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Video: Robert Spencer on Is the Islamic State Islamic? And Why It Matters

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Last night I spoke at a New Hampshire synagogue for the excellent group NH4Israel. The topic was “Is the Islamic State Islamic? And Why It Matters.” There was a lively Q and A — video of it will follow at a later date.

Thanks to Brad Amante for this video.

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    • ISIS is doing nothing that Muhammad did not do. ISIS is killing infidels in a jihad; Muhammad did that. ISIS is beheading captives; Muhammad ordered that. ISIS is raping captive women; Muhammad did that. ISIS is selling captive women into slavery; Muhammad did that. Muhammad is considered to be the perfect example for Muslims to emulate, and he is above criticism. Therefore, since ISIS is doing the same things that Muhammad did, and everything that Muhammad did is Islamic, then what ISIS is doing must be considered to be Islamic.

      ISIS is a fundamentalist Islamic army that is trying to establish the worldwide Caliphate that Muhammad ordered Muslims to create. To say that no religion countenances what ISIS is doing is wrong, as Islam countenances everything ISIS is doing except for killing other Muslims. However, Islam does mandate the death penalty for apostates and blasphemers, so that is how ISIS justifies killing other Muslims.

      • Hi Mr. Shane – you are right on target with your note here! For more on our Psychopathic Moham, I’d highly recommend the new bio on Moham by F.W. Burleigh, “It’s All About Mohammed; the World’s Most NOTORIOUS Prophet”. I did a book review on amazon on the book. The author used 20,000 pages of islamic text to write the book. Moham from the ground up – at his psychopathic – epileptic barbaric best. Makes Charles Manson look like polite society.

  4. Excellent talk.

    One detail I didn’t understand. Robert Spencer says that until the Islamic State, all nations went along with international protocols, Geneva Convention — at least all states in our lifetime did. But that doesn’t seem true of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and a number of other places.

  5. Robert’s talk was very clear and precise on the Koranic origins of ISIS and terrorism. He doesn’t leave any wriggle room, which is why the Islamists make it a point to not debate him.

    One frustrating thing is, it’s obvious the people in power, the Kerrys and the Brennans, not only don’t agree with him or listen to him: they shut him (and others) like him out totally, as does the main stream media. Let me emphasize this again: they don’t disagree with him or counter his arguments. They simply shut him out, as they have the power to do so.

    Denying reality does not make it so, and there will be a price to pay. The principle of representative government is that the government cannot get too far from the interests of the people, or they will get voted out. Ever since the creation of the republic, representatives have been devising ways to get around representative government, from gerrymandering, to proportional representation, to civil service tenure to limitations on campaign contributions.

    The people who will pay the price upfront will be soldiers and the first responders, who go into dangerous situations disarmed, as it were, from an understanding of their opponents. Of course, with systematic Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi infiltration of our government and educational institutions, a significant change in our liberties can come far faster than most people can imagine.

    My position is, we need to institute reforms, specifically from our original constitutional structure, which will force all branches of our government to at least engage in a real debate of the issues.

  6. Sharia Law gives 12 big proofs that Islam has major flaws. Most or even All of this is the law of the land in countries with large Islamic majorities such as ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan :
    1) Sharia Law legitimizes thievery – It is okay to stealing of property, wives or children of “infidels” directly or by aggressive taxation.
    2) Sharia Law bans Art & Music – Most religions recognize art and music is a method to praise and honor all that is good given to us by God. Islam bans it as evil.
    3) Sharia Law enslaves women – Forced marriages, no driving, genital mutilation, no mixed gender events, hide your face, no education to better yourself, limited job opportunities. Everyone else calls this cruel and inhumane punishment and a violation of basic human rights.
    4) The Religious Police (enforcers of Sharia Law) – Being forced to follow religious customs is not a sign of true devotion. It denies the individual the ability to choose for themselves between good and evil. Free agency is a gift from God and the big test in life is what choices we make – not enforcing our opinions on each other.
    5) Sharia Law promotes violence towards women – Women are required to endure forced marriages and to have four witnesses to testify against her attacker.
    6) Sharia Law encourages violence towards men – Sunni-Shia conflict over who gets to be the final authority on what is Sharia Law. Is there any other way to resolve their conflict? Is the only way to spread their religion is thru violence?
    7) Sharia Law encourages violence towards women – men are allowed to behave brutally with women if they are in someway immodest? No other religion allows men such an appalling low moral standard.
    8) Sharia Schools discourage advanced scientific learning – “Western Education is Evil”. The way to enslave people to a corrupt system is to keep them ignorant so that they do not know how to use common sense to determine good from evil. Critical thinking is a gift from God to be used to establish both order and progress.
    9) Sharia Law protects corrupt political systems –
    10) Sharia Law Declares No More Prophets / Quran is Perfect – If that were so why is there such ugly division between Shia, Sunni and other Islamic Sects? And how will Allah resolve the difference between them? Except if he sends for a new prophet to clarify his message and intentions, Muslims will be forever left in confusion and most likely continue to inflict great evil themselves for many future decades and centuries. If Allah is so great, why does the Sharia Law put a limitation on him that he could not send more messengers?
    11) Sharia Law Hypocrisy – Is it Islamaphobic to point out the hypocrisy in Sharia Law that allows them to hate and persecute non-believers?
    12) Corporal Punishment – There is no mercy here, chopping off limbs of thieves and stoning adulterers will leave you with physical scars for live.

    • @Sharia Law legitimizes thievery – It is okay to stealing of property, wives or children of “infidels” directly or by aggressive taxation.

      Non Muslim Women & children no need to pay jizya & only for wealthy non Muslim:

      Malik :: Book 17 : Hadith 17.24.46
      Malik said, “The sunna is that there is no jizya due from women or children of people of the Book, and that jizya is only taken from men who have reached puberty. The people of dhimma and the magians do not have to pay any zakat on their palms or their vines or their crops or their livestock. This is because zakat is imposed on the muslims to purify them and to be given back to their poor, whereas jizya is imposed on the people of the Book to humble them. As long as they are in the country they have agreed to live in, they do not have to pay anything on their property except the jizya.
      Malik :: Book 17 : Hadith 17.24.44

      Jiziya for the protection for non Muslim
      Dawud :: Book 19 : Hadith 2955
      Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab:
      A son of Adi ibn Adi al-Kindi said that Umar ibn AbdulAziz wrote (to his governors): If anyone asks about the places where spoils (fay’) should be spent, that should be done in accordance with the decision made by Umar ibn al-Khattab (Allah be pleased with him). The believers considered him to be just, according to the saying of the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him): Allah has placed truth upon Umar’s tongue and heart. He fixed stipends for Muslims, and provided protection for the people of other religions by levying jizyah (poll-tax) on them, deducting no fifth from it, nor taking it as booty.

      Bukhari :: Book 3 :: Volume 34 :: Hadith 425
      Allah’s Apostle said, “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, son of Mary (Jesus) will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims) as a just ruler and will break the Cross and kill the pig and abolish the Jizya (a tax taken from the non-Muslims, who are in the protection, of the Muslim government). Then there will be abundance of money and no-body will accept charitable gifts.

      11: 15. Whosoever desires the life of the world and its glitter; to them We shall pay in full (the wages of) their deeds therein, and they will have no diminution therein.
      33: 28. O Prophet (Muhammad SAW)! Say to your wives: If you desire the life of this world, and its glitter, Then come! I will make a provision for you and set you free in a handsome manner (divorce).
      29. But if you desire Allâh and His Messenger, and the home of the Hereafter, then verily, Allâh has prepared for Al¬Muhsinât (good¬doers) amongst you an enormous reward.
      39: 10. Say (O Muhammad SAW): “O My slaves who believe (in the Oneness of Allâh Islâmic Monotheism), be afraid of your Lord (Allâh) and keep your duty to Him. Good is (the reward) for those who do good in this world, and Allâh’s earth is spacious (so if you cannot worship Allâh at a place, then go to another)! Only those who are patient shall receive their rewards in full, without reckoning.”
      43: 35. And adornments of gold. Yet all this (i.e. the roofs, doors, stairs, elevators, thrones etc. of their houses) would have been nothing but an enjoyment of this world. And the Hereafter with your Lord is only for the Muttaqûn.

      • Koran and Ilk (Buhkari quotes) still sounds like a load of Cattle Crap to me. It is interesting the Faked King James-ish sounding /writing here. I can imagine all those people murdered by mohammadans in the mid-east over the past year plus saying, “Oh wait, follower of Moham – there’s an exception here….” and thumbing thru the koran or buhkari volumn(s) before their heads were lopped off. Or the raped and murdered Christian and Yedzi women and children trying to quote this garbage before their rape and murder by these ISIS followers of Moham barbarians. Oh yes, this is islam, Moham would throughly approve.
        READ the new Moham bio by F.W. Burleigh, “It’s All About Mohammed; the World’s Most NOTORIOUS Prophet.” Uses 20,000 pages of islam texts, sources, etc, so it’s islam’s truth and it ain’t pretty for your mohammadans. Read and LEARN!! Barbarian = Mohammed = rapist, murderer, profiteer, killer of All that is Not Islam.
        You ain’t fooling anyone of us with these quotes here Sir. All we have to do is turn on the news. The photos and videos and actions of the followers of Mohamm speak for themselves. They even film their own barbarity – all in the name of your precious pedophile profit, er, prophet.
        By the way, when I read the koran, I didn’t get a warm and cozy feeling, especially on the Suri 4 on Women – especially the 1/2 the value part and the beatings. Any man raise a hand to hit me – I’d beat right back. I get disgusted seeing the immans on YouTube explaining how to properly beat a women. I’d go two out of three rounds with that old imman bastard and I’d win the first two myself.

      • In practice, the jizya can be 3-4 times higher than the zakat. It’s supposed to be a punishment for not following Islam. Try again.

  7. Excellent! Now I’m convinced that the Islamic State is Islamic. Next challenge: Is the Pope Catholic?

  8. Can we get Mehdi Hasan to reply to this great talk of yours Robert?

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/uk-fascist-mehdi-hasan-doubles-down-rebuts-charges-that-hes-against-free-speech-by-again-calling-for-restrictions-on-free-speech

    Smarting from being outed as a foe of the freedom of speech, the UK Islamic supremacist Mehdi Hasan has come back with a defensive, self-pitying, whiny piece that claims to rebut the contention that he wants to “block all criticism of Islam or Muslims in the press and, effectively, ban free speech,” but in fact only reinforces it.

  9. Robert, you are a true expert of Islam and certainly in declaring the explicit meanings of Quranic verses. I do have a request, could you write a complete commentary on the Quran!? To me it is, even in english to dificult to interpret because of the language construction. I believe this could be the much needed bombshell.

    • Have you read Spencer’s book The Complete Infidels’ Guide to the Koran? It’s not every single verse but it’s all the important stuff.

      Also check out PoliticalIslam.org — Bill Warner’s site. He has simplified versions of the Koran that are great for getting a pretty good idea of what it says. Of course, if you wanted to wave a Koran and say “This is what this thing says” you might not want it to be the edition that says “A Simplified Koran.” 🙂 But it’s good. There are also websites run by Muslims where you can click on any verse you’re wondering about and get all kinds of commentary and explanation.

  10. Load of HOGWASH………”gaza is free” my foot. Blockade entire gaza and make it the largest open air prison and say its free, who you bluffing, only those brainwashed idiots in the audience.

  11. Robert is enlightening and entertaining. Wish we could see him here in the land of Keith Ellison and Doug Hooper, but the local Islamic associations wouldn’t stand for it. When one tries to make Robert’s common sense points to the clueless ( yet tolerant ), you are responded to by their morally superior sense of horror at your ‘racism’ and phobia. Meanwhile the sharia keeps creeping in with every new halal grocer, amid reports of another group of Somalis who have left to go join Boko Haram–but will no doubt be welcomed back to their host country.
    Ellison knew better than most that taking his oath on a Koran gave him license to lie.

  12. It really gripes me that mohammadan population is the USA is only about .6% of ONE PERCENT –per USA Census in 2010 — yet our President has forgotten/ignored/cares not a damn/ that 99.4% of WE THE PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES are NOT NOT NOT mohammadans and we can care less a fig about Moham, the koran or even mohammadans.
    BUT we’ve heard him tell us ‘my job as President of the USA is to protect ISLAM” and the real kicker, “There is no room for those who criticize the prophet of islam.” Really? Really? I thought his job as President was to PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN AND DEFEND the USA FROM ALL ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC” Does that ring a bell somewhere?
    We don’t owe islam a damn thing.
    Islam is an abomination.
    Islam was conceived by a psychopathic madman.
    Islam was forced upon innocent Arab traders, Christian and Jewish Communities throughout the mid-east in the late 500s-600s Anno Dominio. A.D. Christian for our time line. — by a psychopathic madman.
    The koran contains nothing but the ravings of the psychopathic madman. Read it and you’ll easily see it.
    What does stick in my head is the sight of those planes slamming into the World Trade Center, the smoking left side of the Pentagon, and the field in Pennsylvania where brave men and women of the United States gave their lives to bring down that plane.
    Boston Marathon bombings,
    That crazy mohammadan killing people at Ft Hood – workplace violence? I think islamic psychopathic follower did that.
    Beheadings of our own citizens in the USA?
    Yes, Islam has “”lots”” to do with that.
    As soon as WE begin to barrage the news media and out politicians WEBSITES with OUR ANGER and OUTRAGE then the sooner we can bring this barbarity to and end
    — stop islamic immigration — NOW.
    —charge and arrest those who seek to come back from the mid-east after their butchery vacation — charges of CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY as a start.
    –Take away RELIGIOUS protections and TAX BENEFITS from mosques – they promote SEDITION.
    –Place all belonging to CAIR on trial for SEDITION.
    When we repeat this to the our local NEWS, CNN, MSNBC, and our Politicians websites then we will begin to take our Western Civilization back.
    Or we turn into Britain – as 5 to 6% of the mohammadan population – the tip of the hair of the dog’s tail – begins to wag the whole dog.

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