In this extraordinary video, Sheikh Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel delineates exactly the same Islamic understanding of jihad and slavery that I have explained many times. Will Leftist and Muslim organizations in the U.S. denounce Sheikh Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel as an ignorant, racist “Islamophobe”? Don’t hold your breath.
“Kuwaiti Cleric Saalim At-Taweel: Jihad for the Sake of Allah Means Fighting the Infidels to Make Them Convert to Islam; Enslaving Infidels Is One of the Virtues of Islam,” MEMRI, November 7, 2017:
On November 7, Kuwaiti cleric Sheikh Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel published a lecture on his official YouTube channel explaining the concept of Jihad. Sheikh At-Taweel said that while “Jihad” has different meanings, “Jihad for the sake of Allah” means fighting infidels in order to spread Islam. He further explained that slavery is part of Islam and said that Muslims should not try to deny this. In fact, he said, slavery is “one of the virtues of Islam” because it provides infidels with an opportunity to become Muslims and avoid the Hellfire. Over the past decade, Sheikh At-Taweel has made several visits to the United States and was guest lecturer in mosques in Worcester, Massachusetts, Modesto, California, and New York, and elsewhere. In 2016, he participated in the 3rd Annual U.K. National Knowledge Conference.
Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel: When we speak about Jihad for the sake of Allah, we mean fighting for the sake of Allah. The word “Jihad” has other meanings apart from “fighting.” “Fighting” is only one of the meanings of the word “Jihad,” but “Jihad for the sake of Allah” refers to “fighting.”
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Indeed, (Jihad) is the pinnacle of Islam. If Islam were a camel, Jihad for the sake of Allah would be the top of its hump. The Prophet Muhammad called it the pinnacle of Islam. It is undoubtedly among the best forms of worship. It involves the sacrifice of one’s soul and one’s money, and great effort merits great reward.
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Yes, there is defensive Jihad and offensive Jihad. Defensive Jihad means defending yourself. When you need to defend yourself, you do not need a fatwa. When you are attacked, you are allowed to defend yourself any way you can. Waging offensive Jihad means attacking the infidels in order to conquer their countries and bring them into the fold of Islam. If they refuse to convert to Islam, they are commanded to pay the jizya poll tax, and if they refuse to pay the jizya, they are killed. This is called “offensive Jihad.”
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Indeed, the greatest goal of Jihad for the sake of Allah is to instate monotheism, “until religion belongs to Allah alone,” or “until religion belongs to Allah,” according to another verse. “Fight them until there is no more fitna” – which means polytheism – “until religion belongs to Allah alone,” or in other words, until people adhere to monotheism and believe in Allah alone. This is a clear and unambiguous verse in the Quran. According to the Sunna, as it appears in the two Sahih compilations, the Prophet Muhammad said: “I was ordered to fight the people.” Why? He said: “until they attest that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His prophet, and they establish prayer, and pay the zakkat.”
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The reason we fight is in order to spread Islam. Let’s say there is someone who prevents you from spreading Islam to all the infidels, all people on Earth, who were created by Allah so that they could worship Him. You want to spread your religion both to jinns and to people. If somebody is preventing you from doing so, you may fight him, so that you can spread Islam.
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We do not do this in order to take the money of (the infidels), in order to expand the Muslim lands, or in order to gain control over them… No. We fight them so that they will become Muslims.
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One of the virtues of Islam is that the women and children (of the enemy) are not killed. They are taken as slaves, and they are treated well. They are called upon to convert to Islam. How many Muslim ulema were white slaves, who were put to use by Allah as Islamic scholars. If they had died as infidels, they would have been condemned to eternal Hellfire. Instead, they were taken captive. The Prophet Muhammad took a Jewish woman and married her, and she became the Mother of the Believers. Imagine that! She had been Jewish before. Had she died believing in her distorted Judaism, she would have gone to Hell. Instead, she was taken captive, and she was found to be the most suitable woman for the Prophet Muhammad.
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So this is one of the virtues of Islam, but some people are trying to shrug it off, and say: “There is no slavery in Islam.” How can you say this? It is in the Quran.
Linde Barrera says
Thank you dear Robert Spencer (I pray God’s blessings on you, your family and staff) for this revealing information. All JW readers should write a letter to the king of Saudi Arabia citing this info. Why? Because he claimed (as I interpreted his words) that those who expose the doctrines of Islam are trying to break up the wonderful and peaceful Muslim Ummah! To him I say: “Why would anyone want to be a Muslim if a Muslim’s core doctrines include killing non-Muslims for a bloodthirsty god?” ?
Terry Gain says
Sending this to King Salman would be as useless as sending it to Hussein Obama or Jihadi Justin. Send it to everyone who is mis-educated about Islam.
Chand says
Send it to Donald Trump. Will he sever challenge the Saudis and the Kuwaitis and the Emirs? First country he visits is Saudi Arabia. Then he takes meaningless measures like moving the embassy to Jerusalem, etc. which won’t really do anything tangible. How come he didn’t ban visas to Muslims from Saudi Arabia or Pakistan when the greatest jihadi ideology and threats (and those engaged in Jihad) emanate from there?
Chand says
sorry typo…………..I meant “Will he ever challenge…..”
mortimer says
Agree with Linde. Why would anyone be a Muslim. Islam is TWENTY-ONE CULTS in one: a DEATH CULT, a RAPE CULT, an EXTORTION CULT, a PLUNDER CULT, a CENSORSHIP CULT, a MISOGYNY CULT, a LIE CULT, a PEDOPHILIA CULT, a SADOMASOCHISM CULT, an OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE CULT, a SUPREMACISM CULT, a JEW HATRED CULT, a CHRISTIANOPHOBIA CULT, a MALE CHAUVINIST CULT, an INBREEDING CULT, an OBSCURANTISM CULT, a SUPERSTITION CULT, a PERSONALITY CULT, a CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CULT, a GROUP-THINK CULT, a SUICIDE CULT.
gravenimage says
Sadly, Linde, I don’t think this would help.
Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most savage Shari’ah states.
J D S says
Linde….You are right about a Bloodthirsty god? Anyone with any Biblical knowledge, or for that matter, just plain old everyday knowledge, would know that Satan is the bloodthirsty god, the god of the underworld, that is driving Islam.
In a way I feel sorry for all those Muslims who have been suckered in and held in fear, to a so called religion, that drives out free thinking or free will. WHAT A WASTE OF LIVES!
J D S says
I forgot to add this….It is so strange that the world’s leaders
can not or will not understand what this preacher and hoards
of other Muslim clerics, individuals and their book of hate is speaking and outlaw this so called religion as a hate organization..not a religion…….Further why would You Tube want this on their site? Where is the FBI in this? Are they monitoring mosques in the U.S.? Are they trying to put a stop to Muslim hate speech wherever it Is found. Is the FBI in tatters as the president indicated I’m thankful they do as much as they do but I do believes they could do more.
roger woodhouse says
Listen up folks.The West is paralised by political correctness.Hamstrung by the subtle brainwashing that has continued unabated for the past twenty years.Here in Britain the battle for free speech is lost(if it ever was waged).We are headed for either a civil war with Islam or total capitulation.Either way we are doomed.The MSM have total control over the way the British think and form opinions.The British have no clue about Islam anymore than they have about Christianity.They will stand aside and sucumb to Islam without even knowing it.By the time they wake up it will be too late.
J D S says
Sermon??? Published on his official You Tube Channel????
roger woodhouse says
The Jews in control of the BBC would never allow this to be exposed to the British public.
jim patterson says
BEEP! Ya got it wrong, pretend-muslim……
By your book only the “people of the book” pay jizya. (see 9:29)
Everybody else is fought to the death until they convert. (Qital…..look it up)
Your mercenary “warriors”(common thieves) started taking jizya from the Hindus and Buddhists in India as a constant income stream after they had stripped that country of its gold, jewels and other riches…….
elee says
First line of report is inaccurate. There is nothing extraordinary about this. They’ve been saying and doing this stuff since 632. When will their western toadies start paying attention? That would be an extraordinary event.
Michael Copeland says
“The Mother of all Believers” was the very attractive teenaged Safiya. She had been the booty of one of Mohammed’s companions after they had attacked Khaybar, and from whom Mohammed had purchased her for seven slaves. Abu Ayyub positioned himself outside the Perfect Man’s door all night, while he was lying with her, and explained:
“This young woman had just been married, and you killed her father, her brother and her husband, so I did not trust her [not to harm you].”
The Prophet laughed and said “Good” (Al Tabari vol.39, p.185).
(“Mohammed’s Jewish wife”, youtube video by Don’tConvert2Islam, Brother Ismaeel)
After Mohammed’s death Safiya said,
“Of all men, I hated the prophet the most….”
(Baladhuri’s ninth century Kitab Futuh al-Buldan, “Book of Conquests”)
http://raymondibrahim.com/2014/10/15/muhammad-and-islams-sex-slaves/
Jack Diamond says
As the Sheikh indicates, enslaving a disbelieving woman and forcing-coercing her to Islam is a “mercy” saving her from hellfire.
“One of the virtues of Islam is that the women and children (of the enemy) are not killed. They are taken as slaves, and they are treated well. They are called upon to convert to Islam.”
Even this motive is a duplicitous. The reason women and children are not killed (and they can be without consequence) is because of their value as slaves, as booty, spoils of war. As property of Muslims.
“women, children, monks, old people, the blind, the handicapped and their like, they shall not be killed, unless they actually fight with WORDS (propaganda) and acts (e.g. by spying or otherwise assisting in the warfare). Some (jurists) are of the opinion that ALL of them may be killed, on the mere ground that they are unbelievers, but they make an exception for women and children as they constitute property for Muslims.”
–ibn Taymiyyah, The Religious and Moral Doctrine of Jihad p.28
dumbledoresarmy says
And they are not ‘treated well’. They are raped – cruelly, and often used in the most depraved of ways, in ways that *damage and destroy* their bodies, especially if they are underaged, perhaps even prepubescent. They are beaten. They are *despised*. They are tormented. The mohammedans are insanely *cruel*; this thing is a merciless and sadistic system of domination-unto-death; and even if the woman converts to Islam, it makes no f***ing difference at all, because mohammedans regularly beat, torment and KILL their *own* born-muslim females in ‘honor’ (sic: rather, ‘horror’) murders.
gravenimage says
Yes–any refusal to submit to Islam, no matter how peaceful–is considered “fighting” Muslims, and is subject to rape, enslavement, and mass slaughter.
mortimer says
Kuwaiti cleric Sheikh Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel has done the world a favor by CLEARLY enunciating the canonical, supremacist Islamic doctrine of jihad-warfare against disbelievers… merely because it is the will of Allah to do so.
Jihad is a DIVINE COMMAND that is incumbent upon ALL Muslims.
Sheikh Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel could not have been any clearer in promoting aggressive, bigoted jihad.
BARBARA BROOKS says
At least tell us what country he is in, how big his mosque is and how influential he is. This is not good journalism not to do this basic research.
PRCS says
Kuwait.
It’s in the video’s introduction.
gravenimage says
Thanks, PRCS.
Infidel says
What a blood thirsty animal..
gravenimage says
He is an orthodox Muslim.
Diane Harvey says
Snowflakes are safe. No one at Stanford will read this.
Keys says
Excellent point !
The same group that invited Robert might consider inviting this piece of sheik.
N.B. Young Stanford women would need to wear head and face coverings to attend.
Tama says
They might even need partitions, separate day to attend, and sound insulation lest their voices be tempting xD
Or a separate room with the audio only in annoying bursts so they don’t faint over the male voice.
For uh, welcoming diversity.
Benedict says
Sheikh Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel: “Jihad for the sake of Allah” means fighting infidels in order to spread Islam.
Robert Spencer: “Jihad for the sake of Allah” means fighting infidels in order to spread Islam.
The glaring difference in explaining jihad in these two statements is in the political eye of the beholder.
Laurence says
“Offensive Jihad” . . . indeed it is, “offensive” to the bitter end it would seem.
Voytek Gagalka says
They will NEVER condemn his for that. (Would they ever DARE?) “Islamophobe” can only be disbeliever (non-Mohammedan). This way they subjugated themselves to rule of sharia (dhimmitude). Are they afraid to lose that underprivileged status if they will fail to brand as “racist, bigoted Islamophobe” anyone else but Mohammedans?
John W says
So clearly this Kuwaiti Cleric is another in a long line of Islamic followers who has totally misunderstood his religion.
Keys says
Yes, indeed.
He is in the same “basket of misunderstanders” as ISIS’s al Baghdadi.
Norger says
It goes without saying that no one is going to denounce the good Sheikh as an Islamophobe. The question is whether our political leaders and MSM possess the minimal intellectual honesty and moral clarity to even acknowledge that the Sheikh (and others like him) is simply expounding on mainstream Islamic theology.
Terry Gain says
Those idiots will claim he hijacked Islam.
PRCS says
Correct.
Same with Anjem Choudary, who spoke often and honestly about Islam and was labeled an “extremist”.
Tom says
The walking dead within our western nations are unable to understand the threat that Islamic Jihad poses to them and their loved ones. Wilfull blindness will conclude their miserable existences when they are forced to either convet to Islam or become second class citizens in their own countries.
Michael says
Sheikh Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel deserves to be executed according to biblical law, because he has taken God as witness against His own Name and is thereby guilty of blasphemy. (Leviticcus 24:16).
Jack Diamond says
The imperatives of Qur’anic surahs like 9:5 and 9:29 are entirely offensive, the reason Islamic armies left Arabia to conquer the near and far were entirely offensive. Not to say, every offensive aggression by Muslims can’t be called “defensive” in their upside-down understanding of the world. The mere rejection of the “offer of Islam”, like the fitna caused by disbelief itself, is termed war against Allah and the Muslims, and therefore any response is “self-defense.” It’s refreshing to see a Sheikh speak plainly.
“Islam has approved war so that the word of God (sic) becomes supreme…this is war for the cause of God (Holy War). Muhammad therefore sent his ambassadors to eight kings and princes in the neighborhood of the Arab peninsula to call them to embrace Islam. They rejected his call. Thus, it became incumbent on the Muslims to fight them.”
—Dr. Afifi Abdul-Fattah “The Spirit of Islamic Religion” p.382
There is a hadith where the entire Earth has been declared as a mosque. Allah has rights over it.
“He it is who has sent his Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth that He may make it superior to all religions (ibn Kathir: “triumph over his enemies and the rest of the people on earth”)
This Sheikh is merely echoing the ulema of centuries past (until the modern obfuscation), what is
said in Reliance of the Traveller: “the duty of Jihad exists as long as the universal domination of Islam has not been attained, ‘until the end of the world'”) and what bin Laden wrote to the Muslims to justify al Qaeda:
“Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority, corporeally if not spiritually? Yes…in fact, Muslims are obligated to raid the lands of the infidels, occupy them, and exchange their systems of government for an Islamic system, barring any practice that contradicts the Shari’a… divine foundations are built on hating the infidels, repudiating them with tongue and teeth till they embrace Islam or pay the jizya with willing submission and humility. The Prophet was sent in the final hour with the sword so that none is worshipped but Allah alone, partnerless.”
–“Moderate Islam is a Prostration to the West”
The Real Islam standing up.
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says
He’s just reading from a book. It’s probably a mainstream text on Islamic law from one of the four schools.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“Jihad would be the top of the hump”
Ha, had a laugh at that one.
So Jihad is a hairy wobbling fat mound on the back of a stinking creature that spits in peoples faces.
I’ll agree with that.
Charlie Martel says
So according to the Apologists, exactly how many Muslims do they think are ‘misunderstanding’ Islam?
Can they point to one Muslim whose view of Islam is consistent with the Koran, the Sunnah and the Hadith, but does not support offensive violent jihad?
No Fear says
Can someone please get a response from CAIR regarding this video…..I need a good laugh.
Thomas says
In principle there is only 1 question that needs to be answered.
What would be your course of action if you knew that someone at the best opportunity given would
enslave you and/or rob you or even kill you if the first two alternatives were not an option?
Answer this question truthfully.
Frank Anderson says
I wonder what the current Pope would have to say?
Charles Martel says
This is the sort of video I wish President Trump would tweet.
gravenimage says
Muslim cleric: “Offensive Jihad means attacking infidels in order to conquer their countries and bring them into the fold of Islam”
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This is exactly what Jihad has always meant.
IanB says
Well, there we have it: the truth about Islam from the camel’s mouth. We who frequently visit this website are already well aware of the truth but we must be grateful to Sheikh Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel for laying it out so clearly and taqiyya-free for the benefit of those who insist Islam is peaceful and benevolent. He reveals Islam as the vile cult it truly is. It seems he thinks he is addressing only a Muslim audience but, if so, his mistake is a fortuitous one because “infidels” can now be in no doubt about what Islam has in store for them. Dear JW friends: please share this video to the maximum possible extent.
John Forbes says
I REALLY WONDER HOW MUCH LONGER THE WEST CAN PRETEND TO BE DEAF???
THERE ARE THE LIARS CLAIMING MISINTERPRETATION FROM THE AMBER RUDD REFUSAL TO LOOK AT THE SHEET DISTRIBUTED IN FRONT OF THE DIDSBURY MOSQUE TO THE NOW DISGRACED TARIQ RAMADAN & THE MUCH OFFENDED SADIQ KHAN & THEN THERE ARE THE OUTRIGHT TOP DENIERS LIKE THE PRIME MINISTERS & HEADS OF GOVERNMENTS!
HOWEVER MR.MRS. AVERAGE DO LISTEN & DO HEAR & ARE WORRIED DESPITE THE DENIALS & PROMISES OF SAFETY THAT ARE PROVING TO BE IMPOSSIBLE!
IT IS THESE PEOPLE WITH DEAD CHILDREN & MAIMED FRIENDS WHO ARE THE ONES WHO PAY THE PRICE OF THE LIES & COWARDICE!
I REALLY BELIEVE IT MUST STOP SOON THIS LYING & COWARDICE!
Barry says
My knee very willingly bends to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and no other. Ever. Period. Anyone who tries to physically force me to worship any other, that is to say, satan, best be prepared for an active resistance to the death.
Charles says
These Insane muslims DO NOT UNDERSTAND America!
We will fight TO THE DEATH any attempt to direct our “worship” to SATAN(allah!)
These demonic Immans are in for a huge surprise!
J D S says
But Charles and many others…..It is happening right under our noses.
However…It’s so slow, to the point of a creeping crawl, that we don’t see it happening…and that has always been their plan…knowing that they have no military force capable of attacking and overcoming us . It’s in their book of hate…even the migration is in the book along with many other methods to overcome the infidels.
John S. Obeda says
I hope so Charles. God grant it. But our leaders, except Trump, and here in Canada are lullabying their people to keep on sleeping. SO, we are the ones with God’s help who are to try to wake them up before it’s too late.
Carolyne says
I would certainly denounce this idiot if I could pronounce his name.
Thank you Mr. Spencer for bringing these articles to us. You are my main source of information about the danger coming at us and I appreciate your work
John S. Obeda says
But Mr. Spencer, remember; to stay healthy you have to get your rest, eat your spinach and say your prayers and be nice to your wife.