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Raymond Ibrahim: ‘We Are Not Weak’: Does Islamic Claim Stand Up to Scrutiny?

Jan 4, 2017 5:32 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Last month, Abdul Razak Ali Artan — an 18-year-old Muslim refugee from Somalia, who was receiving aid from Catholic charities — rammed his car into a building at Ohio State University. He then got out and stabbed people with a butcher knife, sending 13 people to the hospital before he was gunned down by police.

In a Facebook post that Artan wrote — and which the media cited to portray his violence as a product of “Muslim Grievances” — the young Somali made an interesting statement: “America stop interfering with other countries, especially the Muslim Ummah. We are not weak. We are not weak, remember that.”

Is this true? Is the Muslim world “not weak,” but a force to be reckoned with? Something we all should “remember”?

Watching the behavior of Western politicians who kowtow before everything Islamic, one can see why Artan and many others — including in the West — believe that America had better watch its step lest the Ummah arise in wrath.

Ironically, that’s how the White House responded to Artan’s attack itself. It warned Americans not to be critical of Muslims — the apologist’s way of conflating criticism of Islam (an idea) with criticism of Muslims (people) — because “we are more likely going to contribute to acts of violence than we are to prevent them,” in the words of White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.

Despite the White House’s own weakness, the truth is that the Muslim world is incredibly weak.

Indeed, if the West saw and treated the Muslim world the way the Muslim world has always seen, and when possible, always treated the West, there would likely be no Muslim world to speak about today.

This reflects the dichotomy between Islam and the West — a dichotomy reflective of the will and the way. The West has the way — including the military and economic might — to utterly neutralize Islam, one way or the other. Yet it doesn’t even have the will to preserve itself, as evidenced by all the recent terror attacks and rapes committed by Muslim refugees in the West.

Were European nations and America to ban or severely curtail Islam from their borders — which is doable, as Hungary has proven, not to mention justified — Islamic terrorism on Western soil would cease. It’s that simple.

Conversely, Islam most certainly has the will to eliminate the West, though it currently doesn’t have the way (minus those ways the West gives it). Historically, for over one millennium, whenever Islam had the way, it always went on the offensive.

From day one of Islam to today, mainstream, orthodox Muslim understanding divides the world into two perpetually warring halves: the “abode of peace,” where Islamic law reigns, must — when possible — wage jihad on the “abode of war,” where non-Muslims rule. And that’s precisely what Muslims did for over one millennium.

The result is that the overwhelming majority of lands that today make up the heart of the “Muslim world” — Egypt, all of North Africa, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, etc. — were once non-Muslim, and were taken by great violence and bloodshed over the course of centuries.

Back then, when much of the world was limited to fighting with swords and spears, arrows and fire — back when Islam was on an even footing with its neighbors — untold millions of non-Muslims were slaughtered, enslaved, or converted to Islam.

Western military technology eventually progressed to the point that Islam was left in the dust. Its will to dominate went dormant, but remained intact.

Put differently, if Islam was the one to have developed sophisticated armaments and weapons of mass destruction, while the West was still using swords and spears, there would be no West to speak of today. Faced before Islam’s three choices — conversion, enslavement, or annihilation — the West would have gone the way of the dodo, like many civilizations that opposed Islam before it.

Yet here is the free and mighty West, refusing to use its powers — even in the name of self-preservation — while empowering an Islam that openly vows to, and will, subjugate the West once the way to do so becomes available.

Listen to Winston Churchill, who knew the dangers of procrastinating while one’s ideological enemy grows in power:

[I]f you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

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  1. Angemon says

    Jan 4, 2017 at 6:49 am

    Listen to Winston Churchill, who knew the dangers of procrastinating while one’s ideological enemy grows in power:

    It’s politically incorrect to listen to Winston Churchill in our day and age of because he was a racist/sexist/xenophobe/. He would probably be arrested just for speaking his mind:

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/uk-churchill-quotation-gets-liberty-gb-leader-paul-weston-arrested

    • Keith Gilbert says

      Jan 4, 2017 at 9:06 am

      Sir Winston Churchill is an inspiration to all who see the evil that islam is and has always been. His bronze bust soon to be returned to our White House, removed because the islamic POTUS just couldn’t stand hearing the truth from a white man…Sir Winston, a righteous man who spoke truth to evil! Worthy of all who hear that truth and see the evil islam crow what it is; submission to evil! A hollow promise without merit or a future.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Jan 4, 2017 at 1:11 pm

        “No stronger retrograde force exists in the world”,
        Churchill
        Print your own Churchill on Islam wallet cards:
        http://www.libertygb.org.uk/news/churchill-islam-wallet-cards

  2. john spielman says

    Jan 4, 2017 at 7:10 am

    I will NOT be silent with this politically correct BS attitude toward islam: islam is a doctrine of Satan and muhammed was a demon possessed mass murderer thief liar rapist and pedophile pervert.
    islam is death darkness and hell to all who follow it!

  3. The RationalVoice says

    Jan 4, 2017 at 8:29 am

    Churchill was a great wordsmith and wise in many ways and was just the leader needed for Britain in its war against the evil German NAZIS.
    However it should be remembered that he was an avowed British imperialist which
    would be a ridiculous position to take in todays world.
    The British people rejected him in the election after WW2 despite leading them to victory. We are facing an insidious Islamic threat and plain speaking and action is required to minimize this threat which like the 1930s has been allowed to grow to unacceptable levels. Maybe Trump in alliance with Putin can do it(unless Europe wakes up from its slumber this year).
    I heard the most stupid of German leaders since Hitler, Angela Merkel say that she would like to turn the clock back. Wouldn’t we all and take her out of the equation !!!
    Anyway France first and then Germany has the chance to rid themselves of the paralysing weakness of left wing/ liberal/and so called political correctness in the 2017 elections. Lets hope they grasp the opportunity with both hands !!!

    • TH says

      Jan 4, 2017 at 10:45 am

      I am Irish and we were under British rule for centuries, and our forefathers suffered the slaughter brought about by Oliver Cromwell, but I would have to say that British Imperialism was a lot better than Islamic dominance.

  4. TH says

    Jan 4, 2017 at 10:55 am

    In many of the great battles of the Christian world against Islam, the victory came to the Christian warriors who were much less numerous than the Muslims. This happened in the decisive Battle of Navas de Tolosa in 2012, thanks to which Muslim power is Spain was broken and not long after that Córdoba and much of Southern Spain was reconquered. To a good degree, this victory came about thanks to the application of new tactics by the Christian armies, whilst the Muslims continued with the same systems they had used more than four centuries before. Likewise, the Christians were inferior in numbers at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, and at the siege of Vienne in 1683. In those days, they were moved by their faith and the knew what kind of slavery awaited them under Islamic rule if they did not prevail. They had the will to struggle against great odds, and they won. They were perfectly aware that Christian civilization was far superior to the Islamic one.

  5. Debi Brand says

    Jan 4, 2017 at 1:21 pm

    “Were European nations and America to ban or severely curtail Islam from their borders — which is doable, as Hungary has proven, not to mention justified — Islamic terrorism on Western soil would cease. It’s that simple.”

    Amen, Mr. Ibrahim, amen.

    ……………………………….

    [because the Muslim is] … commanded to fight all non-Muslims, unless and until all reject other beliefs, and acknowledge the supremacy of the message that Muhammad allegedly brought. Thus reject the above statements from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; rule those words as rubbish. Then, tossing the above words of God Almighty in the garbage, instead, “believe in” and embrace that which the “prophet of Islam” brought.

    And unless one does that, every able-bodied Muslim is Allah-obligated to do his or her part, be that overtly or covertly, front-line “soldier” or mere supporter of that, in seizing, with the “leave-of-Allah,” your freedom, your property, your life and spill your blood.

    That, Sir or mam, is Islam.

    Moreover, because that is basic fact, we are fools, fools, fools to allow the Muslim the freedom to practice here in our nation, the tenets of their faith. Fools!

    ……………………………………………..

    “Who will tell the world” of the fierce battle that ended in the fall of al-Jazirah to Islam?

    No one will— there was no such battle. Therefore, as cited above, the story of al-Jazirah’s fall to Islam told is the story told of far too many a tribe, a people, a township, once Islam pressed its way into it.

    The story of agreeing to terms presented by the Muslims. Thus the story of surrender after surrender, capitulation after capitulation, because it is impossible to defeat an enemy one refuses to face and to fight. And that enemy was, is, called Islam.

    It is called the way, the “religion” of the alleged “Prophet of Islam.” It is “the Prophet and his army,” fighting in the way of Allah, fighting for the cause of Allah. Hence, fighting to insure they do as they are commanded to do, as did Abu Bakr, as touched on above, as will be spoken to again shortly, as all good Muslims are determined and careful to do: fulfill the command of the Messenger of God.

    And all who refuse to identify that foe as just that, fight just that, arrest its advancing, will, at some point, capitulate to its rules.

    …………………………………………….

    Read the rest at: http://islamexposed.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-prophet-waged-war-by-means-of.html

  6. mortimer says

    Jan 4, 2017 at 1:54 pm

    ISLAM HAS LOST THE PUBLIC RELATIONS WAR thanks to the TRUCK OF PEACE and people like Abdul Razak Ali Artan who commit murder of Western people in the name of Islam.

    Abdul Razak Ali Artan is a REFUGEE who tried to DESTROY his American saviors. WHAT AN ACT OF BETRAYAL in the name of ISLAM!

    Since recent the TRUCK OF PEACE attacks, it is now PERFECTLY CLEAR to most Western people that Islam is at war with Western civilization.

    No more concessions to Islam. If they don’t like our Western countries the way they are, they can pack up and LEAVE for Berzerkistan. Western countries should pay Muslims to go.

  7. Alicia Sinclair (@CJRyan7) says

    Jan 4, 2017 at 3:26 pm

    Utterly unarguable. The history of Islam is precisely as you describe it.
    We have binned God-so the Islamic mock up of one who they pledge allegiance to is now the gaping black hole of Islamic black deeds and propaganda. Albeit with clear scriptural injunctions that we as kuffar are not to be allowed to tell them-and with silent approval from the second strand of jihad that is in the slow lane, relying on economic lawfare, grievance f\arming and-of course-the demographic certainty that they will be able to win elections-to be held only the once though.
    Until we see it as an existential fight to the death-Islam being incompatible with hitherto-accepted “western codes”-then we shall continue to wave shrouds around, using them as white flags of surrender-and begging for the Muslim slipper to bear down on our open necks by way of release. The current crop of appeasers would rather the rest of us die that they have to ditch their John Lennon songbook. Thankfully in 2016, we saw the first stirrings of something that might deal with our treacherous liberal elite-Muslims are only doing what the Koran tells them to, not their fault if WE fail to know what`s going on, That`s what sites like THIS are for. Great article sir!

  8. jewdog says

    Jan 4, 2017 at 5:39 pm

    Not only is the Muslim world technologically inferior, but its internal divisions stemming from its hateful and abusive ethics have internally weakened it. This internal weakness invites outside intervention and could lead to a superpower clash. Add to that the looming nuclear arms race and its a witch’s brew.

  9. Jose Luis Toledo says

    Jan 5, 2017 at 1:27 pm

    I am really amazed and stunned, stupefied and confused, numb and shocked to see what is happening throughout the Western world, Africa and Asia, while in South America the “invasion” is quieter and subdue – until their numbers increase!
    Where are the men in France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, and the rest of the world and what kind of man are they that they can non oppose such a bunch of barbarians in their midst?
    Who is behind of this politically correct acceptance of “Submission to Islam”?
    If the crooked and corrupt politicians can’t and/or don’t want to protect their own citizens WHY ARE THEY NOT VOTED OUT OF POWER AND REPLACED WITH PATRIOTS??

  10. Karen says

    Jan 5, 2017 at 6:45 pm

    “We are not weak”. Hahahaha, actually, dummy, you’re dead. And If your name hadn’t been mentioned by this article, you would have been completely forgotten by now. No worries, that will happen soon.

  11. dragaozao says

    Jan 6, 2017 at 3:35 am

    I’m just waiting to see how the world will became with Trump on USA presidency. Maybe wins of change are coming. But I don’t trust politicians. I’ll wait and see. Because things must change or our civilization will perish.

  12. Harold says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 2:09 am

    The Umah is far weaker than touted. For starters, most of the Muslim world can’t even feed itself – almost all Muslim African countries receive significant food aid. Afghanistan, for example, has been on food aid since 1970. The Taliban regime would have collapsed except for US/EU food aid. Yet they breed rapidly. Without the oil of Arab countries, the standard Muslim country would mirror Yemen or Somalia; starving and killing each other. The religion is based on the plunder of others and remove that and it collapses in on itself.

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