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Islamic State justifies atrocities by citing Muhammad

Sep 4, 2014 12:17 pm By Robert Spencer

isis-behead-journalist foley“The magazine includes numerous quotes from the Qur’an and Islamic hadiths, providing context from the life of Mohammed to justify the group’s brutal actions….For instance, one article defends a decision to execute Sunni tribesmen in eastern Syria this year – a photograph of the mass shooting is featured – on the basis that they had agreed to submit to the caliphate but then ‘betrayed their covenant by rebelling.’ It then cites a hadith which recounted how Mohammed, when faced with treachery, ordered that the perpetrators have their hands and feet cut off, their eyes gouged out with hot irons, and be left to die. ‘This hadith shows the severity of the prophetic punishment against the treacherous, false claimants of Islam,’ the article says, saying that the Syrian tribesmen had been guilty of a similar ‘wicked deed.'”

Here is that hadith:

Narrated Abu Qilaba: Anas said, “Some people of ‘Ukl or ‘Uraina tribe came to Medina and its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they went as directed and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away all the camels. The news reached the Prophet early in the morning and he sent (men) in their pursuit and they were captured and brought at noon. He then ordered to cut their hands and feet (and it was done), and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron, They were put in ‘Al-Harra’ and when they asked for water, no water was given to them.” Abu Qilaba said, “Those people committed theft and murder, became infidels after embracing Islam and fought against Allah and His Apostle.” (Bukhari 1.4.234)

The amputation punishment is mandated in the Qur’an: “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment” (5:33).

But remember: Barack Obama and John Kerry and David Cameron and Fr. Dwight Longenecker and numerous other eminent imams assure us that this has nothing to do with Islam.

“ISIS Publication Aims to Lure Recruits; Justifies Atrocities by Citing Mohammed,” by Patrick Goodenough, CNS News, September 2, 2014:

(CNSNews.com) – The latest propaganda publication by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is clearly designed to lure more recruits from Western countries, portraying an idealized picture of a band of “strangers from the East and the West,” drawn together despite national and ethnic differences, in common allegiance to one leader and one sacred cause.

Entitled Dabiq, the slick, full-color digital magazine has been produced in English and several other European languages. The style and grammar suggest first-language English writer or writers, and the spelling is American rather than British.

The magazine’s inaugural edition appeared in early July, highlighting the “caliphate” announced by ISIS days earlier. A second edition underscored the religious basis for ISIS’ vision, arguing that those who oppose Allah’s will will be punished, just as those who mocked Noah when he built the ark were punished in the Flood.

The 42-page third edition, just released, reports on advances the group has made in Syria and Iraq, responds to U.S. airstrikes against the group in northern Iraq, and attempts to justify the beheading of American journalist James Foley by laying the blame for his death on President Obama.

It says the U.S. over many months refused to take the steps necessary to save Foley’s life, even as several unnamed European governments had negotiated to have “a dozen” of their hostages released.

“That left a number of British and American prisoners remaining in the cells of the Islamic State, only after their governments arrogantly refused to release our imprisoned brothers and our sister, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.”

The magazine also describes Foley’s beheading as retribution for the U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, and says it was “a cooling balm for the believers’ hearts to witness the execution.”

Obama is labeled a “crusader” and “apostate” who – “with Allah’s permission” – will continue to follow in the footsteps of President Bush “and ultimately bring about the complete collapse of the modern American empire.”

The main intent of the third edition of Dabiq, as with the earlier two, appears to be to attract young Muslims from around the world. It is entitled “A call of hijrah” – or migration to the Islamic state.

One article says the caliphate has become “the largest collection of muhajirin [emigrants; Mohammed’s original followers]” and “a marvel of history.”

Was there ever a state in history, it asks, “established by the emigration of poor strangers from the East and the West, who then gathered in an alien land of war and pledged allegiance to an ‘unknown’ man [a reference to ISIS “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi], in spite of the political, economic, military, media, and intelligence war waged by the nations of the world against their religion, their state, and their hijrah?”

“And in spite of the fact that they did not have any common ‘nationality,’ ethnicity, language, or worldly interests, nor did they have any prior acquaintance! This phenomenon is something that has never occurred in human history, except in the case of the Islamic State!”

The article says ISIS commanders and fighters are “of different colors, languages, and lands: the Najdi [Saudi], the Jordanian, the Tunisian, the Egyptian, the Somali, the Turk, the Albanian, the Chechen, the Indonesian, the Russian, the European, the American and so on.”

“The Islamic State has become a reality that everyone can see. Even the apostates cannot ignore its threat, let alone the cross worshippers and the Jews.”

Mohammed as model

The magazine includes numerous quotes from the Qur’an and Islamic hadiths, providing context from the life of Mohammed to justify the group’s brutal actions. These are backed up by much more recent writings, notably the views of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist who founded ISIS’ precursor al-Qaeda in Iraq and led it until his 2006 death in a U.S. bombing.

For instance, one article defends a decision to execute Sunni tribesmen in eastern Syria this year – a photograph of the mass shooting is featured – on the basis that they had agreed to submit to the caliphate but then “betrayed their covenant by rebelling.”

It then cites a hadith which recounted how Mohammed, when faced with treachery, ordered that the perpetrators have their hands and feet cut off, their eyes gouged out with hot irons, and be left to die.

“This hadith shows the severity of the prophetic punishment against the treacherous, false claimants of Islam,” the article says, saying that the Syrian tribesmen had been guilty of a similar “wicked deed.”

The magazine reports on major recent ISIS “conquests,” among them the capture just a week ago week of a Syrian regime airbase in Raqqa province, and the earlier seizure of areas of Iraq’s Ninawa (Nineveh) province, some of which it says were occupied by Yazidis.

It says hundreds of the Yazidis had repented and converted to Islam while others fled with the “apostate” Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.

The publication does not refer directly to the mass killings of religious minorities, but leaves no doubt about how contemptuously ISIS regards the “cross worshippers” and the “devil-worshipping” Yazidis.

Muslims who do not embrace the caliphate are condemned as hypocrites, weak-hearted, and those who have deserted the obligation of jihad. The magazine observed that some Muslims had even publicly declared “their enmity against it in bizarre competition with the crusaders and the apostates.”

Dabiq is named for a town in Syria’s Aleppo governate that was the site of an important 16th century battle, and also features prominently in Islamic eschatology.

Patrick Sookhdeo, international director of Barnabas Fund and an expert on radical Islam, notes that Dabiq is mentioned in a hadith that prophesies an end-time battle in which Muslims will conquer Christians, en route to conquering the entire world.

“In Islamic eschatology, Jesus, whom Muslims call Isa, will descend via a minaret of the Great Mosque in Damascus, and from there he will lead his armies to victory,” Sookhdeo says.

“‘Victory’ means destroying every cross, killing every Jew and pagan, and either converting every Christian to Islam or killing them. This apocalyptic dimension is now shaping ISIS as it sees itself fighting an End Time battle.”

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  1. Beagle says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 12:24 pm

    I’m shocked, shocked to find traditional Islam in jihad brutality.
    — Captain Beagle Renault

    • john spielman says

      Sep 4, 2014 at 2:59 pm

      islam is brutal because Muhammed pbuh( perpetual banishment unto hell!) was a demon possessed mas murderer liar thief misogynist aand pedophile!
      and if he is islam’s “perfect man “and the role model of the muslim life, then the world should not be surprised that ISIS is naked islam in all its gore and terror.
      For that alone, the western democracies should be grateful to ISIS; for revealing the REAL islam with out the lies and deceit!

      • Shane says

        Sep 5, 2014 at 10:05 am

        I am not sure if Old MO was possessed by demons; he may have been schizophrenic, but everything else you said about him is true. Muhammad was a Warlord who created a Religion of War.

        I would hope that many young Muslims in the West would join ISIS so that we could kill them there and be rid of thousands of potential jihadists.

    • John C. Barile says

      Sep 4, 2014 at 3:10 pm

      Shall we round up the Usual Suspects, Captain?

  2. Peter Buckley says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 12:29 pm

    There will be many more such articles questioning the morality of Islam’s prophet, until “moderate” muslims can no longer justify their faith in him.

    Islam under the microscope. Educating people about Islam. Muslims ashamed of their faith.

    The end of Islam……Inevitable.

    • Shane says

      Sep 5, 2014 at 10:16 am

      How can you say that when most leaders in the West, including John Kerry recently, are still saying that Islam is a religion of peace? We need to elect leaders who will have the guts to tell the truth about Islam and identify our enemies as Islamic Jihadists.

  3. G179 says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 12:35 pm

    RS, great job at educating us about these atrocities started by Muhammad himself.
    Muhammad has committed horrendous crimes against humanity. But his greatest vice is the creation of a belief sytem that justifies these crimes.

  4. Indigo Red says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    The Quran then excuses the killers –

    “And you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you threw not, [O Muhammad], when you threw, but it was Allah who threw that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.”
    Surat Al-‘Anfāl (The Spoils of War) 8:17 [Sahih International]

  5. tpellow says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 1:10 pm

    The denial of the ‘left’-Islamic alliance continues on the Islamic nature of the Islamic State.

    And the more the apologists conceal on Islam , the more they show themselves to be ignorant on both the nature of Islam, and on its violent, jihadist, imperialist history.

  6. Wellington says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 1:37 pm

    Despite foolish and inaccurate remarks by people like Barack Obama, David Cameron, John Kerry and Pope Francis to the effect that Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion, slowly but inexorably the truth about Islam is being made manifest to all the world. There is no way, long term, that what Islam really stands for, which is to say a religion which is avaricious for all the earth’s real estate, highly intolerant of any criticism, dispossessed of a true Golden Rule for all, ready to use violence to get its way and stifling of the mind and spirit, will not eventually lead to its being deservedly despised by the world at large.

    Accompanying this inevitable take on Islam will be a very justified abhorence of the character of Islam’s founder. Mohammed was a psychopath, a fraud and a pedophile who was enthralled with himself, with death and with power. Such a person has no business founding a religion and so as more people learn about the real Mohammed, so will he too become deservedly despised in all corners of the earth.

    Sadly, though, all this will not happen this year, nor next year, nor in this decade, but it will happen because the truth is more powerful than lies. And Islam is full of lies. Lies about Mohammed being noble. Lies about the Koran being something good. Lies about the worth of human beings who are not Muslim. Lies about women. Lies about Sharia being an enlightened legal system. Lies about…. Lies about…. Lies about….

    • Shane says

      Sep 5, 2014 at 10:19 am

      I hope so, but are children are being taught in schools that Islam is a religion of peace and most liberals in the West believe that too, or at least, they say they believe Islam is a religion of peace. We need to elect leaders who will tell the truth about Islam, which is why I hope that our next President is Allen West, a warrior, who speaks the truth about Islam and jhad.

  7. Bettina says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 1:38 pm

    What’s with the words “brutal” and “brutality” as applied to ISIS instead of “savagery” and “barbaric”? With many truly descriptive options at our fingertips, what’s going on?

    • Shane says

      Sep 5, 2014 at 10:17 am

      Kill all the ISIS savages now. Is that good enough for you?

      • bettina says

        Sep 5, 2014 at 12:23 pm

        That will do nicely, Shane 🙂
        To which allow me to add Vicious, Ferocious, Blood-Thirsty, Disgusting, Repugnant, War-Mongering…
        I’m really addressing this to the MSM, whose use of Brutal makes me ill. As I’ve said before, a slap in the face is brutal, so assigning the word to ISIS makes no sense to me. I cringe at the mention… my problem.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 1:46 pm

    As for the murderous violence committed by those Muslim thugs of ISIS against the Christians in the land that ISIS now has control of is terrible and hideous indeed. As for that strong and deadly persecution of those Christian by the ISIS villains, this type of heinous actions by the ISIS members who gather to engage in the murders of all those Christians can be described ,in part, in the Bible.
    For the Bible reads in Psalm 94:21. “They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.” [N.I.V.]

  9. Frank Scarn says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 1:49 pm

    Hey, what are these interfaith partners doing? Their citing Muhammad and the Quran for divine justification for their savage deeds is going to upset Bishop McManus. Greatly.

    He’s very concerned, doncha know. The bishop doesn’t want those red robes of his to become wrinkled with worry,
    http://wjar.images.worldnow.com/images/22169935_SA.jpg

    • bettina says

      Sep 5, 2014 at 12:34 pm

      Speaking of inter-faith, as a Jew I was shocked the other day at a social gathering when I brought up those cockroaches and how islam itself demanded jihad and inspired countless muslim whack jobs to follow the bloody trail of their chief pedophile,
      wouldn’t you know that a liberal Jew began to stand up for muslims, claiming she knew some who were nice people. Yep, I was up against that tiny minority of extremists again!
      I challenged her by pointing out the violence in muslim scriptures, but her ears were obviously clogged to the truth.

  10. mortimer says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 2:31 pm

    Presidents of news networks are criminally negligent in not providing journalists who understand Islamic doctrines such as abrogation, the kafir and jihad.

    They allow Islamists to spout doubletalk and escape their personal responsibility for the atrocities.

    The Islamist mullahs living in the West are never challenged as to why ISIS does not represent an authentic version of Islam.

    ISIS is self-consciously authentic to the n-th degree.

    • bettina says

      Sep 5, 2014 at 2:57 pm

      Very, very well put, Mortimer!
      I think that the media are afraid that, by challenging mullahs in the West to admit islam’s foundation in cruelty, terror and jihad (the (avoidable) link to islam would be dangerous as it could be interpreted as signaling hatred and prejudice against ALL MUSLIMS.
      Do you tend to agree?

      To your point about educating their infidel journalists about that danger and the meaning of islam, you’re talking here about potential humongous lawsuits by their families against their networks.

      Ethically and financially, you’re right that the onus for those sadistic deaths and wanton imprisonments should absolutely fall on these corporations.

  11. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 2:53 pm

    Of all the atrocities and heinous affront the thugs of ISIS engage in, it could be that the ISIS villains so so very much warped, wicked , deluded and warped way of thinking that they actually think of the hideous evil they do as something that is “good.” If that’s the case then the Bible has Wisdom in it that explained about such a wicked, deluded and warped mindset. For the Bible reads “Woe unto those who call evil good and good evil…” Isaiah 5;20. [N.I.V.]

    • bettina says

      Sep 5, 2014 at 3:30 pm

      Nice quote, Walter!

  12. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 3:00 pm

    The evil and mad mindset of the jihad murderers of ISIS is explained in the Bible in Ecclesiastes 9:3. Which teaches “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” Moreover, the ISIS thugs are so violent that the curse that is found in the Bible just might apply to them. For the Bible reads in Psalm 140: 11″May disaster hunt down men of violence.” [N.I.V]

  13. Almach says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 8:14 am

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxzOVSMUrGM

    with so many voices calling for action, what the USA/European governments are doing is criminal.

    • bettina says

      Sep 5, 2014 at 12:39 pm

      Almach, I don’t know how you found that gem of a video, which I encourage everyone present to view. It’s presented straight to the camera by an articulate, educated former muslim, who courageously shows himself — without a mask, all you cowardly muzzies!

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