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Video: Robert Spencer on Is Islam a Religion of Peace?

Apr 18, 2016 1:06 pm By Robert Spencer

Continuing my new The Basics of Islam series.

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  1. Jayke says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:11 pm

    It depends on what your definition of peace is or what your definition of is is 😉

    • Angemon says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 1:36 pm

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9bEkGd1AVo

      🙂

      • mortimer says

        Apr 18, 2016 at 5:16 pm

        What does Mohammed say the definition is?

        Islam comes from Arabic ‘islām ‘submission,’ from ‘aslama ‘submit (to God).’

        Mohammed’s word-play before attacking a town was ‘Aslim, taslam!’

        ‘Submit and you will be saved (spared)!’ However, ‘spared’ from what? Answer: ‘spared’ from rape, enslavement, murder, plunder and devastation of homes, towns, farms and orchards…from ethnic cleansing and genocide.

        What sort of ‘peace’ is enslavement and genocide? The peace of the graveyard?

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 18, 2016 at 11:13 pm

          Right, Mortimer. *That* is the “peace” of Islam. *Ugh*.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 5:38 pm

      Quotes from Dr. M. Sa’id Ramadan Al-Buti – “Jurisprudence of Muhammad’s Biography”, seventh Arabic edition, published by Azhar University of Egypt

      -The theory that our religion is a peaceful and loving religion is a wrong theory”

      -The Holy war as it is known in Islam is basically an offensive war, and it is the duty of all Muslims of every age, when the needed military power is available, because our prophet Muhammad said that he is ordered by Allah to fight all people until they say ‘No God but Allah,’ and he is his messenger.

      -It is meaningless to talk about the holy war as only defensive, otherwise, what did the prophet mean when he said, “from now on even if they don’t invade you, you must invade them.”

      • dajjal says

        Apr 18, 2016 at 11:05 pm

        Where did you score that, Mortimer? Got a source for the quote about invasion? A search at sunnah.com came up blank.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 12:25 am

          Dajjal, Al-Buti attributes this to the Hadith collected by Bukhari. I haven’t found the exact quote, though. It may be a paraphrase.

        • Jack Diamond says

          Apr 20, 2016 at 4:23 am

          The Answering Islam site has a paper sourcing al-Buti and many other scholars on this subject. “Offensive War to Spread Islam”
          http://answering-islam.org/BehindVeil/btv2.html

          The late al-Buti in “The Jurisprudence of Muhammad’s Biography”: pg.134 “The Holy War, as it is known in Islamic jurisprudence is basically an offensive war. This is the duty of Muslims in every age when the needed military power becomes available to them. Thus the Apostle of God said ‘I was commanded to fight the people until they believe in God and his message.'”

          pg. 242 “Defensive warfare in Islam is nothing but a phase of the Islamic mission which the Prophet practiced. After that, it was followed by another phase, that is, calling all people to embrace Islam so that nothing less would be acceptable from atheists and those who associate other deities with God. Also, nothing would be acceptable from the People of the Book except conversion to Islam or being subjugated to Muslim rule. In addition, there is the command to fight anyone who attempts to stand in its way. Now, after the domination of Islamic rule is in place, and its mission complete, it is meaningless (in regard to Holy War) to (talk about) defensive wars, as some of the researchers do. Otherwise, what does Muhammad’s statement mean (as it is related by the Bukhari), ‘They would not invade you, but you invade them ’?”

          “After the Treaty of Hudaybiyya, the Prophet intended to enter a new essential phase in accordance with Islamic law. This was the phase of fighting those who heard the message but arrogantly rejected it. This phase, by the act of Muhammad and his word, has become a legal decree, according to Muslims in every age until the Day of Resurrection!..this is the concept which professional experts of thought attempt to conceal from the eyes of Muslims by claiming that anything that is related to holy war in Islamic law is only based on defensive warfare to repel an attack (p.266)…it is no secret that the reason behind this deception is the great fear which dominates foreign countries…that the idea of Holy War for the cause of God would be renewed in the hearts of Muslims, then certainly the collapse of European culture will be accomplished.”

          al-Buti’s commentary on sura 9:5 (p.323-324) “The verse 9:5 does not leave any room in the mind to conjecture about what is called defensive war. This verse asserts that Holy War which is demanded in Islamic law, is not defensive war because it could legitimately be called an offensive war. That is the apex and most honorable of all Holy Wars.”

          Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, another Al-Azhar jurist, in “The Book of the Islamic State” 1953:
          “The foreign policy of Islamic states must be to carry the Islamic mission to the world by way of holy war. This process has been established through the course of the ages…this process has never been changed at all. The Apostle Muhammad from the time he founded the State in the city of Yathrib, prepared an army and began holy war to remove the physical barriers which hinder the spread of Islam. (p.112) “Thus by holy war, kingdoms and states were removed and Islam ruled the nations and peoples. The glorious Qur’an has revealed to Muslims the reasons for fighting and the ordinance of holy war and it declares that it is to carry the message of Islam to the entire world…

          “The apostle of God had designed a plan of conquest before his death, then after him, his successors undertook the responsibility of implementing this plan when they started conquering the countries. Later, the Islamic conquests followed successively on this basis. People’s resistance or rejection does not matter because the Islamic system is for all people in all countries.”

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:18 pm

    As most everyone know who is regular reader of this site is the the foundation of what some call “peaceful religion” ,Islam, of the “holy book” of Islam ,the Koran. This this is the Koran teachers violence and killing for the advancement of Islam, As found in ,for example, 4:88. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. That’s sure a very strange kind of “peaceful religion” if there ever was one. In addition, it may be illustrated that if Islam is represented as a tree then the fruits then the fruits of that tree are the many brutal, violent and deadly jihad terror entities. Such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, al Shabaab , Hamas, Hezbollah, P.I.J. etc. With this statement, the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus may, very much, apply to this subject. For Jesus taught “Ye do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:16, 17, 18,.20. [K.J.V.] In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13,20.

    • Myrtle Linder says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 2:03 pm

      You hit the nail squarely on the head. You can have peace as long as you obey their radical rules; not bearing to the right or to the left1 Just ready to obey orders to kill or whatever or whoever is required of you, even though you may have to die while obeying, just be ready to obey! If you can manage to make it to the top you can then, give the orders to kill, if and when needed.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 12:26 am

        And even then Islam is not peaceful, since Muslims are enjoined to murder in its foul name.

      • TH says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 9:36 am

        It is all a lie because they kill one another justifying it by calling the other a heretic.Check out and you will see that the first caliphs were mostly muredered by other muslims. The whole thing about peace in Islam is a lie. The Bible states that Satan is “the father of lies”, and so Islam is diabolical.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:19 pm

    The Bible teaches in Proverbs 15: 15 “A simple man believes every word he hears; a clever man understands the need of proof.” [NEB]. Likewise, It’s a good idea not to take at face value the claim that the word Islam means “peace.” For example, the ENCARTA WORLD ENGLISH DICTIONARY copyright 1999 defines Islam as “submission” based on the word “aslama” meaning “he surrendered.” Given the definition it’s an odd phenomenon that after about fourteen hundred years starting on September 12, 2001 the meaning changed from “submission” to “peace.” It’s very well known that if the police are questioning someone and he changes his story something is wrong. Nevertheless, when it comes to Islam no one gets suspicious of the change. The jihadists brag that they will win the war against the West by using the Western ignorance and naive gullible mindset on the subject of Islam against us. It seems that they do have some basis in that claim since so many Westerners are beguiled by the Muslim disinformation campaign.

  4. Mohamed Khan says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:25 pm

    Verse (61:8) They intend to put out the Light of Allah (i.e. Islam, Quran, and Prophet) with their mouths. But Allah will complete His Light even though the disbelievers hate (it). — This is so true.

    • Jay Boo says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 1:39 pm

      Mohamed Khan

      Is Islam a Religion of Peace?
      That is the topic.

      Without bloodshed and finding other to blame for Muhammad’s horrendous life of disgrace, Muslims are force to stare into the hopeless darkness of an ideology that has so little substance that it must depend on intimidation and public displays of piety.

      If so few women will get into Paradise as your clownish buffoon Muhammad claimed where are you going to get 72 virgins. Go and rehearse your stupid ass prayer dance moves and assist the supposed almighty Allah in defending his supposed honor that he cannot manage to do by himself.

      All Muslims should bow their heads in shame.
      Islam is such a dark disgrace upon simple human decency.

      • dajjal says

        Apr 18, 2016 at 11:13 pm

        The two Houris each shaheed receives are not humans, they are special creations who grow new hymens and never bleed or excrete. What happens when they get full?

        The 70 supernumerary wives, if one is so lucky, are Jews or Christians “taken from the fire”. The saying is deep in Sunan Ibn Majah.

        Of cuss, nobody gets the Houris until after he dies 😉 Of cuss there ain’t any, and no way for the martyr to get recourse against the false prophet.

      • Carolyne says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 9:49 am

        Remember when Jay Leno had the “Dancing Judge Itos?” I would love to see a chorus line of dancing Imams. They could incorporate some of their prayer moves in it.

    • miriamrove says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 2:22 pm

      what is also true is that you are smoking Muslims favorite opiate, hashish that is. M

    • mortimer says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 5:29 pm

      Mohammed Khan wrote: “..the Light of Allah”

      “Islam was not a torch, as has been claimed, but an extinguisher. Conceived in a barbarous brain for the use of a barbarous people, it was – and it remains – incapable of adapting itself to civilization. Wherever it has dominated, it has broken the impulse towards progress and checked the evolution of society.”

      – Andre Servier (French writer)

      The ‘light of Allah’ is…

      …enslavement; no Golden Rule; no free speech; no democracy; jihad – holy war of supremacism; honour killings; taqiyya – sacred lying; taqlid – group think; misogyny – repression of women; rape of kafirs as jihad; genocide; ethnic cleansing; al-Walaa wal-Baraa – apartheid; torture; plundering; cruel and unusual punishments; stagnation and backwardness; violence against women; discriminatory Sharia law; hatred of the arts; pedophilia disguised as child marriage; fifty generations of cousin marriage and genetic defects; cruelty to animals; extortion tax to humiliate disbelievers; no historic basis; anti-intellectual obscurantism; FGM; Arab racism; theocratic totalitarianism; vigilantism.

      What did I leave out?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 12:31 am

      Mohamed Khan wrote:

      Verse (61:8) They intend to put out the Light of Allah (i.e. Islam, Quran, and Prophet) with their mouths. But Allah will complete His Light even though the disbelievers hate (it). — This is so true.
      ……………………

      But then Mohamed Khan does not go on to quote the Ayat just preceding it, Qur’an 61:4:

      “Indeed, Allah loves those who fight in His cause in a row as though they are a [single] structure joined firmly.”.

      In other words, “Allah” loves those who wage violent Jihad against the Infidels/

      Not terribly peaceful…

      • TheBuffster says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 1:34 am

        Mohamed Khan: Verse (61:8) They intend to put out the Light of Allah (i.e. Islam, Quran, and Prophet) with their mouths. But Allah will complete His Light even though the disbelievers hate (it). — This is so true.”

        Islam intends to put out the light of reason, which is the human mind’s means of grasping truth. The “light of Allah” is the death of the virtues of reason and mental honesty, because the Quran insists on believers believing Mohammad’s assertions and fallacies and nonsensical “clear signs” and blatant mind-effing as if they are obvious truths, *without question*.

        Those who apply reason and find themselves questioning assertions and fallacies and nonsensical “clear signs” and blatant mind-effing are damned.

        The “light of Allah” is more like a candle snuffer.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 1:53 pm

          *Very* true, Buffster.

    • TheBuffster says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 12:34 am

      Mohamed Khan – I have read the Quran.

      If I only address the part of the Quran that was revealed in Mecca – the “peaceful” part of the book – what I find there is a consistent rejection of reason and, in place of reason, fallacies such as circular reasoning, appeals to authority, appeals to fear (of hell fire), appeals to vanity(Muslims are better than non-Muslims, Allah doesn’t love the unbelievers), and other illogical ploys.

      Mohammad’s approach was not designed for honest, careful, reasoning minds.

      The most important part of morality is a dedication to keeping one’s mind honest, to making the effort to examine one’s own mental workings, one’s motives, and the content of one’s mind. To do this a person has to put forth an ongoing effort. It’s never over. It’s the right and moral way to use one’s mind. And each mind has to do its own work in this area.

      Asking questions and requiring honest and verifiable answers is a crucial part of this mental moral endeavor.

      But in the Quran – right from beginning to end – Mohammad – allegedly speaking Allah’s words – refuses to answer the Kafirs’ questions with anything but fallacies and threats of torture in hell. He does not address the rational, honest mind. He scorns it, threatens it, claims to be offering “clear signs” that are nothing of the kind to careful, conscientious thinkers. Essentially, he tells such virtuous minds to go to hell.

      In other words, he tells people who require something better than assertions, threats, flattery, and false reasoning that they are the enemy of Allah and are damned.

      What kind of a god is that?

      That’s not a god, Mohamed. That’s a monster who created human beings with the capacity to think rationally and then sends a man to tell them to ditch their rational faculty and to believe that man – that human being – when he claims to be the Messenger of Allah, even though his claims are backed up by nothing more than fallacious rubbish. No god would be that dumb. And if a god would be that *vicious* as to knowingly put honest minds in such a bind, he’s too evil to be worshipped. It would be more of an honor to reject that god and go to the tortures of hell than to appease him and go to Paradise.

    • TheBuffster says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 12:53 am

      And one more thing.

      In that early part of the Quran Allah tells the believers that those who go to Paradise will be able to enjoy looking down into hell and seeing the unbelievers being horrendously tortured simply for the failure to believe Mohammed. And the believers can mock the poor suffering kafirs. (What kind of small-souled men take pleasure in such a thing?) This is part of the believers’ reward, along with lots of sex and lounging around on couches and eating fruit and drinking non-intoxicating wine.

      There is no goodness or virtue in enjoying the tortures of other people. And to enjoy the idea of people being tortured for failing to ditch their minds in order to follow a guy who doesn’t seem to know how to use his rational faculty honestly is the OPPOSITE of virtue.

      The kind of people who get rewarded in Islamic Paradise are not the best of creatures at all. They are small, mentally lazy, dishonest with themselves, and vicious enough to want to see better men drink scalding liquid and have their skins peeled off them, have it restored, and then peeled off again, over and over.

      If you go along with these horrendous things in the Quran then you are not a good person. If you don’t go along with them, then maybe you’d better read the Quran and find out what it says. And remember that keeping an honest and analytical mind is a virtue that is not to be abandoned.

    • PRODOS says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 4:08 am

      Replying to Mohamed Khan, I see that others have provided many thoughtful and well-informed comments and analysis based on their own in-depth study of Islam’s core literature.

      It’s astounding that, worldwide, it seems to me, that more Kafirs have now studied the Koran seriously and thoroughly than have Muslims!

      Mohamed Khan quotes Verse 61:8: “They intend to put out the Light of Allah (i.e. Islam, Quran, and Prophet) with their mouths. But Allah will complete His Light even though the disbelievers hate (it).”

      That is a lie, Mohamed.

      You do not know what Allah will ultimately do. You do not know!

      You use your “mouth” to recite a verse without knowing your own fate!

      If Allah chose, he could annihilate you right now.

      Do you deny it?

      Admit it, Mohamed. Stop lying.

  5. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 2:12 pm

    http://blog.onlineclock.net/pendulum-clock/
    says that Galileo, while sitting in church listening to a boring sermon, turned his attention to the slowly swinging chandelier, leading to the invention of the pendulum clock. Do Muslims listening to an imam get similarly bored and focus on some aspect of their surroundings? Here, in the mosque of Alhambra, the mind of short-attention-span members of the congregation will be drawn to the floor blemishes seen near the imam’s left elbow, and will contemplate the glories not of Allah but of grout and tile repair.

  6. Reni Jollant says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 3:37 pm

    Islam is NOT a religion. It is a Nazi political movement masquerading as a religion. Its core principles are rape, murder, & thievery!

    • Jaladhi says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 5:03 pm

      What a precise definition of Islam!

    • Sam says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 5:23 pm

      Yes. %100 correct!!!!!!

    • mortimer says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 6:02 pm

      ‘Deen’ (often mistranslated from Arabic as ‘religion’) means a ‘governance’ or ‘legal system’. ‘Me-dina’ means a political center of governance or capital city. Islam dates from the founding of the political capital of Islam.

      Islam’s source tests are 60% political and only 40% religious. Most of the texts are about Mohammed the political leader and how he dealt with kafirs who refused to submit to him politically.

      64% of the Koran text is devoted to the problem of the kafir. 37% of the hadith texts are about the kafir. the Sira is the biography of Mohammed. It is much larger than the Koran showing the relatively greater importance of Mohammed the war leader over Allah. The Sira devotes five times the text to politics than to religion.

      Mohammed got 265 conversions due to preaching religion and 99,735 conversions when he switched to the political jihad process.

      Islam’s success was 0.3% religion and 99.7% politics at the time of Mohammed’s death in 632 AD.

      The historic and statistical conclusions are that Islam is primarily a political ideology.

  7. miriamrove says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 3:55 pm

    Hi Mickey! As an ex muslim, I can tell you this: Both Muslims and westerners are delusional about Islam. For example when I talk to my sister about all the acts of terrorism her response and million of other muslims are: they are not real muslims. Good muslims don’t do anything like this! And westerners: Most of them are clueless about the teachings of Islam and their murderous and pedophile prophet. m

    • mortimer says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 5:42 pm

      For your sister…from Dr. M. Sa’id Ramadan Al-Buti – “Jurisprudence of Muhammad’s Biography”, seventh Arabic edition, published by Azhar University of Egypt

      -“The theory that our religion is a peaceful and loving religion is a wrong theory”

  8. Jaladhi says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 5:01 pm

    Islam and peaceful – NOT!! It is proven everyday throughout the world! But only brain dead Muslims can’t see it and then there are brain dead wanna be’s such as our leaders, media and academia who just follow the suit.

  9. salim says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    Excellent video.

    Islam is not a religion of peace, it is a religion of jihad and Muslims know it very well.
    I can even go further and say many Muslims would consider it offensive to describe their religion as a religion of peace because it is a religion of continuous jihad. Peace in Islam applies only to fellow muslims but not any others.

    In the space of the ten years which Mohammed spent in Medina he waged up to seventy invasions/wars/battles (estimates). That is an average one every two weeks! Obviously Mohammed ( the model every muslim should emulate) didn’t have much peace in his life.

    Jihad, not peace, is in the Muslim Brotherhood slogan. The sword of jihad features clearly on the Saudi flag. The Islamic flag is mainly black because it is associated with death.

    I dont know how we, in the West, came up with the expression of “religion of peace”. The irony it happened after Islam demonstrated its violence.

    • salim says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 6:41 pm

      May I add that when Muslims meet other Muslims they greet each other by saying “peace be upon you” but have instructions not to say it to non Muslims. If non Muslims greet Muslims by saying “peace be upon you” the Muslims reply by saying “peace be upon those who follow the right path” which is a greeting that excludes the non Muslims.
      That is in Arabic of course, and the Arab Christians have been living with such continuous insults since the dawn of Islam.

  10. William says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 7:12 pm

    Islam is a Trilogy. The Qur’an, the Sira and the Hadith.

    The Qur’an teaches one law for the Muslim, one for the Kafir (anyone who disbelieved in Islam) and the other for Muslim women.

    The Qur’an is, historical, political and religious and it is the politics of Islam that is always overlooked by main stream media.*

    See Dr. Bill Warner and the Politics of Islam

    • silvergreycat says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 10:26 pm

      Dr. Warner’s YouTube channels…

      Political Islam
      https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Uu4XnRS1hiz3JCpNFIuUg

      CSPI International
      https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6XoshfS4kQHrU6Cq3pKSMg

  11. John Johness says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 7:42 am

    RS – please keep going. These Youtube clips are an excellent idea. Maybe a Jihadwatch App.

  12. ECAW says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 11:06 am

    We have plenty of reasons to suppose that the calls to jihad were intended for all time until the whole world is under Islam. In fact I am under the impression that the idea that they were intended to refer only to their historical context is fairly recent yet whenever I debate this with non-Muslims they assume that they were just because they were issued in a particular time and place.

    I wish Robert Spencer would address this misunderstanding directly but he never does as far as I have seen. He takes it as a given that they were intended for all time not needing explanation just as most people take the opposite as a given.

    • Jack Diamond says

      Apr 20, 2016 at 11:30 am

      It’s not a misunderstanding in the manuals of Islamic law or the consensus of Islamic scholars. When the ‘Umdat al-Salik classic manual of law quotes the Qur’an on Jihad there is no “historical context” for the verses, they are given as if contemporary mandates, along with hadiths from Bukhari and Muslim. The Hanafi manual of law, Al-Hidayah, calls Jihad a Right of Allah, hukm sahri, a communication of Allah creating an obligation on man. That means jihad is fixed in law, not an option, not subject to ijtihad, independent reasoning of men. Whatever historical context was applied to the phases of warfare announced by Muhammad as he went along, it’s a historical context that winds up with a declaration of war on all non-Muslim mankind. There is no “fighting in self-defense only” in 9:5 or 9:29. They are about fighting and killing people only over what they believe.

      Stephen Coughlin’s “To Our Great Detriment” details all of this:
      http://www.aina.org/reports/iwesaj.pdf

      The mullahs at Islam Q&A answer, “why do Muslims wage Jihad?” the following way:
      “Allaah has enjoined jihad for His sake upon the Muslims, for the great benefits that result from that and because of the harm caused by abandoning jihad.

      Some of the reasons why jihad for the sake of Allaah is prescribed in Islam are as follows:

      1 – The main goal of jihad is to make the people worship Allaah alone and to bring them forth from servitude to people to servitude to the Lord of people. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

      “And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allaah) and (all and every kind of) worship is for Allaah (Alone). But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zaalimoon (the polytheists, and wrong-doers)”

      [al-Baqarah 2:193]

      “And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism, i.e. worshipping others besides Allaah), and the religion (worship) will all be for Allaah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allaah), then certainly, Allaah is All-Seer of what they do”

      [al-Anfaal 8:39]

      Ibn Jareer said:

      So fight them until there is no more shirk, and none is worshipped except Allaah alone with no partner or associate, and trials and calamities, which are disbelief and polytheism, are lifted from the slaves of Allaah on earth, and religion is all for Allaah alone, and so that obedience and worship will be devoted to Him alone and none else.

      Ibn Katheer said: Allaah commands us to fight the kuffaar so that there will be no fitnah, i.e., shirk, and the religion will all be for Allaah alone, i.e., the religion of Allaah will prevail over all other religions.

      The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “”I have been commanded (by Allaah) to fight the people until they testify that there is no god but Allaah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allaah, and they establish regular prayer and pay zakaah, then if they do that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning will be with Allaah.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (24), Muslim (33).

      And he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “I have been sent just before the Hour with the sword, so that Allaah will be worshipped alone with no partner or associate.”

      Narrated by Ahmad, 4869; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 2831.

      This purpose of jihad was present in the minds of the Sahaabah (may Allaah be pleased with them) during their battles with the enemies of Allaah. Al-Bukhaari (2925) narrated that Jubayr ibn Hayyah said: ‘Umar sent people to all the regions to fight the mushrikeen…”

      This is reason One, to make the people worship Allah alone and bring them to servitude. To end fitnah and shirk. Again, because what people believe is their crime. A crime (a “persecution” of Allah and Muslims) that is worse than a slaughter (i.e. killing them) Qur’an 2:191; 2:217.
      https://islamqa.info/en/34647

  13. Western Canadian says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 1:08 am

    If the state of the Canadian legal system (we do NOT have a justice system…) was as bad as some people dearly love to claim….. Robert would have been arrested, and would still be rotting in jail. Didn’t happen, and some of us intend to see that it never does.

  14. Daniel Triplett says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 9:44 am

    Excellent work Robert.

    Breaking these up into 5 minute lessons will encourage more viewers to invest the time to watch them, and make remembering your wisdom easier.

    When you get 7 or 8 of them in a congruent overall lesson, then it will be time for a full-on professional documentary.

    WWIII is upon us, and you my Friend, are at the front and center of galvanizing our side to understand the threat. You’re the 4-Star General Robert. You have many strong soldiers on your side, but you have the knowledge, wisdom, and respect to lead us.

    You belong on the National Stage on our side for WWIII. You should be collaborating with guys like John Bolton, and there must be a very senior advisory rule for you in the new GOP Administration.

    • Angemon says

      Apr 20, 2016 at 10:54 am

      Indeed. And until that professional documentary comes out, people with YT accounts can create and share a playlist.

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