</a> for the assassin who almost certainly died—in the name of Islam.</p>
<p>At any rate, when HBO personality Bill Maher recently proclaimed that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f***ing kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book,” he was barely touching on the similarities between the mafia and other criminal organizations, and Islam.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/120717_brad_sherman_ap_328.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246791" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/120717_brad_sherman_ap_328.jpg" alt="Black and White Gala for Barack Obama" width="320" height="259" /></a>Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/brad-sherman-state-dept-should-hire-islamic-scholars-to-combat-is-ideology/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">had a great idea</span></a> Tuesday: the U.S. needs to combat the Islamic State not just militarily, but ideologically. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQl819bFR9A"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Speaking at a congressional hearing</span></a>, he said: “We have the outreach–what we don’t have is the research. Keep in mind, the State Department has a thousand lawyers. I think they ought to hire one or two experts in Islamic jurisprudence, whether they be practicing Muslims or others who have the expertise.” He added: “It’s not enough to say, ‘look at what ISIS did, they beheaded somebody, it’s evil.’”</p>
<p>Instead, Sherman said, the jihadis had to be refuted on Islamic grounds. “One must be able to turn to the Quran, to turn to the Hadith and show how ISIS is making a mockery of a great world religion,” he explained. “You cannot appeal to Islamic jurists unless you can cite Hadith, unless you can cite Quran, unless you can do all the things you would do in working before any other jurists anywhere in the world. You need legal expertise to get the Islamic legal scholars to be on our side.”</p>
<p>Sherman has a point. For years now, I have been calling on self-proclaimed moderate Muslims in the West to produce an interpretation of the Qur’an and Sunnah that would refute Islamic jihadists’ exegesis and blunt their ability to make recruits among Muslims by convincing them that groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State were the authentic exponents of Islamic teaching. Muslim spokesmen have responded to this call with ridicule, scorn, and exegeses of the Qur’an that were riddled with half-truths and telling omissions, such that it was hard to escape the impression that they were produced in order to reassure credulous infidels, rather than to convince jihadis to lay down their arms.</p>
<p>One notorious example of these deceptive pieces came last September, when the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Fiqh Council of North America unveiled with great fanfare what they presented as a refutation of the religious ideology of the Islamic State, in the form of a lengthy “open letter” (not, interestingly enough, a fatwa) addressed to the Islamic State’s caliph Ibrahim, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.</p>
<p>If Sherman knows about this “open letter,” he probably believes that it does what he wants, and shows “how ISIS is making a mockery of a great world religion.” He would probably be pleased if the State Department hired some of its signatories to wage the ideological battle against the Islamic State. State could offer contracts to Professor Mustafa Abu Sway, the integral professorial chair for the Study of Imam Ghazali’s Work, Jerusalem — and a <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/01/hamas-in-the-florida-classroom"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hamas activist</span></a>; Dr. Jamal Badawi, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case; Mustafa Ceric, former grand mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who has <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/08/bosnias-muslim-spiritual-leader-calls-for-incorporation-of-sharia-into-bosnian-constitution"><span style="color: #0433ff;">called for Sharia in Bosnia</span></a>; Professor Caner Dagli, a venomously hateful Islamic apologist at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/01/why-cant-muslims-debate-again"><span style="color: #0433ff;">traffics in Nazi imagery about “unclean” unbelievers</span></a>; Ali Gomaa, former grand mufti of Egypt, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/07/egypts-top-cleric-denies-saying-that-muslims-could-leave-islam-without-punishment"><span style="color: #0433ff;">endorses wife-beating, Hizballah, and the punishment of apostates from Islam</span></a>; Hamza Yusuf Hanson, founder and director of Zaytuna College, USA, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/12/hamza-yusuf-muhammad-teddy-bear-madness-was-our-fault"><span style="color: #0433ff;">blamed the West for Muslim riots over a teddy bear named Muhammad</span></a>; Ed Husain, senior fellow in Middle Eastern Studies for the Council on Foreign Relations, who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-moderate-muslim-ed-husain-seizing-jihadis-passports-would-only-increase-jihad-threat"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recently claimed</span></a> that seizing British jihadis’ passports so that they couldn’t return to the UK from the Islamic State would only create more jihadis; Muhammad Tahir Al-Qadri, founder of Minhaj-ul-Qur’an International, Pakistan, who drafted Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy law and <a href="http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/12/24/the-hypocrisy-of-the-fatwa-against-terrorism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">issued his own disingenuous and hypocritical Fatwa Against Terrorism</span></a>; and Muzammil Siddiqi, chairman of the Fiqh Council and former head of the Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).</p>
<p>The signers’ unwholesome associations and allegiances were just one indication that there was far <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/international-group-of-muslim-scholars-refutes-islamic-states-islamic-case-while-endorsing-jihad-sharia-caliphate"><span style="color: #0433ff;">less to this open letter</span></a> than the mainstream media’s rapturous reception suggested. In fact, the “moderates” who signed on to this open letter by doing so endorsed elements of Islam that most non-Muslim Westerners consider to be “extremist.”</p>
<p>“All Muslims see the great virtue in jihad,” says the open letter. It repeatedly stresses that jihad warfare is strictly defensive. “There is no such thing,” the scholars assert, “as offensive, aggressive jihad just because people have different religions or opinions. This is the position of Abu Hanifa, the Imams Malik and Ahmad and all other scholars including Ibn Taymiyyah, with the exception of some scholars of the Shafi’i school.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Shafi’i school is one of the four great schools of Sunni jurisprudence. If some Shafi’i scholars allow for “offensive, aggressive jihad just because people have different religions or opinions,” can it really be said to be un-Islamic? Are the scholars pronouncing takfir on the Shafi’i school? Or just deceiving gullible non-Muslims? The answer is clear.</p>
<p>What’s more, restricting jihad to defensive warfare looks even worse in light of the fact that in Sunni Islamic law, only the caliph has the authority to declare offensive jihad, but defensive jihad is obligatory upon all Muslims when a Muslim land is attacked, and need not be declared by anyone. So since the caliphate was abolished in 1924 to this day (except for those who accept the Islamic State’s caliphate claim), all jihad attacks, even 9/11, have been cast by their perpetrators as defensive – hence the jihadist tendency to retail long lists of grievances when justifying their actions.</p>
<p>So if 9/11 was defensive jihad, and these “moderate” scholars are endorsing defensive jihad, their “moderation” should send just a bit of a chill up the spine.</p>
<p>“Regarding Arab Christians,” the scholars remind the Islamic State’s caliph, “you gave them three choices: jizyah (poll tax), the sword, or conversion to Islam.” Jizya is the tax specified in the Qur’an (9:29) to be levied on “the People of the Book” as a sign of their dhimmitude, their subjugation and submission to Muslim hegemony. This, the scholars say, was wrong, because “these Christians are not combatants against Islam or transgressors against it, indeed they are friends, neighbours and co-citizens. From the legal perspective of Shari’ah they all fall under ancient agreements that are around 1400 years old, and the rulings of jihad do not apply to them.”</p>
<p>However, then the open letter asserts that “there are two types of jizyah in Shari’ah (Islamic Law)”: the first “applies to those who fought Islam,” but the second “is levied on those who do not wage war against Islam.”</p>
<p>The scholars tell the caliph that the Arab Christians are friends of the Muslims, they “did not wage war against you” and thus should not have been subjugated as dhimmis. But then in the next paragraph they say that “the second type of jizyah is levied on those who do not wage war against Islam.” Thus how is the Islamic State transgressing against Islam by levying the jizya on those who did not wage war against Islam?</p>
<p>In any case, the “moderate” scholars are apparently fine with a religion-based poll tax, a sign of the subjugation of the religious minority, in an Islamic state. In this the authors also contradict their earlier claim that jihad is only defensive; now “those who do not wage war against Islam” are to be made to pay the jizya, which results from Muslims fighting the People of the Book: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)</p>
<p>Despite all this and more, Brad Sherman would likely be thrilled with this open letter. With so many infidels so eager to be fooled, the work of groups like CAIR and the Fiqh Council of North America is easy. But the great work that Sherman called for – a refutation of the Islamic State on Islamic grounds – that has still not appeared in any genuine form, and that in itself is telling.</p>
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		<title>The Koran and Eternal War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If some Islamic texts are banned for inciting terrorism, what about the Koran?]]></description>
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<p style="color: #202021;">News recently emerged that Russia was banning key Islamic scriptures—including Sahih Bukhari—on the charge that they promote “exclusivity [supremacism] of one of the world’s religions,” namely Islam; or, in the words of a senior assistant to the prosecutor of Tatarstan Ruslan Galliev, “a militant Islam” which “arouses ethnic, religious enmity.”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">If Sahih Bukhari, a nine-volume hadith collection compiled in the 9th century and seen by Sunni Muslims as second in importance only to the Koran itself is being banned for inciting hostility, where does that leave the Koran?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">After all, if <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/is-russia-banning-islam/">Sahih Bukhari contains pro-terrorism</a> statements attributed to the prophet of Islam and calls to kill Muslims who leave Islam, the Koran, Islam’s number one holy book itself is full of intolerance and calls for violence against non-believers. A tiny sampling of proclamations from Allah follows:</p>
<ul style="color: #202021;">
<li>“I will cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, so strike [them] upon the necks [behead them] and strike from them every fingertip’” (Koran 8:12).</li>
<li>“Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and who do not embrace the religion of truth [Islam], until they pay the jizya with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued” (Koran 9:29).</li>
<li>“Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever you find them—seize them, besiege them, and make ready to ambush them!” (Koran 9:5).</li>
<li>“Fighting has been enjoined upon you [Muslims] while it is hateful to you” (2:216).</li>
</ul>
<p style="color: #202021;">That Islam’s core texts incite violence and intolerance has many ramifications, for those willing to go down this path of logic.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">For example, as I <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/how-religious-defamation-laws-would-ban-islam/">argued more fully here</a>, although Muslims around the world, especially in the guise of the 57-member state Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), continue to push for the enforcement of “religious defamation” laws in the international arena, one great irony is lost, especially on Muslims: if such laws would ban movies and cartoons that defame Islam, they would also, by logical extension, need to ban the religion of Islam itself—the only religion whose core texts actively defame other religions.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Consider what the word “defamation” means: “to blacken another’s reputation” and “false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel,” are typical dictionary definitions.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">What, then, do we do with Islam’s core religious texts—not just Sahih Bukhari but the Koran itself, which slanders, denigrates and blackens the reputation of other religions?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Consider Christianity alone: Koran 5:73 declares that “Infidels are they who say God [or “Allah”] is one of three,” a reference to the Christian Trinity; Koran 5:72 says “Infidels are they who say God is the Christ, [Jesus] son of Mary”; and Koran 9:30 complains that “the Christians say the Christ is the son of God … may Allah’s curse be upon them!”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Surely such verses defame the Christian religion and its central tenets—not to mention create hostility towards its practitioners.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">In short, the argument that some Islamic books should be banned on grounds that they incite segregation and violence is applicable to the Koran itself, which unequivocally defames and creates hostility for unbelievers, that is, non-Muslims.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">That said, in the “real world” (as it currently stands), the very idea of banning the Koran—believed by over a billion people to be the unalterable word of God—must seem inconceivable.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">For starters, whenever Muslims are pressed about the violent verses in the Koran, they often take refuge in the argument that other scriptures of other religions are also replete with calls to violence and intolerance—so why single out the Koran?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">To prove this, Muslim apologists almost always point to the Hebrew Scriptures, more widely known as the “Old Testament.”  And in fact, the Old Testament is replete with violence and intolerance—all prompted by the Judeo-Christian God.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The difference between the violent passages in the Koran and those in the Old Testament (as more <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.meforum.org/2159/are-judaism-and-christianity-as-violent-as-islam">comprehensively explained here</a>) is this: the Old Testament is clearly describing historic episodes whereas the Koran, while also developed within a historical context, uses generic, open-ended language that transcends time and space, inciting believers to attack and slay nonbelievers today no less than yesterday.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Thus in the Old Testament God commands the Hebrews to fight and kill “Hittites,” “Amorites,” “Canaanites,” “Perizzites,” “Hivites,” and “Jebusites”—all specific peoples rooted to a specific time and place; all specific peoples that have not existed for millennia.  At no time did God give an open-ended command for the Hebrews, and by extension their Jewish descendants, to fight and kill all “unbelievers.”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">To be sure, Muslims argue that the verses of the Koran also deal with temporal, historical opponents, including the polytheists of Mecca, and to a lesser extent, the Byzantine and Sassanian empires.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The problem, however, is that rarely if ever does the Koran specify who its antagonists are the way the Old Testament does.  Instead, Muslims were (and are) commanded to fight the “People of the Book,” which Islamic exegesis interprets as people with scriptures, namely, Christians and Jews—“<em>until</em> they pay the jizya with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued” (9:29) and to “slay the idolaters <em>wherever</em> you find them” (9:5).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The two Arabic conjunctions “until” (<em>hata</em>) and “wherever” (<em>haythu</em>) demonstrate the perpetual and ubiquitous nature of these commandments: There are still “People of the Book” who have yet to “feel themselves utterly subdued” (especially all throughout the Americas, Europe, and Israel) and “idolaters” to be slain “wherever” one looks (especially Asia and sub-Saharan Africa).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">In fact, the salient feature of almost all of the violent commandments in Islamic scriptures is their open-ended and generic nature: “Fight <em>them</em> until there is no more chaos and [all] religion belongs to Allah” (Koran 8:39).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">This fact will ensure that as long as the Koran proliferates and is read as God’s literal word, its readers will continue to exist in a dichotomized world, themselves versus the rest.</p>
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		<title>Converting to Islam Won’t Save Your Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t waste your time memorizing the Koran.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/io.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245449" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/io-450x253.jpg" alt="io" width="302" height="170" /></a>In a telling commentary on the habits of the natives many travelers to the lands where the Religion of Peace peacefully reigns over burning cities, littered heaps and frightened refugees insist on learning to recite the Shahada, the Muslim profession of faith, in case of capture by peaceful Muslim terrorists.</p>
<p>But the devout beheaders have long since gotten wise to this particular infidel trick.</p>
<p>The Jihadists behind the Westgate mall attack in Kenya bypassed the obvious and instead killed hostages for being unable to answer such questions as “What was the name of Mohammed’s mother.” Not all Muslims might have been able to dodge a bullet by answering that question, but the terrorists were testing for religiosity as much as for ethnicity. A Muslim who couldn’t name the mother of the father of terror was deemed un-Islamic enough to be murdered by his monstrous children.</p>
<p>Most of the hostages held by ISIS could have answered that question and many others. They could and did recite verses from the Koran. The majority of them converted to Islam. That did not save them.</p>
<p>Instead <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/what-does-it-take-for-an-american-hostage-to-lose-his-illusions-about-islam/">the recent testimony of a hostage</a> held by an ISIS ally indicates that his guards respected him more for remaining a Christian while despising his Western cellmate for readily converting to Islam. Despite their constant preaching about Islam, the Jihadists could not like or respect a traitor. They rightly judged that a man who would join a religion under duress had no religion, fealty or faith.</p>
<p>In the end ISIS executed those who converted and those who did not.</p>
<p>It is a mistake to think that converting to Islam can save your head. At best it earns the convert a place at the bottom of the pole. A woman marrying into an Islamic family can skip the line by subsuming her identity within theirs. A male convert is pressured to earn his place by committing various violent acts which is why we have seen a rash of vicious attacks committed by male converts in the West.</p>
<p>In Islam, violence is a status shortcut. Mohammed’s rise to power used a tribal cult to build a dynasty around his own family and those of his allies. The Caliph of ISIS is ultimately trying to do the same thing while the foreign fighters clustering around him are out to build harems and kingdoms of their own.</p>
<p>Under Stalin there were two Communisms. One was the real Communism practiced in Moscow in which a slave empire sought to expand its territory and power. The other was a set of ideas by their useful idiots in the West. Those Western Communists who moved to the Soviet Union eventually wound up in a Gulag whether or not they could name Lenin’s mother or recite chapter and verse from Das Kapital.</p>
<p>Western sympathizers of Communism or Islam did not understand that the actual implementation of the system was a machine of terror with no off switch. Stalin’s USSR and the Caliph’s Islamic State depended on grand promises and mass murder. Stalin promised to fully link up the entire country to the electric grid. ISIS installed a free phone booth. But the only thing they really did is kill a whole bunch of people.</p>
<p>Telling your friendly neighborhood Muslim terrorist the Shahada works about as well as telling an NKVD interrogator that you recant all your ideological errors. Aside from everything else, it misses the point. Most of the appeal of Islam, Nazism or Bolshevism was the ability to kill and torture a lot of people. Without a demographic base of homicidal sociopaths none of these movements would have ever shown up in the history books. And the sociopaths have to have their fun or the movement collapses.</p>
<p>Without enough countries to conquer, mass murders to arrange or sufficient tortures to oversee the Soviet Union collapsed like a wet paper bag. So did the Ottoman Empire. If Nazi Germany had ever outlived Hitler, Goebbels and the rest of its founding monsters, one day it too would have found itself ruled by bewildered bureaucrats surrounded by totems of another age and wondering how to go on.</p>
<p>ISIS revived the Caliphate by broadcasting severed heads across social media. It’s a recruitment ad for psychos that is paying huge dividends. If ISIS started releasing hostages instead of beheading them, it would be about as popular in the Muslim world as dogs, bacon and Jews. When your religion proves its sincerity through a willingness to kill, the failure to behead is the next best thing to atheism.</p>
<p>Going right back to the days when Mohammed enlisted some fun-loving family members to raid and pillage because an angel told him to, the ideology of Islam was an excuse for the abuses of its followers. When it comes to Islamic violence, the real distinction may not be the artificial one between moderates and radicals, but between those who are naturally inclined to kill and those who are compelled to it by their religion. And the religion of Islam was built to license the worst depravities of the former.</p>
<p>The various Jihadists in Syria are not killing each other over matters of faith. None of them are “extremists” or “moderates” no matter what our politicians say when they decide to arm them. They are killing each other over control of bakeries and profits from oil sales. Not to mention kidnappings.</p>
<p>That doesn’t make them hypocrites. They are following the grand example of Mohammed who lived off a percentage of the booty seized by his men, who profited from kidnappings and murders, who built a harem of sex slaves from abducted women and who sealed a political connection with his closest ally through the horrifying rape of his nine-year-old daughter.</p>
<p>Later Muslim chroniclers attempted to lend an air of nobility to Mohammed’s greedy atrocities. ISIS propagandists are doing the same thing for the Caliph and his merry murderers on Twitter. These myths have a useful function for Muslims, but only fools would assume that the Shahada could stand between them and a million dollar ransom or a really neat beheading video to show the folks back home.</p>
<p>This is what Islam is. This is what it’s always been.</p>
<p>Islam is not an abstract belief in a deity. Allah is not a thing that exists outside the Muslim. He is power and honor, greed and lust, he is a Christian man being beheaded in the dust of an Iraqi town and a Yazidi girl being raped inside a mosque, he is a black flag hanging limply over a dead city and a Caliph fingering his expensive watch while calculating his hostage payments.</p>
<p>To claim refuge in the Shahada is to assume that Jihadist cruelty is purely external, assuming wrongly, as many Westerners did of Communism, that the system is animated by faith in a better world.</p>
<p>Inside Islam is not a better world, but a darker one with many tiers of cruelty and with outsider status reserved for non-Muslims no matter how many verses of the Koran they may memorize. The African-Americans who moved to the USSR believing that it was a truly non-racist society ended up dead. Westerners who think that reciting the Koran can save them from the sword have discovered that the Koran can turn on the machinery of terror, but there is no off switch for the swinging sword.</p>
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		<title>UK Historian: Only Solution to Islamic Beheading is End to Koranic Literalism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>This is the usual liberal prescription for any theology, but in this case it&#8217;s actually relevant.</p>
<p>Tom Holland, a British writer and historian, author of In the Shadow of the Sword, <a href="http://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2014/09/28/how-do-we-prevent-radicalisation-by-tom-holland">makes the case that denying the Islamic State&#8217;s links</a> to Islamic violence is impossible.</p>
<blockquote><p>How best to establish, for instance, that the actions of jihadis in beheading their foes are indeed contrary to Islam? Fighters for the Islamic State might well point out that the Qur’an describes angels decapitating unbelievers with the aim of spreading terror; that the first Muslims are described as harvesting heads on the battlefield of Badr; that Muhammad himself is said to have owned a sword that can be translated as ‘Cleaver of Vertebrae’. It is not enough, within such a context, merely to insist that Islam is a religion of peace, and leave it at that.</p></blockquote>
<p>Holland ventures into some of the same territory as Robert Spencer.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Qur’anic studies, as a field of academic research, appears today to be in a state of disarray.” Such is the frank admission of Fred Donner, Professor of Near Eastern History at Chicago. “Those of us who study Islam’s origins,” he has confessed, “have to admit collectively that we simply do not know some very basic things about the Qur’an – things so basic that the knowledge of them is usually taken for granted by scholars dealing with other texts.” Its place of origin, its original form, its initial audience – all are mysteries. That being so, it is certainly no longer possible to presume that there is anything remotely self-evident about the birth of Islam. Indeed, it is hard to think of any other field of history so currently riven by disagreement.</p>
<p>In time, this inexorable process of historicisation is bound to have an impact upon the literalism with which many Muslims today are tempted to interpret their scriptures. When the evidence for what the historical Muhammad said and did is so patchy, and when the traditional explanations of how the Qur’an emerged are so contested, it becomes increasingly difficult to insist that the inheritance of Islamic scripture is not thoroughly contingent. At the moment, the notion that Muslim beliefs are as historically conditioned as any other ideology inherited from the past is seen by most Muslims as highly threatening; but in the long run this will surely change.</p>
<p>Recognising that the stories told about Muhammad are fictions bred of a particular context and period, and that the potential interpretations of the Qur’an need not necessarily be circumscribed by traditional exegesis, should facilitate the emergence, over the course of the next century, of a clearly Western form of Islam. It is one, I suspect and very much hope, in which there will no longer be a place for ritual beheading.</p></blockquote>
<p>Holland hopes. He also says that &#8220;this will surely change&#8221;. That&#8217;s rather optimistic considering that there isn&#8217;t much in the way of Islam without the Koran and the stories based around it and the laws based around that.</p>
<p>As I wrote in <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2014/09/moderate-islam-is-our-new-religion.html">Moderate Islam is Our New Religion</a>, the only worshipers of moderate Islam are liberals because it only exists in their minds.</p>
<blockquote><p>There is no moderate Islam in the mosques or in Mecca. You won’t find it in the Koran or the Hadiths. If you want to find moderate Islam, browse the newspaper editorials after a terrorist attack or take a course on Islamic religion taught by a Unitarian Sociologist wearing fake native jewelry.</p>
<p>The true moderate Muslims are secular liberals of loosely Christian and Jewish persuasion who have invented and believe in a moderate Islam that doesn’t exist outside of their own heads. This secular Islam, which values all life, is dedicated to social justice and universal tolerance, is a counterpart of their own bastardized religions. And they are too afraid to wake up and realize that it doesn’t exist.</p></blockquote>
<p>Holland has gone further by recognizing that while it does not exist, it does need to come into being.</p>
<p>This would be the Unitarian Islam. A religion that would use some sanitized stories about Mohammed, keep the calls for charity without mentioning the Jihad, eliminate the whole history of the conquests of Islam, and accentuate present day good deeds.</p>
<p>It would be an Islamic counterpart to liberalized forms of Christianity and Judaism.</p>
<p>There are some Muslims who actually practice something like this, but they are a tiny minority and hardly theologically influential. What Holland is proposing is completely unrealistic because not only are non-Muslim variants of such faiths weakening and losing members, but they are also demographically losing out to Islam.</p>
<p>Holland would like to see a form of Islam become dominant that is based on forms of Christianity/Judaism that are themselves unable to compete with Islam.</p>
<p>The flaw in this plan is obvious.</p>
<p>Holland did some interesting work in the Shadow of the Sword. He ought to know why that kind of Islam can&#8217;t exist.</p>
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		<title>Beheading Infidels: How Allah ‘Heals the Hearts of Believers’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic State traces its most gory and sadistic practices straight to Allah and Muhammad.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/taliban-sword-11052007.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240748" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/taliban-sword-11052007.jpg" alt="taliban-sword-11052007" width="282" height="229" /></a>To understand why the Islamic State not only decapitates its “infidel” captives, but also mutilates and mocks their corpses—and all to sadistic laughter—one need only turn to the Koran and deeds of Islamic prophet Muhammad.</p>
<p>The Koran exhorts believers to “Fight them [those who oppose Islam], Allah will torment them with your hands, humiliate them, empower you over them, and heal the hearts of the believers, removing the rage from their hearts” (Koran 9:14-15).</p>
<p>As usual, to understand the significance of any Koran verse, one must turn to the <i>sira</i> and <i>hadith</i>—the biography and anecdotes of Muhammad, respectively—for context.</p>
<p>Thus we come to the following account concerning the slaughter of ‘Amr bin Hisham, a pagan Arab chieftain originally  known as “Abu Hakim” (Father of Wisdom) until Muhammad dubbed him “Abu Jahl” (Father of Stupidity) for his staunch opposition to Islam.</p>
<p>After ‘Amr was mortally wounded by a new convert to Islam during the Battle of Badr, Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud, a close companion of Muhammad, saw the “infidel” chieftain collapsed on the ground.  So he went to him and started abusing him.  Among other things, Abdullah grabbed and pulled ‘Amr’s beard and stood in triumph on the dying man’s chest.</p>
<p>According to <i>Al-Bidaya wa Al-Nihaya</i> (“The Beginning and the End”), Ibn Kathir’s authoritiative history of Islam, “<span style="color: #0433ff;">After</span> that, he [Abdullah] cut his [‘Amr’s] head off and bore it till he placed it between the hands of the Prophet. <i>Thus did Allah heal the hearts of the believers with it</i>.”</p>
<p>This, then, is the true significance of Koran 9:14-15: “Fight them, Allah will torment them with your hands [mortally wounding and eventually decapitating ‘Amr], humiliate them [pulling his beard], empower you over them [standing atop him], and heal the hearts of the believers, removing the rage from their hearts [at the sight of his decapitated head].”</p>
<p>The logic here is that, pious Muslims are so full of zeal for Allah’s cause that the only way their inflamed hearts can be at rest is to see those who oppose Allah and his prophet utterly crushed—humiliated, mutilated, decapitated.  Then the hearts of the believers can be at ease and “healed.”</p>
<p>This is surely one of the reasons behind the Islamic State’s dissemination of gory videos and pictures of its victims: the new “caliphate” is trying to heal the hearts of every believer inflamed for the cause of Allah.</p>
<p>If this sounds too farfetched, consider the following picture of a decapitated “infidel” from the Islamic State’s websites.  The Arabic caption to the left says “healing for hearts”—a clear reference to the aforementioned Koran verse:</p>
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<p>Koran 96:15-16 also alludes to the fate of ‘Amr and offers more context applicable to the Islamic State: “No! If he does not desist, we will surely drag him by the forelock—a lying, sinning forelock.”</p>
<p>According to al-Alusi’s <i>tafsir</i>, or exegesis, after Abdullah placed his foot on the dying foe of Islam, ‘Amr opened his eyes and recognized him.  The once proud chieftain lamented that he was being killed by a common “goat herder,” to which Abdullah replied, “Islam elevates and nothing is elevated above it.”  He then sheared his head off.  “But he could not carry it, so he made holes in the ears and put thread through them and dragged the head to the prophet.  Then Gabriel, peace be upon him, came laughing and saying, “O prophet, you got an ear and an ear—and the head between for a bonus!”</p>
<p>Based, then, on the treatment of ‘Amr bin Hisham (AKA “Abu Jahl”) as recorded in Islam’s core texts—Koran, hadith, sira, and tafsirs—all sadistic acts being carried out by the Islamic State were in fact committed by the earliest Muslims and all to the complete approval of Muhammad (and apparently the “angel” Gabriel, too).  They include:</p>
<p>•Beheadings and mutilations (e.g., holes in ears of ‘Amr)</p>
<p>•Humiliation and gestures of triumph (feet on chest of fallen victim, dragging his body, or head, on the ground)</p>
<p>•Laughter, mockery, and celebration (for the hearts of the believers are now “healed”)</p>
<p>Indeed, along with the “healing for hearts” image above, consider some other pictures taken from the Islamic State’s websites and how well they conform to the above accounts describing the slaughter of ‘Amr#:</p>
<p>Note how in the following four pictures, to demonstrate that the enemies of Islam have been brought low, as Koran 9:14-15 promised, Islamic State members make it a point to place their feet atop their fallen corpses, most of which were first decapitated.  Note also how the ubiquitous black flag of Islam is always raised above the fallen “infidels”—a reminder that “Islam elevates and nothing is elevated above it,” as Abdullah told ‘Amr, with his foot on his chest, before beheading him.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240735 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed2-450x271.jpg" alt="unnamed2" width="450" height="271" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed31.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240739 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed31-450x274.jpg" alt="unnamed3" width="450" height="274" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed4.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240740 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed4-450x241.jpg" alt="unnamed4" width="450" height="241" /></a></p>
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<p>Note the jocularity in the following picture—reminiscent of the “angel” Gabriel laughing and joking about the mutilated head of ‘Amr.  (If Allah’s angel finds such human carnage amusing, shouldn’t Allah’s jihadi servants as well?)</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed9.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240742 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed9-262x350.jpg" alt="unnamed9" width="262" height="350" /></a></p>
<p>The following picture is reminiscent of how ‘Amr’s head was treated: mutilated and dragged on the ground.  In this case, it is a decapitated body that is being degraded:</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed8.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240743 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed8-450x315.jpg" alt="unnamed8" width="450" height="315" /></a></p>
<p>The next two pictures are of especial interest because they actually use the relatively arcane Arabic word <i>haz </i>(bottom left-hand corner), which literally means “to make an incision,” to describe the beheading of Islam’s enemies.  The standard Arabic word for “cut” generally used to describe a beheading is <i>qata‘</i>.  That the word used (<i>haz</i>) is the same word found in the early jihad literature is no coincidence and indicative of the source of inspiration: Islam’s scriptures.</p>
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<p>In short, not only are the members of the Islamic State closely patterning themselves after Muhammad—whom Koran 33:21 exhorts believers to emulate in all ways—but even in the most sadistic of details are they finding support in their prophet.</p>
<p>Nor should it come as any surprise that Muslims are aware of these accounts from early Islamic history.  After all, the near hagiographic Battle of Badr, including the story of ‘Amr’s slaughter, is routinely glorified worldwide in mosque sermons, on Islamic satellite stations, and in Islamic texts.  It is a source of great pride.</p>
<p>Thus when young Muslims express their anger and frustration at the state of affairs of the Islamic world, their clerics council them to go to the jihad in Iraq and Syria and decapitate themselves an infidel—which, according to the Koran, should “heal their hearts.”</p>
<p>(Perhaps that’s why one former British rock star and convert to Islam <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2739006/Revealed-How-middle-aged-mother-two-Kent-used-girl-rock-band-reinvented-jihadi-threatening-behead-Christians-blunt-knife.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">is so eager to decapitate Christians</span></a>?  Perhap that’s why a jihadi savagely pulled out and <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/13/303319/syria-rebel-cuts-eats-soldiers-heart/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">bit into the heart</span></a> of a fallen Syrian soldier—to heal his own heart by sating his rage against Allah’s “enemies”?)</p>
<p>Such Muslims join the jihad, and not only do they decapitate, but they mutilate, humiliate, and laugh at the disgraced enemies of Allah—in perfect emulation of the Islamic glory/gory stories they grew up on.</p>
<p>This is the true cult of jihad which few non-Muslims can begin to comprehend—and little wonder, considering that their political leaders, professors, and media continue to babble foolishly about how Islam is the “religion of peace.”</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wood]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Jihadists fighting for ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) claim that they are following the commands of Allah and Muhammad. Yet Westernized Muslims, politicians, and the media insist that ISIS is violating the principles of Islam. Who&#8217;s right? In the following video, I present the top ten Qur&#8217;an verses you need to know to understand ISIS.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/390510-456a0a56-fa56-11e3-9463-539ac6ca705b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238919" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/390510-456a0a56-fa56-11e3-9463-539ac6ca705b-450x314.jpg" alt="390510-456a0a56-fa56-11e3-9463-539ac6ca705b" width="292" height="204" /></a>The Islamic State is turning into a huge public relations problem for groups like the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its allies. For years they have insisted that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with the terrorism committed with alarming regularity in its name, and that the people responsible for linking Islam with terrorism were not Islamic jihad terrorists, but “Islamophobic” opponents of jihad terror. But then comes along a group calling itself The Islamic State, committing unimaginable atrocities and presenting each one as an authentic embodiment of Islamic texts and teachings, and the deception campaign at which CAIR officials have labored so assiduously for so many years, and with such great success, is in danger of crashing around their uneasy necks.</p>
<p>Take, for example, the recent revelation that, according to the <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48477"><span style="color: #0433ff;">UN News Centre</span></a>, “some 1,500 Yazidi and Christian persons may have been forced into sexual slavery.” A similar kidnapping by Islamic jihadists in Nigeria recently horrified the world, but much overlooked was the fact that such behavior is sanctioned by the Qur’an. According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general, as does this passage. “Certainly will the believers have succeeded: They who are during their prayer humbly submissive, and they who turn away from ill speech, and they who are observant of zakah, and they who guard their private parts except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed” (Qur’an 23:1-6).</p>
<p>These passages have not gone unnoticed. The Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/05/egyptian-shaykh-jihad-is-solution-to.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">declared</span></a> in May 2011 that “we are in the era of jihad,” and that meant Muslims would take slaves. In a subsequent interview he elaborated:</p>
<blockquote><p>Jihad is only between Muslims and infidels. Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholars—there is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. The prisoners and spoils are distributed among the fighters, which includes men, women, children, wealth, and so on.</p>
<p>When a slave market is erected, which is a market in which are sold slaves and sex-slaves, which are called in the Qur’an by the name <i>milk al-yamin</i>, “that which your right hands possess” [Koran 4:24]. This is a verse from the Qur’an which is still in force, and has not been abrogated. The <i>milk al-yamin</i> are the sex-slaves. You go to the market, look at the sex-slave, and buy her. She becomes like your wife, (but) she doesn’t need a (marriage) contract or a divorce like a free woman, nor does she need a <i>wali</i>. All scholars agree on this point—there is no disagreement from any of them. [...] When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.</p></blockquote>
<p>Around the same time, on May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, also <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-kuwaiti-activist-i-hope-that.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">spoke out</span></a> in favor of the Islamic practice of sexual slavery of non-Muslim women, emphasizing that the practice accorded with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality.</p>
<blockquote><p>A merchant told me that he would like to have a sex slave. He said he would not be negligent with her, and that Islam permitted this sort of thing. He was speaking the truth. I brought up [this man’s] situation to the muftis in Mecca. I told them that I had a question, since they were men who specialized in what was halal, and what was good, and who loved women. I said, “What is the law of sex slaves?”</p>
<p>The mufti said, “With the law of sex slaves, there must be a Muslim nation at war with a Christian nation, or a nation which is not of the religion, not of the religion of Islam. And there must be prisoners of war.”</p>
<p>“Is this forbidden by Islam?” I asked.</p>
<p>“Absolutely not. Sex slaves are not forbidden by Islam. On the contrary, sex slaves are under a different law than the free woman. The free woman must be completely covered except for her face and hands. But the sex slave can be naked from the waist up. She differs a lot from the free woman. While the free woman requires a marriage contract, the sex slave does not—she only needs to be purchased by her husband, and that’s it. Therefore the sex slave is different than the free woman.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The Islamic State acts on these beliefs, which are Qur’an-based. The kidnappings, meanwhile, have taken place amid a backdrop of unimaginable slaughter. The victims were those who refused the Islamic State’s demand that they convert to Islam to save their lives: <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/iraq-were-fleeing-because-jihadists-told-us--convert-to-islam-or-we-slaughter-you-9668760.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a Yazidi woman</span></a> explained last week why thousands of Yazidis had fled the area of Iraq controlled by the Islamic State: “We came here because the terrorists said, ‘Either you convert to Islam or we slaughter you.’”</p>
<p>The Quran says “there is no compulsion in religion” (2:256) – a verse much beloved of Western non-Muslim multiculturalists, but it also says that Muslims must fight unbelievers until “religion is all for Allah” (8:39). And it insists that Muslims should “slay them” wherever they’re found (cf. 2:191; 4:89; 9:5).</p>
<p>It also says that Muslims must fight against the “People of the Book” – Jews, Christians, and others who are considered to have received previous revelations from Allah – until they “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (9:29). That option of submission and subjugation, however, is not open to groups that have no written revelation that could qualify them for “People of the Book” status. Hence for the Yazidis, to convert or die are the only Qur’anic options open for them.</p>
<p>The Islamic State’s actions are an open book, and that book is the Qur’an. American Muslim spokesmen would do well to explain how they are misinterpreting the Islamic holy books, but claims to that effect have been vague and short of references to problematic passages. As long as that refusal to confront the problem continues, so will the killing.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The director of Jihad Watch unveils the truth about the war we’re in -- and our culture's denial about it. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s Glazov Gang was joined by <strong>Robert Spencer, </strong>the director of <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of thirteen books, including two <em>New York Times</em> bestsellers, <em>The Truth About Muhammad</em> and <em>The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). </em>His latest book is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arab-Winter-Comes-America-Truth/dp/1621572048"><em>Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We’re In</em></a>.</p>
<p>Robert joined the show to discuss <strong><em> Arab Winter Comes to America</em></strong>, analyzing the threat of Islamic Jihad and the West&#8217;s denial about it. He shed light on <em>ISIS&#8217;s Islamic Inspirations</em>, <em>How Jihad Denial Enables Jihad</em>, <em>Why Jihadists are Welcome in the UK But Not Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller</em>, and much, much more.</p>
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		<title>New Islamic Caliphate Declares Jihad on … Muslims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Why ISIS targets fellow Muslims.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Isis4.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236555" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Isis4-450x280.jpg" alt="Isis4" width="313" height="195" /></a>The new “caliphate” of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—the Islamic State, formerly “ISIS”—recently made clear that it means to follow in the footsteps of the original caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Sadiq (632-634), specifically by directing its jihad against fellow Muslims, in Islamic parlance, the “hypocrites” and “apostates,” or in Western terminology, “moderates.”</p>
<p>This came out in the context of the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, with some Muslims asking the newly formed “caliphate” when it would launch a jihad on the Jewish state.</p>
<p>The Islamic State’s response? “Allah in the noble Koran does not command us to fight Israel or the Jews until we fight the apostates and hypocrites.”</p>
<p>On one of the Islamic State’s question-and-answer websites, some asked why it was “not fighting Israel but instead shedding the blood of the sons of Iraq and Syria.” The new caliphate responded:</p>
<blockquote><p>The greater answer is in the noble Koran, when Allah Almighty speaks about the near enemy. In the majority of verses in the noble Koran, these are the hypocrites, for they pose a greater danger than the original infidels [born non-Muslims, e.g., Jews and Christians]. And the answer is found in Abu Bakr al-Sadiq, when he preferred fighting apostates over the conquest of Jerusalem [<em>fath al-Quds</em>], which was conquered by his successor, Omar al-Khattab.</p></blockquote>
<p>There’s much to be said about this response, rife as it is with historical allusions.</p>
<p>First, it is true. After the prophet of Islam died, a great number of Arabian tribes that had submitted to his rule by becoming Muslims—the word <em>muslim</em> simply means “one who submits”—thought they could now renege, and so they apostatized in droves. This sparked the first Ridda, or “apostasy wars,” waged by Abu Bakr al-Sadiq, who became the first caliph on Muhammad’s death in 632. For nearly two years, till his own death in 634, his caliphate’s entire energy was focused on waging jihad on all the recalcitrant Arab tribes, forcing them by the edge of the sword to return to the fold of Islam.</p>
<p>Tens of thousands of Arabs were burned, beheaded, dismembered, or crucified in the process, according to Islamic history, especially by the “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/allahs-sword-of-terror/">Sword of Allah</a>.” It was only afterwards, under the reign of the second caliph, Omar al-Khattab (634-644), that the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-historical-reality-of-the-muslim-conquests/">great Islamic conquests against the “original infidels”</a>—those non-Arab peoples who had never converted to Islam, Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, etc.—took place.</p>
<p>Islam’s war on the apostate, so little known in the West, figures prominently in Islamic history. Indeed, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the most influential Islamic clerics today, while once discussing the importance of killing any Muslim who apostatizes from Islam on Al Jazeera, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUsgTzOZfsyosq4j9qVi3YWg&amp;v=917pAS-Ccjs#t=24">correctly stated</a> that “If the [death] penalty for apostasy was ignored, there would not be an Islam today; Islam would have ended on the death of the prophet.”</p>
<p>In short, and as the Islamic State is now arguing, the first and greatest enemy of Islam—the “nearest” enemy—is the “apostate” and “hypocrite,” for they are the most capable of subverting Islam from within.</p>
<p>This phenomenon of “pious” Muslims fighting and killing “lukewarm” Muslims, or Shia and Sunnis fighting one another—while the original infidel stands by or gets away—has many precedents throughout history. For example, in its response, the Islamic State further justifies not fighting Israel by saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>The answer is found in Salah ad-Din al-Ayubi [Saladin] and Nur ad-Din Zanki when they fought the Shia in Egypt and Syria before [addressing] Jerusalem. Salah ad-Din fought more than 50 battles before he reached Jerusalem. And it was said to Salah ad-Din al-Ayubi: “You fight the Shia and the Fatimids in Egypt and allow the Latin Crusaders to occupy Jerusalem?” And he responded: “I will not fight the Crusaders while my back is exposed to the Shia.”</p></blockquote>
<p>All of this history quoted by the Islamic State is meant to exonerate the new caliphate’s main assertion: “Jerusalem will not be liberated until we are done with all these tyrants, families, and pawns of colonialism that control the fate of the Islamic world.”</p>
<p>Some observations:</p>
<p>[*] Although the Islamic State is trying to suggest that only autocrats like Syria’s Bashar al-Assad are “apostates” and “hypocrites,” and that most average Muslims are eager for Sharia, the fact is, a great many of the world’s Muslims fit under this rubric. The largest revolution in history, Egypt’s June 2013 anti-Brotherhood revolution, attests to this. Thus the new caliphate’s jihad is not just against “tyrants,” but many average Muslims as well, as the organization’s carnage in Iraq and Syria attests.</p>
<p>[*] The Islamic State’s declaration justifying non-confrontation with Israel is not winning it much popular support in the Arab world and is naturally portrayed as a copout. It further validates the popular Arab narrative that the United States is siding with the Islamists to create havoc in the region; to have the various sects (Sunni vs Shia, Moderate vs. Islamist) fight each other in order to divide and weaken the region. Thus Dr. Ahmed Karima, a leading professor of Islamic jurisprudence in Al Azhar, <a href="http://elbadil.com/2014/07/10/%D9%85%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B4-%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%83%D8%B1/">said</a> that the Islamic State’s position concerning Israel proves that “it is a creation of U.S. and Israeli intelligence” and that the new caliphate “is the biggest of all hypocrites.”</p>
<p>[*] Alternatively, others, especially Islamists, appreciate that the Islamic State is patterning itself after the first caliphate of Abu Bakr—hence why its first caliph chose that name—because it finds itself operating in the same circumstances. Nascent and without much support, it first mission, like Abu Bakr, is to re-subjugate Muslims to Islam. Only then can it focus on the “original infidels.”</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">[*] While this approach may be temporarily good for Israel (and all infidel states), in the long run, a fully functioning and unified caliphate with <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islams-protestant-reformation/">“reformed” Muslims</a> next door is not a pretty picture. After all, the Islamic State is not exonerating the infidel, but rather saying his turn will come once the caliphate is <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/how-circumstance-dictates-islamic-behavior/">capable of an all-out assault</a>. At best, it’s a temporary reprieve.</p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS&#8217;s Islamic Inspirations &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2014 04:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow points to the Islamic roots of the Islamic killing fields. ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">He joined the Gang to discuss <em><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS's Islamic Inspirations.">ISIS&#8217;s Islamic Inspirations, </span></em><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS's Islamic Inspirations.">explaining how the jiha</span><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS's Islamic Inspirations.">dist terror we see in Iraq today, and throughout the world, is founded on Islamic theology. Raymond also discussed </span><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/video-jamie-glazov-discusses-his-battle-on-hannity-against-the-unholy-alliance/">Jamie’s Battle on Hannity against the Unholy Alliance</a>, Jihad Denial, Obama’s Enabling of Jihad, Jihadi Foreign Travelers, and much, much more:</p>
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<p>Daniel discussed <em>The Invasion on Our Southern Border, </em>unveiling the horror of Obama’s border disaster. <span class="userContent">He also discussed Israel vs. Hamas, Obama&#8217;s Iraq Throwaway, Hillary&#8217;s Rape Defense Lies, and much, much more:</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/25/pope-francis-refers-to-state-of-palestine-on-holy-land-trip-calls-mahmoud-abbas-a-man-of-peace/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=story&amp;utm_campaign=ShareButtons" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226343" alt="pa" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/pa1-450x307.jpg" width="315" height="215" />AP</a> reported Sunday that “Pope Francis delivered a powerful boost of support to the Palestinians during a Holy Land pilgrimage Sunday, repeatedly backing their statehood aspirations, praying solemnly at Israel’s controversial separation barrier and calling the stalemate in peace efforts ‘unacceptable.’”</p>
<p>Not only that, but “Palestinian officials hailed Francis’ decision to refer to the ‘state of Palestine.’ In its official program, the Vatican referred to President Mahmoud Abbas as the president of the ‘state of Palestine,’ and his Bethlehem office as the ‘presidential palace.’ He pointedly called Abbas a ‘man of peace.’”</p>
<p>This is not really all that surprising. After all, this is the Pope who wrote last November that “<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/11/pope-francis-authentic-islam-and-the-proper-reading-of-the-koran-are-opposed-to-every-form-of-violen" target="_blank">authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence</a>.” If “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence,” then Abbas is certainly a “man of peace.”</p>
<p>Abbas is the “man of peace” who said on <a href="http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3774.htm" target="_blank">March 15, 2013</a>: “As far as I am concerned, there is no difference between our policies and those of Hamas.” He said that while undoubtedly knowing that <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp" target="_blank">Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna is quoted in the Hamas Charter </a>as saying: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=8091" target="_blank">Hamas’s Al Aqsa TV</a> has featured a music video that proclaimed: “Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah.”</p>
<p>The “man of peace” heads up Fatah, which is hardly more “moderate.” <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=11455" target="_blank">Palestinian Media Watch</a> reported on May 14 that “on one of its official Facebook pages the Fatah movement, which is headed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday posted a warning to Israelis. A sign showed an assault rifle and a map of ‘Palestine’ that included both PA areas and all of Israel. In Arabic, Hebrew, and English it said: ‘Warning. This is a land of a Palestinian state and the occupation to leave immediately’ (English original).”</p>
<p>Likewise, <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=10921" target="_blank">in mid-March</a>, Palestinian official Abbas Zaki, a close friend of the “man of peace,” declared: “These Israelis have no belief, no principles. They are an advanced instrument of evil. They say, the Holocaust, and so on – fine, why are they doing this to us? Therefore, I believe that Allah, will gather them so we can kill them. I am informing the murderer of his death.” <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=11274">Fatah has also vowed</a> to “adhere to the option of armed resistance until the liberation of all of Palestine,” and threatened to “turn the beloved [Gaza] Strip into a graveyard for your soldiers, and we will turn Tel Aviv into a ball of fire.”</p>
<p>On top of all this, the spot where the Pope paused to pray at what AP called “Israel’s controversial separation barrier” – actually its security barrier – featured graffiti referring to the barrier as an “apartheid wall” and comparing Bethlehem to the Warsaw Ghetto. Middle East analyst <a href="http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001453.html" target="_blank">Tom Gross</a> noted that in reality, “the security barrier, which has saved countless lives, was built to protect Israelis after some 1000 civilians were killed by suicide bombers.” Israel did not build the barrier because of “racism” or a desire to emulate apartheid South Africa &#8212; to compare Israel to apartheid South Africa is a monstrous piece of disinformation, as a black South African <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/black-south-african-explains-why-israel-is-not-an-apartheid-state&amp;sa=U&amp;ei=qmCCU-KeJ-ijsQS7vYHYBw&amp;ved=0CAYQFjAA&amp;client=internal-uds-cse&amp;usg=AFQjCNEixH7HDWPm0dt2tQBF_xXpcgi_sw" target="_blank">has explained</a>.</p>
<p>Moreover, Gross points out: “Bethlehem is a relatively prosperous town where restaurants and juice bars are packed, and BMWs, Mercedes and Humvees compete for parking spaces in the center or town. By contrast, 400,000 Jews were herded into the Warsaw Ghetto and those who weren’t beaten or starved to death there, were taken to be exterminated at nearby camps.”</p>
<p>In allowing himself to become an instrument of Palestinian jihad propaganda, and spreading that propaganda himself, the Pope has done a grave disservice to free people and aided and abetted the genocidal jihad against Israel. The damage resulting from his trip is impossible to calculate at this point, but it could be immense. Pope Francis’s jaunt in the “State of Palestine,” was a tremendous show of support for the jihad against Israel, and a dark day for the papacy, the Roman Catholic Church, and free people everywhere.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Muslimsplaining&#8217; Islamic Terrorism Away</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The peculiar media ritual that follows every Islamic act of violence.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/PHO-06Aug03-46228.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226025" alt="ATTACK AFGHANISTAN" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/PHO-06Aug03-46228-431x350.jpg" width="302" height="245" /></a>As bloody bodies and smoke rise into the air after a cry of Allahu Akbar and a bomb detonation, each Muslim terrorist attack is followed by &#8220;Muslimsplaining&#8221; why the latest act of Islamic violence had nothing to do with Islam.</span></p>
<p>Sometimes the Muslimsplainers are Muslims. Often they aren&#8217;t even Muslims.</p>
<p>When Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist group aligned with Al Qaeda, kidnapped Nigerian girls, the media&#8217;s Muslimsplainers sprang into action to explain why it had nothing to do with Islam.</p>
<p><i>Time</i> featured &#8220;5 Reasons Boko Haram is Un-Islamic&#8221;; a listicle friendly article from one of those non-Muslim experts on why Islam is feminist</p>
<p>&#8220;With their sustained campaign of murders and kidnappings, the members of Boko Haram conduct themselves in a manner that could barely be more alien to the Prophet Muhammad teachings,&#8221; the article claimed.</p>
<p>Mohammed spread Islam through a sustained campaign of murders and kidnappings. Claiming that murder was alien to Mohammed is like claiming that pledge drives are alien to PBS.</p>
<p>As proof, <i>Time</i> cited a statement from Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, that Boko Haram was “set up to smear the image of Islam.”</p>
<p>This is the same Sheikh al-Sheikh who called <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2012/March/Mufti-All-Arabian-Peninsula-Churches-Must-Be-Destroyed/">for destroying all the churches</a> in the region and  <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/17/saudi.child.marriage/">marrying off 10-year-old</a> girls. Destroying churches and raping schoolgirls is exactly what Boko Haram stands for. If you believe the media, the same grand mufti who supports raping children in Saudi Arabia as Islamic&#8230; opposes raping them in Nigeria as un-Islamic.</p>
<p>The only reason the double Sheikh who speaks out of both sides of his mouth denounces Boko Haram and other Al Qaeda groups is because he is a mouthpiece for the Saudi ruling family which opposes them.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia isn&#8217;t opposed to Al Qaeda because it’s un-Islamic. It&#8217;s opposed to Al Qaeda because the Islamic group wants to replace the House of Saud, upsetting the deal between Wahhab and Saud that created a balance between the tyrannical royal family and the mosque.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia and its mouthpieces don&#8217;t oppose Al Qaeda because it&#8217;s un-Islamic. They oppose it because it&#8217;s too Islamic for them.</p>
<p>Muslimsplaining by non-Muslims is dishonest. <i>Time</i> claims that Mohammed opposed harming women and other non-combatants when he and his men enslaved and raped captured women. It claims that Islam opposes forcibly marrying off underage girls, when Mohammed married an underage girl and the very Muslim religious leader quoted by <i>Time</i> in its introduction supports it.</p>
<p><i>Time</i> claims that Boko Haram&#8217;s war against Christians is un-Islamic and yet the grand mufti it cites who called for the destruction of Christian churches based his demand on Mohammed&#8217;s deathbed statement, &#8220;Two religions shall not co-exist in the Arabian Peninsula.&#8221;</p>
<p>If we are to believe <i>Time</i>, not only is Boko Haram un-Islamic but so is the grand mufti that <i>Time</i> quoted to prove Boko Haram is un-Islamic.</p>
<p>And so is Mohammed.</p>
<p>If Mohammed is un-Islamic because he raped girls, enslaved women and murdered religious minorities in a campaign of violence and slavery&#8230; is there even an Islam?</p>
<p>Either Mohammed, the founder of Islam, is un-Islamic so that Islam, as defined by the Muslimsplainers, doesn&#8217;t exist. Or the Muslimsplainers are lying about Islam.</p>
<p>Muslim countries are some of the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/5/feds-10-15-worst-countries-religious-intolerance-a/">world&#8217;s most religiously intolerant places</a> and they are also the places <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/statistics-show-women-fare-badly-muslim-countries-un-official-says-critics-are">most likely to treat women</a> and girls like dirt. You can either believe the independent statistics, the quotes from Muslim clerics and from Mohammed&#8230; or the Muslimsplainers who claim that the condemnation of Boko Haram by a totalitarian Islamic country whose religious police shoved schoolgirls <a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/trapped-saudi-girls-left-to-burn-by-law-on-dress-1-607203">back to die in a burning building </a>because their hair wasn&#8217;t covered proves that the group has nothing in common with the moderate form of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Muslimsplaining by Muslims is even more offensive to the victims of Islam.</p>
<p>Sheikh Mostafa Elazabawy of the Masjid Manhattan mosque resigned from the interfaith advisory panel to the 9/11 Museum and warned that a documentary about terrorism would offend Muslims.</p>
<p>This was the same Sheikh Elazabawy who <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/imam-who-claimed-911-museum-defames-muslims-says-jews-are-a-cancer-control-all-the-money/">called Jews a &#8220;cancer.&#8221;</a> Muslimsplainers like Elazabawy want tolerance, but they aren&#8217;t willing to give it in return. They aren&#8217;t really for tolerance, but for carving out spaces of Muslim privilege.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not any different than what Islamic supremacist groups like Al Qaeda or Boko Haram do. The only difference between Muslim supremacist &#8220;moderates&#8221; and &#8220;extremists&#8221; is that the extremists are honest about their supremacism while the moderates hide behind tolerance.</p>
<p>&#8220;The film ignorantly implies a religion, rather than a group of criminals, was to blame for the September 11 attacks,&#8221; CAIR insisted.</p>
<p>Criminals don&#8217;t commit suicide by flying planes into buildings. Criminals seek to profit from their crimes. The 9/11 hijackers were willing to die because they believed that they would be reborn in a paradise filled with eternal virgins and young boys serving wine.</p>
<p>The checklist for the 9/11 hijackers told them to read the Koran into their hands and touch their knives and passports to endow them with magic Koran powers. It promised them that airport security would not stop them except through the will of Allah. When they attacked, they were urged to shout praises of Allah and to remember that &#8220;the women of paradise are waiting.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Strike for Allah&#8217;s sake,&#8221; the 9/11 hijackers were told. &#8220;Implement the way of the prophet in taking prisoners. Take prisoners and kill them. As Allah said: &#8216;No prophet should have prisoners until he has soaked the land with blood.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>These are the motives of religiously devout men who worship death and killing.</p>
<p>Do the<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6176"> Muslimsplainers of CAIR</a> really believe that Al Qaeda is a gang of criminals? Under its current leadership, Al Qaeda is effectively a splinter group of the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR has <a href="http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/08/cair_identified_by_the_fbi_as.php">close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood</a>. It also has a history of supporting another Muslim Brotherhood <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/2340/federal-judge-agrees-cair-tied-to-hamas">terrorist group, Hamas</a>.</p>
<p>Nihad Awad, the <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/113.pdf">founder and executive director of CAIR</a>, said, &#8220;I am in support of the Hamas movement.&#8221;</p>
<p>Al Qaeda <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-06-25-al-qaeda_N.htm">urged support for </a>Hamas and Hamas <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8488479/Osama-bin-Laden-dead-Hamas-condemns-killing-of-bin-Laden.html">denounced the killing of Osama bin Laden</a> saying, &#8220;We condemn the assassination of a Muslim and Arab warrior and we pray to Allah that his soul rests in peace. We regard this as the continuation of the American oppression and shedding of blood of Muslims and Arabs.&#8221;</p>
<p>CAIR supports Hamas. Hamas supports Al Qaeda. Yet the Muslimsplainers at CAIR would like us to believe that they don&#8217;t support Al Qaeda even though it&#8217;s a branch of the same Muslim Brotherhood tree.<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2009/10/113472/"> CAIR even took money</a> from an Al Qaeda linked front group.</p>
<p>If Al Qaeda is a gang of un-Islamic criminals, then Hamas which supports Al Qaeda is also an un-Islamic gang of criminals. We can&#8217;t believe anything CAIR says about Islam because it is, by its own admission, an un-Islamic gang of criminals.</p>
<p>Since virtually every Muslim organization in this country is interlinked with CAIR, they too are un-Islamic gangs of criminals and we should ignore anything they say about Islam.</p>
<p>Now that the official Muslimsplainers have all outed themselves as un-Islamic criminals maybe we can have an honest discussion about Islam. And that discussion must begin by acknowledging that religious tolerance and respect for the rights of women are un-Islamic.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s either that or believe that Al Qaeda and Boko Haram, not to mention Pakistan, Iran,  Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, with a combined population of about half-a-billion Muslims, are un-Islamic. And then where are we to find any actual Muslims except the hypothetical ones in Muslimsplaining mainstream media articles?</p>
<p>Either the Muslimsplainers are right and real Islam, like real Communism, doesn&#8217;t actually exist in any Muslim country on earth, or they&#8217;re wrong and real Islam is what we&#8217;re dealing with here. It isn&#8217;t a gang of un-Islamic criminals kidnapping schoolgirls, blowing up churches, flying planes into buildings, beheading prisoners and murdering people over Mohammed cartoons.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s Islam.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/article-2620615-1D96060100000578-523_634x382.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224852" alt="article-2620615-1D96060100000578-523_634x382" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/article-2620615-1D96060100000578-523_634x382-450x271.jpg" width="315" height="190" /></a>Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian jihad group named the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad and better known as Boko Haram (“Western Education Is Sinful,” or “Books Bad”), has horrified the world by abducting over three hundred schoolgirls and selling them into sex slavery. Shekau has even published a video in which he gloats about the abduction, telling the girls’ grieving families: “I abducted your girls. I will sell them on the market, by Allah….There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Does Allah really say that? The mainstream media is, true to form, steadfastly ignoring Shekau’s references to the acceptability in Islam of sexual slavery, and it’s easy to understand why, given its anxiety always to portray Islam in a favorable light – for the Qur’an really does allow for the owning of sex slaves:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If you fear that you will not act justly towards the orphans, marry such women as seem good to you, two, three, four; but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or </span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">what your right hands own</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">; so it is likelier you will not be partial. (Qur’an 4:3)</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This verse is the basis for Islamic polygamy, allowing a man to take as many as four wives, as long as he believes he is able to “deal justly” with all of them. But justice in these circumstances is in the eye of the beholder. The renowned Qur’an commentator Ibn Kathir says this the requirement to deal justly with one’s wives is no big deal, since treating them justly isn’t the same as treating them equally: “it is not obligatory to treat them equally, rather it is recommended. So if one does so, that is good, and if not, there is no harm on him.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The verse goes on to say that if a man cannot deal justly with multiple wives, then he should marry only one, or resort to “what your right hands own” — that is, slave girls.</span></p>
<p>The twentieth-century Qur’an commentator Maulana Bulandshahri explains the wisdom of this practice, and longs for the good old days:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">During Jihad (religion war), many men and women become war captives. The Amirul Mu’minin [leader of the believers, or caliph -- an office now vacant] has the choice of distributing them amongst the Mujahidin [warriors of jihad], in which event they will become the property of these Mujahidin. This enslavement is the penalty for disbelief (kufr).</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He goes on to explain that this is not ancient history:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>None of the injunctions pertaining to slavery have been abrogated in the Shari’ah. The reason that the Muslims of today do not have slaves is because they do not engage in Jihad (religion war). Their wars are fought by the instruction of the disbelievers (kuffar) and are halted by the same felons. The Muslim [sic] have been shackled by such treaties of the disbelievers (kuffar) whereby they cannot enslave anyone in the event of a war. Muslims have been denied a great boon whereby every home could have had a slave. May Allah grant the Muslims the ability to escape the tentacles of the enemy, remain steadfast upon the Din (religion) and engage in Jihad (religion war) according to the injunctions of Shari’ah. Amen!</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is by no means an eccentric or unorthodox view in Islam. The Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/05/egyptian-shaykh-jihad-is-solution-to.html">declared in May 2011</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that “we are in the era of jihad,” and that as they waged jihad warfare against infidels, Muslims would take slaves. He clarified what he meant in </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-shaykh-al-huwayni-when-i-want-sex.html">a subsequent interview</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>…Jihad is only between Muslims and infidels. Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholars–there is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. The prisoners and spoils are distributed among the fighters, which includes men, women, children, wealth, and so on.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When a slave market is erected, which is a market in which are sold slaves and sex-slaves, which are called in the Qur’an by the name milk al-yamin, “that which your right hands possess” [Qur’an 4:24]. This is a verse from the Qur’an which is still in force, and has not been abrogated. The milk al-yamin are the sex-slaves. You go to the market, look at the sex-slave, and buy her. She becomes like your wife, (but) she doesn’t need a (marriage) contract or a divorce like a free woman, nor does she need a wali. All scholars agree on this point–there is no disagreement from any of them. [...] When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Right around the same time, on May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti activist and politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-kuwaiti-activist-i-hope-that.html">also spoke out</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in favor of the Islamic practice of sexual slavery of non-Muslim women, emphasizing that the practice accorded with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">…A merchant told me that he would like to have a sex slave. He said he would not be negligent with her, and that Islam permitted this sort of thing. He was speaking the truth. I brought up (this man’s) situation to the muftis in Mecca. I told them that I had a question, since they were men who specialized in what was halal, and what was good, and who loved women. I said, “What is the law of sex slaves?”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The mufti said, “With the law of sex slaves, there must be a Muslim nation at war with a Christian nation, or a nation which is not of the religion, not of the religion of Islam. And there must be prisoners of war.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Is this forbidden by Islam?,” I asked.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Absolutely not. Sex slaves are not forbidden by Islam. On the contrary, sex slaves are under a different law than the free woman. The free woman must be completely covered except for her face and hands. But the sex slave can be naked from the waist up. She differs a lot from the free woman. While the free woman requires a marriage contract, the sex slave does not–she only needs to be purchased by her husband, and that’s it. Therefore the sex slave is different than the free woman.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While the savage exploitation of girls and young women is an unfortunately cross-cultural phenomenon, only in Islamic law does it carry anything approaching divine sanction. Here is yet another human rights scandal occasioned by Islamic law that the international human rights community and the mainstream media cravenly ignore. The abduction of the Nigerian schoolgirls could have been an opportunity to call upon Muslim leaders to work for genuine reform, so that the justifications for this savagery are definitively removed. Instead, Western leaders and the mainstream media are doing what they always do: pretend that this is an isolated incident and there is no problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And that only ensures that there will be more such incidents.</span></p>
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		<title>The United Kingdom’s Continuing Koran Censorship</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Harrod]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British justice sinks further.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kr.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222813" alt="kr" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kr.gif" width="280" height="217" /></a>Mark Stephenson confessed at a <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/middlesbrough-fan-mark-stephenson-ripped-3194631">February 28, 2014, United Kingdom trial</a> “threatening behavior” while watching a <a href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/koran-was-ripped-up-birmingham-6406631">December 7, 2013, Birmingham soccer game</a>.  Stephenson’s behavior involved Koran desecration, merely the latest case demonstrating deferential British censorship with respect to Islam’s holy book.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/football-fan-fined-ripping-up-6758913">According to one news account</a>, a woman gave pages of a Koran taken from her handbag to Stephenson and about 20 other soccer fans during the game.  Stephenson ripped the pages and pretended to burn them with a lighter while saying to a stadium worker that he had the “Muslim bible, we hate Muslims.”  Another worker overheard fans shouting “Koran, Muslims and burning.”</p>
<p>Stephenson received a £235 fine for a “<a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/37/section/31">religiously-aggravated public order offence</a>,” a British hate crime that, among things, encompasses “<a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/section/5">threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behavior</a>.”  “We hope that in the future you will not ever, ever participate in any such incident,” Judge Ronald Healey declared in sentencing Stephenson.  It is “considered extremely offensive to some members of the community.”</p>
<p>“It’s disgraceful to allow pure hatred to come to an area like” Birmingham “with a high Muslim population,” Muslim Member of Parliament Khalid Mahmood had said of the incident in his hometown in December.  The “culprits should be dealt with severely and be charged with incitement,” he demanded.  A Middlesbrough Football Club spokesperson also condemned the incident involving the club’s Koran-desecrating fans as violating a desire to “eradicate racism in all its forms.”</p>
<p>Other Britons have also had legal difficulties due to Koran desecration, even when, unlike Stephenson, their behavior has not involved possible questions of property violations or individual insults and threats.  <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8020296/Six-arrested-in-Gateshead-over-Koran-burning.html">Six men faced racial incitement charges in September 2010</a> for their burning of a Koran behind a Gateshead pub on the September 11 anniversary of Al Qaeda’s 2001 attacks, a burning filmed and placed on Youtube.  A group spokesman declared the burning a “private joke” and that they were unaware of who filmed the incident.</p>
<p>The men responded “to historical images of Muslim extremists burning American flags and effigies of western leaders,” the spokesman said.  The group was also “sick of British soldiers being killed out in Afghanistan and then being spat at and called baby killers” domestically.  The <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332877/Girl-arrested-Facebook-footage-Koran-burning-school.html">self-professed “English nationalists” also expressed “frustration”</a> over “one law for Muslims” and another for Caucasians.  “Our community is one of mutual respect,” local Gateshead officials stated in condemning the incident.</p>
<p>The following November police arrested a 15-year old Birmingham girl for placing on Facebook a video of her burning a Koran at her school.  “All involved have reacted very positively,” local councilman Robert Badham qualified, however.  The “children at the school know how serious it is.”</p>
<p>Subsequently on January 19, 2011, a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-12848048">former soldier burned a stolen library Koran stolen</a> on a Carlisle street in an event reported as “witnessed by shoppers and schoolchildren.”  Admitting in court theft and “religiously aggravated harassment,” Andrew Ryan expressed being “shocked” by a Muslim burning a memorial poppy on the British equivalent of Memorial Day, Remembrance Day.  <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-13119241">Condemning Ryan’s “theatrical bigotry,”</a> Judge Gerald Chalk noted that Ryan sought “to cause maximum publicity and…distress.”</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/apr/09/bnp-candidate-arrested-quran-burning">following April Welsh police arrested Sion Owens</a>, a senior member of the far-right British National Party, for burning a Koran in his garden, an event filmed in a video leaked to the press and then transferred to authorities.  A Home Office statement said that the “government absolutely condemns the burning of the Qur’an” as “fundamentally offensive to the values of our pluralist and tolerant society.”  Authorities, however, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13032513">withdrew charges</a> against Owens.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13032513">Atheist Peter Crawford came next on May 12, 2012,</a> when he ripped up his own Koran in front of an Islamic information booth in Leicester while telling the booth’s Muslims staffers that Islam was a “load of bollocks.”  Prosecutor James Bide-Thomas questioned whether Crawford engaged in a “legitimate” free speech or violated the law against “harassment, alarm or distress by insulting behaviour, basically upsetting people.”  Crawford’s prosecution <a href="http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2013/01/jury-dismissed-in-leicester-trial-of-man-accused-of-ripping-up-his-koran--no-retrial-planned?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nssnews+%28NSS+News%29">collapsed with a hung jury</a>.</p>
<p>Yet per famed English political essayist George Orwell, some religions in modern Britain are more equal than others.  A <a href="http://www.mccinglasgow.moonfruit.com/#/made-in-gods-image/4534834837">pro-gay church contributed a Bible to a 2009 exhibit</a> at Glasgow’s <a href="http://galleryofmodernart.wordpress.com/about-2/gallery-of-modern-art-goma-glasgow/">Gallery of Modern Art</a> (GoMA).  Visitors could write their names in its margins, the church explained, to demonstrate how LGBT people “have been marginalised by many Christian Churches and also our desire to be included in the love of God.”  Yet <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/5892500/Art-gallery-invites-visitors-to-deface-the-Bible.html">many visitors wrote in the text</a> what a Christian organization called “<a href="https://defendchristians.org/commentary/defaming-the-bible-as-cruel-and-exclusive/">obscenities and atheist ramblings</a>.”  Would the exhibitors “do the same if it was the Koran?” the Christians wondered.</p>
<p>An <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/46489">exhibit video</a>, meanwhile, showed the singer Roxanne Claxton ripping pages out of a Bible and stuffing them into her knickers and bra as well as eating them.  As a “bisexual woman,” Claxton declared, “I wanted to celebrate both the masculine and feminine aspects of my identity in relation to my faith as a Christian woman.”  By contrast, the video appeared “disgusting and offensive” to a Pope Benedict XVI advisor, who echoed comments about the defaced Bible in saying that the exhibitors “would not think of doing it to the Koran.”</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">“[C]omplete indifference” marked official reaction to GoMA in contrast to the schoolgirl Koran burning, an <a href="http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2010/11/on-burning-quran-and-desecrating-bible.html">Anglican blogger noted</a>.  Under this modern British double standard, the Koran, a religious book, enjoys vigorous protection against defilement as a form of racial bigotry, while the Bible, along with other revered items, is subject to criticism like anything else.  In the face of Islam, British justice has sunk even further.</p>
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		<title>Why ‘Moderate Islam’ Is an Oxymoron</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 04:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West's invention of the notions of  “moderate” and “extreme” Islam.]]></description>
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<p>At a time when terrorism committed in the name of Islam is rampant, we are continuously being assured—especially by three major institutions that play a dominant role in forming the Western mindset, namely, mainstream media, academia, and government—that the sort of Islam embraced by “radicals,” “jihadis,” and so forth, has nothing to do with “real” Islam.</p>
<p>“True” Islam, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/cia-chief-jihad-a-product-of-injustices-economics-and-ignorance/">so the narrative goes</a>, is intrinsically free of anything “bad.”  It’s the nut-jobs who hijack it for their own agenda that are to blame.</p>
<p>More specifically, we are told that there exists a “moderate” Islam and an “extremist” Islam—the former good and true, embraced by a Muslim majority, the latter a perverse sacrilege practiced by an exploitative minority.</p>
<p>But what do these dual adjectives—“moderate” and “extremist”—ultimately mean in the context of Islam?  Are they both equal and viable alternatives insofar as to how Islam is understood?  Are they both <i>theologically</i> legitimate?  This last question is particularly important, since Islam is first and foremost a religious way of life centered around the words of a deity (Allah) and his prophet (Muhammad)—the significance of which is admittedly unappreciated by secular societies.</p>
<p>Both terms—“moderate” and “extremist”—have to do with <i>degree</i>, or less mathematically, <i>zeal</i>: how much, or to what extent, a thing is practiced or implemented.  As <i>Webster</i>’s puts it, “moderate” means “observing reasonable limits”; “extremist” means “going to great or exaggerated lengths.”</p>
<p>It’s a question, then, of doing either too much or too little.</p>
<p>The problem, however, is that mainstream Islam offers a crystal-clear way of life, based on the teachings of the Koran and Hadith—the former, containing what purport to be the sacred words of Allah, the latter, the example (or <i>sunna</i>, hence “Sunnis”) of his prophet, also known as the most “perfect man” (<i>al-insan al-kamil</i>).   Indeed, based on these two primary sources and according to normative Islamic teaching, all human actions fall into five categories: forbidden actions, discouraged actions, neutral actions recommended actions, and obligatory actions.</p>
<p>In this context, how does a believer go about “moderating” what the deity and his spokesman have commanded?    One can either try to observe Islam’s commandments or one can ignore them: any more or less is not Islam—a word which means “submit” (to the laws, or <i>sharia</i>, of Allah).</p>
<p>The real question, then, is what do Allah and his prophet command Muslims (“they who submit”) to do?  Are radicals “exaggerating” their orders? Or are moderate Muslims simply “observing reasonable limits”—a euphemism for negligence?—when it comes to fulfilling their commandments?</p>
<p>In our highly secularized era, where we are told that religious truths are flexible or simply non-existent, and that any and all interpretations and exegeses are valid, the all-important question of “What does Islam command?” loses all relevance.</p>
<p>Hence why the modern West is incapable of understanding Islam.</p>
<p>Indeed, only <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hjTgk_AQcedUAeBtq3sJE07VaRbQ?docId=7ecf51d4-238b-4787-86d9-1e4ffdfd2c1a">recently</a>, a Kenyan mosque leader said that the Westgate massacre, where Islamic gunmen slaughtered some 67 people, “was justified.  As per the Koran, as per the religion of Islam, Westgate was 100 percent justified.” Then he said: “Radical Islam is a creation of people who do not believe in Islam. <i>We don’t have radical Islam, we don’t have moderates, we don’t have extremists. Islam is one religion following the Koran and the Sunna</i>” [emphasis added].</p>
<p>Note his point that “Radical Islam is a creation of people who do not believe in Islam,” a clear reference to the West which coined the phrase “radical Islam.”  Ironically, the secular West, which relegates religious truths to the realm of “personal experience,” feels qualified to decide what is and is not “radical” about Islam.</p>
<p>Consider one example: Allah commands Muslims to “Fight those among the People of the Book [Jews and Christians] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, nor forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth [i.e., Islam], until they pay the <i>jizya</i> [tribute] with willing submission and feel themselves subdued”  [Koran 9:29].</p>
<p>How can one interpret this verse to mean anything other than what it plainly says?  Wherein lies the ambiguity, the room for interpretation?  Of course there are other teachings and allusions in the Koran that by necessity lend themselves over to the fine arts of interpretation, or <i>ijtihad</i>.  But surely the commands of Koran 9:29 are completely straightforward?</p>
<p>In fact, Muhammad’s 7<sup>th</sup> century followers literally acted on this and similar verses (e.g., 9:5), launching the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-historical-reality-of-the-muslim-conquests/">first Muslim conquests</a>, which saw the subjugation of millions of Christians, Jews, and others, and the creation of the “Muslim world.”  Such jihadi expansion continued until Islam was beaten on the battlefield by a resurgent West some two or three centuries ago.</p>
<p>Western scholarly works, before the age of relativism and political correctness set in, did not equivocate the meaning of jihad.  Thus the authoritative <i>Encyclopaedia of Islam</i>’s entry for “jihad” states that the “spread of Islam by arms is a religious duty upon Muslims in general …  Jihad must continue to be done until the whole world is under the rule of Islam … Islam must completely be made over before the doctrine of jihad [warfare to spread Islam] can be eliminated. Islamic law expert and U.S. professor Majid Khadduri (1909-2007), after defining jihad as warfare, wrote that “jihad … is regarded by all jurists, with almost no exception, as a collective obligation of the whole Muslim community.”</p>
<p>(As for the argument that the Bible contains similar war verses, yet Jews and Christians are not out to conquer the world—so why say Muslims are?—see “<a href="http://www.meforum.org/2159/are-judaism-and-christianity-as-violent-as-islam">Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam</a>” for a detailed breakdown of the similarities and differences.  Also see “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islamic-jihad-and-the-doctrine-of-abrogation/">Islamic Jihad and the Doctrine of Abrogation</a>” to understand how the Koran’s more tolerant verses have been abrogated by its more militant ones, such as 9:29.)</p>
<p>In short, how can a sincere Muslim—by definition, one who has submitted to the teachings of Allah—“moderate” verses like 9:29?  How can he “observe reasonable limits” vis-à-vis these plain commands to combat and subjugate non-Muslims?</p>
<p>Must Muslims not, at the very least, admit that such teachings are true and <i>should</i> be striven for—even if they do not personally engage in the jihad, at least not directly (but they are encouraged to support it indirectly, including <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/from-barbary-wars-to-somali-piracy/">monetarily or through propaganda</a>)?</p>
<p>Just recently, reports appeared telling of how Islamic groups in Syria were following Koran 9:29 to a tee—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/">forcing Christian minorities to pay them jizya</a>, i.e., extortion money, in exchange for their lives.  In fact, all around the Islamic world, Christians and other minorities are <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/brotherhood-imposes-jizya-tribute-on-egypts-christians/">regularly plundered by Muslims</a> who justify their actions be referring to the aforementioned verse.</p>
<p>Are all such Muslims being “extreme” in light of the commands of Koran 9:29—which specifically calls for the taking of money from Christians and Jews—or are they simply upholding the unambiguous teachings of Islam?</p>
<p>One may argue that, if Muslims are to take Koran 9:29 literally, why are Muslim nations the world over not declaring an all-out jihad on all non-Muslim nations, including America? The ultimate reason, of course, is that they simply <i>can’t</i>; they do not have the capability to uphold that verse (and Islamic teaching allows Muslims to <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/top-muslim-cleric-qaradawi-urges-western-muslims-to-liberalize/">postpone their obligations</a> until circumstances are more opportune).</p>
<p>It would obviously be silly, if not suicidal,  for, say, Saudi Arabia, birthplace of Islam, to issue a statement to the West saying either accept Islam, pay jizya/tribute, or die by the sword.  But just because Muslim nations <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/how-circumstance-dictates-islamic-behavior/">do not currently have the capacity to actualize Koran 9:29</a>, does not mean that they do not acknowledge its veracity and try to actualize it in <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/16/syria-s-saudi-jihadist-problem.html">other places when they can</a>.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/surreal-and-suicidal-modern-western-histories-of-islam/">quick survey of history</a> before the meteoric rise of Western military might put Islam in check makes this especially clear.</p>
<p>Bottom line: If Islam teaches X and a Muslim upholds X—how is he being “extreme”?  Seems more logical to say that it is <i>Islam itself</i> that is being “extreme.”  Similarly, if a self-professed Muslim does not uphold Islamic teachings—including prayer, fasting, paying <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-dark-side-of-zakat/"><i>zakat</i></a>, etc.—how is he being a “moderate”?  Seems more logical to say that he is not much of a Muslim at all—that is, he is not submitting to Allah, the very definition of “Muslim.”</p>
<p>It’s time to acknowledge that dichotomized notions like “moderate” and “extreme” are culturally induced and loaded standards of the modern, secular West—hardly applicable to the teachings of Islam—and not universal absolutes recognized by all mankind.</p>
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