From the Mouths of our Enemies, Pt 2

Here is the second installment of the book "From the Mouths of our Enemies" as I promised.  On occasion I will publish parts of the book for your edification.

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Here is Part 2;

Chapter 1

From the Wellspring of Islam

In the beginning....

   Europe.  The dream vacation for millions of travelers from across the globe.  Paris, with the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Marseilles, croissants, fetid cheese and all the rest of what makes Paris the city on the Seine could be largely gone within the next 50 years, replaced with mosques, minarets and halal meat stands. 

   

    The streets may well teem with Burqa-clad females rushing unobtrusively between stalls of foodstuffs trying to find the last few eatable onions and maybe a small chunk of lamb or goat to bring home to her brood of seven children while the husband walks three paces ahead. 

  

     As unlikely as it seems that the "city of lights" could become "Paristan" this is precisely what is in the process of happening, and not only in France.  Across Europe the march of Islam and stealth jihad is proceeding according to plans. 

 

     The historian and author Bat Ye'or(1) coined the phrase "Eurabia" to describe in graphic terms the Islamisation of Europe.  This is not a recent phenomenon but the continuation of almost 1,400 years of expansion, conquest and enslavement, beginning in 610AD with the emergence of Islam.   

   

    Since that time, Islam has never willingly broken stride in their single-minded pursuit of the world being held sway under the banner of "Dar-al-Islam" or the House of Islam.   The story of Islam is there to be learned but what is more important is what our enemies are saying today and what doctrines they use to give gravitas to the legitimacy of their words. 

  

    Since the codification of the Qur'an less than 20 years after the death of Muhammad, each Sura and verse has been studied in detail by numerous scholars.  The result today is one in which the tenets, ideology and doctrine of Islam are of demanding compliance, inculcated hatred against non-Muslims and along with this an understanding that the Qur'an, Muhammad and Allah are complete, perfect and for all time and beyond dispute of any kind.

   

     Muhammad is called "al-insan al-kamil", the perfect man and thus his every action, his behavior and methods of interaction are to be copied exactly.  This is the basis of, and the foundation for all Muslim behavior today as defined by the Ulema, a collection of Islam’s most powerful and influential leaders, Imams and scholars. 

   

    From this collective mouth comes the doctrine that Muslims follow, just as the Vatican makes pronouncements upon the Catholic laity.  The words from the Ulema are the final say in all things Islamic.  It is from this canon of Islamic jurisprudence which flow the words of our enemies. 

The Founding of Modern Islamic Hate

    1928 was a heady time for most of the world.   WWI was now a distant memory, economies were booming and the future was looking bright. The Ottoman Empire, last caliphate of the Islamic world had been torn up and spit out by the victors of the Great War, resulting in a patchwork of Muslim fiefdoms with no central control or authority. 

    Kamal Ataturks(2) success in defeating the allied effort to have Greece annex areas of Anatolia had given him the power to abolish the caliphate which he (Ataturk) considered to be inefficient and backward.  Now rudderless and spread out as a Diaspora the anger among the now displaced Muslims grew and fingers began to be pointed.  As is the historical norm, those fingers pointed at Jews and their supporters. 

 

     From this seething cauldron of victim hood came the Muslim Brotherhood and a vision, a direction for all those Muslims who believed that the Jews held the fate of the Muslim world in their hands. 

   

    Hassan Al-Banna(3) was, and still is today the light from which all modern hatred of anything non-Muslim stems, and his hatred of the Jews manifests itself in homicide bombings, kidnappings, torture, rape and any other atrocity one wants to assign to fundamental (militant) Islam.  Hassan Al-Banna and his ideology forms the wellspring from which 80 years of terror has blossomed.

 

     In 1928 Hassan al-Banna was a 22-year-old elementary school teacher, and he was angry at the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and so formed an Islamic revivalist movement to counter the  ban of the caliphate system of government that had united the Ummah for hundreds of years.

    Al-Banna wove together the canon and tenets of Islam into a comprehensive way of life based almost entirely on the doctrine of Wahhabism, with special attention paid at supplementing traditional Islamic indoctrination for the male students with jihad training. 

    The ideological underpinnings of the MB came from Sayyid Qutb(4) and between Qutb and Al-Banna the modern, western-hating, Islamic supremacist canons became a reality. 

Here is what Al-Banna said at one point,

"Brothers! God gives the umma that is skilled in the practice of death and that knows how to die a noble death an exalted life in this world and eternal felicity in the next. What is the fantasy that has reduced us to loving this world and hating death? If you gird yourselves for a lofty deed and yearn for death, life shall be given to you . . . . "(5)  This statement installs the foundation of loving death more than life, and sets the initial tone for fundamental Islamic dogma in the 20th century.  When your ideal is to invite death, to relish it, where is the incentive to protect, nurture or develop a family, group, village or society?  Your impetus, at this point is to destroy in the name of Allah, in order to save what you claim is sacrosanct.

"The supreme martyrdom is only conferred on those who slay or are slain in the way of God (Sura 9 verse 111). As death is inevitable and can happen only once, partaking in jihad is profitable in this world and the next"(6) gives specific approval for the practice and execution of fundamental (militant) Islam using accepted and recognized doctrine.  Now you are being told to take action, to make ugly things happen, and always with the eye on making absolutely sure the tenets of Allah are held to the highest esteem.  There is nothing civil or peaceful in this pure definition of jihad and no re-definition of jihad as a "personal internal struggle to improve ones life" we hear way too often today.  This is the real Islam as practiced by Muhammad, and to do anything less than follow Muhammad’s lead as “al-insan al-kamil”, the perfect man would be inexcusable.

"[J]ust as Islam is a religious faith and a system of worship, it is also patriotism and nationality. ...As such, Islam does not recognize geographic frontiers nor the distinctions of nationality or race, but considers all Muslims as one single nation and the Islamic homeland as one single territory, no matter how far-flung or remote the countries of which it is composed may be."(7) sets up the doctrine stating all lands are Muslim lands and have been since the inception of Islam in 610AD.  Europe is Islamic land, as is Asia, Antarctic (they can have that one) and the Americas, including Canada.  With the Qur'an saying Allah is the one, the guy who makes it all happen, it is natural that anything Allah creates belongs to Muslims.  Allah made earth so earth belongs to Muslims. 

    This fundamental view also stokes the fires of anti-Semitism at a time when the dreams of Israel becoming a country were beginning to boil.  The clash of civilizations was coming and Al-Banna knew that when Muslims worldwide became as one voice with one purpose, united once again under a "caliphate" they would occupy the lands which Allah made for them. 

   There is no major dichotomy between the words of Hasan Al-Banna in the 1930s and 40s and those Islamic leaders today which include Al-Banna’s grandson, Tarek Ramadan as to the doctrine, ideology and canon of Islam.  Note not only the absolute truth in the statement below but also the date (1942) which is 6 years before the Palestine Partition Plan was to go into effect.

"Those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world."(8)

 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: Islam is not a religion of pacifists

   For the last 80 years Islam has been seen by most people as just another religion like Judaism or Confucianism or Druidism, yet from the mouth of the founder of what is probably the most dangerous and influential fundamental (militant) Islamic group still active today, we see where the hate flows from and how this influences the Islamic Ummah in the 21st century.   

Part 3 coming soon.