The below following article "Muhammad, Islam, and Terrorism" was written nearly two and a half years before the terror attack of September 11th, 2001. This tragedy has shown again how important it is to understand the reasons and dynamics fuelling Islamic terrorism. Determining the right response is not easy. But some kinds of response are definitely wrong. This article is quite detailed, but even if you do not read the complete article, please make sure you read our concluding remarks.
However, it remains true, that what follows below exposes the basis for this kind of radical Islam that has shown the world its deadly determination. It is not just in the imagination of some people who "hate Islam".
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MUHAMMAD,
ISLAM, AND TERRORISM
INTRODUCTION
The actions of Islamic terrorist groups operating throughout the world
are well known. Islamic terrorists
have bombed and destroyed buildings, planes, and vehicles. Additionally, during the last 20 years,
Muslim terrorists have targeted and murdered tens of thousands of males,
females, adults, and children. All
over the world, in Kenya, Algeria, Indonesia, Egypt, Iran, France, South America
and America, etc., Muslim terrorists have attacked and murdered those they felt
were a threat to their aims. No one
has been spared by these treacherous people.
Not surprisingly, examination of the websites that deal with terrorism
show that about one half of all terrorist groups in the world are Islamic in
nature.
Why are these groups Islamic?
What does the religion of Islam have to do with terrorism? Is there a link between the two? How do these groups justify murdering
civilians based upon Islamic values?
Are terrorism and murder actually allowed under
Islam?
This article examines the basis for Islamic terrorism found within
Islam. Starting with Muhammad and
reviewing his teachings and his actions, and then visiting what other Muslims
have taught, the fundamentals of Islamic terrorism will be examined.
NOTES
1) My comments or source references will be
in [ ] type brackets. Other writers comments will be in the
( ) type
brackets.
2) When I talk about terrorist actions, I
am talking about motive and action.
Crime exists in every society, and I am not including all crimes as
examples of terrorism. I am
focusing on the violent actions Muslims carry out in the name of Islam. For example, in Egypt some years ago, a
Muslim man murdered an American women.
He killed her then robbed her.
His motive was greed, not the furtherance of Islam. I would not call that an Islamic
terrorist action. On the other
hand, Muslims who carry out bombings, like the ones in Kenya and Tanzania - in which hundreds of innocents died, do
so because they feel they are attacking their enemies and have Allah's sanction
to do so. That is a terrorist
action.
Additionally, there are many kinds of terrorists who engage in
violence. There are political
terrorists operating in South America, there are terrorists who murder doctors
who perform abortion. There are
Communist terrorists, capitalist terrorists, right wing terrorists, left wing
terrorists, etc. In America, there
are gangs that operate like terrorists.
However, in this writing, I am focusing on
terrorism based upon what Muhammad taught and did. I am focusing on Muslims, who for the
sake of Islam, commit violent acts of terrorism. But I want all readers to know that I
note that there are many non-Muslim terrorists operating in the world. Some of these other terrorists are every
bit as vicious as Muslim terrorists.
3) A "terrorist" is defined as "one who
engages in acts of terrorism".
"Terrorism" is defined as "the unlawful use or threatened use of force or
violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the
intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for
ideological or political reasons."
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MUHAMMAD'S
EARLY ACTIONS AND TEACHINGS
When Muhammad started out preaching his religion of Islam he was not
violent. He was
persecuted for preaching his religious ideas - Islam - and denigrating the pagan
religions of the Meccans. Some of
Muhammad's followers were tortured.
Things were so bad for him and his few followers that he sent many of
them to Abyssinia [Ethiopia] for refuge.
Eventually, he and his followers moved north to a city called Yathrib
[Medina], where some members of two Arab tribes wanted Muhammad to be their
prophet.
BEGINNING
OF MUHAMMAD'S VIOLENCE
Just prior to Muhammad's leaving for Medina, he received a "revelation" allowing him to fight the
Meccans. He knew that in Medina, he
had a group of armed men who would support him. Furthermore, in Medina, would be more
distant from the Meccans and their attempts to oppress or kill him. The following is from "The Life of
Muhammad", page 212, by A. Guillaume, which is a rendering of Ibn Ishaq's "Sirat
Rasulallah", a biography of Muhammad written by an early Muslim scholar [1].
"THE APOSTLE RECEIVES THE ORDER TO FIGHT
The apostle had not been given permission to fight or allowed to shed
blood before the second Aqaba [a place where a pledge was made between Muhammad
and his followers from Medina]. He had simply been ordered to call men to God
and to endure insult and forgive the ignorant. The Quraysh [a leading group of
Meccans] had persecuted his followers, seducing some from their religion and
exiling others from their country. They had to choose whether to give up their
religion, be maltreated at home, or to flee the country, some to Abyssinia,
others to Medina.
When Quraysh became insolent towards God and rejected His gracious
purpose, accused His prophet of lying, and ill treated and exiled those who
served Him and proclaimed His unity, believed in His prophet and held fast to
His religion, He gave permission to His apostle to fight and to protect himself
against those who wronged them and treated them
badly......[a]
The meaning is "I have allowed them to fight only because they have been
unjustly treated while their sole offense against men has been that they worship
God. When they are in the ascendant
they will establish prayer, pay the poor-tax, enjoin kindness, and forbid
iniquity, i.e., the prophet and his companions all of them." Then God sent down
to him: "Fight them so that there be no more seduction," [b] i.e. until no
believer is seduced from his religion. "And the religion is God's,", i.e. Until
God alone is worshipped."
END
OF QUOTE
[Note: two passages from the
Quran are referenced: [a] Sura
22:39-41, which I did not quote, and [b] Sura 2:193]
Two
critical points here:
1) in Mecca, where Muhammad was weak, he
attacked no one. He only preached
his religion and insulted the Meccan's religions. But it was just prior to his leaving for
Medina, where he had a limited amount of armed men to support him, that he
received this "revelation" and began to use violence to further his
desires. Islamic history shows that as Muslims grew in power their
forms of violence changed from criminal terrorism to outright
warfare.
2) At the end of the quote, it says that
Muslims are to fight those that do not worship Allah.
I also comment on Ibn Ishaq's work.
When reading this passage from Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad is made to appear to
be long suffering and primarily fighting in self defense, and that up until just
before Muhammad's departure, the Meccan persecution was tolerable, but that it
became so bad that Muhammad was finally given permission to fight
back.
The problem with this is that Muhammad had been severely persecuted prior
to this and that Muslims had been abused well before their departure. In other words, the quoted passage is
apologetic work on Ibn Ishaq's part.
Earlier, well before the Treaty of Aqaba, things were so bad for Muhammad
that he went to a town called Taif to seek their help and protection [Guillaume,
op cit, page 192]. The Taifians
rejected and abused him. Things
were so bad for Muhammad in Mecca, Muhammad had to beg three men for their
protection [Guillaume, op cit, page 194].
In Mecca, Muhammad continued to proclaim himself as a prophet and he was
abused all the more. He never
received any "revelations" to fight at that time.
Eventually, good fortune fell into Muhammad's lap and just as in Adolph
Hitler's case, his persistence paid off.
A group of feuding Arabs in Medina accepted him as their prophet. They hoped he could help them maintain
peace. They eventually made a
pledge to support Muhammad in war against the Quraysh [Guillaume, op cit, page
205]. Now Muhammad knew he had an
able and armed following. It was only when he had a following that could defend
themselves, and his people were migrating north to Medina, and that he knew he
was going to leave town, that suddenly "Allah" gave Muhammad his "revelation" to
fight. Muhammad's circumstances
changed, and Muhammad's Allah changed with them. Muhammad went from being only a "warner"
to being an aggressor.
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MUHAMMAD'S
EARLY TERRORIST ACTS
After moving to Medina, Muhammad began to have conflict with the Jews and
pagans in the area. I'll focus on
several incidents, not necessarily in chronological order, that illustrate
Muhammad as a terrorist.
The first terrorist incident involves
Muhammad's command to his followers to "kill any Jew that comes under your
power".
From
Guillaume, op cit, page 369:
"The apostle said, "Kill any Jew that falls into your power." Thereupon Muhayyisa b. Masud leapt upon
Ibn Sunayna, a Jewish merchant with whom they had social and business relations,
and killed him. Huwayyisa was not a
Muslim at the time though he was the elder brother. When Muhayyisa killed him Huwayyisa
began to beat him, saying, 'You enemy of God, did you kill him when much of the
fat on your belly comes from his wealth?'
Muhayyisa answered, 'Had the one who ordered me to kill him ordered me to
kill you I would have cut your head off.'"
END
OF QUOTE
This
story is also supported in the Sunan of Abu Dawud, Book 19, Number 2996:
Narrated
Muhayyisah: The Apostle of Allah
said: If you gain a victory over
the men of Jews, kill them. So
Muhayyisah jumped over Shubaybah, a man of the Jewish merchants. He had close relations with them. He then killed him. At that time Huwayyisah (brother of
Muhayyisah) had not embraced Islam.
He was older than Muhayyisah.
When he killed him, Huwayyisah beat him and said: O enemy of Allah, I swear by Allah, you
have a good deal of fat in your belly from his property.
END
OF QUOTE
This murder was committed upon Muhammad's command. Note that this Muslim murderer would
have killed a family member at the drop of a hat. Muhammad was no better than a bigoted
criminal boss, ordering his men to wantonly murder Jewish people. Hitler did this. And, this is what Serbs are doing to the
Kosovan Muslims. Muhammad's command
to murder Jews puts him in the same category as Milosovic, Hitler, and others
who have persecuted Jews throughout history.
A quote from an Islamic scholar - Wensinck writes in his, "Muhammad and
the Jews of Medina" [2], page 113:
"It is remarkable that tradition attributes Muhammad's most cruel acts to
divine order, namely the siege of Qaynuqa, the murder of Kab, and he attack upon
Qurayzah. Allah's conscience seems
to be more elastic than that of his creatures."..... Ibn Ishaq and al-Waqidi report that the prophet said the
morning after the murder (of Kab Ashraf), "Kill any Jew you can lay your hands
on.".
This incident is also documented in Tabari's History [3], page 97 of
volume 7.
This shows that Muhammad had unsuspecting
people, those who even had good relations with Muslims, murdered in cold blood
because they were Jewish.
There was no justification to murder these Jews other than they were not
Muhammad's followers. These actions
were the work of Muhammad's terrorists committing murder.
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The second terrorist incident involves another one of Muhammad's
requests: this one for his men to
murder an old Jewish man named Abu Afak.
Abu Afak was 120 years. Abu
Afak had urged his fellow Medinans to question Muhammad.
From
Guillaume, op cit., page 675:
SALIM B. UMAYR'S EXPEDITION TO KILL ABU AFAK
Abu
Afak was one of the B. Amr b. Auf of the B. Ubayda clan. He showed his disaffection when the
apostle killed al-Harith b. Suwayd b. Samit and said:
"Long have I lived but never have I seen
An assembly or collection of people
More faithful to their undertaking
And their allies when called upon
Than the sons of Qayla when they assembled,
Men who overthrew mountains and never submitted,
A rider who came to them split them in two (saying)
"Permitted", "Forbidden", of all sorts of things.
Had you believed in glory or kingship
You would have followed Tubba
[NOTE: the Tubba was a ruler from Yemen who
invaded that part of what is present Saudi Arabia: the Qaylites resisted
him]
The apostle said, "Who will deal with this rascal for me?" Whereupon Salim b. Umayr, brother of B.
Amr b. Auf, one of the "weepers", went forth and killed him. Umama b. Muzayriya said concerning
that:
You gave the lie to God's religion and the man Ahmad! [Muhammad]
By him who was your father, evil is the son he
produced!
A "hanif" gave you a thrust in the night saying
"Take that Abu Afak in spite of your age!"
Though I knew whether it was man or jinn
Who slew you in the dead of night (I would say
naught).
END
OF QUOTE
Additional information is found in the Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, (Book
of the Major Classes) by Ibn Sa'd, Volume 2, [4], page 32:
Then occurred the "sariyyah" [raid] of Salim Ibn Umayr al-Amri against
Abu Afak, the Jew, in [the month of] Shawwal in the beginning of the twentieth
month from the hijrah [immigration from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD], of the
Apostle of Allah. Abu Afak, was
from Banu Amr Ibn Awf, and was an old man who had attained the age of one
hundred and twenty years. He was a
Jew, and used to instigate the people against the Apostle of Allah, and composed
(satirical) verses [about Muhammad].
Salim Ibn Umayr who was one of the great weepers and who had participated
in Badr, said, "I take a vow that I shall either kill Abu Afak or die before
him. He waited for an opportunity
until a hot night came, and Abu Afak slept in an open place. Salim Ibn Umayr knew it, so he placed
the sword on his liver and pressed it till it reached his bed. The enemy of Allah screamed and the
people who were his followers, rushed to him, took him to his house and interred
him.
END
OF QUOTE
From a contemporary Muslim scholar - Ali Dashti's "23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of
Mohammad", [5], page 100:
"Abu Afak, a man of great age (reputedly 120 years) was killed because he
had lampooned Mohammad. The deed
was done by Salem b. Omayr at the behest of the Prophet, who had asked, "Who
will deal with this rascal for me?"
The killing of such an old man moved a poetess, Asma b. Marwan, to
compose disrespectful verses about the Prophet, and she too was
assassinated."
Prior to listing all of the assassinations Muhammad had ordered, Ali
Dashti writes on page 97:
"Thus Islam was gradually transformed from a purely spiritual mission
into a militant and punitive organization whose progress depended on booty from
raids and revenue from the zakat tax."
REVIEW
Here another man was murdered upon Muhammad's command. This man was 120
years old. He was no physical
threat to Muhammad and he did not urge people to commit violent acts against
Muhammad or the Muslims. There was
no discussion with Jewish leaders, there was no dialogue with Abu Afak; it was
just an outright murder of another one of Muhammad's critics. Abu Afak urged the people who lived in
Medina to doubt and leave Muhammad.
Abu Afak found that Muhammad's sayings were strange and dictatorial. He chided the Arabs that put their faith
in Muhammad. Muhammad heard of this
and viewed the 120 year old man as a threat to his credibility, not to his
life. Nowhere does it say that Abu
Afak urged his fellow Arabs to attack or harm Muhammad. Yet for
speaking his mind, for the benefit of his friends, this man was murdered by
Muhammad.
The last statement in Umama b. Muzayriya's verse reveals something
though:
"Though I knew whether it was man or jinn
Who slew you in the dead of night (I would say
naught)."
This statement displays that the Muslims knew exactly what they were
doing. They knew it was
cold-blooded murder that they were committing upon Muhammad's request. They wanted to keep it secret, they
wanted to hide their evil deeds from the populace at large. That's why Umama said he wouldn't reveal
who murdered Abu Afak.
When I think of what type of people order their followers to commit
murder, I only can think of organized crime bosses or corrupt political
figures. Saddam Hussein comes to
mind. How would an Iraqi be treated
if he spoke out about Saddam?
Amnesty International just reported that over 1500 political prisoners
were executed in Iraq last year.
Or take the Ayatollah Khomenni.
His fundamentalist Islamic regime had other dissident Iranians murdered
all over the world. These murderous
Muslims represent exactly what Muhammad was all about. They follow Muhammad's methodology: kill those who are a threat to your
credibility and power over others.
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The third incident involves Muhammad's request for his men to murder a
women named Asma b. Marwan.
Quoting
from Guillaume, pages 675, 676.
UMAYR
B. ADIYY'S JOURNEY TO KILL ASMA D. MARWAN
"She was of B. Umayyya b. Zayd.
When Abu Afak had been killed she displayed disaffection. Abdullah b. al-Harith b. Al-Fudayl from
his father said that she was married to a man of B. Khatma called Yazid b.
Zayd. Blaming Islam and its
followers she said:
"I despise B. Malik and al-Nabit
and Auf and B. al-Khazraj.
You obey a stranger who is none of yours,
One not of Murad or Madhhij.
{1}
Do you expect good from him after the killing of your
chiefs
Like a hungry man waiting for a cook's broth?
Is there no man of pride who would attack him by
surprise
And cut off the hopes of those who expect aught from
him?"
Hassan
b. Thabit answered her:
"Banu Wa'il and B. Waqif and Khatma
Are inferior to B. al-Khazraj.
When she called for folly woe to her in her
weeping,
For death is coming.
She stirred up a man of glorious origin,
Noble in his going out and in his coming in.
Before midnight he dyed her in her blood
And
incurred no guilt thereby."
When the apostle heard what she had said he said, "Who will rid me of
Marwan's daughter?" Umayr b. Adiy
al-Khatmi who was with him heard him, and that very night he went to her house
and killed her. In the morning he
came to the apostle and told him what he had done and he [Muhammad] said, "You
have helped God and His apostle, O Umayr!"
When he asked if he would have to bear any evil consequences the apostle
said, "Two goats won't butt their heads about her", so Umayr went back to his
people.
Now there was a great commotion among B. Khatma that day about the affair
of bint [girl] Marwan. She had five
sons, and when Umayr went to them from the apostle he said, "I have killed bint
Marwan, O sons of Khatma. Withstand
me if you can; don't keep me waiting."
That was the first day Islam became powerful among B. Khatma; before that
those who were Muslims concealed the fact.
The first of them to accept Islam was Umayr b. Adiy who was called the
"Reader", and Abdullah b. Aus and Khuzayma b. Thabit. The day after Bint Marwan was killed the
men of B. Khatma became Muslims because they saw the power of
Islam."
{1} The note reads
"Two tribes of Yamani origin."
END
OF QUOTE
And
from Ibn Sa'd's, "Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir" [op cit] volume 2, page
31.
"SARIYYAH OF UMAYR IBN ADI"
Then (occurred) the sariyyah of Umayr ibn adi Ibn Kharashah
al-Khatmi against Asma Bint Marwan,
of Banu Umayyah Ibn Zayd, when five nights had remained from the month of
Ramadan, in the beginning of the nineteenth month from the hijrah of the apostle
of Allah. Asma was the wife of
Yazid Ibn Zayd Ibn Hisn al-Khatmi.
She used to revile Islam, offend the prophet and instigate the (people)
against him. She composed
verses. Umayr Ibn Adi came to her
in the night and entered her house.
Her children were sleeping around her. There was one whom she was
suckling. He searched her with his
hand because he was blind, and separated the child from her. He thrust his sword in her chest till it
pierced up to her back. Then he
offered the morning prayers with the prophet at al-Medina. The apostle of Allah said to him: "Have you slain the daughter of
Marwan?" He said: "Yes. Is there something more for me to
do?" He [Muhammad] said: "No two goats will butt together about
her. This was the word that was
first heard from the apostle of Allah.
The apostle of Allah called him Umayr, "basir" (the
seeing).
END
OF QUOTE
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DISCUSSION
Let's sum this up and put it in perspective.
Muhammad had al-Harith b. Suwayd b. Samit killed. This upset Abu Afak, so he spoke out
against it. So, likewise, Muhammad
had Abu Afak murdered. This
offended Asma b. Marwan and she spoke out against that evil deed. She encouraged her fellow tribesmen to
take action against Muhammad. When
Muhammad heard of what she had said, he had her killed
also.
At first glance, this order to kill Asma might seem justifiable. Asma was calling for someone to kill
Muhammad. It is understandable for
Muhammad to be bothered by that.
But let's look deeper at the event and examine the context of Asma's
relationship to her tribe.
1)
First of all, Asma has seen Muhammad in action. She had seen him for what he was, a cold
blooded murderer. Of course she
spoke out against a murderer.
Second,
her tribe was not under Muhammad's rule.
Perhaps they had a treaty with Muhammad, perhaps not. Either way, this women was free to speak
her mind. If a treaty existed, and
she was out of line, Muhammad could have complained to her tribe's leaders, and
they could have commanded her to be silent or dealt with the
situation.
2)
What's more noteworthy about this event is that after she was murdered,
Muhammad said "Two goats won't butt their head about her", meaning no one will
care about her death. (Well except
her children and her family).
Also note, that there were already people from her tribe who had become
Muslims. Certainly these people
were not going to listen to her.
The point is this: if no one
really cared about her being murdered, then no one really cared about what she
had to say. Her people also knew
about Muhammad having Abu Afak murdered, and they didn't care about that
either. Even in that light, no one
would take her serious enough to listen to her urgings to murder Muhammad, who
was the leader of a powerful group of people. None of her people were willing to put
their lives on the line for her words.
The bottom line is that Asma b. Marwan was not a legitimate threat to
Muhammad. She didn't scare him, she
was not the leader of her tribe, and she had little or no influence. She was little more than a nuisance to
him. Yet Muhammad had her murdered,
again, in cold, premeditated blood.
And one wonders why Muhammad didn't kill her
himself? It was always easier for
Muhammad to have someone else do his killing.
Put the shoe on the other foot.
Throughout the Mideast, there are Muslims who call America the Great
Satan. These Muslims have called
for the violent destruction of America. Frequently great crowds have gathered to
chant "death to America, death to Reagan, or Bush, or etc.". At times these
people have even murdered Americans.
Now, if America, or Reagan, or Bush, etc. were to use Muhammad's
standards, they would engage in killing quite a few Muslims. They would have used Islamic standards
on the Muslims. But we know that
the chanting of a crowd of hot-heads does not necessitate the use of violence
against them. There are better ways
to deal with critics and criticisms.
Frequently, in the passion of youth, people do and say things they don't
intend to act out, or are not able to carry out. Given time, people can change, and
pursue peaceful dialog. But if one
applied Muhammad's standards, American would be justified in bombing Tehran;
Israel would be justified in wiping out hundreds of thousands of Arab
Muslims.
The only conclusion is that this lady troubled Muhammad and he wanted her
silenced. Again, like Abu Afak, she
was murdered in the night while she slept.
What type of people murder those that sleep? Criminals.
ADDITIONAL
OBSERVATIONS
1)
What alarms me the most about Islam is its disposition to violence and
use of violence as a standard of God's will.
Umayr is a perfect example of this.
Here is a Muslim man, a friend of Muhammad's, acting upon Muhammad's
request and going into a woman's home under the cover of night. He comes upon the women, sleeping in her
bed with her child, and murders her by plunging a sword through her
body.
Afterwards, Muhammad tells the man that he has "helped God and his
apostle". If Allah were really
threatened by this woman, I think He could have killed her Himself, don't
you? Does God need men to sneak
around in the night and murder sleeping women?
2)
What kind of religion is Islam really? Soon after Umayr murdered Asma, he went
to her family and mocked them! He
was laughing in their faces that he had murdered their mother and that they were
powerless to do anything about it!
Here is the quote again:
"She had five sons, and when Umayr went to them from the apostle he said,
"I have killed bint Marwan, O sons of Khatma. Withstand me if you can; don't keep me
waiting."
3)
Finally, similar to observation #1, look at the power of Islam. Here is the quote:
"That was the first day Islam became powerful among B. Khatma..... The
day after Bint Marwan was killed the men of B. Khatma became Muslims because
they saw the power of Islam."
So then, the power of Islam is to go about and murder sleeping women in
the night, and get away with it?
Does "might make right" ring true in Islam? Is it "he who has the biggest sword is
from Allah? The only people I know
who respect that kind of power are criminals. Criminals who go out in the night and
murder people while they sleep.
We know that there are good and bad in all
religions, but this case is different.
This event reflects upon the man who started Islam: Islam is built upon Muhammad's words and
deeds. We see here that Muhammad
had a woman brutally murdered. She
was killed because she spoke out against him, and she was merely a
nuisance.
The fourth incident involves a Muslim man who
murdered his own slave. From the Hadith of Abu Dawud [6].
Book 38,
Number 4348:
Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas:
A blind man had a
slave-mother who used to abuse the Prophet and disparage him. He forbade her but
she did not stop. He rebuked her but she did not give up her habit. One night
she began to slander the Prophet and abuse him. So he took a dagger, placed it
on her belly, pressed it, and killed her. A child who came between her legs was
smeared with the blood that was there. When the morning came, the Prophet was
informed about it.
He assembled the people and said: I adjure by Allah
the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right to him that he
should stand up. Jumping over the necks of the people and trembling the man
stood up.
He sat before the Prophet and said: Apostle of Allah! I am her
master; she used to abuse you and disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not
stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like
pearls from her, and she was my companion. Last night she began to abuse and
disparage you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I
killed her.
Thereupon the Prophet said: Oh be witness, no retaliation is
payable for her blood.
END OF QUOTE
Here we see here that Muhammad allowed people to murder
others just for insulting him. Here, a slave women, who was used as a concubine
by her Muslim master, paid for her criticism of Muhammad with her
life. Note here that one man murdered his own slave, who was the
mother of two of his children!
A slave lady
made fun of Muhammad and was brutally murdered and that action received
Muhammad's sanction.
Now then, was that slave a threat? Were Muslims going to leave Islam
because of a slave women's criticism? Of course not. Muhammad could not long
tolerate any personal criticism; he didn't want his credibility undermined, so
he allowed his followers to murder anyone who expressed different
views.
Oh, by the way, before we move on, let me continue to quote from
Abu Dawud. The note #3800 states:
"This shows that even if a Jew of any
non-Muslim abuses the Prophet he will be killed. This is held by al-Laith,
al-Shafi'i, Ahmad, and Ishaq."
When Jesus said His followers had to
hate their families, even their own lives to follow Him, everyone knew He meant
it as a comparison.... Jesus also commanded people to honor their fathers and
mothers. But Muhammad allowed his followers to even murder members of their own
families!
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The
fifth incident involves another Muslim man named Amr Umayya, who was sent out by
Muhammad to murder Muhammad's enemy Abu Sufyan, (Guillaume, op cit, and page
673). However, their assassination attempt failed. As he returned home, he met a
one-eyed shepherd. The shepherd and the Muslim man both identified themselves as
members of the same Arab clan. Prior to going asleep, the shepherd said that he
would never become a Muslim. Umayya waited for the shepherd to fall asleep, and
thereafter:
"as soon as the badu was asleep and snoring I got up and
killed him in a more horrible way than any man has been killed. I put the end of
my bow in his sound eye, then I bore down on it until I forced it out at the
back of his neck."
Umayya returned and spoke with Muhammad. He
relates......."He [Muhammad] asked my news and when I told him what had happened
he blessed me".
So, Muhammad blessed one of
his men who murdered a one-eyed shepherd while he slept. Another
person who didn't want to follow Muhammad, another murder in Islam's name.
Muhammad's trail of blood continued to
grow.
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The
sixth incident involves the actions of Muslims who were sent out by Muhammad on
a raid against the Fazara tribe. The Muslims were initially defeated by the
Fazara. The wounded Muslim leader swore vengeance. After he recovered he went
out and attacked the Fazara again. One very old women was captured. Here is the
account from Guillaume, op cit, and page 665:
"....and Umm Qirfa Fatima was taken prisoner. She was a very
old women, wife of Malik. Her daughter and Abdullah Masada were also taken. Zayd
ordered Qays to kill Umm Qirfa and he killed her cruelly (Tabari, by putting a
rope to her two legs and to two camels and driving them until they rent her in
two.)
END OF QUOTE
Here, Muhammad's companions went
out and attacked people, took some prisoners, then committed some brutal
atrocities against their captives. These men were
so destitute of basic human values, that they ripped an old women in half by
using camels! When one reads of the horrible things the Serbs have done, one is
offended. But I wonder how many Muslims know that Muhammad himself did and
sanctioned such things. Muhammad was every bit as brutal as the
Nazis.
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The
7th incident involves another slave woman who was murdered, upon Muhammad's
command because she had mocked Muhammad some time earlier.
From Guillaume,
op cit, page 550, 551:
"Another [to be killed] was Abdullah Khatal of B.
Taym b. Ghalib. He had become a Muslim and the apostle sent him to collect the
poor tax in company with one of the Ansar. He had with him a freed slave who
served him. (He was Muslim). When they halted he ordered the latter to kill a
goat for him and prepare some food, and went to sleep. When he woke up the man
had done nothing, so he attacked and killed him and apostatized. He had two singing-girls Fartana and her friend who used to
sing satirical songs about the apostle, so he ordered that they should be killed
with him."
END OF QUOTE
Let's stop here and examine
this paragraph. Muhammad ordered that a man who apostatized, and his two slave
girls, be killed. Khatal was ordered to be killed not because he killed his male
slave, a Muslim, but because he apostatized. Islamic law does not allow a Muslim
man to be put to death for killing a slave. Muhammad also ordered two slave
girls to be killed for singing satirical songs about him. They sung satirical
songs about Muhammad probably at least a year or more earlier. Now, after
Muhammad conquered Mecca, it was his time to pay those slave girls back. These
slave girls were not threats to Islam, or to the new Islamic State. They were
only slave girls. They were ordered to be executed only because they sang a
silly song about Muhammad. Page 551 finishes the story of the slave
girls:
"As for Ibn Khatal's two singing girls, one was killed and the
other ran away until the apostle, asked for immunity, gave it to
her."
Needless to say, if the second slave girl didn't ask for
"immunity", Muhammad would have had her murdered also.
How do you feel
when you hear of Serbs murdering Bosnian and Kosovo women? Yet Muhammad did
exactly that - he had women murdered just for making fun of him. If a Muslim
justified Muhammad's murder of slave girls, then by their standards, they have
to justify what the Serbs are doing in
Kosovo.
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REVIEW
We see that Muhammad had many people murdered. By request,
by command, by implication, Muhammad had many people murdered, many killed while
they slept. There were no trials, no judgments, no dialog. If you insulted
Muhammad, if you doubted his credibility and if you spoke out, you were
murdered. Men and women, young and
old, all were killed because of Muhammad's hatred toward those who spoke out
against him.
Here is a summary of the 7 terrorist murders
committed upon Muhammad's requests or efforts:
1) Ibn Sunayna, a Jewish
man who was murdered because he was simply a Jew
2) Abu Afak, a 120-year-old
man, murdered while he slept
3) Asma Marwan, mother of 5 children, murdered
while she slept
4) A slave women, mother of two children, murdered while she
slept
5) A one-eyed shepherd, murdered while he slept
6) A very old women,
literally ripped in half by Muslims who captured her on a raid.
7) A slave
girl, who was murdered because she poked fun at Muhammad.
I will add that
there were many more people who suffered a similar fate. I choose not to list
them here because of space limitations.
Make no mistake
about it: Muhammad was a terrorist. Today's Muslim terrorists follow his
actions. Like prophet, like followers; today's Muhammadan terrorists commit
their acts based upon what Muhammad did.
Many Muslims are peace-loving people and are
thoroughly disgusted about the acts of Islamic terrorism. Most Muslims do not
know these historical facts about their own prophet. But Muslim terrorists are
usually well-educated in Islam. They are pious people. Spiritual leaders. And
they do what they do and how they do it following the example of their
prophet.
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.
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#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.''
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
Jesus condemned those who murdered without repentance ...."Outside are
the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers,
the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood" Revelations 22:15. Muhammad falls into that
category.
Jesus said in John 8:44 that Satan was a murderer from the beginning, and
that those who sought to murder Him were Satan's children. As soon as he could, Muhammad began to
have people murdered. Today,
Muhammad's children do the same works.
Jesus taught that one day people would murder Christians thinking they
would be doing service to God.
Today, in Muslim countries, like Iran for instance, Muslims murder
ex-Muslims who have become Christians.
And in other countries, they attack and threaten
others.
Jesus taught to love your enemies, to pray for those that persecute
you. Jesus didn't send his
disciples out to murder people in the night, Muhammad did. Take the example of Christ and the
Samaritans opposition to Jesus.
"As the time approached for Him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus
resolutely set out for Jerusalem.
And he set messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get
things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was
heading for Jerusalem. When the
disciples James and John saw this, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call
fire down from heaven to destroy them?"
And he said, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of, for the Son
of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." And they went to another village." Luke 9:51-56
Muhammad would have ordered his men to attack the Samaritan village, then
kill or enslave the people, and take all their possession as plunder. After Muhammad gained power, he sent his
armies out to attack non-Muslims.
Who then really brought God's message of His love for mankind? Who really taught
peace?
Surely,
this man Muhammad was not from God.
Instead, Muhammad is one of the false prophets Jesus spoke of in Matthew
24:11 -
"and
many false prophets shall arise and deceive many".
The author welcomes feedback, questions, critical or supportive responses via email.
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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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Concluding Remarks regarding the attacks of September 11
The endless cycle of violence in Israel, of attack and counter attack between Palestinians and Israelis has shown that this cannot be the way to peace. Both sides feel they have to take revenge because every time innocent lives on their own side have been killed.
There are institutional and personal aspects of response.
Governments have the God-given duty to keep peace and order in the society, and this includes explicitly the punishment of criminals. The guilty need to be punished. The networks of Islamic terrorism need to be fought. But the western countries need to make very sure, they are only punishing the guilty and are not sacrificing innocent lives in blind revenge. We cannot lower our own standards of what is right because the enemy of radical Islamic groups does not have these standards himself and will without hesitation sacrifice innocents. The western world needs to show even in the executed punishment that it has different moral values. Many Islamic countries are in horrible condition and the majority of the population are destitute and already suffering under their governments and systems. Killing those people is not fitting for a nation who seeks to uphold justice and human rights but will only have the effect to radicalize more Muslims and fuel the cry for revenge from their side.
Many Middle Easterners in the USA are Christians who have left or fled the Middle East because in Islamic societies they were either directly persecuted or at best second class citizens. They have come to the West because they were longing for freedom and are absolutely loyal citizens, ready to defend their country as much as any other American. It would be a horrendous injustice to attack them verbally or physically just because they look Middle Eastern.
There are more than six million Muslims living in the USA today. They are largely normal people with hopes and fears, who just want to make a living, who work hard and honest to bring bread on the table and to allow their children to go to college. They also want to live in peace and would never think of committing terrorist acts. Most of them are themselves in utter shock as result of these atrocities. They have done nothing to deserve the hatred of other Americans. They are not guilty, and it is the duty of any upright, freedom loving person to stand up for them, even to give them shelter in their own homes, should others threaten to make them victims of self-appointed revenge.
The greatness of a society built on Christian values shows itself when it will not discriminate for any reason on the basis of race, culture or religion, even when attacked by some people from one specific group. America wants to be a champion of human rights around the world, and needs to make sure, she holds herself accountable to the same standards.
For Christians particularly, we have the command of our Lord to love our neighbor as ourselves; any neighbor, not only those who are like us. But we are called to particularly care for those who are disadvantaged or discriminated against and to stand up for those who can't defend themselves. And at this time this might well include Muslims in our neighborhood who are faced with and might suffer from unreflected anger of other Americans.
After you have read all of this...
I have agonized about the question whether I really should give this article a place on the "Answering Islam" web site and even more to link it so prominently from the front page at this time. I have done so, because thousands of people are asking questions where this Islamic terrorism is coming from. And they need to get answers that they will never get from the Muslims who appear in the media. What happened was not an isolated incident of a couple of mad men. The problem is much deeper and it is here to stay. And before any cure can be found, there needs to be the correct diagnosis.
However, I know that nearly every Muslim reading this article will be offended deeply. This is not my intention, but with the hundreds of messages I am getting now, and because I have a job and am handling Answering Islam in my spare time, I had no chance to write something new or do major revisions of this above article. The information is needed now. Therefore I have released it, even in a less than ideal form.
Muslims are raised from early childhood to revere the prophet Muhammad and to honor him highly. They are commanded to hold his honor more dear than their own lives or those of their family members. Even "secular" Muslims who do not practice Islam, who hardly ever perform the daily prayers and live a thoroughly non-religious life will usually respond immediately when confronted with any critique of the person of Muhammad. Any critical remark about Muhammad is worse than an insult to their own person. This is religiously and culturally conditioned. Therefore, I plead for sensitivity in the use of this information on the level of personal encounter. Do not use it for accusing and attacking Muslims in personal confrontation. It will destroy relationships. In many Islamic countries the death penalty is executed on those who insult Muhammad. In western countries, where this is not possible, it is still going to cause intense conflict if used as direct attack.
However, I am firmly convinced, all Muslims eventually need to deal with the history and sources of their religion. I think it is fair to calmly ask them to give their personal response on the teaching of the Quran regarding war against unbelievers, and about the example that Muhammad has set in dealing with critics of his person in his own life. But it might be best to postpone such questioning for some time, until the emotions have calmed down somewhat. Nobody who feels attacked or pressured (and Muslims feel this way now, due to the black color Islam is painted in everywhere these days), will be open to ponder even sincere questions, but build up inner or outer defense walls, or even explode in anger. Nothing is won by pressing this issue NOW with your personal Muslim friends, neighbors, co-workers, or aquaintances. Now we need to stand united with Muslims who are in shock just as everyone else and in opposition to this terror and support them in their opposition, without attacking the very foundation of their life.
God have mercy on us all
Webmaster, Answering Islam
Introductory and concluding comments written and revised several times during September 12 - 15, 2001.
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