Friday, June 6, 2008
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by Dean Esmay An excerpt from Dean Esmay's comment #8.
What they're all almost obsessed with is cherry-picking through the Koran to find nasty and violent bits, and/or finding this or that questionable story on the background of Muhammed. When you point out that you can do exactly this same thing to the Bible and to Christian history--which, as a Christian, I acknowledge freely that you can do very easiliy--they either roll their eyes like it doesn't matter or, even worse, bloviate that doing so is to "attack Christianity" (the irony of which utterly escapes them). In that comment, Esmay was attacking Snooper, who had commented earlier in the thread. Esmay wants us to ignore the fact that the Qur'an was recited piecemeal, not as a coherent body of scripture. Allah's commands are contained in clear verses, they stand alone and are to be believed and implemented. Worse yet, those commands, and the Hadith which confirm them, are a critical source of Sharia (Islamic law). In my response to Esmay's comment , I pointed out the Sharia and its basis in scripture & tradition. Citing Al-Taubah 29 is not cherry picking, that ayeh is the basis of an important ruling of Shria, a ruling which defines Islam as an aggressor. O-9.8: The Objectives of Jihad
The caliph (o-25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (N: provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya, def: o-11.4) -which is the significance of their paying it, not the money itself-while remaining in their ancestral religions) (O: and the war continues) until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax (O: in accordance with the word of Allah Most High,
"Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day and who forbid not what Allah and His messenger have forbidden-who do not practice the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book-until they pay the poll tax out of hand and are humbled" (Koran 9.29),...
Instead of cherrypicking the Qur'an & Hadith, turn directly to Book O.9 of Reliance of the Traveler, the chapter which reveals the Sharia law concerning Justice. Seek the answers to this short list of questions: what is Jihad, what does the Caliph do, why, how frequently does he do it? If you don't have a copy, click the link above and use the Ctrl F key combination to search for O.9. If any doubts or questions remain, go to FOMI and read the wide variety of Fiqh, don't overlook the quote from the Hedaya. Any residual skepticism should lead you to Bukhari's Sahih collection of Hadith, Books 52, 53 & 59, and 1.8.387, 1.7.331, 4.53.386, Abu Dawud 14.2526 & 23.3455. http://quranbrowser.com displays up to ten parallel translations of the Qur'an. Carefully examine 8:39 & 9:29 with special emphasis of Rodwell & Sale's translations of the latter ayeh. Who are we to interpret the Qur'an? We need the expertise of a qualified Qadi. Fortunately, http://qtafsir.com includes a tafsir search engine for Ibn Kathir's Tafsir. Look up the ayat cited in the previous paragraph. The clincher for the terminally obtuse & recalcitrant: ROPMA includes an unordered list of the most egregious of Ibn Kathir's Tafsir topics, linked to tafsir.com. [same text as qtafsir, but no search engine] The explicit wording of the titles should be sufficient.
...and as we can see by the comment from "Dajjal," any idiot can cherry-pick through a vast and complex religion and find things to fit his point of view. It's very much like reading literature from, say, a Jack Chick tract, or the loonies running the John Birch society. Anyone who says there's no such thing as Islamophobia, or that it's a "nonsense word," only have to read the pseudoscholarly "reasoning" of deluded people like this. So which of the three I mention above is the "Dajjal" do you think: the militant atheist, or the perturbed Christian? I rather doubt he's actually been to any Muslim countries, so that seems least likely.
Citation of Sharia is not cherry picking. Allah's command to make war on "people of the book" resulted in the conquest of Yemen, Egypt, the Levant, Spain and the Balkans. It also resulted in the attempted conquest of Italy, France and Austria. When we examine the Qur'an, Hadith, Sira and Fiqh, a clear pattern emerges, a pattern of barbarian aggression which condemns Islam. Muslims & Dhimmis are willfully blind to that pattern, refusing to recognize it. That Fiqh is behind the fire brand Imams preaching world conquest and the rioters whose banners proclaim world domination. The phobia suffix implies irrational fear & loathing. In view of Islam's 1384 year history of barbarian conquest employing terrorism as a battle tactic, fear & loathing of Islam is rational and well justified. Back to my list of questions: - What is Jihad?
- @(O: Jihad means to war against non-Muslims
- What does the Caliph do?
- The caliph (o-25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians
- How frequently does he do it?
- "Jihad is a communal obligation," meaning upon the Muslims each year.
Dean Esmay, other apologists for Islam & the Dhimmis will never answer those questions. They can only evade them and attempt to shift attention from Islam to its critics.Labels: Dean Esmay, Fiqh, Islam
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
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President Bush Delivers Commencement Address at United States Air Force Academy
Selected excerpts in block quotes interspersed with my comments. [Emphasis added.]
And now, in the 21st century, our nation is once again contending with an ideology that seeks to sow anger and hatred and despair -- the ideology of Islamic extremism. In today's struggle, we are once again facing evil men who despise freedom, and despise America, and aim to subject millions to their violent rule.
'Extremism' implies a deviation from some standard. That standard is the set of doctrines enshrined in the Qur'an & exemplified by Muhammad's sunna. It appears that President Bush is ignorant of Islam's doctrines and practices.
- 8:12 (Remember) when your Lord inspired the angels, "Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes."
- 8:39 And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allâh) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allâh Alone [in the whole of the world ]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allâh), then certainly, Allâh is All-Seer of what they do.
- 8:57 So if you gain the mastery over them in war, punish them severely in order to disperse those who are behind them, so that they may learn a lesson.
- 8:59 And let not those who disbelieve think that they can outstrip (escape from the punishment). Verily, they will never be able to save themselves (from Allah's Punishment).
- 8:60 And make ready against them all you can of power, including steeds of war (tanks, planes, missiles, artillery, etc.) to threaten the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides whom, you may not know but whom Allah does know. And whatever you shall spend in the Cause of Allah shall be repaid unto you, and you shall not be treated unjustly.
- 8:67 It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land. You desire the good of this world (i.e. the money of ransom for freeing the captives), but Allâh desires (for you) the Hereafter. And Allâh is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
- 9:29 Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
- Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 8, Number 387:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah."... - Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 220:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand." - Abu Dawud Book 38, Number 4390:
Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi:
I was among the captives of Banu Qurayzah. They (the Companions) examined us, and those who had begun to grow hair (pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not killed. I was among those who had not grown hair.
That is what Allah & Muhammad said and did, setting the standard of Islamic doctrine & practice. Jihad, genocide & terrorism are the standard, not exceptional extremes. We are contending with the ideology of Islam, standard, off the shelf, orthodox Islam. There is no such thing as Islamic extremism. Why won't President Bush acknowledge this fact?
The first lesson is this: In both the 20th century and today, defeating hateful ideologies requires all elements of national power, including the use of military power. It is not possible to defeat a set of doctrines by defeating the army that enforces them. It is nececessary to identify the ideas involved and refute them with facts and logic. Islam does not accept defeat. it holds onto Allah's promise of ultimate success. Sharia is the foundation of the Constitutions of Afghanistan & Iraq. President Bush seems to be ignorant of one of the most important of the rulings of Sharia.
The Reliance of the Traveller. Version 1.06 - By Ahmad Ibn Naqib Al-Misri
BOOK O: JUSTICE >> Chapter O-9.0: Jihad
O-9.8: The Objectives of Jihad
The caliph (o-25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (N: provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya, def: o-11.4) -which is the significance of their paying it, not the money itself-while remaining in their ancestral religions) (O: and the war continues) until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax (O: in accordance with the word of Allah Most High,
"Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day and who forbid not what Allah and His messenger have forbidden-who do not practice the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book-until they pay the poll tax out of hand and are humbled" (Koran 9.29),
President Bush has knocked out the hyena's fangs and taken it to the dentist to have a set of dentures made so that it can bite us again. This is a sure signal that he is a damned fool.
The second lesson is this: In both the 20th century and today, defeating hateful ideologies requires using our national resources to strengthen free institutions in countries that are fighting extremists. We must help these nations govern their territorial -- territory effectively so they can deny safe haven to our common enemies. And in Afghanistan and Iraq, where we removed regimes that threatened our people, we have a special obligation to help these nations build free and just societies that are strong partners in the fight against these extremists and terrorists.
No Islamic country is 'fighting extremists'; none ever has and none ever will. There are no 'extremists', there are only Muslims. The textbooks used to teach Saudi children inculcate the damnable doctrines of Islam which I listed above. Those children are taught to value death over life and to seek world conquest so as to establish Islamic domination. Islamic regimes seek to direct the Mujahideen against us and prevent them from overthrowing the regimes; they do not seek to squelch them entirely.
No society can at once be free, just, peaceful and Islamic. The president's stated objective is 180° out of phase with reality. Islam is a mandate to conquer and dominate the world by force. Islamic nations will always sponsor terrorists, they will never comply with the President's wishes!
Today, we must do the same in Afghanistan and Iraq. By helping these young democracies grow in freedom and prosperity, we'll lay the foundation of peace for generations to come.
Afghanistan & Iraq are not democracies. There is a vast gulf between form and substance. The substance of Islam; Sharia, which forms the basis of law in both states, is entirely inimical to democracy.
- 33:36. It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allâh and His Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Allâh and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a plain error.
Success will come when al Qaida has no safe haven in those countries and the people can protect themselves from terror. Success will come when Iraq and Afghanistan are economically viable. Success will come when Iraq and Afghanistan are democracies that govern themselves effectively and respond to the will of their people. Success will come when Iraq and Afghanistan are strong and capable allies on the war on terror. President Bush's definition of success is an absolute impossibility in all its elements.
- They will not protect themselves from terror, they will inflict terror, because Allah commands it.
- Islamic regimes can not be economically viable in a state of peace because Islam is predatory, not productive.
- No Islamic regime can be a democracy because only Allah has the right to rule. Allah's laws are already codified in the Qur'an. I showed some of them to you earlier. What part of "fight them" do you not understand?
- No Islamic regime is, was or ever will be our ally against Is!!! Only a damned fool can harbor such an irrational hope.
Yet in the end, despite challenges and setbacks, freedom ultimately prevails, because the desire for liberty is written by our Creator in every human heart. Islam is a system of enslavement and submission. Damned fools who do not read the Qur'an will experience difficulty in comprehending this fatal fact. Believing Muslims do not want freedom, they want Islam's system of regimentation. Those who yearn for liberty can not obtain it because the others will enforce Islam upon them.
Victory in this war requires breaking Allah's yoke of slavery. Muslims must be made to doubt and question everything they have been taught, all that they have believed and internalized. They must come to a full realization of the fatal facts: Allah is an impotent idol and his Messenger was a brigand who created a system of enslavement for his own emolument. This war will not be won until Islam has lost all its believers through apostasy or death.
Whenever men and women are given a real choice, they choose to live in freedom.
They were not given a real choice; they chose between Sunni & Shi'ia. There was no secular option. They chose continued enslavement to Allah; they did not choose freedom!
We understand that freedom helps replace the conditions of hopelessness that extremists exploit to recruit terrorists and suicide bombers.
Islamic terrorism is doctrine driven, not grievance driven. Many of the splodydopes were students of law & medicine, with promising careers ahead of them. You need to read the Qur'an & Jihad hadith to comprehend this fatal fact.
We understand that free societies are peaceful societies, and that people who live in liberty and hope do not turn to ideologies of hatred and fear.
There is no rational linkage between governmental structure and pacifism. Rome had an elected Senate, yet it engaged in imperialism, building a large empire by military might. Hitler was elected!
Islam is an ideology of hatred and fear. Islam hates all who are not members of it. Islam fears Allah, who threatens to cast them into an eternal fire pit and torment them forever if they do not fight in his cause: total world domination. Nobody turned to that ideology, Muhammad's companions were conned into it and subsequent victims were dragged into it by force after being conquered by Islamic imperialism. Do you really believe that those who revert to Islam fully understand its doctrines and practices? Do they know that reversion is irreversible; that the penalty for apostasy is execution? Do they know that they are making a contract with Satan to fight; kill and be killed in the cause of spreading Islam by force? I blessed well doubt that they know.
But now you know, and I have provided links by means of which you can read Islam's canon of scripture, tradition & jurisprudence. Will you make good use of them or will you roll over and return to slumber?
- http://www.quranbrowser.com/
- Fighting for the Cause of Allah (Jihaad)
- One-fifth of Booty to the Cause of Allah (Khumus)
- Military Expeditions led by the Prophet (pbuh) (Al-Maghaazi)
- Jihad (Kitab Al-Jihad)
- The Reliance of the Traveller [Jihad is covered in Book O.]
- Prophet of Doom [1000 pages]
- Jihad: The Islamic Doctrine of Permanent War [Short, direct, and well documented!]
- Riyad -us-Saliheen Book 11, Chapter 234: Obligation of Jihad [Assembles a few of the ayat and many relevant ahadith with commentary.]
Ben 05/31/08
Labels: Extremism, Fiqh, GW Bush, Hadith, Qur'an, terrorism
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