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Ramadan Day 8 thought for the day from Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad

May 24, 2018 3:59 pm By Robert Spencer

My new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS tells the story of the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV, who was alarmed by the decline of the Ottoman Empire, and concluded, as have so many other Muslim rulers throughout history, that it was because Allah was angry over lax enforcement of the Sharia. So he decreed:

Insult and humiliate infidels in garment, clothing and manner of dress according to Muslim law and imperial statute. Henceforth, do not allow them to mount a horse, wear sable fur, sable fur caps, satin and silk velvet. Do not allow their women to wear mohair caps wrapped in cloth and “Paris” cloth. Do not allow infidels and Jews to go about in Muslim manner and garment….

Click here to preorder The History of Jihad, the only book of its kind. It’s 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. boakai ngombu says

    May 24, 2018 at 4:08 pm

    such tolerance of the sultan is worth noting, and; his compassion is without measure

    so little has been said about leaders such as Murad IV.

    thank you, RS, for bringing this to the world’s attention

    • mortimer says

      May 24, 2018 at 7:05 pm

      HUMILIATION IS A SYSTEMIC PART OF JIHAD … ALL MUSLIMS ARE REQUIRED TO HUMILIATE KAFIRS ‘for the sake of Allah’…

      Humiliation in Islam

      Persian scholar Mulla Ahmad wrote to Sultan Zainul Abedin of Kashmir (1417-67):”the main object of levying the jizyah on them is their HUMILIATION…God established jizyah for their DISHONOR. The object is their HUMILIATION and the establishment of the the prestige and dignity of the Muslims.”

      Jiziya imposes humiliation upon the unbelievers just as 9:29 expressly tells Muslims: YUSUFALI: Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, …… until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves SUBDUED (or brought low through humiliation).

      The jiziya collectors were told by Islamic jurists to HUMILIATE and humble the infidel who came to pay the taxes. In India the jiziya collector was even asked to spit in their mouths.

      Al-Zamakhshari, a Mu’tazili author of one of the standard commentaries on the Qur’an, said that “the Jizyah shall be taken from them with BELITTLEMENT and HUMILIATION. The dhimmi shall come in person, walking not riding. When he pays, he shall stand, while the tax collector sits. The collector shall seize him by the scruff of the neck, shake him, and say “Pay the Jizyah!” and when he pays it he shall be slapped on the nape of the neck.”[34]

      [Tafsir ibn ‘Ajibah. Commentary on Q9:29 . Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Ajibah] “The dhimmi is commanded to put his soul, good fortune and desires to death. Above all he should kill the love of life, leadership and honor. [The dhimmi] is to invert the longings of his soul, he is to load it down more heavily than it can bear until it is completely submissive. Thereafter nothing will be unbearable for him. He will be indifferent to subjugation or might. Poverty and wealth will be the same to him; praise and insult will be the same; preventing and yielding will be the same; lost and found will be the same. Then, when all things are the same, it [the soul] will be submissive and yield willingly what it should give.”

      • BC says

        May 25, 2018 at 6:54 am

        How like the early days of Nazi Germany

        • Stan Cook says

          May 25, 2018 at 8:18 am

          My dear Mr. Mortimer. You said: “There is no excuse for you not reading the ISLAMIC TEXTS.” Yes there is. Here is one: I am an educated human living in a civilized world who can freely think.

      • Joni says

        May 25, 2018 at 7:14 am

        I had read that initially under Muhammad the jizya was to extort tax since they were losing money from the Ka’aba because theychad kicked out the polytheists who were visiting all their idols. I haven’t read all the Hadith, but it seems that all thesechumiliation ideas, restriction of what churches could do, how they had to dress, defer to Muslims, etc. were laid out in the Pact of Umar when he invaded Jerusalem. I’m wondering if the Hadith says all those 20 points since the hadith was written many years later and if such humilation rules started under Abu Bakr or Umar.

      • mortimer says

        May 25, 2018 at 7:42 am

        JB, 90% of your comments are vicious, uninformed bigotry. READ THE ISLAMIC SOURCE TEXTS and Sharia law.

        You do not even know the ESSENTIAL doctrine of Al Walaa wal Baraa.

        There is no excuse for you not reading the ISLAMIC TEXTS.

        http://from.the.depths.of.darkness.into.light.over-blog.com/article-the-islamic-concept-of-al-walaa-wal-baraa-part-1-121210725.html

        http://from.the.depths.of.darkness.into.light.over-blog.com/article-the-islamic-concept-of-al-walaa-wal-baraa-part-2-121210969.html

      • J D S says

        May 25, 2018 at 10:09 am

        If the Muslims would only realize they have been bamboozled by muhamadian false prophet teachings they might be able to take their place in the world order…There is no order in islsm.

      • roberta says

        May 25, 2018 at 10:29 am

        Everyone here has probably read the Koran and studied the Hadith to at least some degree. It all seems to be a collection of excused to me also.
        I dont believe someone has to be an ”Islamic Scholar” to understand whats going on. In fact, the term Islamic Scholar is laughable to me.
        The term gives some do nothing a job at a do nothing university.
        A scholar of theft, rape, torture, oppression, and murder. Maybe not so laughable after all.

      • roberta says

        May 25, 2018 at 10:40 am

        Whether JB reads THE ISLAMIC SOURCE TEXTS and Sharia law or not—–what does it all render down to?
        Six or half a dozen?

  2. Samuel Clemons says

    May 24, 2018 at 4:23 pm

    The best way to stop the spread of satanic islam. Is to share the truth about islam.

  3. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    May 24, 2018 at 4:56 pm

    Off topic:
    “Exclusive – Iraqi Lawmaker-Elect Vows to Push for ‘Christian Province’ to Ensure Future of Faith”
    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/05/23/iraqi-lawmaker-vows-to-try-to-establish-christian-province-to-ensure-future-of-christianity/

    A defended border is the best solution.

  4. Stephen says

    May 24, 2018 at 5:00 pm

    I thought that the quoted portion is a part of the pact of Omar.

  5. Emilie Green says

    May 24, 2018 at 5:12 pm

    “as have so many other Muslim rulers throughout history, that it was because Allah was angry over lax enforcement of the Sharia”

    Don’t we hear this one endlessly. That the solution to ever problem caused by Islam is [drum roll please] more Islam.

    1400 years of marrying first cousins really does have negative consequences.

  6. Voytek Gagalka says

    May 24, 2018 at 5:19 pm

    Since Murad IV lived and ruled in the beginning of 17th century (by OUR calendar), and in prospect what is happening right now in Turkey (as well as in whole Muslim world), we see that “restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods,” as Wikipedia admits, seems to happen regularly every 4 centuries or so. Islamic world is thus running in perpetual time bended circle without any hope of freeing itself once and for all. As long as ideology of Mohammed lasts, so does last their “Black Hole.”

  7. gravenimage says

    Jun 1, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    Ramadan Day 8 thought for the day from Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad
    …………………

    And many Muslims think the same way today, and want to see the most brutal Shari’ah imposed everywhere.

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