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Ramadan Day 7 thought for the day from Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad

May 23, 2018 3:24 pm By Robert Spencer

In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I recount how in 711, Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, the governor of Iraq, sent the general Muhammad ibn Qasim into Sindh, modern-day western Pakistan. It was the beginning of the jihad conquest of India. Hajjaj gave his commander ruthlessly precise instructions:

My ruling is given: Kill anyone belonging to the combatants [ahl-i harb]; arrest their sons and daughters for hostages and imprison them. Whoever submits…grant them aman [protection] and settle their tribute [amwal] as dhimmah.

Hajjaj rebuked Muhammad ibn Qasim for being more lenient to the Hindus than Islam commanded:

Hajjaj’s instructions to Muhammad ibn Qasim were ruthlessly precise:

Allah says, “Give no quarter to infidels but cut their throats.” Then you shall know that this is the command of the great Allah. You shall not be too ready to grant protection, because it will prolong your work. After this give no quarter to any enemy except those of rank.

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.

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  1. Wellington says

    May 23, 2018 at 3:49 pm

    Again, just feel the love that emanates from Islam, regardless of which century you’re referring to.

    • mortimer says

      May 23, 2018 at 9:16 pm

      Love? No. ‘Allah loves not the disbelievers.’ (Koran 3:31-32 and 30:45)

      Allah GREATLY HATES the dirty KUFAAR!

      • mortimer says

        May 23, 2018 at 10:51 pm

        The life’s work of every Christian is to apply the Golden Rule in all he/she does.

        The life’s work of every Muslim is to conduct JIHAD. (Jihad is aggression.)

        The motive of JIHAD is that Allah hates the kufaar because they do not worship Allah CORRECTLY. Allah want Muslims to subjugate and control the KUFAAR and make their lives so intolerable that they will convert to Islam in order to find relief from unending persecution by Muslims.

        ALL JIHAD IS AGGRESSION.

  2. Ade Fegan says

    May 23, 2018 at 6:07 pm

    Must read .. looks great .. Thanks Robert

  3. Ade Fegan says

    May 23, 2018 at 6:23 pm

    No Ramadan Bombathon ?
    Is it just me or are there less jihad terror attacks this ramadan than usual
    and less jihad attacks world wide recently ?
    Could this be a new trend ?
    What do you think ?

    • Geoffrey Britain says

      May 23, 2018 at 7:52 pm

      Leopards don’t change their spots. But they do fade into the brush when it suits them. Since 9/11 there have been more than 25,000 Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide. They’re not going to suddenly change now.

      • Lydia Church says

        May 24, 2018 at 12:37 am

        Just remember, they themselves said that they were not going to be reporting on jihad terror as much due to ‘bad publicity’ so as to change the narrative in people’s minds. But no, they will never change unless they convert to Christianity.

        • mortimer says

          May 24, 2018 at 6:54 am

          JIHAD UNTIL VICTORY. Jihad SWINGS between hegira (retreat) and jihad-advance.

          Jihadists retreat to plan the coming attacks.

          The life’s work of every Muslim is JIHAD … AGGRESSION against the dirty, disbelieving KUFAAR.

    • strong aingel says

      May 24, 2018 at 7:36 am

      The islamic year post Sept 2017, is the year of ordering the troop (examination) therefore there is little by way of organised jihad. Sept 2018 normal service will be resumed. There are ten named years, the theme of each is repeated once per decade, ten times per century therefore. This rolling one hundred year formula sets up each 100 year revival of the ummah.

    • BC says

      May 24, 2018 at 10:18 am

      Ramadan has a way to go yet, do not get too complacent. Also consider the number of attacks which have been nipped in the bud

  4. boakai ngombu says

    May 23, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    “… You shall not be too ready to grant protection, because it will prolong your work….”

    K.I.S.S. … kill

    • Bev says

      May 23, 2018 at 7:01 pm

      That’s all they know. It’s a death cult. The only way to receive redemption for being a bad Muslim is to kill for Allah. Everywhere Islam goes, so goes strife and death.

      • mortimer says

        May 24, 2018 at 6:55 am

        Bev is correct: “…where Islam goes, so goes strife and death”

        ISLAM’S main program is JIHAD … AGGRESSION AGAINST KAFIRS.

  5. jewdog says

    May 23, 2018 at 8:40 pm

    Hindus are considered polytheists, and therefore must be killed and not given dhimmi protection, so the guy here was being lenient.

    • Sridhar says

      May 25, 2018 at 12:33 am

      Muslim invaders and conquerors in India soon realized that it was not practical to kill all non-muslims. They needed money to rule a big place they had conquered. Taxing non-musllms (Jazia) was a good source. Also, it was not practical to kill them all. Loyal Hindus thus were employed as helpers, ministers etc. Some were more liberal (eg Akbar) than others.
      It is to the credit of Hindus of India that they have not internalized this atrocities done on them over the centuries. They have just moved on. Muslims are however struck in a time warp. Many still believe they live in the middle ages where they were the rulers!

  6. Granddaddy says

    May 23, 2018 at 9:16 pm

    I don’t see how anyone, except someone who is brainwashed, can call Islam a religion. It contains nothing of any spiritual value. That’s why they indoctrinate their children. It would fail without constant indoctrination. It’s more like propaganda and Big Brother. There must be a psychological test for people who are brainwashed.

    • KJW says

      May 23, 2018 at 10:27 pm

      Syrian psychiatrist Dr. Wafen Sultan said:

      “I came to the absolute conclusion that it is impossible…impossible…for any human being to read the biography of Muhammad and believe in it and emerge a psychologically healthy person.”

      Someone said: “Life nurtured in a pathological culture.”

      If you read the Hadith and Sira (Hisham/Ishaq)-not even all of it is necessary-you see how bizarre it is and that they are talking about a allegedly holy prophet. I was reading the Suckling chapter from Sahih Muslim’s Hadith, and what these followers said…I just can’t understand how people can buy into it and deal with the dualism of a prophet having sex slaves, murder, avarice, lots of sex talk, etc. That many Muslims won’t criticize all of that and/or make up illogical excuses, or just lie, makes me wonder if any have a conscience and what the effects of this festering inside them does to them. It’s also disturbing how they try hard to negate their history and are so concerned with looking good. They are *still* in the 21st century stunting minds.

    • mortimer says

      May 24, 2018 at 6:56 am

      GD, Islam is mainly SELF-HYPNOSIS.

  7. mortimer says

    May 23, 2018 at 10:54 pm

    NOTE THAT the first Islamic coins (above) use the SEXPOINTED STAR of VENUS (the morning goddess) and the MOON SYMBOL or BOW SYMBOL of QOS-ALLAH (the war god of Arabia).

    At the time of al-Hajjaj, Islam had not yet been formulated and/or codified.

    • mortimer says

      May 24, 2018 at 6:56 am

      of course … “SIX-pointed star”

  8. Berengaria says

    May 23, 2018 at 11:00 pm

    What Terrible Harm the Politicians & Bureaucrats at the State Dept have done to America, when they agreed to import Muslims into our Beautiful Country.
    DIVERSITY is the Hue & Cry of all those, who are trying to destroy America for Americans. After 8 years of Stealth Muslim Rule, we have become Frightened & Weak. We can only hope & Pray that President Trump will not be fooled by the LIB’S Demand for DIVERSITY, aka Muslim Rule.

    • Joss says

      May 24, 2018 at 10:01 am

      Ditto for the UK, bar changing President Trump for Sharia May!

  9. Billy Chickens says

    May 23, 2018 at 11:26 pm

    “The great Allah” = Satan.

    • Joss says

      May 24, 2018 at 10:29 am

      +1 at least!

  10. Kafir says

    May 24, 2018 at 3:17 am

    Allah was an imagination of mohammad. He used bloodbath & terror to force people to accept that he was a messenger but if you do a psychological analysis. He was a hard core criminal no civil society would allow to live among them. Mohammed used his imagination to approve all his wrong doings in name of allah & those who opposed were killed brutally. There has been no Mo cartoon since charlie hindi attacks! This is how Islam works.

    • Sridhar says

      May 25, 2018 at 12:29 am

      Dayanand Saraswathi i think it was (a spiritual man in India some 100years ago) who said Islamic Prophet suffered from Schizophrenia. Some others have said he had temporal lobe epilepsy where he had visions along with fits. We would never know. Mahatma Gandhi held him in high esteem.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 2, 2018 at 9:40 pm

        Yes–Gandhi said that the vicious warlord “Propet” was a “seeker of truth”. *Ugh*.

  11. sidney penny says

    May 24, 2018 at 3:51 am

    Wrong Title Robert

    Wrong: The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.

    Right: History of Jihad From Muhammad to NOW.

    The impression is that Jihad is finished with the demise of ISIS

    • Infidel says

      May 24, 2018 at 11:29 am

      I concur…. But I’m sure that Robert is aware that Jehaad is going on even as we speak.. IT WILL NEVER END… UNTIL IT IS ENDED OR IT DESTROYS EVERYTHING..

  12. Peter1589 says

    May 24, 2018 at 4:16 am

    And had we not murdered 60 million of our children in the commandment of Roe (eggs) v. Wade (Wade through the sewage where our children were sent to feed the rats and vermin), then we would not be living under the condemnation of the Almighty outlined in Isaiah 10:1-7 —

    10:1. Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

    10:2. To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.

    10:3. What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

    10:4. That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

    10:5. Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.

    10:6. I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

    10:7. But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

    Do penance, the end is near.

    • duh swami says

      May 24, 2018 at 5:22 am

      All religion is man made…scripture is men talking to men…

      • WPM says

        May 24, 2018 at 7:56 am

        You can conclude all religion is man made ,all government is man made ,all laws are man made , all countries culture is made man. Some cultures some religions, some governments are evil rotten and wrong .Nazism is wrong, communism is a fail system everywhere it is try, Islam is chief among evil man made things if their is no God, promoting evil, violence ,slavery, all in the name of a evil slave master god. No other major religion has done evil commanded in its books and leaders in the history of the world as Islam has done.Islam is not scripture men talking to men , it is men commanding other man to ,raping ,enslaving steal from, murder , others as commanded in their holy books in the name of allah . You can believe in God or not ,but you have to conclude Islam is an evil, violent system if is made by the devil or man it is still an evil system. It is like no other major religion on earth it stands out as exception when measure against any of the of the other major religions, Christianity,, the Jews ,Hindus ,Buddhist .

        • Aussie Infidel says

          May 24, 2018 at 6:40 pm

          WPM, That’s putting it in a nutshell. I’m an atheist, but I tolerate most other religions except Islam. Islam is an evil totalitarian cult dreamed up by a psychopathic warlord to control his minions.

      • Joss says

        May 24, 2018 at 10:33 am

        Sorry, but I disagree! Western civilisation, now being undermined, courtesy of self-serving politicos, is based very firmly on Judaeo-Christian religions!

      • Sridhar says

        May 25, 2018 at 12:27 am

        Yes but some men are better than others. And so the religion they come up with is better than others.
        Jainism has no place for violence. Jains make sure they don’t trample on even insects while walking outside their homes and so Jain monks do not go out after evening. For same reason they all wear a mask.
        Compare this with the religion that says it is OK to kill non believers.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 2, 2018 at 9:45 pm

      Another claim that since Christians are imperfect that the horrors of Jihad are God’s will. Try again…

  13. Joss says

    May 24, 2018 at 10:35 am

    Sorry, but I disagree! Western civilisation, now being undermined, courtesy of self-serving politicos, is based very firmly on Judaeo-Christian religions!

  14. Infidel says

    May 24, 2018 at 11:34 am

    Muslims say that Indian University MUST NOT start a course on ISLAMIC TERROR.. Amazing!!! It is akin to a criminal saying that there should be no courses in criminology…. VOW!!!

    • Infidel says

      May 24, 2018 at 11:35 am

      https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/agra/amu-opposes-proposed-islamic-terrorism-course-in-jnu-urges-hrd-minister-to-intervene/articleshow/64307246.cms

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 2, 2018 at 10:26 pm

      I wish I could say this surprises me…

  15. Sridhar says

    May 25, 2018 at 12:23 am

    Mohammad bin Qasim is taught as a hero in Pakistan’s history text books. Pakistan’s history begins with conquest of Sindh by this invader. Sindhis are taught that he who raped and pillaged you and converted you eventually is a hero.
    Sindhis today are rebelling against this interpretation and many are trying to reclaim their past “true” history.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 2, 2018 at 10:32 pm

      Yes–appalling.

  16. gravenimage says

    Jun 2, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    Ramadan Day 7 thought for the day from Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad
    ……………………

    God, I hate Islam.

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