ISLAM – II

By: ManoftheWest

The best way to begin to understand Islam is to look at its History, Doctrines and Practices

History

Mohammed was born in Mecca in approximately 570AD and claimed to receive “revelations” from God via the archangel Gabriel (Gibril) from 610 to 632 when he died. In Mecca he made only a handful of converts to his new religion (mostly his own relatives). Arabs were a mixture of polytheists and animists at that time. The Kaaba (the big black cube at the centre of the Grand Mosque in Mecca today) was held as sacred and was a place of pilgrimage for followers of a number of gods because of the meteorite that is housed in it. One of those many gods was a moon deity called, “Allah”.

In 622AD Mohammed and his small band of followers migrated to Yathrib (Medina) where an Arab tribe had agreed to accept him as their prophet. Almost overnight Mohammed went from being a nobody in Mecca to being the leader of an armed, ruthless and violent band. This event is known as the “Hijra” and is used to mark the start of the Muslim calendar. This is very significant; unlike, for example, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or Sikhism, Islam’s calendar dates not from the birth of the founder but from the time military and political power (both purely earthly concerns, obviously) was first achieved.

For the next ten years Mohammed’s followers waged unremitting war and terrorism upon everyone who wasn’t them – there’s no other way of putting it. By Mohammed’s death in 632AD, the entire Arabian Peninsula had been conquered and islamised, turned (for the first time in its history) into one polity with centralised control.

Then came the first of three major waves of Islamic expansion, the Arabian conquests:

THE END OF THE ANCIENT WORLD AND THE COUNTDOWN TO THE CRUSADES

A story (Hadith) about the life of Mohammed, by Bukhari: Towards the end of his life: “the Prophet of Allah wrote to Chosroes (King of Persia), Caesar (Emperor of Rome)[actually Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium], Negus (King of Abyssinia) and every (other) despot inviting them to Allah, the Exalted”  telling them, “embrace Islam and you will be safe”. 

What we call the “Middle East” or “Muslim World” today was once mostly Christian with large Jewish, Zoroastrian and Polytheist (Arab) minorities. How did this change?

·         635 A.D. Three years after Mohammed's death Muslim forces captured Damascus (where St. Paul was heading when he had his dramatic conversion).

·         636 A.D. Muslim forces take al-Basra.

·         637 A.D. Muslim forces take Antioch, where the disciples of Jesus were first called, “Christians”.

·         638 A.D. Muslim forces take Jerusalem, the Holy City of both Christianity and Judaism.

·         639 A.D. Muslim forces invade Egypt, a largely Christian country.

·         642 A.D. Muslim forces take Alexandria, destroying its Great Library.

·         650 A.D. Muslim forces take Cappadocia (in modern day Turkey).

·         652 A.D. Muslim forces launch attacks against Sicily, eventually conquering it in    827 A.D.

·         668 A.D. Muslim forces launch the first siege of Constantinople (Byzantium), many more were to follow.

·         711 A.D Muslim forces begin the invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (modern day Spain).

·         715 A.D. Spain completely conquered by Muslim forces (an occupation that would last for more than 700 years), they begin to press on into France.

·         732 A.D. Muslim forces finally stopped at Tours, Northern France, by Charles Martel, King of the Franks.

·         792 A.D. Muslim forces launch a jihad (called by Hisham, Muslim ruler of Spain) against France, but are turned back after sacking several cities, killing many and enslaving more.

·         838-972 A.D. Muslim forces take Frejus, near Cannes and use it as a base to raid France and Northern Italy. Christian pilgrims to Rome are frequently robbed, murdered and kidnapped by Muslim slavers in the Alps.

·         846 A.D. After nearly two centuries of increasing raids on southern Italy, Muslim forces sack Rome, desecrating the tombs of St. Peter and St. Paul, destroying many churches and carrying off hundreds of slaves.

·         848 A.D. A third Muslim army crosses the Pyrenees and invades France, once again destroying towns and cities, killing and enslaving before being driven back.

·         870 A.D. Muslim forces capture the island of Malta.

·         873 A.D. Muslim forces launch massive slave raids in Calabria, Northern Italy, leaving the province devastated and depopulated for generations.

·         878 A.D. Muslim forces destroy the city of Syracuse, killing most of its inhabitants and enslaving the survivors.

·         935 A.D. Fatimid Muslim forces capture the city of Genoa, Northern Italy.

·         976 A.D. The Fatimid Caliph of Egypt sends repeated military expeditions to Southern Italy for slaves and booty.

·         1004-14 A.D. The sixth Fatimid Caliph, Abu Ali al-Mansur al-Hakim, destroys thirty thousand Christian churches, seizing their lands and possessions.

·         1003-1009 A.D. Muslim Saracen raiders increase attacks on the Italian West coast, including Pisa and Rome, from their base on Sardinia.

·         1009 A.D. Hakim destroys the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (in Jerusalem), he orders Christians to wear heavy wooden crosses and Jews to wear heavy wooden calves around their necks.

·         1010 A.D. Hakim orders Christians and Jews to accept Islam (convert) or leave his dominions.

·         1010 A.D. Muslim forces capture the city of Cosenza, in Southern Italy.

·         1056 A.D. Three hundred Christians are expelled from Jerusalem and European Christian pilgrims are denied access to the (rebuilt) Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

·         1071 A.D. Muslim forces crush the Byzantines at the battle of Manzikert, taking the Byzantine Emperor, Romanus IV Diogenes, prisoner.

·         1076 A.D. Muslim forces (Seljuk Turks) conquer Syria, a Christian country.

·         1077 A.D. The Seljuks take Jerusalem, slaughtering over three thousand Christians and Jews.

·         1077 A.D. Onwards, the Seljuks attack Christian pilgrims, killing and enslaving thousands and denying access to the Holy Land to European Christians.

·          1095 A.D. The Byzantine Emperor, Alexius I Comnenus, sends a letter to Pope Urban II, asking for help.

·         1095 A.D. At the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II calls for European Christians to defend Constantinople and reopen access to the Holy land and, especially, Jerusalem; the First Crusade.

In the full historical context, the First Crusade can be seen as a defensive response to four hundred and fifty years of Muslim wars, invasions, conquest and slave raids against Christian Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire.

The First Crusade was called by Pope Urban II in response to desperate pleas for help from the Emperor of Constantinople, Alexius Comnenus. An army composed of many European nationalities succeeded in recapturing Jerusalem in 1099 AD and guaranteeing safe passage for Christian pilgrims.

“The Religion of Peace”™, anyone?

The Arabian conquests from 635AD until the late 11^th century saw Muslim armies in Northern France – Tours and Poitiers – exactly 100 years after Mohammed died, 732AD, they were there with the express intention of conquering the whole world for Allah.

From the late 11^th century Arabs were superseded by the Seljuk Turks as the driving force of Muslim expansion; they consolidated and expanded upon earlier Arab conquests in the Middle East.

The Seljuks waned in power and, from the early 14^th century the Ottoman Turks became the Muslim power, expanding all the way into Europe. The Ottomans conquered and islamised: Cyprus, Crete, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Romania, Moldova, Crimea, Southern Ukraine, Hungary and Southern Poland. They were finally stopped at the Gates of Vienna on September 11^th 1683 (the date 9/11 was not a coincidence). This was the high-water mark of Muslim expansion into Europe ... until now.

With the West in the ascendant in science, industry, trade, exploration, wealth and military power, Islamic countries languished as dysfunctional, moribund, cultural backwaters until the façade of the Ottoman Empire was finally shattered by their ignominious defeat in WWI.

The Ottoman Empire in the Middle East was carved-up by the victorious Allies – primarily Britain and France - and compliant Arab tribal leaders placed in positions of power, such as the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia and the Hashemite minority tribe in Jordan.

Oil had been discovered in Persia (Iran) in 1903 and, after WWI, oil exploration and extraction from the Middle East began in earnest.

We have not gone into the Sunni-Shia schism, starting around 656AD and continuing to this day in unrelenting Muslim-on-Muslim violence e.g. Syria, ISIS, neither have we dealt with “The Hindu Holocaust” and the eighty million Hindus killed in the Muslim conquest of India.  Indeed, there is a great deal we have not even touched upon, however, the three main points to take from this short overview of Islamic history are:

i)        Islam is an inherently aggressive, expansionist and supremacist military, socio-economic and political ideology with the trappings of a religion.

ii)      Whenever Western Civilisation is weak, Islam will aggressively press forward to conquer it.

iii)    Islamic expansion has only ever been stopped by determined military force.

Doctrine

Once again, there is so much that could be said here but we will concentrate on highlighting, in no particular order, the main points of concern. The teachings listed here are not opinion or interpretation of Islamic teachings, we are drawing ONLY on mainstream Islamic texts, i.e. the Koran, Hadith and Sunna:

ALL people are born Muslim, it is only through ignorance or wilfulness that they do not openly accept Islam. Hence, those who convert to Islam from other religions or from atheism are said by Muslims to have “reverted” to the only true faith.

Islam HAS ALWAYS been the only religion on earth – Christianity and Judaism are deliberately falsified versions of Islam - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, all the prophets and Jesus were ALL Muslim.

ALL non-Muslims – kuffar – are inferior to Muslims and are to be treated with contempt and, when Muslims are not in a position of power, taken advantage of whenever possible. When Muslims are in a position of power, kuffar are to be institutionally discriminated against and forced to adopt dhimmi status, i.e. third-class subjects of the Muslim state with no equality in (Muslim) law who must pay jizya , a non-Muslim poll tax as protection money to the Islamic state; there is no legal penalty for killing a kafir (singular of kuffar).

Women are inherently inferior to men (including Muslim women) – women may only inherit half a what a man may; in legal disputes a woman’s testimony is worth only half that of a man’s; men may divorce their wives simply by saying, “I divorce thee” three times, a divorced wife has no rights to any financial support from her ex-husband; men may have up to four wives; men may beat their wives; a wife has no right to deny her husband sex under any circumstances, i.e. a man may rape his wife; all children belong to their father, their mother has no rights over them; a woman who claims to have been raped must provide four male witnesses to the alleged rape, if she fails to do this she will be charged with adultery (punishable by stoning to death in a number of Islamic countries today); a wife is classed as a part of her husband’s chattels, i.e. she is an object that he wholly owns; kuffar women may be kept as sex-slaves, there is no limit put upon their number; girls may be married at the age of nine…….. (Hello, Western feminists? Anybody there?)

Jihad is warfare against all non-Muslims for the express purpose of spreading Islam to the whole world by force; Jihad is obligatory for ALL Muslims, either by directly fighting or, for those unable to fight, by supporting the Jihadis with food, money, weapons, shelter, sex (if you are a woman) and political cover; ALL non-Muslims – men, women, children, the elderly, non-combatants, civilians – are legitimate targets in Jihad; terror (terrorism) is a legitimate tactic in Jihad – N.B. when Muslim apologists appear on TV and denounce “terrorism” and say that “Islam condemns the killing of innocent civilians”, they do not mean what you think they mean. By “terrorism” they mean any attacks against Muslims and ONLY Muslims; by “innocent civilians” they mean Muslims and ONLY Muslims. ALL non-Muslims are regarded as ‘combatants’ and legitimate targets. As can most clearly be seen in the constant attacks on Israeli civilians.

The only guaranteed way of getting into paradise is to die as a Shahid (‘martyr’) in the act of killing unbelievers (hence no shortage of suicide bombers).

·         The world is divided into two camps:

i)        Dar al Islam – the abode of Islam, i.e. Muslim countries.

ii)      Dar al harb – the abode of war, i.e. all non-Muslim countries

          True peace will only come when the whole world is Islamic and all

          non-Muslims live as dhimmis under the universal global Caliphate.

Uniquely among world ‘religions’, Islam does not have any version of “The Golden Rule” – treat others as you would like to be treated – Muslims are only supposed to treat other Muslims in that fashion, they are enjoined to be cruel, exploitative and dishonest with non-Muslims.

The Kingdom of Allah will only be realised in the universal global Caliphate when every single Jew on Earth has been killed by Muslims. (This traditional, orthodox Islamic doctrine is enshrined in the written constitutions of both Hamas and Fatah (the Palestinian Authority)

There is no such thing as freedom of speech or freedom religion or freedom of conscience in Islam – it is illegal to say or write ANYTHING that is in any way critical of Islam or Mohammed; leaving Islam to become an atheist or to convert to another religion is punishable by death; if one is non-Muslim one may not freely practice one’s religion in Muslim countries; if a Muslim does not follow the commands of “the rightful Caliph” (think, ISIS, right now) he is an apostate and should be killed.

1.     Kuffar laws, i.e. the laws in non-Muslim states, do not apply to Muslims.

2.     Islamic Law, Sharia, applies to ALL peoples in all places at all times.

3.     The full implementation of Islam IS Sharia Law. It is impossible to have partial application of Sharia law.

There is no objective moral code in Islam; what is “right” or “good” is that which furthers the cause of Islam and individual Muslims, what is “wrong” or “bad” is that which does not.  Hence, for example, lying – “taqqiya” - (especially to kuffar) is not only acceptable but positively praiseworthy if it advances the cause of Islam

This VERY short list of Islamic doctrines shows unequivocally that Islam – not “Islamism”, not “Islamo-fascism”, not “Sharia-compliant Islam”, not “radical Islam”, not “Islamic Extremism”, not “Islamic fundamentalism” – pure, unadulterated, historically and scripturally accurate, mainstream, orthodox ISLAM, is absolutely antithetical to and incompatible with Western Civilisation and is, in fact, its deadly and implacable enemy.

Practice

Apologists for Islam, both Muslim and non-Muslim, when presented with any of the history or doctrine outlined above, will usually counter in one of six main ways:

1.     Lie by simply denying the factual truth of the statement – despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.

2.     Lie by giving a completely false and non-traditionally Islamic interpretation of the teaching or events – despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.

3.     Lie by claiming that these events and teachings are in the past and have no relevance to Muslim behaviour today - despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.

4.     Lie by claiming that, whatever the most recent savage, barbaric and stomach churning atrocity the adherents of the Religion of Peace™ have perpetrated, it is due to “oppression”, or “occupation”, or “persecution” against Muslims by non-Muslims in some purely local context – despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.

5.     Attempt to change the subject by making a false equivalence with Christianity or Judaism, e.g. “What about all the violent verses in the Old Testament?”

Instantly become threatening, aggressive and accuse you of having a made-up mental illness, “Islamophobia”. N.B. This is usually the FIRST thing they do and millions upon millions of stupid, cowardly people in the West keep on falling for it instead of laughing in their faces and verbally destroying them with evidence, logic and reason.

In order to explain the manifestations of Islam in the world today we have to briefly revisit Islamic doctrine:

The Koran is LITERALLY the word of god, i.e. it was dictated by God via the Archangel Gabriel to Mohammed. It is an earthly copy of the eternal Koran kept on a golden table in Paradise, the “Um al kitab”, the “Mother of the Book”. Therefore it cannot be interpreted or changed in any way, ever, by anyone. It is immutable for all time. Therefore, the commandments it contains, such as Sura 9.5 (the Verse of the Sword), are active and binding on all Muslims for all time.

For all Muslims Mohammed is “Al insan al kamil”, “The Perfect Man”, who never did any wrong, literally. He is to be emulated by all Muslims as much as they are able and his sayings and doings form one of the main scriptural supports of Islam. A lot of the sayings and doings of Muslims in the world today make ‘sense’ if we remember that Mohammed:

1.     Was a bandit chief who robbed, murdered and enslaved on a massive scale.

2.     Told his disciples to lie, cheat, steal and kill when dealing with non-Muslims.

3.     Told his disciples that killing non-believers was one of the most pleasing things they could do for God.

4.     Personally murdered and beheaded many hundreds of people.

5.     Raped the widows of men he had just killed.

6.     Told his disciples that God had given them the wives of the men they killed to use as they wished.

7.     Married a six year old child and consummated the marriage when she was nine years old.

8.     Personally beat his wives.

9.     Had a number of female non-Muslim sex slaves.

10. Declared that all Jews were accursed of god and had to be destroyed from the face of the Earth before the universal ‘peace’ of Islam could be achieved.

11. Told his disciples that they were the best people on earth and that ALL non-Muslims were their inferiors.

12. Told his disciples that they had a God-given right and duty to conquer the whole world.

None of this, not the Koran and not the example of Mohammed, is regarded by Muslims today as something that does not apply to them. Quite the opposite, they are the very essence and definition of what it means to be Muslim and they are the template for the life and conduct of the individual Muslim and the Islamic State.

As mentioned in “Islam I”, think of all the conflicts going on in the world right now involving Muslims; if they all magically stopped this instant, the world would be, on the whole, a much more peaceful place.

The Western democracies have made a deadly mistake in importing millions of Muslims who do not assimilate, who demand their host countries accommodate themselves to Islam rather than the other way around, who treat the indigenous inhabitants of those countries as contemptible inferiors, who place a massive burden on the social infrastructures of those countries and who – with increasing frequency – commit acts of sedition, terror, treason and murder against them.

Sweden now has the second highest number of rapes in the world, one in four – 25% - of all Swedish women can now expect to be raped in their lifetime; a leaked report from the Stockholm police (they tried to suppress it) showed that more than 77% of all rapes in the city (five a day last summer) were perpetrated by Muslim men upon indigenous Swedish women. Swedish women have taken to dying their blonde hair black and even wearing hijabs in order to avoid the attention of Muslim men. Stockholm has changed from a Swedish city to a city that is one-third immigrant and is between a fifth and a quarter Muslim in the last ten years due to immigration. While in Oslo, the police have finally admitted that 100%...., yes, you read that correctly, 100% of rapes committed in the city last year were carried out by Muslim immigrants and over 90% of the victims were indigenous Norwegian women.

There are large areas of Malmo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Rotterdam, Brussels, Paris, Marseilles, Lyon, Frankfurt, Cologne, Madrid, Barcelona, Turin, Rome and Vienna that are, either officially (as in France’s “Zones Sensibles Urbaines”) or unofficially, No-Go Zones for Police and other emergency services. Where the law of the state does not apply and Sharia is enforced by Imams and their numerous, illiterate, psychopathic foot soldiers. Take a look at this article:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jan/16/sensitive-urban-areas/

That was written in 2008, it is FAR worse now.   In Britain an avalanche of Muslim child prostitution gangs that have been operating for decades and destroyed the lives of thousands of young British girls have started to come to light, despite the best efforts of the police, social workers, politicians of all parties and the media to cover it up in the interests of, “community cohesion”.

 Likewise, despite another decades long cover-up, the massive scale of the Islamisation of schools in Britain is beginning to become apparent, although the police, media, and politicians of all parties are desperately trying to minimise the evidence and distract attention away from the fact that we are perilously close to having our own No-Go Muslim enclaves in this country. Although, when one looks around today it seems we’re already there in parts of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Bristol, Leicester, Luton.

Well over 80% of Muslim immigrants (including now second and even third generations born in Europe and Britain) are on welfare and for many of them this is explicitly regarded as jizya, the poll-tax paid by kuffar to Muslims.  See this revealing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWNInGNHp5Y

Literally thousands of young Muslim men and, increasingly, women have left Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States to fight for the newly established Caliphate. Almost all of them were born and brought up in those countries. Many of those who survive, having learned deadly skills and become battle hardened killers, will return to their ‘home’ nations with the express intention of continuing the fight to establish the global Caliphate on kuffar soil. There have already been a very large number of interviews and video messages from these Jihadis saying exactly and precisely that.

The newly-proclaimed Caliphate in what used to be Syria and Iraq may or may not prove viable; if it does, even in the short term, the world can expect to see Islamic aggression and violence on a scale not witnessed since the heady days of the Arabic conquests or Ottoman Empire. Local Islamic conflicts all over the world have already received a shot of adrenalin simply from the announcement of the Caliphate, as evidenced by the enormous uptick in Jihadi attacks around the world in recent months.

Iran is racing to achieve nuclear weapons and will do so very shortly; Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is within arm’s reach of being acquired by the Taliban. Neither Iran nor the Taliban may be described as “rational actors” on the world stage.

Even the most basic nuclear capability gives those possessing it awesome political and military leverage, plus, the simplest way of using it to bring down, say, the US or Europe, is to detonate one or more nuclear warheads at altitude (300 miles) over the target area to generate an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP). This will literally fry all electrical components within the EMP cascade area, i.e. within line of sight of the detonation. Think about that – nothing electrical will work, no vehicles (apart from pre-1970 models) will run, no trains, no light, no communications, no computers, no aeroplanes, no fuel transportation and distribution, no food distribution, no gas, no water. Studies by the Pentagon have projected a death rate in the US in the event of an EMP attack of 50% of the total population within the first six months, 90% within the first year. We can expect pretty much the same here, possibly even worse due to the much higher population density in the UK.

Far from performing their duty, ALL those charged with safeguarding their own countries and Western Civilisation in general – politicians, Military commanders, Police and intelligence Services, the Church – have betrayed their trust and are actively assisting in the rapidly accelerating destruction of both.

Most shamefully and reprehensibly of all, we have Bishop of Rome Jorge Bergoglio welcoming heathen Muslim prayers within the walls of the Vatican itself, praying facing Mecca in a mosque with an Imam, cheerleading the destructive flood of illegal Muslim immigrants to the heartlands of Europe and publicly urging them to find hope in the Koran. When speaking to a group of Muslim illegal colonisers in Lampedusa, Bishop of Rome Jorge Bergoglio said, “The faith that your parents instilled in you will always help you move on.”

St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us in the day of battle!

If you are serious about understanding Islam and the satanic hold that this false religion has over its adherents, the following books are "must reads": 1) Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross - this book is a must for anyone concerned about defending the Christian faith.  Dr Geisler and his coauthor, a former Muslim, give a thoroughly comprehensive and lucid examinations of Islam; 2) Twenty Three Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad - this book is written by Ali Dashti, a Muslim scholar and a former minister in the Iranian government.  The book was considered so dangerous that it was smuggled out of Iran with orders for it to be published after his death; 3) Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) - This book is for those who prefer their whisky straight.  Robert Spencer has raised telling it like it is to an art form.