Truth About Islam

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The religion ofIslam has long professed peace and tolerance, even in the face ofoverwhelming evidence to the contrary. Islamic apologists and people who believe intheir politically correct rhetoric have essentially glossed over the darker parts of heQur'an in the bel ief that we can "all just get along", and that the views and attitudes ofthe Muslim are a thing of the past. The religion of Islam, and its practitioners, theMuslims, have long held that theirs is a religion of peace, when in actuality they seek tosubjugate the population of he world by conversion to their beliefs, taxation of nonbelievers, or death.

In recent memory, many worldwide Muslim leaders have denounced the violenceperpetrated in the name of heir religion. This seems to be clever subterfuge on their part,or words that come from fear, as the Qur'an itself states "But those who reject (Allah), -for them is destruction" (Qur'an 47:8). In truth, the American Muslim leaders are morethan likely in agreement with the actions of their brethren, because their holy book states"when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks" (Qur'an 47:4). Indeed,many cite Surah 2:190-193 as stating that Muslims may only engage in defensivewarfare, or defend themselves against persecution. However, Surah 8:72-73 imploresthose who belong to Islam to go to the places where Islam does not exist and stir uptrouble and discontent, in the form of he native peoples protecting their sovereignty, sothat they may claim persecution and therefore have a way out (Dunkin, Ch. 7-1). If acountry does not allow the spread of Islam in a "suitable manner" or creates hindrances tothis, then Muslims are justified in waging jihad against that country (Spencer 23).


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The Qur'an exhorts the followers ofMuhammad to spread their religion throughwarfare. The Ahadith, or the traditions ofMuhammad, are stories about how and in whatcircumstances the various verses, or Surah, of the Qur'an were revealed to Muhammad.The focus ofmany of the Ahadith is warfare (Spencer 32-35). In fact, most ofthe early,peaceful, passages in the Qur'an (over 120 by some counts) are abrogated, or nullified,by one Surah, known as the Verse of the Sword: Surah 9:5. This hasn' t changed evennow in the modem era. In Arabic, jihad is defined as "struggle" or more commonly "holywar". Those who participate in it are called "mujahedeen", and the root for both wordsmeans to struggle against or sacrifice. Indeed, jihad is touted as the second best act anyMuslim can perform in the service of Islam, the first being becoming or being a Muslim.Those who participate injihad are more blessed than "regular" Muslims, and jihadwarfare is a constant element ofmainstream Islamic theology (Spencer 38). The Ahadithalso allows those who wage war against, and kill, unbelievers, to take their belongings astheir own. In other words, if you covet something that your "infidel" neighbor has, killhim and take it; you are entitled according to the laws and traditions oflslam (Dunkin,Ch 7-3).

The Qur' an and the many Ahadith tell the Muslim what to do, and how to treatnon-believers of Islam. They make it quite clear that there are three options. The first isconversion. The Ahadith and the Qur' an say in many instances that if the "idolaters"become Muslims, then leave them alone (Qur'an 9:5). According to the second option, ifa defeated group of people does not wish to convert to Islam, then they are assigned tostatus ofDhimmi, where they must live persecuted as second-class citizens and pay anexorbitant tax, called the jizya. The third, and probably most used of these options, is war


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and death at the hands of the "true believers". Peaceful coexistence as equals in apluralistic society is not one ofthe options (Spencer 37).

The violence ofMuhammad and his religion has continued around the globe for1,400 years after his death. In 1894, the Sultan Abdul Hamid II ofTurkey initiated apogrom, or organized massacre, of 100-150,000 Orthodox Armenians for not paying thejizya tax that he levied against them. Many more escaped death only by converting toIslam. Later, between 1915-1918, the Muslim Turks performed what can only bedescribed as genocide against the Armenians. Estimates place the number of casualtiesclose to 1,500,000, with a quarter of a million fleeing to Russia to escape the death anddestruction. Needless to say, Turkish Armenia ceased to exist at this time (Dunkin Ch. 7-5). In 1974, Turkey invaded Cyprus and attacked the Orthodox Greeks, who at the timewere supposed to be Turkey's NATO allies (Dunkin Ch. 7-5). On March 1, 1994, RashidBaz shot at a van filled with Hasidic boys on the Brooklyn Bridge, killing one. The FBIchalked it up to road rage (Spencer 207). On July 4, 2002, Hesham Mohamed AliHadayet, known for his hatred of Israel and connection to AI Queda, walked up to theLAX counter ofEI AI, the Israeli national airline, and started shooting, killing two people(Spencer 207). In Mindanao, the large southern island in the Philippines, 400 civilianshave died in Muslim violence spearheaded by the Abu Sayyaf organization since the year2000 (Dunkin Ch. 7-5). On October 12,2002, Indonesia's premiere tourist hot spot, Bali,was bombed, killing 202 people. Also, the resident terrorist organization, JemaahIslamiyah has been targeting the Christian minority of Indonesia, including rapes andbeheadings ofChristian schoolgirls there (Dunkin Ch. 7-5). On November 2,2004, Theovan Gogh, a grand-nephew of the famous artist, was shot and stabbed repeatedly in an


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Amsterdam street in broad daylight. His throat was slit, and a note with Qur' anic versesand threats against public figures who had opposed the influx ofMuslim immigrants tothe Netherlands was left on his body. Eight weeks prior to this, a movie he had produced,called "Submission" was aired on Dutch TV decrying the mistreatment ofMuslimwomen (Spencer 214).

The first Crusade was called by Pope Urban II in 1095 in response toapproximately 500 years ofMuslim aggression prior to the First Crusade. These warswere fought not because the Europeans of the time felt like expanding their territory orconverting by force the Muslims that lived there, but for regaining Christian lands and thedefense of the Christians that were persecuted there (Spencer 121). His decree stated,"the Turks and Arabs have attacked them and have conquered the territory ofRomania .. .They have occupied more and more of the lands of those Christians, and haveovercome them in seven battles. They have killed and captured many, and have destroyedthe churches and devastated the empire." (Spencer 126).

Muslims have contended that the Christians were overly brutal in their conquestof Jerusalem in 1099, when in actuality their actions, while horrendous, were nothingunusual according to the rules ofwarfare at the time. The often spouted story of "rivers ofblood" up to the ankles of the Crusaders is actually a physical impossibility based on thepopulation of the city at the time. During the events leading to the Third Crusade,Saladin, the Muslim ruler at the time, captured Jerusalem and destroyed the forces atHattin in 1187. Originally, he had wanted to behead every Christian soul in the holy city,but when the Christian commander, Balian oflbelin, threatened to destroy Jerusalem andall the Muslims living inside those walls before Saladin could get inside, he relented.


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However once he did take over, he enslaved many of the Christians there who could notafford to bribe their way out of the city (Spencer 142).

Another unlikely event, if the Crusaders were in fact the brutal thugs that historyhas made them out to be, happened in 1238. Muslim ambassadors visited England andFrance, hoping for a military alliance against the encroaching armies of the Mongols. Acentury later, the Mongols returned, only this time they were Muslim. They attacked theMiddle Eastern Muslims, causing such losses that, if they had not happened, Europewould have been overrun in the Middle, or Dark, Ages (Spencer 156).

Islam has not reformed or changed its traditional doctrine of ihad warfare sinceit's inception. Ayatollah Khomeini once said of moderate Muslims and non-believers:"Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [whosay this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all!"(Spencer 191). It is time that people started waking up to the fact that those that say thatIslam is the religion ofpeace and truth, even those that practice it, are mistaken, and theremay come a time when it is truly too late to do anything about it.


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Works cited

Dunkin, Timothy "Ten Myths About Islam" Study to Answer. 2000-2009January 19,2009 Wikipedia "Islam" Islam. 19 January 2009

19 January 2009 Wikipedia "Muhammad" Muhammad. January 18, 2009January 19,2009 Spencer, Robert. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades. Washington,DC:Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2005.Bostom, Andrew "Islam Without Camouflage" American Thinker. August 20, 2005January 19,2009

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