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When Emir Balat, accused of taking part in throwing IEDs at a rally against the Islamization of New York City near the mayoral residence, was being led out by an FBI agent, he raised his right finger upwards in what media accounts incorrectly described as an “ISIS salute”.
The New York Post called it “a universal salute for ISIS”. But there is no such thing as an ISIS salute. It’s the traditional Islamic salute used during prayers to their deity and, much like “Allahu Akbar” is used by Islamists proclaiming that they represent Allah and are combating infidels.
ISIS beheaders held up one finger after beheading their non-Muslim victims, but so do most Muslims. The ISIS flag, a terrifying black and white chimera to most westerners, simply declares that Allah is the only deity and Mohammed is his messenger: the founding premise of Islam.
The persistent myth of an ‘ISIS salute’ continues to crop up when media outlets try to distinguish between Islam and some imaginary ‘extreme’ version of it represented by Islamic terrorists. The BBC and a UK police force previously apologized for calling the ‘Allah finger’ an ISIS salute.
What the ‘ISIS salute’ lie really reveals is the length to which authorities and the media will go to cover up the Islamic theology behind Islamic terrorism. What the Gracie Mansion bombing suspect likely meant to convey was that the murderous attack had been carried out in Allah’s name, that he was operating under Islamic law, and had no regard for our justice system.
Islam is not an inward-facing faith. Its followers do not shout “Allahu Akbar” or hold up one finger as part of some ‘inner struggle’ of faith, as apologists have mischaracterized Jihad, but as symbols of their external struggle and a justification for violence against all non-Muslims.
The significance of the ‘Allah finger’ is not an inward acceptance of Allah’s supremacy, but a contention that the ‘fingerer’ is a monotheist while those outside the circle are ‘polytheists’ or pagans who, under Islamic law, may be freely killed, raped and enslaved by the followers of Islam. Much as ‘Allahu Akbar’ is a proclamation of Allah’s supremacy over non-Muslims and thus a triumphal declaration that Islam will defeat them, their religions and their ‘gods’, so too the ‘Allah finger’ easily becomes a justification for violence in the name of Islamic supremacism.
Islam is perpetually frozen in the moment of its founding Jihad. Its traditional followers see themselves as a small minority tasked with the primal Mohammedan mission of forcing their friends and neighbors to accept Islam, either through persuasion (Dawah) or force (Jihad.) Different Islamic movements, groups and individuals may vary in the tactics they use, how much they rely on one or the other, and how they pursue even violence, but the endgame is the same.
The ‘Allah finger’ helps us understand that mindset which bridges ISIS and the mosque next door. What may seem like a declaration of faith is actually a symbol of conquest. The constant need for expansion makes faith into an external expression and its preferred outlet is violence.
When Muslims praise Islamic terrorists, they are often mistranslated as “martyrs”. But “martyr” is a Greek term meaning “witness”. The martyr in Christianity testified to his faith in life or death. The martyrs of Christianity eventually became those who testified for their faith by giving up their lives. The equivalent term in Judaism is “Kedoshim” or “sanctified ones”. Much as Islam appears to share a common meaning with ‘peace’, the Arabic term “shaheed” appears to also mean ‘witness’, but the Islamic ‘Shaheed’ is most often used to refer to Muslims who murder in the name of Islam. The witnessing of Islam is not passive: it is a violent Jihad against all others.
What the Koran wants most from Muslim is not inner faith, but outer violence, best expressed through the subjugation of non-Muslims under Sharia law. Personal conduct matters less because all is forgiven and paradise is granted to Jihadis. That is why the worst possible men aspire to it. The man (or woman) who truly believes in Islam holds up his finger, shouts “Allahu Akbar” and throws an IED in order to make Islam “supreme over all unbelievers”.
ISIS in America does not exist as an organized force, but as a series of Telegram channels, Discord chats and other crowdsourced means of communication reaching young Muslims who have been inspired by the teachings of their religion to wage relentless war against infidels.
What has set ISIS apart all along is not that it invented some new ‘extremist theology’ as experts, politicians and the media have been desperately trying to convince us, but that it takes Islamic law seriously and unapologetically. People argue that Islam needs a reformation. ISIS is it. Every Islamic ‘reformation’, like Wahhabism, has brought Islam closer to what it once was. The mission of these reformations is to scourge out any western influences, eliminate any of the liberalizing tendencies of the late Ottoman period, and recommit to the caliphate mission.
ISIS is just unapologetic Islam. The ISIS salute is the traditional ‘Allah finger’ used in Islamic prayers. The attacks carried out by Muslim men who pledge allegiance to it is just Jihad.
The media outlets that describe the ‘Allah finger’ as an “ISIS salute” are eventually forced to retract, often under pressure from Muslim Brotherhood groups like CAIR, and admit it’s a traditional Islamic sign. They will add that it has nothing to do with terrorism. That part isn’t true.
What is more true is that there is no meaningful distinction between Islam and Islamic terrorism. The red line between some mainstream form of Islam and terrorism never existed and doesn’t exist. Most Muslims reject ISIS not because of attacks like the one outside Gracie Mansion, but because the Islamic terrorist group, originally operating as an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq, claims exclusive religious authority and declared that all who do not accept it are fair game for terror.
That and that alone is what Muslims object to about ISIS.
If there were some fundamental theological differences between ISIS and Islam, Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former Al Qaeda and ISIS affiliated leader now in charge of Syria, wouldn’t be accepted and celebrated by most Sunni Muslims. And the Muslim Brotherhood, which dominates most mosques in America, wouldn’t have spawned Al Qaeda and then ISIS, while pressuring Congress to accept and drop all sanctions on Syria’s Al Qaeda regime.
Most ‘splits’ within Islam, including the primal Sunni and Shiite split, were not really formed around actual theological differences, but as power struggles between different Muslim factions. In Islam, religion is power and power is religion. That’s why the ultimate expression of Islam is Jihad.
The ‘Allah finger’ and “Allahu Akbar” are not mystical expressions of faith in an esoteric creator, but the chain of command in a military hierarchy that begins with Allah, goes through Mohammed and then down to any Islamic faction willing to wage war on the infidels.
The ‘ISIS salute’ may not be exclusive to that Islamic terror group, but it really is a military salute. The Gracie Mansion bomber was likely indicating his role in a military hierarchy at war with the United States of America and the entire non-Muslim world.
“The minarets are the bayonets, the domes are the helmets, the mosques are our barracks, the believers are the soldiers,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Islamic dictator, once recited. With equal simplicity, the brutal mass murderer also stated that, “Islam cannot be either ‘moderate’ or ‘not moderate.’ Islam can only be one thing.” That thing may sometimes pretend to be other things, but in the end Islam is the same thing that Mohammed created over 1,000 years ago.
Islam is Jihad. And when we import Islam, we import an ancient war machine dedicated to conquering us through lies, through persuasion and finally through bombs and terror.
Wow, Daniel sure sees things and can state them clearly.
Thank you. It’s basic history that has been deliberately obscured and covered up and practically made into a hate crime to state openly.
Except progressives are either too stupid/gullible to understand the threat OR, more likely, complicit with Islam to destroy Western culture. Either way, All Americans have to do is look at what “the religion of peace” has done to Europe.
I wish I had an X or Truth Social account to post a link to this piece. Maybe someone else does?
It clarifies so much truth.
Just as Christianity argued for several hundred years over points of doctrine until finally arriving at a solution in which each may remain intact, and exist in line with the others. So I think, the different strains within Mohammedism must argue internally and even physically war to different points within the doctrine until a balance is reached where each allows the other doctrine to exist, All religious doctrines, in all the faiths can live in the world side-by-side. An intellectual framework needs to be built to accommodate all ideas. The framework exists. It’s a model of how the brain works because it works the same for each of us.
You’re an idiot.
I’m sorry to be rude.
“…Christianity argued for several hundred years over points of doctrine until finally arriving at a solution…”
There’s still plenty of division in Christendom. There are still disagreements over:
Water baptism.
Pentecostalism/charismania.
Covenant theology.
Dispensationalism. (It is this, though, which most ably answers the difficult bible related questions.)
Calvinism.
Universalism.
The King James Bible versus all the versions (essentially the Alexandrian line.)
Though there are lots of arguments in Christendom, it doesn’t mean the Bible is flawed. It’s not. Folks just don’t make enough distinctions. If the reader, or Christian, can just keep straight what concerns Israel and what concerns them, they’ll better understand what’s going on in the bible and what God’s purposes are and why.
“And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him. As well the stranger as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.” – Leviticus 24:16
ALL religions when believed in and practiced seriously lead to a brutal theocracy and the persecution of heretics, blasphemers, and infidels.
Dear THX 1138:
If today’s serious Christians strictly followed the laws found in the book of LEVITICUS, you would be in a world of hurt..
That ancient precept was directed at ancient Israel. The passage you cite serves to emphasize reverence for The Lord’s name and reputation within the “congregation”.
We modern Christian’s are thankful for Jesus and the New Testament because we are taught that Jesus has fulfilled the “Law” for us, so long as we put our trust in Him and Him alone. Please see: Matthew 5:17
THX, I pray that some day you will attempt to enlighten yourself like a true scholar rather than stand on your own ignorant and superficial understanding of Bible passages.
Kent
Don’t waste your time on this loser. He is so convinced he is correct in his ignorance and superficiality he will take his misery to his grave.
What church is stoning people today?
The Renaissance (the rebirth of reason) and the Age of Enlightenment (the light of reason) diminished serious belief in religion, not only for the Christians but for the Jews.
In the West, at least for now, we are still living in an age where reason has ascendancy over faith and secular forms of unreason, e.g., transgenderism. But, it must be said, that the light of reason has been slowly dying in the West for the last 200 years.
It may be too late to save the West from collapsing into a new dark age of faith and unreason.
Wazza matter T? Objectivism not working out like you hoped?
We can always count on you for one of those uplifting, positive in outlook tomes that you repeat ad nauseum.
The sky is falling, The sky is falling, The sky is falling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enjoy your misery. You disserve it.
Oops….typo alert: deserve, not disserve.
Feel free to move to China.
The problem is that within Islam, doctrinal arguments tend to be settled through violence because violence is seen as the ultimate legitimizing tool since the beginning of Islam.
I’m not saying that other religions haven’t used violence to settle disputes, but they were able to move away from it as state and religion detached. In Islam, the state is the entire point of religion.
And it’s not detachable.
“… all the faiths can live in the world side-by-side. ” Unfortunately, it should be conspicuous who it is that does not want to live side-by-side in peace. Say whatever you want about Mohammad, e.g. he married a six-year old, but he deserves credit for promising his warriors all the infidel booty they could rape.
We have a Muslim Mayor of NYC less than 25 years after 9-11. From the “you could not possibly make this crap up” category, we had a POTUS telling us some people “hijacked a peaceful religion.”
Sometimes the truth doesn’t set you free but instead gets you in hot water with Truthophobes. Lan Astaslem
I do i live side by side with someone when I say “Islam is a satanic religion” and “the Koran is a doctrine of demons”. If a muslim can accept me with those beliefs I would be suspicious because a real Muslim wouldn’t allow it, they would hate me or act with violence. Christianity and Islam are almost opposites. You can even say that Islam is the spirit of “anti-Christ”. I just find it hard that we can have a picnic together with opposing views. One has to go. And it’s not Christianity.
The problem is that Islamic theology is a closed system. There are no more prophets to come. So actual developments are unlikely – and run the risk of being deemed to be apostasy. Christianity and Judaism, on the other hand, acknowledge the possibility of ongoing prophetic ministry which will not contradict what is already there, but will build on it.
Is it just me or are the Lion of Judah and Badass Trumpica USA exterminating Emir Ballsack’s butt buddies right now?
Yeah, enjoy the temporary pain as you die, retards. You’re next, Emsmear.
Christians use one finger a lot to express their faith, especially reborns. I’m glad to hear that the slimes didn’t steal this as another eye poke.
Well, we Christians rule the Earth so what we say goes.
With all due respect to my Judaean
[dʒʊˈdɪən] brethren. I like your bagels.
The islamist pricks already there had gathered to give a vigil for the Supreme Leader of Iran.
Imagine during WWII that some German born immigrants had tried to perform a vigil for Adolf Hitler in NY.
Spoiler alert: They’d have been pulled apart.
The press headlines are no surprise.
I’d elaborate, but everyone has the gist already.
Any public vigil for the Supreme A-hole is a great opportunity for mass arrests and deportation.
MSM often mistranslates Muslim speak, such as “Allah Akbar” translated to “God is Great”.
When it’s Allah is Greater. And translating Allah as god is already problematic because it implies that we all share a common conception of divinity.
And we do not.
Allah has nothing in common from the conception of divinity in Christianity and Judaism. Allah exists simply to assert the power of Islam. He has no relevance to anything apart from the desires for power, sex and plunder of Mohammed and his followers.
Exactly. Thanks Daniel!
Yes. It’s “my dog is greater than your yours” in sand monkey speak. I think. I don’t speak baboon so I don’t know for sure.
Daniel Greenfield is guilty of throwing the kind of bombs many feel are the most destructive. Truth bombs.
Thank you. Islam tends to answer with the other kind of bombs.
There are only two types of Muslims, the devout and the slackers. And the slackers always end up under the rule of the devout ones.
If Christianity ever becomes an actually seriously believed and seriously practiced religion again, like it was in the Middle Ages, it will be led by a tiny minority of the hard-core devout like those in the Vatican.
Every religion is composed of the tiny minority of the devout and the rest are the slackers and the slackers always follow the devout.
“If Christianity ever becomes an actually seriously believed and seriously practiced…again, like it was in the Middle Ages, it will be led by a tiny minority…”
1 Timothy 4 didn’t forecast a bright future for the Paul-line Bible believing faith. That won’t be good for the world; it will result in the “falling “away” 2 Thessalonians 2 speaks of. A “consensus” of the world that it doesn’t want God.
The church is then removed, and God’s program with Israel resumes. Israel is delivered near the end of Daniel’s 70th week and the Lord establishes the Jewish messianic kingdom on Earth. Israel then will be the head and not the tail. The Church will be in the heavens governing that realm. That’s the future.
Obama used his finger, as well, in an old photo.
For all of you Allah lovers out there, here is my “America finger’ for you:
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That’s the coolest glyph I’ve ever seen.
Truth tellers like Daniel are vital weapons used to combat the effects of mass formation, as Mattais Desmet has spoken about and totalitarians so fear. We are so blessed to learn from them.
Allah finger can be cured with a wood chisel and hammer.
It’s the finger the islamic terrorists use on their goats.
Yeah, they like that goat rape, don’t they? “Naaah.”
All throughout history, monomaniacal devotion to ideology has always been an impediment to the advance of civilization. Why would it be any different now?
The finger has a history going back to the first Christians. I better state from start that I’m not saying that there is a connection between Islam and Christianity except that Islam uses some of the same Aramaic texts as Christianity, and Islamic scolars are not good at reading ancient Aramaic language. Besides I haven’t checked the dates in this, so my timeline could be wrong. Now, the one finger is a symbol that there is only one god. This question was a huge problem to the first Christians. How do you fit Jesus into the idea about one god? And what about the Holy Spirit? The problem was actually solved at the Council in Nicea about 470, I think it was, when the Roman Emperor imposed the idea about the Trinity on Christianity. Now, lots of Christians never recognized Jesus as God, because that would violate the idea about one god. These Christians was later known as Nestorians. And the Nestorian interpretation spread to the far east. There is proof that Djengis Kahns mother was a Nestorian Christian, and maybe his sons and himself were also Nestorian. The reason why this is little known is that right after Christianity became the religion of the Roman Empire and the Catholic Church was founded, the Nestorians became herectics. Stuff like that usually happens when some interpretation become the “right one” and has the power to enforce the ban on competing interpretations. Nestorians was left alone in the far east and forever banned. Besides Nestorians have often bin taken as followers of Mohammed. Back to Islam. Islam emerges in history around 1000 AD and maybe later. This is also a somewhat little known fact, cuz we learn from Islam that it happens 622 AD. But there’s just no sources to confirm that. Fx. there’s no mention of a new religion rising on the Arabian peninsula in Byzantine texts or any other for that matter. The Moskqe in Damascus is an ancient Nestorian Church with the Prayer written inside. So, the founders of Islam sizes this scisma in Christianity when they create all the stuff that makes up Islam. They turn Jesus into some profet and don’t recognize Trinity, and an immanent god, Allah can be said to be the one god. And followers of Mohammed can pride themselves of being better than Judaism and Christianity.
You should really educate yourself about the roots of Islam at INARAH.
Raymond Ibrahim cites the writings of Christians persecuted by Islam to confirm the generally recognised timeline. Also, you can look at volumes 7-9 of al-Tabari’s Arab history on archive.org.
Yes Ibrahim has a lot of stuff. The problem with this stuff is that it all comes from the Hadits. All the true stories about Mohammed and his followers. But it would never do as sources. Just like with the probably great work of Tabari. There is no hard evidence found in the desert or in independent sources like the Byzantine Empire..
Although poo-pooed or ignored by the media, Obama was pictured giving this Islamic digital profession of faith to African leaders at the August 2014 summit of African Leaders in D.C. Don’t believe me? Here’s the photos: http://fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/obama_government/news.php?q=1425428970