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Al-Qaeda: Trump victory reveals Americans’ “racism toward Muslims”

Nov 10, 2016 2:45 pm By Robert Spencer

What race are Muslims again? I forget. Do converts to Islam automatically change race, or is there paperwork?

As for this story in general, the mainstream media, exposed and discredited, is running today with the line that Islamic jihadis are happy that Trump won, because it will help them convince Muslims that the U.S. is at war with Islam, which will make jihad recruitment easier. The subtext is that if we had just elected Hillary, she would continue with the programs of denial of the jihad ideology and outreach to Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups that is supposed to show Muslims they’re welcome in the U.S. and need not join the jihad. What those who say this don’t tell you is that the jihad imperative is not predicated on the behavior of the Infidels: the Qur’an mandates warfare against and subjugation of Infidels, regardless of how nice they are to the Muslims.

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“Islamist extremists celebrate Trump’s election win,” by Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, November 9, 2016:

…Shortly after Trump was declared the victor, a number of prominent Salafist ideologues linked to jihadist outfits in the Middle East took to social media to cheer the prospect of a Trump presidency.

The remarks signaled the militants’ apparent belief that the victory of a candidate like Trump, who has suggested potentially unconstitutional blocks on Muslim immigration and advocated torture, undermines the United States’ moral standing in the world.

Social-media sites associated with both the Islamic State and al-Qaeda also hailed Trump’s success as the beginning of “dark times” for the United States, marked by domestic unrest and new foreign military campaigns that would sap the strength of the American superpower.

“Rejoice with support from Allah, and find glad tidings in the imminent demise of America at the hands of Trump,” said the Islamic State-affiliated al-Minbar Jihadi Media network, one of several jihadi forums to post commentaries on the results of the U.S. election.

“Trump’s win of the American presidency will bring hostility of Muslims against America as a result of his reckless actions, which show the overt and hidden hatred against them,” continued the essay, provided by the SITE Intelligence group, a private organization that monitors jihadists’ web sites.

Al-Minbar is among several jihadist-lined online publications that sought to capitalize on Trump’s controversial statements about Muslim during the election campaign, saying that the alienation of ordinary Muslims is key to their recruitment of foreign fighters. Dabiq, the Islamic State’s English-language magazine, said its terrorist campaign in Europe was intended to spark an anti-Muslim backlash by Western governments that would force European Muslims to choose sides.

A pro-a-Qaeda al-Maqalaat Twitter account predicted that Trump would “make the U.S. Enemy No. 1 again” in the Muslim Middle East.

“Trump will serve as the perfect straw man for the next four years, like Bush did before him,” it said.

Now News, a Lebanese English-language website, aggregated a series of other comments from noted Salafist ideologues.

“Trump’s victory is a powerful slap to those promoting the benefits of democratic mechanisms,” tweeted Hamza al-Karibi, a media spokesman for Syrian jihadist group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, which was formerly affiliated with al-Qaeda before rebranding itself this year in a bid to avoid being targeted by both Russian and American airstrikes.

Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, a jihadist ideologue linked to al-Qaeda who has close to 60,000 followers on Twitter, gloated about Trump’s victory, suggesting that it “may be the beginning of America’s fragmentation and the era of its breakup.” In a second tweet, he said that Trump “reveals the true mentality of the Americans, and their racism toward Muslims and Arabs and everything. He reveals what his predecessors used to conceal. So his victory further exposes America and its appendages.”

“Have you seen how pleasant a society it is!” tweeted another Salafist-jihadist mainstay, Abu Qatada al-Filastini, who was deported from Britain in 2014, to tens of thousands of followers. “This is the American society that [supposedly] opposes its leaders’ policies by not hating or disdaining the world, and then it votes by the millions for Trump!”…

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  1. Stephanie says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    to dead paper new york times, bigot Trump

    https://twitter.com/schnellmann_org/status/796802820649418753

    • Westman says

      Nov 10, 2016 at 4:11 pm

      Very good, Stephanie.

      NO ONE can eclipse Allah when it comes to bigotry, and NO ONE is more intent on inflicting pain and punishment for his personal enjoyment than sadistic Allah.

      The Quran records Allah’s bigotry beyond any refutation by Muslims. He makes Trump, by comparison, into a combination of Mother Teresa and Florence Nightingale.

      Yes, Muslims, it is this version of a god, Allah, that we reject. We are forced to be on guard because he(actually Muhammad and scholars of the 7th&8th Cent) has ordered Muslims to take control of the world, wherever possible, until all worship Allah as his slaves. Some just can’t stop trying.

      Not only is “Allah” forced to have someone beside him, and put up with men and women making laws, he is quickly finding his “people” falling behind in education and ability under his suffocating yoke in countries where his religion is dominant.

      Islam is not a way of life, it is a way of giving up responsibility for the productivity and accomplishment of your life.

      Todays Jihadists are little more than Muslims trying to restore the original “glory” of Islam using Muhammad’s historical methods. However, the world has moved on and such behavior, particularly if used against Muslims, is not acceptable to enough of the Umma to become established.

      Until the Umma is willing to remove these jihadists from their societies, the West has little choice but to largely curtail or stop emigration from Islamic countries.

      It’s not bigotry, it’s reality. Islamists may be willing to spend their children for Allah’s bloody objectives; we will not. Make no mistake. We will defend our country and children by any means necessary and to any level required. The cheap shots of “racism” and “bigotry” from a downright dangerous people, who support Sharia moral police, means little and will never get the jihadists and CAIR what they want.

      • Cretius says

        Nov 10, 2016 at 4:29 pm

        Well said!

      • Gary says

        Nov 10, 2016 at 10:48 pm

        Here Here!!

      • Bushdog says

        Nov 11, 2016 at 2:23 am

        Racism is where some one comes to my country and tells me what to do

      • heidi says

        Nov 11, 2016 at 3:14 am

        thank you so much westman! your words are so true! with your permission i would like to share some of what you said, sometimes i lack the ability to phrase it so well!

        • Dexter L. Wilson says

          Nov 11, 2016 at 10:23 am

          By the way, according to Jonathan Cahn who has written several books about the Moon tetrad, 911, Book of Mysteries. Stated after much research the Source for “Allah” was the god Baal.

      • TR says

        Nov 11, 2016 at 9:11 am

        Al – Qaeda and their Jihadi affiliates are just expressing their close bond of Solidarity with Hellery.

    • Tom says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 8:42 am

      Let me clear up the confusion. We despise Muzzies because: We hate what your ideology stands for, we hate what your Jihadies [sic] do, we hate what your mosques preach and we hate your absolute subjugation of women.

      Go back to your home country, we do not want you here. I feel genuine fear when I see you walking down the street wearing a burqa or habib. I want your mosques monitored for hate discussions. You don’t fit in and your openly attempt to apply your archaic Sharia law in our country.

      If you acted nice and did not attempt to kill everyone, things would be different; we would accept you.

      You brought this wrath upon yourselves; deal with it!

      • patrick says

        Nov 13, 2016 at 1:50 am

        Absolutely , we hope America under Donald Trump will help Biafrans get freedom from the islamist in Nigeria…….

  2. Lucia Bartoli says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    Hey WRONG AGAIN, jihadists. WE HATE TERRORIST ISLAM and it’s time for your jihadis to enjoy some good old American whupass! AMEN to that.

  3. PRCS says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 2:56 pm

    What in hell is an “Islamist extremist” and how do they differ from regular Islamist?

    • Hindu American says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 7:29 am

      One holds the legs of the victim while the other one, the sword.

      • Dexter L. Wilson says

        Nov 11, 2016 at 12:03 pm

        Not that that is funny but Lord how true it is. My Christian Brothers and Sisters have suffered under this presidency, and American in general. Only 1/2 of 1 percent of the refugees allowed into the US were Christians out of the 168,000 allowed in so far. I would rather have you from India than multiply the number of people who are allowed to lie to unbelievers and will promote in the US Sharia and Islamic Law and will not ASSIMILATE. And who have suffered most from Islam, Hindu’s, Christians and Yasidi’s.

  4. John A. Marre says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    Means nothing. This is typical Muslim rhetoric. It’s loud, violent boasting. Designed to trick fellow Muslims into thinking that the speaker is a real man.
    If he were a real man, he would stop raping women and slitting throats.

  5. bradley oleary says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    how historically stupid are muslims. In the past 98% of refuges sought freedoms offered by our constition and bill of rights not all of your people seek those freedoms those who dont should not come here. Those who have come here bring death and anger follow sheria law. We dont want you.

  6. Don McKellar says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    Actually, I think that many moslems actually do think that when you become a moslem you are a member of the moslem race! I experienced some of that sentiment when crushing various Islamic supremacists on web boards around the internet over the past few years. Some of them actually believe that — I’m convinced. Of course, they were most certainly not Arab moslems who, as we have all seen by their own actions and attitudes, view themselves as the moslem master race among the overall “race” of Islam.

  7. NPB says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 3:04 pm

    Religion – Not race. Murdering death cult should be driven out of the country.

  8. TJ says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 3:06 pm

    People should read the koran and focus on the exaggerations against Christians and Jews contained in the book. Then link the exaggerations together with their claims of a right to kill unbelievers. These exaggerations make their claims of a right to kill unbelievers false, as people are supposed to reject an exaggerator. When the koran is viewed in this light, it makes it right for government officials to limit the advance of islam, because they are not discriminating against a religion when they want fewer korans
    in the country. Instead, they are doing something good, for they are standing up against a godless formula of phony executions.

  9. Rosewood11 says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    Figured that out, did ya, bright boys!!!?!!! GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY AND DON’T COME BACK!!!

  10. Mark A says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 3:53 pm

    Sura 9:29 of the Koran clearly states al-Qaeda’s attitude toward all non-Muslims.

    It’s not something I would submit to without a serious fight.

    Dhimmi? Willing submission? Never!

  11. common sense says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 3:57 pm

    Prior to 9/11, the US Cole and the bombings at African embassies in the late 90’s I did not think about Islam or Muslims at all. Much like any other group of people populating the earth I believe in live and let live. Islamic doctrine obviously does not agree with that philosophy.
    The world of Islam deserves all the criticism and scrutiny that its about get. Racist? Don’t care. Islamophobic? Undeterred. American? Well they got one right….coming to get you starting Jan 21st.

  12. BLC says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 4:09 pm

    Americans are racist towards Muslims??? More Muslim BS. Muslims are the racists. They don’t like anyone on earth who isn’t them. (Muslims don’t even like other Muslim.) Muslims are full of sh!t!

  13. David says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 4:22 pm

    The “Race” that is islam?
    Is that a new breed of Pig? Some of our prize “Porkers” have very “islamic” looking chin whiskers!
    But those are the ones that taste the best too!

  14. Champ says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    Do converts to Islam automatically change race, or is there paperwork?

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    “paperwork” ..LOL!!! 😀

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Nov 10, 2016 at 4:47 pm

      Agree, Champ. Absolutely hilarious!

      • Champ says

        Nov 10, 2016 at 5:12 pm

        Indeed, Cecilia! Not only is this comment hiliarious, but the “racism” nonsense deserves this kind of ridiculule 😀

        • Champ says

          Nov 10, 2016 at 5:14 pm

          …oops sometimes I type too fast: hilarious & ridicule 😀

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 10, 2016 at 11:38 pm

        Yes–I love Robert Spencer’s sense of humor!

    • Oliver says

      Nov 10, 2016 at 8:58 pm

      I believe it was on JW after Bin Laden got killed- ( should have happened years before) – that it was discovered that there was an application form to join Al queida. Someone printed it and sent it to me ( how I found out about JW).

      Was so comical-I thought ( and when i see it, still think) it must have been a joke.

    • linnte says

      Nov 10, 2016 at 11:47 pm

      HAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHHA! Isn’t he a prize? Ya gotta love Roberts sense of humor. It’s brilliant.

  15. Cecilia Ellis says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 4:44 pm

    “[H]e said that Trump ‘reveals the true mentality of the Americans, and their racism toward Muslims and Arabs and everything.'”

    If Muslims insist upon “Muslim” being awarded the status of “race”, then all mosques in the United States should immediately be stripped of all tax exemptions. “Race” does not exempt one from paying federal income tax or property tax. ?

    • katherine says

      Nov 10, 2016 at 7:09 pm

      Quite an idea there: by re-defining Islam as a race and NOT a religion, its 1st Amendment status as a protected religion is also trashed. Congress should vote on this to fix the categorization of Islam, otherwise they’ll keep on clamoring that their religion is ‘Everything’ – that is simply too convenient.

  16. Angemon says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 5:04 pm

    <

    “Trump’s victory is a powerful slap to those promoting the benefits of democratic mechanisms,” tweeted Hamza al-Karibi, a media spokesman for Syrian jihadist group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham

    Jabhat Fatah al-Sham was created in 2012. Its leader is Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a, a.k.a., Mohammad al-Julani. Al-Julani was a prisoner in the Sednaya prison in Syria, and was thought to have died there, until he, like several other high-profile jihadis, were given an amnesty by Assad and released. In 2011, Assad was using violence to crack down on protesters. When the international community criticized him for doing so, he, to prove he was a benign leader fighting against dangerous terrorists, decided to grant amnesty to alleged “political” prisoners. What he did was release dangerous jihadis. Once free, they immediately turned on him, which allowed him to portray all protesters as terrorists. He then tried to hold the international community hostage to the threat of “do you prefer to deal with me or the terrorists?”

    • Oliver says

      Nov 12, 2016 at 4:30 pm

      Just curious– jihadist groups ARE FOR AND BELIEVE IN DEMOCRATIC MECHANISMS?

      And, was this the group that was once an al-queida affiliate (?)???

      (or was that some other group?)

  17. Dexter L. Wilson says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 5:13 pm

    They don’t even accept any agreement we have ever signed with any Muslim nation. Just like the Democrats, Well they did it Too. Just like the Democratic Party who lies continually, though at least the Koran requires their people to lie to anyone who not a Muslim. Does not matter who is in office although with all the aid Obama has provided to Muslims and have turned his back on Christians telling them that they have to bake cakes, plan weddings and go to the bathroom with the opposite sex, making Pharmacists provide abortifacients without regard to the First Amendment and won’t act against and city,county, state private or public agency or federal agency to protect their first amendment rights. I pray that Trump will send federal officials to remind all these entities that they must obey the first amendment and protect their deeply held religious beliefs. Please President Trump punish these entities that think Christians are second class citizens. I remind all Christians and atheists that Christians have dual citizenship in the US and God’s Kingdom. How many remember that they are supposed to fly the Christian Flag above the American Flag, that the church is an embassy and is to be protected as an embassy and so for their members as well. Our Founders knew this and acted as such.

  18. Ashley says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    Expect more of this bullshit:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/higher-education/the-latest-police-san-diego-student-assaulted-over-faith/2016/11/10/af344f80-a77b-11e6-ba46-53db57f0e351_story.html

  19. Mockingjay says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    – So let me get this straight – you muslims come into OUR countries, slaughtering OUR citizens on the streets, and when we start hating you and your religion for it, that makes US racists.

    – These people are not bound by logic, they will say anything just to annoy and
    .provoke.

    There truly is no arguing with them.

    • George Bacon says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 8:48 am

      if they embraced logic they would not be Muslim

  20. Allan says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 6:51 pm

    Except that Arab Christians are the same race as Arab Muslims. A similar rebuttal can be made concerning Christians of other races among whom Muslims are common. And there is also the obvious problem of how to characterize opposition to white, Caucasian Muslims.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 12:03 am

      All true, Allan. Islam is not about race at all.

  21. Havoc says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 7:07 pm

    “No Muslims. No Mosques”
    .
    It works every time. Call it what you want.

  22. Peter says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 7:30 pm

    The very notion that Muslims constitute a race is itself racist.

  23. Shmooviyet says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 7:33 pm

    Al-Qaeda comes together with apoplectic SJWs staying home from school to ‘mourn’, and inventing new hashtags telling other Americans to f— off and die.

    These two groups resemble each other more and more.

  24. Stan Lee says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    They, with few exceptions, have no idea they’re not a race. The quran doesn’t educate them in that regard. If the quran doesn’t define it, then “it” is nothing to be defined.. Everything is in the quran, even how an enemy of Islam should be killed. An enemy of Islam could be a most religious person in his/her own right, but in another of the world’s religions. But, if that person is not a Muslim, then he/she is an unbeliever to Islam, consequently an enemy of Islam.
    In that case, even the present Pope, who is well-meaning toward Islam, is an unbeliever and enemy.The quran is rich in that kind of information,
    I cannot imagine how proud they are that their quran is so all-emcompassing for them..Whatever could they possibly be thinking to want to migrate to the USA? They need to be enlightened that they should build their own lands and forget migration to a land of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Atheists who are complimentary to each other no matter their religious preferences….and we Americans believe in religious preferences with malice toward none. Islam may come to believe similarly, but today Islam is far from it. Instead, it is dedicated to conquest of this world.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 12:06 am

      I don’t believe they do not know, Stan–it is just useful for them to claim that any resistance to Islamic savagery is “racist”, because civilized people are rightly anti-racist.

      Muslims are happy to use our own values to further the cause of Islamic conquest.

  25. Matthieu Baudin says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    Since when do we take notice of the grumblings of mass murderers? All they need to understand is that their behaviour will be checked, one way or the other, and that we will reclaim our sovereignty as civilised nations and regain our pride as civilised peoples.

  26. JawsV says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    Since when were we required to give a sh** about Muslims? Since September 11, 2001? Apparently so. There was NONE of this PC idiocy before 9/11.

  27. David says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 11:18 pm

    There was no reason (other then Osama’s TREASON!) to let these murdering swine in to America in the first place!
    Let’s have a vote!
    May this horrific CANCER be cast out?
    OR: Shall be let it spread?
    I bet 51% still will say: ship these bastard OUT!

    • dsinc says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 2:33 am

      I think a lot more than 51% David.

  28. gravenimage says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 11:32 pm

    Al-Qaeda: Trump victory reveals Americans’ “racism toward Muslims”
    …………………….

    How many times do we have to note that Islam is *not* a race? It is an ideology–and a very ugly one.

    As for Jihadists supposedly cheering over Trump’s election, that seems pretty suspect–we know that Pakistan and the Saudis and Hamas and Muslim supremacists here in the US have all been loudly lamenting his election.

    I think what we are seeing here is more a threat than anything–elect more like Trump and we will rape and murder you.

    • Dexter L. Wilson says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 1:01 am

      Just like the Muslims except they are required by Islam, to LIE as the Muslim do so to unbelievers so to the major media to promote their agenda, Socialism.. This our major media is so prone to Communism and Socialism that you can lie to promote your target projects. No confusion, the media is Socialist and do not see any problem with lying to promote their agenda. All I ALWAYS DO NOW IS REMIND PEOPLE HOW THE MEDIA HAS AVOIDED TALKING ABOUT VENEZUELA. It is a Socialist Country that is in the final stages of complete control of these people by a corrupt leadership. It is one of the leading oil producing nations in our Hemisphere, yet the people are starving, their money worthless and their corrupt leader are kept in power by their Judiciary. This is the last stage so the leadership can completely control the people. This was what was in store for us if Hillary had won.

  29. Robin Banks says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 11:39 pm

    “the Qur’an mandates warfare against and subjugation of Infidels, regardless of how nice they are to the Muslims.”

    Exactly! The days of “Smile while Islam takes the West” days are over for a few years (in the states). Sadly, in Canada, the trust-fund boy king Trudeau is importing Islam as fast as he can to broaden the Liberal support voter base. This includes an illegal immigrant Afghan/Iranian cabinet minister and a Saudi extremist secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

  30. vladkoval says

    Nov 10, 2016 at 11:46 pm

    Another proof that Leftists are literally illiterate about problematics of Islam.
    Litarally illiterate, not “trying to civilise muslims and their terrorism stops”.
    https://twitter.com/RussiawithoutBS/status/796808535132749824
    They wonder, why a muslim reformist would vote for Trump? (however, no reform is possible in Islam)

  31. Eric Jones says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 12:07 am

    Muslims have revealed their racism for centuries. Look how Boko Harm is murdering Christians in Nigeria. There was a Muslim slave trade out of Africa 1,000 yrs. before the Trans Atlantic slave trade. Slavery is still allowed under Shaira. Case closed.

    Eric

  32. Pr126 says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 3:20 am

    Looking at the photo I see where George Lucas got the idea for the Tuskan Raiders in his Star Wars film.

  33. Jan Aage Jeppesen says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 3:56 am

    The basic problem in Islam is the loss of objective morality and absence of personal responsibility of Muslims.

    In Robert R. Reilly’s brilliant analysis of Islam “The Closing of the Muslim Mind – How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis” (2010) the author points to the deformed theology which produced the spiritual pathology of Islamism, and a deeply dysfunctional culture because rationality has no place in Islamic theology.

    Central in Islamic theology is the metaphysics of the will leading to the loss of causality, the loss of epistemology, the loss of objective morality, the loss of justice, and the loss of free will.
    Each of those “losses” is explained in detail in Reilly’s book. I found the chapter “The Loss of Objective Morality” (page 69 – 78) very interesting and think it could be of value for the well informed readers of Jihad Watch. So below I quote a bit from the beginning of the chapter:

    “Since reason is not a source of moral truth, al-Ghazali reaches the same conclusion as al-Juwayni: “No obligations flow from reason but from the Shari‘a.”(32) The metaphysical reason for the exclusive authority of revelation in moral matters is that things or acts are not good or bad in themselves, according to their nature or essence. They have no nature or essence. All acts are in themselves morally neutral.

    As al-Juwayni taught, “The intellect does not indicate either that a thing is noble or that it is vile in a judgment that obliges (hukm al-takif). It is informed about what it must consider as noble and as vile only by the resources of the law (shar’) and by what tradition renders necessary. The principle of what must be said [on a subject] is that a thing is not noble by itself, by its genre, or by an attribute that belongs to it.” (33).

    This version of Islam decisively answers Socrates’ famous question from the Euthyphro: “Is the pious or holy loved by the gods because it is pious? Or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?”(34) The Ash‘arite answer is that it is the latter. Allah does not command certain behavior because it is good; it is good because He commands it. Likewise, He does not forbid murder because it is bad; it is bad because He forbids it. If Allah is pure will, good and evil are only conventions of Allah’s—some things are halal (permitted/lawful) and others are haram (forbidden/unlawful), simply because He says so and for no reasons in themselves. Evil is simply what is forbidden. What is forbidden today could be permitted tomorrow without inconsistency. God, in short, is a legal positivist. Al-Ash‘ari expressed this view in a question and answer dialogue:

    Since the Creator is subject to no one and bound by no command, nothing can be evil on His part. Objection: Then lying is evil only because God has declared it to be evil. Answer: Certainly. And if He declared it to be good, it would be good; and if He commanded it, no one could gainsay Him. (35) Thus, al-Ash‘ari excluded anything objective in the character of acts themselves. Evil is only a rule, or rather it is not obeying the rule. For al-Ash‘ari, a thing is evil only because it is proclaimed as such by God. We know the limits and boundaries because they have been revealed. Al-Juwayni stated: “Thus the meaning of ‘good’ is that for which scripture reveals praise for its agent, and the intention of ‘evil’ is that for which scripture reveals blame for its agent.” (36) No one, however, is in authority over God to set limits or boundaries for Him.

    Al-Ash‘ari wrote: “The proof that He is free to do whatever He does is that He is the Supreme Monarch, subject to no one, with no superior over Him who can permit, or command, or chide, or forbid, or prescribe what He shall do and fix bounds for Him. This being so, nothing can be evil on the part of God. For a thing is evil on our part only because we transgress the limit and bound set for us and do what we have no right to do. But since the Creator is subject to no one and bound by no command, nothing can be evil on His part.” (37) Therefore, God is not subject to justice and injustice. There is no standard by which He can be questioned. If Allah is pure will, one act of His pure will cannot be morally differentiated from another act of His pure will. There are no standards outside of Him by which to do so; in fact, there are no standards within Him, either, or at least He is not subject to them. He is beyond good and evil. In this sense, God is a Nietzschean. The Ash‘arite view of God is a vindication, or theological expression, of Thrasymachus’s famous assertion in The Republic that right is the rule of the stronger. Ash‘arism is the theology of “might makes right” in that it asserts that might should make right. As God is the strongest, His rule is right, by definition. Allah, then, is not only a Nietzschean; He is also a sophist, like Thrasymachus. …”

    Notes:

    32. Rahman, Islam, 106.
    33. Remi Brague, The Law of God (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 166.
    34. Plato, The Euthyphro
    35. Kitāb al-Ibāna ‘an Usul al-Diyāna, trans. W. Klein (New Haven, 1940), 47–49. http://www.sacred-texts.com. 36. Hourani, Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics , 125.
    37. John A. Williams, ed., Islam: An Anthology of Some Key Texts Across the Entire Spectrum of Islamic Tradition (Forgotten Books, 1962), 193.

    Reilly’s book is now available as free eBook. Link:

    https://www.google.dk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web…

    • Jan Aage Jeppesen says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 4:06 am

      Sorry link not working. Try this one instead:

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    • linnte says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 6:14 pm

      Jan, I have this book too, and it has helped me to see Muslims and Islam more clearly. How sad for Muslims!

      • Dexter L. Wilson says

        Nov 11, 2016 at 7:24 pm

        If their minds are so closed how come 6 Million Muslims became Christians having experienced Jesus in their dreams, therefore If God can talk to them in dreams how about receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit so you can pray in tongues who can witness to them in a way we do not know about that will grab them and change their minds. Listen, without the Baptism in the Holy Spirit how can you pray without ceasing by praying in tongues. Read your Bible, when did the Baptism end? Especially when Jesus said the Holy Spirit will be with you forever.

        • linnte says

          Nov 11, 2016 at 11:58 pm

          Dexter, I would answer your question by asking you another question. And I don’t know where you get the number 6million Muslims have converted to Christianity, but it doesn’t matter how many. And this is my question; if their minds are open, why aren’t all 1.6 BILLION Muslims converted to Christianity?

          We give Holy Spirit credit for opening their hearts, not their minds.

          No significant advances in anything can be attributed to Orthodox Muslims. Nothing. And Qur’an commands they not listen to any sources of anything other than Islam. Even Shari’a says if they hear something from their Imam, they must not debate or contest those words from the Imam, that he has the last word on everything. Does that sound like open mindedness to you?

        • Dexter L. Wilson says

          Nov 12, 2016 at 12:01 pm

          As to when it was first talked about it has been a couple of years, Al Jazeera stated how confusing that 6 Million Muslims became Christians through dreams. Excuse me but when did God change 1.5 billion people into Christians without the preaching of the Gospel and who says that many more had dreams who did not accept him as Savior? Why, I do not know but my guess is like many people when they pray it is a one way communication and they pray 3 to 5 times a day as to which ever sect of Islam they belong. Why, in their minds the question, who is God which opened the door for them to receive as many as would receive Him. You spoke about the Holy Spirit but skirted the issue of Receiving Him. I myself belonged to a sect of Christianity called Presbyterian. I met a man who while speaking with him experienced the real and tangible Peace of God. I wanted to know what made him different. It was the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of Speaking in tongues. I had to have it and with him went to a group who laid hands on me to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. As was described in Acts how one group had received the baptism of John and had not even heard of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and they laid hands on them to receive Him with the evidence of Speaking in Tongues. It is clear from Brother Wurmbrands ministry that those who received the dreams experienced persecution from family members even killing their wives and children for converting from Islam to Christ having dreams about Jesus. How many people are willing to witness to Muslims in countries where it is the death penalty to even attempt witnessing where Jesus has moved sovereignly on “open individuals”. I can see you do not understand the Real Relationship with Jesus. You talk about heart versus mind. We are talking about whole being when we say they received Jesus through dreams. As many have stated in the “Voice of the Martyrs” these converts no longer are concerned about what an Imam has to say but over time they gain boldness to share their new found faith. As in one testimony, a convert began sharing his new found relationship with God, family members kept trying to get him to come back to Islam, and over time his brother killed his wife and most of his children. As you know you pay a heavy price for becoming a Christian. I suggest you go on line and find Voice of the Martyrs and begin reading some to the testimonies of many who have barely escaped with their lives and how many family members having been killed because they came to Christ. Accepting Jesus is not a Mind Game, it is a whole being relationship. Again, you want power in your life, accept the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. In my case even though confessing the Apostles Creed Sunday after Sunday for years and years and singing in the church choir did not change me. It would appear when I began asking others in the Church what the Baptism was that i guess God was able to reach me to receive the Baptism. Let me clearly indicate the demarcation when i received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, i experienced Isaiah 30’21” and even was laying hands on the sick and would see some healed. If you have been in the church you know in your Sunday school classes how you read the stories of those in the Old Testament but after the Baptism these people became real, more real than just stories. It is not “mind” that is affected but your whole being, and if you have not experienced this then I strongly suggest you ask God to show you who the Holy Spirit is and is there a difference in salvation and the Gift of the Holy Spirit that John the Baptist promised that Jesus would do in all 4 gospels. I also suggest looking up Ezekiel 36 ’25-27″ which describes born again, water baptism and the Baptism in the Holy Spirit as all separate events. I wish I had not spent so much time and just referenced the Wholeness versus “mental assent” throughout this conversation but rarely will someone give up their lives for simple mental assent!

        • Kay says

          Nov 12, 2016 at 12:18 pm

          @ Dexter

          Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
          There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.  There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. . . .
          Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.  To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.

        • Dexter L. Wilson says

          Nov 12, 2016 at 12:33 pm

          For someone who thinks they know the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, you sure appear not to have received Him. Yes, yes all of that is true, but listen if you knew the Power of the Holy Spirit by experience you would not be describing the gifts and talking about what Gifts you have received. Can all Speak in tongues, yes. That has been my experience with those who know the Baptism of the Holy Spirit by experiencing Him in their lives. Read the 2 Scriptures I have referenced. If you had received Him you would know that these describe that experience. Now I test the Spirit, that no demon will ever confess Christ has come in the flesh and God knows I have had to test this. Wake up and receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit and stop talking about Him. You have read Acts I hope. Even Cornelius AND HIS WHOLE FAMILY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SPOKE IN OTHER TONGUES AND THE SPIRIT GAVE UTTERANCE. The one who speaks in tongues in prayer does not have to worry about interpretation since he is speaking mysteries to the Father. Remember the advantage of prayer language of being able to pray ceaselessly. You talked about who and what He does but you did not talk about having received Him or you would have said so. You spoke in defense of not having received Him not have received Him. Believe me if you had received Him you would have talked about Him and quoted scripture ABOUT HIM.

        • Dexter L. Wilson says

          Nov 12, 2016 at 12:37 pm

          I meant to say you would not be speaking About Him but speaking about the experiences you have had with the Holy Spirit. If you had received the Holy Spirit you would know that it occurred.

        • Kay says

          Nov 12, 2016 at 12:37 pm

          @ Dexter

          He is one: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

          This blog is not about me, not about my faith. This blog is JW.
          Jesus bless you. (We are not at odds.)

        • Dexter L. Wilson says

          Nov 12, 2016 at 2:36 pm

          I am cool with that Kay, I do not remember which persons to whom I am speaking. You know how some people will quote “the gifts” and do so because they have no earthly idea or experience concerning them and more especially tongues. You and I know how important the gift of prayer tongues is going to be as we race to the end of the age. Recently Billye Brim has emphasized using increments of 30 minutes around the clock in tongues in order to accomplish the will of the Father in these closing days of this end time period. How can we pray if we don’t know for what to pray, but in tongues and since we are praying in tongues in our prayer closet we are not looking for the interpretation, we are just being obedient to the Father. I wrote this not for your benefit but for those who may be reading it. God knows how important the Baptism in the Holy Spirit in these the last days are and the more we can convince the Body of Christ to come into the fullness the greater the unity and strength of the Body of Christ. Thanks again for understanding.

  34. duh swami says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 4:41 am

    The racist, like the dog, always smells their own first,,,Allah is the biggest racist in the solar system and beyond…

    • No Fear says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 6:21 am

      Allah IS the universe. Cruel, unfair, begets life, begets death, punishes mistakes….all round nasty chap.

      • vladkoval says

        Nov 11, 2016 at 11:48 am

        “begets life, begets death”
        More death than life

  35. Paul Ashley says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 7:19 am

    “Trump will serve as the perfect straw man for the next four years, like Bush did before him,” it said.”

    That statement essentially admits that aggrievement against the West is merely a excuse to fool infidel useful idiots.

  36. George Bacon says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 8:47 am

    When did Muslim become a race???

  37. Carolyne says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 11:15 am

    Muslims are the most bigoted creatures on earth. They hate everyone, including their co-religionists. Islam is not a race. In fact, I do not believe Muslims are quite human with their limited intelligence which permits the women to walk around in garbage bags in fear of the men who might rape them if they don’t.

    Trump was our last chance. We took it.

  38. Mirren10 says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 11:17 am

    . ”Do converts to Islam automatically change race, or is there paperwork?”

    🙂 🙂

    I love you, Robert Spencer !

  39. Dustin Koellhoffer says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 11:25 am

    Muhammadans are in for a beat down!

  40. Susette says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 12:17 pm

    Something equally disturbing is that the Muslim author suggests that “Trump, who has suggested potentially unconstitutional blocks on Muslim immigration…” There is nothing UNCONSTITUTIONAL about blocking the immigration of any foreigner, Muslim or otherwise. Immigration policies are within the jurisdiction and jurisprudence of our government. What an idiot…he is fanning the jihadist flames of Islamists with this inflammatory misrepresentation.

    • Dexter L. Wilson says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 12:20 pm

      We choose many people for their skills and abilities; We need to bring in persecuted Christians and Yasidis. The Muslims who refuse to yield concerning taking in the thousands of Muslims, why should be have to take care of THEIR PEOPLE.

  41. Daniel Rubio says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 3:59 pm

    Unfortunately Trump’s election won’t trigger a “backash” against muslimes (sic). Muslims will be allowed to stay in the country, pester the rest of the population with their whinning and keep on plotting on how to destabilize and undermine America and American values one-paki-cab-driver at a time. CAIR, that association of expert con-artists, professional whinners and islamophobia schyzophrenics, will keep doing what it does best: Attack American freedom of speech, demand that muslim be left alone while they take their advanced seminaries in murdering, dismembering and beheading and cry wolf right and left hoping the bleeding heart liberals will come to their rescue against the bigoted Americans.

    If Trump crashes down on CAIR, disbands every major muslim association in the US, expels every illegal muslim in the US and many legal ones, bans entry to any student from Arab countries, issues a mandatory kick-out of muslims holding any kind of job (even janitorial) from airports, sea-ports, electric-power plants, water reservoirs and any sensitive or security-related job, and starts high profiling of muslims everywhere, monitoring their mosques (while closing several of them), their schools, their imams, then the era of islam in America will come to an end and the curse of the muslim invasion will be removed.

    Islam belongs in Pakistan, Saudia Arabia, Somalia, Egypt and the remaining over 40 failed countries where islam has gotten a strong foothold. Islam has nothing to do in America. It doesn’t share its values, its goals, its aspirations, its ethic. It has nothing to do with the American way of life. Americans criticizing or ridiculing islam and its pedophile prophet muhammad are only doing the right thing, they’re not being “racists”. They’re defending their country from a bunch of savages who are commited to invading the country and turning it into yet another islamic hellhole.

  42. Kasey says

    Nov 11, 2016 at 11:16 pm

    Any criticism of radical Islam, Islam itself or more importantly, Islamic ideology, is immediately passed of under the tag of RACISM. And so many Muslims seem to go out of their way to be seen as Islamic, in one identity form or another. That’s the dodge of Islamophobia, rather than concentrating on Islamoreality as fact.

    Yet It’s not about the criticism of the religion of Islam at all, but it is all about its deceptive, discriminatory,supremicist,violent and lethal IDEOLOGY, as fully described in the Koran and Hadith , the former BOOK being easily described as a manual for Islamic terrorism in so many of its verses [via abrogation]. That’s not
    Islamophobia but a recognition of Islam in action around the world as a full
    expression of Islamoreality.
    The sooner the World wakes up to that fact, Mr Trump confronts it and
    all Muslims in fact do the same, there may be a chance that the call by
    Egyptian President Gen. al Sissi, for major reforms within Islam, may occur.
    Failure here will mean many years of conflict by Islam with Western
    civilization, in Islam’s attempts, in all its forms, for World domination.

    It’s to be hoped that Donald Trump can hold his nerve when it comes now to dealing with America’s home-grown Muslim population and the vetted and screened limited number of invasive Islamic refugee migrants the USA is committed to allow in. The % of non-Musslim refugees may now increase if Mr Trump can reverse the set-up initiated by the very pro-Muslim Obama. That could be a first step. Dealing with CAIR and the OIC may be another of great difficulty

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 11, 2016 at 11:21 pm

      There is nothing in Islam to reform. Christians and secularists are still persecuted in Egypt–it is just slightly less bad than it would have been under the Muslim Brotherhood.

  43. Eternal Vigilance says

    Nov 12, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    Now that is funny….Al Qeada says Americans are racist against Muslims! Since when has “Muslim” been a race? Black, NO; Oriental, NO; Caucasian, NO, Indian, NO, etc.

    I always find those who cover their face as uncomfortable to be around but apparently there is some psychic problem there. Among the more radical elements of Islam not only their women but their soldiers cover their faces as if in hiding or in fear. I guess that says it all!

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