Ramadan Day 30 thought for the day from my new book The History of Jihad: Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, a fifteenth-century Persian who wrote a biography of the Mongol Muslim warrior Tamerlane, observed that “the Qur’an says the highest dignity man can attain is that of making war in person against the enemies of his religion. Muhammad advises the same thing, according to the tradition of the Muslim doctors: wherefore the great Temur always strove to exterminate the infidels, as much to acquire that glory, as to signalise himself by the greatness of his conquests.”
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Elrond says
“Good , good . Let the hate flow through you .” -Emperor Palpatine
James says
Is it wrong to hate that which wants you dead? Do you hate cancer I wonder? Put your palpatine up your ass and rotate on it!
Mari For says
Ouch ! The middle guy in the photo looks like that is happening to him haha
gravenimage says
Joe and James, I think Elrond was talking abut Muslim hatred.
Linda says
These people should never ever be allowed into any civilized Western country. They do not belong. Period.
karl anglin says
Elected officials, which are ultimately controlled by the global elite,
such as the Bilderberg Group, make the decisions for the benefit
of the elite wealthy 1% world wide.
Stephen Silverstein says
And that is why Islam is not a religion, it’s a violent ideology.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur (a.k.a. Tamerlane, 1336-1405), Tamerlane was a Muslim, and he said, “the Qur’an says the highest dignity man can attain is that of making war in person against the enemies of his religion.” (Even if the man’s religion is not Islam?) Where does the Quran say this? Please cite chapter and verse (sura and aya).
mortimer says
The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008.
Terry Gain says
Mortimer
Mark Spahn asked a straightforward question. He deserves the courtesy of a straightforward answer, if you have one. I have the same question.
gravenimage says
Terry and Mark, the Qur’an over and over again asserts the primacy of Jihad, as you can find at the many verses Mortimer cited.
Timur was paraphrasing, not quoting a specific verse. He was not wrong, though.
Terry Gain says
Graven Image
I value honesty. No one should say ” the Quran says .. “….” If it doesn’t precisely say that. There are enough bad things in the Koran without making things up. Doing so hurts our cause.
gravenimage says
Terry–with all respect–Mortimer said that he was citing the Qur’an’s many verses of Jihad, which he did. He was not being dishonest, nor making anything up.
mortimer says
Sahih Muslim 20:4645 “The Prophet said: ‘Whoever cheerfully accepts Allah as his Lord, Islam as his Religion and Muhammad as his Apostle is necessarily entitled to enter Paradise. ‘Abu wondered at it and said: ‘Messenger of Allah, repeat that for me.’ He did that and said: ‘There is another act which elevates the position of a man in Paradise to a grade one hundred (higher), and the elevation between one grade and the other is equal to the height of the heaven from the earth.’ Abu said: ‘What is that act?’ He replied: ‘Jihad in the Way of Allah! Jihad in Allah’s Cause!'”
Sahih Bukhari 4:52:53 “The Prophet said, ‘Nobody who dies and finds Paradise would wish to come back to this life even if he were given the whole world and whatever is in it, except the syahids who, on seeing the superiority of syahid, would like to come back to get killed again in Allah’s Cause.’
Sahih Bukhari 4:52:44 “A man came to Allah’s Apostle and said, ‘Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad in reward.’ He replied, ‘I do not find such a deed.'”
Muslim:C30B20N4639 “The Messenger said: ‘Leaving for Jihad in the Way of Allah in the morning or in the evening will merit a reward better than the world and all that is in it.'”
christianblood says
Islam is ALL about jihad, violence, hating, cursing, converting, subverting and conquering infidels! Islam is nothing but a satanic cult of hate and death and yet the Western world, like the US love islam and islamists and collaborate with them and even arm and fund islamic the worst kind of islamic jihadists! America has just resumed giving millions of dollars to an Al-Qaea branch in Syria also known as the “White Helmets”. Please read this breaking news about America’s aid to Al-Qaeda on the link below:
https://southfront.org/us-resumes-financial-aid-to-white-helmets/
gravenimage says
You find dhimmitude eveerywhere, of course–including in Russia.
christianblood says
gravenimage
Supporting and funding jihadist terrorists like Al-Qaeda and ISIS is beyond dhimmitude, it is like being One and the Same with Al-Qaeda and ISIS!
(..Trump resumes funding for White Helmets..) More below:
http://theduran.com/trump-resumes-funding-for-white-helmets/
gravenimage says
“Christianblood” is always claiming that Jihad is really American.
christianblood says
gravenimage
It is undeniable that that the US government supported and still supports islamic jihadists globally! Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Libya, Syria, Yemen are all good examples.
Osama Bin Laden was America’s hero before he become America’s most wanted. More below:
http://theduran.com/osama-a-hero-turned-most-wanted/
gravenimage says
No one here supports Jihadists–and we condemn anyone supporting them.
But you have lauded Hizb’allah’s Jihad attacks on Israel–I consider these to be bad things, as well.
christianblood says
@ gravenimage
GRAVEN LISTEN:
TRUMP (USA) HAS JUST RELEASED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO ALQAEDA WHITE HELMETS IN SYRIA, THIS ACT OF GIVING MILLIONS TO ALQAEDA “WHITE HELMETS” IS WAY BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS AND YET NONE OF THE PEOPLE HERE ARE OUTRAGED BY THIS….PEOPLE HERE JUST KEEP REPEATING
THE SAME (ISLAM IS BAD, ISLAMISTS ARE EVIL MANTRA). YES ISLAM BAD AND ISLAMISTS ARE EVIL. NOW, TALK ABOUT HOW THE US AND WESTERN GOVERNMENTS ARE JUST AS BAD AND EVEN WORSE BY BACKING, ARMING, FUNDING AND SUPPORTING ISLAMIST JIHADISTS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IN THE USA RELEASED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO ALQAEDA WHITE HELMETS IN SYRIA:
https://www.rt.com/news/429930-white-helmets-tool-funding/
gravenimage says
Actually, people here–including myself–regularly condemn clueless dhimmitude among authorities–including assuming that the “white helmets” are something like the Red Cross, which is unfortunately quite common.
The difference is that Anti-Jihadists here condemn *all* Jihad and Shari’ah–we don’t applaud it, as you do with Iran and Hizb’allah.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mortimer.
mortimer says
Mark, NO ISLAMIC DOCTRINE IS BASED ON ONE VERSE in the KORAN, but on a COMBINATION OF KORANIC TEXTS, HADITHS, QUOTES FROM THE SIRA, TEN OTHER BOOKS and FROM SHARIA LAW.
Mark, ISLAM DOESN’T HAVE SIMPLISTIC EXPLANATIONS for it DUALISTIC DOCTRINES, because NOTHING IN ISLAM IS CONSISTENT. Every Islamic teaching is DUALISTIC, having at least TWO MEANINGS.
Tamerlane did not quote a specific Koranic verse in the QUOTE, because he was quoting an hadith from memory. Mohammed said a number of times that JIHAD IS THE GREATEST DEED in ISLAM and that GREATEST DEED RECEIVES THE GREATEST REWARD.
There are 164 jihad verses which TAKEN AS A WHOLE form part of the BIG PICTURE of the JIHAD DOCTRINE. When combined with the DOZENS of JIHADIC HADITHS and CANONICAL COMMENTARIES, they create the DOCTRINE OF JIHAD. IT IS HIGHLY COMPLEX! You obviously haven’t a clue about the texts of Islam and how they interrelate. You have a lot to learn. START READING. NO ONE CAN DO YOUR HOMEWORK FOR YOU.
Mary says
Do you have to scream?
mortimer says
MARK, THIS IS AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN GET TO THE ANSWER YOU WISH FOR … (and you’re welcome)
– The Prophet said, “The head of its matter is Islam and its pillar is the Salah and its highest peak is the Jihad.” – Sunan At-Tirmidhi 2616
-The prophet said, “Shall I not inform you of the head of the matter, as well as its pillar and the apex of its hump? … The head of the matter is Islam.” He compared the matter to a male camel and made Islam the head of this matter since no animal can live without its head. Then he said, “Its pillar is salat.” The pillar of something is what keeps it upright and no matter can be kept upright or steady without a pillar. Then he said, “The apex of its hump is jihad.” The apex of anything is its highest point and the highest point of a camel’s hump is the tip of its hump. Of all deeds, there is nothing that rivals jihad in importance. Abu Hurayrah reported that a man came to Allah’s messenger, and said, “Tell me something equivalent to jihad?” He replied, “I cannot find any.” Then the prophet said, “When Muslims embark on jihad, can you go to the mosque and pray without stopping and fast continuously?” The man replied, “Who can ever do that?”
– Ibn-Daqiq’s Commentary on the Nawawi Forty Hadiths
Walter Sieruk says
This murderous violence evil and mayhem had be, somewhat explained by a former Muslim, Ibn Warraq in his book which has the title THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM . For on page 253 he reveals that “Sharia was destined to dominate the world and crush all undesirable elements… Jihad was center, to Islam ,which could not have been successful without it.” The author further expounds of the writing of a militant Muslim writer , Mawdudi . on page 266 For that jihad-minded Muslim scholar wrote “In reality, Islam is a revolutionary ideology and program which seek to alter the social order of the whole world and rebuilt it in conformity with its tenets and ideas. … ‘jihad’ refers to that revolutionary struggle and utmost exertion which the Islamic party beings into play to achieved this objective.”
It may be truthfully said what is called the” Lesser Jihad” which is the violent brutal and murdering jihad is very much alive at practiced by many jihadist/ Muslims in this modern world . This lesser jihad is also termed as “The Jihad of the Sword.”
David Grisez says
Also one of the Boston Marathon bombers was named Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Apparently his parents wanted their child to be like the historical Muslim Mongol warrior named Tamerlane. With the Boston Marathon bombing this bomber lived up to the name Tamerlane.
abad says
+1
mortimer says
Tamerlane is a name honored by Muslims in central Asia. Tamerlane killed as many as 17 million people, one of the greatest mass killers of history.
Tamerlane killed all the Christians between Baghdad and China.
Eur says
Look at the photo, that is the near future in Europe. This afternoon when I was looking for a place to park my car in the neighborhood there was a Moroccan (in his fifties) pissing in the middle of the street next to a lamppost. Another Moroccan arrived while the other pissed and greeted him, finished pissing and they started talking as if nothing had happened. The Moroccans are disgusting, uncivil. All the Magrebies and Egyptians, Muslims, are just as dirty. If I had reproached him for his uncivil attitude, several Moroccans would have come to defend the pig, form herds, packs of Muslims.
Save Europe says
I’m going to hazard a guess that you’re either Dutch or Belgian, as I have lived in both countries and they both have an excess amount of vile Moroccans. Here in the UK, our problems are the Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Somalis. They equally behave with no respect.
Eur says
North of Spain.
Since a few years ago, working class neighborhoods, but worthy and honest and clean, have become Moroccan ghettos. I do not know what part of Morocco they come from but I imagine that from rural areas without asphalt, traffic lights … the Moroccans do not know how to behave in a city, it is a real disaster. It is shocking that in a modern city with all kinds of services you run into people who seem to come directly from the Middle Ages ….. and they are proud of their behavior.
Wellington says
Proposition: Islam is the most monumental and destructive mistake over the longest period of time in all of man’s history. It is enthralled with death, the control of other human beings, the subjugation of women, the endorsement of rape, the humiliation or even termination of “the other,” and it is a mortal enemy of freedom. Fun, music and good beer are also enemies of Islam, but I digress.
No one of sense and knowledge can have a good opinion of Islam. Impossible to do so. There is absolutely nothing in Islam that is a positive that cannot be found elsewhere and yet there is much rot and nonsense in Islam that is difficult to find anywhere else. So, why keep it around at all?
I despise Islam. How can one not?
James says
+1 very well said.
gravenimage says
+1
Save Europe says
Superbly put, W !!! ?
PRCS says
“Fun, music and good beer are also enemies of Islam”
Even bad beer, I imagine.
DHazard says
It’s not new news. Islam is the religion of lies, xenophobia and death. Allah, as portrayed by Muhammad and others, is evil, capricious and vain. Why anyone would choose to worship a murderous jerk and his avaricious “prophet” escapes me. For those born into it their only chance for a normal life is to become a lazy Muslim who only appears to believe in Islam. We have lots of those in the U.S. Without the death penalty for apostasy, and all the peer pressure and threats that go with it, Islam would wither away.
TruthWFree says
TRUTH!!
gravenimage says
“The Qur’an says the highest dignity man can attain is that of making war in person against the enemies of his religion”
…………………………
In other words, the greatest thing in Islam is murdering in the name of Islam…
Carol the 1st says
“Hand to hand combat ‘like a man'” appears to be this season’s swarming signal. I think drones are the most satisfying and sanitary reply.
Lydia Church says
One photo is worth a thousand words, and Robert, regarding islam….this is that photo!!!
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The European says
I still maintain that one should use both strategies: exposing Islam as an evil cult and debating it on a doctrinal level, but you shouldn’t forget that there is no arguing with terrorists and jihadists. you cannot debate them, they have internalised what is being said about “true” Muslims in Surah 9,111. Fire must be fought with fire. We have to make sure that these people are more afraid of us than we are afraid of them, otherwise people who are willing to speak the truth about Islam will desist from doing so because they are too afraid of Islamic terror, and exposing Islam will not will not gain enough momentum because too many are hesitant about joining the fight against it.
Cicero says
One cannot have a reasoned argument with Muslims – they shout,they scream they hurl personal insults . They are deadly – all of them
gravenimage says
Yes–exposing Islam is important to educate Infidels. In most cases it will not influence Muslims. They don’t listen to the “filthy Infidels”.
Strong Aingel says
The logic therefore is that it is right for people of one faith to slaughter the people of another. Thus if you’re one of those crabby Christians prepared to uphold moslem assertions that allah is a bonafide god, then you are right to accept the moslem assertion and enactment of religious violence, and get in with doing some. It looks like a case of us and them, because not fighting for your religion renders too faithless (infidelis).
Kasey says
Correction for Chand’s comment above ,” that Islam is a religion”……it’s not!
It is an violent and lethal TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY which has a religious appendix which it uses very effectively to divert and deflect any valid criticism of itself or its prophet, and it also claims that any such criticism is blasphemous.
TruthWFree says
I would say that it is a religion in that it has a god and they have prayer practices and other teachings on how to get to Muslim paradise. Islam should be outlawed in the US and all non Muslim countries because the main tenants in the Quran, especially Sura 9, are to fight and kill and subjugate the unbeliever. What sane non Muslim would want to bring that evil religion (or cult) into his country? I consider the allah god of Islam to be Satan…for good reasons based on facts.
Cicero says
Chanda is a suspect entity. He / it appears to drag his/it’s interpretaions of Hinduism into discussions regarding Islam. He /it appears to equate Hinduism with Islam especially in Islam’s damning aspects.
I suspect “ Chand “ is a troll
gravenimage says
Yes–Chand is a notorious Muslim apologist.
The European says
To Jay Boo
“The nearby golf Course is infested with Ramadan bloodthirsty rats …Time to set the rat traps.”
Any other proposals, Jay Boo? Shouldn’t we try Zyklon B on them, or other insecticides and vermin killers?
What do you think?. Rat traps might not be efficient enough to get the job done.
Frankly, you sound like Julius Streicher, one of Germany’s most rabid anti-semites who was the editor of a famous Nazi news magazine called “Der Stürmer.” He, too, used this despicable racist language comparing human beings to rats and bugs and other vermin which must be eliminated, thus dehumanizing them and freeing people from inhibitions to kill them.
Hatemongering and racism do not further our cause. You will not dishearten any Muslim when you speak and write like this, you only make them angry, and you allow them to pose as victims of racism, xenophobia and hate speech if they read your stupid comments.
gravenimage says
Oh, good grief, The European. No, Jay Boo in opposing Jihad is *not* calling for a Holocaust against Muslims.
The European says
To gravenimage
I don’t know what he is really up to, but calling Muslims bloodthirsty rats is not opposing jihad, it’s just vicious slander, hatemongering and racist language.; and I can’t see how this could serve the cause of those who justly oppose Islam. He should rethink his appoach.
Carol the 1st says
Eur…anger is of worth for survival and some of us have been “primed” in our emotional reaction due to recent news stories (not fabrications) like this one:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/ramadan-in-uk-muslims-run-over-teen-rugby-star-hit-him-with-golf-club-give-him-fractured-skull-and-brain-bleeding#comment-1914442
terry says
How any clear thinking individual could adhere to this SICKEST of ideologies is beyond comprehension.
The European says
To Jay Boo
Oh yes, the wabbits! Killing the wabbits is an exciting shooter game… Rats disguised as rabbits. They have destroyed your harvest, and now, they are hiding from you, but you are clever, you’ll track them down… shoot the cannon ball into the warren and go to the next level.
I hope you can tell the difference between a computer game and opposing supremacist ideologies like Islam in the real world.