Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the peculiar unreality that pervades Western dealings with Hamas:
Islam does not command Muslims to allow the Infidels to retain some territory as long as they yield other territory. It does not say that any land once part of Dar al-Islam can ever be relinquished. For that matter, it does not say that there is any part of Dar al-Harb that can remain forever outside Dar al-Islam. The duty of every Muslim is to engage in jihad fi sabeel Allah, Jihad in the way, in the path, of Allah, whether individually or as part of a collective, and whether by active participation or by supporting and protecting those who do actively participate.Treaties can be made with Infidels, but they are not treaties that will last indefinitely. They should last, at most, 10 years, although in some cases they may be "renewed" until such time as the Muslim side is stronger, and the Infidels have become weaker -- weaker because of those very treaties they signed.
"Treaties are to be obeyed" -- Pacta sunt servanda -- is a concept in Western jurisprudence. Western leaders need to understand it is not part of Islam. This is not a secret. They can begin with Majid Khadurri's "Law of War and Peace in Islam" and read about the accepted Muslim understanding of treaties made with Infidels.There is no ambiguity about it. None. Treaties are not "peace" treaties but "truce" treaties. That's it.
And "war is deception." It is all laid out, by the way, in books and articles by Arab strategists. They don't hide it. They assume, and so far have assumed rightly, that the Israelis and the Western world will simply ignore those books and articles and will ignore what Islamic treaty-making is all about, because it is just too painful to contemplate. But what is too painful to contemplate, because it happens to be true, is exactly what must be contemplated. All Infidels must share that pain, and make policies, accordingly.
“War is deception.” What Hamas has been asked to do is merely utter some words that will satisfy, in the most obviously unsatisfactory manner, the minimum demands of those who see nothing wrong with what is nothing more than the payment of Jizyah. American and European Infidels make payments to the local Arabs, who were renamed after 1967 the "Palestinians." But in reality those "Palestinians" are merely the Arab shock troops, plausibly decked out as a "nationalist" movement (nonsense), in the Lesser Jihad against the Infidel state of Israel.
Such aid is a classic form of Jizyah in every sense. First, it is a payment from Infidels (Americans, Europeans) to Muslims. It is a payment made for which those Muslim recipients feel not the slightest gratitude, but regard as theirs by right, as owed to them by the Infidels. Indeed, the merest hint that such payments might end sends those Muslim Arabs into a paroxysm of rage, as if such aid was not aid at all, but the tribute that simply must be paid by those Infidels. Finally, the Infidels themselves are afraid to discontinue such payments, and are trying desperately to find every possible way they can not to end them, but to continue them -- including accepting mere words that obviously are not meant, and that, because of the belief-system of Islam, cannot be meant. But Infidel governments cannot tell their long-suffering taxpayers that those who run those governments have undertaken to commit to paying this Jizyah without the permission of the taxpayers who are, unwittingly, now -- and for some time have been -- the real payers of such Jizyah.
Many Infidels in the Western world have a better sense of things than their ignorant (because they lead lives of hectic vacancy and have no time to study Islam) and corrupt (because it is officials, and former officials, who are the ones whom the Saudis and other Arabs pay to promote the Arab and Muslim cause in various ways) officials. Those officials are often implicated, in ways they cannot now admit to themselves or to the electorate, in actions that allowed millions of Muslims into the Lands of the Infidels. What's more, they have failed completely to plan and execute, as should have been done starting in 1973, an energy policy designed not to achieve the meaningless (if perhaps psychologically appealing) goal of "independence from Middle Eastern oil" but rather the goal of diminishing the total revenues of Muslim states, so that there is nothing left over for the funding of mosques and madrasas, or for an army of Western hirelings, or for purchases of military equipment and advanced technology -- in short, nothing left to fund those conducting Jihad worldwide in a hundred different local theatres.
Our governments are forcing us to pay the Jizyah. In Italy, in France, in England, in Germany, in Spain, in Denmark, in Norway, in Holland, in every country of the E.U., taxpayers are being forced to pay the Jizyah. And they are being forced to do so as well in the United States.
If a single Congressman can be made to understand that these payments to the "Palestinians" are a classic Jizyah, and can articulate that and hammer it home, he can stop it, and could be the leader of a new group -- not defined as Democrats, or as Republicans, but as those who see things clearly. And that is what everyone is longing for.
"If a single Congressman can be made to understand that these payments to the "Palestinians" are a classic Jizyah, and can articulate that and hammer it home, he can stop it, and could be the leader of a new group "
Perhaps Tom Tancredo would be our best hope?
Interesting read about double standards:
Cheering The Code After Punching The Passion
By Chris Weinkopf
Imagine, if you can, a major studio releasing a thriller in which the stars investigate the origins of Islam. Pursued by a murderous Muslim cleric, they uncover a series of shocking discoveries: Mohammed was no prophet! The Koran is a hoax, the work of self-serving hypocrites! Modern-day Muslims are dupes, if not deranged psychopaths!
Read the whole article:
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.19176/article_detail.asp
http://tancredo.house.gov/press/press_blog.shtml
Hugh,
You wrote:
"It does not say that any land once part of Dar al-Islam can ever be relinquished."
Why not phrase that as "It says that any land once part of Dar al-Islam can never be relinquished"?
I'm not sure that the Qur'an expressly says
that "any land once part of Dar al-Islam can never be relinquished" though that meaning is everywhere implicit in the totality of the texts (Qur'an and Hadith). But it is undeniably true that "[i]t [the Qur'an] does not say that any land once part of Dar al-Islam can ever be relinquished."
Hugh,
Yes, I've not come across a direct statement in the Koran to that effect, but it seems a fair conclusion, from putting together several verses that address the land issue indirectly, and taking into account Islam's general policies. This hadith (below) and the tafsir of Ibn Kathir suggest that Islam is to conquer the whole world, so it is a fair conclusion that no land should be ceded to the disbelievers. Also, 2:251 states that Allah uses believers to check the mischief in the world created by disbelievers, and that fighting is permitted in order to check this mischief (22:39-40).
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 7, Number 331 (also Volume 1, Book 8, Number 429):
Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah:
The Prophet said, "I have been given five things which were not given to any one else before me.
1. Allah made me victorious by awe, (by His frightening my enemies) for a distance of one month's journey.
2. The earth has been made for me (and for my followers) a place for praying and a thing to perform Tayammum, therefore anyone of my followers can pray wherever the time of a prayer is due.
3. The booty has been made Halal (lawful) for me yet it was not lawful for anyone else before me.
4. I have been given the right of intercession (on the Day of Resurrection).
5. Every Prophet used to be sent to his nation only but I have been sent to all mankind.
Ibn Kathir, Koran Verse 9:33 http://www.tafsir.com/default.asp?sid=9&tid=21037
Islam is the Religion That will dominate over all Other Religions
Allah said next,
(It is He Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth.) `Guidance' refers to the true narrations, beneficial faith and true religion that the Messenger came with. `religion of truth' refers to the righteous, legal deeds that bring about benefit in this life and the Hereafter.
(to make it (Islam) superior over all religions) It is recorded in the Sahih that the Messenger of Allah said,
(Allah made the eastern and western parts of the earth draw near for me [to see], and the rule of my Ummah will extend as far as I saw.) Imam Ahmad recorded from Tamim Ad-Dari that he said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah saying,
(This matter (Islam) will keep spreading as far as the night and day reach, until Allah will not leave a house made of mud or hair, but will make this religion enter it, while bringing might to a mighty person (a Muslim) and humiliation to a disgraced person (who rejects Islam). Might with which Allah elevates Islam (and its people) and disgrace with which Allah humiliates disbelief (and its people).) Tamim Ad-Dari [who was a Christian before Islam] used to say, "I have come to know the meaning of this Hadith in my own people. Those who became Muslims among them acquired goodness, honor and might. Disgrace, humiliation and Jizyah befell those who remained disbelievers.''
Ibn Kathir, Koran verse 48:28 http://www.tafsir.com/default.asp?sid=48&tid=49630
The Good News that Muslims will conquer the Known World, and ultimately the Entire World
Allah the Exalted and Most Honored said, while delivering the glad tidings to the believers that the Messenger will triumph over his enemies and the rest of the people of the earth,
(He it is Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth,) with beneficial knowledge and righteous good deeds. Indeed, the Islamic Shari`ah has two factors, knowledge and deeds. The true religious knowledge is by definition true, and the accepted Islamic acts are by definition accepted. Therefore, the news and creed that this religion conveys are true and its commandments are just,
(that He may make it superior to all religions.) all the religions of the people of the earth, Arabs and non-Arabs alike, whether having certain ideologies or being atheists or idolators.
(And All-Sufficient is Allah as a Witness.) that Muhammad is His Messenger and that He will grant him victory. Allah the Exalted and Most Honored has the best knowledge.
BTW, those links in the previous post do not always work, but all of the text of the tafsir for those verses has been pasted above. That online edition of Ibn Kathir is not complete, but it usually covers the main points.