Why do elected officials embrace the same Islam that wants to destroy them?
I am truly puzzled by what is going on in this increasingly dark world. On the one hand, all kinds of Islamic associations and groups in places such as Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Sweden demand not only to be treated like everyone else, which they are, but granted special privileges — such as application of sharia law. Yet Muslim governments — even in those semi-moderate countries such as Turkey and Egypt — systematically discriminate against non-Muslims. I fail to see the justice of this in the 21st century...or are we still wallowing in the Dark Ages?
The solemn duty of all majorities, all people in power, is to serve as protectors of all minorities and the powerless. The list of people who need fair treatment and are entitled to it is indeed long and is not limited to religious minorities. Women, even to this day, are among the most disenfranchised groups in the world — sadly, most shamefully, in Islamic lands.
While Western European countries (E.U.) and the United States are going above and beyond to cater to new arrivals, the Muslim migrants, and illegal aliens, they can do a lot for U.S. citizens, the veterans, the poor, and the needy, who are completely neglected.
Elected officials: Are you listening?
Elected officials: Do you care?
Elected officials: Are you doing anything?
Elected officials: Do you care?
Elected officials: Are you doing anything?
It is beyond belief that America, the greatest superpower on the planet, is gradually losing its own power to political correctness.
This is an important question that it is in everyone's mind: what did we learn from the 9/11 attacks? Answer: Absolutely nothing. America had the opportunity of a lifetime to learn from this tragedy and from its European allies and stop this mess of Islamic immigration before it got out of control. On the contrary, president after president started to appease the 7th-century mentality of pro-sharia Muslims, and they started to bring even more Muslims from countries such as Somalia and Kenya to resettle them across the U.S. In other words, like Germany, America too committed cultural suicide.
Hiding behind religion, Islam started to infiltrate in every place of our government with the aim of replacing liberty with 7th-century Islamic barbarism. Its goal: To bring Western civilization under the rule of Islam.
It is foolish to believe that politicians are out there strictly to serve the good, whatever that may be. It is prudent to keep in mind that society produces politicians by the truckload but Lincolns and Washingtons with great rarity.
Islam by no means is a religion. It was started by Muhammad as a cult and spread like a wildfire with violent jihad as its engine. To understand how quickly Islam spread around the world, we must see the timeline of Islam.
Fourteen hundred years later, the civilized world, by its own sheer stupidity, brought these Islamists inside their gates, hoping they could learn and behave like humans in no time at all. What a gigantic mistake, and now we are stuck in quicksand and unable to move.
If they only knew that true Muslims do not and cannot believe in freedom of choice or any man-made law, such as the U.S. Constitution, perhaps they would have stopped them from invading the civilized world.
Islam means "submission": everything is up to Allah, as clearly and repeatedly stipulated in the Qur'an. The raison d'ĂȘtre for the Muslim is to be unconditionally submissive to the will and dictates of Allah. Everything a "good" Muslim does is contingent upon the will and decree of Allah, he is indoctrinated to believe. A Muslim is, first and foremost, an Ummahist — a citizen of international Islam. Thus, it is crucial for Muslims to donate money to pro-Islam politicians in order to advance the cause of Islam — something the Western mind completely ignored while it became America's historical failure.
Islam is a belief of a backward people in a primitive and barbaric age. It is hooked in time and place. It harbors the ambition of taking the 21st-century world back 14 centuries and ruling it by its dogma of violence, intolerance, injustice, and death.
We must do everything in our power to stop this revolt against humanity and modernity.
CAIR: An Islamic Trojan
Horse
Somalis have Changed
Minneapolis
Islamic Sex Slavery
Painting Stirs International Controversy
Can Islam Be Rescued from Islamism?
In The
Qur'an Problem and Islamism, published by Mantua Books in Canada, Salim
Mansur offers an exceptionally courageous and principled Muslim narrative of
his personal beliefs and philosophy of life in a world where Khomeinism,
Al-Qaeda, Wahhabism, the Muslim Brotherhood, and ISIS, dominate and suffocate
the Islamic conversation. Islamism is a "monstrosity," affirms
Mansur, reflecting the rot in the Muslim world. Its savagery in murdering
thousands of innocent human beings in Nigeria and Pakistan, France and Spain,
Egypt and Iraq, has brought shame upon many good Muslims globally.
Prophet Muhammad
Should Spain Apologize to
Muslims?
But if Yihad Sirasua were inclined to be honest, he would have
plenty to apologize for. The History of Jihad From Muhammad to
ISIS, the first and only comprehensive history of the 1,400-year jihad
phenomenon worldwide in the English language, shows that Muslim Spain was
anything but pluralist -- it was miserable to live as a Christian there.
Christians could never be sure that they would not be harassed. One
contemporary account tells of priests being “pelted with rocks and dung” by
Muslims while on the way to a cemetery. The dhimmis suffered severe economic
hardship: Paul Alvarus, a ninth-century Christian in CĂłrdoba, complained about
the “unbearable tax” that Muslims levied on Christians.
Jihad and the Media in an Age of Delusion
In
initial reports of all jihad attacks, we are told “it is not terror related.”
The shifting definition of terror is slippery but expected. Then President
George W. Bush dropped the ball on September 20,
2001,
when he danced around whether “A is A,” decidedly avoiding jihad and Islam.
Even with the thick, acrid smell of burnt blood and flesh, ash and steel in the
NYC air, Bush opted instead for the vague, blame-free “War on Terror.”
CAIR: An Islamic Trojan
Horse
Since
its foundation in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad, the Council on American
Islamic Relations (CAIR) has become a powerful organization that has widely
represented itself as a Muslim American "civil rights
organization." Ironically, there is another powerful
organization, similar to CAIR called, the National
Iranian American Council (NIAC), a staunch lobbyists'
group of the Islamic Republic of Iran,
falsely portraying itself as the "voice of Iranian Americans and promoting
greater understanding between the American and Iranian people."
For
now, let us focus on CAIR and its mission in the United States. How
did an organization that has ties to Hamas, and is an offshoot of the Muslim
Brotherhood, gain so much power in the United States? Why are so many
institution within the U.S. establishment so terrified of this group and
hesitant to invite Islamic scholars to give speeches? Recently, the
U.S. War College canceled an Islam scholar after pressure from CAIR and another radical Islamist, Linda
Sarsour. It is hard to believe that these incidents happen in the
land of the free, America!
Let's
be clear about one thing: as Anti-CAIR.net put it, "CAIR is not in the United States to promote the civil
rights for Muslims — CAIR is here to make Islam the dominant religion in the
United States and convert our country into an Islamic
theocracy." Moreover, "CAIR receives direct
funding from Islamic terrorist-supporting countries."
CAIR's
true face came to light during the largest terrorism financing trial in the nation's
history: the 2007–2008 Holy
Land Foundation prosecution.
"The Dallas trial
charging the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) for
Relief and Development with providing material support for Hamas produced
extensive evidence that IAP — CAIR's parent — played a central role in the
Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee. Much of that evidence
relates to Mousa Abu Marzook, now deputy political chief of Hamas, who served
on the board of directors of IAP in 1989." CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas support
trial of the Holy Land Foundation.
A
friend and an American patriot, Chris
Gaubatz, managed to infiltrate CAIR's
organization and gather hundreds of documents that have been compiled in a book
called "Muslim
Mafia." The book is an eye-opener
on how this organization operates in the U.S.:
"Serving
as a CAIR intern, Chris Gaubatz gathered some 12,000 pages of documents that
were headed for a shredder at CAIR's national office in Washington – just three
blocks from the U.S. Capitol building," WND's Art Moore
informed. "The information published in Muslim Mafia,
co-authored by David Gaubatz and investigative journalist Paul Sperry,
documented CAIR's founding by members of the Muslim Brotherhood — the
group that spawned al-Qaeda and Hamas and stated in writing its intent to
undermine Western civilization and ultimately bring America under Islamic
law."
The
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) grew out of the Islamic Association
for Palestine, a group that was created by the Palestinian terrorist
group Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood also identified the
Islamic Association for Palestine as one of its United States
fronts.
CAIR
is Hamas, and Hamas is CAIR. In fact, over the years, chief
executive officer and founder Nihad
Awad expressed his stance explicitly in a
1994 conference at Barry University in Florida. "I am in
support of the Hamas movement," he declared.
CAIR's
members have been told to quickly condemn acts of anti-Semitism, police
shootings of black Americans, anti-LGBTQ violence, and so forth, while stating
unity with every "progressive" cause under the sun. But
peer beneath CAIR's carefully crafted press releases and publicity stunts, and
it's clear that the group's reactionary Islamist roots are as strong as ever.
"Never
forget: CAIR works every day to silence Muslim reformers, apostates,
Christians, Jews, infidel scholars, border security advocates, anti-sharia
activists and investigative independent journalists, on college campuses, TV
airwaves and the internet, to prevent us from exposing the truth about Islamic
supremacism."
An unholy coalition of mentally deranged
suicidal-homicidal liberals, together with self-aggrandizing Islamic
apologists, are doing their best to assist Islamists in the destruction of the
existing order of freedom and liberty.
CAIR
and the Democrats are in bed with each other now. But judging from
the Democrat imbeciles running for president, it will not be long before CAIR
and company gets rid of all of them and runs their own to take over this
country.
Currently,
CAIR and other Islamic groups in America decided that it is easier to change
America through subversion (stealth jihad) than through violent
jihad. That is why we have not seen Islamic terrorism
lately. We have entered the soft jihad, which is stealth
jihad. We are at war not with terrorism, but with a jihad fueled by
Islam that has been ongoing for the past 1,400 years nonstop.
While the Islamic fire appears contained, Muslim
organizations across the United States are busy and work "stealthily"
to change and alter America from within in what is called "soft
jihad," or "cultural jihad." Soft jihad is in place
where the sword of jihad is not advisable, where Muslims are not powerful
enough to unsheathe their swords.
CAIR
is a designated terrorist organization by the UAE, yet we allow them to bully
American citizens from their rights to free speech in the
mainland. Why?
June 3, 2019
Somalis have Changed
Minneapolis
Everyone not lying to themselves predicted
when the federal government under Bill Clinton – aided and abetted by Lutheran
Social Services, Catholic Charities and World Relief Minnesota -- plopped
30,000 Somalis down into the midst of the kind, virtue-signaling, eager-to-help
Midwesterners of Minneapolis (of which I am one) that it would lead to some
grave consequences for our community.
Now, due to continuing refugee placements
as well as chain migration there are an estimated 80,000 Somalis living in the
Twin Cities metro area, or more like 79,000 if you subtract those who’ve left
the country to join terrorist organizations like ISIS.
Anyhoo, here’s a week Minneapolitans had
with their Somali neighbors last month:
On Wednesday, May 15th a couple of University students were attacked on campus
at the East Bank Train station by two Somali thugs. It was an attempted robbery
that the guys rebuffed sustaining injuries that required a hospital visit.
On Thursday, May 16th two Somalis burned down the pavilion at Lake Calhoun
[or Lake Bde Maka Ska if you’re a virtue signaler) an eating and hanging out
meeting place in the heart of the city enjoyed by generations of Americans
around the prettiest city lake you’ve ever seen. This is in the most expensive
neighborhood in Minneapolis.
On Friday, May 17th a gang of 10-12 Somali youths attacked all the white
people at a that same East Bank Train station with hammers and pipes. Snopes says this is “Mostly False” because after the attack they
fled, and out of the 7 who were eventually apprehended only two were still in
possession of weapons, in this case pipes. So therefore, it never happened.
And now Tuesday, May 20th a woman walking her dog in a gorgeous, huge, wooded off
leash dog park, complete with sandy beach on the Mississippi River, found
spikes just off the path. Sharp metal objects taped to a wooden spike,
presumably designed to hurt dogs running happily through the underbrush. Now,
we don’t know that a Somali did that, it could be some crazed psycho Swede, but
Islam abhors dogs as unclean because the prophet did.
Will this cause anything to change in
Minnesota? Will the city’s leaders stopwearing the hijab in solidarity with the worst of Islam, incredibly,
after they attack us!? Will Minneapolitans elect secular, assimilated Somalis
rather than proudly Sharia- supporting, anti-Semitic, enshrouded Somali Muslims
like Ilhan Omar? (80% of Democrats picked her in the primary.) I doubt it. They
did all thatafter the following events:
· In 2018 it was uncovered that Somalis had perpetrated a massive, community wide scam against the welfare state of
Minnesota, stealing an incredible $100 million from a childcare handout program
by fraud and shipping that money to Somalia to fund God knows what.
(Incidentally, though finally proven in 2018, this was an open secret for
years. I knew about this scam when I left the state in 2014.)
· Dozens of Somalis, men and women, over the years arrested
or tracked as they attempted to join terrorists overseas including ISIS. The
feds are concerned it is still a rich breeding ground for Islamic supremacy and
terrorist organizations.
· In 2016
the first Somali police officer murdered a woman in her pajamas who had called
in a disturbance. I guess it’s not safe to call the cops when you see something
and say something. He has been found guilty of that murder.
· In 2018 a
Somali student at St Catherine University attempted to burn downthe school and “hurt people,” saying,
““You guys are lucky that I don’t know how to build a bomb because I would have
done that.”
· In 2017 a
Somali man stabbed a young woman 14 times for no apparent reason --
he didn’t go after her purse -- while she was walking home from her job at an
Apple Store. He’s still at large. Curiously no composite sketch was ever
released to the media.
· In 2016
during Ramadan a gang of religious robed Somali men terrorized the city’s
affluent Linden Hills community “for three straight days, threatening to rape a
woman, beating one resident’s dog, and shouting “jihad!” as they drove vehicles
over residents’ lawns and pretended to shoot people through their duffel bags.
No arrests were made.” (Seriously read this account. You will find it absolutely horrifying and it’s shocking that no
arrests were made with all these people trying to get license plate numbers,
all the likely surveillance cameras etc. It makes one wonder if the city is
protecting Somalis from being held accountable to our laws.)
· In
2012 90% of Somalis worldwide said they think agree with Sharia
Law and think it should be implemented.
I’m not sure what it would take for
Minneapolitans to wake up and stop being so suicidal with their
multiculturalism. Terrorism, arson, violent crime, murder, corruption, fraud,
female oppression is apparently not enough.
Islamic Sex Slavery
Painting Stirs International Controversy
An American museum is vociferously
calling on a German political party to stop using one of the
former's paintings in the latter's campaign poster for the European elections.
Titled "Slave
Market" and painted by a Frenchman in 1866, the painting "shows a
black, apparently Muslim slave trader displaying a naked young woman with much
lighter skin to a group of men for examination," probably in North Africa
(AKA "Barbary").
The Alternative for Germany
(AfD) party, founded in 2013 and first elected to Germany's national parliament
in 2017, has been putting up posters of the painting with the slogan, "So
that Europe won't become Eurabia."
"We are strongly
opposed to the use of this work to advance any political agenda," objected
Olivier Meslay, director of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown,
Massachusetts, which houses the original painting. He said his
museum had written to AfD, "insisting that they cease and desist in using
this painting." Despite the rather legal tone, the painting is
in the public domain; even Meslay acknowledges that "there are no copyrights
or permissions that allow us to exert control over how it is used other than to
appeal to civility on the part of the AfD Berlin."
For its part, the AfD said
the U.S. museum's call is "a futile attempt to gag the AfD," adding
that "[t]he German public has the right to find out about the truth about
the possible consequences of illegal mass immigration." Even
so, other elements in Germany are even more hostile to the AfD's poster:
"party workers have had to repeatedly put up new copies, only to see them
destroyed again the following night."
What to make of all
this? Objectively, the "Slave Market" painting in question
portrays a reality that has played out countless times over the centuries:
African and Middle Eastern Muslims have long targeted fair "infidel"
women — so much so as to have enslaved millions of them over the centuries (as
copiously documented in my recent book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen
Centuries of War between Islam and the West,
from which the following quotes and statistics are derived).
Concerning the Muslim demand
for, in the words of one historian, "white-complexioned blondes, with
straight hair and blue eyes," this traces back to the prophet of Islam,
Muhammad, who enticed his followers to wage jihad against neighboring Byzantium
by citing its fair and blonde women who awaited them as potential concubines.
For over a millennium
afterward, Islamic caliphates, emirates, and sultanates — of the Arab, Berber,
Turkic, and Tatar variety — also coaxed their men to jihad on Europe by citing
(and later sexually enslaving) its fair women. Accordingly, because
the "Umayyads particularly valued blond or red-haired Franc or Galician
women as sexual slaves," Dario Fernandez-Morera writes, "al-Andalus
[Islamic Spain] became a center for the trade and distribution of slaves."
The insatiable demand for
fair women was such that, according to M.A. Khan, an Indian author and former
Muslim, it is "impossible to disconnect Islam from the Viking slave-trade,
because the supply was absolutely meant for meeting [the] Islamic world's
unceasing demand for the prized white slaves" and "white
sex-slaves." Emmet Scott goes so far as to argue that "it
was the caliphate's demand for European slaves that called forth the Viking
phenomenon in the first place."
As for numbers, according to
the conservative estimate of American professor Robert Davis, "between
1530 and 1780 [alone] there were almost certainly a million and quite possibly
as many as a million and a quarter white, European Christians enslaved by the
Muslims of the Barbary Coast" (the appropriate setting of the "Slave
Market" painting). By 1541, "Algiers teemed with Christian
captives [from Europe], and it became a common saying that a Christian slave
was scarce a fair barter for an onion."
With countless enslaved
European women — some seized from as far as Denmark and even Iceland — selling
for the price of vegetables, little wonder that European observers by the late
1700s noted how "the inhabitants of Algiers have a rather white
complexion."
Further underscoring the
rapacious and relentless drive of the Muslim slave industry, consider this: the
United States of America's first war —
which it fought before it could even elect its first president — was against
these Islamic slavers. When Thomas Jefferson and John Adams asked
Barbary's ambassador why his countrymen were enslaving American sailors, the
"ambassador answered us that it was founded on the laws of their Prophet,
that it was written in their Koran, that ... it was their right and duty to
make war upon them [non-Muslims] wherever they could be found, and to make
slaves of all they could take as prisoners."
The situation was arguably
worse for Eastern Europeans; the slave markets of the Ottoman
sultanate were for centuries so inundated with Slavic flesh that children sold
for pennies, "a very beautiful slave woman was exchanged for a pair of
boots, and four Serbian slaves were traded for a horse." In
Crimea, some three million Slavs were enslaved by the Ottomans' Muslim allies,
the Tatars. "The youngest women are kept for wanton pleasures,"
observed a seventeenth century Lithuanian.
Even the details of the
"Slave Market" painting/poster, which depicts a fair and naked female
slave being pawed at by potential buyers, echoes reality. Based on a
twelfth-century document dealing with slave auctions in Cordoba, Muslim
merchants "would put ointments on slave girls of a darker complexion to
whiten their faces; brunettes were placed for four hours in a solution to make
them blond ('golden'); ointments were placed on the face and body of black
slaves to make them 'prettier.'" Then, the Muslim merchant "dresses
them all in transparent clothes" and "tells the slave girls to act in
a coquettish manner with the old men and with the timid men among the potential
buyers to make them crazy with desire."
In short, the
Clark Art Institute's objection to the Alternative for Germany party's use of
the "Slave Market" painting as a poster is just another
attempt to suppress the truth about Muslim/Western history,
including its glaring continuity with the present. For the essence
of that painting—Muslim men sexually pawing at and ultimately preying on fair
skinned women—continues to this day all throughout
Western Europe, especially Germany.
The historic events,
statistics, and quotes narrated above are from and documented in Raymond
Ibrahim's book, Sword and Scimitar:
Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West. American
Thinker reviews appear here and here.
"In the East, Islam has persecuted
and terrorized the Christians; but in the West, Islamist Muslims have been free
to advance an Islamist agenda – in schools, in mosques, in public and political
fora, in the media – successfully intimidating the weak-willed while glorifying
the supremacy of Islam over all other cultures and religions."
Can Islam Be Rescued from Islamism?
Islamic terrorism in its violent
expressions coexists with Islamic terrorism in thought. The blatant and
barbarous aspect of Islamism, its murderous activities in New York and
Jerusalem, Bali and London, Paris and Nairobi, Argentina and the Philippines,
Madrid and Mumbai, Syria and Sri Lanka, mesmerizes world attention. Yet the
terror of thought is no less, and perhaps more, menacing and paralytic: it
constricts freedom of consciousness, intimidates free speech, and submits and
smothers society under conformist Islamist religious forces. Islam from
its beginning promoted both jihad warfare "in the path of Allah"
and dawamissionizing to advance the new religion and make it
supreme, if not exclusive, in the world.
Salim Mansur, Professor Emeritus of
Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, is a believing but
dissident Muslim. Among Muslim reformers and free thinkers in the West, like
his fellow-Canadian Irshad Manji, also Nonie Darwish and Boualem Sansal, are
those who categorically denounced Islam, pointing to the obscenity of
compulsory female genital mutilation and "honor killings,"
beheadings, and brutal massacres. Some left the fold; among these apostates are
Ibn Warraq, Mohamed Sifaoui, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Some dissidents in Muslim
lands fled into exile and required police protection. A noteworthy and
particular case was that of Nobel Literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, a Muslim
secularist, who was assaulted by fanatics in Cairo, survived the attack, and
remained in his country.
Which Islam?
As a classic liberal and modern-day
political conservative, Mansur is an intellectual savant whose worldview
includes rationalism, individualism, and enlightenment, buoyed by loyalty to
Canada and her roots in liberty and law. In his quest to sustain Islam as a
religion embodying morality and humanism, Salim Mansur reads, with an open and
critical eye, the Qur'an and the life of Muhammad, who spread "the Word of
God." Manifestly explicit passages in the Islamic holy book call upon
believers to practice righteousness, to give alms to the poor, to treat orphans
with fairness, and honor and show kindness to parents; faith demands belief in
Allah and the final Day of Judgment. Muslims are to attend to their prayers and
reject idolatry. They are obligated to refrain from imposing their faith on
non-Muslims.
With support from the Qur'an, Mansur
reaches out to "one human family" with a universalism to encompass
all people and believers – not only Muslims -- in the One God. The Qur'an that
"makes things clear" is part of the prophetic legacy in monotheism.
Islam is one path and not the only one toward this truth. In his writings and
interviews, Salim conveys his love for humanity whatever people's background or
faith. This is for him the message of Islam writ large in daily life.
So where is the problem? It is in the
totalitarian ideology of Islamism, this "crippling of Islamic culture and
civilization," which abandoned philosophy and reason, and formulated a
"fascistic" and perverted version of Islam. Great Muslim thinkers
like Al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd (Averros), and Jalaluddin al-Rumi, have been ignored
or rejected. The infamous preachers advocated jihad, militancy, and martyrdom.
Among the radical fundamentalists were Ibn Taimiyya, Hasan al-Banna, and Sayyid
Qutb. Islam, now reduced to warfare and blood, metastasized into Islamism.
This is Mansur's central claim and he is therefore at one with non-Muslim
authors like Bat Ye'or, Robert Spencer, and Andrew Bostom, who have elucidated
the warlike and expansionist ambitions of a conquering Islam pursuing the
vision of a world caliphate.
One chapter in the book deals with Muslim
anti-Semitism that, for Mansur, is a diabolical strand that has no inherent
foundation in the Qur'an and Islam. Anti-Jewish bigotry is foreign to the holy
text and Jews indeed survived and even sometimes flourished in Muslim lands.
There are ways to interpret the Qur'an through the method of abrogation (naskh)
and contexualizing to invalidate the contemporary relevance of harsh Qu'ranic
verses. The text then becomes subject to the meaning the reader gives to
it. Yet, radical Muslim preachers today are rife with blistering Qur'anic-based
attacks against Jews as cursed, vile people, murdering prophets and breaching
agreements, to the crescendo of likening them to apes and monkeys. For Mansur,
the Qur'anic demand that Jews be reduced to "humiliation and misery"
(Ch.9, 29) is limited to an earlier period of history alone.
When Muslims promote hatred for Jews and
Christians, this is in the view of Mansur a deviation and distortion of Islam's
basic tolerance for other monotheistic religions.
Is There a Non-Political Islam?
Salim Mansur and other Muslims who share
his frustration and rage confront the Islamist domination of Islam's agenda and
activity that possess vast financial and educational networks with a radical
program to Islamize the world, America and Europe included. Over a thousand
years ago, the fanatical Hanbali Muslims in Baghdad raided houses if they found
wine and poured it away; if they found a singing girl they beat her; if
they saw a man going with a woman, they charged them with immorality and
dragged them to the police. These scenes of oppression sound familiar in Saudi
Arabia and Afghanistan of today.
However, other Muslims a millennium ago
evoked a very different sensibility. Avicenna, born in Bukhara (Uzbekistan),
was educated in the Qur'an and jurisprudence, also in mathematics and logic,
Aristotelian philosophy, astronomy, geometry, and medicine. He was a man
of learning and open to acquiring knowledge from whoever could teach him. In
Baghdad Islamists hounded the people in the name of Islam, in Bukhara and
beyond Avicenna sought the horizons of scholarship in tandem with Islam. The
debate regarding the true version of Islam continues until today.
Salim Mansur is a modern man, valuing
reason while not discarding revelation, though choosing the former over the
latter. He seeks coherence and comprehensiveness in knowledge, without sacrificing
his deep faith in Islam. Perhaps he is trying to square the circle, hold the
rope from both ends. He confidently recognizes the cultural continuity in
evolving revelations, Muhammad's included, throughout history. As a Muslim
believer, he seems drawn to the softness and individuality embedded within the
Sufi track, as in the thought of Ibn 'Arabi who identified the "Oneness of
Being" for the mystical climb to be at one with God. This is an invitation
for all human beings regardless of their particular religious affiliation. God
transcends all, and distinctions among men dissolve with the common quest for a
god-like experience and life. Mansur's is a personal religion rather than a
political religion; the classic characterization of Islam as din wa-dawla (religion
and state) is alien to Salim's sensibility.
His nobility of character in an age of
extremism is exceptionally admirable. He feels engaged in the vortex of a
historical moment that imperils both Islam and the West. In Ontario, where he
lives, he had to change the mosque he attends. He was threatened for his
'unorthodox' ideas. No less, he is a spiritual brother to the Jews and a
vigorous supporter of Israel. These convictions fly in the face of the
ideological rigors of Islamism.
Overall, Mansur wants an Islam of
"many faces." He chooses the West for its modernity and openness,
individual liberty and the rule of law. This he found in Canada, the country he
adopted and embraces. He hopes to enter Canadian politics; as a Member of Parliament
he could be a commanding voice for moderation and common sense to challenge the
vagaries of multi-culturalism, religious fanaticism, and anti-Semitism.
As of today, the chicanery of Islamophobia
and Political Correctness control much of the language and discussion. The West
has been artfully and partly disarmed of its heritage – including Christianity,
and values of equality and liberty, progress for all -- choosing to privilege
Islam by accommodating its parallel society separatism, sharia courts, and execrable
youth marriages (as in parts of Europe today). In the East, Islam has
persecuted and terrorized the Christians; but in the West, Islamist Muslims
have been free to advance an Islamist agenda – in schools, in mosques, in
public and political fora, in the media – successfully intimidating the
weak-willed while glorifying the supremacy of Islam over all other cultures and
religions.
Dr. Mordechai Nisan is a retired lecturer
in Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His
most recent book is The Crack-Up of the Israeli Left, published by
Mantua Books in Canada.
Prophet Muhammad
Should Spain Apologize to
Muslims?
The chutzpah is off the
charts: Voice of Europe reported
on Saturday that the Ishbilia mosque in Seville, Spain, is demanding that King
Felipe VI apologize for the Reconquista, the Christian Reconquest of Spain.
The mosque’s president,
Yihad Sarasua, addressed the King in a Facebook post: “Sir, being the King of
Spain, I believe that the historical moment has arrived to carry out the
recognition of the vileness, plunder, displacement and murders carried out by
orders of the Catholic kings and their most direct collaborators, which
culminated with the surrender of Granada and the breach of everything
subscribed to the Muslim community.”
Sirasua claimed: “Never has
existed such a fierce persecution and eagerness to eliminate a religious
community, as was carried out by the old Spanish royalty in the times of Felipe
II, an extermination that culminated in the War of the Alpujarres subsequent to
the Pragmatic Sanction of 1567.”
He concluded: “As a
descendant of the aforementioned kings, what a formidable opportunity you would
have to demonstrate to the Muslim community your respect and your discrepancy,
with the Islamic theses, apologising to our community for so many atrocities
and interceding for the recognition of Spanish nationality for the descendants
of Al Andalus, as was done with the Sephardic Jewish community.”
Sure, Yihad. Right after you
folks apologize for the Islamic conquest of Spain that preceded the
Reconquista. But of course, you will never, ever do that, because for jihadis
and Islamic supremacists, every atrocity they ever commit is the Infidel's
fault.
Nor could Christians say
anything about their lot, because it was proscribed by Islamic law, and
criticizing Islam, Muhammad, or the Qur’an in any manner was a death-penalty
offense.
In 850, Perfectus, a
Christian priest, engaged a group of Muslims in conversation about Islam; his
opinion of the conquerors’ religion was not positive. For this, Perfectus was
arrested and put to death. Not long thereafter, Joannes, a Christian merchant,
was said to have invoked Muhammad’s name in his sales pitch. He was lashed and
given a lengthy prison sentence. Christian and Muslim sources contain numerous
records of similar incidents in the early part of the tenth century. Around
910, in one of many such episodes, a woman was executed for proclaiming that
“Jesus was God and that Muhammad had lied to his followers.”
Far from being a paradise of
tolerance, Umayyad Spain became a center of the Islamic slave trade. Muslim
buyers could purchase sex-slave girls as young as eleven years old, as well as
slave boys for sex as well, or slave boys raised to become slave soldiers. Also
for sale were eunuchs, useful for guarding harems. Blonde slaves seized in
jihad raids on Christian nations north of al-Andalus were especially prized and
fetched high prices. Slave traders would use makeup to whiten the faces and dye
to lighten the hair of darker slaves, so that they could get more money for
them.
A 12th-century witness of
the sale of sex slaves described the market:
The
merchant tells the slave girls to act in a coquettish manner with the old men
and with the timid men among the potential buyers to make them crazy with
desire. The merchant paints red the tips of the fingers of a white slave; he
paints in gold those of a black slave; and he dresses them all in transparent
clothes, the white female slaves in pink and the black ones in yellow and red.
If the girls did not
cooperate, of course, they would be beaten or killed.
The primary market for
slaves among Muslims was for non-Muslims, as enslaving fellow Muslims was
considered a violation of the Qur’an’s requirement to be “merciful to one
another” (48:29); hence Muslim slave traders had to look to non-Muslim
communities for merchandise.
Yihad Sirasua will never
tell you any of that, because if the public knew those facts and others, they
wouldn’t favor the policies he wants Spain, and the West in general, to adopt.
The truth that he doesn’t want you to know is in The History of Jihad From Muhammad to
ISIS -- truths he and his allies have been working actively
suppress. As his letter to the King shows, history has today become a weapon to
influence current public policy.
Robert Spencer is the
director of Jihad Watch and
a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New
York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to
Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad.
His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to
ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on
Facebook here.
Jihad and the Media in an Age of Delusion
On Sunday the BBC reported about
another horrible news story from London: a knifeman went on a stabbing spree of
“defenceless” people in London. The story revealed less about the incident it
was purporting to report on than it did about our age of anti-reality and
delusion.
In this age, it is not difficult to step
back and observe almost indiscernible but seismic historical shifts in the
making -- not in the big-bang news events, but in the nitty-gritty details of
the social fabric of our daily lives, where
life happens. It is usually not so easy to detect such
subtleties, let alone observe the silent measures a nation or a civilization
takes when it quietly but most decidedly has… given up. One need not be an
anthropologist to detect seismic changes in human behavior or societies.
First, it’s language. Language is
key. Subtle and not-so-subtle restrictions are placed on what would offend the
invading force with its hair-trigger sensibilities.These
restrictions are rigorously enforced by quisling societal institutions --
media, academia, and so forth. So, for example, “Muslim” is replaced with
“South Asian” or “Asian,” with no fear that the “South Asians” or “Asians” will
bomb a pop concert, mow down scores of families on a national holiday such as
Bastille day or Halloween or Christmas, shoot up a gay nightclub, and so forth.
Actual South Asians and Asians have held demos against the media using them
to cover for jihadis, but no media reported on them, of course. Only the
small, sagacious group of readers who follow websites such as the Geller Report
were aware of the South Asian community’s opposition to the wrongful blame.
Every time there is an attack by a
jihadi, all apologies are extended by the host Western country, with
admonitions of impending “phobia” of Islam and backlash, and so the cycle of
self-flagellation begins and builds with each ensuing attack (all 34,800 since 9/11).
The root cause, above all, is never to
be spoken of. Verboten. Anyone who dares cross that line will be ultimately
destroyed -- a pariah, his or her good name murdered, unable to make a living.
You will submit or you will cease to exist, literally or figuratively. There is
no motive, we are told; the motive, we are told, is “mental illness.”
There is almost nothing in Sunday’s BBC
article about the London stabbings that is correct, save for the reporting that
four people were stabbed. After that it is all… editorial and subtle
propaganda. This has all the earmarks of jihad, but it would be a horror,
blasphemous (Islamophobic) to dare say it. When there is an incident that isn’t
jihad, it is immediately cast in the media as right-wing, white-supremacy
bullocks. Absolutely. But jihad is quite different. You can never surmise, let
alone speculate about whether some attack or incident might be jihad. And when
it is jihad, you still cannot say it. If you use the word Muslim -- as in, “Devout Muslim shouting allahu
akbar stabs…” no one will publish it, and social media platforms
will block the link. You will land in Facebook jail. Your first infraction gets
you three days suspension. Your next “violation” will land you in FB jail for a
week, then a month, and eventually, you are terminated.
The BBC headline states that the
stabbings were “random attacks.” But they were not random if the knifemen
wanted to kill unbelievers. Then they were not random at all. There is a reason
these folks were targeted.
The article goes on to say, “The
Metropolitan Police said the motive ‘appears to be solely to inflict harm’ as
none of the victims were robbed or engaged in conversation before they were
attacked.” That, too, screams jihad. It is the very essence of a jihad terror
attack. Instead, the BBC tells us, “mental health issues may be a factor.” That
they can say; that is accepted language in the age of jihad. The mental health
community is not going to blow up Buckingham Palace.
There’s a lot of fluff in the piece, but
what the article does not tell you is that Edmonton is home to London’s largest
Turkish community. Or that a widow and
grandmother described
as “such a sweet lady” was beheaded in her own backyard by a devout Muslim in
Edmonton not that long ago.
The attack is referred to as “GBH.” Note
the obscure terms. One might say thatgrievous
bodily harm is too harsh, but the media is shielding the perp,
not the reader.
This act of sheer terror is getting no
press. And why would it?
Pamela Geller is the
President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of The Geller Report and author of the bestselling
book,FATWA: Hunted in
America, as well as The
Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the
Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Follow her onTwitter or Facebook.
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