Unfortunately, many Muslims would disagree with Jack Baxter.
So would the Qur’an: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111). And as for murder, see 2:191, 4:89, 9:5, 47:4, etc.
The Grand Mufti of Libya, who presumably knows more about Islam that Jack Baxter, would also disagree: Grand Mufti of Libya: Suicide bombings are “allowed by Sharia law”
“Filmmaker nearly killed by suicide bombing in Tel Aviv makes movie about experience,” by Michael Kaplan, New York Post, January 2, 2021:
On April 29, 2003, I was in Tel Aviv, reporting for Wired magazine. I had completed a day of interviewing and was strolling alongside the Mediterranean when I came to a blues bar, Mike’s Place, with a Guinness sign out front. I like Guinness, my name is Mike, and I stopped to poke my head in. But it was mid-afternoon and the bar was empty. So I went to my hotel and crashed early. After midnight, a loud noise woke me. I said to myself, “That couldn’t be a bomb.”
Next morning, I found out that a suicide bomber, Asif Mohammed Hanif, had blown himself up at Mike’s Place. An accomplice, Omar Khan Sharif, failed to ignite his own explosive and got away. Twelve days later, his body washed up on the beach. (The men, both Muslim, came to Israel from Great Britain.) A few hours had stood between me sleeping through the sirens of ambulances and needing an ambulance myself.
Jack Baxter was less lucky.
He’s a filmmaker who happened to be at Mike’s, saying goodbyes after wrapping “Blues by the Beach,” a documentary about the bar. The terrorist’s body exploded into Baxter, sending Baxter flying 10 feet and crashing against a plate-glass window. He wound up comatose for three days, awakening in a Tel Aviv hospital with no recall of the event that left three dead and 50 injured.
“Blues by the Beach” came out in 2004. Now Baxter has released “The Last Sermon,” available on iTunes, which chronicles the bombing as well as his quest to find the families of the men who left him permanently altered….
With the film, Baxter hoped to show multiple sides of an infinitely complex issue and maybe foster some understanding: “My intent was to counteract anybody who might be thinking that Islam and the Koran and the word of the Prophet justify murder in the name of God.”
Calling himself “an original Jesus freak,” Baxter was a member of the California-based Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation, a religious cult. (Tony was eventually imprisoned for sexually abusing minors.) Baxter recalled: “I was willing to die for God but not willing to kill.”
As he believed in the ’70s, and as he’s certain the terrorists believed, “Being a martyr . . . is a fast-track to heaven and it makes up for any sins you accrued.”…
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Dopey ass.
Crusades Were Right says
God protect the West from Islam…
…and Islamophilia!
Aussie Infidel says
“Baxter hoped to show multiple sides of an infinitely complex issue”.
But the issue is not complex at all – it’s quite simple. Hatred of the Jews is a core tenet of Islam. Muhammad hated the Jews because they would not recognize him as a prophet or accept Islam as a religion. And because that hatred was written into the Islamic scriptures, it has continued to motivate devout Muslim psychopaths to kill Jews – QED.
“O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.” (Quran 5:51).
“Indeed, we are disassociated from you and from whatever you worship other than Allah . We have denied you, and there has appeared between us and you animosity and hatred forever until you believe in Allah alone”. (Q60:4).
“The Jews and the Christians will abide in the fire of Hell for ever. Those are the worst of creatures”. (98:6).
“The Last Day [Judgement Day] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. And if the Jews hide behind the rocks or trees, they will say, Oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the Gharqad tree would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim 41:6985, Sahih Bukhari 4:56:791). Often known as the ‘Genocide Hadith’.
“Baxter believed that ‘Being a martyr . . . is a fast-track to heaven and it makes up for any sins you accrued’.” Anyone who thinks like that is simply a deeply indoctrinated religious fanatic with no sense of reality.
bill carr says
Well, he had earlier been in a cult, people who join cults are already psychologically compromised
mortimer says
Jack Baxter should have an interview with Robert Spencer to correct his misconceptions.
Jihad is a PILLAR of Islam and 100% incumbent upon ALL Muslims.
Muslims who do not conduct jihad or do not INTEND to conduct jihad will not go to Islamic paradise.
Jonathan Swift says
In reality, the so-called-Islamic paradise does not exist. So, neither those Muslims who conduct Jihad or those who don’t can end up there. Finding Jesus is their only real hope of Salvation.
moqifen says
Obviously this moron can’t read nor has access to the internet. Perhaps when some muslime is cutting his head off with a penknife he’ll get it, but it will be too late.
tim gallagher says
So this idiot can’t read. In the Koran, there are several passages that tell Muslims to go and kill (ie murder) the non-believers. How dumb can some people be. I suppose that this clown simply hasn’t even bothered to read what’s clearly there in the Koran and yet thinks he can then tell people what the Koran teaches. The truth is right there and all this imbecile has to do is take the time to read the passages in the Koran which quite clearly tell Muslims to go out and murder people in the name of their disgusting version of what god is. People like this, who run a protection racket for Islam, endanger us all.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“I suppose that this clown simply hasn’t even bothered to read what’s clearly there in the Koran and yet thinks he can then tell people what the Koran teaches.”
That is very common of Leftists.
Almost none of them have actually read the Koran, yet they are *sure* of what it contains – and it’s “nothing bad” if taken “in context”…
tim gallagher says
Yes, it’s astounding isn’t it, James. To know about any subject you have to do a bit of research before getting around pretending that you are some kind of an expert on the subject. I suppose that a lot of people will believe what they would like to believe is true and also a lot of gullible people do seem to believe the lies that Muslims tell non-Muslims about how Islam is peaceful and all that type of bullshit. Hopefully, at least some of these people will wake up to the truth about islam soon. I have noticed some progress being made when it comes to my left wing siblings and friends. I think they are starting to wake up (finally) to how evil and barbaric Islam is. It’s been a slow process but I think the evidence of all those endless terrorist attacks and other aspects of Islam eventually gets through to quite a few people.
john smith says
Good exchange Tim and James, spot on the both of you.
Walter Sieruk says
That jihadist suicide/homicide jihad-minded Muslims are with his malicious and murderous mindset because he was thoroughly indoctrinated with Qur ‘an based hard core non-watered down Islam. Not some kind of “hijacked” or “warped” Islam. Second, this should also serve as a reminder that Jihadist are still scheming and possible future Islamic murderous jihad attack in Americans homeland carried out by Muslim who are also violent and dangerous jihadists suicide/homicide – bombers /attackers with Islamic delusion they have because of the false doctrines of Islam. Likewise with their mad and irrational deluded Islam quest they are so thoroughly brainwashed and deluded that they actually think of their murderous actions as “martyrdom operations.”
This jihad evil and madness is based on the Koranic doctrine, 9:111. , of a far-fetched and nonsensical doctrine of a sex- filled paradise with many virgins, hours, in it for the use only the jihadist/Muslim male who dies as a “martyr” fighting for the cause of Islam. This weird religious/Islamic teaching is found contained the Koran in 44:56. .55:56. 78:31. This bizarre and odd, irrational Koranic doctrine is not open, to the jihadist, to inquiry, questioning, logic or reason. So this blind unreasoning and unquestioning kind of “faith” in the Koran is a reminder that Thomas Jefferson had written. “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck.”
Likewise, Benjamin Franklin had printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK something which may apply to this topic. For Mr. Franklin had printed “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
Walter Sieruk says
That deluded and deadly jihadist in his mad,deluded ,unthinking and unreasoning Islamic quest was very delusional that he actually wanted to become “martyr.” Some of the reasons are that such violent and deadly people are the outcome of the extreme brainwashing that is done in Islamic mind programming centers which are more widely known as mosques and madrasas, by the imams. In those Islamic mind programming centers youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Koran. as found in 44;54. 55:56. 78:31.., of a sexual/lust filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. First and foremost, those who come out of those places of extreme brainwashing are so very warped, sick and deluded that they actually view such murderous bombing attacks as “martyrdom operations”
Likewise, they are so very damaged that they have literally become dangerous to self and others. In addition, the Bible does warn about false teachers who ingrain a belief in a doctrine of a story of a /lustful/lust-filled place with much sex in it. For the Bible warns about false teachers, the Muslim clerics do fit this description, in Second Peter 2:18. Which reads “For they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh…”
Furthermore, many a times a jihad –minded Muslim in his death recording talks about “the wedding with the virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false doctrine and false teaching. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scripture, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29, 30.
In contrast to the delusional Islamic pipe-dream of the jihadist in the Koranic story/doctrine of a place with virgins, Christians have the reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [K.J.V.]
Kepha says
Oh, when will theeeeyyyyyyyy ever learn…
PRCS says
“Man wounded in suicide bombing makes film to counter view that Qur’an justifies ‘murder in the name of God’”
Well (his ignorant conflation of Judaism and Christianity’s god with Islam’s god aside) he’s right.
Per our kuffar laws, Muslims murdered several thousand human beings on September 11, 2001.
Per Islamic law, they were “fighting in the cause of Allah”.
Mojdeh says
ignornat people and not able read or speak languages. They do this dumb things. I wish he was dead as well. Now he suffers well enough indeed.
gravenimage says
You wish Jihadists had been successful in murdering him? Good God…
jim says
Stockholm Syndrome, he wants the consolation that the Left got it right and the people who flood in as refugees are really good at heart. Well, maybe they were at birth before they were brought up to believe in the purveyors of violence. It does not matter what the koran says. A friend of mine has a copy, and it is expurgated. All the incitements to violence are omitted. Another friend knows that the koran does not say anything about the hijab, and there is even a muslim country where the women do not wear them. Well, great there are countries where the people are not members of any religion or do not practice the same customs that millions of adherents practice. What matters is what happens when violence is brought forth. If it comes from leaders instead of holy scriptures, it is still part of the given religion. Religions include both the historical writings and the traditions accumulated over time, the mainstream and the deviant sects. Spin-offs can blow people up for the religion, even if it is not in a certain text. So, the filmmaker is probably afraid that if he turns around he will see a monster, so he cannot believe that it is there.
OLD GUY says
These are the people the left politician’s will bring to a neighborhood near you. Allowing the open muslim/islamic invasion of our country is unforgivable.
gravenimage says
Man wounded in suicide bombing makes film to counter view that Qur’an justifies ‘murder in the name of God’
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This willful ignorance runs deep…
ed says
their are no multiple sides their is only one islam