Ramadan Day 20 thought for the day from my new book The History of Jihad: in 850, the caliph al-Mutawakkil issued a decree designed to make sure that the dhimmis knew their place. According to the Muslim historian al-Tabari, the caliph:
gave orders to destroy any churches which were newly built, and to take the tenth part of their houses. If the place was large enough it was to be made into a mosque; if it was not suitable for a mosque it was to be made into an open space. He ordered that wooden images of devils should be nailed to the doors of their houses to distinguish them from the houses of the Muslims. He forbade their employment in government offices and on official business where they would have authority over the Muslims. He forbade their children to attend Muslim schools or that any Muslim should teach them. He forbade the display of crosses on their Palm Sundays and Jewish rites in the streets. He ordered that their graves be made level with the ground so that they should not resemble the graves of the Muslims.
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Hari Singh says
Muslims must be reminded that the Kaaba is just another idol, that they worship it by bowing, circumambulation, kissing it and covering it with costly fabrics with gold thread costing millions called the kiswa.
This makes them box or cube worshippers, Kaaba means cube. God is not in the east or the west, north or south. If the Kaaba is the house of Allah then he is not omnipresent and not the one true God.
Estee Tabernac says
…. and what about your “Golden Temple”? What special demon inhabits that monument to buggery?
gravenimage says
It seems that Estee Tabernac hates Sikhs, as well. She is fine with the savagery of Islam, though.
mortimer says
JB is a Nordic racial supremacist. His unreferenced, spontaneous, visceral, hate-filled, personal comments are not part of the counterjihad but reflect his own racialist ideation. Counterjihadists are concerned with fact-based evidence concerning Islam’s supremacist ideology and the effects on its targets, rather than mere venting of sophomoric or even adolescent rage .
gravenimage says
Mortimer, how does noting Islam’s condoning of rape make anyone a “Nordic racial supremacist”?
I didn’t see anything Jay Boo said here that was about race. As you know, there are Muslims of every ethnicity.
Qedlin Saltum says
Admirable to identify a need to be intellectual, objective and reasoned, so what justification is there for your irrational nordic and following comment? None. First do what you demand others to do before attacking others. Spontaneously emitted ad hominems are not an indication of coherence or all you claim is required.
Carol the 1st says
I think the justification is because Jihad Watch would like to have an audience hang around long enough to absorb some of the more serious facts.
I think Jay Boo is performing a service.
J D S says
Jay Boo…Mortimer..Graven. and others……Today’s first topic is about what Muslims have done in the past leading to what they are doing today and want to continue doing in the future….what Jay Boo say fits perfectly…If one looks at all we see they are doing and have done……I have no respect for them because of what I am seeing….AND as long as they are NOT on the street corners, in the streets on TV, Radio, and screaming from their minuets, mosque pulpits, prayer rooms or any venue of the like…… THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN IN ISLAM today and what THEY ARE BEING TAUGHT FROM their literature and by their preachers , clerics, teachers etc….IS NOT WHAT THEY BELIEVE AND PRACTICE. I will continue to hold them responsible for all they do ….all in one group of bad people …and until proven different .. undoubtedly driven by Satan…What or who else could be driving them?????
COME ON SOMEBODY…PROVE ME WRONG!
AleX says
@mortimer
Jay Boo is overly creative.
His ‘adolescent rage’ is a sign of apollonial mental health and solar wisdom.
I think, as much as I like your research in the field of Islam, that your views about JB’s personality and unique expressive metaphors are exaggerated and unhinged.
Gesundheit.
gravenimage says
No, Mortimer is *not Muslim*. But he often seems more enraged at you than he is at Jihadists. Not sure why…
Peggy says
Everyone has said the exact thing at one time or another so why are you angry at JB for saying it now?
Just wondering if maybe you are being a bit irrational now.
David F says
So now Alex, tell me just what race is Islam, I think that you should read the Hadith, the Sunna and also the Q’ran.
mortimer says
Agreeing with Singh.
According to Nabatean pagan mythology, Dushara/Dusares was the sun-god of the Nabateans and was their chief deity. He was claimed to be born to a virgin sun-goddess “Chaamu” or “Kore” or Allat, and his birth was celebrated at winter solstice. The Nabatean fertility sun-goddess Allat and her son Dushara were symbolized by cuboid stone blocks also known as Djinn Blocks. More than 20 of these Djinn Blocks can be found on the outskirts of Petra, Jordan, usually close to a water source.
Nabatean pagans used to veil their fertility goddess with black cloth. The so called Kaaba at Mecca is a perfect replica of the cuboid stone blocks or Djinn Blocks and is veiled in black cloth thus representing the virgin mother sun-goddess Allat. The so called black stone in a dilated vulva shaped enclosure represents the crown of the sun-god Dushara being born from the virgin mother sun-goddess Allat, and is precisely aligned with the rising sun at winter solstice.
According to Epiphanius of Salamis (c.315-403), the birth of the sun-god Dushara was celebrated by the Nabatean pagans at winter solstice. On the night of the 25th of December, a festival occurred before the cuboidal stone block image of Allat; it ended with bringing forth from beneath the earth the image of the sun-god Dushara, which was carried seven times around the inner sanctuary of Allat’s temple. This is the source of Christmas being celebrated on 25th of December.
Dushara, also known in Greek transliteration as Dusares, was worshipped at Petra and Madain Saleh (of which city he was the patron deity) by the Nabataeans. In Greek times, he was associated with Zeus and Dionysus because he was the chief of the Nabataean pantheon. His sanctuary at Petra contained a great temple in which a large cuboidal stone was the centrepiece.
A gallery of Djinn Blocks found at Petra, Jordan, is as follows. Please note the perfect resemblance of the so called Kaaba in Mecca to these Djinn Blocks, including the pedestal at their bottom, and the proximity to a water source, which is called zam-zam in the case of the so-called Kaaba in Mecca.
Allat, worshipped at the Kaaba, was referred to as al-Kubra (The Greatest one)
…the lexical meaning, Akbar, as in Allah-u Akbar, is the male form, whereas Kub(e)raa is the female form while Kub(e)r(an) is the non-gender/epithet form…
We know they called the black stone “Stone” (Hajr) … and they referred to Allat as “chobar” … so grammatically it can only be referring to Kub(e)raa and not Kub(e)r(an)
Michael Copeland says
Image:
http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/525831/djinn-blocks-petra-in-jordan/
gravenimage says
Muslim leader ordered churches demolished, wooden images of devils nailed to doors of Christians’ houses
……………………..
More of that famed “Islamic tolerance”…
boakai ngombu says
their intent has not changed: a modern statement from a JW scribe a few years back –
The Pakistani general S.K. Malik noted in “The Qur’anic Concept of War” that:
Terror cannot be struck into the hearts of an army by merely cutting its lines of communications of depriving it of its routes or withdrawal. It is basically related only if the opponent’s Faith is destroyed. Psychological dislocation is temporary; spiritual dislocation is permanent. Psychological dislocation can be produced by a physical act but this does not hold good of the spiritual dislocation. To instill terror into the hearts of the enemy, it is essential, in the ultimate analysis, to dislocate his Faith.
Carol the 1st says
Aha! And here we can read between the lines and see why Islam hates the Trinity so – The Holy Spirit (if it exists, and most of us intuit that it does) is an enormous challenge since it seems to be carried around inside us in an unassailable fortress seemingly designed by God or the Universe itself. Tough luck and so terribly annoying for the slave-by-rote supremacists out there!
Estee Tabernac says
W.T.F?
Where are you from, that sh*t hole Africa?
gravenimage says
It seems that Estee Tabernac is racist as well as an apologist from the barbarism of Islam.
gravenimage says
All true, boakai ngombu.
Michael Copeland says
“Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
Barack Obama
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/04/islam-has-a-proud-tradition-of-tolerance-said-barack-obama-lets-test-his-theory
Johm says
This building once had 360 idols around it why would Mohammad worship idols it the first place. And to this day the black stone is still an idol . Abrahm and Ishmael did not build it. They wood be over 1000 years old ? Lies upon lies ! Alexander the Great did not sacrifice to Islam ! It was not in existence at that time ! He worshiped Greek gods because Islam was not around ! Lies on top of lies !
Gjallarhornet says
If you were going to describe the West’s problem with islam as briefly as possible, what would you write?
I think you can boil it all down to is:
“Islam is not benign. Western ruling elites say it is”.
This strikes me as the core truth, everything else are just satellites around this nucleus of truth.
Estee Tabernac says
Unlike Christians, most Muslims have penises worthy of worship.
gravenimage says
More ugly crap from the vile Estee Tabernac.
Hogdude says
Barack Hussein Obama: Islam is a religion of peace.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
jay Boo, mithraist churchmen kept sex slave girls where they crucified their hands and legs before penetrating and now having anus and vaginal sex with Kids under their care. Too barbaric !!
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed keeps making the bizarre claim that the Bible teaches Christian churchmen to crucify and rape sex slaves–of course, there are no such verses, and no such history of such behavior.
Instead, it is *Muslims* who keep sex slaves and crucify their victims–as well as rape children.
Nothing but projection.