Because Islam gets criticized for many things — from hostility to modernity and democracy to calls for theocratic rule, radical “patriarchy,” misogyny, and draconian punishments, to name a few — it is helpful to step back and distinguish between those (many) doctrines that affect Muslim society alone, and those that extend to and affect Western or non-Muslim peoples in general. On doing this, three interrelated doctrines come into sharp focus. They are: 1) total disavowal from, and enmity for, “the infidel,” that is, constant spiritual or metaphysical hostility against the non-Muslim (in Arabic known as al-wala’ w’al bara, or “loyalty and enmity”); this naturally manifests itself as 2) jihad, that is, physical hostility against and — whenever and wherever possible — attempts to subjugate the non-Muslim); finally, successful jihads lead to 3) dhimmitude, the degrading position of conquered non-Muslims who refuse to forfeit their religious freedom by converting to the victor’s creed.
Loyalty and Enmity
There is no doubt that mainstream Islam advocates the separation of Muslims from non-Muslims, believers from infidels, clean from unclean. Koran 5:51 warns Muslims against “taking the Jews and Christians as friends and allies … whoever among you takes them for friends and allies, he is surely one of them,” that is, he too becomes an infidel, or kafir, the worst human classification in Islam. Koran 3:28, 4:89, 4:144, 5:54, 6:40, 9:23 all have the same message; 58:22 simply states that true Muslims do not befriend non-Muslims — “even if they be their fathers, sons, brothers, or kin.” But Koran verses further call on Muslims to have enmity — hate — for non-Muslims: “We [Muslims] renounce you [non-Muslims]. Enmity and hate shall forever reign between us — till you believe in Allah alone” (Koran 60:4). As the Islamic State explained in an unambiguously titled article, “Why We Hate You & Why We Fight You,” “We hate you, first and foremost, because you are disbelievers.”
The flipside of al-wala’ w’al bara is that Muslims are commanded to befriend and aid fellow Muslims — including jihadis, for example through funds (or zakat). As one Muslim authority summarizes, the believer “is obligated to befriend a believer — even if he is oppressive and violent toward you — while he must be hostile to the infidel — even if he is liberal and kind to you” (The Al Qaeda Reader, p. 64 ). This loyalty to fellow Muslims and enmity for non-Muslims is fundamentally responsible for the metaphysical or “spiritual” clash between Islam and the West. Add to enmity the fact that Muslims are permitted to lie to non-Muslims — including by feigning loyalty or friendship — and it becomes apparent how dangerous the doctrine of “loyalty and enmity” is: among other things, disloyalty to infidels (see here, here, and here for examples), and a “mafia mentality,” whereby all Muslims must overtly or covertly work together, suggests that hostility for non-Muslims, even when unseen, is ever present.
Jihad
Jihad — war on non-Muslims for no less a reason than that they are non-Muslims — is the physical manifestation or realization of enmity for “infidels.” Not only is it natural to attack and seek to subjugate those whom one is bred on hating, but the doctrine of jihad, including to spread and enforce Sharia around the world, is part and parcel of Islam; it is no less codified than Islam’s Five Pillars. As the Encyclopaedia of Islam’s entry for “jihad” puts it, the “spread of Islam by arms is a religious duty upon Muslims in general … Jihad must continue to be done until the whole world is under the rule of Islam … Islam must completely be made over before the doctrine of jihad can be eliminated.”
One can continue quoting any number of authorities, especially Muslims, saying that jihad to subjugate the world is an ironclad aspect of Islam. Even the late Osama bin Laden — who would have had the West believe that al-Qaeda’s terror is a byproduct of political grievances — when speaking in Arabic to Muslims made it perfectly clear that the doctrine of jihad is the root problem: “Our talks with the infidel West and our conflict with them ultimately revolve around one issue…Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually? Yes. There are only three choices in Islam… Either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die.”
Dhimmitude
But as infidels are to be hated per se and not merely in the context of jihad — the ability of which to prosecute is often curtailed by circumstances — the hostility continues even after the cessation of successful jihads. Unlike other conquerors and conquests that generally permit the conquered to go on unmolested so long as they do not challenge the new order — some even try to appease and win over their new subjects — whenever and wherever Islam conquers, that old metaphysical hostility which fueled the jihad remains to gloat in triumph over the subject infidels. Thus, not only must the latter pay a special tax (jizya), embrace a subordinate position, and follow a number of debilitations — they must also be reminded and made to feel inferior and despised, including as a way to “inspire” them to convert to the “true” faith.
As the Islamic State explained in the aforementioned article, regardless of any and all appeasement offered by the non-Muslim, “we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam. Even if you were to pay jizyah and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation, we would continue to hate you.” Either way, Islam wins: If the non-Muslim continues in his faith, the Muslims continue to prey off him; if, on the other hand, the non-Muslim eventually “surrenders” to Islam, the umma gains a new recruit (with death as the penalty should he later entertain second thoughts and apostatize).
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These three interrelated teachings of Islam — loyalty and enmity, jihad, and dhimmitude — are unequivocally grounded in Islamic law, or Sharia. They are not matters open to interpretation or debate. By eliminating or lessening the focus from all those other “problematic” teachings that affect Muslims only — but which tend to be conflated with those (three) teachings that directly affect the non-Muslim — one can better appreciate, and thus place the spotlight on, the true roots of conflict between Islam and the West.
Charles says
Worst ideas?
(1.) The idea that SATAN (allah) is their “true” god!
(2.) The idea that SATAN (allah) wants them to MURDER EVERYONE ELSE on this Planet!
(3.) The really foolish idea that muslim “heaven” is just a huge WHORE HOUSE IN THE SKY! Where the faithful muslim spend eternity just F-ing around!
WHAT CAN POSSIBLY beat that? For utterly rediculous ideas?????
CHEERS! ?
elee says
St. Thomas Aquinas called this one in his lifetime. He was right.
Jaladhi says
What – Islam has only three “worst” doctrines?? I think Islam as whole is the worst doctrine that a criminal ever created and peddled it as religion!
tim gallagher says
I agree, Jaladhi. I also can find nothing good in Islam. It is unmitigated barbarity and evil. As you say, it is the creation of a criminal scumbag and “peddled as a religion.” I always think when it comes to Islam, it is “them or us”. If the Muslims win this continuing war our whole civilised way of life will be gone. We have to win. But there’s no possibility of compromise with Islam which is 100% incompatible. As Raymond Ibrahim indicates, Muslims’ loyalty is only ever to their fellow Muslims. For non-Muslims, only enmity, only hate. I’ve seen this photo, used in this report before, but aren’t those vicious looking lunatics shown in the photo unbelievable. What a photo! The photo show such a scary level of lunacy. Absolute knuckle draggers who are surely beyond any level of rational thought. It’s what Islam does to many of its followers. They also look like people from 1000s of years ago.
Jaladhi says
Thanks for further expanding what I said in a nut shell. The way things are going because of our politicians, stupid media and academia, we will lose this fight unless they wake up and face the truth about this mafia gang. I am really puzzled at our society that they cannot see what Muslims are doing all over the world and yet our side is always separating the Islamic terror from Muslims and its a fact that all terrorists come out of these so called moderate Muslims.
We just have wait and see when our society wakes – hope its not too late or never!
pooky2483 says
It’s not really their fault, they’re being used to facilitate a war against us. The ones we should really be attacking are our respective governments as it is them pulling the strings, which in turn are being pulled by the bankers.
It’s the NWO we should be at war with.
lebel says
You are so full of hate towards Muslims that its difficult to comprehend your writings. I wonder what happens to your brain when you read about Muslims saving non-Muslims? do you tell yourself that it’s some form of taqqiya because your hatred does not allow for any contradictions? do you ignore it and put it in the memory hole?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/movies/how-a-paris-mosque-sheltered-jews-in-the-holocaust.html
Must be super taqqiya
C T says
There’s no hate for Muslims as people, only an ideology which thankfully many people, despite being born into Islam, often ignore.
Carolyne says
Sorry. Speak for yourself. I do hate Muslim people. I hate what they do and they cannot be separated from it. It is part of their being.
John S., Obeda says
But, Carolyne, if a Muslim would ask you: “Tell me the way to heaven which Jesus revealed to mankind.” would you not do it? It is very difficult for our sinful human nature to love the person and help him if he needs help, but to hate what he believes and may want to do to us.
JeffS says
One mosque helping save Jews 70 years ago means that al’ wala w’ al bara, jihad, and dhimmitude don’t exist, and if you point out that they do, you’re a hater (unless you’re Muslim, in which case it’s ok). Muslim logic.
eduardo odraude says
lebel, nobody said there are no contradictions in Islam. Of course there are. That does not change the predominant doctrines of Islam. The contradictions are the reason Bill Warner did a statistical study of the core Islamic texts: what percentage of those texts is peaceful? What percentage totalitarian? What percentage oppresses women? What percentage is pro-woman? And so on. The overall results constitute yet another proof that net Islam is destructive for the human race.
See http://www.cspipublishing.com/statistical/charts.html
eduardo odraude says
For example, Warner found that the percentage of Hitler’s Mein Kampf that is devoted to Jew hatred is smaller than the percentage of the core Islamic texts devoted to Jew hatred.
lebel says
I’m happy to have a look at the methodology. We do have to keep in mind that the author has a bit of an agenda. I hope you will grant me that.
lebel says
Have a look at the data and was constitutes “jew hatred” – some verses can qualify, others clearly not.
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2:47 Children of Israel! Remember My favor that I gave you, lifting you up above all other nations. And
fear the day when no soul will stand up for another, nor will any intervention be accepted from them nor
will any ransom be taken; nor will they be helped.
2:49 And remember when We rescued you from Pharaoh’s people? They subjected you to severe torment,
killing your sons and only letting your daughters live. That was a great trial from your Lord. We parted the
sea for you, saving you and drowned Pharaoh’s people in front of your very eyes. And when We made a
treaty with Moses for forty nights, in his absence you worshipped the calf and committed a terrible sin.
Nevertheless, We forgave you so that you might be grateful.
2:54 And remember We gave Moses the Scripture and the ability to know right from wrong so that you
would be guided to the right path. Then Moses said, “My people! You have wronged yourselves by
worshipping the calf. Therefore, turn to your Creator and kill the wrong-doers among you. That will please
your Creator and He will show you mercy. Surely He is relenting and merciful.”
2:55 And when you said, “Moses! We will not believe in you until we see Allah ”
Source: http://www.cspipublishing.com/statistical/TrilogyStats/Koran/Jew_Hatred_Koran.pdf
gravenimage says
lebel is pretending that these Qur’anic verses are pro-Jewish, but this is false.
They basically say that Allah favored Jews when they were good Muslims (never mind that this is ahistoric), but now that they are Jews that favor passes over to Muslims. The Hadith make it even clearer that Jews are now to be killed.
gravenimage says
The appalling lebel wrote:
You are so full of hate towards Muslims that its difficult to comprehend your writings.
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So you are *in favor* of Islamic hatred of unbelievers, and Muslims waging violent Jihad against them so that they can be oppressed as dhimmis?
If not, why call opposition to these tenets of Islam “hate”?
More:
I wonder what happens to your brain when you read about Muslims saving non-Muslims? do you tell yourself that it’s some form of taqqiya because your hatred does not allow for any contradictions? do you ignore it and put it in the memory hole?
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Muslims sometimes are better than their foul creed. This says a great deal in favor of certain Muslims to be able to reject the savagery of their faith and act like decent humans.
It says nothing in favor of Islam, though.
More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/movies/how-a-paris-mosque-sheltered-jews-in-the-holocaust…
Must be super taqqiya
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lebel wants to pretend that this story is unknown to us “filthy Infidels”, but it is actually pretty well known:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim_Halali
His pretending that this hence means that Muslims are apt to save rather than murder a Jew–and homosexual–like Simon Halali is ludicrous, though, and he knows it.
Champ says
lebel wrote:
“You are so full of hate towards Muslims that its difficult to comprehend your writings.”
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What rubbish. Raymond is not “full of hate”.
And your difficulty with comprehension is caused by the enormous chip on your shoulders.
lebel says
Do you think those verses constitute “jew hatred”? realy? are you able to put hyperbole aside and try and think critically without any pre-conceptions?
If thats jew hatred then parts of the old testatment are full of hatred because these are the same stories
Champ says
shit for brains,
are you for real? oh please, you’re the one accusing raymond of being “full of hate”, not me: and now you’re changing the entire context of my response to you.
and “hyperbole” is your shtick so get a mirror and stat.
you’re a complete waste of time. not sure why i bothered reading your inane response to me.
C T says
I am so sorry for people born into Islam. Can you imagined being trapped in a religion that will kill you if you leave? That you are supposed to fight to force others into? That makes the generous impulses of human fraternity into a violation of your scripture?
There are plenty of good Muslims, but they only stay good by ignoring the Sunni/Shia teachings that tell them to behave in a wicked fashion. (No, a sixth century warlord who promoted sex slavery is not a good model. Sorry, he just isn’t.)
Walter Sieruk says
Raymond Ibrahim might be wrong about what are the three worst doctrines of Islam. The worst doctrines of Islam are three doctrines of denial about the actual Nature of Jesus. Meaning that Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God. As in the Son of God Who is God the Father. Furthermore, Islam denies the Jesus is God the Son. In addition, Islam denies that Jesus is God. Before going over these three denials of Islam it first should the stated the Bible instructs the way to tell if a prophet or religious teacher is really from and of God or not is do the teachings and doctrines of that prophet of teacher really fit in accord what is found in the Bible ? For if that prophet or teachers and teachers doctrines that are in contradiction to the Bible then that prophet is a false prophet and that religious teacher is a false teacher and thus in doctrinal error and darkness. Likewise if a religion had teachings and doctrines that are in contradiction that is religion is in error also part of the world of darkness and is therefore a false religion. As the Bible instructs in Isaiah 8:20. “To the law of the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” [K.J.V.] With this clearly stated, three things should be known.
First, that Islam denial that Jesus is the Son of God is in great contradiction to the teaching of the Bible . Which reveals the Jesus is the Son of God? As seen in ,for example Matthew 3:16,17. 16:15,16. Luke 1:35. John 3:16-18, 36. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13. Second, that Islam denies that Jesus is God the Son is in strong contradiction to the Bible. As found in Hebrews 1:6-8. With emphasis on verse 8. Third, Islam’s denial that Jesus is God is in great contrast to the doctrine and teaching of the Bible. That Jesus is God may be found in ,for example, John 1:1;3. Colossians 1:15-17. 2:9. Romans 9:5 Second Peter 1:1. Titus 2:13. First John 5:20.
Moreover, to further discover that the Bible teachings that Jesus is God all a person has to do is to compare the Old Testament with New Testament to see that Jesus is God. As in comparing Isaiah 45:22,23. with Philippians 2:5-11. Also by comparing Psalm 89:8,9. with Mathew 8:23-27. will reveal that Jesus is God. Likewise , by comparing Psalm 62:5-7 . with First Corinthians 10:4. shows the Deity of Jesus. Even by comparing the News Testament books together will show that Jesus is God. As in comparing Romans 14:12. with John 5:22. will show Jesus to be God. The list can go on but this should be enough, for all who are willing to see the truth , that Jesus is, indeed, the Son of God. That Jesus is God the Son and that Jesus is God.
The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain’ this all away by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted by Christians ,through time, and that’s way the Bible reads as it does. This claim, very much, underestimate the Power of God to protect and preserve His Word ,through time , and to keep in intact and away from the corruption of men. In conclusion, in light and information of the Bible in can be seen that Islam is a awful and terrible doctrinal error concerning it teaching about the Nature of Jesus and therefore Islam is part of the world of darkness. So Islam with its strong contradictions to the Bible is a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. So all dear Muslims are thus invited to leave the false religion of Islam and come the and receive the Jesus of the Bible who is the only way to heaven ,John 14:6. and the True Light of the world. John 8:12.
In addition to all this there is the Christian internet site which replies to the many different claims made by the apologists for Islam. It’s http://www.answering-islam.org
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Raymond Ibrahim, you lied. It is your filthy Christianity inspired by the Satan (Holy Spirit)that has problematic doctrines. it still still not resolved a question how can Jesus be a begotten son of God and God himself? show me anywhere in your mithraist evil Bible where democracy is discussed or taught or verses of the evil Bible encouraging scientific inquiries like the Quran . In fact the early church persecuted scientists and considered scientific findings as heresy. Idiots!!
eduardo odraude says
Itace, the scientific and industrial revolutions happened in Europe in significant part because of Europe’s Christian heritage. Historians of science no longer support the view that Christianity has mainly been a suppressor of science. In general the Christian world fostered science.
As for where “democracy” is discussed in the Bible, it is implicit in many parts, whereas the core Islamic texts lead toward totalitarian societies.
Examples of how the biblical paradigm leads to democracy, whereas Islam leads toward totalitarian societies:
1) The Bible conceives human beings as children of God, as made in the image of God. The Qur’an in one of its verses explicitly denies that human beings are made in God’s image. The Qur’an says nothing is like Allah. The Qur’an also denies that Allah has any children. Human beings are nothing but Allah’s servants or slaves.
Being God’s children, and made in his image, endows each human being with sacred value, and thus implies equal rights and liberal democracy, even if it took a long time for such institutions to be established.
2) Galatians 3:28: Paul: “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Whereas the Qur’an says Muslims are the best of peoples, and others are the worst fo creatures, and to be harsh with the unbelievers and merciful to Muslims, and in general always sets up an extreme duality between Muslims and non-Muslims.
The central figure of the New Testament is reported to have told the disciples that the one who wished to be greatest in God’s eyes would not lord over others but would serve them. Christ then washed the disciples feet to make the point clear. This again leads toward institutions in the vein of liberal democracy.
3) Christ said to “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, to God the things that are God’s.” This was a major factor leading to the eventual separation of religion and state, though it took a long time to be understood. Whereas in Islam religion and state are one. Muhammad became Caesar, or at any rate the ruler of a totalitarian theocratic state. Separation of religion and state is an essential institution of liberal democracy.
4) The name of God in the Biblical paradigm is “I Am” — whereas it is unclear what “Allah” means. For God to be named “I Am” leads to the development of individuality in human beings, conceived as God’s children made in his image. The respect for the individual leads toward institutions of the liberal democratic sort.
5) The Biblical paradigm is one of covenants or contracts between God and humanity. In other words, a relationship that in a sense is between equals. This leads eventually to constitutional and democratic government. The Qur’an sometimes refers to a covenant, but the main emphasis is on “submission” — the meaning of the word “Islam.” A “Muslim” means “one who submits. For that reason, and many others, Islam leads to dictatorship.
eduardo odraude says
I left out #6
6) Christ’s main message was to love. Love is something that cannot be compelled from without. It can only be based on individual freedom. In the words of the pop song, “I can’t make you love me if you don’t. I can’t make your heart do somethin’ it won’t…”
K says
Don’t bother arguing with Ibrahim.. he is obviously and sadly full of hate and beyond saving.
I am a Jew and fluent in Hebrew.. you have mistranslated the name of G-d and that is why I am answering. Actually a huge amount of scripture has been twisted and mistranslated.. but I will just go into this one. Unfortunately, Christianity has done a murderous disservice to the Jewish people and its scriptures and actually opened the door for an even more muderous and warping doctrine – Islam.
The actual name of G-d is timeless.. it translates as I will be, am, and was.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Eduard,that concept of Man created in the image of God is an imported Roman pagan doctrine of mithraism of old inspired by the Satan you call Holy Spirit. It was never taught by Prophet Jesus (Issa). on the day of judgement Jesus will go to paradise while you Christian fools will be casted into hottest lake of hellfire together with Holy Spirit (the Satan) forever.
gravenimage says
Muslims like Ibrahim itace muhammed believe that the main role of “Jesus”–really, “Isa”–in Islam is to *kill Christians*. *Ugh*.
And, again, note that what pious Muslims like Ibrahim itace muhammed consider “satanic” is opposing child “marriage”, murder of anyone who criticizes the savagery of Islam, raping Infidel women and keeping them as sex slaves, and slaughtering anyone who does not submit to Islam.
This is not just immoral, but the very inversion of morality.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed is trying to pretend that democracy and the scientific method are not Western and the result of Judeo-Christian heritage, but all one has to do is compare the West with the arid and oppressive Muslim world to see how ridiculous this claim is.
Besides, he has many times himself slammed democracy as being “man made”, unlike–as pious Muslims see it–the sanguinary horror of Shari’ah law.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Ignorant Satan (Holy Spirit) worshiper Gravenimage, read history the church rule over Christian west has to be terminated for democracy and scientific inquiries molded and systematised by Muslims to thrive in the west. Hitherto the church was filling western brains with superstitions and dogmas inspired by the Satan (Holy Spirit ).
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Satan (Holy Spirit) worshiper Gravenimage, read history the church rule over Christian west has to be terminated for democracy and scientific inquiries molded and systematised by Muslims to thrive in the west. Hitherto the church had been filling western brains with superstitions and dogmas inspired by the Satan (Holy Spirit). such concepts have nothing to do with the so-called judo-christian heritage.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Satan (Holy Spirit) worshiper Gravenimage, read history the church rule over Christian west has to be terminated for democracy and scientific inquiries molded and systematised by Muslims to thrive in the west. Hitherto the church had been filling western brains with superstitions and dogmas inspired by the Satan (Holy Spirit). such concepts have nothing to do with the so-called judo-christian heritage. Your claims are baseless. whether you like it or not you have to acknowledge Muslims’ contributions to human development.
gravenimage says
I see that Ibrahim itace muhammed is so rattled by my countering his bs that he had to reply three times. He wrote, in his most recent screed:
Satan (Holy Spirit) worshiper Gravenimage, read history the church rule over Christian west has to be terminated for democracy and scientific inquiries molded and systematised by Muslims to thrive in the west.
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Actually, there was no period in the Western history where the Church fully ruled–there was a push and pull between the Church and secular forces for centuries. Of course, Ibrahim itace muhammed is far too ignorant to have learned this.
But a spirit of equality and of love of learning is very much a part of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Not so in Islam, where the Qur’an itself warns against asking questions, and reason is despised.
His claim that these traits are Islamic simply makes no sense–Ibrahim itace muhammed *himself* has slammed Democracy as being man-made, and he has also affirmed that women and Infidels will always be second class citizens at best in Islam, and slaves at worst. There is nothing democratic about this.
The truth is that Democracy and science have *flourished* in the West, and have barely existed in Islam.
Of all the Nobel Prize winners in science, there have been, I believe, just *four* who were Muslims, and none of them were orthodox Muslims. One was an Ahmadi–whom mainstream Muslims consider heretics; and the others were basically apostates.
The fact is that my alma mater–the University of California at Berkeley–a single American university with a graduate student body of less than 10,000, and far fewer professors–has *many times* the number of Nobel Prize winners than does the entire Muslim world, with a population of over a billion.
More:
Hitherto the church had been filling western brains with superstitions and dogmas inspired by the Satan (Holy Spirit). such concepts have nothing to do with the so-called judo-christian heritage. Your claims are baseless. whether you like it or not you have to acknowledge Muslims’ contributions to human development.
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Really? Can Ibrahim itace muhammed point to a single Muslim society that is either democratic of that has a robust scientific and technological sector? I better not hold my breath waiting…
Curious Observer says
Ibrahim Itace Mohammed: You truly are a deluded lunatic. If you can read Arabic or you can read English properly, go read the translaions of the Quran before displaying your imbecilic intelligence. But then again, someone like you who is totally brainwashed by Islam has probably lost the ability to tell the truth from falsehood, because in your religion it is acceptable to lie so long as it is for the good of Islam. Like any other habit, lying for one’s religion soon morphs into lying for any reason whatsoever. The only contributions muslims have made to human development is to show intelligent human beings how badly they can degrade themselves once they start practising Islam. You need a brain transplant at the very least.
Danforth says
If, as many Muslims and Imams claim, Allah and our God of The Bible are one and the same, and we both then worship the same God, why are we the unbelievers?
Since Muslims are willing to fight infidels (unbelievers) to their death, this further convinces me that Allah and God are nowhere near the same.
gravenimage says
Of course, Muslims claiming the former is just Taqiyya, meant to lull Jews and Christians into a false sense of security.
gravenimage says
Raymond Ibrahim: Islam’s Three Worst Doctrines
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These are all connected, of course–hatred of unbelievers leads to waging violent Jihad against them, and the end purpose of Jihad is to force submission of Infidels, either as converts to Islam or as oppressed dhimmis.
Manny says
Only three? How about the subjection of women as cattle, the after life as an orgy, the honor mentality. Give me time and I can think of more. The whole religion is an ugly exercise in subjugation of others.
dumbledoresarmy says
“The whole religion is an ugly exercise in subjugation of others.”
YES. It’s all about Domination. I can’t give the source but I remember reading that a *Muslim* writer has defined Islam as “the religion of domination”.
The core paradigm is slavery: master-and-slave. Allah is conceived of as the ultimate – and totally capricious and ethics-free – slavemaster, a totalitarian despot apotheosised; or, perhaps, humanity’s basest desires and propensities, apotheosised. Allah is nonrational; *anti*-rational (I do not think it a coincidence that some passages of the Quran are pretty much gibberish).
It follows logically from the Islamic worldview that politics collapses into despotism, with semi-slave or enslaved masses dominated by amoral despots who periodically engage in orgies of mass murder; and in the area of man-woman relations, the man is the master, the woman a *thing* – ’tilth’ – who can be – and often is – killed at whim and at will ( Islamic texts ‘prime’ men to despise, hate and fear women; supplying them with ‘incentives to kill’). As the paradigm for politics becomes the master and slave – or the murderer and the murdered – so the paradigm for male-female relations, within Islam, is *rape*… and then beyond rape simple, horrors such as rape of children, gang rape unto death, rape followed by murder, and the sexual mutilation of the dead, and the sexual *use* of the dead, and of animals.
Domination, domineering over others, the dream is of absolute power exercised withiout restraint: a bully mentality, without limits. William Palgrave, an astute scholar and widely-travelled person who had read the original Islamic texts in Arabic and had visited the Hijaz region, sums up Islamic ‘theology’ as “a pantheism of force”. (Cited by James Freeman Clarke in his chapters on Islam in his book of comparative religion, “Ten Great Religions’; great being in terms of size/ length of existence, not implying necessarily that something is ‘good’ or admirable; because Clarke most assuredly does *not* admire Islam, totally the reverse).
‘A pantheism of Force’ is… fascism. And I think it’s ex-Muslim Ibn Warraq who argues that Islam is an ‘ur-Fascism’.
I think it’s one of the most purely evil belief-systems that wretched humans have ever invented.
gravenimage says
True, Manny and DDA.
As Hugh Fitzgerald notes, Islam regards “others”–and this includes woman and minorities of various kinds, and the vulnerable as well as unbelievers–as enemies or victims to be exploited.
Pious Muslims cannot conceive of equality–one either is an exploiter, or he is exploited. A hideous view of the world.
Sarah says
This is a brilliant article. Thank-you for writing it.
What struck me the most though, was the accompanying image. Partly because I feel I have a pretty fair understanding of Islam these days and knew a lot of what was described in the article, but also because that image is an eye opener in what it shows and represents.
Look at them – All I can see is a mindless rabble, all men (surprise surprise), shrieking, screaming and frothing at the mouth, protesting against something that no doubt, they felt, was against what is written in their precious Quran.
Is that Persian text? It may be Arabic. Both look rather similar. I can’t read either. Mind you, I’d be astonished if the two idiots holding the document (and the third one, pointing down at it) could read it any better than I can. It amazed me, when I first learned how just how many Muslims there are in the world, who cannot read the Quran, because they cannot read Arabic.
I remember reading an article once, years ago, where a number of Muslims from around the world were interviewed and none of them could read Arabic and they all to a one, believed Islam was beautiful and peaceful (their words) because of the beauty and peace they heard, when listening to spoken Arabic. Its very sing-song – and these were Muslims from the West and from the Islamic world. People with educations and enough working brain cells to rub together.
Hell, half of them in that image alone, are missing vital teeth. That tells me that they’re very poor – bad dental hygiene, no dentures etc. If they’re poor – and hail from the Islamic world, then its not unreasonable to assume that their education in Islam consisted mainly of by rote memorization in languages that they have never been taught to understand.
If I’m right in assuming this, then that means that this image just shows a group of really cranky Muslims frothing at the mouth about a topic that they are completely and hopelessly ignorant in. Completely and hopelessly ignorant is a fantastically accurate way to describe most Muslims – at least those Muslims who are being honest when they say ‘Islam is the religion of peace’, rather than practicing Tacquiya.
gravenimage says
Most Muslims *are* shockingly ignorant, Sarah–but they know enough about their foul creed to know that it calls for violence.
Sarah says
Oh I agree Graven. And their ignorance, in my view, does not lend any leeway for their actions.
I’m ignorant on the finer details of my nation’s Constitution (we don’t practically memorize it, in Australia, compared to the Americans hehe) and I’m not a student of law whatsoever – but if I managed to break any of our Constitutional Laws in my nation, the Police, the DPP and the Judiciary certainly aren’t going to say, ‘Well, in fairness, she didn’t actually KNOW what was in the Constitution at the time’. That’s my fault, not Australia’s fault.
If a Muslim wants to be a Muslim, they are accountable for their religion, whether ignorant of that religion or not, as far as I’m concerned. I just find it mind boggling myself, that someone can devote themselves to a religion (especially one as controversial as Islam) without clearly understanding it.
gravenimage says
True, Sarah.
Anyone who adheres to Islam is either a savage, ignorant, or in denial.
As for the Constitution, certainly not every American knows it. But I have made it a ritual to read the Constitution and Bill of Rights every Independence Day.
CRUSADER says
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Islamist take over of governance and territory had done so much damage in Lebanon, that it’s delicate balance of policy among cultural/religious divides fell apart. This is what is in store where Islamists make
inroads in the West, as brilliantly pointed out by Brigitte Gabriel, from ACT for America… Her own story is an explanation of what can go wrong when Islamists start to muscle in where traces of fairness had once been…
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Dan Dagen says
command virtue and forbid vice is way high up there too.
I wonder about leftists says
Ibrahim. how can you even think that we have to acknowledge your contribution to the West/ you only have to look at the pictures and video’s of muslims and you know. The killing and conquering you can read it on the faces. You people do not know what love or compassion is, but then before the birth of Christ, I think we did not either really. But you still lived like people did a few thousand years ago.
And you fought among yourselves in almost every muslim country, unless dictators got feet on the ground
and kept you apart with hard hands and awful cruelties. You only thought about killing and fighting among you, I don’t know even how many tribes there were fighting amongst you. You did not try to better conditions in your country, but then you thought of how easier it was to become a victim and to blame the Jews and the infidels, kafirs, you name it. It is always easier to blame somebody else for your own shortcomings. You have got the worst “religion” or ideology. You have such a false prophet. A prophet, sent by God, comes out of a point of view from the love of God, and absolutely does not write a book, full of hate and killings and rape, etc to abide by and for surely does not use it for his own warped ideas.
And that we hate you, it is slowly getting there, we hated your Islam, not the people , but the way it goes…., but don’t be mistaken. What you do, comes back to you and you will be on the other end. But for surely we do not need your contributions to our western world. I don’t agree with everything in the western world, but I still live in some kind of democracy, and try to change things, but at least I don’t get killed , beheaded or stoned because I believe in a different way in many things and I have the freedom of speech, until you came, and yes ,that disturbs me a great deal.Who gives you the right to even come here and parasite on us and kill and rape us etc. and put all your young students in our universities, the people that hate US with a passion?
But it all is not going to happen Ibrahim. We have a God of love and we are entering slowly the 1000 years of peace on this earth.
Our God, part of Him lives in us, it’s called the”HIGHER PART OF SELF” and that is God, that is why God knows all your thoughts, deeds, everything, and everything is in a vey kind of quantum way “RECORDED” And that is what you will see when you die (you can really die, because you have to come back, always and always and you go to higher plans when you learn), but when you leave this earth for some time, you will see your life, what you did and what you did against others people, animals , nature
and you will feel the pain you caused others, and of course other will feel the pain that they caused you.
It is the same for everybody, but then you reincarnate and you will be on the other side, to reach you how that part plays out.
So all you are planning out, you will undergo it in your next reincarnation. And that is the way the Universe works, because our God is a God of Love and gave us free will, by the same token he gave us Universal Laws to live by, but you will have to respect Him. He is the CREATOR, not your parent.
Your choices ,you have to make them yourself and you pay for them, good or bad.
There is nothing in this world which is not known and there is no place where you can hide either.
I do not hate you, but I hate Islam and I would really appreciate it when you read your good book, to really think about what horrible tests are written there. It always comes down on ourselves, there is no government who can make you think what they want, no God, no Imam, nobody, that is all up to you and that is your learning process. Belief me, I know ! Not by the books, but by experiences, life after life.
Abill says
Direct quote from Why we Hate You… Maybe in reference to Robert Spencer and Jihad Watch?
There are exceptions among the disbelievers, no
doubt, people who will unabashedly declare that jihad
and the laws of the Shari’ah – as well as everything
else deemed taboo by the Islam-is-a-peaceful-religion
crowd – are in fact completely Islamic, but they tend
to be people with far less credibility who are painted
as a social fringe, so their voices are dismissed and a
large segment of the ignorant masses continues believing
the false narrative. As such, it becomes important
for us to clarify to the West in unequivocal terms – yet
again – why we hate you and why we fight you.
1. We hate you, first and foremost, because you
are disbelievers; you reject the oneness of Allah –
David says
Will those arguing about what is the “true” religion/faith be it Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc., please stop littering the comments section with your rants. This web site is first and foremost about how the ideology of Islam affects human/civil rights and political developments. It is not about faith. Stop arguing about which faith is the true faith. Take it somewhere else.
UNCLE VLADDI says
ALL criminal hypocrites angrily demand pity and hate people who get angry with them for their predatory choices. If you don’t Submit to their lies – that we’re all really only “fellow victims” or slaves to mysterious yet also somehow inevitable forces beyond our control (aka “allah”) then you should be hated for being so angry (“hateful”)! Islam simply literally enshrined this tautological nonsense into “a law!”
Ron says
The greatest enmity against Islam is not Jews, and isn’t infidels, it’s TRUTH. Propagation of Islam is dependent on ignorance.