My latest over at the Geller Report:
Linda Sarsour said it at the convention of the Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) over the July 4 weekend. She denounced the Trump administration, saying: “Why, sisters and brothers, why are we so unprepared? Why are we so afraid of this administration and the potential chaos that they will ensue on our community?” Invoking Muhammad, she said: “A word of truth in front of a tyrant ruler or leader, that is the best form of jihad.” She added: “I hope that when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad, that we are struggling against tyrants and rulers not only abroad in the Middle East or the other side of the world, but here in these United States of America, where you have fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House.”
She also went on to say: “Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our communities. It is not to assimilate and to please any other people in authority…Our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah, and only Allah.”
Sarsour’s words were highly charged, and have understandably caused a controversy. Sarsour herself claimed that the widely-circulated clip of her calling for jihad against Trump was misleadingly edited: “Right wing tries to demonize my leadership. Editing videos is their favorite pasttime” — and she tweeted a link to her full speech. In another Tweet, she claimed the mantle of Martin Luther King: “My work is CRYSTAL CLEAR as an activist rooted in Kingian non-violence. This is y my teams r effective cause we r powerful w/o violence.” And in keeping with the tried-and-tested practice of Islamic supremacists all over the West, she claimed victim status: “Stay focused and pray for the protection of those on the front lines of the movements for justice. We are under threat.”
Meanwhile, the Leftist media, ever ready to circle the wagons and rally around one of their own, no matter how egregious the offense committed, is pulling out all the stops to defend Sarsour and heap contempt on the racist, right-wing yahoos who dare to think that her words constitute an incitement to violence against President Trump.
“Women’s March Organizer Linda Sarsour Spoke of ‘Jihad.’ But She Wasn’t Talking About Violence,” Time Magazine reassures us. The Wrap tells us about “3 Things Conservatives Got Very Wrong About Linda Sarsour’s Speech.” The Huffington Post affected a gloat: “Linda Sarsour Said ‘Jihad’ In A Speech And Conservatives Freaked Out.” Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed tweeted a transcript of Sarsour’s remarks, with the comment: “Hey you people scare-sharing Linda Sarsour’s speech, read this transcription, which I just made because you all are trash misquoting her.”
CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill tweeted: “The people disagreeing with @lsarsour clearly don’t understand what Jihad means.” The Huffington Post likewise said that those who were concerned about Sarsour’s words were ignorant fools:
The word “jihad” has long been misused and misunderstood by both Muslim extremists and people seeking to spread hatred against Muslims. But for the majority of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, “jihad” is a word that literally means “to struggle.” It’s a concept within Islam that represents a commitment to serve God, and to be good to yourself and your neighbors. It can be personal, like struggling to get through a rough workday, or overarching, like striving to seek justice for all people.
As Sarsour recounted in her speech, the Prophet Muhammad is said to have described the best form of jihad as “a word of truth in front of a tyrant, ruler or leader.”
Likewise The Wrap:
Many non-Muslims mistakenly believe the word “jihad” means “holy war,” when in fact, it means “struggle” or “striving,” according to the Islamic Supreme Council of America. “It can refer to internal as well as external efforts to be a good Muslims or believer, as well as working to inform people about the faith of Islam,” the Council said. “Jihad is not a violent concept. [It] is not a declaration of war against other religions.” Also, “The concept of jihad has been hijacked by many political and religious groups over the ages in a bid to justify various forms of violence … Scholars say this misuse of jihad contradicts Islam.”
In her speech, Sarsour quoted a passage in the Quran where the Prophet Muhammad explains that the best form of jihad or struggle is “a word of truth in front of a tyrant rule or leader …” Sarsour followed with, “I hope that when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts that from us as a form of jihad, that we are struggling against tyrants and rulers…” She then cited “fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House.”
Though she did make a not-so-subtle reference to President Trump and his constituents, Sarsour in no way incited violence against them. In using the word “jihad,” she merely encouraged her audience to stand up to discrimination.
Yes, in Islam jihad is a spiritual struggle. The Shafi’i legal manual (the Shafi’is are a school of Islamic jurisprudence) ‘Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller), which has been certified by al-Azhar, the foremost authority in Sunni Islam, as conforming to the “practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community,” devotes one paragraph to jihad as spiritual struggle. Then it spends seven pages on jihad as warfare. It makes it quite clear that jihad is warfare against non-Muslims:
Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word ‘mujahada’, signifying warfare to establish the religion. And it is the lesser jihad. As for the greater jihad, it is spiritual warfare against the lower self (nafs), which is why the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said as he was returning from jihad,
“We have returned from the lesser jihad to the greater jihad.”
The scriptural basis for jihad, prior to scholarly consensus is such Koranic verses as:
(1) “Fighting is prescribed for you” (Koran 2:216);
(2) “Slay them wherever you find them” (Koran 4:89);
(3) “Fight the idolators utterly” (Koran 9:36);and such hadiths as the one related by Bukhari and Muslim that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said:
“I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and perform the prayer, and pay zakat. If they say it, they have saved their blood and possessions from me, except for the rights of Islam over them. And their final reckoning is with Allah.”
and the hadith reported by Muslim,
“To go forth in the morning or evening to fight in the path of Allah is better than the whole world and everything in it.’”
What’s more, if jihad is simply a word spoken against a tyrant, then why is there an entire chapter of the Qur’an entitled “Booty” or “The Spoils of War” (al-Anfal). What spoils ensue from a word of truth spoken in front of a tyrant ruler or leader? If jihad is simply a word of truth spoken in front of a tyrant, how is a Muslim supposed to make Jews and Christians “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29)? If jihad is simply a word of truth spoken in front of a tyrant, why have thousands upon thousands of Muslims worldwide joined violent jihad groups? Why are there any violent jihad groups at all? Why is this misunderstanding of jihad so widespread?
Now: does the centrality in Islamic law of jihad as warfare against unbelievers mean that Sarsour was inciting violence against Trump? Not directly. But Linda Sarsour isn’t stupid. Nor is she unaware of what Muslims are doing in the name of jihad around the world today. When she says, “I hope that when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad,” she herself may mean a non-violent standing up, but she has to know that when other Muslims who know the real meaning of jihad in Islam hear that, they will hear it as a call to violence. She must know that when she says that “our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our communities” and that “our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah, and only Allah,” that some Muslims will think of how pleased Allah is with the deaths of unbelievers, since he has guaranteed Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for him (Qur’an 9:111).
All the damage control of the Leftist media, heaping contempt upon conservatives for being so stupid as to think that jihad involves violence, is simply more of the denial and willful ignorance regarding jihad that the political and media elites constantly force upon us. The truth they refuse to realize, and smear us as “Islamophobes” for realizing, is that Muslims worldwide who commit violence against unbelievers regard that violence as a form of jihad, and know that the Qur’an and Sunnah teach warfare against unbelievers.
Linda Sarsour no doubt knows this as well, and as such, knew just how incendiary her words really were. And if a Muslim decides to wage jihad, in its Qur’anic and traditional sense, against President Trump, she should be held legally responsible for this incitement.
Dave says
Since Trump admin thinks inciting violence , exhorting muslims not to assimilate is free speech she will continue to incite so will her other jihadi mullah brothers and expect more jihadi attacks in service of
forever bloodthirsty “allah” !
David says
It’s not about what the Trump administration thinks. It’s about the US Constitution, which gives even cockroaches like Linda Cockroach the right to express their opinion no matter how despicable it may be…
Dave says
That is precisely the flaw not of the constitution but of the people who run the govt and the judiciary.
you think conspiring to murder is free speech which results in murder ? Can it be defense in court to let you off ? of course not !
So why is inciting to violence ,exhorting not to assimilate not sufficient ground for penalty with at least 1 -2 years in jail for those who apologise ?
If they don’t they must be thrown in jail longer periods with deportation at the end of it.
If the Law remains an ass , jihadis and criminals will continue to get away. When constitution was written Islam was not a threat and there were virtually no muslims in America.
ed cox says
If idiots could fly you would be a pig close to bathhouse barry’s rear .
mgoldberg says
The problem is there will be no mainstream christian, jews, buddhists. or others who will stand up and say that ‘assimilating’ to the laws of the nation is what we hold sacrosanct, and honorable’ assimilating to the desires for individual rights and the responsibilities’ that they encur, are sacrosanct, and honorable. Sometimes new citizens and immigrants make it, some don’t but we don’t blow up others in our despair nor do we consider it honorable to be a victim and howl like such as sarsour and a thousand other muslim ‘leaders do.
they are reprehensible and it is they who encourage and entitle their converts to behave with malice aforethought, and violently, even serial homicidally and for this she is to be condemned and watched and observed for more criminal inclinations.
Robert Crawford says
There is only one crime in the Constitution, and this video is sufficient to convict her, again on the terms laid out in the Constitution.
somehistory says
True. If she had tried this in the past, she would have been arrested and charged. But, the *climate* has changed and too few are arrested for real and serious crimes committed pr given the punishment they deserve (which will be coming their way one day,)…
warren raymond says
Calling for jihad (open warfare) is not an opinion, it is incitement.
It is also sedition and treason. The constitution doesn’t protect such activities.
ScottM says
But who will move against her? – Nobody. Not now any way. But eventually it will be a bloodbath. We will become what we hate in order to purge ourselves of this cancer. In the process we will never, ever be the same. Nor will our countries. If we don’t yield to islam, how can there be any other outcome?
gravenimage says
Scott, the idea that you have to become evil in order to defend against evil is quite mistaken.
The Allies did not have to become Fascists in order to defeat them.
sophie says
and this piece of narcissm
she claimed the mantle of Martin Luther King: “My work is CRYSTAL CLEAR as an activist rooted in Kingian non-violence
gravenimage says
Of course, Martin Luther King was not waging Jihad.
Manuel 2 Paleologus says
She should be questioned by FBI. She should be prosecuted in federal Courts. The mayor of New York is encouraging her and supports her. He is another cockroach.
Susan says
I am shocked. This is not a free speach. She is inciting hate! Is this even allowed? Phobia is a fear of unknown. But Islam, fear of what is preaching and practising is very well known.
So why it is such a dirty word!
You never hear or fear, Hindus, Budhists……
Demsci says
It may be inciting hate what Linda Sarsour talks, but as Robert explained, it is inciting violence as well.
Maybe you don’t appreciate me making this perhaps subtle difference.
But the thing is that Robert Himself, who certainly never incites to violence, is standardly accused of inciting hate. So if “we” fault Linda Sarsour for that, it becomes easy for Muslims and leftists to retaliate and point out counterjihadists also do it. And people around them will not be easily able to contradict that.
If either side talks so called hate speech, the answer should be more good speech from the other side, not censorship. But there is a clear boundary between inciting to hate and inciting to violence.
Mark Swan says
You are right Demsci, she knows very well who her audience is.
ermom says
David, This is the ‘BIG LIE’, the propaganda pushed by all those who despise and want to overthrow our nation, communists, socialists, Islamists, etc. THERE IS NOTHING IN OUR CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS, THAT SAYS WE MUST COMMIT NATIONAL SUICIDE. In fact, Oaths of Office & Naturalization, demand the oath taker to ‘Defend our Constitution from enemies, both foreign and domestic’.
Since >50% of Muslims living in the USA, when polled think that Sharia should replace our Constitution, IMHO, that makes them TRAITORS.
Islam is incompatible with our Constitution. It is political (gov’t) and is supremacist, as anything non-Islam, MUST give way to Islam. Look at history. We MUST stand up and make a law: NO FOREIGN LAW IN THE USA.
Demsci says
Quite right ermom,
I like to put this in historical context; it is obvious that Islam precedes the constitution and more in general the comprehensive democratic system and it’s core values; CONSTITUTIONAL STATE, Separation of state and church, free fair elections, the freedom of the individual and freedom of speech.
And if someone, either consciously or subconsciously, holds those principles and/ or values dear, that person, IMO, is already being anti-Islamic!
My point being that our system and values came later than Islam, but never could have originated in an Islamic nation, and when they came into existence, and still, must have been rejected and denounced by the vast majority of Muslims and especially Muslim scholars. At least in essences.
But sometimes it seems to me as if leftists and people in general have this backwards and since Muslims came en masse to democratic nations, seem to think that Islam came later than the Democratic system (oh, and I mean “our accomplished democratic system”, not so much the Ancient Greek one”).
And that they treat Islam as something new. Some say therefore that Islam is anti-Democratic and they are very right. But to me it is even more powerful to assert that anyone who appreciates our democratic system, values and freedoms to a significant degree thereby automatically is anti-Islamic, although he/ she may not realize it.
ed cox says
The problem is most don’t understand that here in the USA we live in a republic . If you wish to live in a marxist democracy immigrate to any nation in the EU , OR ANY MUSLIM NATION .
Mark Swan says
A Book
The Supreme Court, the White House, and, in some cases Congress, have systematically subverted the Constitution and treated it like a “nuisance,” said Sen. Mike Lee.
In his new book, “Our Lost Constitution,” the Utah Republican outlines a number of cases in which all three branches of government have undermined the Constitution, in some cases deliberately and in others due to laziness and stupidity, The Washington Examiner reported.
“Many Americans probably assume that our lawmakers understand our founding document and are devoted to defending it,” Lee wrote, according to the Examiner which obtained an advance copy. “Unfortunately, that assumption is in many ways incorrect.”
He added, “The truth is that our Constitution is being subverted by many of the very people who have solemnly sworn to protect it.”
The 256-page book published by the Penguin imprint Sentinel is written as mini-histories about constitutional provisions he feels have been violated along with an explanation of their intent.
“Only about 1 percent of the rules we must live by are enacted by the most accountable branch of government — Congress,” Lee wrote, adding that it routinely “ducks and dodges” difficult decisions that require an understanding of the Constitution. The result, he says, is that the government bureaucracy is given the power to decide how laws and regulations are implemented.
The book has already been praised by constitutional scholars, according to the Examiner. Lee will be embarking on a book tour starting with major stops in New York.
Penguin said the book details the “dramatic stories behind the most neglected parts of the Constitution, from Alexander Hamilton to Barack Obama.”
In the book, Lee gives the example of the abandonment of the Origination Clause in 1892, which says that all bills to raise taxes must originate in the House. He said the eventual result was Obamacare.
Lee is a former Utah federal prosecutor who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito before he joined the high court. A strong defender of the Constitution.
Linda Goudsmit says
The Constitution does not give anyone the right to incite violence against the President or to foment insurrection to overthrow the government – it is treason. LOCK HER UP!
Vita says
LOCK HER UP!!!!!
Jacqueleen says
There is a difference between free speech and anti-Americanism. Immigrants are allowed to come to this country because they want to be here. They love this country and want to assimilate into our culture and will be an asset to our mulit-cultural environment. This is not the case with Muslims. THEY WANT US TO ASSIMILATE INTO THEIR ISLAMIC CULTURE. President Trump is not in the know on this topic.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PEACEFUL MUSLIM. The radicals are openly violent and aggressive but the moderates are silently violent and aggressive working feverishly on a mission to multiply and infiltrate the nations that they occupy for take over from within (DAWA). It is time that civilized nations wake up to the truth. Evict every Muslim to the Middle East, to Saudi Arabia for financing them and to Yemen for training them…Then, ban them to live in tents and caves and banned from entry or re-entry into a civilized nation. ISOLATION IS THE ANSWER. If the Muslims are isolated in the desert, they will come to realize that Islam is a demonic political cult and NOT ACCEPTABLE IN SOCIETY. It is the epitome of stupidity and ignorance. God can find them even in the desert for conversions. WHAT SEEMS LIKE TOUGH TREATMENT IN ESSENCE IS MERCY.
Do we allow criminals to walk the streets? Yes, since Obama and his leftist judges, we do see more criminals on our streets…but that has to change also…Isolation will work for Obama and the judges as well.
Jaladhi says
Jihad is “holy war”!! Period. From seventh century onwards the expansion of Islam was done by calling the faithful to jihad to invade the neighbors and other kingdoms. Why are these stupid people in our media telling lies of the meaning of word jihad which could also mean struggle. However, go ask any common Muslim in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia – he will tell you jihad is holy war and is mandatory for every Muslim to spread Islam. Sarsour is simply calling for holy war, violence in the country by invoking jihad. For Muslims no other call is holier than the call for jihad to takeover other territories, eliminate non-Muslims!
Jaladhi says
Calling for jihad cannot be regarded as her right – it is an open call for Muslims to fight and revolt violently against the present administration and therefore it is treason.
abad says
And those Moslims who commit treason should be deported to Syria.
It does NOT matter if they were born in the USA like Sarsour was, or not.
The fact remains that Moslems want to massacre non-Moslems and take over the United States of America.
We will NOT let them.
Savvy Kafir says
Agreed. They should be deported to any war-torn Muslim-majority country we can dump them in. Just take their U.S. passports & other I.D., and drop them off in Syria, etc. No need for tricky politics or paperwork.
They are enemies of the state, calling for the violent overthrow of our government & our way of life. We do have a right to defend ourselves.
Jacqueleen says
Treason! I thoroughly agree. Muslims are enemies to all society and every civilized non-Muslim nation. They belong banned to the desert to live in caves and tents where the uncivilized belong. Then, banned from entry or re-entry into a civilized society. Too bad that Muslim woman are not given the chance to choose between living within civilization as a Christian or going back to Saudi Arabia or Yemen to live out their lives as Muslim slaves to a bunch of idiot men who want their cake and eat it too….Islam is a violent cult not a religion…Allah is Satan and not our God. Isolation is the solution. Pray for the conversion of Muslims to Christianity.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, many Muslim women are just as savage as their male coreligionists.
Stan Lee says
I don’t care how Sarsour distorts “Jihad” to fit her purposes, we all , at least those who see straight, have seen the immediate results of “jihad” and the exposure to lunatic Muslims who can explode in a second to perpetrate “jihad” as their religious calling. For that matter, their distortions go as far as their devotion to killing for jihad. Before Sarsour, “jihad” supposedly meant “my struggle,” meaning the jihadi’s struggle. The remedy to that struggle is to cleanse the irritant, in this case a person or people,
The usual victims are non-Muslims for their “error” in not being dedicated “to the Prophet,” but a victim can also be any Muslim they choose to hang the “apostate” label on. And, anyone they decide is irreverent to Islam’s doctrines can be conveniently accused of apostasy…a virtual death warrant.
Sarsour is receiving lots of attention from the Leftist sell-out media, all positive. But, the only reason the Leftist sell-out media would report anything about President Trump is if it can be twisted to negativity.
Sarsour gets positive notoriety, because she’s the Islamist darling of a fake news media, but that same bought and paid for media either lies, invents, or is 91% negative concerning the President of the United States! If that media could get away with treason, it would be broadcast or printed every minute of every day!
Robert Crawford says
“Kampf” means “fight or struggle”.
Do Arabic translations of “Mein Kampf” use “jihad” in their title?
Just A Concerned Citizen says
Close. “Kifahi” (كفاحي) is the term chosen for the Arabic translations (more or less synonymous, however).
I have a copy on the shelf, which I purchased off the front table of a bookstore in the Manama, Bahrain airport. Clearly a big seller in that part of the world.
gravenimage says
Yes–Mein Kampf is a best seller in Dar-al-Islam.
sophie says
The collaboration and pact between Al-Husseini the Grand mufti at that time and the Nazis is little spoken of , But the education of the arabs into the propaganda of the NAzis, and the systemic hatred of Jews by arabs for centuries sealed the deal.. Extermination of jews had begun in middles eastern countries hundreds of thousands of jews were killed or fled for their lives. Hamas charter was written the firs t terrorists were trained by Nazis in Egypt. the agenda has always been to exterminate Jews documented history. Islamic Messianic fascism is also an agenda that has been covertly in operation particularly since that time Linda Sarsour is the face of of the insidious slimy agenda. infiltrate get public to like you then slowly push the agenda. world Jihad subjugation or conversion. Islamic Messianic Fascism
The Istanbulian says
Well I hope Linda will be just as supportive of non-Muslims fighting against assimilation in Muslim occupied lands.
ItsReallyQuiteClear says
Interesting point.
This filth isn’t saying that all immigrants, everywhere, have the right to reject their host country’s culture. She’s saying that Muslims must follow the Islamic doctrine that forbids them from following any law except Sharia (because they can’t place any doctrine or law above their god’s word). That’s why she would reject the broader interpretation of what she said.
Westman says
Sarsour is as representative of mainstream Islam as Louis Farrakhan.
Sadly, she’s a loudmouth budding politician using the current climate to gain power, not with Muslims, with leftists, feminists, and liberal administrations. If Muslims ever came to dominant power she would be kicked aside, or worse, for treading with the feminists and daring to speak for masculine Islam. Since that will not happen in the US, in her lifetime, it’s a win-win for both her political power and wealth.
She is sabotaging the US from within, as desired by the Muslim Brotherhood, and aided by useful lazy dolts who won’t study the ideology she is attempting to represent.
One could suspect the only danger to her rise, will be her own words. Being in the herd tends to shade one’s perception from changes in reality and different thinking, similar to the MSM’s inability to consider Trump could be elected.
Benedict says
“Our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah, and only Allah.” –
When Muslims please Allah, they please themselves.
Eagle Nest says
The American people need to take notice of what Texas is doing and follow their lead. Pass laws that prohibit Sharia Laws from appearing in our courts. There is only one law of the land and that is the American Constitution and anyone that does not agree should leave this country. If the Muslims cannot assimilate into the American culture, they should leave for their own welfare somewhere else.
Michael Copeland says
“Where is your weapon? Where is your weapon ? Come on to the Jihad.” — Omar Bakri.
“The greatest sacrifice made in the way of Allah is Jihad. In it man sacrifices not only his own life and belongings but destroys those of others also.” — Maulana Maududi, Towards Understanding Islam
“You shall not regain Al-Aqsa [Jerusalem] and Palestine without preparations, rockets, and guns… not… through negotiations, capitulations, kisses, or hugs. The one thing that will restore Palestine to you is Jihad, Jihad, and more Jihad.” — Sheik Muhammad Zaghmout, head, Palestinian Islamic Council in Lebanon, 2012.
“The abolition of man-made laws cannot be achieved only through preaching.… It must employ Jihad.” — Sayeed Qutb, Milestones.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/10/the-mindset-need/
Eagle Nest says
Please Mr. President Trump, drain the swamp. Start by reviewing every government employee hired during the Obama administration. Especially, starting with the Muslim sympathizers within government and any contractor related. The leaks will continue unless you get serious. These people cannot help themselves. As Linda Sarsour says: “Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our Muslim communities. It is not to assimilate and to please any other people in authority…Our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah, and only Allah.”
Shmooviyet says
In other words, to keep “our Muslim communities” good and islamic. Her words are frighteningly similar to the klansmen who spoke of keeping “white communities” clean and white, protecting against the ‘browning’ of pure white Americans.
Apparently this ‘defender of women’ stops shy of those females who end up horribly scarred or butchered by their families for having non-muslim boyfriends or friends, or showing interest in Western clothing/culture. (The two Texas sisters killed by their beastly father come to mind; and the photos Pamela shows of women disfigured by acid or hot oil.) Sarsour must applaud this defense of islamic honour.
LS is a miserable, insecure, hateful BIGOT– as rotten as the white-robed, cross-burning klowns of 50 years ago.
jak says
Treat the invasion like an invasion and all muslims as invaders
paul says
to all the Muslim apologists…the Qur’an’s use of the word “jihad” does in fact mean “struggle” but, its not referring to any inner struggle, it clearly means physical struggle against unbelievers…why else would the Qur’an command Muslims to kill unbelievers, particularly focusing on killing all Jews?
pnr says
When she talks about “Kingian non-violence” does she understand this goes back to Mohandas Gandhi (Vedic Hindu) from India and his ideas first began with sect of Sikhs known as Namdhari? Does she understand these men and women who originated non-violence (like Jains) are strict vegetarian? Does she understand such non-violent activists are also against slavery, girl/women abduction, abortion,
meat-eating? Islam permits abortion and tortured animals are eaten by Mohamadans. They make a distinction between Islamic women and the women-folk of other communities.
I hate it when Mohamadans twist the truth – their real aim is enslavement of non-muslims, humiliating non-muslims, taking their lands and wealth and of course deception every step of the way when communicating with non-Muslims. Mohamadans wish to establish Global Caliphate: for the sake of future generations it is duty of free men and women to make sure Global Caliphate Never comes into being.
sophia says
I doubt she does .good post
IQ al Rassooli says
I have for ever asserted that it is IMPOSSIBLE for any Muslim to be a LOYAL citizen among non Muslims. Linda Sarsour proves my point every time she opens her hate filled sewer mouth.
Linda Sarsour is the most perfect example of Stealth Jihad. She is a Muslima who PRETENDS to be part and parcel of the American Dream but is actually Sharia Compliant and hence a TRAITOR to both the American Constitution and the American people as I shall prove forthwith
The word Jihad in the Arabic language has its root in JAHADA which does mean Struggle/ Endeavour/ Strive
Unfortunately, those who explain it in SPIRITUAL terms (like Linda Sarsoulr in her talk) are deliberately deceiving and misleading the public about its actual meaning based entirely upon the Arabic language of the Quran and the Hadiths.
In innumerable verses in the Quran and the Hadiths JIHAD means only ONE thing:
“PHYSICAL WARFARE in the cause of Allah” which in Arabic it is:
“Jihad fi Sabil^Allah”
Most human beings, whether followers of Muhammad or not, do not know that Muhammad UNILATERALLY declared TOTAL and ETERNAL war, 1400 years ago, against ALL UNSUSPECTING Human Beings who do not believe as he does.
Contrary to all the falsified assertions by politically correct westerners and aided and abetted by Muslims (Such as Linda Sarsour) who have every reason to hide the truth, Jihad is not a SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE for excellence but a CONTINUOUS WAR against all so called UNBELIEVERS until all of humanity is either converted to Muhammadan Islam, is subject to it or is SLAUGHTERED.
In fact, among Muslim scholars, it constitutes the unwritten SIXTH PILLAR OF MUHAMMADAN ISLAM.
Muhammad’s Quran and the Hadiths are crystal clear in affirming this. The Quran and Ahadith contain hundreds of verses attesting to and asserting this DOGMA.
Not ONCE in the Quran or Hadiths can anyone find the word JIHAD mentioned by itself meaning SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE.
All the derivatives of the word JIHAD in the Quran and Hadiths represent ACTS of WAR and AGGRESSION to spread the belief in Allah AND in Muhammad as the messenger of Allah.
To be able to INDOCTRINATE any human being, to be so prepared as to willingly die for a belief, thus becoming a martyr [shaheed] who would be rewarded with ETERNAL SEXUAL, SENSUAL & CARNAL PLEASURES in the afterlife than in life on earth, in Muhammad’s Whorehouse version of Paradise should be considered among the most DIABOLICAL weapons of war ever conceived.
In such a war, very little mercy could be shown to the enemy until it is totally subdued, converted or exterminated.
This IDEOLOGICAL ‘weapon’ has been used throughout ‘Islamic’ history both against the ‘infidels’ as well as against other ‘unbelieving’ sects of Islam.
In all of the Quranic verses – as well as in the Ahadith – Jihad is invariably associated with physical warfare and fighting and not as a spiritual striving for a higher morality and or discovery of self.
In reality, there is no SECULAR WAR in Muhammadan Islam because from the very beginning of the Muhammadan Islamic polity, war and aggression were the means by which the Muhammad and his followers built up their empire.
Jihad became a perpetual HOLY DUTY of warring against ALL infidels; that is a continuous war of aggression against ALL those who do not believe as they do; in
“Allah and his messenger, Muhammad”
These wars were not in defense of ‘Islam’ but to gain territory, economic wealth, slavery, booty, rape and plunder. Converting these peoples to ‘Islam’ was last on the agenda of Muhammad’s followers but became a very important by-product of these wars of aggression.
It is a cruel irony – if not actually divine justice – that among the largest victims of Jihadi terror were, and continue to be OTHER MUSLIMS. Each side of the conflict between two or more of the warring ‘Muslim’ factions or sects, accuse their opponents of Kufr and or Unbelief, turning them into ‘Enemies of Allah’ and hence subject to ‘divinely’ sanctioned destruction.
In this manner and according to the Quran, their unholy book, since all are Muslims killing other Muslims, none will ever be received in Paradise but will assuredly end up in Allah’s Hell.
For those who are in doubt, the following very few sample verses and Hadiths should easily and conclusively sober you up:
Al Tauba 9:5 “But when the forbidden months are past then fight and slay [fa’qtuloo] the pagans wherever ye find them and seize them beleaguer them and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war”
Al Tauba 9:29 “Fight [qatiloo] those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His apostle nor acknowledge the religion of truth [ISLAM] (even if they are) of the People of the Book [Christians & Jews] until they pay the Jizya (Financial penalty for not being a Muslim) with willing submission and feel themselves humiliated”
Sahih Al-Bukhari 4.50 Narrated by Anas bin Malik
“The Prophet said, ‘A single endeavor of fighting in Allah’s Cause {Qital fi Sabil Allah} (JIHAD) is better than the world and whatever is in it.'”
Sahih Muslim Hadith 4631 & 4626 Abu Huraira
“I heard Muhammad say: … I love that I should be killed in Allah’s Cause [Jihad]; then I should be brought back to life and be killed again in Allah’s Cause [Jihad].'”
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 4.73 Narrated by Abdullah bin Abi Aufa
Allah’s Apostle said, “Know that Paradise is under the shades of swords.”
There are HUNDREDS more of similar verses in the Quran and the Hadiths for those who have the appetite for blood.
I wish Linda would debate me
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Richie says
and leftist gays and lesbians support her, despite the Islamic desire to kill gay people
TL says
The cosmos has a sense of humor.
Steve Klein says
Conservatives have all kinds of theories why the left is apoplectic over the Trump presidency, everything from healthcare reform, the Wall, his unguarded statements about women, global warming, etc. There is no question in my mind, the left went hysterically mad and has not recovered since Trump’s first proposed a comprehensive Muslim ban during the campaign, which under pressure from his own party (Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, etc.) he scaled back significantly. Even the current watered down version has not alleviated the rage. Linda Sarsour speaks for today’s left.
Richie says
Left wing hatred of Trump baffled me as he is actually very liberal on social issues
Steve Klein says
Exactly. It is Trump’s national security proposals (especially when it comes to Islam) that has them climbing the wall. You might be shocked (well maybe you wouldn’t be) at how utterly detested Spencer is by many leftists for writing opinion pieces like this one. Robert Spencer and those who read him (Frontpagemag, Pamela Geller) are racists, bigots, Islamophobes; white supremacists. I debate them every day on news sites, The Hill and other news sites.
jah says
the endlessly duplicitous nature of Islam is perhaps its great weapon in the modern age
Richie says
A question- has Linda Sarsour openly voiced hatred of Jews and the state of Israel or has she couched her hatred within vague euphemisms?. Given the Jew hatred on the left, they would love her for that reason alone
Steve Klein says
Yep.
Smack Daddy says
If one does not assimilate then they reject our society and our values, which she confirms in her speech. I say we need to hear more of her rants so she can dig her own grave. It is pretty telling when CNN defends her.
Oh well, just another angry muzzie. Pretty sure she has many keeping an eye on her…
John A. Marre says
This individual is a horrible person. She preaches hate and violence against this country. But even worse than her is the media, which rolls out the red carpet for her, strews flowers in her path, cleans up her words, lies for her, and promotes her agenda.
Walter Sieruk says
A man’s actual character is known not only by who he has as friends but also by who he has as enemies .Therefore this helps explain why the jihadists, including that stealth jihadist Linda Sarsour and the leftists as those as the ACLU, the Marxists, the anarchists and the jihadists all hate for President Trump with a passion . This is strong evidence that Donald Trump is the right man to be President of this nation. . In other words, those all those characters just mention terrible detest Mr. Trump not only serves as a good compliment to him but this also reveals that Donald Trump must be an all American patriot..
Walter Sieruk says
The message needs to be made known to all the Muslims, which includes Linda Sarsour, who live in the United States of America who dislike and maybe even despise the US Constitution and would like to replace it with Sharia law. Those same Muslims instead in trying to force Sharia law on American citizens and their nation those are free to leave and really should leave the USA and then go to live in either Shii ‘ite, Iran or Sunni , Saudi Arabia if they actually feel the Sharia law is the grand, great and wonderful .
Moreover, all this is a strong reminder of the wise words declared by Theodore Roosevelt in a speech. “There can be no fifty –fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism , only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Mark Swan says
Absolutely Walter Sieruk, that is a good quote.
Demsci says
Yes, very good quote.
Pres. Trump the other day gave a magnicent speech, in Warsaw, but this time more about the whole Western alliance of nations and it’s great values and freedom.
It is my big hope that Poland, and with it Chech rep, Slovakia, Hungary will close their borders for Muslims immigrants. Declaring something in the line of how Theodore Roosevelt thought.
Then: it becomes time to compare the internal situation and problems of the countries that allow mass Muslim presence and the ones who hold this off.
When the Muslim-refusing countries overall perform better, on objective criteria, than the Mass Muslim-allowers, then those who favor the Western values have a great argument for refusing Mass Muslim presence.
If it is the reverse, or if there is no appreciable difference, then OK, mass Muslim immigration and presence is no major problem, might even be beneficial. But I don’t think so.
Jack Holan says
lSarsour is a total puppet without a brain. Knowingly or unknowing she he just committed 2 major Felonies. She called for Jihad (a violent war) against The President of the United States of America. It makes no difference who the office holder might be. She basically called for War or violent insurrection by soliciting Jihad against the Government. No crap Jihad means struggle and is Peaceful. She called for unmistakeable violent Jihad. She could also be charged with Recruitment of an enemy of the USA. IM GLAD YOU CLEARED UP FOR EVERYONE CONCERNED and other Muslims have no intention of assimilating when people choose to make another country their home the usually have an appreciation of what the host country has to offer. Therefore it begs the question why would you come to a country that you has no desire to become part of, that you came with Sharia, money to build Mosques & Minarets covering all the US and far greater than your numbers needs. You have validated the fears of even skeptics
Donald R Laster Jr says
An Islamic is only loyal to the State of Islam. No oath they give to anything other than the State of Islam is meaningful. Their fealty is to Islam. If they have citizenship of another State they will engage in treason to overthrow the government of the other State.
BlueRaven says
This evil mass murdering cult woman is on the pay roll of a wealthy Demon-Rat.
gravenimage says
Linda Sarsour’s jihad against Trump: here’s why she really is inciting violence
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Of course she wants to wage Jihad against Trump–no matter how scattershot his actions, he is actually trying to protect us from violent Jihad. Can’t have that–it’s un-Islamic.
Jack Holan says
Where and the HELL did he find McMasters or whatever his name , out of a looney Tune? The first time I heard him speak he was discussing yhe Religion of Peace and how WE need to understand Muslims in order to reduce conflict and I thought how did they find him to replace Flynn who knew exactly who our enemy is today? They must have a separate Contrarian Committee working at the WH to come up with these crackpots
gravenimage says
There is no doubt that Trump has gaps in his understanding of Islam, Jack.
tpog says
Guess you can say this speech is blatantly treasonous, inciting violence — crimes that should bring the justice system down on her head. But no, if anyone criticises this stupid cow publicly they’ll be the ones facing charges. Wonder what Bernie Sanders thinks now.
Jack Holan says
Preoccupied with the FBI investigation of his wife. It doesn’t look good for her
Joe Sanchez says
First this is not your land or community, and it never will be, we do not accept you or your Jihad,alaah or any aspect of your being, your in a country, that was forced to take you in by a tyrannical government who usurped our government, with the help of traitors within our own government who are being identified everyday, and once they are removed we the American people will decide who lives in our country, and who receives our benefits. The past administration was made up of traitors and terrorist, who paid off weak American officials, and are still trying, but will never succeed.
Eagle Nest says
Joe Sanchez , you are spot on!!!
Mark Swan says
Absolutely Joe Sanchez.
tgusa says
The US taliban. Brought on us by the modern establishment. Nice job you country wreckers. We will have no other choice but to sort this out later. Muslims will be muslims but there is no excuse for what these western enemies among us have done.
davej says
“Jihad” means “an internal spiritual struggle” in the same way they describe Islam as “a religion of peace”. It is pure purposeful deceit – the time honored propaganda technique of the “big lie”. Islam is all about war and conquest and has been for 1400 years.
She calls for never assimilating and pushes allegiance to Allah over every other consideration – including American laws and the US Constitution.
So what do the pathetic Liberals do? Applaud her and put her on a pedestal as some kind of heroic “freedom fighter”. Sickening – Jefferson and Paine are rolling over in their graves.
She should be in prison, not out inciting violence and hatred.
Donald R Laster Jr says
That is part of the “Progressive” movement agenda to impose the idea of “Supremacy of the State and Supremacy of those in control of the State”. This is why people need to know real history. It is one reason I got “Law of Nations” since it actually defines the foundation concepts of Western Civilization and especially the foundational concepts of the US.
tgusa says
“So what do the pathetic Liberals do? Applaud her and put her on a pedestal as some kind of heroic “freedom fighter”.”
If pathetic western leftists (not anything close to liberal) like their ideology they can keep their ideology. Yes sir, lol.
Dum Spiro says
FOLLOW-UP SARSOUR VIDEO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TEN_GOP/status/883058495712579585/video/1
That is the context in which she should be seen more and more…
— Spero
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Thank you for this thumbnail profile of Linda Sarsour. Sister Sarsour is a great woman, the Sister Souljah of our time.
As a public speaker, her words are inspiring. She addresses her audience as “Sisters and Brothers”, not sexistly as “Brothers and Sisters”. And her innovative use of “ensue” as a transitive verb (“chaos that they will ensue on our community”) is nothing short of poetic.
But she suffers from bad reporting. The Wrap reports that “Sarsour quoted a passage in the Quran where the Prophet Muhammad explains that the best form of jihad or struggle is ‘a word of truth in front of a tyrant rule or leader'”, but neglects to look up the Quranic citation. C’mon, The Wrap, let’s have chapter-and-verse, so we can memorize this slogan in classical Arabic, to casually drop into conversation at our next cocktail party.
And what about the story behind the story? Barack was as great as he was because of the behind-the-scenes support of Michelle. Feminist magazines like “Cosmopolitan” and “Ms. Magazine” sometimes do profiles of such great women behind great men. Linda too must have a mahram who supports her, by allowing her out of the house, accompanying her to her speeches, and being lenient with Quran 4:34. But we don’t even know the name of her mahram. Who is he? Perhaps CAIR will start an online magazine called “Mahram” that will tell the inspiring stories of “the Muslim behind the Muslimah” for high-profile Islamic spokeswomen.
Maybe I’ll send this idea to my “in” at CAIR, the official Saad Mohammed, who is profiled here:
https://www.cairoklahoma.com/blog/living-life-on-purpose-saad-mohammed-discusses-his-devotion-to-interfaith-service/
Stonewall says
Christians do not have a word for “Jihad”. In the context of an ‘inner struggle’ and then ‘warfare against unbelievers’.
But, we have had some crazy people who have joined cults and followed some bad people.
The concept of Jihad has to be understood in that way.
Of course the greater Jihad would be learning Islam and following it absolutely. Completely immersing yourself to the point of brainwashing.
Once that is complete, then it is easy to kill others and even yourself in a suicidal blast.
So, it’s easy to drink the kool-aid once the brain is gone.
This woman is a Jihadi. She is instigating terror attacks and of that there is no doubt.
The Leftist media will defend her and plead innocent in the end…
Dum Spiro says
This will help you understand better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DOo8-_mlzo
After watching that, you’re now better understanding Linda Sarsour and Islam, yes?
— Spero
Mark Swan says
Good One Dum Spiro, spooky, but, still funny.
WPM says
David Woods youtubes are usually right on target. He also breaks down the real message a very informed funny man.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link.
Jayell says
So she’s trying to incite violence in pursuance of a ‘holy war’ against a democratically-elected State president? If I can find my dictionary I’ll look up the word ‘treason’, because I’ve got a feeling that this concept is somehow relevant here. Don’t they execute traitors? Or maybe her over-sized, over-optimistic ego is as big as her over-capacious mouth and she believes that she’s bigger than whole American Democracy and can pull off her little coup hands-down, as per the old English saying…..
“Treason doth never succeed.
What’s the reason?
For if Treason do succeed’
Who dare call it ‘Treason’?
Yokel says
Robert wrote: Now: does the centrality in Islamic law of jihad as warfare against unbelievers mean that Sarsour was inciting violence against Trump? Not directly. But Linda Sarsour isn’t stupid. Nor is she unaware of what Muslims are doing in the name of jihad around the world today. When she says, “I hope that when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad,” she herself may mean a non-violent standing up, but she has to know that when other Muslims who know the real meaning of jihad in Islam hear that, they will hear it as a call to violence. She must know that when she says that “our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our communities” and that “our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah, and only Allah,” that some Muslims will think of how pleased Allah is with the deaths of unbelievers, since he has guaranteed Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for him (Qur’an 9:111).
Obviously Sarsour is indulging in one of the many islamicly sanctified practices of lying: Deception by misleading. Merely for my education, could someone please tell me the official (ie transliterated arabic) name for this particular type of islamic untruth telling?
Bruce Scott says
Charge her with sedition as she is being deposited in a Federal Prison.
ronyvo says
The problem I have is not why Muslims behave like that. I know. I studied their evil Koran, I lived amongst them for over 25 years. The problem is the westerners. Why they allow them in their countries. I cannot reason that ignorance is the problem. Not even blindness, by not ‘seeing’ what Muslims are actually doing in their generous and kindness countries. Those westerners vote for Muslim leaders or supporters to Muslims. That is my huge problem.
Paul Ashley says
We must continue to press the point that violent jihad is not the only threat posed by Islam. The non-violent imposition of sharia through suckering and cowing infidels, is perhaps more dangerous. It is the good cop to violent jihad’a bad cop. Two sides a a bad coin with one goal, subjugation.
sophie says
I would debate and stand up to Mde. Sarsour anytime anywhere. This woman’s agenda, cloaked in a seductive sweet guise of camaraderie may fool some Americans but not all. The woman should be investigated and deported. Her funding, her connections her maneuverings using our democratic ideals against the United States is obvious .I fail to understand how people think she is anything but a blight upon humanity. Sycophantic people are what? not just misled but enthralled by her? What is there of humane substance? She has advocated for the extermination of jews as per Hamas charter .,Her palestinian lineage ,perhaps it could be her grandparents, were with Al-Husseini making the pact with the Nazis to wipe out all Jews in the middle east .Why doesn’t anyone ever speak of this? The bottom line of the agenda to wipe out all jews in the middle east before even Israel was mandated to the Jewish people. that diaspora where hundreds of thousand s of men women and children were forced out of their homelands and fled or killed with no right of return. the first terrorist trained by Nazis in Egypt. the great plan between AL-husseini palestinian and nazis . Its the root and its all connected. with the muslim brotherhoods and funding. an this woman an insidious well manipulative plan, to institute shariah and ams th e United states an d the world Muslim The messianic fascist JIhaD.,Why does not anyone investigate?sShe calls for cutting out the clitoris of Ali HIrst,For Gods sakes she has called for JIhad. Yes anytime anywhere i would debate her publicly in NYC
WPM says
You are right but Linda the “cockroach” will never debate anyone with half a brain. The powers to be in NYC let her give speeches to all kinds of groups supported by city and state government leaders ,give her honors .The progressives believe the lies because they want to they {progressives} are anti West, Christian and Jewish. They the progressives want to over throw the big mean people who use religious faith as a guideline to moral personal behavior. People who believe in the Christian or Jewish form of God do not believe in hurting or subjugating people who do not believe. The progressives believe they can tame the Islamic beast after the overthrow of Western laws and morals. The progressives are one world believing idiots who think one government in the world would rule wisely and fairly. Islam believes in one set of Sharia laws for the whole world. A Nazi form of rule that crushes any human freedom of free will and compassion for fellow human beings.
Aussie Infidel says
Ms Sarsour said, “When I wake up in the morning and remember who is sitting in the White House I am outraged.”
Well Ms Sarsour, when I wake up in the morning and remember that dogmatic ideologues like you are being aided by leftist politicians and academics to indoctrinate gullible students with your totalitarian, theocratic and political ideology, I am also outraged. Over many decades, takiyya speaking Muslims like you have duped thousands of gullible Westerners, that Islam is a ‘religion of peace’; but its holy scriptures call for violent jihad or ‘holy war’ against all non-Muslims (Quran 2:190-193, 2:216, 4:74, 4:89, 4:95, 8:39, 8:60, 9:5, 9:14-15, 9:29, 9:123, 47:4).
Sarsour claims that her activism is non-violent, and that might well be so. However, as every student of Islam knows, jihad takes many different forms. Sarsour’s jihad is simply using taqiyya to mislead gullible Westerners. But she is still defending a violent theocratic ideology which is hell-bent on subjugating all other religions and cultures, and imposing its iniquitous Sharia law.
The Huffington Post reported that “those who were concerned about Sarsour’s words were ignorant fools”, and went on to give the usual sanitized definition of ‘Jihad’. However, it seems that the journalists at HuffPo have been subjected to too much Islamic taqiyya. Have these useful idiots not read section O9.0-9.8 of The Reliance of the Traveller – a manual of sacred Islamic (Sharia) law, where Jihad is described as “warfare to establish the religion”? These days many journalists in the Fourth Estate, behave more like Fifth Columnists, undermining our heritage and freedoms from within. It’s the journalists at HuffPo who are the fools – or worse – traitors to their country.
Despite Sarsour’s deceptive rhetoric, I still believe in the absolute right of freedom of speech. So rather than simply calling for Sarsour to be banned or silenced – as she would do to others – her tirade must be countered by argument exposing Islam for the destructive, dogmatic, theocratic and political ideology it is. But don’t hold your breath while trying to get permission from some of the leftist universities to do so.
sophia says
erudite counter-argument? i dont believe that is all that will put an end to her deceptive propaganda. She represents CAir, Muslim Brotherhood et al. the network itself needs to be dismantled. they need to be discredited. THe so called friends and supporters of hers who are not Muslim need to be educated. i dont believe so few voices will have much effect. A non violent educated , calm movement must educate people. so many Americans already have a visceral fear of Islam .Islamic FAscism should be credbly presented in the exact context Mr. Spencer doe s present it .Platforms that are public must be used for speakers well versed and well armed in the theology if i may use that term and political apocalypse of Islam. We should be using our own freedom of speech to give voice not just let their well oiled network manipulate the West
WPM says
Right now at the G20 summit the only world leader there not wearing the stupid EU pin on his or her suit is Trump. Trump is wearing an American flag pin, because he is not a one world government believer. With all his faults and gaffs, I am still glad his is president of America .
gravenimage says
Agreed, WPM.
jasnan says
The west should read the Quran and expose the violence in Quran and expose their Pedofile Prophet Mohammed……….muslims should be ashamed to meet in public and call themselves a member of the pedofile’s violent cult……
WPM says
The Islamics know no shame the ones that know the Quran follow it quote it when they do Jihad like ISIS. The one that do not know the Quran well follow their leaders that follow it and can not question the leaders because they will face a possible death sentence. It is like trying to change a Nazis mind on Fascism.
Enola G says
Oh yes we have misunderstood the word “jihad” oh and FGM feels real good. ? ? ? ? ? ?
Rob says
So America and other Western countries are pressured to accept thousands of Muslims to whom Sarsour lectures “Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our communities. It is not to assimilate and to please any other people in authority…Our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah, and only Allah.”.
Well, if any immigrant comes to this country with no intention to assimilate, then that immigrant needs to be turned away. And if Sarsour (don’t you just love that name) dislikes American society and government so much, then she should LEAVE – I’m sure that I’m not the only American willing to pay her airfare out of here.
sophie says
Yes, in Islam jihad is a spiritual struggle. The Shafi’i legal manual (the Shafi’is are a school of Islamic jurisprudence) ‘Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller), which has been certified by al-Azhar, the foremost authority in Sunni Islam, as conforming to the “practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community,” devotes one paragraph to jihad as spiritual struggle. Then it spends seven pages on jihad as warfare. It makes it quite clear that jihad is warfare against non-Muslims:
Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word ‘mujahada’, signifying warfare to establish the religion. And it is the lesser jihad. As for the greater jihad, it is spiritual warfare against the lower self (nafs), which is why the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said as he was returning from jihad,
“We have returned from the lesser jihad to the greater jihad.”
The scriptural basis for jihad, prior to scholarly consensus is such Koranic verses as:
(1) “Fighting is prescribed for you” (Koran 2:216);
(2) “Slay them wherever you find them” (Koran 4:89);
(3) “Fight the idolators utterly” (Koran 9:36);
and such hadiths as the one related by Bukhari and Muslim that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said:
“I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and perform the prayer, and pay zakat. If they say it, they have saved their blood and possessions from me, except for the rights of Islam over them. And their final reckoning is with Allah.”
and the hadith reported by Muslim,
“To go forth in the morning or evening to fight in the path of Allah is better than the whole world and everything in it.’”
What’s more, if jihad is simply a word spoken against a tyrant, then why is there an entire chapter of the Qur’an entitled “Booty” or “The Spoils of War” (al-Anfal). What spoils ensue from a word of truth spoken in front of a tyrant ruler or leader? If jihad is simply a word of truth spoken in front of a tyrant, how is a Muslim supposed to make Jews and Christians “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29)? If jihad is simply a a word of truth spoken in front of a tyrant, why have thousands upon thousands of Muslims worldwide joined violent jihad groups? Why are there any violent jihad groups at all? Why is this misunderstanding of jihad so widespread?
Now: does the centrality in Islamic law of jihad as warfare against unbelievers mean that Sarsour was inciting violence against Trump? Not directly. But Linda Sarsour isn’t stupid. Nor is she unaware of what Muslims are doing in the name of jihad around the world today. When she says, “I hope that when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad,” she herself may mean a non-violent standing up, but she has to know that when other Muslims who know the real meaning of jihad in Islam hear that, they will hear it as a call to violence. She must know that when she says that “our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our communities” and that “our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah, and only Allah,” that some Muslims will think of how pleased Allah is with the deaths of unbelievers, since he has guaranteed Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for him (Qur’an 9:111).
gravenimage says
Good post, Sophie.
carol says
Yeah, it really reminds me of Robert’s post – but why would any non-muslm want to wish peace upon the dead corpse of a highly uncredible prophet?
Donald R Laster Jr says
Excellent information. However, the text should be completely translated. For instance this is fuller translation of the one paragraph cited:
“I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no god but the God and that Muhammad is the Messenger of the God, and perform the prayer, and pay zakat. If they say it, they have saved their blood and possessions from me, except for the rights of Islam over them. And their final reckoning is with the God.”
The word “allah” when properly translated is “the god”. In Mohammad’s times the word generally referred to the chief god of the Arab pantheon of gods – Hubal the moon god. The word “allah” is a contraction of “al” (the) and “ilah” (god). I am not sure what the proper translation of “zakat” is. I capitalized “God” since it is being used as a proper noun.
Islam is rooted in violence and anyone who has taken the time to study the Qur’an and learn Islam’s history know this. So I suspect Linda Sarsour knows she is promoting violence.
sophie says
Mde. Sarsour knows she i s very clever , savvy and deceptive. She knows . Perhaps she thought her position has become so rooted that she could begin another stage in her true agenda
thankyou for adding more interpretation.i believe the erudite we are and as well citing auras and texts from Hadith and Quran. the better armed we are.
Aussie Infidel says
Many good points there Sophie. Sarsour is simply a mouthpiece for the mullahs advocating jihad against the West, and I’m also sure she knows that means violence.
As you indicate, one of our greatest problems is that most westerners know very little of Islam’s history. I recently met a university lecturer who asserted, “There is no violence in the Quran!” Such people claim that any quotes from the Quran are either ‘cherry-picked’, ‘misinterpreted’, or ‘taken out of context’.
Donald R Laster Jr says
And the order of the Qur’an may be done to hide the promotion of violence as well. That which was written earlier , for instance the peaceful portions of the Qur’an where Mohammad was trying to get Jews and Christians to worship the god (“al ilah” or “allah” or “the god”) he worshiped, was replaced with the violent portions of the Qur’an, written after Mohammad’s lies were rejected by Christian, Jews, and followers of Hubal (the god of Mohammad) and the Arab gods.
j in VT says
She says ‘don’t assimilate’, then ‘wage jihad.’ How nice. Emigrate to this country, accept the public’s tax derived moneys, and then protest what you have fled to. Sort of a jizya tax already.
Not many people revile me, but she does.
steve brown says
This Nazi Jihadist will probably be the number one news anchor on CNN .
TL says
Let’s not become bent out of shape by the sophistries of Sister Linda. That aspect of her behavior is consistent with what all pious Christians are fond of doing when promoting their oily sects.
Yes, Islam is a heresy of Christianity. Whereas Trinitarianism is a Christianty of masochism and love bombing, Islam is the Christianity of sadism and decapitation. Both sects are Christianities of absurdities like reincarnation from the grave.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Islam has no association with Christianity or Judaism. Don’t fall for that lie. Islam involves the worship of Hubal the Arab moon god – chief god of the Arab pantheon of gods.
ed cox says
You don’t have a clue about what Christianity is . Must be ether a muslim , atheist , marxist or all the above .
gravenimage says
No Christians are ranting about waging Jihad. What a load of tripe.
Robn says
I think shes taken a step too far this time,many more will see her for what she really is
Mahendra Singh says
I just cannot stand her, when she appears with a mop wrapped around her head.