A few weeks ago, I noticed that a hashtag, #ConfessYourUnpopularOpinion, was trending on Twitter. So I thought I would have a little fun, wrote out the tweet below, and forgot about the whole thing until this morning, when I received this email warning me that this tweet was being evaluated for possible violation of Twitter’s “hateful conduct policy.”
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Islam is not a religion of peace. The Quran exhorts Muslims to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers. #ConfessYourUnpopularOpinion
— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) August 7, 2017
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“We are sending you this notification to allow you to evaluate it,” said Twitter.” All right. Let’s do that.
One might get the impression that Islam is not a religion of peace from the authoritative sources in Sunni Islam, the schools of Sunni jurisprudence (madhahib):
Shafi’i school: A Shafi’i manual of Islamic law that was certified in 1991 by the clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the leading authorities in the Islamic world, as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy, stipulates about jihad that “the caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians…until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim poll tax.” It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh Ali Salman, a Jordanian expert on Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war only “provided that he has first invited [Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)…while remaining in their ancestral religions.” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.8).
Of course, there is no caliph today, unless one believes the claims of the Islamic State, and hence the oft-repeated claim that ISIS et al are waging jihad illegitimately, as no state authority has authorized their jihad. But they explain their actions in terms of defensive jihad, which needs no state authority to call it, and becomes “obligatory for everyone” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.3) if a Muslim land is attacked. The end of the defensive jihad, however, is not peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims as equals: ‘Umdat al-Salik specifies that the warfare against non-Muslims must continue until “the final descent of Jesus.” After that, “nothing but Islam will be accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until Jesus’ descent” (o9.8).
Hanafi school: A Hanafi manual of Islamic law repeats the same injunctions. It insists that people must be called to embrace Islam before being fought, “because the Prophet so instructed his commanders, directing them to call the infidels to the faith.” It emphasizes that jihad must not be waged for economic gain, but solely for religious reasons: from the call to Islam “the people will hence perceive that they are attacked for the sake of religion, and not for the sake of taking their property, or making slaves of their children, and on this consideration it is possible that they may be induced to agree to the call, in order to save themselves from the troubles of war.”
However, “if the infidels, upon receiving the call, neither consent to it nor agree to pay capitation tax [jizya], it is then incumbent on the Muslims to call upon God for assistance, and to make war upon them, because God is the assistant of those who serve Him, and the destroyer of His enemies, the infidels, and it is necessary to implore His aid upon every occasion; the Prophet, moreover, commands us so to do.” (Al-Hidayah, II.140)
Maliki school: Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a pioneering historian and philosopher, was also a Maliki legal theorist. In his renowned Muqaddimah, the first work of historical theory, he notes that “in the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.” In Islam, the person in charge of religious affairs is concerned with “power politics,” because Islam is “under obligation to gain power over other nations.”
Hanbali school: The great medieval theorist of what is commonly known today as radical or fundamentalist Islam, Ibn Taymiyya (Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya, 1263-1328), was a Hanbali jurist. He directed that “since lawful warfare is essentially jihad and since its aim is that the religion is God’s entirely and God’s word is uppermost, therefore according to all Muslims, those who stand in the way of this aim must be fought.”
This is also taught by modern-day scholars of Islam. Majid Khadduri was an Iraqi scholar of Islamic law of international renown. In his book War and Peace in the Law of Islam, which was published in 1955 and remains one of the most lucid and illuminating works on the subject, Khadduri says this about jihad:
The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God’s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world….The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state. (P. 51)
Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Shari’ah and Law of the International Islamic University in Islamabad. In his 1994 book The Methodology of Ijtihad, he quotes the twelfth century Maliki jurist Ibn Rushd: “Muslim jurists agreed that the purpose of fighting with the People of the Book…is one of two things: it is either their conversion to Islam or the payment of jizyah.” Nyazee concludes: “This leaves no doubt that the primary goal of the Muslim community, in the eyes of its jurists, is to spread the word of Allah through jihad, and the option of poll-tax [jizya] is to be exercised only after subjugation” of non-Muslims.
All this makes it clear that there is abundant reason to believe that Islam is indeed inherently violent. It would be illuminating if Twitter produced some quotations from Muslim authorities they consider “authentic,” and explained why the authorities I’ve quoted above and others like them are inauthentic. While in reality there is no single Muslim authority who can proclaim what is “authentic” Islam, and thus it would be prudent not to make sweeping statements about what “authentic Islam” actually is, clearly there are many Muslim who believe that authentic Islam is inherently violent.
One might also get the impression that Islam is inherently violent from these Qur’an verses:
2:191-193: “And kill them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you; persecution is worse than slaughter. But do not fight them by the holy mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, kill them — such is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is all-forgiving, all-compassionate. Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there shall be no hatred except for evildoers.”
4:89: “They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore do not take friends and protectors from them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and kill them wherever you find them; do not take any of them as friend or helper.”
5:33: “This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement.”
8:12: “When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast terror into the unbelievers’ hearts; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!”
8:39: “Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s entirely; then if they give over, surely Allah sees the things they do.”
8:60: “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror thereby into the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatsoever you expend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.”
9:5: “Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.”
9:29: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not practice the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of the Book — until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”
9:111: “Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfils his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph.”
9:123: “O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing.”
47:4: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if Allah had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will not send their works astray.”
There are some tolerant verses in the Qur’an as well — see, for example, sura 109. But then in Islamic tradition there are authorities who say that violent passages take precedence over these verses. Muhammad’s earliest biographer, an eighth-century Muslim named Ibn Ishaq, explains the progression of Qur’anic revelation about warfare. First, he explains, Allah allowed Muslims to wage defensive warfare. But that was not Allah’s last word on the circumstances in which Muslims should fight. Ibn Ishaq explains offensive jihad by invoking a Qur’anic verse: “Then God sent down to him: ‘Fight them so that there be no more seduction,’ i.e. until no believer is seduced from his religion. ‘And the religion is God’s’, i.e. Until God alone is worshipped.”
The Qur’an verse Ibn Ishaq quotes here (2:193) commands much more than defensive warfare: Muslims must fight until “the religion is God’s” — that is, until Allah alone is worshipped. Ibn Ishaq gives no hint that that command died with the seventh century.
The great medieval scholar Ibn Qayyim (1292-1350) also outlines the stages of the Muhammad’s prophetic career: “For thirteen years after the beginning of his Messengership, he called people to God through preaching, without fighting or Jizyah, and was commanded to restrain himself and to practice patience and forbearance. Then he was commanded to migrate, and later permission was given to fight. Then he was commanded to fight those who fought him, and to restrain himself from those who did not make war with him. Later he was commanded to fight the polytheists until God’s religion was fully established.”
In other words, he initially could fight only defensively — only “those who fought him” — but later he could fight the polytheists until Islam was “fully established.” He could fight them even if they didn’t fight him first, and solely because they were not Muslim.
Nor do all contemporary Islamic thinkers believe that that command is a relic of history. According to a 20th century Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid, “at first ‘the fighting’ was forbidden, then it was permitted and after that it was made obligatory.” He also distinguishes two groups Muslims must fight: “(1) against them who start ‘the fighting’ against you (Muslims) . . . (2) and against all those who worship others along with Allah . . . as mentioned in Surat Al-Baqarah (II), Al-Imran (III) and At-Taubah (IX) . . . and other Surahs (Chapters of the Qur’an).” (The Roman numerals after the names of the chapters of the Qur’an are the numbers of the suras: Sheikh Abdullah is referring to Qur’anic verses such as 2:216, 3:157-158, 9:5, and 9:29.)
Here again, obviously there is a widespread understanding of the Qur’an within Islamic tradition that sees it, and Islam, as inherently violent. And we see Muslims who clearly understand their religion as being inherently violent acting upon that understanding around the world today, in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Israel, Nigeria and elsewhere. We can hope that those who embody the true, peaceful Islam that Twitter assumes to exist come forward and work against the Muslims who believe in violence, instead of just issuing pro-forma condemnations. So far we have not seen that. On the contrary, we see reformers threatened and cowed into silence. The Moroccan activist Ahmed Assid condemned violence in Islam’s name and was immediately declared an apostate and threatened with death by Muslim clerics. If the Ahmed Assids of the world represent the true Islam that is not inherently violent, the message has not gotten through to all too many of their coreligionists.
So: is Twitter going to drop this tweet, and probably soon enough ban me altogether, for telling unwelcome truths? Have at it, you simpering millennial totalitarians with your horn-rimmed glasses and your lattes. Before too long, the evil that you are enabling will turn its attention to you.
Arch Kennedy says
Interesting. I have been told that I was going to be beheaded and to watch out. I reported and they said it did not violate community policy. SMH
CelticToTheBone says
There is a new “Twitter” style Social Media platform available. It is named “Gab”. As an Irishman I immediately saw its potential – “The gift of the Gab” that we Irish are purportedly, genetically gifted!
https://gab.ai/home
Gab launched earlier this year and is growing. I am not associated with it any way other than as a “User” and admittedly have not “Gabed” yet.
I check it from time-to-time and it appears similar in structure to Twitter – it has a 300-character limit and the founders appear to be adding other functionality gradually. Product description from Wikipedia:
“Gab is an Austin, Texas-based[1] social networking service created as an alternative to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It allows its users to read and write short messages of up to 300 characters, called “gabs”. The site also offers limited multimedia functionality. Gab describes its mission as “to put people and free speech first” by limiting censorship to filtering options made available to Gabbers.[5]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network).
On a personal note, I’m in the midst of launching a “Blockchain” underpinned ICO “Initial Coin Offering”, on the “Ethereum” platform, to raise funds for my Blockchain Consulting firm (Incorporated in February 2017) and I expect to use Gab to promote it in addition to Twitter as I adhere to the principles of the American constitution – particularly its first 2 Amendments regarding Freedom of Speech and the Right to keep and bear Arms and Gab identifies the infringement of Free Speech by “Facebook” and “Twitter” as the impetus behind the development and launch of Gab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum.
I will announce my Blockchain entities here as I move closer to my various Launch dates.
John Forbes says
Actually Douglas Murray has a great post on You Tube called – What have we learned that is well worth listening to abou LIES WE WESTERNERS are TOLD that we must BELIEVE !
GREAT post but the ACTUAL Reality is horrifying !
In the UK at least I believe that the ELITE & Establishment have decided that a PRAGMATIC SURRENDER is the way to go & are currently softening their population on preparation for this!
The DEATH of QUEEN ELIZABETH the SECOND will start this off fast I believe !
Bat Ears Charles who will be the THIRD CHARLES & I hope for a NANOSECOND & CAMILLA are well entrenched with the SAUDI WAHABI factions !
This will signal the END of British Christendom & Democracy as we know it & introduce SHARIA !
PABLO says
Once again, the enablers of Islamic supremacy strike. Truth is the new hate when one can’t compete in the arena or defend an indefensible position.
Tazz says
what do you expect when twitter is owned by saudi prince ?
Mark Swan says
Tazz, you are correct
Saudi Prince Alwaleed Doubles His Ownership of Twitter
http://fortune.com/2015/10/07/saudi-prince-twitter-stock/
D Austin says
Controlled Opposition: Clinton Machine Caught Funneling $20 Million to The Young Turks
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/clinton-machine-paid-young-turks-undermine-progressive-movement/
Can’t have anymore Bernie types influencing future elections or uncontrolled political agendas…
John Forbes says
This VAST WEALTH of the SAUDI WAHABI people is a result of OIL WEALTH & 50 Years of US & OTHERS Bonds sold to pay for DEBT !
The SAUDI;s back & support the Muslim Brotherhood & C.A,I R & the Southern Poverty Law Group among others & in MY VIEW are very dangerous !
This infiltration in all US Departments is probably why it is almost impossible to “DRAIN THE SWAMP”
The WEALTH is STAGGERING actually& the WEST can no longer come close !
An EXAMPLE is SAUDI SPENDING on NEW CITIES in SAUDI ARABIA !
The WEST CAN NO LONGER do things like this !
FEW in the WEST seem aware !!
Shane says
Yes, the statement is truthful which should be enough to defend any statement. I do not see why Islam should get special protection from social media companies when it is clear that Islam is the most violent and misogynistic religion in the world today. I do hate Islam, as well as, Marxism, Communism, Liberalism, FemiNazism, Fascism, and Nazism. So what?
John A. Marre says
The statement is 100% correct, but right or wrong doesn’t matter to the social media, which has set itself up as the monitor of all speech, with authority to promote or suppress.
Michael Copeland says
“There can be no peace … . The Islamic movement can and must take power as soon as it is morally strong enough … to destroy the non Islamic power … .”
Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia (backed by NATO and the EU).
“No peace can be made between us [Muslims] and the non-believers. This what our holy book says. This what Allah says.”
Yusuf al Qaradawi, Al Jazeera TV, 9 January 2009.
frank anderson says
I see little alternative to cutting loose from any place or group that stifles and punishes free and critical speech. I have cut loose from many such groups and am relieved to be away from people with whom I must avoid subjects or choose my words. “There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.” A number, almost certainly the vast majority, of the people who read and post here are not blind and can see the destruction coming to the blind standing on the busy railroad tracks of Islamic conquest. That’s my opinion.
t. says
Your opinion is a fact! Unfortunately either we or our offspring will be unwillingly standing on “the busy railroad tracks of Islamic conquest”, unless we find another life friendly planet in this vast universe, to go to.
frank anderson says
T, only if we “convert, submit or die” or fail to resist with every available resource and method. To quote an unknown source, “Some will; Some won’t; But some will.” Only when all give up will they win.
frank anderson says
T, additional thought: Goethe (?) “You must hammer or anvil be.” Make them take the trip.
David says
You are acting like stating the truth has some bearing on Twitter’s action.
Obviously a false assumption.
D Austin says
“Have at it, you simpering millennial totalitarians with your horn-rimmed glasses and your lattes. Before too long, the evil that you are enabling will turn its attention to you.”
And the liberal mentality is: “It can’t happen here”, and when it does, “Well, what’s wrong with that?”
Lauren Hermann says
D. Austin,
You have stated the truth, and most perfectly. It’s frightening.
steveA55 says
A brilliantly thorough response.
Unanswerable.
Except they could respond with ‘Racist, Bigoted Islamophobe’.
Then you’ve really lost the argument.
Infidel Task Force says
“…the evil that you are enabling will turn its attention to you.”
Well said.
John W says
“Have at it, you simpering millennial totalitarians with your horn-rimmed glasses and your lattes.”
Now that was funny. Thanks for always throwing in hefty doses of humor and sarcasm. It doesn’t lessen the seriousness of what you are saying yet makes it a tad easier to swallow.
John S. Obeda says
How good it is to have such an effective command of English as Mr. Spencer has. May God bless all warriors for the truth to have the power of words and express themselves perfectly. And then God also bless them with the ability to bear the consequences for speaking the truth for the world does not want to hear it. But may we all speak the truth anyway, for the sake of the truth and the welfare of our nation!
Shalom says
I think the humour comes as a kind of coping mechanism. I’ve only developed that similar way of talking recently when referring to the absurdity that is going on all around us. It helps to alleviate feelings of helplessness and despair.
I don’t want Islam to win!
Frank Anderson says
Shalom, please consider watching the Clint Eastwood movie Outlaw Josey Wales for some inspiration. Listen to his musings at several points in the movie. I think they might help focus on what it takes to win. With respect and best wishes.
Guest says
It’s not hateful if it’s true
frank anderson says
“It’s not hateful if it’s true.”
Only to Infidels. Respect for truth does not exist anywhere in Islam.
WorkingClassPost says
Twitter finds the truth is hateful, is that the same as saying that for Twitter the truth is hate or that Twitter hates the truth?
Could this have anything to do with islam?
JawsV says
This is an example of why I don’t use Orwellian Twitter and Fake Book. They both stink, run by leftist Islam-loving retards.
t. says
When I thought that I came to the end of creative, imaginative and/or laughter inducing comments, I found this “Fake book”!
Thanks for the laugh, JawsV.
JawsV says
You’re welcome! I’ve called it Fake Book for some years now.
davej says
Virtue signalling by twitter and FUbook is so ironic but also scary – they think they are being enlightened while they ban the speech of truthtellers. Totalitarian nitwits and a clear threat to our democracy.
Beagle says
So glad I read the whole thing to find this gem.
Quote:
“…simpering millennial totalitarians with your horn-rimmed glasses and your lattes…”
Ahahahahaha!
Lydia says
Those poor ignorant fools at Twitter, no one has informed them about these facts and they somehow have missed all of Robert’s quotes of the quran to back up the statement. For their convenience, so that they have yet another chance to be enlightened on these facts, I have supplied the educational quotes below for their informational benefit: (note: please do not heed the quotes, only read them for research purposes to verify the accuracy of Robert’s claim, otherwise you too will be guilty of terrorism from the religion of terrorism).
“Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it.” (Surah 2:216)
“Seek out your enemies relentlessly.” (Surah 4:103-)
“…make war on the leaders of unbelief…Make war on them: God will chastise them at your hands and humble them. He will grant you victory over them…” (Surah 9:12-)
“Fight against such as those to whom the Scriptures were given [Jews and Christians]…until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued.” (Surah 9:27-)
“If you do not fight, He will punish you sternly, and replace you by other men.” (Surah 9:37-)
“Prophet make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home.” (Surah 9:73)
“Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them.” (Surah 9:121-)
“Muhammad is God’s apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another.” (Surah 48:29)
Mike9a says
Robert, the next twr post should be quote from quran. Lets see how it is going to be flagged. Or everyone here with twr account should do the same, I would but don’t have one.
ronyvo says
WOW. I feel that we are ALREADY in an Islamic country!!!
The enemy is winning with our blessings. This is not only shameful, but traitorous to say the least. I thought that Pres. Trump knows, understands and above all he promised during his campaign to annihilate Islam from our country!!
ronyvo says
WOW. I feel that we are ALREADY in an Islamic country!!!
The enemy is winning with our blessings. This is not only shameful, but traitorous to say the least. I thought that Pres. Trump knows, understands and above all he promised during his campaign to annihilate Islam from our country!!
Benny says
There is a startup competing site to twitter @ GAB.AI Check it out.
The best way to win this battle in not to patronize the likes of twitter or google.
Paddy Mac says
Islam is not a race, it is an political religion hell bent on establishing a world religion and Caliphate. They will attempt to kill all who are not Muslim and all who do not covert to Islam. REMEMBER: This is a religions war no political!
frank anderson says
Paddy Mac, if Islam is a religion it is shielded from challenge both under US law and UN treaties. I would argue that it is not a religion because instead of promoting peace and harmony among people it promotes savage conquest and domination. Calling it a religion in my opinion and advice is as erroneous as calling Nazism, Communism or any other totalitarian ideology a religion and giving them the legal shield to terrorize, kill and try to conquer us. There are a number of US Supreme Court cases which describe limits on what passes as religious practice and what fails. I ask you to think about your post, Please.
David A says
Religion is shielded.
However sedition, ( the establishment of tyrannical religious rule) murder, honor killing, rape, persecution of gays, subjugation of women and slavery and female genital mutilation are ILLEGAL under existing law, regardless of who, religious or not, advocates and practices such crimes.
frank anderson says
David A, I agree that religion is shielded, which is my point: The problem is proving that Islam is not a religion subject to the protections that should be given/afforded to religions that do not advocate murder, slavery, tyranny and abuse of all kinds; and that difference remains unproven where it counts. Until someone raises a declaratory judgment action or raises the issue as a defense claim, Islam will be falsely taken as a religion as any other.
DuncanThorburn says
Hi,
FACEBOOK HAS BANNED ME FROM POSTING, FOR 30 DAYS. PLEASE POST THIS ON MY WALL, AS I CANNOT.
WOULD YOU PLEASE POST THIS TO OTHER FACEBOOK POSTERS, AND SUPPORT ME IN MY STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
MUSLIMS ARE MURDERING US, IN OUR LANDS, AND MURDERING CHRISTIANS, THROUGHOUT MUSLIM COUNTRIES.
FACEBOOK KISSES THE ARSE OF MUSLIMS, OUT OF FEAR.
ISRAEL IS BEING VICTIMISED TOO, THOUGH IT HAS THE BEST HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD IN THE WORLD TODAY.
PLEASE NOTIFY ANY ISRAELI SITE, SO THEY CAN KNOW OF THIS GROSSLY UNFAIR FACEBOOK ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
TOGETHER, WE NEED TO REGISTER OUR DISAPPROVAL OF THIS UNJUST CENSORSHIP, AND FIGHT IT ON ALL LEVELS.
I HAVE NEVER POSTED ANY VIOLENT RESPONSE, OR SUGGESTED VIOLENCE TO ANYONE.
YOURS TRUTHFULLY,
DUNCAN THORBURN
duncan.thorburn@sky.com
Richard says
“…clearly there are many Muslim who believe that authentic Islam is inherently violent.”
We non-Muslims may view the situation this way, but devout Muslims perceive things differently. In their minds Islam cannot ever be violent, because we Kuffar are always offered two options for a peaceful solution – either by embracing Islam as our religion or accepting dhimmi status. If we refuse those choices and force must then be brought to bear upon us to bring about our submission, the violence is due entirely to our intransigence and is therefore entirely our fault and responsibility.
More Ham Ed says
The left leaning Pew Research Center should be banned from Twitter then because according to their 2013 survey, when adding-up the muslim populations of the countries involved in the survey, reveals that possibly more than 400 million muslims (lowercase be upon them) believe in the death penalty for leaving islam (lowercase be upon it).
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country (muslim population).