The Jihad Apocalypse 'A Muslim Obligation'

The Jihad Apocalypse 'A Muslim Obligation'

"A lawyer defending al Qaeda-linked suspects standing trial for the 2003 suicide bombings in Istanbul told a court that jihad, or holy war, was an obligation for Muslims and his clients should not be prosecuted.

"If you punish them for this, tomorrow, will you punish them for fasting or for praying?" Osman Karahan -- a lawyer representing 14 of the 72 suspects -- asked during a nearly four-hour speech in which he read religious texts from an encyclopedia of Islam.
The November 2003 blasts targeted two synagogues, the British Consulate and the local headquarters of the London-based HSBC bank, killing 58 people.

"If non-Muslims go into Muslim lands, it is every Muslim's obligation to fight them," Karahan said."

Always helpful to have the statements made by Muslim defendants, and their lawyers, in Muslim lands. In Turkey, in Indonesia, and elsewhere, the lawyers and defendants feel no need to obscure or hide the teachings of Islam. They are forthright. In the United Kingdom, in France, in Spain, in all of Europe and North America, they will, not wishing to harm the "cause of Islam" and its steady uninterrupted march within the Lands of the Infidels, in places where Islam has not yet been permanently established, and the time not yet ripe for revealing too openly the truth (and counting on lazy Infidels not to find out too much -- and so far, those lazy Infidels have been happy to oblige) about Islam.

An interesting comparison can be made between the words of the lawyers and defendants in terrorism trials in Muslim countries, and in non-Muslim ones. Interesting and revealing.

Until the West begins to pay attention to what Muslims are saying in Arabic, Persian and Urdu, rather than what their apologists sprout forth for foreign consumption, we will continue to be in the situation of England under Chamberlain. Let us hope that our political leadership wakes up before it is too late.

Let's examine the concept of Jihad once gain as discussed yesterday in order to fully understand it

"Recently, apologists in the West have asserted that Jihad means primarily "spiritual struggle." There are several things to be said about this. First of all, the tradition to which they are referring is a late Sufi tradition, of the eleventh century, which divides jihad into a "Jihad of the Sword" and a "Jihad of the Spirit," stating that the former is the "lesser" Jihad and the latter is the "greater." This tradition is not contained in any of the canonical volumes of Sunni traditions, however, and has occupied, historically, only a very minor place in the Islamic tradition.

How do we know this to be so? There have been thousands of books composed on the religious duty of Jihad throughout the 14 centuries of Islamic history. Every last one of those books was about the "Jihad of the Sword" but one - and that one was composed only in the 20th century, by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shi'ite, and not exactly a pacifist. Second, and far more important: all that this tradition states is that the "Jihad of the Spirit" is the greater Jihad; it does not in any way abrogate the "lesser Jihad," the "Jihad of the Sword"- on the contrary. It is not accidental that the word for a Sufi monastery and for a fortress of volunteer border warriors (ribat) is identical in the Islamic languages; the same people who were "struggling in God's path" in the Jihad of the Spirit were simultaneously "struggling in God's path" in the Jihad of the Sword; even the Sufis who invented this tradition saw the two types of Jihad as being complementary, not mutually exclusive. Moreover, even had the late Sufi tradition actually been the dominant one in Islam, it would in no way abrogate the militaristic Qur'anic verses which order the believers variously to "fight' or to "kill" the unbelievers.

Every classical treatise on Islamic government has viewed the primary duty of a ruler as essentially that of ordering the world according to God's will. The world is divided into two mutually antagonistic parts: the "Abode of Islam" (Dar al-Islam), in which God's rule has already been established, and which is ruled according to Muslim law; and the "Abode of War" (Dar al-Harb); that portion of the world which is not yet under God's rule, but which the Muslims must eventually bring into the Islamic oecumene by force or by persuasion. What the apologists are not revealing when they talk of Islam as a religion of peace is that the "peace" they are referring to is a Pax Islamica."

Qur'an 9:29, which is regarded by all the exegetes as the specific passage commanding Muslims to fight Christians and Jews until they accept Dhimmitude: "Fight those among the People of the Book who do not believe in Allah and the last Day, do not forbid what Allah and His Apostle have forbidden and do not profess the true religion, till they pay the poll-tax out of hand and submissively." According to Muslim exegesis, it was after receiving this revelation in the year 630 that the Prophet Muhammad sent a raiding party to fight the Byzantines. This verse is cited as abrogating virtually all prior Qur'anic verses calling for patience or forgiveness toward Scriptuaries.

Also, the Prophetic sunna (as recorded in the Hadith) gives a hierarchy of those values considered most meritorious. For instance, in one tradition included in most of the 6 canonical collections (and, by the way, Jihad in all of these collections unambiguously means unconditional warfare against non-Muslims): " A man came to God's Apostle [Muhammad] and said: 'Show me an act equal to Jihad.' [Muhammad] answered: 'I cannot find one.'" In other traditions, Jihad against non-Muslims is accounted as "better than the world and all that is in it."

When are we going to finally understand?

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UPDATE: An interesting article by David Gutman here, and an incredible analysis by Dr. Sanity of the two oposing cultures of shame and guilt and how the two differ in their perception and treatment of situations we may find ourselves in. Thank you to Siggy for the links, who has another brilliant post on the above subject in relation to language and how it affects the world around us

Comments

[Loy]

Provacative and necessary thoughts. Thank you! You've crafted an awesome blog, btw...

Loy

[RC]

very-interesting guest on BAM radio on this evening
and tomorrow evening's programs. more details at
equip.org, or you can alternatively listen online
at your convenience on the link that is provided at
the equip.org homepage. an interesting and timely
topic, that is worth digging-into at a deeper-
level in the guest interviewee's most recent
book titled,

"Unspeakable: Facing up to evil in an age of
genocide and terror"

the guest-author is highly-qualified to speak and
to write about this difficult topic, in my
humble opinion.

a good related-read at,

ericmetaxas.com

[Liquid]

Its a terrible legacy for the children because while they are being decieved inside our country to tolerate Islam as a 'religion of peace' at our public schools and at our universities across this great land, the muslim youth on the other hand are being taught something else, since over 80 to 90 percent of the islamic schools and mosque are controlled by the wahabi and their ideology. So it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what will happen in the near future when these generations meet at the fork in the road here in America! Many people don't realise that it was the Clintons along with the president of the ACLU that helped implement this into the place it is today. You can get a little insight HERE on that matter if you choose. But when Nadine Strossen got her copyright on this, she knew darn well that it was going to be a controversary and that it would create legal jobs for her athiest lawyers over at the ACLU!

I think there are many, including muslims, that want reform for Islam, but to do so in all honesty, they would have to examine the core of the issue, which is the koran itself and there is much taboo about that! There is genuine fear for the muslim that speaks out about it, because they have seen men imprisoned or had even worse done to them and their families that have tried in the past. There is a 'big bully' inside Islam that will intimidate those that dare to do so! So until they feel there is freedom to exchange ideas and questions without scrutiny or threats, then in their minds, its easier and safer to remain silent. But I think today the moderate muslim is being tested and forced to choose sides more and more. One can ask those in the mosque in Europe about the changes they have seen over the last few years and hate literature has been found here in America in some mosque too!

I was told one time that Islam is ran like the mob and that the "peaceful" part is equivalent to the store front that laundered the money and looked legit, while the "radical" part was in the back of the store and in the backside of the alley doing the dirty deeds of business and attending to the "real agendas"

The question I have is this: If there was a political movement trying to undermine our government here in America, wouldn't we do something to stop it immediately? When will those in charge of our safety start to realise that Islam cannot separate it's "religion" from it's "politics" and that the more it is allowed to fool the majority's eye with all it's optical duplicity trickery, then it only stands to gain more power and more time on setting up even more store fronts in our American communities, that perhaps, when in place will have the "boys in the back" emerge and swallow up the "peaceful" with jihad! Then what????

[RC]

interesting program that is worth checking-out on abc's
"nightline" this evening.

[RC]

leadingtheway.org/broadcasts/radio_Dual.asp

simpletruth.org

answering-islam.org

this satanic-war against "the jews and the crusaders" was
started by the Ayatollah Khomeini(the godfather of state-
sponsored international terrorism) in the islamic republic of
Iran(the motherland of state-sponsored international-terrorism).
Khomeini & arafart are dead and suffering eternal-conscious
punishment in a fiery hell, alongside their idol adolph-
hitler; but the war that is being waged against the "infidels"
in Judeo-Christian western-civilization by their fanatical,
maniacal, and homicidal disciples continues. the question
that begs to be asked is does America have the will and the
resolve to win this war ?

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Thank you and God bless you.

ps. Thank you Jimmy "killer-rabbit" Carter for helping create
that satanic-monstrosity in the heart of the middle-east known
as the islamic republic of Iran. nice-job you misguided
liberal-democrat.

regimechangeiran.com

[North by Northwest]

Robert,

For this struggle will not be completed in our lifetimes.

Not for nothing have many international commentators predicted the 21th century to be the century of religious conflict between Islam and Christianity together with all other non-confrontational religions.

It seems to me that Islam today needs a Martin Luther, who has the courage and backing to declare Jihad and other Islamic Laws, which are in contradiction to contemporary civil liberties and human rights, as misguided and false.

However, the Lutheran Reformation differs significantly in one fundamental aspect: Jesus' teachings were those of peace and forgiveness. The Catholic Church in the eyes of the Reformation had veered off course. The main goal was to bring Christianity back to the roots, closer to Christ's word and teachings, not away from it.

The Islamic religion however needs to be purged of its core teachings stemming from the early Middle Ages; the very core teachings, which only in recent decades seem to have been dramatically radicalized and further entrenched in so far as their importance seem to have been given much more weight.

Therein lies the problem: The message from the Prophet Muhammad, Jesus' equivalent for all Muslims, is believed to have been received directly from God. And now God's very own Word, in its original, unaltered form, is supposed to be fundamentally altered....

Even if one day a large enough collective will were to be mustered to do precisely that, what religion could withstand such a fundamental transformation and still remain authentic in the eyes of its believers.

In short, it seems more likely that Muslims in large numbers convert to other religions, than that Islam in its current, authentic form is changed from within.

As a consequence, it appears to be inevitable that we are facing a future in which we are gradually returning to a contemporary version of the ages of the crusades, both in words and in deeds.

[Wahrheit]

Alexandra, little to add to your thorough and excellent post except that we need to teach this to our children, as well. I have a one-year-old son who will grow up with the truth about this as part of his lessons. For this struggle will not be completed in our lifetimes. And the children will not be learning this truth at public school, unless an attack so terrible is unleashed here that even fools can no longer ingnore the painful reality.