Is Islamic Jihad Not “Savagery”?

Here is something about jihad:

"The Story that the Historical Muhammad talked of a Greater,Spiritual Jihad/Struggle and a Lesser,Military Jihad is False"

http://www.antisharia.com/2011/05/21/the-story-that-the-historical-muhammad-talked-of-a-greaterspiritual-jihadstruggle-and-a-lessermilitary-jihad-is-false/

AND ALSO

"Thirteen photos of the Gigantic,Islamic-Style Arch,that is in Lima,Peru,a Unique Case"

http://www.antisharia.com/2012/11/25/thirteen-photos-of-the-giganticislamic-style-archthat-is-in-limaperua-unique-case/

Pam's adversaries are totally busted.

A close look at Islamic and nonIslamic sources in regards to the personal lives of Mohammed and his first disciples show that Islam is a violent superstition, founded by a known killer.

When we're dealing with the Ummah, we are not dealing with what one might call 'simple' or ordinary savagery, such as was practised by a Norse or a Lakota warrior.

To me, Islam at its core smells of Decadence and Nihilism; of the sophisticate gone slumming. I think those who created Islam knew what they were doing; there is a sense of someone, or more than one person, saying, 'Evil, be thou my good'.

Islam *produces* primitive mind-numbed mobs, by the millions; but that is what it was *created* - by subtle, corrupted, malevolent minds - to do. It *represents* itself as born among the simple tribes of the desert; but it seems possible that that is its myth, not the reality of its creation; that it was born as much in the decadent city, as in the sands.

It strikes me as being like the nihilism that Pasolini charted in his film 'Salo', based on the work of the Marquis de Sade. Or like the legendary 'Hellfire Club' of Georgian London, dreamed up by bored sophisticates dabbling in the occult.

James Freeman Clarke, 19th century clergyman and abolitionist, in chapter 11 of his book 'Ten Great Religions', discusses 'Mohammed and Islam', drawing on all the greatest western non-Muslim scholars and observers then available to him.

Summarising what he learned, he writes in section 5: 'religious doctrines and practices among the Mohammedans', that

'Everywhere [that is, in Muslim lands - dda] we find arbitrary will taking the place of law.
“In most places the people have no protection for life or property, and know the government only through its tax-gatherers. 


“And all this is necessarily and logically derived from the fundamental principle of Mohammedan theology.

"God is pure will, not justice, not reason, not love.
'Christianity says, "God is love"; Mohammedanism says, "God is will." Christianity says, "Trust in God"; Mohammedanism says, "Submit to God."
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Hence the hardness, coldness, and cruelty of the system; hence its utter inability to establish any good government...

"'The religion of Islam is an outward form, a hard shell of authority, hollow at heart. It constantly tends to the two antagonistic but related vices of luxury and cruelty"..

In section 6, Clarke cites a scholar named Palgrave who had studied the Islamic texts in depth:

'Mr. Palgrave, who has given the latest and best account of the condition of Central and Southern Arabia, under the great Wahhabee revival, sums up all Mohammedan theology as teaching a Divine unity of pure will.
'God is the only force in the universe. Man is wholly passive and impotent.
'He calls the system, "A pantheism of force."

'God has no rule but arbitrary will.
'He is a tremendous unsympathizing autocrat, but is yet jealous of his creatures, lest they should attribute to themselves something which belongs to him.
'He delights in making all creatures feel that they are his slaves.
'This, Mr. Palgrave asserts, is the main idea of Mohammedanism, and of the Koran, and this was what lay in the mind of Mohammed."...

And in section 7, Mr Clarke observes:

"The merits and demerits, the good and evil, of Mohammedanism are to be found in this, its central idea concerning God.
" It has taught submission, obedience, patience; but it has fostered a wilful individualism.
" It has made social life lower. Its governments are not governments.
" Its virtues are stoical.
" It makes life barren and empty.

" It encourages a savage pride and cruelty.

"It makes men tyrants or slaves, women puppets, religion the submission to an infinite despotism." END

A gnostic death cult.

G K Chesterton captures the atmosphere of it, in his poem, 'The Crusader returns from Captivity':

"I have come forth alive from the land of purple and poison and glamour
where the charm is strong as the torture, being chosen to change the mind;
torture of wordless dance and wineless feast without clamour
palace hidden in palace, garden with garden behind;
'Women veiled in the sun or bare as brass in the shadows
and the endless eyeless patterns where each thing seems an eye..."..

"I have trod the curves of the Crescent in the maze of them that adore it
curved around doorless chambers and unbeholden abodes..".

There is a phrase that David Bentley Hart, in his 'Atheist Delusions: the Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies' uses to define the Greco-Roman and tribal barbarian world into which the church went out. He writes that the gospel had to work upon 'hard and intractable natures - the frank brutality of barbarians, the refined cruelty of the civilized'.

In dar al Islam one sees *both* those 'hard and intractable natures' combined - 'the frank brutality of barbarians, the refined cruelty of the civilised': unloosed and sacralised and feeding off each other, with the latter consciously making use of the former.