Here is yet another example of how telling unwelcome truths is stigmatized today. Islam is not actually a religion of peace, and it is not a matter of bigotry or hatred to point this out. Are the authoritative schools of Sunni jurisprudence “Islamophobic”?
Shafi’i school: A Shafi’i manual of Islamic law that was certified in 1991 by the clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the leading authorities in the Islamic world, as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy, stipulates about jihad that “the caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians…until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim poll tax.” It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh Ali Salman, a Jordanian expert on Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war only “provided that he has first invited [Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)…while remaining in their ancestral religions.” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.8).
Of course, there is no caliph today, and hence the oft-repeated claim that Osama et al are waging jihad illegitimately, as no state authority has authorized their jihad. But they explain their actions in terms of defensive jihad, which needs no state authority to call it, and becomes “obligatory for everyone” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.3) if a Muslim land is attacked. The end of the defensive jihad, however, is not peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims as equals: ‘Umdat al-Salik specifies that the warfare against non-Muslims must continue until “the final descent of Jesus.” After that, “nothing but Islam will be accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until Jesus’ descent” (o9.8).
Hanafi school: A Hanafi manual of Islamic law repeats the same injunctions. It insists that people must be called to embrace Islam before being fought, “because the Prophet so instructed his commanders, directing them to call the infidels to the faith.” It emphasizes that jihad must not be waged for economic gain, but solely for religious reasons: from the call to Islam “the people will hence perceive that they are attacked for the sake of religion, and not for the sake of taking their property, or making slaves of their children, and on this consideration it is possible that they may be induced to agree to the call, in order to save themselves from the troubles of war.”
However, “if the infidels, upon receiving the call, neither consent to it nor agree to pay capitation tax [jizya], it is then incumbent on the Muslims to call upon God for assistance, and to make war upon them, because God is the assistant of those who serve Him, and the destroyer of His enemies, the infidels, and it is necessary to implore His aid upon every occasion; the Prophet, moreover, commands us so to do.” (Al-Hidayah, II.140)
Maliki school: Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a pioneering historian and philosopher, was also a Maliki legal theorist. In his renowned Muqaddimah, the first work of historical theory, he notes that “in the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.” In Islam, the person in charge of religious affairs is concerned with “power politics,” because Islam is “under obligation to gain power over other nations.”
Hanbali school: The great medieval theorist of what is commonly known today as radical or fundamentalist Islam, Ibn Taymiyya (Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya, 1263-1328), was a Hanbali jurist. He directed that “since lawful warfare is essentially jihad and since its aim is that the religion is God’s entirely and God’s word is uppermost, therefore according to all Muslims, those who stand in the way of this aim must be fought.”
This is also taught by modern-day scholars of Islam. Majid Khadduri was an Iraqi scholar of Islamic law of international renown. In his book War and Peace in the Law of Islam, which was published in 1955 and remains one of the most lucid and illuminating works on the subject, Khadduri says this about jihad:
The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God’s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world….The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state. (P. 51)
Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Shari’ah and Law of the International Islamic University in Islamabad. In his 1994 book The Methodology of Ijtihad, he quotes the twelfth century Maliki jurist Ibn Rushd: “Muslim jurists agreed that the purpose of fighting with the People of the Book…is one of two things: it is either their conversion to Islam or the payment of jizyah.” Nyazee concludes: “This leaves no doubt that the primary goal of the Muslim community, in the eyes of its jurists, is to spread the word of Allah through jihad, and the option of poll-tax [jizya] is to be exercised only after subjugation” of non-Muslims.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene faces angry backlash after Islamophobic tweet: ‘Islam is not a religion of peace,’” by Andrew Naughtie, Independent, August 26, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
Far-right Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is embroiled in yet another social media furore over a tweet in which she insisted Islam is “not a religion of peace”.
The GOP congresswoman, who has previously been sanctioned by the House of Representatives over her long history of racist, incendiary and sometimes violent statements, offered her thoughts on the implications of the withdrawal from Afghanistan in an typically unambiguous post.
“Pray for American missionaries in Afghanistan,” she tweeted. “There are reports that some families may have been killed. Islam is not a religion of peace.”
While many of Ms Greene’s supporters and ideological fellow travellers backed up her claims, many on the other side were enraged and disturbed.
“Every time you think she can’t say something worse, she does,” wrote one user. One hit back by drawing a parallel between conservative Christians and conservative Muslims, while another pointed out: “Yea, the Taliban totally represents all of Islam. That’s why there are Muslims hanging off of planes trying to escape their rule”.
It is unlikely Ms Greene will face any formal consequences for her tweet, whether from Twitter or in Congress. She has repeatedly indulged in racist conspiracy theories and violent rhetoric directed not just at Muslims but at Jews, as well as her myriad political opponents, but she remains in office….
Infidel says
I had no idea that MTG had said that. I’m now rooting for her to be the VP candidate in 2024 for either Trump or DeSantis, whoever is running
Infidel says
Uh? She lost all her committee assignments the last time she had a tiff w/ the leadership, even while they okayed Liz Cheney continuing as Chief Whip even after her vote for impeachment.
That’s why I’m rooting for Kevin McCarthy to be removed as House GOP leader. Prefer Jim Jordan in that position, although he’ll probably go down to Steve Scalise
gravenimage says
Sadly true, Infidel.
Infidel says
Only fault I find w/ her: her remaining on Twitter. She is one of the 2 congresspeople who have accounts on Gab – the other being Lauren Boebert. She should know better than to empower Twitter to ban her
Other than that, she is great.
Oh, and a note to the Independent, Guardian and all other British busybody media who don’t think that UK has enough problems of its own before they meddle into what minor politicians in other countries say or do:
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PMK says
She’s not a good choice for VEEP. Too many people would be turned off.
Better to have the GOP take back the House and restore her committee assignments.
In the past, people who have lost committee assignments were removed by their own party’s leadership. MTG was removed by Democrats, breaking yet another precedent.
Infidel says
The people who will be turned off by her would be the idiots who voted for Biden in the first place b’cos they didn’t like Trump’s style, or mannerisms. On the substance, she’s exactly what we need! I used to be a fan of Mike Pence until January 6th, and now, anyone who is palatable to the majority is probably someone who’d bend over
Jimjfox says
Sad that her history of extremist racist comments detracts from her truth about the so-called religion of peace
Infidel says
She’s neither an extremist nor a racist
James Lincoln says
That is correct, Infidel.
She is an American patriot.
gravenimage says
Citations, please.
I haven’t heard any racist comments from her–and certainly there is nothing racist about saying that Islam is not a religion of peace.
gregbeetham says
Since when was Islam a race?
Ecosse1314 says
The Independant is a left wing rag that has pretensions of being intellectual. I would treat it as a badge of honour to be criticised by them. No-one in the UK reads it anyway apart from 5000 nerdish lefties.
gravenimage says
+1
Eva says
It’s true. I wouldn’t use that pathetic rag to clean a litter box.
donynam says
Fake news hate truth.
john smith says
A truthful politician is a rarity in this day and age. Good on her, we need a lot more like this lady.
Michael Copeland says
“You cannot say that Islam is a religion of peace.
Islam does not mean peace: it means submission.”
Anjem Choudary
born saturday says
the current sharia opressors are the left internationally, the political leg of islam… anywhere in civilised europe they impose more sharia law than the muslims themselves… criminalising and imposing penalties on any critisism of islam…. the real sons of satan competing with the satan worshipping muslims….
gravenimage says
UK’s Independent accuses Marjorie Taylor Greene of ‘Islamophobia’ for saying ‘Islam is not a religion of peace’
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Note that Andrew Naughtie doesn’t say how Greene is wrong.
His main career seems to be sneering at America.
mike says
truth hurts
Raja says
Sad, West is struggling with one piece called “islam is not a religion of peace”. Things have come to this pass, thanks to the Islamic proselytes. The Islamist is battle-ready for any truth told about his beloved islam, Leftist too would be happy to join the party.
islam, without doubt is antithetical to any morals (and almost all religions). Like, some wise on JW have pointed that islam is the Nazi version of religion, which sounds good. islam is part of global religions sacrificing humans (whether children or adults), as such viewed as evil religion. Lots of bible-believing Christians believe it to be an evil religion.It is believed that the Taliban butchered many Christians with bible apps in their mobiles recently. Clearly anti-Christ at work as during 1st century !
tom_ says
Islam is a political – military movement masquerading as a religion.
gravenimage says
Oh, Islam is a religion by all definitions. It is just an *evil* religion.
JCA Reid says
About 20% of the Quran calls for the outright murder of Jews, Christians, A.N. Other Religionists. If they do not want to be slaughtered then it’s complete subjugation for certain Males, whilst the younger Males & Females are free to be raped, gang raped & sodomised. It’s ALL laid out in their Texts. These are the Rules.
OLD GUY says
She’s right it is not even a religion, it is an ideology of a brutal dictatorship rule on humanity.
Kashyap says
Some people are insane is what this person has validated.