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Video: Robert Spencer on the theological aspects of Islam that lead to jihad

Nov 24, 2015 5:16 pm By Robert Spencer

On October 14, 2015, I spoke at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio on the theological aspects of Islam that lead to jihad.

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  1. Karine says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    I’m thrilled that Franciscan University had you speak there. Catholics need to get educated. Can’t wait to watch this!

  2. Robert Sheffer says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    Thank you for posting this informative video Robert and for your courage is standing up for the truth!

    Are there any muslim countries that currently enforce the jizya on non-muslims?

    it’s crazy that our president and world leaders can’t even say the words radical islamic terrorism, because they don’t want to offend anyone. Our leaders can’t even identify our enemy, which is very disturbing, given the fact that we are at war. I’m starting to wonder if Obama actually believes that ISIS has no affiliation to islamic ideology or whether he is just saying these things to decieve the American people and be politically correct.
    I will continue to study this topic and I appreciate the information you present.

    Thanks,

    Robert

  3. epistemology says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 7:19 pm

    Thanks a lot Robert, ISIS is authentic Islam, no doubt about that

  4. Joanne says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    Karine: I am happy to see that, too!

  5. y says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 7:24 pm

    I have been reading you for many years but this is the first time I have heard you speak. Thanks for laying out the real teachings of the Koran for your audience in the hope of their understanding what they are up against. You made it very clear.

  6. Angemon says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    Great presentation. 10/10, will watch again.

  7. sfgjnkf says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 9:14 pm

    If you worship me, and look up to me, and want to do what I want you to do and if I devote my life teaching you that your neighbour is your enemy, and he deserves your hatred, and he is evil, immoral, wrong and needs to be eliminated, and eventually I succeed in instilling hatred in you for this person, then in the end, all that I need to do is to give you a gun and say –

    Shoot.

    And you will shoot.

    The point being that, the verses calling for the killing of non-believers is only half of the entire picture. The other half, and probably the more crucial part is the rest of the quran developing and fomenting hatred for non-believers in muslims.

    When muslims are taught to detest throughout the book, just a few verses saying kill them is more than sufficient. The groundwork was laid with the extensive hate incitement in the rest of the book, through numerous stories, parables, analogies, exclamations, lessons, morals et al.

    Animosity toward everyone who is not a muslim is the central message. The belief that non-muslims are filthy, evil, wrong, corrupt, inferior, and that muslims are righteous, pure, superior and noble is the idea that is implanted in the subconscious mind of the muslim, that facilitates the dehumanization of non-muslims and acts as the impetus of animosity, giving rise to an active desire to subdue, overthrow, or eliminate.

    This I believe is the theological dynamics of jihad.

    PS – 64% of the quran is devoted to non-muslims. 81% of sira deals with muhammad’s struggle with non-muslims. With hadith, overall 60% of the islamic scripture is dedicated to non-muslims.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 25, 2015 at 12:01 am

      sfgjnkf wrote: “…the extensive hate incitement in the rest of the book (Koran)”

      Indeed. The Koran is a TROOP MOTIVATOR.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Nov 25, 2015 at 12:37 am

        The ‘education to hate’ is the psyching-up for jihad. *That* is the ‘spiritual struggle’ side of jihad….It’s the formation of attitudes.

  8. Been There Got the Tee Shirt says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 10:03 pm

    Robert, I have listened to most of your presentations on the internet, and I have to say this is the best one I have heard. Your recap of historical events and the way you logically tie them back to the teachings found in the Koran really does drive home the point that those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat having to live through it again. And unfortunately dragging the rest of us along.

    Thank you for all the long hours you spend on the website, your books, your speaking engagements, and all your efforts to keep us up-to-date on breaking news from all over the world.

    • Westman says

      Nov 24, 2015 at 10:40 pm

      Add my appreciation to that. This should be a distributable DVD sent to every church and city council.

  9. Westman says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 10:35 pm

    Why don’t Western Christians realize that Islam threw Jesus overboard as effectively as “Syrian” Muslims threw Christians overboard on the way to Lesbos? No Atonement, fake Jesus on the cross, early Christians made it all up, Isa(Jesus) merely a prophet. That much alone should alert them.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 24, 2015 at 11:35 pm

      Many scholars now believe that the ‘original’ religion of Mohammed was an heretical version of Gnostic Christianity judging from the very high praise of Jesus in the Koran using New Testament words like ‘Word of God’. In addition, the Koran’s Jesus is much better than Mohammed. In the Koran, Jesus was born miraculously of a virgin. Mohammed’s father was dead THREE YEARS BEFORE Mohammed’s birth! Jesus ascended into heaven in the Koran, but Mohammed was poisoned and was buried under his bed in the dead of the night…likely assassinated by his friends. Jesus’ miracles are praised in the Koran. Mohammed did no miracle and made zero prophecies.

      • Kepha says

        Nov 25, 2015 at 4:51 pm

        Mortimer:

        Islam’s take on Jesus is a hash of (1) Gnostic teachings, such as Jesus’ not dying on the cross, but having a simulacrum or substitute put in his place; (2) Arianism, or something even lesser, in which Jesus is only a created being, although Islam does not seem to elevate him to Arianism’s position of “firstborn”; (3) bits and pieces picked up from post-biblical lore, such as Jesus speaking from the womb (Portevangelion of James); (4) Muhammad’s own naive synthesis of these varied bits and pieces (perhaps his own idea that a prophet should not be killed by his enemies, not Gnosticism, accounts for his denial of Jesus’ crucifixion).

        Robert has underscored that Jihadism grows out of a large doctrinal substructure in unvarnished, unmodified Islam. By the same token, the fundamental doctrines of Christianity support a vast ethical structure for seeking the benefit of neighbors both inside and outside the believing community, and a rationale for peace-seeking. This is why I often refer to myself as a small-p pacifist (which I think every true Christian–including those in their countries’ uniforms–is, to some extent).

        Here I would like to remind some other visitors and posters here who are bothered by my small-p pacifism that such a stance does not preclude the state’s waging a just war on occasion, nor does it preclude a Christian’s participation therein. I have long been praying for peace on earth, but at present (and I may be wrong, for I do not claim any prophetic gift), it seems that the avenues towards peace and moderation are being closed off. Perhaps the world is sliding into an inescapable violent war between civilizations; one of which has long been in the process of self-destruction. This is perhaps the sword of which Jesus spoke of bringing on the earth in Matthew 10:34 If so, God’s will rather than Uncle Kepha’s be done.

        Our English “crisis”, such as we are in, comes from the Greek word for “judgment”. The point where the nations of the world are now suggests that God truly is entering into judgment with his servants, a large-scale “severe mercy”, but on the social and international level rather than the personal one of which C.S. Lewis’ friend Sheldon Vanauken wrote. I honestly believe that in these perilous times, we in the West are being asked anew what we will do with Jesus of Nazareth, called Christ–the one to whom judgment in Heaven and on Earth has been given.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 24, 2015 at 11:54 pm

      The Koran is at least two separate documents hastily joined together under the Caliphate of Abd al Malik.

      An mysterious Gnostic source document was contradicted by newer materials creating a word of Allah in which Allah expresses two distinct and contradictory ideas on almost everything, including the identity of Jesus and on the salvation of Christians. Jesus has divine characteristics in the Koran of Mecca, but the Koran of Medina says he was not divine, contradicting the first Koran.

      The assembling committee of the Koran concocted it in a hurry without proper editing to defend it from later criticism.

      • DMWard says

        Nov 25, 2015 at 10:49 am

        Sort of like Obamacare?

  10. mortimer says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 11:29 pm

    The main theological difference is that Jehovah and Allah are significantly different. Jehovah uses unitary logic and Jesus is the ‘Logos’…the logical, rational word of God. The New Testament emphasizes the Golden Rule as the guide of all conduct between humans.

    In contrast, Allah is absolute will. There is, therefore, no logic or reason in Allah’s commands. Allah contradicts himself and both sides of the contradiction remain valid, giving Muslims flexible ethics. The Golden Rule is absent from Islam, but for public relations purposes, Muslims pretend the Golden Rule is in Islam.

    The theological basis of jihad is expressed in Koran 48.29: “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; Those with him are VIOLENT (ashiddaa’) against the disbelievers (kufaar); Compassionate amongst themselves.”

    • ECAW says

      Nov 25, 2015 at 2:45 am

      What translation of 48:29 is that Mortimer?

      50 translations here ranging from firm (the word for word version) to “unyielding in combat” and “ruthless” but none of them use the word “violent”:

      http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/48/29/default.htm

  11. Gabby says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 12:29 am

    I am currently taking a Middle Eastern Politics course at Hofstra University. I am doing research for my term paper on Iraq and am so glad I came across this video! I was naive to what the war really consisted of, but this opened my eyes greatly; not only to understanding the current international crisis, but to understanding the basis of the Middle East’s history. I have an absolutely amazing professor and she has done an incredible job feeding us information, but I could not have hoped for a better time to watch this video. It completely ties together everything I have learned this semester and I am so grateful to have seen it. I would love for you to come to Hofstra!!!!

  12. worldcitizen1919 says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 1:27 am

    Robert here is an excerpt from Baha’u’llah’s Book of Certitude written in two days and nights in Baghdad which discusses the meaning if the charge against Jews and Christians by Muhammad of perverting the texts.

    Baha’u’llah agrees with your view that the verses weren’t effaced from the Holy Books but explains the reason both Jews, Christains and now Muslims have been accused of perverting their own texts.

    “Verily by “perverting” the text is not meant that which these foolish and abject souls have fancied, even as some maintain that Jewish and Christian divines have effaced from the Book such verses as extol and magnify the countenance of Muhammad, and instead thereof have inserted the contrary. How utterly vain and false are these words! Can a man who believeth in a book, and deemeth it to be inspired by God, mutilate it? Moreover, the Pentateuch had been spread over the surface of the earth, and was not confined to Mecca and Medina, so that they could privily corrupt and pervert its text. Nay, rather, by corruption of the text is meant that in which all Muslim divines are engaged today, that “is the interpretation of God’s holy Book in accordance with their idle imaginings and vain desires. And as the Jews, in the time of Muhammad, interpreted those verses of the Pentateuch, that referred to His Manifestation, after their own fancy, and refused to be satisfied with His holy utterance, the charge of “perverting” the text was therefore pronounced against them. Likewise, it is clear, how in this day, the people of the Qur’án have perverted the text of God’s holy Book, concerning the signs of the expected Manifestation, and interpreted it according to their inclination and desires.”

    Excerpt From: Bahá’u’lláh. “The Kitáb-i-Íqán.” Bahá’í eBooks

    • ECAW says

      Nov 25, 2015 at 3:02 am

      So, worldcitizen is Bahai like David. It explains a lot.

      By the way, verily, isn’t it odd that when his man, the 19th century Bahaullah’ speaks it is translated into cod 16th century English?

      • worldcitizen1919 says

        Nov 25, 2015 at 7:51 am

        Please forgive me. I used to manually log in each time until I discovered if I logged in it kept me logged in but it used worldcitizen1919 instead of David so I apologise for the dual names. It was purely accidental.

        I love coming here because I love healthy debate and I believe you are all sincere people but very fair to others with different views and prepared to let them have their say.

        As a Baha’i I would not be treated by Muslims or in Iran with the respect and courtesy I’m treated with here. The people here love to debate strongly but they allow me to be whom I am freely and for that I am so, so grateful because we are treated as outcasts and rejects by some so just to be allowed to come her makes me feel very happy that I am not rejected for being different.

        It says a lot about the character of people here that people can be different, have opposing views on some topics, and feel welcome.

        I hope people don’t mind me coming here otherwise I can leave.

        • ECAW says

          Nov 25, 2015 at 8:10 am

          Personally I think it very healthy that we’re not all singing from the same hymn sheet. David is clearly sincere (just misguided) but creatures like Rezali and the recent TrueMuslim who didn’t dissemble, give invaluable insights into the appallingness that is Islam.

  13. ECAW says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 3:29 am

    Don’t wanna be picky but…..Queen Victoria.

  14. Bill D. says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 4:00 am

    Thank you, Franciscan University for hosting Robert Spencer, a leading proponent
    of unconditional Free Speech. There are precious few places in the United States
    where unconditional Free Speech is still allowed. “If Free Speech is taken away,
    then dumb and blind we will be led, like sheep, to the slaughter.” George Washington, 1783.

  15. Lloyd Miller says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 5:23 am

    When do we admit that Saudi Arabia has bought with their cash petro-dollar investments the Western Establishment. Saudi Arabia IS radical Islam. They simply order their Western partners not to use the phrase “radical Islam.”

    • ECAW says

      Nov 25, 2015 at 5:57 am

      It is becoming embarrassing the extent to which we have been bought by Gulf money, shown by the affair of the “now you see it, now you don’t” report on the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain. This from a Telegraph account of a recent radio interview with Paddy Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats:

      Lord Ashdown, speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, challenged the influence of Saudis over UK policy.

      He said: “The failure to put pressure on the Gulf states and especially Saudi Arabia and Qatar, first of all to stop funding the Salafists and Wahhabists, secondly to play a larger part in this campaign and other actions where the government has refused to have a proper inquiry into the funding of jihadism in Britain leaves me to worry about the closeness between the Conservative party and rich Arab Gulf individuals.

      “It is a serious charge but here are some facts for you. Some time ago the Prime Minister, I understand, in a single phonecall and almost off the top of his head agreed to fund an inquiry into the Muslim brotherhood on behalf of the Saudi royal family. That didn’t find what the Saudis wanted it to find, that the Muslim brotherhood is an extremist organisation. That report has never been published because it came to a conclusion unhelpful to the Saudis.

      “Secondly, we have consistently pressed, and I hope now that the Prime Minister will agree to a proper inquiry into the funding of jihadism in Britain so let us wait and see what the outcome of this is.

      “Certainly any plan put forward by the Prime Minister ought to include international pressure on Saudi Arabia, on Qatar and on other Gulf states to play their part.”

      —————————————

      The government response:

      “Downing Street rejected the suggestion the Saudis and Qataris had exerted undue influence over the Government and said the report on the Muslim Brotherhood would be published before the end of the year.

      We have had long relationships with these two countries. We have worked closely with them on a whole range of issues,” a No 10 spokesman said.

      The strength of the relationship that we have means that nothing is off the table. We will go to them and talk to them about these issues.”

      • Lloyd Miller says

        Nov 26, 2015 at 5:05 am

        Even Rupert Murdock has Prince Alaweed as a major investor. Fortunately, he has not totally buckled to Saudi influence or ???

  16. ECAW says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 5:34 am

    I would like to hear Robert Spencer take on explicitly the counter argument we often hear that all that warfare stuff was merely historically contextual, and the need for it lapsed after Islam was established. It seems nonsense to me, as shown by his successors’ wars, the mediaeval commentators and sharia but we hear it so often and I have no idea where its proponents get the idea from theologically.

    It appears to me just a smokescreen to confuse the ignorant kaffir and I never see, or have never noticed, counter jihad people challenge the apologists to produce their scriptural justifications.

  17. Dave says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 10:24 am

    This was a brilliant talk (I am not English so that is a word I don’t throw around a lot)… brought the “A Game ” to this one…

    How much does it cost to buy time on a reasonably popular network or cable channel? Imagine the impact if this talk were widely viewed. Is it possible to get funding for such a purpose?

    Certainly the conservatives running for President should see this. lf they could shoot down that ‘we are all Abrahamic ‘ nonsense it would be very powerful, Can it be brought to the attentions of Cruz, Carson and Trump?

  18. NERO says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 12:47 pm

    …YES!!ROBERT.”THE FINAL VICTORY IS OURS BUT WILL COME THROUGH THE CROSS”

  19. Paul says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 12:54 pm

    Impressive speech!

    Against the cult of death, we have the cult of life. It is a spiritual battle :
    “The final victory is ours, but understanding that it will come through the Cross”

  20. rooare says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    Thank you Robert, this is the most informative and concise video on this subject I have seen so far. Keep up the good work, my prayers are with you. And I encourage people to support your web-site and the work you do.

  21. Mickey says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    Robert,
    Thank you so much for the information and the truth you give us about Islam.
    Your words are very sobering, but they give hope by cutting through the lies and misinformation we so often hear.
    You are a champion of truth. I follow you, David Wood, Jamie Glasov, Pamela Geller and Nutnfancy only on Youtube—heroes all!

  22. Infidela says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    Saddam Hussein PROTECTED christians. He repaired their churches and protected them from Islamic violence.

    Saddam Hussein was toppled by George Bush, and now christians in the Middle East are at the mercy of Islamic state. So how can anyone ever regard George Bush as a christian?

  23. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 10:21 pm

    Muslim “theology!”? LOLOL! Must’ve been a VERY short speech, Robert!

    😉

  24. vlparker says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 9:38 am

    Great lecture. I’ve watched it twice. When I have more time I will watch it again and take notes this time. One of the most informative lectures about islam that I’ve ever seen.

  25. lee blank says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 5:35 pm

    The niqab issue (whether one should take the oath of Canada wearing a mask) alienated the muslim vote north of your border electing Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in a landslide. With your own election next year, I can’t imagine any candidate (Republican or Democrat) addressing the real problem, and whoever gets elected will be too busy thinking about getting re-elected. My question is: given the international threat of Islam, what can the average citizen do when our elected representatives are bent on nothing more than acquiring and retaining power?

  26. lee blank says

    Nov 27, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    i watched this video for a second time; it’s too bad it’s not part of the school curriculum.
    I envy your courage.
    Cowards die a thousand deaths, the valiant die but once.

    Long life, sir.

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