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Raymond Ibrahim: Hating Americans Is Official Saudi and Qatari Policy

Jan 20, 2016 8:18 am By Raymond Ibrahim

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As American talking heads continue to express their “moral outrage” at Donald Trump’s call “for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on,” perhaps they should first consider what the official position of foreign Muslim governments is on Americans—beginning with U.S. “friends and allies.”

As it happens, jihadi hate for non-Muslim “infidels” is not limited to the Islamic State, which U.S. leadership dismisses as neither a real state nor representative of Islam. Rather, it’s the official position of, among others, Saudi Arabia — a very real state, birthplace of Islam, and, of course, “friend and ally” of America.

Saudi Arabia’s Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas—which issues religious decrees that become law—issued a fatwa, or decree, titled, “Duty to Hate Jews, Polytheists, and Other Infidels.” Written by Sheikh Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz (d. 1999), former grand mufti and highest religious authority in the government, it still appears on the website.

According to this governmentally-supported fatwa, Muslims—that is, the entire Saudi citizenry—must “oppose and hate whomever Allah commands us to oppose and hate, including the Jews, the Christians, and other mushrikin [non-Muslims], until they believe in Allah alone and abide by his laws, which he sent down to his Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings upon him.”

To prove this, Baz quotes a number of Koran verses that form the doctrine of Loyalty and Enmity—the same doctrine every Sunni jihadi organization evokes to the point of concluding that Muslim men must hate their Christian or Jewish wives (though they may enjoy them sexually).

These Koran verses include: “Do not take the Jews and the Christians for your friends and allies” (5:51) and “You shall find none who believe in Allah and the Last Day on friendly terms with those who oppose Allah and His Messenger [i.e., non-Muslims]—even if they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers, or their nearest kindred” (58:22; see also 3:28, 60:4, 2:120).

After quoting the verses, Baz reiterates:

Such verses are many and offer clear proofs concerning the obligation to despise infidels from the Jews, Christians, and all other non-Muslims, as well as the obligation to oppose them until they believe in Allah alone.

Despite documenting its official hatred for all non-Muslims (albeit on a website virtually unknown in the West), in the international arena, Saudi Arabia claims “to support the principles of justice, humanity, promotion of values and the principles of tolerance in the world,” and sometimes accuses the West for its supposed “discrimination based on religion.”

Such hypocrisy is manifest everywhere and explains how the Saudi government’s official policy can be to hate Christians and Jews—children are taught to ritually curse them in grade school—while its leading men fund things like Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (the real purpose of which appears to be to fund influential “Christian” academics to whitewash Islam before the public).

Our other “good friend and ally,” Qatar, also officially documents its hate for every non-Muslim—or practically 100% of America’s population.  A website owned by the Qatari Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs published a fatwa titled “The Obligation of Hating Infidels, Being Clean of Them, and Not Befriending Them.”… Keep Reading

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  1. David M says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 10:22 am

    And a good start would be to publish the 28 redacted pages of the 9/11 report, which reportedly show direct funding of 9/11 by the Saudi government. It is a disgrace the US & Saudi Arabia are still allies after the Saudi government funded 9/11, & it is a disgrace Obama has not declassified it after twice promising to do so to the families of 9/11 victims. Bush was even worse for classifying it in the first place.

    http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi31sGb1rjKAhXkMqYKHcMqDjAQFgghMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworldnews%2Fseptember-11-attacks%2F11653706%2FUS-report-claiming-Saudi-Arabia-financed-911-attack-redacted-by-Bush.html&usg=AFQjCNGuHfMOd0GMnLBRrHdALQNX8E9CbQ

  2. Angemon says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 10:53 am

    Despite documenting its official hatred for all non-Muslims (albeit on a website virtually unknown in the West), in the international arena, Saudi Arabia claims “to support the principles of justice, humanity, promotion of values and the principles of tolerance in the world,”

    They do defend those principles… just as long as they comply with sharia.

    • Voytek Gagalka says

      Jan 20, 2016 at 11:30 am

      … and when contradiction occurs, sharia takes absolute precedence, even if those so called “principles” will be totally nullified in the process. That make only sense if the law of non-contradiction is disregarded. Then they don’t have to apply taqiyya anomore!

  3. Peter Dale says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 11:12 am

    Can you post a direct link to the fatwa that deals with the duty to hate Jews …..? I can’t seem to find it.

  4. mortimer says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 11:54 am

    Islam has its own APARTHEID doctrine called ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’. It is one of the three essential doctrines of the Islamic faith (usul ud deen).

    Al Walaa wal Baraa is the best supported doctrine in Koranic scripture and the hadiths. The duty to hate kafirs is what Islam is all about. 60% of the Koran is the rant that Allah hates kafirs and want Muslims to treat them violently.

    ISLAM IS NO MORE THAN AN EXCUSE TO HURT KAFIRS AND WOMEN.

  5. Jack Diamond says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 12:59 pm

    Allah and Muhammad and Islam hate disbelievers in Allah and Muhammad and Islam and obligate war against them and command their deaths (fast extinction) or subjugation (slow extinction) for the crime of that disbelief. Otherwise, Muslims are to maintain an attitude of hate and enmity and rejection toward the disbelievers, even while smiling in their faces. For when Muslims haven’t the upper hand they must practice deceit. But who cares what Islam teaches or what some strange looking imam or mufti says? People are just people and we are the world and I’d like to buy that world a Coke. Please roll out the welcome mat for millions of Muslims to find refuge in the West, bring out your wives and daughters especially to make them welcome, remembering that the opinion of all who matter is that Islam is not Islam and Muslims are not Muslims and no evidence to the contrary will ever be admitted. While never ever forgetting our own crimes and guilt (Western civilization) for which we are rightly hated and despised and revenged upon–that’s “history”(as self-loathing) taught in our halls of learning. The history of Islam with its rivers of infidel blood and mountains of infidel corpses and suffocation of millions upon millions of lives under its ruthless tyranny, are not. Go figure.

    Not a fig of difference between Saudi Arabia and Qatar et al and their proxy jihadist spawn, fingers of a hand.

  6. Hugh says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 3:07 pm

    I am hoping soon that the non-Islamic world will not need any oil from these Islamic countries. Remember … it is really their ONLY source of income. If that happens, they will all be reduced to the bedouin sheep herders and shankers we know they all are. It is oil and oil alone that has made them rich, powerful and able to fund and import Islamic Jihad.

    • Angemon says

      Jan 20, 2016 at 4:19 pm

      Hugh posted:

      “I am hoping soon that the non-Islamic world will not need any oil from these Islamic countries. ”

      Unfortunately, islamic oil-rich countries are on to it, and Western leftists are not above selling their values for a fistful of dollars:

  7. Mark Swan says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 3:14 pm

    Sheikh Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz…maybe…someone poke it with a stick…I think that is a mumy…in that photo.

  8. mike ryan says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 3:14 pm

    Who’s the zombie over the headline?

  9. Mathew Solo says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    IS A SUBSTANTIAL CALIPHATE POSSIBLE FOR VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST?

    Mohamed Bouazizi was trying to support his family as a street vendor when Tunisian police confiscated his vegetable cart and produce…In protest…he burned himself to death in an act that sparked a wave of protests leading to the toppling of Tunisia’s 26-year-old Ben Ali regime…so the story goes.

    This set off a series of further protests across the Middle East in what some have called the Tunisian Wind…Did the Tunisian Wind become a Storm of Radical Islamism that will change the political and social landscape of the Middle East…Commentators struggle to find a context.

    But do they recognize the likelihood…the danger…that more Islamist governments may be on the horizon…Islamist political philosophy advocates the rule of nations (and eventually the whole world…through conversion or conquest) by the many centuries of Sharia law built on the foundation of the Muslim holy book…the Qu’ran.

    Frequently…when Muslim-majority nations have the opportunity to hold democratic elections to choose their government…they elect Islamist candidates…even when those candidates oppose the very democracy that allowed their election.

    When voters in the Palestinian Authority territories chose members of the Palestinian Legislative Council…A plurality voted for Hamas…Since then…Hamas has gained strength among Palestinians…few believe that the organization is truly committed to democracy…Votes or not…it is assumed…Hamas will continue to press its agenda of Islamist theocracy and Sharia law…a Caliphate in miniature.

    Iran is an Islamic republic…with an Islamic constitution…It wasn’t until the impeachment of secular President Abulhassan Banisadr…that clerical dominance in the Iranian regime became clear…Iran Strongly Influences Iraq…Syria…and Lebanon…and anywhere it can.

    Recep Tayyip Erdogan…currently Prime Minister of Turkey…a radical Islamist…He once quipped (Democracy is like a streetcar…You ride it until you arrive at your destination and then you step off).

    In Egypt…95 percent of Muslims said that it is good for Islam to play a large role in politics…80 percent said that it would be bad for Islam to play a small role in politics…It is little wonder that Muslims frequently vote for Islamist parties when they are permitted a choice.

    Saudi Arabia…Kuwait…Bahrain…Yemen…the United Arab Emirates…Are Islamic Governments and have regional influence.

    The term Caliphate means the dominion of a Caliph and refers to the system of government originally established under Islam…Under the Caliphate…the head of state is the Caliph who governs in accordance with Islamic law…also known as Sharia…a major event could cause most of these countries to elect a Caliph…and declare a Caliphate.

    So…will the Tunisian Wind gain force and become an Islamist Storm…is it a major step to go from dictatorship to Sharia law…and an even to go from Sharia law to a Caliphate…but support for such a development seems widespread across the Middle East…Middle East use of democracy…is leading some in the West to envision Western-style democracies taking root…However…we should remember that under Sunni Islam…the Caliph is elected…A democratic restoration of the Caliphate may now be thinkable.

    Many people today are unaware of the long history of violent conflict between Europe and the Islamic Caliphate.

    If a regional Caliphate is established in the Middle East…it can have an effect on the collective identity of the Europeans…The trauma of those wars lies deep in the conscious of Europe’s history…It has been less than 300 years since Europe last faced the threat of Muslim invasion…a threat that was instrumental in the formation of a shared European identity throughout the Middle Ages…Now there is again a perceived and stated threat from Islamists…as Muslim extremists call for holy war and restoration of the Caliphate.

    Hassan al-Banna…the founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood…wrote (Andalusia [the Muslim name for Spain]…Sicily…the Balkans…south Italy…and the Roman sea islands were all Islamic lands that have to be restored to the homeland of Islam…it is our right to restore the Islamic Empire its glory)…If the Islamic Caliphate is restored…it can have an effect on Europe…The religious winds that are blowing across the Middle East can blow across Europe as well.

    For more than 30 years…an uneasy peace has been maintained between Egypt and Israel…But has it been a popular peace…We should remember that…because of his efforts for peace…Egypt’s Sadat was assassinated…by a group of Islamist nationalists associated with the Muslim Brotherhood…who are kept out of power…for now…by the Military leadership imposed on the country.

    God prophesied that in the decades just prior to Christ’s return…the Jews will have returned to Judea and Jerusalem…where they will be opposed by the surrounding nations… “In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place—Jerusalem” (Zechariah 12:6)…
    In past decades…this remarkable prophecy has been fulfilled before our eyes.

    The Bible reveals that later in this same time period…a great religio-political power will arise…in Europe….the same Europe (North of Jerusalem) that was threatened by attacks from the Caliphate for more than a thousand years…This power will be an alliance of nations or groups of nations…(Daniel 2:31–46)…This power will be involved in a treaty that will allow the Jews to resume their sacrifices somewhere at or around the Temple Mount (Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 2 Thessalonians 2:4).

    Such a revival of this Jewish practice would galvanize Muslim opposition…yet preparations for those sacrifices are being made today by Orthodox Jews familiar with the ancient rituals.

    Biblical prophecy also reveals that a power will arise…to the south of Jerusalem ( either Saudi Arabia or Egypt will have this caliph leadership which controls the whole Caliphate)…that will “push at” or provoke this powerful king of the north…The northern power will defeat this king of the south powerfully…and in the process Jerusalem will be overrun and occupied (Daniel 11:40–45).

    Finally…when the Temple Mount sacrifices are stopped…the prophesied Great Tribulation will begin…culminating with the return of Jesus Christ.

    So a Substantial Caliphate will form in the Middle East…it will cause a serious conflict…with a power far greater than its own…it will be completely defeated…
    so says the Bible.

    Personally…I am Going with What the Bible says.

  10. gerard says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 5:25 pm

    Looks like a demon!

    • livingengine says

      Jan 20, 2016 at 6:04 pm

      looks like a Jack Kirby drawing

  11. epistemology says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    Islam is the most barbarian and intolerant ideology/religion that was ever brought up on this planet.Muzzies worship their self-appointed prophet who was an anti-Semitic mass murderer, a sex offender, a caravan robber and an impostor. Practicing muzzies all follow his example. So Saudi Arabia and Qatar can never be friends and allies of America. I wonder who in America is still so gullible to believe all that Obama crap

  12. sidney penny says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 7:25 pm

    Raymond Ibrahim,Robert siad keep reading so I did and came to this:

    “In short, it’s not this or that “radical,” who “doesn’t represent Islam,” or isn’t a “real state,” that hates non-Muslim “infidels.” Rather, it’s the official position of the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which are presented to the American public as “friends and allies.””

    Raymond you missed out another “friend and ally” so crucial to America as it it next to Afghanistan.
    It is also a great friend and ally of Saudi Arabia.Its economy and militarily survives on American aid..

    Why have you left out what many Americans regards as a two face and duplicitous Pakistan?

    and Pakistan uses this verse below against India a mainly Hindu infidel country.(although it has more Muslims than Pakistan)

    After quoting the verses, Baz reiterates:

    Such verses are many and offer clear proofs concerning the obligation to despise infidels from the Jews, Christians, and all other non-Muslims, as well as the obligation to oppose them until they believe in Allah alone.

  13. Georg says

    Jan 20, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    What do we expect from a place whose flag differs from that of IS only because it has a sword?

  14. خَليفة says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 4:09 am

    I wonder if that abnormally large nose is a result of inbreeding?

  15. Lloyd Miller says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 7:55 am

    Note that the Establishment claims require Muslim Allies as the reason for tolerance, never mentioning our Elite is IN THE PAY of these barbarians!

  16. Lloyd Miller says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 7:56 am

    Note that the Establishment claims we require Muslim Allies as the reason for tolerance, never mentioning our Elite is IN THE PAY of these barbarians!

  17. Twostellas says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    The perfect face of Islam in 2016. smh.

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