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MUHAMMAD,
ISLAM, AND TERRORISM
[Part
2]
TERRORISM
IN THE QURAN
Muhammad taught his followers to oppress or kill non-Muslims. Generally, Jews
and Christians were allowed to live as such, provided they paid a special tax.
This tax is Jizya, a tax revenue given to the Muslims to make up for revenues
they lost from no longer dealing in pagan activities. If the Jews and Christians
refused to pay this extortion tax they would have to convert to Islam or be
killed. Non Jews or Christians (idolaters or pagans) had to convert to Islam or
be killed. Generally they didn't have the option of paying the tax. Here is the
verse that teaches Muslims to oppress Jews and Christians:
"Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do
they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the
religion of truth, (which is Islam that abolishes all other religions ) of the
people of the Book, (meaning the Jews and the Christians ) until they pay the
Jizya (the tax imposed upon them) with willing submission and feel themselves
subdued. (with humiliation and submission to the government of Islam.) 9:29
." (Commentary in parenthesis is from the Tafsir Al-Jalalein. i.e., Al-Jalalein
Interpretation of the Koran.)
The order to kill Christians and Jews is in that
verse. It is clear that Muhammad ordered his
followers to fight those Christians and Jews to convert them or pay the Jizya,
and if they don't convert or pay, do you think that he told the followers to let
them go in peace? It is very clear: convert... or pay with submission ... or
die.
The background for this is found in "The Life of Muhammad", op cit,
page 620,
"...."until they [the Jews and Christians] pay the poll tax out of
hand being humbled", i.e. as a compensation for what you fear to lose by
the closing of the markets. God gave them compensation for what He cut off from
them in their former polytheism by what He gave them by way of poll tax from the
people of Scripture."
Muhammad told his followers to attack the Jews and Christians. If they humble
themselves and submit to the Muslims, but choose to remain Christian or Jewish,
then they would have to pay the Muslims. Again, Muhammad's circumstances changed
- Allah changed. Now Muhammad was an extortionist.
Also note that the tax levied upon the Christians
and Jews was not to support the state in general affairs, it was to compensate
the Muslims. Muhammad was exactly like Mafia crime boss, making others pay for
"protection".... except, the Christians and Jews really needed
protection from the Muslims!
Here is the verse in the Quran that teaches Muslims to attack and kill
pagans:
"When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find
them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. If they
repent and take to prayer and render the alms levy, allow them to go their way.
God is forgiving and merciful." Sura 9:5
The background for this verse is found in "The Life of Muhammad", op
cit, page 617-619. Note my comments are in [ ] type brackets, and that it is a
very long passage, so I have only quoted part of it:
"A discharge came down, [Muhammad received a supposed revelation from God],
permitting the breaking of the agreement between the apostle and the polytheists
that none should be kept back from the temple when he came to it, and that none
need fear during the sacred months. That there was a general agreement between
him and the polytheists; meanwhile there were particular agreements between the
apostle and the Arab tribes for specified terms. And there came down about it
and about the disaffected who held back from him in the raid on Tabuk, [a
Christian town Muhammad attacked, and forced them to pay him], .....So travel
through the land for four months and know that you cannot escape God and that
God will put the unbelievers to shame. And a proclamation from God and His
apostle to men on the day of the greater pilgrimage that God and His apostle are
free from obligation to the polytheists, i.e., after this pilgrimage. So if you
repent it will be better for you; and if you turn back know that you cannot
escape God. Inform those who disbelieve, about a painful punishment except those
polytheists with whom you have made a treaty.
.....If one of the polytheists, i.e. one of those whom I have ordered you to
kill, asks your protection, give it him so that he may hear the word of God;
then convey him to his place of safety.
Basically, Muhammad had an agreement with a number of Arab tribes. Some were
peaceful with him, others disliked him. "Allah" gave Muhammad a
"revelation" allowing him to break his word, the "agreement"
with the pagan Arabs and attack them after the four sacred months were over.
Once again, Muhammad had gained power, and things changed. Now Muhammad was
permitted to lie, i.e., break his agreement, and make war upon the pagans.
Muhammad's circumstances changed - Allah changed again.
Note that in the last quoted paragraph, it is supposed to be God telling the
Muslims to go out and kill people. Some of these people had gotten along
peacefully with the Muslims. But because they didn't follow Muhammad, they were
going to be attacked.
ISLAMIC
TERRORISM UPON MUSLIMS WHO LEAVE ISLAM
Muhammad was not content to conquer by force, or kill those that merely opposed
him verbally. Muhammad also taught that Muslims who leave the Islamic faith are
to be murdered as well. Here are some quotes from Bukhari's collection of
Hadith. Remember, Bukhari's Hadith is the second most important writing in
Islam, following the Quran.
Bukhari, volume 9, #17
"Narrated Abdullah: Allah's Messenger said, "The blood of a Muslim who
confesses that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that I am His
Messenger, cannot be shed except in three cases: in Qisas (equality in
punishment) for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse
and the one who reverts from Islam (Apostate) and leaves the Muslims."
Bukhari volume 9, #57
Narrated Ikrima, "Some atheists were brought to Ali and he burnt them. The
news of this event, reached Ibn Abbas who said, "If I had been in his
place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah's messenger forbade it, saying,
"Do not punish anybody with Allah's punishment (fire)." I would have
killed them according to the statement of Allah's Messenger, "Whoever
changed his Islamic religion, then kill him."
Bukhari volume 9, #64
Narrated Ali, "Whenever I tell you a narration from Allah's messenger, by
Allah, I would rather fall down from the sky, then ascribe a false statement to
him, but if I tell you something between me and you, (not a Hadith), then it was
indeed a trick (i.e., I may say things just to cheat my enemy). No doubt I heard
Allah's messenger saying, "During the last days there will appear some
young foolish people, who will say the best words, but their faith will not go
beyond their throats (i.e. they will leave the faith) and will go out from their
religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, wherever you find them, kill
them, for whoever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection."
Not only did Muhammad teach that Muslims are to
murder those that have left Islam, "wherever you find them", he
further taught that a Muslim who commits this type of murder will be doing God's
service and be rewarded!
RECENT MUSLIM WRITINGS ON ISLAM AND TERRORISM
Several Muslims have written about the reasons they are allowed to wage war.
From "The Quranic Concept of War", by Pakistani Brigadier S.K. Malik,
it says, [in the preface]
"But in Islam war is waged to establish supremacy of the Lord only when
every other argument has failed to convince those who reject His Will and work
against the every purpose of the creation of mankind."
"Many Western Scholars have pointed their accusing fingers at some of the
above verses in the Quran to be able to contend that world of Islam is in a
state of perpetual struggle against the non-Muslims. As to them it is a
sufficient answer to make... that the defiance of God's authority by one who is
His slaves exposes that slave to the risk of being held guilty of treason and as
such a one, in the perspective of Islamic law, is indeed to be treated as a sort
of that cancerous growth on that organism of humanity.... It
thus becomes necessary to remove the cancerous malformation even if it be by
surgical means, in order to save the rest of humanity."
The Muslim writer states that those that reject
Islam are viewed as a cancerous growth to be violently removed, i.e., murdered.
And, note that the Muslim writer basically agrees with the "Western
Scholars" that say that Islam is indeed "in a state of perpetual
war", with non-Muslims.
In viewing what has happened in Algeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, etc. it
appears that Islam is the cancerous growth that has caused such death to the
world.
ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN THE WORLD TODAY
There are a fair amount of websites that document the actions and intentions of
the many Islamic terrorist groups operating throughout the world today. As true
Muslims, these people will use violence against anyone who hinders their aims or
offends their religious beliefs. Here is a partial listing of a number of
websites I've seen on the internet.
http://www.emergency.com/cntrterr.htm
http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1997report/
http://www.hri.org/docs/USSD-Terror/97/mideast.html
overview of Middle East terrorism
http://www.hri.org/docs/USSD-Terror/
http://www.terrorism.com
http://polisci.home.mindspring.com/ptd.html
http://polisci.home.mindspring.com/ptd_incidents_1998.html
62 documented incidents - 31 by Muslims
http://polisci.home.mindspring.com/ptd_middle_africa.html
listing of Mid-east Muslim terrorist groups
http://www.ict.org.il/
international terrorism group
ISLAMIC
TERRORISM IN AMERICA TODAY
Here
are some summaries of Islamic terrorism in America or against Americans
#1)
Osama bin Laden, one of the Islamic world's leading terrorists was behind
the bombing of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Twelve Americans were killed and there were hundreds of other deaths due
to the bombings. Bin Laden has
declared open season on American civilians, women and children included.
He says Islamic scholars have allowed the targeting of civilians because
their taxes support the American military, therefore, they too are at war with
Bin Laden's Islamic goals.
Bin Laden was interviewed by a Muslim journalist, and the interview
appears in the Jan 11, 1999 issue of Newsweek.
Here are some excerpts:
QUESTION:
"Why have you asked Muslims to target civilian Americans all over
the world? Islam prohibits its
followers from killing civilians in war?"
BIN
LADEN: "If the Israelis are
killing small children in Palestine and the Americans are killing the innocent
people in Iraq, and if the majority of the American people support their
dissolute president, this means the American people are fighting us and we have
the right to target them.
QUESTION:
"All Americans?"
BIN
LADEN "Muslim scholars have
issued a fatwa [a religious order] against any American who pays taxes to his
government. He is our target,
because he is helping the American war machine against the Muslim nation.
Below
is an excerpt from ABC news.
ABCNEWS.com
(on Osama bin Laden - edited for length)
His
fatwa was clear: Americans must die, within the next few weeks.
U.S.
troops will leave Saudi Arabia when Islamic terrorists "send the bodies of
American troops and civilians home in wooden boxes and coffins," Osama Bin
Ladin vowed in an exclusive interview with ABC NEWS Correspondent John Miller.
"We don't differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and
civilians. They are all targets in this fatwa."
Bin
Ladin recently convened a meeting of fundamentalist extremists and sponsors of
terrorism. More than 150 clerics named themselves the "International
Islamic Front for the Jihad against Jews and Crusaders," and issued a
variety of fatwas. But Bin Ladin's is the one that most concerns U.S. security
analysts.
#2)
Bombing the World Trade Center in New York
On February 26, 1993, Muslim terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in
New York City, killing 6 people and injuring over 1000 more.
It was found that these terrorists were tied in with a Muslim cleric
named Sheik Omar Abd al-Rahman, who was also accused of terrorist actions in
Egypt. Omar preached that the
United States is a den of evil and fornication and regularly called upon Muslims
to attack their enemies.
#3)
In June 1993 eight Muslims were arrested by the FBI.
There were reportedly planning bombings targeting the United Nations
headquarters, FBI offices, and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, as well as
several assassinations.
#4)
In Jan. 1993, a Pakistani Muslim shot and killed several CIA employees
outside of the CIA headquarters. He
fled to Pakistan. Later he was
apprehended and returned to America for trial.
The day after he was found guilty, Pakistanis in Pakistan murdered four
American businessmen - probably as revenge for our judicial system finding their
comrade guilty.
#5)
An arrested Hamas terrorist in Israel told authorities that Hamas leaders
in held a workshop in Chicago where Hamas inductees were taught how to make car
bombs.
#6)
Last year, a Muslim who converted to Christianity was attacked and his
home was firebombed by Muslims in Minnesota.
#7)
On November 4th, 1979, Muslims in Iran took many American Embassy
employees hostage. There were held
for 444 days. Some died in
captivity. They were released
around the time Ronald Reagan became president.
#8)
Here is another foiled terrorist attempt in America....
Palestinian
Guilty in Subway Plot
NEW
YORK (AP) - A Palestinian who said he wanted to kill as many Jews ``as I could
take'' was convicted today of plotting to blow up a busy subway station. Gazi
Ibrahim Abu Mezer, who faces life in prison, jumped to his feet after the
verdict was read and shouted ``Allahu Akbar! (God is great)'' as he held up the
Koran, the Muslim holy book. The federal jury acquitted a second Palestinian,
Lafi Khalil, of plotting the suicide-bombing. Last Monday, testifying against
his lawyers' wishes, Abu Mezer said he had planned to ``martyr'' himself and
kill ``as many (Jews) as I could take.''
#9)
In Nov., 1989, a Palestinian Muslim and his wife, murdered their own 14
daughter. Their daughter had not
lived according to their view of Islam. Finally,
the father and mother assaulted the girl. The
mother held the girl down while the father stabbed her to death.
Unknown to this Muslim family, this man was under investigation by the
FBI, and a bug had legally been planted in the house.
The entire murder was called on tape.
As the girl struggled and begged her mother to help her, the father said
in Arabic, "Die, die quickly, die quickly”.
This murder is written about in People magazine, 1/20/92.
#10)
Even in America's military there are Muslim who are charged with aiding
the terrorists who have murdered American citizens.
The following is from a recent news article:
NEW
YORK (Reuters) - A former U.S. Army sergeant was
indicted Wednesday for allegedly participating in a conspiracy led by Saudi
exile Osama bin Laden to kill Americans abroad.
Ali
Mohamed, 46, was charged with acting with others including bin Laden's group al
Qaeda to plan the murders of U.S. military personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia
and Somalia and last August's bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya,
and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Bin Laden, a fugitive, was indicted last year for the attacks. The
charges filed Wednesday allege that in September Mohamed lied to a Manhattan
federal grand jury investigating al Qaeda's role in last year's African
bombings. According to information
from the U.S. Army Reserve Personnel Center, Mohamed was in the reserves at the
time of some of the alleged offenses. He joined the
reserves
in 1989 after a term of active duty and left the reserves in 1994.
Mohamed, a former major in the Egyptian Army, was granted a visa to enter
the United States in 1985 and became an American citizen. According to U.S. Army
Reserve he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1986 and was stationed at Fort Bragg,
N.C.
The indictment charges that at least as early as 1989, bin Laden and
others made efforts to recruit U.S. citizens including Mohamed to travel in the
Western world to help al Qaeda carry out operations.
It is also charged that as early as 1990 Mohamed provided military and
intelligence training for al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan. The
indictment further alleges that Mohamed, with others, helped bin Laden in 1991
to move from Peshawar, Pakistan, to Sudan.
The indictment charges that bin Laden, an exiled Saudi multi-millionaire,
issued a fatwa, or religious decree, calling for the killing of U.S. citizens
and financed the embassy bombings and other attacks on Americans.
It is alleged that al Qaeda functioned both on its own and through other
organizations that operated under its umbrella, including the Al Jihad group
based in Egypt and the Islamic Group that was led by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.
The sheik was convicted in 1996 for a plot to bomb New York City
landmarks and kill political and religious figures.
The indictment accuses Mohamed of sending a document about Abdel Rahman's
trial to another defendant in Kenya for delivery to bin Laden. Court papers do
not describe the document, sent from California in 1995.
Another part of the indictment alleges that Mohamed traveled to Nairobi
in 1994 using a fake Egyptian passport. He then showed his U.S. passport to
enter the U.S. embassy there. The
indictment alleges that the same year he met members of al Qaeda and reviewed
files ``concerning possible terrorist attacks'' against the embassy in Nairobi
and other places in Nairobi, including the building housing the U.S.
Agency for International Development and British, French and Israeli
targets. It is further charged that
Mohamed discussed targets in countries other than Kenya. According to the
indictment as of August of last year, Mohamed had documents about surveillance
and explosives and ``the planning of terrorist operations and the structuring of
a terrorist group into different cells.''
Fortunately,
America is not a hotbed of Islamic terrorism.
Not yet anyway.
Unfortunately, Muslim terrorists are at work all throughout the world.
Violence is part and parcel with Islam.
Here is just a small sampling of some of the Islamic terrorist actions
that have occurred in the last 15 years.
ISLAMIC
ACTIONS OF TERRORISM TODAY IN THE WORLD
FRANCE
- Several years ago, Muslim terrorist began bombing innocent French civilians.
Here is one article:
TERROR
Campaign widens; Bomb in Paris Subway
Chicago,
IL., July 25, 1995 --At least four (4)people were killed and another 35 wounded
in an afternoon terror attack that took place today in the Paris Saint-Michel
underground station, near the Latin quarter. Police officials are investigating
and wouldn't immediately comment, but French Prime Minister Alain Juppe is
quoted by the Reuters News service as saying that he believes that "there
is a very strong suspicion of a (terrorist) attack".
These attacks were similar to bombings carried out by Muslim terrorists
in France in 1986, in which dozens of people were killed.
ALGERIA
Approximately 100,000 people have been killed in Algeria during the last
7 years or so. Below is one story
from one of the survivors of an Islamic terrorist attack.
The Muslim terrorists are not responsible for all the deaths; the
Algerian police and Army have also killed many.
However, the Muslim terrorists frequently target civilians, children, and
those that are unable to defend themselves.
I've read one account where Muslim terrorists stabbed to death 4 French
nuns.
Islamic
guerrillas hold captive brides hostage to terror
By
Martin Regg Cohn Toronto Star Middle East Bureau
BLIDA,
Algeria - In the dead of night, in the name of Islam, four terrorists burst into
the
home
of 17-year-old Salima Amina Zenagui.
Accusing
her of loose morals, the Islamic fundamentalists ordered Zenagui to cover her
auburn hair with a hijab head-scarf. Then they abducted her at gunpoint to their
underground hideout, where the teenager was forced to marry a terrorist twice
her age.
After
a religious wedding ceremony, he raped her - with a warning that any resistance
would mean certain death. The
bleeding didn't stop for 15 days. The mental torture, and the physical cruelty,
continued for another five months. During
the long nights and endless days, Zenagui slowly lost her sanity. And the will
to live.
Zenagui
is one of thousands of young women and teenage girls believed to have been
kidnapped by fundamentalist terrorists during Algeria's five-year Islamic
insurgency. Forced into so-called temporary marriages that are a religious
license to rape, their screams are soon silenced.
Most
of the victims have their throats slit, their bodies dumped in wells like the
one discovered last week in Bentalha, just outside Algiers. Police were drawn by
the stench of death to the 40-metre-deep well, where they found about 30 badly
decomposed corpses of women and girls believed to have been abducted and raped
after a massacre in the area a month ago.
Known
as "zawaj al mutaa", or "marriage of pleasure,'' the
controversial practice is disdained by mainstream Muslims today. It dates from
Islam's early years, when fighters in a holy war helped themselves to single
women during periods of hardship or isolation.
Zenagui
believes her captors were fundamentalist terrorists from the GIA, who
rationalize rape as a way of motivating their men to sacrifice themselves for
Islam. Even as they mistreat their captive women, they worship their God.
In their hideout, Zenagui watched them pray toward Mecca five times a
day. They read the Koran, Islam's holy book, and often played inspirational
cassette tapes about the Prophet Mohammed.
Many
of the insurgency's 100,000 victims perished in these killing fields.
ARGENTINA
In March 1992, Muslim terrorists blew up the Israeli embassy in
Argentina, killing 29 people.
On July 18, 1994 a car bomb blew up the Argentine-Israeli Mutual
Association, killing nearly one hundred people.
ENGLAND
In August, 1994 two car bombs blew up in London, one at the Israeli
Embassy and another at a Jewish charity shop.
An Iranian expatriate by the name of Manoucher Motamer indicated that
Iran was responsible for the bombings.
JAPAN
In July, 1991, a Muslim murdered Hitoshi Igarashi the Japanese man who
translated "The Satan Verses" into Japanese.
He was stabbed to death in Tokyo. A
Muslim living in Britain - Abdul Quddus, who is a senior vice president of
Britain's Muslim league, said, "The attacks are justified because people
translating the book are also insulting the faith."
INDONESIA
The Voice of the Martyrs Magazine writes that, "around 280 churches
have been burned, demolished, stoned, attached and closed since 1991 in
Indonesia (Sept 1996 issue). [That
number is up to around 500 churches today.]
The article continues, "The June 9, 1996 attack in Surabaya, the
second largest city in the country was the worst yet as 10 churches were
simultaneously by Muslim mobs." The
article further records that 5,000 Muslims took part in the riots.
Again, these actions are not the work of a few select terrorists.
They are the work of normal Muslims.
They know that Islam is fundamentally violent, and as Muslims they
exercised their faith to attack and destroy Churches.
It was their type of Jihad for Allah.
ITALY
A Muslim stabbed, but failed to kill, Ettore Capriolo, the man who
translated "The Satanic Verses" into Italian.
The attack occurred in Milan Italy.
EGYPT
In Sept 1991, in Imbaba, a district of Cairo, hundreds of Muslims
attacked the minority Christians there, burning down a church with a Pastor's
wife inside. Other churches were
attacked, and Christians were beaten. The
government had to send in 3000 troops to stop the Muslims from continuing to
attack the Christians.
During the last 8 years in Egypt, hundreds of Coptic Christians have been
murdered by Muslims in Egypt. Even
worshippers in church have been sprayed by Muslims welding automatic weapons.
CAIRO,
Egypt (CNN) -- At least 60 people were killed on Monday when unidentified gunmen
opened fire at the world famous temple site of Luxor in southern Egypt,
according to the interior ministry. The
death toll makes it the deadliest attack on tourists in Egypt.
Authorities said tourists from Egypt, Switzerland, Germany and Japan were
among those killed in the attack, which took place about 300 miles (500 km)
south of Cairo. State television
issued a brief statement saying "attackers hit a number of foreigners,
Egyptians and policemen who exchanged fire with them," and the statement
added that
six
attackers were killed in the shoot-out with police.
A
spokesman for a travel agency in Luxor was quoted as saying that the gunmen
opened fire indiscriminately on tourists after the tourists got off a bus and
were about to enter a temple in the morning.
The
assailants later left an empty tour bus, which they had apparently hijacked in
an escape attempt, and reportedly fled toward the desert and nearby mountains.
One hijacker was shot to death at the shooting scene and the other five
were killed in a later shoot-out, according to the interior ministry.
The authorities have canceled all flights in and out of Luxor as a
security precaution.
There
was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but Muslim extremists
have repeatedly targeted tourist spots in recent years in an attempt to hurt one
of the country's key industries and destabilize the government.
A
L S O :
List
of fatal attacks on visitors in Egypt since 1992
Prior
to Monday, attacks by Muslim militants had killed 34 international tourists in
the past five years. Overall, about 1,100 people have been killed since 1992,
when the extremists launched their campaign aimed at ousting President Hosni
Mubarak.
NIGERIA
In Oct. 1991, thousands of Muslims attacked Christian churches,
businesses, and homes in Kano, Nigeria. Kano
is in northern Nigeria, which is predominately Muslim.
It was estimated that 300 Christians were murdered by Muslim mobs.
Muslims were upset because Christian evangelists had been converting
Muslims in the region to Christianity.
PAKISTAN
When
the Muslims in Pakistan found a torn up Quran in a mosque, 30,000 Muslims
attacked the only majority Christian town (Shanti Nagar) in Pakistan and
destroyed half of it! Churches
were burned, businesses were destroyed, and women and girls were raped.
The army had to come in to stop the Muslims.
A worldwide outcry against the action prompted Pakistan's Prime Minister
Sheriff to help re-build the Christian homes, churches, businesses that were
destroyed.
This action was not the work of an organized terrorist group, rather it
was a display of real Islam. There
was no Bin Laden leading this effort, there was no Hamas or Hezbollah
orchestrating the action, it was ordinary Muslims, 30,000 of them, attacking a
Christian village, because they thought that some Christian had torn up a Quran.
When Muhammad got offended, he murdered.... today, Muslims get offended,
they murder. It is motivated by one
and the same evil satanic spirit - the same dark spirit that appeared to
Muhammad which caused him to attempt suicide - the same malevolent spirit that
then talked him out of killing himself.... it had better plans for him.
The same demonic spirit that had him massacre 800 Jewish men and
adolescent boys, then enslave their women and children.
These Jews had never clashed swords with Muhammad or his men until he
attacked them. It had a thirst for
blood, and during Muhammad's last 10 years, the blood flowed.
Not only have Muslims attacked non-Muslims in Pakistan (Hindus have also
been attacked and murdered in Pakistan), but they religious strife between Sunni
and Shia Muslims there has taken the lives of hundreds during the last few
years. Bombings of each other's
mosques and gun fights outside of Mosques have taken place.
Even inside of the Mosques, people have been shot.
There are many more stories to be found; all over the world, Muslim
terrorists, operating for Islam's sake, are attacking, bombing, and murdering
those they feel inhibit their aims. Visit
the already mentioned websites for more details on the actions of Islamic
terrorists worldwide.
One writer, Samuel Huntington, commenting on Islam and the rest of the
world states wrote in "The Clash of Civilizations",
"Violence also occurs between Muslims,
on the one hand, and Orthodox Serbs in the Balkans, Jews in Israel, Hindus in
India, Buddhists in Burma and Catholics in the Philippines.
Islam has bloody borders."
The French philosopher Renan said,
"Muslims are the first victim of
Islam". This is true.
Muslims loosen much of their desire for blood upon their Muslim
brethren... it's the spirit of Islam. Those
that are not Muslim enough are the first to feel the blades of Islam.
However, many non-Muslims are also it's victims.
Innocents are murdered by Muslims, and the Muslims are not slaking their
efforts in developing more sophisticated methods of using terror against those
who are not of their ilk.
Violence
is integral to Islam.
HOW
DO MOST MUSLIMS LIVING IN AMERICA FIT IN?
Most Muslims are not terrorists. Many
of them reject the actions of their Muslim brethren around the world.
Unfortunately, since Islam teaches world domination, these moderate
Muslims rarely raise their voices in protest.
If the Israelis bomb Hezbollah camps in Lebanon, Muslims in New York,
Detroit, and Los Angeles will organize a mass demonstration.
But getting Muslims to condemn the terrorist actions of their brethren,
say of those in Sudan, Egypt, Algeria, Afghanistan, Iraq is like pulling teeth.
While the Muslims world wide continually condemn Israel, few Muslims have
ever raised their voices in protest over Saddam Hussein's genocidal war upon the
Kurds. Why has Bin Laden failed to
help the Kurds? Instead, reports on
Bin Laden now show that he is working together with Saddam Hussein.
Israel has never killed that many Muslims, but Muslims often turn a blind
eye to violent acts when it is Muslim on Muslim violence.
What does the future for Islam in America
hold? One thing I am certain of; it
holds terrorism. I've studied
Islamic viewpoints on America. The
majority of Muslims today view America as the last great wall that stops Islam.
In their mind, America must be destroyed or brought down, by any means
necessary. This is what motivated
Sheik Rahman to blow up the New York towers.
This is what motivates Muslims throughout America to speak of a day when
America will fall to Islam's power. Make
no mistake about it, Muslims have murdered Americans in America, and will
continue to do so. It is not a
question of "if", it is a question of "when again", because
"when" has already started.
Once again I say, not all Muslims in America are terrorists.
Many of them are good people. But
the seeds of terrorism are planted deep within the theology of Islam.
This theology, when free to grow and blossom, shows itself in the actions
normal Muslims, in Muslim countries take when they feel that Islam is
challenged. The
previously mentioned mob attack in Pakistan, and the attacks of the Muslim mobs
in Nigeria and Indonesia, are examples of Muslim - Islamic violence - mob
mentality. And as was demonstrated
in "Not Without My Daughter", who knows when a peaceful, liberal or
moderate Muslim will turn to fundamentalism and embrace the violence of Islam?
CONCLUSION
Muhammad was a terrorist. Based
upon Muhammad's actions and teachings, Islam justifies terrorism.
Today, Muslims use that justification to attack and murder those who
differ from them. Muslim
terrorists follow in Muhammad's footsteps.
REFERENCES
1
"The Life of Muhammad", by A. Guillaume, pub. by Oxford Univ.
Press.
2
"Muhammad and the Jews of Medina", by Weinsnick, page 113:
3
Tabari's History, page 97 of volume 7
4
"Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir", (Book of the Major Classes), by
Ibn Sa'd, translated
by
S. Moinul Haq, published by the Pakistan Historical Society.
5
"23 Years: A Study of
the Prophetic Career of Mohammad", by Ali Dashti, pub.
by
Mazda. Translated by F.R.C. Bagley.
6
"Sunan Abu Dawud", translated by Ahmad Hasan, pub by Al-Medina
Publications.
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