Andrew Bostom writes in The American Thinker:
Violent jihad warfare on infidels is the norm, not the exception, in Islamic history. Once successful, jihad leads to the imposition of humiliating, degrading, violent, and expensive oppression under dhimmitude, the institutionalized imposition of lowly status upon those who refuse to abandon their faith and adopt Islam. Among the worst victims of jihad and dhimmitude have been the Jews and Christians who lived in historic Palestine.Edward Said’s ridiculous polemic, The Question of Palestine, quotes the following observation by a Dr. A. Carlebach published in Ma’ariv (October 7, 1955).
The danger stems from the [Islamic] totalitarian conception of the world… Occupation by force of arms, in their own eyes, in the eyes of Islam, is not at all associated with injustice. To the contrary, it constitutes a certificate and demonstration of authentic ownership. [1]
Said cites Carlebach with ostensibly self-evident derision. Unwittingly, Said thus reveals his own belligerent obliviousness to Carlebach’s acute perceptions about the ugly realities of jihad war, the resultant imposition of dhimmitude, and their brutal legacy in historical Palestine and the greater Middle East.
As elucidated by Jacques Ellul, the jihad is an institution intrinsic to Islam, and not an isolated event, or series of events:
.. .it is a part of the normal functioning of the Muslim world… The conquered populations change status (they become dhimmis), and the shari’a tends to be put into effect integrally, overthrowing the former law of the country. The conquered territories do not simply change ‘owners’. [2]...
Read it all.
Prof. Joseph Schumpeter, the famous economist of the Austrian school, seems to also have believed that Islam was a religion of war. See links below.
http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2005/11/sociology-of-arab-imperialism.html
http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2005/11/sociology-of-arab-imperialism_16.html
http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2005/11/sociology-of-arab-imperialism-part.html
As to the name "Palestine," this was a name imposed on the Land of Israel by Emperor Hadrian after suppressing the Jewish revolt led by Bar Kokhba in 135 CE. Previously, the Roman [and Greek] name for the country had been Judea [IVDAEA in Latin]. The new name was meant as an insult and punishment for the Jews. By the way, Arab troops were used by the Roman empire in suppressing the two major Jewish revolts. For the first revolt, 66-73 CE, Tacitus supplies the information in The Histories, Book V:1.
For the Bar Kokhba revolt, Prof. Aryeh Kasher points out Arab troops in the Roman forces used against the Jews.
Bostom quotes Jacques Ellul.
As far back as 1983, Jacques Ellul wrote (in a foreword to a Bat Ye'or book), with consternation, that "you can't criticize Islam anymore."
The situation is not much better now in 2005, after 911 and scores of major attacks (and hundreds of lesser attacks) around the globe by Muslims.
In fact, the situation Ellul lamented over 20 years ago is, now, in some ways worse.
Why is it that "we" (i.e., our society in general) can't criticize Islam anymore?
Anyone who bothers to read my posts knows my answer: PC Leftism.
With every new Muslim atrocity, with every new Muslim attack, PC Leftism which dominates our society gets even stronger, not weaker. It becomes more difficult to condemn Islam itself, not less.
Hopefully this is a temporary trend. But I see no signs that it is.
Yes, you're right; these are puzzling times.
A person like Tariq Ramadan who covers up islam's atrocities and justifies terrorism is hailed as one of the world's 100 greatest thinkers according to TIME magazine and a recemt Prospect Poll. To top it all he has been given a post to lecture in Oxford.
One just needs to read the Coran and the hadith to see that islam justifies holy war.
But liars and flatterers who cover that evidence up are hailed as 'great thinkers.'
All American Universities have sold themselves out to selleing the false image of a 'peaceful islam'. In fact i saw in the paper a few years ago that Harvard University had accepted 8 million dollars from the Saudis just for that purpose: To give a better image to islam.
Rocky mentions Tariq Ramadan's teaching post at Oxford. This may have something to do, at least in its background, with the appointment of Chris Patten, former EU foreign policy commissar, to be one of the big wheels at Oxford. Maybe somebody in the UK wants to wreck Oxford as a respected center of learning. Otherwise, why appoint Patten?
Patten was very pro-PLO/PA as EU commissar of foreign policy. He saw to it that they got mucho dinero.
Chris Patten is a problem. But he did not have to intervene to bring Tariq Ramadan for what one assumes is a temporary (one year? three years?) appointment to the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College, which since its founding in 1957 (or perhaps a year later) has been full of apologists (and worse)for Arab and Muslim causes. For most of its life it was headed by Albert Hourani, the plump abbot who dispensed his oily favors. It was the place where Rashid Khalidi, who had been doing PLO propaganda in Beirut, ended up for his D.Phil., for which courses are not required, only a thesis. Guess what his thesis was on? The Middle East Centre should not be confused with the center, also at St. Antony's (which is not to be confused with Balliol or other Oxford colleges de la vraie souche), devoted to East European and Slavic (or is it Slavonic studies, or am I just now thinking of Hugh Seton-Watson and the University of London?) studies, which is perfectly respectable, as long as its members do not receive their tutoring on Islam and the Middle East from anyone -- say the inimitable Avi Shalim -- at the Middle East Centre.
It is a pity that prestigious institutions like Harvard ("Veritas") and Yale ("Lux et Veritas") should accept money to promulgate lies at the behest of Saudi and others. Their endownments can spin off 8 million in interest in only 2 days. They don't need the money.
Israel represents the successful national liberation of a dhimmi civilization. On a territory formerly Arabized by the jihad and the dhimma, a pre-Islamic language, culture, topographical geography, and national institutions have been restored to life. This reversed the process of centuries in which the cultural, social and political structures of the indigenous population of Palestine were destroyed. In 1974, Abu Iyad, second-in-command to Arafat in the Fatah hierarchy, announced: “We intend to struggle so that our Palestinian homeland does not become a new Andalusia.” The comparison of Andalusia to Palestine was not fortuitous since both countries were Arabized, and then de-Arabized by a pre-Arabic culture.
Bat Ye’or. The Dhimmi, pp. 122-123.
And there you have it ...... in a nutshell!