Our Ramadan inspiration for today is a lesson in Islamic tolerance from Mamluk Egypt. In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I recount that in 1301, according to the fourteenth-century Muslim historian Ibn Naqqash, the vizier of Gharb in North Africa visited the Mamluk sultan al-Malik an-Nasir and several other high dignitaries in Cairo, including the emir Rukn ad-Din Baybar al-Jashangir, “who offered him magnificent presents and received him with the greatest distinction.”
But the vizier was not happy with what he had seen in Egypt: the dhimmi Jews and Christians were “attired in the most elegant clothes” and “rode on mules, mares, and expensive horses.” Even worse, they were “considered worthy of being employed in the most important offices, thus gaining authority over the Muslims.”
Back home in Gharb, by contrast, the Jews and Christians were “maintained with constraints of humiliation and degradation. Thus they were not permitted to ride on horseback, nor to be employed in the public administration.”
The emir Rukn and several others were impressed, and “unanimously declared,” according to Ibn Naqqash, “that if similar conditions were to prevail in Egypt this would greatly enhance the [Muslim] religion.”
New rules were implemented swiftly. Ibn Naqqash continued: “The churches of Misr [old Cairo] and Cairo were closed and their portals were sealed after having been nailed up….Next, the dhimmis were dismissed from the public administration and the functions that they occupied in the service of the emirs. They were then prohibited to ride horses or mules. Consequently, many of them were converted to Islam.”
Of course: the light of its truth was shining brightly. Click here to preorder The History of Jihad, the first and only comprehensive history of jihad worldwide — not just against Europe, but against India, Africa, Israel, the U.S., and more — in the English language.
CogitoErgoSum says
Here is a perfect example of “moderate” Muslims being reminded of what they had been ignoring or had forgotten about Islam. The children of those “moderate” Muslims in Europe today will remind everyone tomorrow that “Hey, the scriptures say we are supposed to be doing things this way.” Again, I say, THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN.
Rod says
Think about the children.
But let’s not think about the eight children shot down in Santa Fe the other day, by a young American. Let’s not think about the many, many who lost their young lives in past tragedies, and let’s certainly not think about those who will surely die in the future if this sickness cannot be cured. Let’s not think that there might be something seriously wrong with our own values and our own society.
Instead, let’s look at what some people did 700 years ago, and take comfort in our superiority over those people.
Let’s not think about the horrors of the Inquisition, the religious wars when good Christians slaughtered each other in unimaginable numbers, the atrocities carried out by conquistadores in the name of their god, or the abominations of slavery, practised recently by so many of our god-fearing antecedents.
Let’s look instead at forgotten texts from another religion, which, (as is obvious to all of the meanest intelligence), mean little or nothing to those who follow that religion today. But let’s not look at repulsive passages in Christian holy books. We know, of course, that they mean little or nothing to those who follow that religion today.
Let’s look, not at our own society, but at some dark skinned men who commit an offence in Sweden, or Bavaria, or Wolverhampton, and, because they prove to be Muslims, let’s burnish our hatred and contempt, and assure each other that ours is a more advanced civilisation and that ours is the true religion.
WPM says
What are the repulsive passages in the N.T. “Christian Books ? Lets look to the shining light of Islam today in Iran as they have the authorities say child brides are OK by its holy books and law of its land, Lets look at the kidnapping of women who are beating and rape by Moslems because they are Christians in Africa today instructed by its holy books. Lets look at Hamas as they encourage rioting at the fences over what an American Embassy that has nothing to do with the settlements there ,or change any status of any “Holy” sites. Ours is a more advance “civilization” because those poor dark skin Moslems “Islam is now a race” are fleeing there fail ones because of Islam, the trouble is they bring their failed Ideas here and try to make them the law of the land to make every country a failed country. Yes 8 people were killed in Texas, and people die of sickness everyday ,and the sun will raise every day what does that have to do with a failed ideology Islam that forces others to obey Sharia law including non-Moslems. No country in the West has an official religion ,lets look, at the failed moral state of Islamic countries even the rich one like Saudi Arabia still have ,lashings , stoning and beheading in public squares for blasphemy , adulty , and other “crimes”.
Curtis Blake says
Brother, are you misinfomed, ignorant of the facts, unaccepting of the truth, and mir red in the morass of your liberal thought–in other words, you are a complete idiot.
Wellington says
Rod: As an agnostic, I find your comment idiotic. Here’s why: When Muslims commit atrocities in the name of their faith, they are fulfilling the dictates of their religion. The Koran has 164 passages in it calling for the waging of war upon all humanity “until all religion is with Allah.” {Sura 8:39} In contrast, the New Testament has 0 passages calling upon Christians to wage war upon humanity until all the world is Christian. 164 to 0. Got this?
Well, get some more: Any violence condoned in the Old Testament was for one time and to sequester a small place (Palestine, Israel, the Promised Land, et al.). By contrast, the violence condoned in the Koran is for all time and for the sequestration of all the earth. Huge differences here.
More: When Christians have acted badly in the name of their creed, they were violating the tenets of their religion. When Muslims wage war, cut off heads (as instructed to do by Sura 47:4), smack women around (as condoned by Sura 4:34), play word games with a word like “innocent” (no one is innocent in Islam who leaves that faith, occupies land once occupied by Muslims, criticizes Mohammed, et al. and thus can be killed), etc., they are fulfilling the dictates of their warped religion. Just since 9/11 there have been over 33,000 documented Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide. How many Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, etc. attacks have occurred, done so in the name of that person’s respective religion, since that time? It approaches 0.
You mentioned that there might be something seriously wrong with our values. Yes, I think so and I would ascribe it to the Judeo-Christian ethic no longer being instilled in many children by conscientious parents. Let’s face it, devout Christians and Jews are very unlikely to go around killing students. Think any of these recent mass murderers, like the one in Florida in February and the one this month in Texas, were committed, sincere, practicing Christians? Quite the opposite in fact and so you got this ass backwards as you did most everything else. Which means you gotta’ be a leftie because Leftthink does terrible things to the mind just as Islam does.
I leave you with this: Benjamin Franklin, himself a skeptic, observed that if man is bad with religion, think what he would be without it. Islam would be the exception to this rule but this rule is bitterly proven by the events of the past century, like Stalin’s Gulag, Hitler’s enormous depredations and Mao’s genocidal activities. An individual person can live an ethical life without religion but society as a whole needs religion very much so. No one knew this truth better than did the Founding Fathers of America, many of whom like Franklin were personally skeptics (though none was an atheist) but who nonetheless understand the value of religion in American society as a whole. What America needs today are far more devout Christians, not fewer. Do you get any of this? I rather doubt it.
Ken Murphy says
Why do you doubt it? I understand you perfectly! You believe that the majority of Christians today are just not “devout” enough. Simple! Do we “get” what you’re saying? YES! Don’t insult our intelligence! NOW…. Do “we” agree with you (or our opinion)…. ……HELL NO!! A Christian “zealot” is just as dangerous to the civilized society as a radical Islamic Wahabbi desert dweller!! I”t’s relatively easy to go “TOO” far with ANY belief or doctrine and going “TOO” far is just that…..expecting STRICT obedience to the word of GOD is a common cry of the zealot. Are we NOT all sinners. Are we expected to go through life “worrying’ about offending our creator?!? That’s just NOT what religious FAITH is all about. That’s MY personal opinion…..
Wellington says
Ken Murphy: A Christian zealot is just as dangerous to the civilized society as a radical Islamic Wahabbi desert dweller?
Yeah, Presbyterian, Methodist, Catholic, Baptist, etc., Christian zealots have committed approximately as many terrorist actions worldwide in the name of Christianity as have Muslims in the name of their religion since 9/11.
Are you a total idiot? Some 33,000 documented Islamic terrorist actions just since 9/11 and virtually no Christian terrorist actions since 9/11. My God, man, wake the hell up.
Moreover, and as I have already noted, the Islamic theological blueprint calls for terror (Mohammed himself said, “I have been made victorious with terror” {Bukhari Hadith 4.52.220}), and Jesus never called for terror to be used against anyone. How effing stupid can you be?
Moral relativist thinkers like you make me sick. You are part of the problem and not at all part of any solution. Done here, moron.
CogitoErgoSum says
Rod, I said, think about the children. I didn’t divide them up into separate groups defined by ethnicity, religion or any other defining factor. They need only be children. They are the future. YOU are the one who made the distinctions concerning the children who don’t deserve any thought. YOU are the one who wants to forget about all children in the future because some were forgotten in the past. Are you someone who won’t give a child a present since you can’t give every child in the world a present? If so, you have a very warped way of looking at the world. If you don’t want to think about the children, think about about yourself and what it was that ruined your ability to see things clearly.
gravenimage says
What tripe from Rod. Firstly, Christians are not waging violence based on the Bible, as Muslims do on the texts of the Qur’an.
Then the idea that Westerners are never self-critical is just absurd–we review our own history all the time–and condemn many parts of it that do not measure up to our values.
And the implication that the free West would be better if overrun with violent, supremacist Muslims is just ludicrous. There are no problems in the West that would be made better with Jihad and Shari’ah.
Crusades Were Right says
Convert, suffer persecution, or die: the Islamic “Holy Trinity” of “tolerance”.
Wellington says
Hypothesis: The control-freak aspect of Islam and the denigration and humiliation by Muslims through the centuries of “the other,” as exampled here in this article by Robert Spencer, reveal an extensive narcissism embedded in Islam from the Profit Mohammed onwards, said Profit (N.B., not “Prophet” but “Profit”) being one of the most malevolently influential narcissists of all time; perhaps, reflecting upon said influence and the many horrible consequences stemming from his inordinate self-centeredness, THE most malevolent narcissist ever.
Yes, the rot with Islam starts with its reputed founder. Everything downhill from there. Thus the key to relegating Islam to the trash heap of history, where it surely belongs, is to destroy that horrendous (albeit very clever) psychopathic fake from the seventh century, one Mohammed by name.
Decimate Mohammed and you decimate the worst religion ever created by man. A “route” to be explored, surely. And preferably soon like since the world, and especially the West, is suffering most terribly from that great burden to all mankind which is the Islamic faith.
I loathe this faith. It makes a mockery of true faith. Anyone cherishing freedom and conscious of the many costs the preservation of freedom entails can, I submit (not meant in that lowly Muslim meaning of this word embodied in the very name for this destructive religion ), do no other than despise this wretched excuse for a religion that emanates from a peninsula, Arabia, whence nothing beneficial to all mankind has ever come due to the natives themselves who have inhabited said peninsula for countless millennia. What a legacy.
kathleen 7546 says
I think of Mohammad as the original Malignant Naricissist. A mental health term. I like your summary at 11:08 above.
mortimer says
Convert, pay extortion taxes and be persecuted while do so, or pay the supreme price when you say ‘NO’ to Islam.
‘Islamophobes’ who are not DHIMMIS will all be ‘PUNISHED’ with death if they think they are too good or too intellectual or too poor for Islam.
plume says
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/jewish/1772-jewsinislam.asp
The decision given by the Shaikh ar-Ramli [a great Cairo legal authority, d. 1596], by the Shaikh al-Islam [the Muslim religious authority in Constantinople], and by the learned scholars whose decrees can hardly be written down here, may be worded as follows: “It is forbidden to the tolerated peoples living on Muslim territory to clothe themselves in the same manner as the chiefs, the scholars, and the nobles. They should not be allowed to clothe themselves in costly fabrics which have been cut in the modes which are forbidden to them, in order that they may not offend the sensibilities of poor Muslims and in order that their faith in their religion should not be shaken by this. [Poor Muslims may regret their faith when they see how well-dressed the Christians and Jews are.]
“They should not be permitted to employ mounts like the Muslims. They must use neither saddles, nor iron-stirrups, in order to be distinguished from the true believers. They must under no circumstance ride horses because of the noble character of this animal. The Most-High has said [Qu’ran 8:62]: ‘And through powerful squadrons [of horses] through which you will strike terror into your own and God’s enemies.’ [A verse of the Qu’ran makes a good support for a law. Verses may even be torn out of their context.]…..
read the rest
infidel says
A 101 guide to Islam and Muslims..
This is a short list of points. Go thru it and U will get a good idea as to why Muslims behave in the way they always do and why they are involved in trouble all over the world.
Before U disagree, at least think and relate..
1> In any group, even in hardcore democracies. Muslims ALWAYS demand special treatment.
2> Any Muslim feels victimized and discriminated if he is not given special treatment.
3> And this stems from the fact that Muslims believe that Islam is always in danger if it is not allowed to dominate even when it is in minority
4> Even an uneducated Muslim feels superior to the most accomplished non-Muslim
5> This stems from the Koranic edicts that the worst of Muslims are better than the best of non-Muslims. Even a terrorist Rohyigya will feel better than a Hindu like Tendulkar
7> This also leads to the Muslim sense of entitlement in that they demand things from the Khafir (non-Muslim ) and yet will not harbor any sense of gratitude. U can see this demonstrated all over the world at various Muslim troublespots…
8> The biggest crime in the Koran is NOT ACCEPTING ISLAM. That is why for a Muslim, even a criminal terrorist like Dawood Ibrahim is superior to even the best of law abiding non-Muslims. Also, Muslims do not recognize the merit of non-Muslims.
9> Islam does not recognize the land and properties (and that includes women too) of non-Muslims
10> Which means, any land of a non-Muslim is OCCUPIED TERRITORY which Islam has every right to conquer and plunder. And this land could be even Antartica or any other territory where Muslims may never have even set foot in history. No wonder, Islamic nations are always in battle with non-Muslim nations, esp neighbors, over endless land disputes.. See Kashmir, Palestine..
11> However, these land disputes are just an excuse for the greater jehaad where the WHOLE infidel country will be conquered and plundered.
12> Islam does not recognize the marriages of non-Muslim. So any Muslim feels that he can hit on even married non-Muslim women and make them his.
13> Any non-Muslim culture before Islam is considered JAHILYA or ignorance….Only Islam is true knowledge. That is why Muslims are averse in recognizing their non-Muslim origins.
14> In any country where they are in minority, they do not believe in nation building as that would strengthen the non-Muslim land. The Hadiths prohibit this. Only those acts are permitted that weakens the khafir.
15> No Muslim leader talks about jobs, tech, progress, reg the infidel land.. It is always Sharia for them.
16> Islam is a very political system and Muslims are very political in nature. In any org they work, their actual output will be very less but their political wheeling and dealings will be enormous. Very soon they will worm themselves to positions of power/influence in that non-Muslim org. See how Ahmed Patel controls the Congress.
17> Muslims punch above their weight in politics when they are minority by a factor ranging from 3 to 5 depending on how strict the non-Muslim society is in dealing with them. The more tolerant the host, the more violent and virulent their demands and their effects.
18> Even at a minuscule 3%, they have a political power of up to 15%. And once they reach anywhere from 20 to 30%, the non Muslim political power base is finished off for good… See Kerala and WB..
19> Muslims always make sure that their issues always hog the limelight in any society. Elections are fought over their rights and immigration like in our country and Eu. The UN is forever occupied by the Palestine and kashmir problem. So even if U are not a Muslim, they will make sure that their issues are of concern to U. But they RARELY BOTHER about Ur (non-Muslim) issues other than making lip service if pressed to. See how minorities suffer in countries like Pak and Bangla.
20> To top this all.. Muslims believe that all the above things that they do is JUSTIFIED!!! So there is no chance of reform either, And if U say anything in this regard, U will be labelled as an Islamophobe and a bigot.
Sharyati says
Infidel a good summary of the situation in India. A few points to add from an Indian context
1. You missed Tamil-Nadu, which of now is the most active hotbed for Jihadi terrorists encouraged by Dravidian politicians. Here a slow but silent replacement and encroachment of areas is happening without even one knowing it, like a cancer.
2. In the town of Tirupathi in the current state of Andhra Pradesh, Muslims are trying to corner a piece of land that belong to the tirupathi temple and want to build a Islamic university. The Andhra government and leaders like Awaisi are in bed with each other for this loot. Also the bulk of ISIS operatives are from this state 2nd to only Kerala.
3. However the biggest Islamic entity in India is Bollywood , run by Jihadis like Dawuud Ibrahim. If there is anything called cultural Jihad this is were it is. All Hindu cultural and religious motifs are degraded and we get condemnation from the actors and actresses of this Jihadi syndicate on how polluting Hindu festivals are how we should avoid them. But not one word of condemnation on inhuman animal slaughtering practices during Bakrid and Eid-ul-Fitr(Thanks to Salman Bhai and Dawuud Bhai). And the hindu Sheeple are so very overjoyed on receiving words of wisdom from their revered actors/actresses and follow it to the letter. According to me, one of the first anti-jihad steps to be take is is to shun Bollywood and boycott the movies they produce and to support the local language movie industry. No demand will mean no supply and they will become defunct.
Lavéritétriomphera says
@Sharyati,
Nila a Hindu woman who interverns on a French site, made the same remarks about Bollywood. The Hindus must boycott Bollywood.
Sharyati says
Yes Lavéritétriomphera i have been saying this for almost 15 years now. For me it started with the Mumbai attacks of 1992(Not the recent Hotel attack)had quite a few Bollywood actors who were accused of helping the terrorist by funding weapons. Also nowdays Bollwood is filled with Pakistani actors who make it to the top but are ungrateful and when asked to condemn Jihadi attacks refuse to do so. They are brought into India through stupid exchange programs funded by teary eyed pro pakistani media persons like Bharka Dutta and leftist rascals. If they were left in Pakistan their career would have been a naught. So we have have internal enemies, journalists, actors and media persons wanting to destroy Hindus from inside.
Lavéritétriomphera says
Hi Sharyati,
“So we have internal enemies, journalists, actors and media persons wanting to destroy Hindus from inside”. Exactly as in my country, France is a country of Roman Catholic tradition with the Judaeo-Christian ethic of our Western civilisation. We respect all ideologies provided they are not totalitarian.
Nila did not know that websites like Jihad Watch existed in France, but these websites exist and we know that we must actually see things as they are: Islam is a totalitarian ideology as Nazism and Communism, and that’s all, end of argument.
We have suffered greatly from Nazism and even Communism, and if we want peace in the world, totalitarianism must disappear.
Bon courage,
Amitiés.
Mike says
I used to go twice a week at my favorite Tim Horton’s café at then end of the day by 11 pm. At that time , it was quiet . Only truckers , night workers , mostly men .
But since a week , it is no more a quiet place. Since this café is the only Tim around where you can get in in the night -others are drive through only -muslims from suburbs around , men between 18 and 30 , come there at 11 o’clock and stay there until 3 in the morning . Then they rush to their house to get a meal before sun sets up. At 4 places boots, they are 6 or 7 . They take games out -like Taboo- and play all night .
Results ? Truckers and night workers left . …..and me too.
gravenimage says
Yuk–horrible.
Ken Murphy says
JIHAD WATCH has been my daily source of information regarding ISLAM as well as this worldwide Islamic attempt to establish a caliphate and convert us ALL to their MURDEROUS MOONWORSHIPPING DEATH CULT called “islam”!!!!!
gravenimage says
Ramadan Day 6 thought for the day from Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad
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Can’t have those dhimmis getting out of line…