In traditional Islamic theology there is the idea that the teaching on jihad was revealed in stages: first, tolerance; then, defensive warfare; then, offensive warfare to establish Sharia over the world. Many, many Islamic authorities, ancient and modern, teach this -- and it belies the soothing Religion of Peace™ lies and half-truths that Islamic apologists peddle so successfully in Western countries. Here is yet another Islamic authority teaching the same thing. "This is an article from online Arabic magazine Moheet, which has offices in Egypt and the UAE." "Moheet: 'The Purpose of Jihad Is to Establish the Word of Allah,'" from Translating Jihad, March 18:
[...] Why It Is Considered Our Sixth Pillar of Islam - Jihad Is Ordained to Establish the Word of Allah
Moheet - Iman al-Khashab, 13 Mar 2010Jihad in the path of Allah is a mainstay of the religion and a great religious duty, as the Prophet (PBUH) said: "The most important thing is Islam, and it is supported by prayer, and its apex is jihad in the path of Allah." Allah has commanded us in many verses (of the Qur'an), and urged us, as has also our Prophet (PBUH), regarding the issue of jihad. The Prophet desired it himself, and urged (others) to it. He declared its virtues so often that some scholars consider it the sixth pillar of Islam, due to its importance, which is attested by how often it appears in the Qur'an and hadith.
Jihad is an ancient religious duty, for Moses (PBUH), who struggled (jahada) to lead the children of Israel (out of Egypt), said to his people: "O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin" (Qur'an 5.21). That is what happened to them, and Allah punished them. But in the end, after the death of Moses (PBUH), they waged jihad and conquered the holy house (Jerusalem), entering it through jihad in the path of Allah.
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[Dr. Jamal al-Marakobi] added: "After that, Allah mandated jihad, rather than widespread destruction, as a punishment for the infidels who refused to worship Allah Almighty and disdained he who had created them. For jihad was the tradition (sunnah) of the prophets, from the first centuries until the coming of our prophet Muhammad (PBUH). For Muhammad went out with this law, which is jihad in the path of Allah, to establish the word of Allah and do away with shirk (polytheism) and infidelity. Allah said: "Fight them on until there is no sedition (fitna), and the religion is wholly Allah's, but if they cease, let there be no hostility, except to those who practice oppression" (Qur'an 2.193). This is the wisdom behind waging jihad, in order that Allah alone be worshipped, as (the Prophet) (PBUH) said: "I have been sent with the sword to ensure Allah is worshipped."
Dr. al-Marakobi said: "Allah obligated the ummah (Islamic nation) to jihad in the path of Allah, but it was ordained in stages. For in the days in which the Prophet (PBUH) and the Muslims were in Mecca, they were forbidden from waging jihad, and were obliged instead to (peacefully) propagate Islam. The Prophet (PBUH) was in Mecca for thirteen years after receiving the mission to call the people to Allah Almighty, and was not commanded to fight, but was forbidden from it, despite what he and his companions suffered at the hands of the infidels.
They were forbidden from jihad during this period because they did not have sufficient strength, and their enemy was stronger than they were. If they had fought at that time, their enemy would have overpowered them. When the Prophet (PBUH) emigrated to Medina, and found the Ansar (i.e. supporters; name given to Muslims from Medina), Allah authorized jihad for them, but it was not a commandment, as Allah Almighty said: "To those against whom war is made, permission is given (to fight), because they are wronged--and verily, Allah is Most Powerful for their aid" (Qur'an 22.39). After that, they were commanded to fight those who fought against them, but still refrain from fighting those who did not fight against them, as the Almighty said: "Fight in the path of Allah those who fight you, but do not be the aggressors, for Allah loveth not aggressors" (Qur'an 2.190).
The Muslims were initially commanded to fight only those who fought against them. However, later they were commanded to fight not only those who fought against them but also those who did not, in order to establish the word of Allah. This was a requirement so long as the Muslims had sufficient power, were prepared, and had a state ruled by the Prophet of Allah (PBUH). The purpose of jihad is not simply to gain authority, or expand the kingdom, or get money, or kill people. The purpose of jihad is to establish the word of Allah. For if the infidels accept the call of Islam and return to their Creator, they will not be attacked. But if they rebel they must be fought so that their wickedness and infidelity may cease, and they may receive their punishment, although their punishment with Allah will be so much more severe and horrible in the fire of hell, for they are infidels and polytheists, who despise the worship of Almighty Allah....
The Muslims were initially commanded to fight only those who fought against them.
Yeah, for example the Jews of banu Khaybar who had the nerve to defend themselves when Mohammed and his Companions laid seige to their oasis. In the twisted logic of a Ulemic Moslem Mind even self-defense is a capital crime.
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On an unrelated matter, I regret to report here that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill did not make the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Not.
I hope when I get to Hell I can bring a copy of the quran with me to help plead my case with all the verses that show that I was pre-ordained in my unbelief. I hope I'm allowed representation, although what are my chances of finding an lawyer there who'll take my case?
Mr Spencer or someone might wish to respond to this NPR "all things considered" article comparing the Quran with the Bible. The lousy Ye old "taken out of context" argument again:
"That may be the popular notion of jihad, says Waleed El-Ansary, but it's the wrong one. El-Ansary, who teaches Islamic studies at the University of South Carolina, says the Quran explicitly condemns religious aggression and the killing of civilians. And it makes the distinction between jihad — legal warfare with the proper rules of engagement — and irjaf, or terrorism.
"All of those types of incidences — [Sept. 11], Maj. Nidal Hasan and so forth — those are all examples of irjaf, not jihad," he says. According to the Quran, he says, those who practice irjaf "are going to hell."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124494788
Evidently we are not to worry about what the Quran says but rather worry about those Bible quoting Right wing extremists:
' "The scriptures are still there, dormant, but not dead," he says, "and they can be resurrected at any time. Witness the white supremacists who cite the murderous Phineas when calling for racial purity, or an anti-abortion activist when shooting a doctor who performs abortions.'
Good grief.
CH,
Not to worry! Hell will be chock-full of CAIR lawyers just drooling to "defend" folks like us!!
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Is it any wonder that our Holy Bible is banned from their countries?
They don't dare allow their Islamic people to become exposed to the real truth!
The Qu'an is such a made-up bunch of lies and Hebrew scripture twisting.
"Jihad is an ancient religious duty, for Moses (PBUH), who struggled (jahada) to lead the children of Israel (out of Egypt), said to his people: "O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin" (Qur'an 5.21). That is what happened to them, and Allah punished them. But in the end, after the death of Moses (PBUH), they waged jihad and conquered the holy house (Jerusalem), entering it through jihad in the path of Allah."
What a (not so creative) crock of crap!
Muhammad was a narcissist who craved power through religion. He merely created his own cult much like Jim Jones and L. Ron Hubbard among others too numerous to mention.
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From article...their punishment with Allah will be so much more severe and horrible in the fire of hell, for they are infidels and polytheists, who despise the worship of Almighty Allah....
We kufr always get threatened with Allah's hell fire...But there's nothing new about that at all...My xxx rated x mother in law used to threaten me with hell fire on a regular basis, and she is a Lutheran...Fire is used as a threat, and sometimes an actuality, because it is the most painful and agonizing way to kill people or torture them that humans have come up with...This mentality built a fire on Kinana's chest and stirred the embers with a stick...it also burned Joan, heretics and many witches...
In Islam, punishment by fire is supposed to be Allah's punishment, but apparently some Mahoundians didn't get the memo...
All mighty Allah...A while back JW had an article about a busted dope dealer named 'All Mighty Supreme Born Allah'...Apparently his real name...
"... Religion of Peace™ "
Deconstruct the phrase, "The Religion Of Peace":
"The": suggests that Islam stands out among religions as the only religion that can be so described. I recall an old Gulf Oil ad at a gas station: "The gas with guts".
"Religion": diverts the subject away from its ideological components, those components which affect non-adherents.
"Of": suggests that "Peace" is Islam's paramount, defining characteristic. ("A bag of apples" suggests that you will find nothing of note in the bag other than apples. Such as worms, for instance.)
"Peace": In popular Islamic thought, world "peace" can be achieved only when the world is completely dominated by Islam. So "peace" is used here equivocally; unknown rhetoric to the unwary Western speaker of English.
If you begin the phrase with "Islam is ..." [the religion of peace], then you make an equation, meaning that both sides of "is" are identical, Islam implies Peace, and Peace implies Islam; the words can substitute for each other.
Yeah, I have tried to slow down my colleagues long enough to try this, but I get at best blank looks. At best.
Excellent of Robert to TM the phrase. It is truly a logo, a mask, a hall of mirrors, but not a meaningful statement; at least it doesn't mean what it looks like it means.
When you hear someone say it, you know that you have your work cut out. If the person is a kumbayah infidel, that suggests an argumentatively gentle kind of intervention. If the person is a Muslim, then it isn't so clear what consciousness that person has of the enormity of the lie. I'm thinking of Muslim children growing up in America,as opposed to say, CAIR lecturers delivering their payload.
Pat Buchanan says that all over the world we are fighting nationalism - a different one here and a different one there - but he is willfully ignorant! Pat always looks brave - he is very clever at looking like this, however, if he was really brave he would admit that it is not ethic nationalism or nationalism that the world is fighting against - but RELIGION, namely, the Religion of the Koran. We are only fighting against one billion people who are all doing exactly what the Koran and related Muslim holy literature mandates that they do - defeat us no matter what! Why pretend it is anything else? Can it be that Pat too is fearful that if he tells the truth about this religion of endless warfare - this religion of revenge - this religion that encourages and supports out and out cold blooded murder - because he too will have to be put on an Islamic hit list? Yes, that is exactly why! After all, he like the rest of us does not want these suicidal savages to be trying to murder members of our families. I forgive you Pat! Never the less, your are too frightened to tell the truth!
The purpose of jihad is not simply to gain authority, or expand the kingdom, or get money, or kill people.
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Why, no—although those things are great! There's raping women, too!
Will Muslims be out in the streets protesting the way Dr. al-Marakobi has "misunderstood" Islam? No, I thought not.
It's bad enough that the figures of the Torah and the Bible are claimed as "Muslim prophets", but to claim Moses as a *Jihadist* is especially repulsive.
gravenimage sez:
"to claim Moses as a *Jihadist* is especially repulsive."
This looks like another example of the abuse of English that I referred to above in parsing "Islam is the Religion Of Peace". I wonder if there are enough examples by now of deliberate equivocation that Robert might want to compile a dictionary - it would be most useful so as to understand the meaning behind the smokescreen.
An essential entry would be "genocide", as applied to Israel's behavior toward Gaza, and of course "apartheid". Such a glossary would make a nice stocking-stuffer for PC apologists, not to mention perpetrators such as MSA members, many of whom begin their politically active careers as innocent but susceptible kids who can't escape the mumbojumbo.
Montedoro
there *has* been a beginning made, upon an 'Islamic Dictionary for Infidels'.
You will find some discussion, with key terms and suggested definitions, in the thread attached to *this* article:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/11/islams-highest-religious-authority-in-us-to-serve-up-thanksgiving-leftovers.html
Scroll down and read.
A sample, just for starters:
Stendec | November 29, 2007 9:25 AM
"we pray for the defeat of extremism, terrorism and injustice"
'Islamic Terms of Reference:
1. Extremism -- Active resistance of any kind to the unfettered spread of Islam.
1. Terrorism -- Organized violence or intimidation conducted by the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, the British armed forces, or the IDF, unless it favors Muslims.
1. Injustice -- When Muslims are forced to work for a living under infidel laws and regulations and/or under infidel supervision, or when Muslims are routinely or inadvertently exposed to non-Muslim cultural influences and practices.'
And here is another excellent article from four years ago. It is entitled, in fact, 'Islamic Dictionary for Infidels', an essay by one 'Wolfgang Bruno'
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/07/islamic-dictionary-for-infidels.html
Excerpt:
'Notice how the terms "unbelief, oppression and injustice" are used synonymously.
Islamic apologists in the West keep repeating the mantra that "Jihad isn't a fight against non-Muslims, but a struggle against tyranny and injustice."
'Again, the problem is that seen with Islamic eyes, there isn't too much of a difference between these various terms.
' It's "oppression"
'when Muslim immigrants in the West must live by the same, secular laws as the native infidels, not sharia,
'and "injustice" in the end refers to pretty much all societies not subjugated to obedience to the will of Allah.
"Injustice"
can thus be used to describe all non-Islamic systems, for instance Western democracy."
Make sure to read the comments, as well as the article proper. Here is one of those comments -
"It seems to me, Bruno forgot a big one: 'Morality'.
"In Islam, any personal or governmental act that advances the spread of Islam is "moral," including war, drug distribution, assassination, murder, rape, torture, kidnapping, lying, deception, extortion, and just about anything else you can name.
" Any act that impedes the spread of Islam is immoral.
- Posted by: Stendec at July 28, 2006 12:01 PM
It's probably time that such a Dictionary - which would put the infamous 'Devil's Dictionary' permanently into the shade - was compiled (illustrated, if at all possible), and published. As samizdat, if necessary.
It would go very nicely on the shelf alongside Mr Spencer's 'Infidel's Guide to the Qur'an' and the book that the Islamosavvy and definitely non-dhimmi Dutch professor, Hans Jansen, has just brought out, which he originally meant to call "Reading the Koran for Unbelievers" but then renamed "Islam for Pigs, Apes, Mules and Other Beasts".
DDA - thanks much for this. In fact last year I emailed Robert to suggest that he write such a dictionary, and he responded that he already had something like that in the works - it was his Infidel's Guide to the Qur'an.
But what I am hoping for is a pocket-book, something like those tiny green bibles that Christian evangelists give away on college campuses. Such a book should be filled with easily-findable information to assist in over-the-board conversation with taqqiyists and uninformed folks. Not just a glossary of tricky words, but also solid responses to the typical fog-producing lies, e.g., you can't understand the Koran unless you read it in Arabic.
The definitions of the terms need to be referenced to actual usage by Islamic scholars and leaders; they mustn't be opinions from infidel critics, so that they cannot easily be dismissed. Much as I love Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, it is all bon mots and sarcasm - the end of serious discussion.
Well, in these electronic days all this can be put on a handheld media player. The important thing is to have fast access to what you need. I have chatted with MSA members - it is hard for me to remember everything I need in time. "everything", for the most part here meaning statements from respected Islamic sources and historical fact, not opinion from critics.
What - how dare you idolators speak! Let me enlighten you as to the true nature of Islam (stolen of course from Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, etc.)
Islam is:
The Religion of Peace - AND VIOLENCE.
Muslims may only engage in Jihad in self-defense - AND IN OFFENSE TO SPREAD ISLAM.
Islam respects women - AS LONG AS THEY REMEMBER THEIR SUBSERVIENT ROLE AS CATTLE.
Islam honors Christians and Jews - AS LONG AS THEY ACCEPT SECOND CLASS CITIZENSHIP AND FELL THEM SELVES SUBDUED.
The entire Middle East conflict is about "stolen land" - AND THAT PESKY RELIGIOUS DUTY TO KILL JEWS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO DARES STAND UP AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM.
Geesh - haven't you guys learned anything?
All ISLAMIC institutions are legitimate targets - Period. One hundred years from now either Islam or the Western (Judeo-Christian, secular humanist) ideals are going to be the dominate factor in how the world moves forward into the future. Isn't that worth REALLY fighting for? Are your children and grandchildren not worth your blood, treasure, and protection? I'll contribute to the legal defense fund of anyone who stands up against Islam. If that makes me a right-wing, Islamophobic, hate mongering terrorist in the eyes of the Western media, that's OK. I don't need their approval.