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The Roots of Political Islam and Terrorism

Dec 17, 2018 11:41 am By Rami Dabbas

Hardly a day goes by without news about a car bomb attack, machine guns or an explosive belt meant to cause as many casualties as possible, while the attacker is shouting “Allahu akbar!” So what is the nature of al-Qaeda or ISIS and their doctrine? What do they exactly want?

In my world, most of the Arab writers are hypocrites and dare not speak the truth that would threaten innocent people’s lives. The history of Islam is full of massacres, torture and murder, even among the first followers of Islam themselves and Muhammad, contrary to what Muslims claim.

In Islam, it’s known that Muhammad ordered the assassination of all the anti-Qur’an poets and those who stood against him.

Political Islam groups — including the Muslim Brotherhood — initiate political assassination, as Muhammad himself had done against his opponents. The earliest history of Islam is full of political assassinations. But after Muhammad’s emigration to Yathrib (“Medina”) and his success in persuading its tribes to accept Islam, he formed a military base and set out from there, conquering the Arab tribes and subjecting them to Islam with the sword (giving them the triple choice of Islam, jizyah, or war). And his followers were tempted by the women and the looted money (from the killing of the non-Muslims), and in this way Muhammad conquered most of the Arabian Peninsula.

Isis, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafists, the Jihadists and the Somali Shabaab movement all read Muhammad’s biography well and know the role of invasions and armed forces in subjugating others to their beliefs. All their terrorist acts are based on Muhammad’s biography and the verses of Quran.

The attempts to beautify Islam by characterizing terrorist groups as hard-line Takfiri, and the claims that Islam is a moderate and tolerant religion that urges science and development are funny. The nature of Islam is radical. Consider what Muhammad says in the violent verses of Quran.

Any honest reader of the history of Muhammad sees a two-faced person, Muhammad in Mecca when he was a minority promoted peace by practicing Taqqiyah and on the other hand, Muhammad in Medina, once the Muslims were a majority, was a murderer who slaughtered, cut off heads, issued Quran verses of murder and persecution of non-Muslims, and took their money, their women, and their children until they submitted to Islam.

But why have the terror and killing escalated in Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and head-to-head operations have increased in Syria and previously in Algeria in the 1990s? Where have these people come from?

In the Modern world the first emergence of political Islam began in 1928 with the Muslim Brotherhood. Among the objectives of this group was the siege of the Arab mind by spreading radicalism and promoting terrorism, spreading myths, suppressing the freedom of opinion and expression, and assassinating writers and thinkers. The Muslim brotherhood promotes the slogan “Islam is the Solution.”

Islam was the solution to counter the democratic revolutions. Saudi Arabia and the oil countries participated in financing the phenomenon of political Islam, as Islamic ideology enabled Arab monarchs in the oil-rich countries to retain power and keep away democracy and accountability.

Thousands of mosques have been built to influence the ordinary people and to pray for the jihadi terrorism in Afghanistan. The Islamists had a victorious party in Afghanistan in the 1990s. They were pushing the Arab street for power, and in the early 1990s, Algeria was the first victim of Islamic terrorism.

The forces of political Islam emerged from that victory with large masses of people who believed in the slogan that Islam is the solution, and used their power in the street to enter elections and win power, as happened in Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen.

But political Islam is not one the domain of one group. Its objectives are shared by the Muslim Brotherhood’s criminal brethren, dozens of Salafist jihadist terror groups.

The Muslim Brotherhood can use violence or Taqqiyah. If they are a minority, they use Taqqiyah; then after they gain dominance, they use violence, copying the actions of Muhammad in the Arabian Peninsula.

The West rejected the logic of the Islamists and America hit a drug factory in Sudan in the late 1990s because it was one of bin Laden’s investments. Bin Laden perpetrated terror attacks in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. America responded with the bombing of Afghanistan; then bin Laden plotted the events of September 11, 2001.

The Republicans and conservatives in America declared war on terror, invading Afghanistan and Iraq, but failed to eliminate the terrorists.

After the failure of the Republicans in the war against Islamic terrorism, the Democrats in 2008 entered into an alliance with political Islam, and they supported the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and other countries. The strategy was to give power to the Muslim Brotherhood, while they also confronted the jihadist Salafis.

The attempt of Wahhabi Saudi Arabia to fight Islamic terrorism is a failure, as they always promote the false claim that terrorism has no religion and that Islam is not responsible for terrorism. The books of Islam which they printed and distributed by the millions in the past are still on the shelves of their libraries. The doctrine of Islam itself is the main source of terrorism, and to combat this terrorism there must be intensified efforts in the non-Muslim world to confront and counter this doctrine, which has become one of the most serious threats to security and peace locally, regionally and internationally.

Rami Dabbas is a Jordanian activist and academic.

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 12:22 pm

    The term used in the above title of this article ,which is “political Islam” That term is, in reality redundant. This is because Islam is in essence, a religious /political Sharia law based system. As so well explained in brief way, by the Muslim tyrant who and ruled Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini when he stated that “All Islam is politics.” [1]

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq , page 332.

    • Terry Gain says

      Dec 17, 2018 at 12:27 pm

      The religious covering is an attempt to give Islam legitimacy. It is a fake religion. No religion condones killing. The purpose of religion is to connect us to God, not to Satan.

    • jule says

      Dec 20, 2018 at 2:27 am

      I think what they originally tried to sell to the West was that ‘political Islam’ would be democratically elected instead of by violent jihad, without Kings or dictators led by creepy Imams behind the scenes. But Democracy to them is only Mob Rule with the Qur’an & Sharia as the constitution. So then Qatar & MB in Egypt, Syria, Turkey etc set up smaller ‘special ops’ jihadis to work behind the scenes.
      But you are right, the reality is that Islam is the way of life dictating Everything including what to wear, when to pray and in what direction, how to walk, talk, what to eat…every single aspect of life was dictated with total control by fear and public punishment. The Qur’an is just a Warlords Manual for Global conquest and control like the old empires or Caliphates 700AD or so.

  2. Terry Gain says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 12:22 pm

    Excellent article. If we are to prevent Islam from achieving its goal of conquering the West we must be honest about Islam’s goal and conduct the Cold War needed to defeat this political ideology of conquest.

  3. David Grisez says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 12:23 pm

    It needs to be noted that Political Islam is as old as Islam itself, because Islam is both a religious system and a political government system combined together. The Muslim Brotherhood formed as a response to the fall of the Ottoman Empire Caliphate. The Ottoman Empire was Political Islam. The Muslim Brotherhood wanted to bring back the fallen Islamic Caliphate.

  4. mortimer says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 2:41 pm

    Many fine points by Rami Dabbas. However, the main point and main motivation of Islam is AL WALAA WAL BARAA (allegiance to Muslims versus hatred towards kafirs).

    WITHOUT A KNOWLEDGE OF AL WALAA WAL BARAA no one can understand the motivation of the ISLAMIC TERRORIST.

    This teaching must be made GENERAL KNOWLEDGE before we can win the counterjihad.

    • Vann Boseman says

      Dec 19, 2018 at 6:53 am

      Mortimer, I think that if someone were to read one of the largely accepted biographies of Mohammed and reviewed selected passages from the Koran that “allegiance to Muslims versus hatred towards kafirs” would be a logical conclusion. I don’t believe that focusing on only one main point is going to convince most people. I have found that people cannot believe the barbarity of Islam and how its backwardness in comparison to Western culture is validated within itself. Even if they have previous knowledge of the barbarity and backwardness of Islam, there is often some sort of emotional or psychological disbelief. This inability to believe begs for context in order to push them to go ahead and consider how and why anyone would ever seriously consider Islam’s doctrines.

      I agree with Dabbas. The biography of Mohammed combined with selected passages of the Koran is probably what motivates jihadists too. They need the same sort of context too if they are going to swallow something so apparently stupid.

    • jule says

      Dec 20, 2018 at 2:34 am

      like the mafia Omerta and see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil (with evil meaning anything not Muslim or anything against what any Muslim does) Like a mother will sit doing nothing while her son rapes or beats a woman or commits a disgraceful ‘honor killing’

  5. IQ al Rassooli says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 2:56 pm

    The most egregious lies that have ever been insinuated into the human consciousness by Muslims and their apologists are:

    Allah is the same as the God of the Bible
    Islam is a religion
    Muhammad was a prophet
    Islam means peace
    Jihad is a spiritual struggle to commune with God
    And last but not least, the Quran was divinely revealed

    Thus, based entirely upon the Islamic sources the following are also irrefutable:
    a) Since every Muslim is Sharia compliant, then every Muslim is the Eternal and Mortal ENEMY of every non Muslim human being called Kuffar/ Infidels currently comprising 80% of humanity of all Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Atheists, Agnostics, Pagans etc

    b) It is impossible for any Muslim to be BOTH a Good Muslim and a Loyal citizen among non Muslims/ Kuffar/ Infidels

    In less than 90 seconds, I have utterly discredited Muhammad as a prophet and the alleged divine origin of his Quran and I challenge any listener the sum of $200,000 to prove anything I have just revealed as either wrong or untrue.
    https://www.youtube.com/wat…

    IQ al Rassooli

  6. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 6:26 pm

    Rami Dabbas, you totally ignorant about political Islam. It simply means sharia compliant socioeconomic political system with focus on ethics to ensure social justice and balanced distribution of resources unlike extreme capitalism where wider gap is created between strata of the society as can be seen in the evil United States where less than 2% ,mostly evil Jews through financial tricks, control over 90% of incomes. such balanced socioeconomic political system is what Muslim Brotherhood have been advocating for decades that causes them persecutions at the hands of stooge Arab and Muslim leaders installed by wickëd mithraist christian west. Idiot terrorist groups are just planted by mithraist christian west to cause instabily hindering progress in Arab and Muslim world, they have no sense of direction and they hold perverted interpretations of Islamic sources.
    Mr Dabbas, you are just reproducing the concocted lies against Islam by orientalists and mithraist christian evangelist liars debunked for long. tell me who and who muslim-Brotherhood assassinated and at where? But your pay-masters the fascist evil zionists have been carrying out mass killings of Palestinians pursuant to obnoxious Talmud and mithraist churchmen carried out the worst atrocities in human history like genocidal killings of Muslims ànd Jews during crusade wars and in Spain, extermination of the original inhabitants of Americas, more than half of world Jews kiłled by mithraist christian Nazis, colonisation and deprivations of other nations, 17 million Black Africans thrown into Atlantic Ocean by mithraist christians during transatlantic slave trade, 15% of Algerians killed by French mithraist christians during brutal colonisation and attempt to annex algeria into France and many more atrocities, all pursuant to mithraist pagan Bible inspired by the satan you call Holy Spirit like in Samuel 15:3 and book of Numbers 31:17.Can you dispute that? A fool!!

    • saturnine says

      Dec 18, 2018 at 2:56 am

      Your impotent allah, weeping and trembling, prostrates before Mithra. Because they have chosen poorly, the minions of allah suffer in this and all other worlds. Mithrahu ackbar!

      • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Dec 18, 2018 at 8:54 am

        satumine, so your satan pagan ge you call Holy Spirit who inspired mithraist christianity whispered to you to insult Allah the creator of all, including your satan god the cursed one? you and your satan god will be casted into hottest lake of hellfire burning forever and you will be swimming inside the most horrible bad smelly excrements being emitted by your satan god when he suffers from pains of burning hellfire.

  7. Bruce Anderson says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 7:48 pm

    Ibrahim itace muhammed got a bit angry with the truth being published .. seems like the article by Mr Dabbas hit a few nerves.

  8. Benedict says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 7:54 pm

    “The doctrine of Islam itself is the main source of terrorism” ….

    This “main source of terrorism” would have no effect whatsoever, if it didn’t have a willing compliant in a proud and sinful human nature.

  9. infidel says

    Dec 18, 2018 at 1:14 am

    CHAOS when not a leader and a scheming evil tyrant when a leader: THE LUST OF THE MUSLIM FOR TOTAL POWER… Another Islamic TRUISM from the annals of the infidel.

    When Muslims enter any Khafir infidel country, they feel upset in spite of the Khafir;s generosity of welcoming the Muslim in his country. The main reason being.., MUSLIMS RESENT Khafir leadership in any form. That is why Muslims create chaos and disruption whenever they enter any Khafir country and the same thing they do when they enter any Khafir org. And because of the sense of Islamic entitlement to the best of things as their Koran tells them.. Muslims want NOTHING LESS than the top position whenever they enter Khafir society. Creating chaos and disruption using the khafir society’s own laws is a super strategy to put the Khafir on the defensive right from the word GO. And from there on the Muslim’s journey to the top is defined by the tolerance level of the ifhost infidel society. As I have said in an earlier TRUISM, the more tolerant the host infidel society, the more virulent the Islamic parasite.. and in this case, the Muslim is very brazen in his demands and scheming to the top of the infidel org if the hosts are very tolerant of even naive as in the case of Sweden. And where there is more awareness of Islamic subterfuge and chicanery, the Muslims use more subtle strategies like becoming a big influencer of the Khafir leader and manipulating him/her to their tunes like Huma Abedin is doing to Hilary. Regardless, the objective is to gain power in the infidel country/society without putting any hard work or service. And once the Muslim succeeds in getting to this leadership role, more aspects of Jehaadi behavior surfaces.. see London Mayor Sadiq Khan or even master Trojan Obama himself. That is why non muslims must have NOTHING TO DO WITH MUSLIMS IN ANY ENDEAVOR….

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