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Not quite the Islam Awareness they had in mind

Apr 1, 2016 7:46 pm By Robert Spencer

To this poster advertising Islam Awareness Week, someone has added a note demonstrating he has more Islam Awareness than the organizers of Islam Awareness Weeks would like:

Islam Awareness Sura 9-5

Sura 9:5 is chapter nine, verse five of the Qur’an: “And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.”

That’s the quintessential example of a Qur’an verse that Islam Awareness Week types would prefer you weren’t aware of. This is, understandably, a verse much beloved by present-day jihadists. In a 2003 sermon, Osama bin Laden rejoiced over this verse: “Praise be to Allah who revealed the verse of the Sword to his servant and messenger [Muhammad], in order to establish truth and abolish falsehood.”

Ibn Juzayy notes that Sura 9:5 abrogates “every peace treaty in the Qur’an,” and specifically abrogates the Qur’an’s directive to “set free or ransom” captive unbelievers (47:4). According to As-Suyuti, “This is an Ayat [verse] of the Sword which abrogates pardon, truce and overlooking” — that is, perhaps the overlooking of the pagans’ offenses. The Tafsir al-Jalalayn says that the Muslims must “slay the idolaters wherever you find them, be it during a lawful [period] or a sacred [one], and take them, captive, and confine them, to castles and forts, until they have no choice except [being put to] death or [acceptance of] Islam.”

Ibn Kathir echoes this, directing that Muslims should “not wait until you find them. Rather, seek and besiege them in their areas and forts, gather intelligence about them in the various roads and fairways so that what is made wide looks ever smaller to them. This way, they will have no choice, but to die or embrace Islam.” He also doesn’t seem to subscribe to the view commonly put forward by Muslim spokesmen in the West today — that this verse applies only to the pagans of Arabia in Muhammad’s time, and has no further application. He asserts, on the contrary, that “slay the unbelievers wherever you find them” means just that: the unbelievers must be killed “on the earth in general, except for the Sacred Area” — that is, the sacred mosque in Mecca, in accord with Qur’an 2:191.

If the unbelievers convert to Islam, the Muslims must stop killing them. The Tafsir al-Jalalayn: “But if they repent, of unbelief, and establish prayer and pay the alms, then leave their way free, and do not interfere with them.” Ibn Kathir: “These Ayat [verses] allowed fighting people unless, and until, they embrace Islam and implement its rulings and obligations.” Qutb says that the termination of the treaties with a four-month grace period, combined with the call to kill the unbelievers, “was not meant as a campaign of vengeance or extermination, but rather as a warning which provided a motive for them to accept Islam.”

Finally, it is noteworthy that, according to As-Suyuti, the jurist Ash-Shafi’i took this as a proof for killing anyone who abandons the prayer and fighting anyone who refuses to pay zakat [alms]. “Some use it as a proof that they are kafirun [unbelievers].” Likewise Ibn Kathir: “Abu Bakr As-Siddiq used this and other honorable Ayat as proof for fighting those who refrained from paying the Zakah.” Thus even Muslims who do not fulfill Islamic obligations fall into the category of those who must be fought. This is a principle that latter-day Salafist movements apply broadly and use frequently in branding governments that do not rule according to strict Islamic law as unbelievers who must be fought by those who regard themselves as true Muslims. This is playing out now in the Islamic State’s declaration that those Muslims who do not accept its authority are unbelievers and can therefore lawfully be killed.

Now there’s some Islam Awareness you’ll never hear in an Islam Awareness Week.

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Comments

  1. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    I suspect strongly that this sort of thing – creative and informative modification of the Disinformation Posters – is going to become a LOT more common.

    • Mirren10 says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 8:17 pm

      Yes. It is *very* encouraging.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Apr 1, 2016 at 8:26 pm

        Remember BUGA-UP?

        They used to do creative things to tobacco ad billboards. In the interests of ‘truth in advertising’.

        The infidel world needs a new incarnation of ‘BUGA-UP’ to take aim at all the Islamopuffery with which we are currently being inundated.

        • Baucent says

          Apr 1, 2016 at 9:04 pm

          “Islamopuffery” I like that!

        • mortimer says

          Apr 2, 2016 at 9:18 am

          Islamo-puffery Islamo-deception Islamo-snakeoil Islamo-wooden-nickel Islamo-bulls**t Islamo-fraud Islamo-disinformation Islamo-tricks Islamo-sham Islamo-deceit Islamo-flimflam Islamo-humbug Islamo-mendacity Islamo-treachery Islamo-guile Islamo-scam Islamo-cheat Islamo-swindle Islamo-con Islamo-false-advertising

        • Mike at the Beach says

          Apr 2, 2016 at 11:06 am

          One thousand upvotes / likes for “Islamopuffery.” Consider that term stolen, because I intend to add it to my vocabulary effective immediately and begin applying it as needed in rhetorical exchanges (which should be pretty often).

    • EYESOPEN says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 8:25 pm

      I pray that it does Dumbles!

    • Don says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 12:51 pm

      Absolutely! Have you not heard of the Four Jihads? Please visit Dr. Bill Warner.https://youtu.be/If5gXh7uVIo

      Another aspect is that if Muslims tell you that they are to emulate or try to be like Muhammed then it doesn’t matter how “moderate” they may appear to be. The Qur’an doesn’t hold a candle to the Haddiths and the Sira. The world has known for seven hundred years literally every aspect of Muhammed’s life, his sexual preferences down to what he eats. All one has to do is study those works available from UCLA and you will see how literally dangerous this Islam matter has become. They have infiltrated into the civic parts of government and public services. WE are in trouble! Get rid of them — especially if they are “moderates!”

    • maghan says

      Apr 3, 2016 at 5:45 am

      Someone should just quickly compile all the comments by prominent writers over the years on the incubus named Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, supposed author of the Qur’an.

      Muhammad al-Razi(Persian scholar, 865 -925 AD)

      If people of this religion are asked about the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question, They forbid rational speculation and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth becomes thoroughly silenced and concealed.

      Kemal Ataturk(Founder of modern Turkey, 1881-1938)

      Islam–this theology of an immoral Arab–is a dead thing. Possibly, it might have suited tribes in the desert. It is no good for a modern progressive state.

      David Hume( British philosopher of the Enlightenment, 1711-1776)

      The admirers and followers of the Al Coran insist on the excellent moral precepts interspersed through that wild and absurd performance……But would we know whether the pretended prophet had attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration, and we shall soon find that he bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society. No steady of right seems there to be attended to, and every action is blamed or praised, so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers.

      George Bernard Shaw(British Playwright, Nobel prize winner, 1856-1950)

      Islam is very different being ferociously intolerant…….And there is no nonsense about toleration. You accept Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him and who went to paradise for having sent you to hell.

      And there are many more perceptive and keen evaluations of Islam. This is what “Islam Awareness Week” should highlight. Will it? No! It would be all lies and prevarications about this destructive ideology founded by a criminally insane being.

      • nKhosi says

        Apr 5, 2016 at 9:59 am

        You left off Sir Winston Churchill who also had a good up close look at the madness of Islam.

  2. Zimriel says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    “Abu Bakr As-Siddiq used this and other honorable Ayat as proof for fighting those who refrained from paying the Zakah”

    I could see that, from sura 9’s context. The sura expends much effort (vv. 64-101) in lambasting the “munâfiqûn” (perhaps those who buy their way out of the military) who, in fact, do *not* spend enough fî sabîli ‘llâhi. The English Qur’ans often translate that “hypocrites” with an eye to the English Bibles. Q. 9:68 lumps the munâfiq and the kâfir together. Q. 9:97-8 calls out the Arabs(!) by that name as munâfiq.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 9:52 am

      Thanks, Zimriel, for a very important observation, namely, the ‘hypocrites’ who do not participate in jihad are LUMPED TOGETHER with kafirs who must be fought and killed (q-t-l). I found K.9.73 even more demanding: “O Prophet! STRIVE (i.e. make jihad-warfare) against the disbelievers (l-kufāra) and HYPOCRITES (wal-munāfiqīna) and BE FIRM or HARSH against them” !!!

      This is a call for Mohammed to make war on non-jihadists (i.e. what we call ‘moderate Muslims’).

      It’s clear from the Koranic text that non-practicing Muslims are considered ‘kafirs’ by Mohammed.

      Koran 9.73 makes perfectly clear that ‘moderate Muslims’ must be treated the same as kafirs; they must be fought-and-killed (q-t-l). Koran 9.73 confirms that ‘moderate Muslims’ are considered to have left Islam.

  3. August_West says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    Oh they pulled out 9 5 during muslim awareness week…

    Quick run play 3256

    Deny Koran says that

    Argue about the translation

    Say it’s being taken out of context

    Talk about Christian violence during crusades

    Quote old testament violence

    Talk about peace and love during Spanish occupation

    Start irrational yelling

    Call everybody racist

    Issue death fatwa

    Reminds me of the movie groundhog day…
    I got you babe just came on the radio again

    • Nancy Assaf says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 9:43 am

      Perfect answer.

    • DFD says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 4:44 pm

      August_West says: “Oh they pulled out 9 5 during muslim awareness week…”

      Er, excuse me, but you forgot Islamophobe, NeoNazi, Hater, Xenophobe, Bigot and the Spanish inquisition.

      You stand (politically) corrected 🙂

  4. Keys says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    Even writing “Allah Akbar!” on the poster would bring to mind the shouts of the Islamic terrorists.

    • Nelson Abdullah says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 10:12 am

      I am no expert on Arabic or Islam but I always believed that the phrase “Allah Akbar” and the variant “Allahu Akbar” – were being incorrectly translated. Too many people are translating this wrong when they say “God is Great”. Allah is the name of the Islamic deity, God is the name of the Christian and Hebrew Supreme Being. So the correct translation should be “Allah is Great” or “Allah is Greatest”.

      • Derek lambada says

        Apr 3, 2016 at 4:21 pm

        Greatest (or greater) rather than great is the key correction. It’s not praising the object of the religion, it’s declaring the object (and his instruction) superior to all other considerations.
        It’s supremacist and good Muslims repeat it at least 5 times a day.

  5. PRCS says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 8:27 pm

    The kind of Islam awareness they’d prefer you not have.

    I received my first–and unquestionably largest and heaviest–copy of Qur’an from “the boys” at CAIR some years ago.

    It is titled The Message of THE QUR’AN, and is what “the boys” provide to prospective reverts via their “Explore the Qur’an” campaign.

    Well, let me tell you–I explored it and (unlike the clowns who provided it) it does NOT whitewash or provide cover for Islam’s true teachings.

    I highly recommend that all here request a copy (and one for each of your friends, too) as it costs CAIR actual money to provide those free copies and it does what “the boys” at CAIR have thus far not had to do: tell the truth about Islam.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 12:32 am

      Ah – balognie — why the hell should anyone want to get on their ‘list’? — come on folks – just google: ‘Ann Barnhardt burns bacon bookmarked koran’ on youtube – been there for 5 years — try getting up to speed

    • siesmann says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 3:36 am

      available free on scribd(free membership to download)
      https://www.scribd.com/doc/279143534/The-Message-of-the-Quran

      • Noel Jealous says

        Apr 2, 2016 at 9:59 pm

        I looked at this after reading your comment. 14 days free trial, yes, but only if you give all your credit card details. No thank you.

  6. Wellington says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 8:36 pm

    Yes indeed. That “comment” in the northwest part of this poster is spot on and evidence in microcosm that accurate knowledge of Islam will only increase over the years and your standard Western elitist nonsense about Mo’s warped, control-freak and liberty crushing creed, never mind your standard “taqiyya cocktail” about Islam by Muslims themselves, will definitely decline over the same ensuing period.

    In short, reason for hope and not despair. Still, a long, long way to go. A long way.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 12:35 am

      Let us all know when some a$$hole politician in WA DC or any statehouse figures it out!

  7. August_West says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    Writing on a sign, which will surely be replaced, is not evidence of success.

    Plenty of students will go to the event and join the Islamophobia chorus after the next bombing. This event will be an Orwellean
    “5 minute hate”.

    I doubt anybody even will be motivated to Google sura 9 5 on his/her smart phone while walking by.

    We are losing the war.

    • DFD says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 5:04 pm

      August_West says: “Writing on a sign, which will surely be replaced, is not evidence of success…We are losing the war.”

      You are mistaken. That writing on a sign is as pathetic as it is encouraging. It means the awareness of the peoples is rising, and *an action* has been taken, even as small as “defacing” one of the enemies propaganda poster.

      It is an *act of defiance*! Small, whilst passing by, perhaps in a hurry. But *it was done*. And the mere act will encourage others. A small step, others make already large ones.

      We are losing? Just wait for the bullets to fly and bombs to fall.

      Ever heard of: “When the going gets tough…”?

      Have a look at that middle aged lady in Germany, interfering with a groper, and the groper groping the pavement. She too “scribbled” a note: https://youtu.be/3JBmIRqbf60

  8. Mirren10 says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    ”Writing on a sign, which will surely be replaced, is not evidence of success”

    It is evidence that whoever wrote it knows what sura 9:5 says, and is not fooled by crap like ‘islam awareness week’. It is evidence that there is *knowledge* out there.

    ”I doubt anybody even will be motivated to Google sura 9 5 on his/her smart phone while walking by.”

    Really ? How can you possibly know that ? I would bet there are probably *lots* of people saying, ”Sura 9:5 ? I wonder what that is ?”, and **finding out**.

    ”We are losing the war.”

    Speak for yourself. *You* are obviously happy to roll over and bear your neck to the scimitar. *We* are not. Why are you coming here to sow despair and despondency ? Bugger off, dementor.

    • Wellington says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 9:05 pm

      With you again, Mirren. While I can appreciate those who know that the struggle against evil is often very difficult, that doesn’t translate into defeatism as evidenced by August_West.

    • Baucent says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 9:08 pm

      Quite right. No need for defeatists, image if Churchill had taken that attitude in 1939.

      • RonW says

        Apr 1, 2016 at 11:17 pm

        It’s not defeatism to note reality and plan to ameliorate it. Nothing to do with Churchill. Red herring non-sequitur.

        • Baucent says

          Apr 2, 2016 at 4:06 am

          “No plan to ameliorate” in August_West’s post. Just defeatism, and that is not Churchillian, whether you like it or not.

    • RonW says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 9:10 pm

      Yeah, but just saying ‘sura 9:5’ doesn’t give you a reason to look it up. Why’s it there? Maybe pathetic musfool adding a ‘peaceful’ verse as a reason to go? If I didn’t already know what it meant I’d be inclined to ignore it.

      There should have been some other text as well as the 9:5. Maybe the ‘Allahu Akbar’, as suggested, or perhaps ‘Oh Really!?’. Cause some cognitive dissonance to give a reason to solve a mini-puzzle. Then you’ll get a google lookup.

    • linnte says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 9:32 pm

      Well, I know if I saw it I would Google it. But first I’d have to find out what Sura means. All that searching might just give a non-Muslim impetus to read that whole book! We CAN hope!

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 10:34 pm

      Hear, hear, Mirren!

    • August_West says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 10:35 am

      Mirin;

      I am more than happy to “bugger off” but before I do…

      Sorry to have miss led you old boy but I am not, and never claimed to be, Winston Churchill.
      While I did spend my formative years in the British public school system, in Surrey no less, I did not know that I was expected compose notes on this site that would be held to a Churchillian standard.

      Which leaves me to wonder if writing “Sura 9:5” in an empty space portion of a poster is considered particularly noteworthy in a place like New Brunswick New Jersey. I wonder how Churchill would be judged by history if his primary accomplishment was to run around writing slogans in the corners of Nazi posters?

      I might only add that if you think that the average student at Rutgers University (or any other University including Oxford and Cambridge) is oh so inquisitive that they run around campus constantly Googling that which they don’t understand, then I would only say that you probably don’t spend much time with large numbers of university students.

      Despite the fact that I was exposed to the British public school system, and even wore the Harry Potter outfit, I can’t respond to being called a “dementor” which is a first for me.

      I do, however, understand your “Churchillian” request for me to “bugger off”. So in the words of the great “Churchillian” orator, Mirin, you can now consider this particular dementor to be appropriately “buggered off”.

      With all respect that is due
      August West

      • Mirren10 says

        Apr 2, 2016 at 1:05 pm

        What a load of puffed up nonsense.

        It’s Mirren, by the way, not ‘Mirin’, and I’m an old girl, not an ‘old boy’. 🙂

        It was not I who referred in my post to Churchill; that would be Baucent.

        I don’t know what school you went to, but they obviously didn’t pay much attention to spelling, or reading comprehension. I should tell Mummy and Daddy to ask for their money back, if I were you.

        The point of *my* post, was that, however *small* it might be, the writing of Sura 9:5 on this poster is evidence that there are people out there, who have knowledge of the koran, and are not fooled by the nonsense perpetuated by mohammedan apologists and their dhimmi tools in such antics as ‘islam awareness week’. That is an encouraging sign.

        ” I wonder how Churchill would be judged by history if his primary accomplishment was to run around writing slogans in the corners of Nazi posters?”

        A particularly ridiculous strawman, since neither I nor Baucent suggested anything so stupid as what you attempt to produce as an argument. Did they also fail to teach logic fallacies at your school ?

        ”I might only add that if you think that the average student at Rutgers University (or any other University including Oxford and Cambridge) is oh so inquisitive that they run around campus constantly Googling that which they don’t understand, then I would only say that you probably don’t spend much time with large numbers of university students.”

        Yet another strawman, only marginally less stupid than the first. What I said was; ” I would bet there are probably *lots* of people saying, ”Sura 9:5 ? I wonder what that is ?”, and **finding out**.” I didn’t reference university students at all. This may be news to you, but even university towns contain inhabitants other than students.

        ”Despite the fact that I was exposed to the British public school system, and even wore the Harry Potter outfit, I can’t respond to being called a “dementor” which is a first for me.”

        In the Harry Potter books, dementors sow despair and despondency.

        You said; ”We are losing the war.”

        Perhaps you would prefer to be categorised as Lord HawHaw, or Tokyo Rose ?

        We in the West are engaged in a fight to the death for our values, our culture, our civilisation. This site is dedicated to spreading knowledge of jihad, islam and mohammed, and how Islam’s intent is to eventually ”make all the world for allah.” We here, and millions more, do not intend to ‘go gently into that good night’, nor do we intend to supinely roll over in the face of Islamic supremacism.

        If that’s what you want to do, that’s your choice, but don’t come here, denigrating signs of hope, however small, with your cowardly dhimmi attitudes. We are in a war, and we need patriots and optimists on our side, not pusillanimous traitors.

        ” … you can now consider this particular dementor to be appropriately “buggered off”. ”

        Good. Don’t come back, unless you’re prepared to fight as a warrior, and stand for the right.

        Lan Astaslem !

  9. Angemon says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    Brilliant!

  10. mortimer says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    AWARENESS OF POLITICAL ISLAM’S CORE DOCTRINES: 1) the kafir doctrine 2) misogyny 3) supremacism 4) Islam’s apartheid doctrine: al Walaa wal Baraa 5) the taqiyya doctrine 6) the revenge doctrine 7) the vigilantism doctrine 8) the hejira-jihad doctrine 9) theocratic fascism 10) the world conquest doctrine 11) the non-reformability doctrine.

    Koran verse 9.5 is said to abrogate 124 verses of the more tolerant ‘peaceful Islam’ of the Meccan period.

    A practical application of Koran 9.5 is the following example from the Sira:

    (Sira:Ishaq:455 at the Battle of Badr) – “As the bodies were thrown into the well, one of the Muslims saw the body of his father thrown in. He said, “My father was a virtuous, wise, kind, and cultured man. I had hoped he would become a Muslim, but he died a kafir. His abode is Hell-fire forever.”

    The ultimate application of K.9.5 is to be able to murder one’s own disbelieving family members without remorse.

    This is what Muslims are being taught to do. Do Muslims feel conflicted in any way about murdering people of their own nation, people, race, family or tribe?

    Are Western people aware that Muslims don’t feel concern about the murder or mutilation of apostates or blasphemers?

  11. Hope says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    Yes! This cheered me today.

  12. gravenimage says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    Not quite the Islam Awareness they had in mind
    …………………….

    Brilliant! Kudos to the person who knows what Qur’an Sura 9:5 is. I hope plenty of students at Rutgers University have the gumption to Google the reference.

    Here’s the official Islam Awareness Week claptrap there:

    https://ruevents.rutgers.edu/events/displayEvent.html?eventId=69228

    “What makes this religion, this way of life, so popular? Did you know that although Islam originated in Arabia, there are more Muslims in Indonesia than any other country in the world? Did you know that Islam is derived from the Arabic root word “Salaam” which means peace? Did you know there is an entire chapter entitled “Mary” in the Holy Qur’an? Did you know the name “Muhammed” is the most common name in the entire world? Did you know that Muslims believe in the Torah as well as the Gospel? Did you know that the best man in Islam is the one who treats his wife the best? Did you know women in Islam have a right to divorce and inheritance?”

    Let’s wade in to this morass of half-truths and out right lies, shall we?

    Islam is derived from the same root as “Salaam”, but it actually means “submission”, not “peace”.

    That “Mary” is not the mother of Jesus in Islam, but of “Isa”–a vicious figure utterly unlike the Jesus of the Gospels, whose main role in the Last Days is to *kill Christians*.

    That Muslims believe Jews and Christians corrupted the Torah and Gospels, and that anything in them that contradicts the Qur’an–including Jesus being the Son of God–is not just false, but a deliberate lie?

    The the real “best man” in Islam is the “Prophet” Muhammed–considered the ideal man–who struck his child bride Aisha.

    That women only have a right to divorce if a Shari’ah court decides she does–while a Muslim man can just recite the “Triple Talaaq”, and he is divorced.

    That women do indeed have the right of inheritance–but that, infamously, she may only inherit half of what a Muslim man might, and that she may inherit nothing at all from a Muslim if she is not Muslim herself.

  13. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Apr 1, 2016 at 10:57 pm

    What kind of uninformative journalism is this? The report consists only of a single photograph, with none of the information in the Journalism 101 checklist of who-what-when-why-where-how. What is this Brower Commons? What country is it in? The last line on the poster says
    NIGHTLY TALKS / FREE FOOD / ACTIVITIES / RAFFLES .
    “Raffles”? Ya mean, like, games of chance? Gambling? There is gambling going on at an Islamic Awareness Week? I am shocked, shocked!

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 12:59 am

      Mark, I looked up Brower Commons and found it is at Rutgers University. Then I looked up the event, and have some information on it, above. It just took me a couple of minutes to find this information.

      • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

        Apr 2, 2016 at 4:18 pm

        Hello, gravenimage. That makes sense if this photo is taken as a Google puzzle. But if it is a legitimate report of some event (as I took it to be), it lacks the most basic who-what-when-why-where-how information.
        By the way, if you wish, I can tell you about my interaction with whyislam.org; contact Robert to get my email address.

  14. Matthieu Baudin says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 12:59 am

    A simple educational intervention – drawing attention to relevant Islamic texts. Well done, whoever you are.

  15. David says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 1:17 am

    I have read that the two most used symbols of islam, the Star and the Crescent Moon are ancient symbols of SATAN WORSHIP.
    The star for LUCIFER. And the Crescent moon for pagan worship of created objects. Rather then worshiping the creator. Satan’s first attempt to direct all worship away from the FATHER.
    There are many sources for this. Please Google it!

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 6:57 pm

      David, you may be overinterpreting the symbology. Sometimes a symbol is just a symbol. As an example, consider the logo of the Clinton Foundation:
      http://drrichswier.com/wp-content/uploads/Clinton-Foundation-Logo-e1439123681280.jpg
      Here we have a crescent made up of stars. And how many stars are there? 19, a number which is highly significant in Islamic numerology (Please Google it!). But this is all pure coincidence, as Huma can assure you. (Incidentally, the handwritten inquiry about this that I mailed to the Clinton Foundation, which is just up the street from a building owned by Donald Trump, has gone unanswered.)

  16. native jo says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 2:58 am

    We are too aware of Islam. Quit forcing this on everyone. Muslims should work on helping those poor misguided isil guys to understand how Islam means peace and that they aren’t really practicing true Islam.

  17. Cunamarra says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 3:02 am

    One of those “blades of grass pushing through the concreted” that gives us all hope.

    Robert Spencer and people like him, those of us who never miss a chance to speak honestly about Islam even when constantly confronted with indignation, can know that our deeds and actions are not lost. Minds take time to change.

    • Becca says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 3:40 am

      Yes, agreed. It’s brave, and not in vain. True patriot. True advocate for human rights, and America.

  18. Jay Boo says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 3:08 am

    Good Morning Muslim world — The sun is rising
    Islam Awareness time
    Imagine how it must feel to come out of the (Darkness)

    I came across this video
    It has “Nothing to do with Islam.”

    • Jay Boo says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 3:10 am

      Oops wrong link but that one is good too
      Here is the one I meant to post

  19. nacazo says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 5:42 am

    All people in nj who are islamoaware should go with a copy of the hamas charter (this group is a hamas front) and ask wether hamas is islamic. Also Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6985 (which is part of the charter):
    Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

  20. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 5:50 am

    The good Reverend Jefress of Dallas was on Fox RINO a few nights ago. As usual they were talking the Islam, and the reverence went hog wild and started saying that there must be some reason, some cause, that has given us this pattern of Moslem threat and mass murder.

    One wonders if he has ever read the Holy Ko-Ran. If he has’nt, oh the irony cuz protestant preachers make a big deal out of the two testaments of the Bible.

  21. mach37 says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 6:33 am

    Even better than 9:5 is Sura 9:29 – “”Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are ) of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”

    The closing especially, about “pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” As if paying ANY tax is done willingly.

    • nacazo says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 7:16 am

      9:29 demonstrates that the fight is not defensive (these people did not attack muslims). The fighting is for what the people of the book believe. Also the word used in Arabic is qatilu using the root q-t-l which means killing. So it’s not an intellectual fight (taqqiyya alert) it’s a fight that involves killing.

      • vicki says

        Apr 2, 2016 at 7:50 am

        Doesn’t the verse also imply that the “context” is ongoing because of that simple word UNTIL?

        009.029 Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

        • duh_swami says

          Apr 2, 2016 at 9:11 am

          ‘Fight them until…’…Since ‘until’ can never be achieved, perpetual warfare is called for…

    • shoehorn of africa says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 4:31 pm

      I was recently called a Google theologist for quoting some of 9.29 on facebook.
      “Muslims arent exactly Robinson Crusoe when it comes to thousand year old quotes that can be taken out of context by Google theologists”
      There’s no point arguing with people so determined to let Islam off the hook at every unavailable opportunity.

      • Don says

        Apr 2, 2016 at 4:35 pm

        The one thing, however, that they cannot argue with are their OWN LEGITIMATE WORKS. If you have not found Dr. Bill Warner, please go there now and immerse yourself in his extraordinary methods of fighting Political Islam while loving Muslims! Just for a tiny look, 3:30 min. long look at this about the FOUR Jihads.
        https://youtu.be/If5gXh7uVIo

        • خَليفة says

          Apr 3, 2016 at 9:56 am

          A great source of info. He get right to the point. Dies his research. Highly recommended.

  22. Gary says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 9:18 am

    “But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.”

    What a crock of crap! Satan is also the father of all lies!

    That ‘verse’ from the Quran reminds me of a verse in the Bible:

    “Having a form of “Godliness” but denying the power thereof.” (2 Timothy 3:5)

    …..you don’t wanna read verse 1 through 4.

    Look around and you’ll see the parallel.

  23. duh_swami says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 9:32 am

    Quran 9:5 is just another Satanic verse…Gabriel should have asked Allah for a photo ID…

  24. Mark says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 10:06 am

    This 1 hr documentary will cure any guilt trips someone may have about the crusades. It exposes Islam for the conquest ideology it is.
    This next documentary shows how the Bible is historically valid.
    This web site shows a different perspective on Christianity than we are used to in the west and I think is far more accurate. http://www.roccoaerrico.com/index_htm_files/903.png

    These videos need to be shared as widely and rapidly as possible

  25. Nelson Abdullah says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 10:26 am

    I don’t know if Robert Spencer will read this or maybe some other expert will and can explain it but every time I read the usage of the term “abrogate” it doesn’t make sense. If I cannot understand how the word is used then I also cannot argue with other people about it. Can someone please explain this?

    Quote “Ibn Juzayy notes that Sura 9:5 abrogates “every peace treaty in the Qur’an,” and specifically abrogates the Qur’an’s directive to “set free or ransom” captive unbelievers (47:4). ”

    According to the dictionary, “abrogate” simply means abolish. But I think I also learned that, as far as the Koran goes, it meant that “what comes after or later” replaces “what came before”.

    So please explain how a something in Sura 9:5 abrogates something in Sura 47.4?

    • Keys says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 11:30 am

      @Nelson A

      I am no expert. You need a more knowledgable JW poster to better answer your question.

      Though, if you are unaware of this it may help. The Koran is not in chronological order, so a high-numbered Sura verse does not necessarily abrogate a lower numbered Sura verse. Also, some scholars divide the Koran in to Meccan verses (tend to be more peaceful and “religious”) and Medinan verses (the later more evil verses, which abrogate the earlier, generally) based on Mohammad’s life.

      From what I read Allah (AKA Mohammed) can justify anything, anytime making him chaotic and dark. Mohammad made himself god, and the measure of all things; he could change anything, anytime to fit his schemes and machinations.

      My previous paragraph is not meant to be scholarly – just my observation.

      Hope one of the experts here at JW can help you more, or lead you to a good book or link relating to you question.

      • shoehorn of africa says

        Apr 2, 2016 at 4:54 pm

        Pretty much. The system of abrogation comes into play when 2 apparently contradictory verses are resolved by the later-written verse over-ruling the earlier verse. Sura 9 was the last chapter and therefore over-rules any earlier suras. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini criticised the local mullahs for only preaching the early ‘peaceful’ verses and imposed Sharia law.declaring the Prophet ‘cut hands, feet’.

    • jkiesow says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 4:10 pm

      See mortimer’s post above (April 1, 2016 at 9:35 pm) more info.

    • DFD says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 5:30 pm

      Nelson Abdullah says: “… but every time I read the usage of the term “abrogate” it doesn’t make sense. … Can someone please explain this?……So please explain how a something in Sura 9:5 abrogates something in Sura 47.4?”

      Your requested explanation:

      The ‘unchangable’ Quran has been changed by Caliph Usman/Othmann the 3rd Caliph. He has completely rearranged the Quran out of chronological order, and also burnt hundreds of other Quran copies. Surah 9 was the last ‘revealed’ Surah, long after S47.

      I hope that answered your question.

      Further, you obviously don’t know the Quran, at least not well. Note here Surah 6:115 “The word of your Lord is complete, in truth and justice. There is none who can change His words.”

      Question: If it’s complete, then why all the other Surahs, following this one?

      Should you really know the Quran, I am sure you will be able to answer the question with confidence and assurance. If not, then hopefully this will give you food for thought.

  26. Florida Jim says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 10:29 am

    Ignorant people being led by liars knowing the religion is a fraud.In the book “The Devil We don’t Know-The Dark side Of Revolutions in The Mid-east” By Nonie Darwish

    “Like a ponzi scheme Islam must have expand to survive. The ponzi scheme works as long as more and more people join the pyramid of Islam. When the light of truth reaches the pyramid, especially the majority on the bottom, who are not benefiting from the system and who are being sacrificed to preserve and perpetuate the fraud, then the whole system will collapse and the colossal deception will be exposed.
    Tyrannical Islam will collapse when the civilized world exposes it for what it is and rejects it ; when its leaders get tired of their lies, fabrications, and incitement against innocent victims; and when Islamist are discredited and disrespected no longer given funds to enable terror groups and jihadist individuals.
    The author dreams of a day when the snake of sharia will crawl back into its hole in mecca, as Mohammed himself said before he died.

  27. Venk says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    I got an idea. Start your own “Islam Awareness week” Even copy the exact same poster. Only they will be given a different curriculum. A Robert Spencer curriculum.

    Also be very worried about this development. The Muslim movements are strongest on the campuses. There is a reason for that. They are trying to subvert our youth. I know they are active at UIC so I can understand why the Trump rally in Chicago got cancelled.

  28. Don says

    Apr 3, 2016 at 8:18 am

    You can do that for yourself. UCLA and other places have the Haddiths and Cira which you can read and quote to Muslims. I again appeal to you to watch the various links to Dr. Bill Warner and spread his message of Political Islamic threats. We have nothing against Muslims, per se, but their blind obedience to Muhammed whose life we know more about than any other person in history! Yes, even more than Jesus. He was rotten to the core! You can say that with conviction because Islam has not hidden that. You do like Dr. Bill Warner does and use their own approved literature to show them the Truth. So, again, what you want, is already available to you. GO THERE and get it. The easiest way is through Dr. Bill Warner.

  29. Ann Inquirer says

    Apr 3, 2016 at 1:07 pm

    I wish people would stop using the word “abrogation,” since most people have no clue what it means. There is no reason on earth to not use “canceled,” OF which 100% of people know the meaning. If we want to teach what is in the koran, we have to use words people know and understand. That is good teaching. This is not a vocabulary assignment, though there are a lot of Arabic words to be learned, this is getting knowledge out that THERE ARE NO PEACE VERSES LEFT BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL CANCELED OUT.

  30. Donal says

    Apr 3, 2016 at 1:30 pm

    “Abrogated” is a GOOD word and does not match the definition of cancel. Don’t be afraid of learning new words to understand what they mean.

  31. Steve says

    Apr 4, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    Donal:

    If you’re going to correct someone’s use of the term “abrogate,” it might be useful for you to tell us what “abrogate” means. Here’s what my dictionary says: 1. repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement), 2. evade (a responsibility or duty).

  32. daniel sebold says

    Apr 14, 2016 at 12:00 am

    Who needs this religious junk? I’ll take Einstein and Asimov.

    • linnte says

      Apr 14, 2016 at 12:04 am

      Daniel, you can have Einstein and Asimov and Tolkien and…. AND have religious junk too. Unless you’re a Muslim, then they would frown on your personal habbits of open mindedness!

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