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Islamic State quotes Qur’an in vow to blow up White House, conquer Rome and Spain

Mar 16, 2015 9:10 am By Robert Spencer

Islamic State map74“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” That’s Qur’an 9:111, the justification for suicide attacks. Will some moderate Muslim spokesman in the West kindly explain how the Islamic State is misunderstanding this verse? I’ll be right here.

“‘We Took You by Surprise.” ’: Islamic State Lists Exactly Which American and European Landmarks It Plans to Blow Up,” by Sharona Schwartz, The Blaze, March 15, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

An Islamic State group spokesman says the jihadist group aims to “blow up” the White House, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower on its way to conquering Paris, Rome, Portugal and Spain.

The threat was delivered Thursday by spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani in a nearly 30-minute audio message titled, “So They Kill And Are Killed.” The title refers to a verse in the Koran.

“We want, Allah willing, Paris before Rome and before Al-Andalus [Spain and Portugal], [and] after that we will blacken your life and blow up your White House, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower, Allah willing,” Adnani said.

In this Monday, June 16, 2014 file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

He also offered a list of sites further east the group aims to conquer: “We want Kabul, Karachi, the Caucasus, Qom, Riyadh and Tehran. We want Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, Sanaa, Doha, Abu Dhabi and Amman. And Muslims shall return to ruling and leadership everywhere.”

The Middle East Media Research Institute, which translated the message, observed that the spokesman was trying to boost the morale of Islamic State fighters in light of recent attacks against them by U.S.-led coalition forces and local opponents.

The spokesman said that the extremist group would ultimately prevail despite recent losses it has sustained, emphasizing that its enemies had underestimated its strength, only to come to the realization when it was too late.

Adnani’s message officially welcomed Boko Haram’s pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State group and invited Muslims to join the jihad in western Africa.

Adnani devoted part of his message to Christians and Jews, telling them they have two options to be accepted under Islamic caliphate rule, which he asserted would one day spread to Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem: convert to Islam or pay the jizya poll tax.

“We took you by surprise,” the spokesman said, addressing Jews and “crusaders,” referring to Christians.

MEMRI noted that the title of the audio message, “So They Kill And Are Killed,” refers to verse 9:111 in the Koran, which reads:

Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed. [It is] a true promise [binding] upon Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. And who is truer to his covenant than Allah? So rejoice in your transaction which you have contracted. And it is that which is the great attainment.

The Long War Journal, which tracks Islamist movements, reported that Adnani tried to paint a rosy picture of life under the Islamic State.

There “is no polytheism or paganism or nationalism or patriotism or polytheist democracy or disbelieving secularism” in the caliphate, he said according to a translation by the SITE Intelligence Group.

That idyllic vision emphasized racial equality.

“There is no difference between an Arab and a non-Arab, nor between black and white,” the spokesman said. “Here, the American fraternizes with the Arab, and the African with the European, and the Eastern with the Western.”

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Comments

  1. Beagle says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 9:34 am

    The “are killed” phrase is a point of common ground upon which we can build bridges of understanding with jihadis. Fast-track-to-paradise interfaith outreach should be accelerated.

  2. Spot On says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 10:00 am

    Don’t pay any attention to them. They are just letting off steam. They mean no harm. What we need is to bring more of them here as immigrants. They are just poor people that need some help. If they had jobs, they would not be acting this way. (sarc off)

    Corrupt leaders in the ME are a piece of cake compared to the Muslim population who wants our heads on sticks. When they get nukes, they won’t stop until either we eliminate them, bankrupt them, or until they have their way with us.

    • mariam rove says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 10:50 am

      The map they have, is a map of about 300 years ago. To the left they are calling it Maghreb, present day Morocco and to the right Khorasan!!! I am now convinced that Islam causes mental retardation. m

      • Spot On says

        Mar 16, 2015 at 1:30 pm

        “I am now convinced that Islam causes mental retardation.”

        Miriam, I too have been convinced of this. Islam is much like drugs, It actually is a form of highly negative self destructive hypnosis that is started at an early age. It takes over their sub conscious. It is reinforced as long as they bow down 5 times a day to Mecca and say their prayers under the threat of force if necessary. Prolonged exposure ruins their mind. They regress to animals.

        Maybe that is why they like goats?

        Other religions not at all the same.

        • mariam rove says

          Mar 16, 2015 at 2:44 pm

          My years of living with them, specially in Arab countries, they are so sexually starved and back ward that makes a goat look like Cindy Crawford to them. M

        • M S case says

          Mar 18, 2015 at 11:50 pm

          FIFWE COULD GET ACROSS TO THIS VERMIN THAT THE “PARADISE” USED BY WHAT’S HIS NAME WAS ONLY USED TO RECRUIT PEOPLE TO ISLAM. ACTUALLY A FOREVER BURNING HELL AWAITS THEM ALONG WITH 72 OF THE DEVIL’S ANGELS JUST WAITING TO RAPE THEM UPON ENTRY INTO THE PARADISE OF HELL

      • Anna says

        Mar 16, 2015 at 3:29 pm

        14 centuries of inbreeding doesn’t help either.
        However very true Miriam,, as we ourselves observe even here, conversion to Islam apparantly immediately turns a Western non-inbred person into a brainwashed savage/zombie

  3. Don McKellar says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 10:35 am

    Shouldn’t things like this make the foolish governments who have blocked all those Islamic State wannabes from leaving their countries realize they are setting themselves up for the attacks promoted by ISIS? After all, the Islam State is the purest form of Islam with a public face right now, and they’re sucking in the nutjobs like crazy. If those nutjobs can’t go to the Islamic State and enjoy the lovely medieval nightmare, you can be damn sure they’re going to strike back at the government(s) standing in their way. Every single time they block a would be Islamic State emigration, they have started the timer on a walking bomb.

    • Don McKellar says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 10:38 am

      Let them go and don’t let them EVER come back! Why is this so difficult to understand???

  4. Jaladhi says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 10:39 am

    It seems as if there are two versions of Quran – one is with our media and POTUS and Muslim apologists, ME studies department professors which is fake and manufactured version and the other version is with ISIS, imams of all mosques and the regular Muslims which is the true version.

    And ur leaders want us to believe the fake Quran !!! Morons!

    • Jaladhi says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 3:19 pm

      True – but,but our politicians behave as if there are no murderous surahs in Quran which ask Muslims to kill, rape, loot and divvy up the booty including enslaving the captured women( giving 1/5 share to Mo/allah)!!

      In effect our politicians and Muslim apologists believe there is no Quran B(Medina murderous Quran), and only Quran A(Meccan) exists which generally peaceful! They clearly forget that holy war jihad directly emanates from allah’s orders while living in Medina!!

  5. Joseph says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 11:08 am

    SORRY, off subject..B U T
    Why did the goat cross the road?
    Because it was stuck on a Muslim’s dick.

    • Scott Allen says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 11:50 am

      Joseph…staying off subject…

      What do you call a Muslim that has a goat…and a sheep?

      Bisexual

      • abad says

        Mar 16, 2015 at 6:24 pm

        LOL good one!

  6. mortimer says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 12:10 pm

    American diplomats need to re-read the wisdom of John Quincy Adams written 200 years ago:

    “The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force…Such is the spirit, which governs the hearts of men, to whom treachery and violence are taught as principles of religion.”

    In the last 200 years, Islam HAS NOT changed, and change due to the ‘eternal’ principles Muslims claim.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 12:27 pm

      …Islam HAS NOT changed, and cannot change due to the supposedly ‘eternal’ principles Muslims claim.

  7. gravenimage says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    Islamic State quotes Qur’an in vow to blow up White House, conquer Rome and Spain
    ………………………….

    Indeed. *All* of this Muslim savagery comes straight from the Qur’an and the other texts of Islam.

    More:

    An Islamic State group spokesman says the jihadist group aims to “blow up” the White House, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower on its way to conquering Paris, Rome, Portugal and Spain.
    ………………………….

    Conquest and destruction is all Islam has to “offer”.

    More:

    The threat was delivered Thursday by spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani in a nearly 30-minute audio message titled, “So They Kill And Are Killed.” The title refers to a verse in the Koran.
    ………………………….

    Islam loves death. That is what pious Muslims do—they kill and are killed. I’d go for more of the latter…

    And pious Muslims believe those who die murdering innocent people are rewarded in “paradise” with 72 virgins sex slaves, as well as those “pearly boys”.

    More:

    He also offered a list of sites further east the group aims to conquer: “We want Kabul, Karachi, the Caucasus, Qom, Riyadh and Tehran. We want Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, Sanaa, Doha, Abu Dhabi and Amman. And Muslims shall return to ruling and leadership everywhere.”
    ………………………….

    Notice that many of these cities are *already under Muslim rule*. Many, in fact, are already under Shari’ah law. No matter—no degree of Shari’ah is *ever* enough. And then there is the constant bloody Muslim jockeying for power.

    More:

    Adnani devoted part of his message to Christians and Jews, telling them they have two options to be accepted under Islamic caliphate rule, which he asserted would one day spread to Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem: convert to Islam or pay the jizya poll tax.
    ………………………….

    Standard Islam over the past 1400 years. Jews and Christians must convert, accept crushing oppression, or die. Non-“people of the book” are sometimes just offered conversion or death.

    God, I hate Islam.

  8. Jay Boo says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    Islam will rise and fall like a vulture that soars with pride and then comes back to earth to waddle on the ground in order to eat carrion and even its own young.

    BTW — all of the men in the photo are first cousins.

  9. Dave J says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    Allow me to recommend Brigette Gabriel’s book “They Must Be Stopped”. It has the most lucid summary of Islamic ideology and the history of it’s establishment I have read so far.

    It also details the strategy of global Islamization by immigration and the use of the West’s policies of freedom of speech and religious tolerance to destroy it. The chapter on the use of school textbooks to brainwash not just the students in their madrassas but also throughout the educational systems of Britain and the USA is particularly disturbing. History is changed, facts are obscured and minds are altered.

    As she says and what many people do not yet understand “What makes Islam different from other religions is it’s call to kill and subjugate all other members of all other religions”.

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 7:13 pm

      ‘They Must Be Stopped’ is also available in audio CD for lazy readers like me.
      As far as I know Robert Spencer’s books are all print version but I may be wrong.

  10. raja says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 11:27 pm

    Islam is often misunderstood. They always mean what they say and prove it by their action time and time again. The question is, why is so difficult for the Europeans and the Americans to understand this? Why make excuse such as over 1 billion muslims and only a small % are radical? The small %, apart from the suicide bombers and militants, actually includes the ulamaks, mullahs, scholars of quran and most importantly, people with authority and power to issue fatwas. The large majority is actually nothing but mindless sheeps whose function is just to make up for numbers. They have no power and will never have the power to interpret islam as they like… let alone revise it. This is not democracy of ”by the people for the people”. To clarify further, let us imagine that the islamic state is formed, which is rightfully their choice in their own land, and a caliphate is chosen and recognised by the ulamaks. The caliphate then will, as he is supposed to, give out an order that all Muslim countries must implement and observe sharia law…what choice do you think the so called ” moderate” Muslim countries have? Caliphate’s order must be obeyed and going against him will brand that country as an apostate nation thus an enemy of Islam. What if then the caliphate turns around and will to say that all muslims living in the infidels nations must fight for implementation of sharia law..what then? The notion and blaming the rise of Islamic violence on oppression has to stop. Why did Islam invade India? They had no wars with them and were of culture and civilization that was far richer and advanced. Neither had they in anyway involved with the Jews, Islam’s professed eternal enemy. The answer lies in the DNA of Islam. Failing to understand this is and living in denial is not going to help the Americans, Europeans and the rest of the world. The pawns are slowly being put in place..just waiting for a king to give his word. Wake up from this slumber and wake others too who are still in dreamland. Start doing the right thing. Save freedom of speech, save human rights and save humanity from descending into the perennial dark ages.

    • bernie says

      Mar 17, 2015 at 8:58 am

      A quote: “Our drone strikes do sometimes accidentally kill innocent people, and this undoubtedly creates new enemies for the West in general and the United States in particular. However, we would not need to drop a single bomb on Afghanistan or anywhere else, if there weren’t a death cult of devout, extremist Muslims who are making life miserable for millions of innocent people, and posing an unacceptable threat of violence to open societies.”

  11. Gerry McDonnell says

    Mar 17, 2015 at 5:58 am

    Regardless of where Muslims might live or any internal differences they might have between themselves, Islam is one
    entity with one book they follow and consider holy . . . a Koran that instructs Muslims to bring the world into Islam, if necessary by the power of the sword . . . to fight against, subjugate and even kill all who are determined to remain out of Islam. We may not be at war with Islam, but as their violent history shows, Islam has been at war with the West ever since its inception. Middle Eastern Islam is just behaving Islamic Islam is not a tolerant religion, and would do the very things in Britain and elsewhere in the West, to Christians and Jews, that they do in Islamic countries.
    The fact is, that the Western Governments, wilfully ignore the fact that the rights of Christians are guaranteed nowhere in the Islamic world, and their basic human rights are consistently violated. In no place does Islam give to Christians and Jews the same rights they themselves demand in Judeo-Christian democracies. We keep hearing that we’re just fighting a few million radical Islamic terrorists, but it isn’t so. The enemy that threatens our value system – indeed our whole way of life – is Islam itself.

  12. Anita says

    Mar 17, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    This is nothing new, I’ve head that they wanted to move the White House to Denver. So plan on the White House to go down like the planned Twin Towers did. This is the only way they can legitimately have it move without the citizens of the Untied Sates protesting.

  13. Will says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 5:44 am

    In my corner of the world, I see Christian hospitals, universities (both protestant and catholic). I see Catholic charities that send food and relief around the globe. I see Jewish hospitals and schools. I see among these religions a move towards cooperation and understanding. I ask myself what have the Muslims brought to modern civilization. I see none of the above. Islam wants worldwide recognition and acceptance but has brought nothing to the modern world to deserve it. As Pope Benedict was defamed worldwide when he remarked in a speech, that if war and violence is the only thing they have to offer, then they haven’t brought anything new. For this remark he was defamed and condemned, yet did he not speak the truth?

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