An Introduction to Real Islam and Jihad (Part 8/15)


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Chapter 11
Early History of Peaceful Islam:

Islamic leaders and politicians constantly tell us in English that
“Islam is a peaceful religion”, but one can’t help wondering if they would
say it quite so often if they were absolutely sure it was true.

Some recorded massacres of Muslim history: On December 30, 1066, Joseph
HaNagid, the Jewish vizier of Granada, Spain, was crucified by an Arab mob
that proceeded to raze the Jewish quarter of the city and slaughtered its
5,000 inhabitants. The riot was apparently incited by Muslim preachers that
had angrily objected to what they saw as inordinate Jewish political power.
Similarly, in 1465, Arab mobs in Fez slaughtered thousands of Jews, leaving
only 11 alive, after a Jewish deputy vizier treated a Muslim woman in “an
offensive manner.” The killings touched off a wave of similar massacres
throughout Morocco. Other mass murders of Jews in Arab lands occurred in
Morocco in the 8th century, where whole communities were wiped out by Muslim
ruler Idris I; North Africa in the 12th century, where the Almohads either
forcibly converted or decimated several communities; Libya in 1785, where
Ali Burzi Pasha murdered hundreds of Jews; Algiers, where Jews were
massacred in 1805, 1815 and 1830 and Marrakesh, Morocco, where more than 300
hundred Jews were murdered between 1864 and 1880.


Decrees ordering the destruction of synagogues were enacted in Egypt
and Syria (1014, 1293-4, 1301-2), Iraq (854­859, 1344) and Yemen (1676).
Despite the Qur’an’s purported prohibition, Jews were forced to convert to
Islam or face death in Yemen (1165 and 1678), Morocco (1275, 1465 and
1790-92) and Baghdad (1333 and 1344). Some escaped, but the Jews of Arabia
who remained were pretty much completely wiped out. Islamic revisionists
claim they were killed because they were literally asking for it, is their
apologetic rubbish propaganda. These Islamic revisionists (Islamaniacs)
claim that the Jews demanded it as per their own law. I mean that’s like
the Nazis claiming they were only accommodating the Jews demand to get warm
by the ovens. Like Goebbels said, the bigger the lie, the easier it is for
others to believe it.


In the violent, nearly 1,400-year relationship between Muslims and
non-Muslims, Jihad and Dhimmitude were firmly established by the 8th
century. Perhaps the pre-eminent Islamic scholar in history, Ibn Khaldun (d.
1406), summarized five centuries of prior Muslim jurisprudence with regard
to the uniquely Islamic institution of jihad:

In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the
universalism of the [Muslim] mission and [the obligation to] convert
everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force... The other religious
groups did not have a universal mission, and the holy war was not a
religious duty for them, save only for purposes of defense... Islam is under
obligation to gain power over other nations.

Between 1894-96, the Ottoman Turks massacred over 200,000 (Dhimmi)
Christian Armenians, followed by the first formal genocide of the 20th
century, in 1915, at which time they slaughtered an additional 600,000 to
800,000 Armenians. Contemporary accounts from European diplomats confirm
that these brutal massacres were perpetrated in the context of a formal
Jihad against the Armenians who had attempted to throw off the yoke of
Dhimmitude by seeking equal rights and autonomy. Regarding the 1894-96
massacres, the Turkish-speaking interpreter of the British embassy reported:
…[The perpetrators] are guided in their general action by the prescriptions
of the Sheri [Sharia] Law. That law prescribes that if the "rayah" [dhimmi]
Christian attempts, by having recourse to foreign powers, to overstep the
limits of privileges allowed them by their Mussulman [Muslim] masters, and
free themselves from their bondage, their lives and property are to be
forfeited, and are at the mercy of the Mussulmans. To the Turkish mind the
Armenians had tried to overstep those limits by appealing to foreign powers,
especially England. They therefore considered it their religious duty and a
righteous thing to destroy and seize the lives and properties of the
Armenians…"

The scholar Bat Yeor confirms this reasoning, noting that the Armenian
quest for reforms invalidated their "legal status," which involved a
"contract" (i.e., with their Muslim Turkish rulers).

This …breach…restored to the umma [the Muslim community] its initial right
to kill the subjugated minority [the dhimmis], [and] seize their property…

In the following chronology, note how closely Islam’s inception is
associated with war. From 623 to 777, a span of 154 years, there are 83
military conflicts involving the Muslims…. Muslims tell us Islam is a
religion of peace, but all historical facts seem to discredit that claim
rather convincingly.

Chronology of early Islam

· 570 – Birth of Muhammad in Mecca into the tribe of Quraish.
· 577 – Muhammad’s mother dies.
· 595 – Muhammad marries, starts to have children.
· 605 – Placement of Black Stone in Ka’aba.
· 610 – Mohammed, in a cave, hears an angel tell him that Allah is the only
true God.
· 613 – Muhammad’s first public preaching of Islam at Mt. Hira. Gets few
converts.
· 615 – Muslims persecuted by the Quraysh.
· 619 – Marries Sau’da and Aisha
· 620 – Institution of five daily prayers .
· 622 – Muhammad immigrates from Mecca to Medina, gets more converts.
· 623 – Battle of Waddan
· 623 – Battle of Safwan
· 623 – Battle of Dul-‘Ashir
· 624 – Raids on caravans to fund the movement begin.
· 624 – Zakat becomes mandatory
· 624 – Battle of Badr
· 624 – Battle of Bani Salim
· 624 – Battle of Eid-ul-Fitr & Zakat-ul-Fitr
· 624 – Battle of Bani Qainuqa’
· 624 – Battle of Sawiq
· 624 – Battle of Ghatfan
· 624 – Battle of Bahran
· 625 – Battle of Uhud. 70 Muslims killed.
· 625 – Battle of Humra-ul-Asad
· 625 – Battle of Banu Nadir
· 625 – Battle of Dhatul-Riqa
· 626 – Battle of Badru-Ukhra
· 626 – Battle of Dumatul-Jandal
· 626 – Battle of Banu Mustalaq Nikah
· 627 – Battle of the Trench
· 627 – Battle of Ahzab
· 627 – Battle of Bani Qurayza
· 627 – Battle of Bani Lahyan
· 627 – Battle of Ghaiba
· 627 – Battle of Khaibar
· 628 – Muhammad signs treaty with Quraish. (The 628 Al-Hudaybiyya
agreement, between the Prophet and the Meccan tribe of Quraish, was signed
for a period of 10 years, which became, in Islamic tradition, the time limit
for any agreement with non-Muslims. The agreement was broken after 18
months, Muhammad’s army then conquered Mecca)
· 630 – Muhammad conquers Mecca.
· 630 – Battle of Hunain.
· 630 – Battle of Tabuk
· 632 – Muhammad dies. The reign of the Caliphs begins.
· 632 – Abu-Bakr, Muhammad’s father-in-law, along with Umar, begin a
military move to enforce Islam in Arabia.
· 633 – Battle at Oman
· 633 – Battle at Hadramaut.
· 633 – Battle of Kazima
· 633 – Battle of Walaja
· 633 – Battle of Ulleis
· 633 – Battle of Anbar
· 634 – Battle of Basra,
· 634 – Battle of Damascus
· 634 – Battle of Ajnadin.
· 634 – Death of Hadrat Abu Bakr. Hadrat Umar Farooq becomes the Caliph.
· 634 – Battle of Namaraq
· 634 – Battle of Saqatia.
· 635 – Battle of Bridge.
· 635 – Battle of Buwaib.
· 635 – Conquest of Damascus.
· 635 – Battle of Fahl.
· 636 – Battle of Yermuk.
· 636 – Battle of Qadsiyia.
· 636 – Conquest of Madain.
· 637 – Battle of Jalula.
· 638 – Battle of Yarmouk.
· 638 – The Muslims defeat the Romans and enter Jerusalem.
· 638 – Conquest of Jazirah.
· 639 – Conquest of Khuizistan and movement into Egypt.
· 641 – Battle of Nihawand
· 642 – Battle of Rayy in Persia
· 643 – Conquest of Azarbaijan
· 644 – Conquest of Fars
· 644 – Conquest of Kharan.
· 644 – Umar is murdered. Othman becomes the Caliph.
· 647 – Conquest of Cypress island.
· 644 – Uman dies, succeeded by Caliph Uthman.
· 648 – Byzantine campaign begins.
· 651 – Naval battle against Byzantines.
· 654 – Islam spreads into North Africa
· 656 – Uthman is murdered. Ali become Caliph.
· 658 – Battle of Nahrawan.
· 659 – Conquest of Egypt
· 661 – Ali is murdered.
· 662 – Egypt falls to Islam rule.
· 666 – Sicily is attacked by Muslims
· 677 – Siege of Constantinople
· 687 – Battle of Kufa
· 691 – Battle of Deir ul Jaliq
· 700 – Sufism takes root as a sect.
· 700 – Military campaigns in North Africa
· 702 – Battle of Deir ul Jamira
· 711 – Muslims invade Gibraltar
· 711 – Conquest of Spain
· 713 – Conquest of Multan
· 716 – Invasion of Constantinople
· 732 – Battle of Tours in France.
· 740 – Battle of the Nobles.
· 741 – Battle of Bagdoura in North Africa
· 744 – Battle of Ain al Jurr.
· 746 – Battle of Rupar Thutha
· 748 – Battle of Rayy.
· 749 – Battle of lsfahan
· 749 – Battle of Nihawand
· 750 – Battle of Zab
· 772 – Battle of Janbi in North Africa
· 777 – Battle of Saragossa in Spain

Undeniably, Christians have in the past also committed despicable acts
in the name of God, and in recent history the Serbia conflicts and the
Protestant-Catholic Northern-Ireland clashes stand out as examples. But
there are three major differences and distinctions that can be drawn between
those crimes and the acts committed in Islam’s name. The first difference is
that the unfortunate events were limited in both time and scope, they had an
end. The second distinction is that terrorists acting from Christian
cultures always did their vile deeds in violation of scriptural teaching and
the example of Christ, not in fulfilment of it, as in Islam. The third
dissimilarity is that people from Christian cultures who perform terrorist
acts against others are recognized as criminals, not worshiped as heroes. To
expect Muslims to drop their belligerence toward the West, which has existed
since Islam’s founding in the 7th century, is to expect them to jettison
core values of their faith — something for which there is no precedent in
Islamic history. Although nowadays nothing seems less tolerated than
pessimism, yet in relation to Islam this attitude is in fact simply just
realism.
Most Americans have a benignly positive attitude toward religion, but
is our civic piety, allied with political correctness, blinding us and
keeping us from asking reasonable questions about Islam, questions upon
which the survival of our civilization may depend. Does Western cultures
obsessed with tolerance render us incapable of drawing reasonable
conclusions about Islam’s core values and designs. The general reluctance to
criticize any non-Christian religion and the almost universal public
ignorance about Islam make for a dangerous potentially lethal mix.


Unlike Constitutional provisions in the US, there is no cultural or
scriptural mandate for separation of church and state in Islam, making
secular democracy an alien and hostile concept. Women have few rights over
and against their husbands, who may legally beat their wives and concubines.
Enslaving infidels and raping infidel women are justified under Qura’nic law
(and still occur in some Muslim lands). Grotesque punishments for crimes —
beheadings and the like — are not medieval holdovers; on the contrary, they
will forever be part of authentic Islam as long as the Qur’an is revered as
the perfect Words of Allah.


While Muslims in the West live in peace, prosperity and religious
liberty, Christians and other Infidels in Muslim lands have been, are now,
and will continue to be persecuted, sometimes unto death. Turkey is the only
Muslim country that could be called democratic, and that’s probably a
stretch. The example of Turkey is laudable, but sadly it shows that
secularist values can only be imposed on Islamic societies by force, and
will therefore remain tenuous. Because Islam demands death for heretics,
moderate Muslims will always risk their lives if they offer more liberal
interpretations of their faith. The problem is that for all its schisms,
sects, and multiplicity of voices, Islam’s violent elements are firmly
rooted in its central texts; as such, Islam cannot be other than a religion
of violence. It would be too pessimistic to say that there are no peaceful
strains of Islam, but it would be imprudent to ignore the fact that deeply
imbedded in the central documents of the religion is an all-encompassing
vision of a theocratic state that is intractable and fundamentally different
from (and opposed toward) democratic values and Western governments based on
them.
Chapter 12

The Qu’ran’s View Toward Christians and Jews:

Muhammad’s actions against the Jews of Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, Banu
Qurayza and several individuals identified as Jewish in the Qur’an have been
previously chronicled and will not be repeated here.


A basic principle of Islamism holds that humanity is divided according
to a strict hierarchy of worth. At the top of this hierarchy are free Muslim
males, the cream of humanity. Below them, in descending order of humanity,
are: Muslim male slaves, free Muslim women, Muslim female slaves, the males
of the "People of the Book" (Jews and Christians), and, then, the females of
the ‘People of the Book’. Finally, the rest of humanity comes in dead last
(excuse the pun), because they lack a soul they are regarded as worthless
having no rights whatsoever. This unfortunate final grouping includes
Buddhists, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, and others. But before Jews and
Christians celebrate escaping last-place in this uniquely Islamic popularity
contest, the fine print should first be carefully studied.


With quotes referencing Christians and Jews from the Quran like: –
"WORST OF CREATURES, PERVERSE, FRIENDS OF SATAN", it seems impossible to
characterize Islam as a tolerant religion harmless to others. By one widely
accepted definition of a ‘Religion’; … “An organization dedicated to raising
the spiritual awareness and moral standards and actions of its followers,
and in improving peaceful relationships with others”, Islam seems to fall
well short of qualifying. Early Islam was clearly neither harmless nor
tolerant of non-believers. Intolerance seems the cruel norm in Islamic
societies, while tolerance, charity and kindness towards different cultures
and religions is glaringly absent. The fruits of extreme Islam are bitter
indeed, and it is by their fruits that we should judge them.


The clear direction appears to be that Muslims are not allowed to even
be friends or take favours from Jews and Christians, unless the devotion and
tax is extracted by force or threat of force.

98:1 Those who disbelieve from among the people of the Scripture (Jews and
Christians) and among Al-Mushrikun (polytheists) were not going to leave
(their disbelief) until there came to them clear evidence.
98:6 Verily, those who disbelieve (in the religion of Islam, the Quran and
Prophet Muhammad) from among the people of the Scripture (Jews and
Christians) and Al-Mushrikun will abide in the Fire of Hell. They are the
worst of creatures.
5:51 O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as Auliya'
(friends, protectors, helpers, etc.), they are but Auliya' to one another.
And if any amongst you takes them as Auliya', then surely he is one of them.
Verily, Allah guides not those people who are the Zalimun (polytheists and
wrong­doers and unjust).
58:19. Shaitan (Satan) has overtaken them (the Jews). So he has made them
forget the remembrance of Allah. They are the party of Shaitan (Satan).
Verily, it is the party of Shaitan (Satan) that will be the losers!
4:76 Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who
disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (Satan, etc.). So fight you
against the friends of Shaitan (Satan); Ever feeble indeed is the plot of
Shaitan (Satan).
47:35 So be not weak and ask not for peace (from the enemies of Islam),
while you are having the upper hand. Allah is with you, and will never
decrease the reward of your good deeds.


Christians and Jews then and now hold a special place in Islamic
theology. In the end, they were regarded with contempt by Muhammad, and were
presented in a hateful manner in the Qur’an and in modern Islamic theology
today. The final direction appears to be this: When the Muslims have the
upper hand, they are not to seek peace, but instead they are expected to
sacrifice and toil for the continued destruction of all their enemies. The
final words reported from the mouth of the dying Muhammad were a curse on
the favoured ‘People of the Book’. From Ibn Sa'd page 322: When the last
moment of the prophet was near, he used to draw a sheet over his face; but
when he felt uneasy, he removed it from his face and said:
"Allah's damnation be on the Jews and the Christians who made the graves of
their prophets objects of worship."
The bitterness of this final utterance from their beloved prophet, as
he died a painful death at the hands of a Jewish girl, obviously still
weighs heavy on the minds and hearts of all of Islam. Revenge is a
glorified mandate for Muslims yesterday and today.


The QURAN on Relations with Non-Muslim Family Members

Earlier, it was pointed out that Muslims broke ties of allegiance and
friendship with allied tribes and near family members. The Qur’an takes this
a step further. Sura 58:22 shows that family blood ties are broken. Islam
has an anti-family element, causing Muslims to fight and kill even their
relatives if they reject Muhammad’s rule. Family ties, devotions, and
sensibilities form the backbone of Western civilizations, from which we
derive our strength and teach morality. In Islam, even normal, natural
family bonds are subservient and must yield to Muhammad’s vision of Islam.
That is why in many Muslim communities and households each family member is
expected to police the acts, thoughts, and expressions of other members in
the household. On a slightly broader scale, communities are expected to
monitor the conduct of families in their neighborhoods. So in Islamic lands,
the control structure in place extends from the highest branches of the
government (including the Judiciary), to the lowliest family member. The
consequences imposed for failure to support the official family,
neighborhood, tribal, national policy with respect to violent Jihad vary by
tribe and region, but are often quite brutal.

48:29 Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are
severe (or ruthless, vehement) against disbelievers, and merciful among
themselves.
58:22 You (O Muhammad) will not find any people who believe in Allah and the
Last Day, making friendship with those who oppose Allah and His Messenger
(Muhammad), even though they were their fathers, or their sons, or their
brothers, or their kindred (people). For such He has written Faith in their
hearts, and strengthened them with Ruh (proofs, light and true guidance)
from Himself. And We will admit them to Gardens (Paradise) under which
rivers flow, to dwell therein (forever). Allah is pleased with them, and
they with Him. They are the Party of Allah. Verily, it is the Party of Allah
that will be the successful.

In the officially state-sponsored Wahhabi controlled elementary schools
in Saudi Arabia (our alleged ally in the war on terror), there is a
fifth-grade lesson book that reads as follows:
“It is forbidden for a Muslim to be a friend of one who does not believe in
God and his Messenger or who fights the Islamic religion. God has severed
the [link of] friendship between Muslims and infidels. The Muslim, even if
he lives far away, is your brother-in-belief, while the infidel, even if he
is your brother of kin, is your enemy by religion.”


When one takes into consideration all that Muhammad and his devoted
followers ask of the faithful, the direction to have no Muslim friends makes
perfect sense. It’s all part of the psychology of violence. Built-in
natural human feelings of empathy and all impulses of conscience must first
be overcome before an individual can perform an act of violence on another.
Normal feelings of affection, respect, and trust toward a friend would get
in the way of an Islamic Jihad movement. So not only does Muhammad
dehumanize non-Muslims, he also specifically tells followers not to develop
personal relationships with others. This philosophy and psychology, when
internalized, is designed to groom the Muslim believer into becoming an
effective, non-thinking, non-feeling Jihadist warrior (i.e. a killing
machine). Not exactly in line with his oft repeated claim that ‘God is most
merciful, most forgiving, most loving and charitable’, but that
contradiction does not seem to register. Certainly any personal dilemma
resulting from such contradictions are easily dismissed once fully immersed
in the blood-lust and lynch-mob mentality of Islamic Militants. Apparently
‘most-merciful’ in their minds only applies to Muslims, or to survivors who
agree to pay tribute, or in other words, an eternal ‘survivor tax’.



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