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Muslim leader answers Christian’s request for peace by threatening to “seek Allah’s favor by spilling your blood”

Jun 9, 2018 2:58 pm By Robert Spencer

Ramadan Day 24 thought for the day from my new book The History of Jihad: in the 830s, the Byzantine emperor Theophilus asked the Abbasid caliph al-Ma’mun for a peace accord. Al-Ma’mun responded:

I should make the answer to your letter cavalry horses bearing steadfast, courageous and keen-sighted riders, who would contend with you over your destruction, to seek Allah’s favor by spilling your blood….

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  1. gravenimage says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 2:59 pm

    Muslim leader answers Christian’s request for peace by threatening to “seek Allah’s favor by spilling your blood”
    …………………….

    That pretty much sums things up…

    • Lydia Church says

      Jun 9, 2018 at 8:59 pm

      Yes, that is their idea of “peace”!
      Just kill off all of those who don’t agree…

    • BC says

      Jun 10, 2018 at 6:28 am

      We must bear in mind that the Muslims were the aggressors then. The Byzantine Empire was not invading the Muslims

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 10, 2018 at 10:55 pm

        So true.

    • J D S says

      Jun 10, 2018 at 8:55 am

      Seekiings Satan’s favor…of course Satan wants blood…and he don’t care whose blood either..Their blood is just the same to satan..He wants a lot of company in the Lake of Fire.

  2. Don McKellar says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 3:02 pm

    Nothing has changed. Here we have Byzantine emperor Theophilus misunderstanding the Islamic call for “peace” while not understanding what that term means to moslems. Of course it means: “Subjugate yourself to Islam and there will be peace.” The caliph was only following the Koran, like all modern day jihadis do. All this time and a thousand historical examples later and somehow we still don’t get it? How is that possible? It’s written right there!

    • mortimer says

      Jun 9, 2018 at 3:27 pm

      Well expressed. Muslims are not permitted to make a peace treaty that lasts more than 10 years.

    • Sons of Liberty says

      Jun 10, 2018 at 1:08 am

      One historical example was the 1.3 million Armenian Christians killed by the Ottoman Turks starting in 1915 around WW I . Yet the leaders of today tell us Islam is a peaceful religion hijacked by extremists …..but the killing goes on and on and on…..AND ON !

  3. mortimer says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 3:26 pm

    The story of the exchange between Roman emperor Theophilus and the Abbasid caliph al-Ma’mun conforms with the JIHAD DOCTRINE found in the Koran.

    Koran 9.14. “If they … assail your religion, then fight the HEADS OF DISBELIEF … Will ye not fight a folk who broke their solemn pledges, and purposed to drive out the messenger and did attack you first? What! Fear ye them? Now Allah hath more right that ye should fear Him, if ye are believers Fight them! Allah will CHASTISE THEM at your hands, and He will LAY THEM LOW and give you VICTORY over them.”

    Jihad is AGGRESION directed against the dirty KUFAAR.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 10, 2018 at 8:18 am

      JB, again you miss the point because you have taken the lazy man’s approach and have not READ or STUDIED the PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS: all of Islam is constructed around JIHAD according to Koran 9.29 which is the key turning point verse of Islam.

      K.9.29 is the central verse of Islam, and jihad is the central act of Islam.

      Your spontaneous UNSTUDIED and IRRELEVANT comments suggest that counterjihadists are moronic, sophomoric, spontaneous and without knowledge of Islam, so they are counterproductive. You make the counterjihad look foolish.

  4. Berengaria says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 4:16 pm

    I can still hear the Lies of a President of the USA, who stood before the American People & Proclaimed With Much Conviction that ISLAM was the “Religion of Peace”. If you disagreed, Bad Things seemed to happen to you.
    We now are living in a Country, where each City & State has been Flooded with the members of the Murderous Islamic Cult.
    I believe that it’s almost too late to fight back, because one half of our Country sympathizes with the Murderers! We Americans are outnumbered in our own Country!

    • Brigitte from Germany says

      Jun 9, 2018 at 7:25 pm

      No, no, no, it`s never too late.

      • Sons of Liberty says

        Jun 10, 2018 at 1:17 am

        I agree Brigitte ! Never ever give up ,…this is our Country founded in LIBERTY and FREEDOM !

  5. Terry Gain says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 4:57 pm

    This is continuing because not enough people are praising Islam. More people need to follow the Catholic Bishops and Donald Trump, who are ad idem on how to respond to the threat of Islam.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Jun 10, 2018 at 9:32 pm

      We sure need “clarity” as we keep sloppily reverting back into the trap of our own English understanding of words. The ROP is deceiving everyone but according to its own lights is not technically lying. Here’s the fuller description:

      https://canadafreepress.com/article/submission-what-is-the-meaning-of-peace-in-islam

  6. DHazard says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    Which god commands his followers to kill and maim people? Could it be …………SATAN!

  7. Brigitte from Germany says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 7:33 pm

    https://www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-free-tommy-robinson?recruiter=855854356&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

    Sign this petition, please.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 9, 2018 at 7:38 pm

      Signed it!

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 10, 2018 at 8:59 am

      Signed, and posted on FB.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 10, 2018 at 11:04 pm

        Mirren, great to see you posting again!

  8. Marco Peltier says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 7:41 pm

    The Grand Mosque in Mecca is 666 nautical miles from the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem… That’s the Holy Spirit’s way of letting us know that Allah is really Satan.

  9. Fred Dawes says

    Jun 10, 2018 at 12:35 am

    Millions will be killed if people do not understand that Islam is evil and full of beast who want to kill.

  10. WESTPAC Spy says

    Jun 10, 2018 at 12:35 am

    I never knew the meaning of what duty meant until I saw these men die.

  11. WESTPAC Spy says

    Jun 10, 2018 at 12:51 am

    You would have thought someone would have hammered it home earlier, No, in e my life merely prepared me. Then I saw this.

  12. WESTPAC Spy says

    Jun 10, 2018 at 12:59 am

    You would have thought someone would have hammered it home earlier, No, in e my life merely prepared me. Then I saw this.

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  13. Robert Walling says

    Jun 10, 2018 at 8:08 am

    Isaiah was written 700+ years before Christ and it describes why Jesus came and what He would suffer. It was written 2600+ years before Israel became a Nation again, and it describes how it would happen in a day. It has been 70 years since that prophecy was fulfilled. The last prophecy in Isaiah is a doozy, you might want to check it out.

  14. jack cade says

    Jun 10, 2018 at 8:19 am

    The only time you can believe a Muslim barrow is when he says he will try to kill you.

  15. Benedict says

    Jun 10, 2018 at 10:51 am

    – Muslim leader answers Christian’s request for peace by threatening to “seek Allah’s favor by spilling your blood” – – –

    and nothing in his religion can be used to criticize him let alone to condemn him.

    Islam can only triumph in violence and it will continue in violence to the end. And all over the world naive politicians bury their heads in the sand in order not to see it, preemptiving the possibility of having their heads cut off by these desert savages.

  16. TWG says

    Jun 10, 2018 at 6:07 pm

    Sure wish they’d start telling that to this pope the Catholics have anointed, as well as all the other dhimmi enablers and accomplices.

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