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Robert Spencer: Muslims wouldn’t bomb Muhammad’s city, would they? Sure they would.

Jul 6, 2016 4:52 pm By Robert Spencer

Over at PamelaGeller.com I explain why the latest attempts to exonerate Islam from responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings founder on the facts:

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The Islamic State (ISIS) attack in Medina shows once and for all that ISIS is not Islamic, right? After all, how could a Muslim group, much less a self-styled “caliphate,” set off a bomb in the city of Muhammad himself? That proves that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam, no? That’s what many Muslims would have us believe. Unfortunately, this is just more deception from practiced masters of deceit – and it’s deception that is increasingly dangerous and offensive as the jihad death count climbs ever higher.

Maher Zain, a Multi Platinum-winning singer and songwriter who is Muslim, wrote on Twitter to his 1.47 million followers: “Still need proof that ISIS is the foremost enemy of Islam? They attack the Prophet’s City. Terror knows no religion!” Boxer Amir Khan tweeted to his 1.75 million followers: “The attack in our beloved Prophet Muhammad’s city Madinah proves that Isis has no religion!” The UK Muslim broadcaster Mohammed Shafiq wrote: “The attack on #Madinah was an attack against all Muslims. We need unity against this evil.”

Neither Zain nor Khan nor Shafiq nor anyone else, however, explained why this it would be out of the question for jihadis to strike in Medina. Did Muhammad command jihad warfare against unbelievers? Yes: a hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them…. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them. (Sahih Muslim 4294)

In commanding this, did Muhammad forbid jihad against unbelievers in his city? He did not. But of course, in Medina there are only Muslims, no? And the Qur’an forbids Muslims to kill other Muslims (4:92). But Islam also mandates death for those who are considered heretics and apostates – and the Islamic State, in claiming to be the caliphate, the one true government to which all Muslims owe allegiance, and in demanding the obedience of all Muslims worldwide, has placed itself in the position of considering any Muslims who reject its authority to be heretical by virtue of that very rejection, and therefore worthy of death.

That is all the more true regarding governments of Muslim states that do not accept the caliphate. The Islamic State regards the House of Saud as illegitimate, and therefore to undermine it is a holy act. Reuters reported Sunday that the Islamic State jihadis targeted “a security headquarters at a mosque in the holy city of Medina,” and that “a suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the security headquarters of the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, the second-holiest site in Islam. Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said an initial death toll from the Medina blast included three suicide bombers and two security forces officers.”

So the target was not Muhammad’s mosque itself, but a security headquarters nearby – an outpost of the hated Saudi state, which the Islamic State considers to be heretical and apostate. Considered in light of the other recent Islamic State jihad bombings in Turkey, Bangladesh, and Iraq, it becomes clear: the Islamic State is targeting Muslim countries and trying to undermine their governments, with the ultimate goal of bringing them into the purview of its caliphate. However unattainable that goal may be in practice, it doesn’t prevent them from killing people in hopes of bringing it closer to attainment, and in hopes of pleasing their god who commands jihad warfare against unbelievers, without exempting Muslim rulers who are deemed to have left the straight path.

There is no doubt, however, that the deception and denial will continue. The lies from Islamic apologists are as much of a certainty in life as death and taxes, if not more so.

After Islamic State jihadists screaming “Allahu akbar” murdered twenty hostages at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka on the night of July 1, the serially deceptive Islamic apologist Qasim Rashid tweeted: “In #Ramadan’s final 10 days, Daesh has mass murdered dozens in three Muslim majority nations Please tell me more about how Islamic they are.” In another tweet, he included a photo captioned: “So you’re telling me they killed Muslims during Ramadan and you still blame Islam? Are you that incompetent or that bigoted?” To that, Rashid added: “Likewise, how I feel when I hear Islamophobes claim Islam was somehow behind the #DhakaAttack.”

Echoing Rashid was no less illustrious a personage than Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who insisted: “Anyone who believes in religion cannot do such act. They do not have any religion, their only religion is terrorism.”

This from a woman who adheres to a religion whose holy book three times exhorts Muslims to kill unbelievers (2:191, 4:89, 9:5), and tells believers to “strike the necks” of unbelievers (47:4) and to “strike terror in the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60). In other words, she must know better when she says “their only religion is terrorism” Even after the Medina bombing, their religion is quite clear. And unless and until the West starts to speak honestly about this motivating ideology of terrorism, and to formulate realistic ways to confront it, it will continue to advance.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

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  1. Angemon says

    Jul 6, 2016 at 5:33 pm

    They do not have any religion, their only religion is terrorism.

    Yes, that’s it – their religion is islam.

    • Shane says

      Jul 7, 2016 at 11:45 am

      ISIS members of good muslims who are emulating MO perfectly – raping, torturing, enslaving, and turning infidels into Dhimmis. If Mo were alive today, he would be the leader of ISIS!

      • ECAW says

        Jul 7, 2016 at 1:31 pm

        Yes he would, good point.

  2. Jack Diamond says

    Jul 6, 2016 at 5:52 pm

    Maher Zain, who looks of fighting age, and all those millions of other Muslims who think Daeash is the enemy of Islam, will no doubt be taking up arms to easily route the faux-Islamic State. No? Why not?

    Yes, they were targeting Saudi security and the American embassy and Shi’a targets. All very Sunnah except maybe targeting Saudis, ONLY Muslims targeting other Muslims is a problem here. Never the infidels, never the rafidah.

    But even if they had targeted the Kaaba itself that would not mean it was against Islam (or Islamic history). Hajjaj bin Yusuf Al-Thaqafi demolished the Kaaba; Abraha Al-Ashram with elephants attempted to destroy it. The black stone was stolen once, and also smashed during the Umayyad siege of Mecca in 683. The Islamic State HAS threatened to demolish the Kaaba, with very and purely Islamic accusations of idolatry, as could be made for Muhammad’s tomb. There have also been threats from Shi’a Iran, especially since the beheading of Ayatollah al-Nimr. Nor would it be unexpected, there are prophecies in the hadith about the destruction of Mecca and the Kaaba. No, only the stupid infidels are shocked by such things and assume they could have nothing to do with Islam. Spoon fed by Muslim entertainers.

    • Carolyne says

      Jul 7, 2016 at 1:55 pm

      Who’s shocked? Certainly not those who know anything at all about Islam.

      • Jack Diamond says

        Jul 7, 2016 at 6:42 pm

        which excludes most of the mainstream media and the loudest mouths on Fox News.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 8, 2016 at 11:21 pm

      Yes–pious Mohammedans have attacked Mecca many times before–one recent incident was the Grand Mosque seizure in 1979.

  3. Truth speaker says

    Jul 6, 2016 at 9:20 pm

    Huh

    All do not know that there are 7 prophets of earth, Mohammed was #6

    This thus ends all discourse since the current accepted foundation is based on edited books Bible, koran, Torah over hundred of years of belief systems which are not true truth.

    Only a living prophet can all the shots as he is in touch with creation, the primal wellspring of all goodness, and tell the spiritual essence without dogma.

    Just as prior prophets did. They tried, died, and ….religion was manufactured.

    This ends the war or words

    There is only the Creation and no religion to this truth…ye must evolve vita meditation more than useless prayers you must self evolve and stop useless prayers to God, Jesus aka jmmanuel, Mohammed, Moses, jehovah….. All is folly. Wake up all.

    Seek ye Beam

    • Jack Diamond says

      Jul 6, 2016 at 11:26 pm

      You should have left it at “Huh.”

    • Keith Jordan says

      Jul 7, 2016 at 8:55 am

      Do you mean Jim Beam?

      • Carolyne says

        Jul 7, 2016 at 1:58 pm

        I think he’s been drinking Jim Beam. It’s just silly.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 8, 2016 at 11:31 pm

        Jim Beam indeed.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jul 8, 2016 at 11:53 pm

        Ever Notice that ?

        A (TRUE) speaker of truth does not need to grease the skids of believability in advance with a slick moniker like — (Truth speaker).

    • Champ says

      Jul 8, 2016 at 2:31 am

      Thanks, that was entertaining …

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Jul 8, 2016 at 2:44 am

        ?

    • Western Canadian says

      Jul 8, 2016 at 9:27 pm

      Real good Scotch, or real bad weed…..????

  4. shosh7154 says

    Jul 6, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    In Ezekiel 38:21-22 we see massive armies coming across the mountains of Israel (the Golan Heights) with the purpose of annihilating the Jewish State. CNN is running live satellite feed and the commentators are looking and sounding shocked and confused that the cameras are streaming live scenes of the teaming hordes turning their weapons against each other amidst large flaming hail stones. It appears there is a great deal of distrust amongst the factions of the brothers in islam whereby the Sunni start to suspect the firestorm is caused by the Shia and the Shia blame the Wahabi and the Wahabi blame everyone else in the army…..so you can see how quickly the whole operation gets pounded into the rocks and dirt. True to form for islam, the religion of straight-up bizarre.

    • Carolyne says

      Jul 7, 2016 at 2:00 pm

      I never did believe CNN.

      • shosh7154 says

        Jul 7, 2016 at 2:19 pm

        Look at the last two verses in Ezekiel 38 foretelling the total destruction of the Russian/Persian led muslim hordes and understand that CNN will be stunned speechless into live transmission of the fulfillment of G-d’s own words spoken below:

        Ezekiel 38:22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

        Ezekiel 38:23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

  5. Adrian says

    Jul 6, 2016 at 11:37 pm

    Amir Khan Tweeted “The attack in our beloved Prophet Muhammad’s city Madinah proves that Isis has no religion!” –

    so, I suppose when Muhammed in 627 A.D. decapitated 600 Qurayzah men and boys and enslaved their women and children, THAT PROVED ISLAM HAD NO RELIGION, right?

  6. Pal says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 1:38 am

    Very well said, Robert!

  7. Phil Horaia says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 2:47 am

    I haven’t heard what reason was given for the attack, but it’s likely that the target was the mosque itself, for Mohammed cursed those who made the graves of prophets mosques, as in this hadith: http://sunnah.com/abudawud/21/139. ISIS represents Islam in its purest form.

    • Carolyne says

      Jul 7, 2016 at 2:01 pm

      I agree with you Phil. Erdogan said that “There is no moderate Islam,. There is no radical Islam. There is just Islam.” What we are seeing is just Islam.

  8. WorkingClassPost says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 7:47 am

    OK, then, let’s see how this works: IS has no religion, and IS is exclusively muslim, so…

  9. Jay Boo says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 9:32 am

    Medina where Muhammad died 2nd only to Mecca.

    Home of the pagan black stone fashioned as clitoral protuberance inside of a graven image representing a 9 year old virgin’s Vulva.

    • Carolyne says

      Jul 7, 2016 at 2:02 pm

      That may be, but did it fall to earth in that shape? It’s only a meteorite. I guess I’d worship it too if it missed me.

      • Jack Diamond says

        Jul 7, 2016 at 7:02 pm

        The current consensus doubts that it was a meteorite. Just a terrestrial rock (or glass or pumice) Muslims worship as an idol and kiss, just like the pagan Arabs did before them. And who knows if the stone the Qarmatian warriors stole and returned (broken into seven pieces) 23 years later, is the real rock or an imposter. Did Allah initial it?

  10. Estee Tabernac says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 5:26 pm

    ISIS is not Islamic. They are a gang of thugs led by Saddam Hussein’s unemployed elite military leaders. Saddam and his gangsters were never Islamic. They only posed as Muslims when it was convenient.
    Demonizing one of the world’s major religions will only bring more suffering and chaos.
    I just don’t understand why these islamaphobic sites are doing this crazy thing.
    I suspect it has it’s roots in Israeli propaganda. They have made eternal enemies and now need the “West” to finish the fight for them.

    • shosh7154 says

      Jul 7, 2016 at 5:47 pm

      May it be it unto you according to your desire for Israel.

    • ECAW says

      Jul 8, 2016 at 2:14 am

      Very interesting post…in terms of insight into Muslim thinking.

      “ISIS is not Islamic. They are a gang of thugs led by Saddam Hussein’s unemployed elite military leaders.”

      ISIS is very Islamic indeed. They most closely reflect the original Muslims, a gang of thugs led by a criminal (unless caravan raiding doesn’t count as criminal for you).

      “Demonizing one of the world’s major religions will only bring more suffering and chaos”

      But it is demonic.

      “I just don’t understand why these islamaphobic sites are doing this crazy thing.”

      Just because a word exists doesn’t mean that it refers to anything real.

      “I suspect it has it’s roots in Israeli propaganda”

      Ah yes, it must be the Jooooz.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 8, 2016 at 11:37 pm

      Estee Tabernac wrote:

      ISIS is not Islamic. They are a gang of thugs led by Saddam Hussein’s unemployed elite military leaders. Saddam and his gangsters were never Islamic. They only posed as Muslims when it was convenient.
      …………………………..

      What claptrap. Everything ISIS does is exactly on the texts and tenets of Islam and on the model of the “Prophet”.

      More:

      Demonizing one of the world’s major religions will only bring more suffering and chaos.
      …………………………..

      Daring to condemn sex slavery, beheadings, and genocide is “demonizing” according to this vile poster.

      More:

      I just don’t understand why these islamaphobic sites are doing this crazy thing.
      I suspect it has it’s roots in Israeli propaganda. They have made eternal enemies and now need the “West” to finish the fight for them.
      …………………………..

      How dare we object to Muslims raping and mass slaughtering us? Surely, it must the fault of the perfidious Joooooooooooos…sarc/off

    • Western Canadian says

      Jul 9, 2016 at 1:02 pm

      isis is the true face of islam…. ugly, isn’t it?

  11. Eric says

    Jul 8, 2016 at 5:24 am

    As a bit of a military and history nerd, I’d like to pipe in and add that there are a number of even more damning examples that tie in to the foundation of both the House of Saud and the current strains of Sunni Jihadism.

    The formation of the Saud as a real political player basically goes back to an 18th century deal between the Saud and the original Wahhabis, the followers of the lunatic known as al-Wahhab who really got the “Let’s go back to the purity of the 7th century” thing going.In exchange for the Saud offering them shelter, the Wahhabis acted as their paramilitary muscle and secret police. They called themselves the Ikhwan, the “Brotherhood”.

    The Saud took over Mecca and Medina twice, the first time in the early 19th century. And that meant that they took them with the Ikhwan. Since they were a traditional Jihadist army they proceeded to pillage the heck out of both of them. And since nutters believed that they were the pure Muslims and that venerating holy men, having “graven images”, making shrines, or other things were heresy they started razing large sections of Mecca and Medina- including a lot of historical landmarks- and killing people.

    This did scandalize the Muslim world at the time, bad enough that it made the Ottoman Turks, the uppity Muhummad Ali of Egypt, and the Persians put aside their differences to crush them and crush them utterly. But it just shows that it happened.

    But the Saud survived, and so did Wahhab’s loyalists. And after another empire and another failure, they decided to capitalize on the further decay of Ottoman power and the change of politics it had to side with the Allies of WWI against the Ottoman call for a Jihad. And after decades of opportunistically clawing out an empire in Arabia, the fall of the Turks, and a war with the Hashemite dynasty that controlled the Red Sea coast they took Mecca and Medina again. And guess what happened?

    The Ikhwan tore the place up and killed a whole bunch of people. AG-AIN. To the point where there was even discussion of having some kind of League of Nations mandate over the two.

    But the Saud dynasty realized that now they were independent monarchs of an internationally recognized country, had a patriarch that was somewhat horrified by the sack of the Holy Cities and sick of fighting with them for power, and realized that continuing to use them would lead to a conflict with Britain while they could still threaten his Own power. So he kicked them out and when they revolted ultimately crushed them. Which is the root of the great Saud-anti-Saud Jihadist conflict.

    But of course like any bad cause they attracted a whole lot of wannabes and admirers, including the Muslim Brotherhood. Who yes patterned themselves after and *adopted the name of* the original “Brotherhood.” The MB was the fountainhead of most modern Sunni Jihadism, since it gave rise to Al Qaeda. And from Al Qaeda to Al Qaeda in Iraq…. and thus ISIS.

    And people wonder why those that do not learn history find it rhyming for them….

    TL;DR: When ISIS’s ideological godfathers fought alongside the Saud in the 19th and 20th centuries, they not only made attacks on Mecca and Medina, they captured, *SACKED*, and partially destroyed them. All for the cause of “True Islam.” I wonder if these hacks will mention that?

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